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[Q] CM6-RC Post Flash: What The HECK Happened to my CONTACTS???!!!
OK, I flashed the ROM to the CM6-RC. I lost every single contact on my SIM card, which means I lost ALL of my contacts!!!!
What the heck did I do? I used the Lookout restore, (yes, they all backed up successfully during the normal Lookout process), but they don't restore to the SIM!
Is there a setting somewhere in there that I missed?
Also, is there a better Contacts App then this one? I really don't like everything defaulting to Google!
Does ANYONE know if anything has been done via nightly releases or any other means that addresses the issue that the CM6 does NOT read the SIM card? I desperately need to get my contacts info off of the SIM and into the phone!
I DO NOT want to:
A) Re-flash my phone, get my contacts, and re-flash the phone again
B) Manually add my contacts 1 by 1
C) Have all of my contacts entered as Google contacts, (which the CM6 will do if they are on the phone) so that I can sync them back to the phone.
(THERE IS A REASON MY CONTACTS WERE ON THE SIM IN THE FIRST PLACE! TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY INFORMATION OF MY CLIENTS!)
Are there other Contact apps out there that DO read the SIM card that I can install? As far as I am concerned, this is the only major drawback of this ROM. Everything else is phenomenal!
You could use Funambol then export to a *.vcf. Then import in to Google then it should sync from then on...
Have you checked that you are not filtering them out of the list. There is a menu setting to hide SIM contacts.
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bob in northern nj said:
ok, i flashed the rom to the cm6-rc. I lost every single contact on my sim card, which means i lost all of my contacts!!!!
What the heck did i do? I used the lookout restore, (yes, they all backed up successfully during the normal lookout process), but they don't restore to the sim!
Is there a setting somewhere in there that i missed?
Also, is there a better contacts app then this one? I really don't like everything defaulting to google!
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stop opening new threads!!!
Merged threads.
This is a question, it is NOT development. Please stop making new threads in development for them, as you already had a thread open (albeit in the wrong place).
Refer to the forum rules for more information.
Bob in Northern NJ said:
I DO NOT want to:
A) Re-flash my phone, get my contacts, and re-flash the phone again
B) Manually add my contacts 1 by 1
C) Have all of my contacts entered as Google contacts, (which the CM6 will do if they are on the phone) so that I can sync them back to the phone.
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God forbid you should have to do ANYTHING to work around something that is not working in a RC rom...
Flash your phone back to one of the htc based roms I think all of them (liberated/stock) can read sim contacts, export your contacts to a vcf on your sd card or your pc, reflash cm6, turn off google sync, import your contacts.
I know its totally rocket surgery.
pquegg said:
I know its totally rocket surgery.
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LOL
Another problem with this RC-1 is that some apps do not install... Anyone else having this issue?
chilimac02 said:
LOL
Another problem with this RC-1 is that some apps do not install... Anyone else having this issue?
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Yeah, I think I have that issue as well, its trying to load or install it, it just sits there!
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bkmo said:
stop opening new threads!!!
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Sorry for opening the duplicate thread. It was an honest mistake. I would delete the duplicate if I were able to. Again, my apologies.
Pquegg, Sarcasm is for those who do not know how to be understanding of others' needs, and have no people skills! If I were well versed on how to work with the code I would be able to do as you imply! To me, it is like rocket science. That is why I am asking for HELP! DUH!
carltont said:
Have you checked that you are not filtering them out of the list. There is a menu setting to hide SIM contacts.
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Please give me the menu selection path to get to the filter you are refering to.
Hi Everyone!
I have a problem. The touchscreen of my HTC HD2 doens't work anymore. So basically I can't use my phone anymore. I've got a recent backup on my sd card of my contacts made with the Titanium Backup app.
My question is if I still will be able to redeem my contacts? Maybe on the computer? Any ideas?
Did you use your google/gmail account in accounts/sync to access the Market? That should have also synced to your google contacts online.
I've been going back and forth between Android builds and WP7. All I have to do is log in w/ my gmail credentials and all my contacts are downloaded.
Yeahhh!! That was it, its al in my gmail account! Didnt know that
Thank soo much for this.
troosie said:
Yeahhh!! That was it, its al in my gmail account! Didnt know that
Thank soo much for this.
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Anytime!
I was just at a group dinner last night where one of the guests had just bought the Samsung Galaxy after losing her previous Android phone. She said that she lost all of her contact info and I was like "Really! Just do this...".
Hi all can someone help me with the accounts on my San Francisco Blade running cyanogenmod 7.1. When I add an account it disappears after a few days, the only account that remains is the google account itself. I would like the phone to remember quite a few other accounts such as WhatsApp, Viber, Hotmail, Facebook and Skype. I have experimented with using different profiles but so far no luck at all, cheers.
Do you clear data for the above apps you've mentioned?
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Not that I am aware of, I guess I could add an account and then clear the data in order to check this out. Where would I delete data and how could I check to see if this was happening? Thanks for your help.
pompeyrodney said:
Not that I am aware of, I guess I could add an account and then clear the data in order to check this out. Where would I delete data and how could I check to see if this was happening? Thanks for your help.
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it is not data and cache mate. I am having the same problem i have had this problem from day one cant find a proper answer to it :/
Apps i have in sync:
1) whatsapp
2) gmail
3) facebook
if i reboot the synced apps disappear from the sync menu and if i reboot my phone the apps will also disappear.
it is an annoying problem and wish i could find the answer to it too mate
after asking a few talented devs that i know in real life i was given a simple solution to try and move the apps to the phone instead of sd card and see if the sync settings will save properly.
Although i am sure that on my testing device (my testng toy) the vodafone 858 smart i keep all apps on the sd card and they sync properly so this could be a device problem or something not 100% sure.
Ok. So did it work? I thought maybe its something to do with Dalvik or Cache.
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This is because u have the apps on ur memory card
When the phone boots, it loads the accounts before loading the SD card and since the apps aren't loaded, the accounts disappear.
Move them to phone memory
I think this will help you. if it does please THANK me.
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karthiknr said:
Ok. So did it work? I thought maybe its something to do with Dalvik or Cache.
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after leaving the phone on while sleeping like always i woke up rebooted the phone and the sync settings were gone to so leaving them on the phone instead of the s card is not the solution
What do u think? Rom.? Or cache?
I think this will help you. if it does please THANK me.
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i am not sure still trying to figure out the problem
Just moved WhatsApp back to the phone, added the account and rebooted and this works, the account is still there, I will now try moving the other apps one by one and report back.
pompeyrodney said:
Just moved WhatsApp back to the phone, added the account and rebooted and this works, the account is still there, I will now try moving the other apps one by one and report back.
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for some reason its working for me to now but i am 100% sure that on my vodafone smart 858 it would sync the apps from the sd card also
I have just moved Hotmail and Facebook back to the phone and rebooted. All accounts are still present in Accounts and Sync settings, thanks for the help people.
great to see that moving the app to phone has also worked for you
pompeyrodney said:
I have just moved Hotmail and Facebook back to the phone and rebooted. All accounts are still present in Accounts and Sync settings, thanks for the help people.
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U know its easier to press the thanks button, right
I'm sure everyone would appreciate it
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Hello guys, I am facing a weird problem that I have never faced before. I have one week old brand new Nexus 4 and its just awesome. But some little bug in the OS is just spoiling the whole experience. I am not sure if its a bug or not but surely it shouldn't happen.
The problem is I always synchronize my contacts with gmail. So whenever I added my gmail accounts first, all of my contacts just came into my phone flawlessly. But one morning I just saw all the contacts disappeared leaving a just few which are of no use. After googling and some small rnd I found the life saving option "Restore Contacts" in gmail contacts. I got them back. Didn't know the reason but thought it would never happen again. Today again this thing happened which really pissed me off.
I have used all of the android OS starting from GB to ICS but this thing never happened. I also found that whatsapp, facebook, wechat contacts are not synchronized properly without any reason. Contacts are not properly shown under "Contacts to display" option. Guys is this problem common in JB 4.2.2 or I am missing something to properly configure my phone. Please share your views friends.
subhasis005 said:
Hello guys, I am facing a weird problem that I have never faced before. I have one week old brand new Nexus 4 and its just awesome. But some little bug in the OS is just spoiling the whole experience. I am not sure if its a bug or not but surely it shouldn't happen.
The problem is I always synchronize my contacts with gmail. So whenever I added my gmail accounts first, all of my contacts just came into my phone flawlessly. But one morning I just saw all the contacts disappeared leaving a just few which are of no use. After googling and some small rnd I found the life saving option "Restore Contacts" in gmail contacts. I got them back. Didn't know the reason but thought it would never happen again. Today again this thing happened which really pissed me off.
I have used all of the android OS starting from GB to ICS but this thing never happened. I also found that whatsapp, facebook, wechat contacts are not synchronized properly without any reason. Contacts are not properly shown under "Contacts to display" option. Guys is this problem common in JB 4.2.2 or I am missing something to properly configure my phone. Please share your views friends.
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Log in to your google account through a web browser. I'll guarantee all your contacts are still there. Either you are not syncing right or you need a factory reset/flash.
Gmail contacts also deleted when they are disappeared from phone
hp420 said:
Log in to your google account through a web browser. I'll guarantee all your contacts are still there. Either you are not syncing right or you need a factory reset/flash.
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Thanks for your reply. But let me tell you one thing the moment I saw my contacts gone in the phonebook, I checked my gmail account also. The contacts were also not there. Then I performed a "Restore" action and the contacts came into gmail address book as well as in the phone. Hope I have made the problem clear now. :crying::crying:
subhasis005 said:
Thanks for your reply. But let me tell you one thing the moment I saw my contacts gone in the phonebook, I checked my gmail account also. The contacts were also not there. Then I performed a "Restore" action and the contacts came into gmail address book as well as in the phone. Hope I have made the problem clear now. :crying::crying:
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no, not really....you said you restored your contacts and they have returned....so what's the issue then?
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hp420 said:
no, not really....you said you restored your contacts and they have returned....so what's the issue then?
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Yes I restored my contacts they were fine. They came back to my phonebook but without any reason they disappeared again. I had to do same restore again in the gmail to bring them back in my phonebook. I had not faced this problem before. Thats why I am confused. And moreover can you tell me why no whatsapp and wechat contacts not shown in the phonebook while all the syncs are on? Please tell me if you have any ideas...Thank you in advance.
hp420 said:
no, not really....you said you restored your contacts and they have returned....so what's the issue then?
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It's pretty clear to me. The OP added his Google account to his phone, sync'ed his contacts and then some time later found that they had vanished from both phone /and/ Google. He was fortunate to be able to recover them, but the fact that he was able to does not mean that it's not an issue. Likewise, the fact that it has happened again suggests that he needs a little more support that an implied PICNIC reply....
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subhasis005 said:
Hello guys, I am facing a weird problem that I have never faced before. I have one week old brand new Nexus 4 and its just awesome. But some little bug in the OS is just spoiling the whole experience. I am not sure if its a bug or not but surely it shouldn't happen.
The problem is I always synchronize my contacts with gmail. So whenever I added my gmail accounts first, all of my contacts just came into my phone flawlessly. But one morning I just saw all the contacts disappeared leaving a just few which are of no use. After googling and some small rnd I found the life saving option "Restore Contacts" in gmail contacts. I got them back. Didn't know the reason but thought it would never happen again. Today again this thing happened which really pissed me off.
I have used all of the android OS starting from GB to ICS but this thing never happened. I also found that whatsapp, facebook, wechat contacts are not synchronized properly without any reason. Contacts are not properly shown under "Contacts to display" option. Guys is this problem common in JB 4.2.2 or I am missing something to properly configure my phone. Please share your views friends.
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I'd be looking into apps here - if a contact is deleted on your phone, this deletion will be sync'ed back to Google with the symptoms you've reported. Have you scoured your phone for a potential rogue here (either malicious or, more likely, buggy)...?
thanks for getting it finally
thanks daern for understanding my problem. You read my mind. This prob should not happen. Do you mean that any malicious programs are running in my phone?? or any other issue is causing this weird problem. I am not sure tomorrow morning I will see all the contacts vanished again. Its been 2 times I am facing this.
subhasis005 said:
thanks daern for understanding my problem. You read my mind. This prob should not happen. Do you mean that any malicious programs are running in my phone?? or any other issue is causing this weird problem. I am not sure tomorrow morning I will see all the contacts vanished again. Its been 2 times I am facing this.
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Chances are some (non Google) app on your phone, which has access to your contacts is deleting them. I would backup your storage and "factory reset" your phone. If the problem returns, try removing apps with access to your contacts.
SpookyTunes said:
Chances are some (non Google) app on your phone, which has access to your contacts is deleting them. I would backup your storage and "factory reset" your phone. If the problem returns, try removing apps with access to your contacts.
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I have a similar problem but in my case there is absolutely no doubt that it is Google deleting contacts from my Nexus 4. I do not even want my contacts synchronized or backed up on Google's servers and prefer to use the phone memory (because I use other apps to back up my contacts). The first time Google deleted my contacts from phone I realized that I had only disabled synch for "contacts" but neglected to also do it for "people" so I made sure all of that was disabled before I went and started deleting duplicate contacts from Gmail (that's right, it not only deleted it from the phone it duplicated them there). I then proceeded to restore my contacts from a .vcf file directly to the phone memory and it worked fine at first. Then, the next day, Google had AGAIN deleted all contacts and again duplicated them on Gmail. The phone has Android 4.3 and is stock other than being rooted. I am hoping to avoid having to delete the google account from the phone altogether. Any ideas?
Greetings,
I just checked my Contacts Trash 'folder' and was shocked to see contacts that I never deleted, which were "scheduled" to be permanently deleted in 2 days. They all had this remark:
"Deleted from Google Play services on May 2,, 2020. 2 days until it's deleted forever". There is an option to restore them.
Does Google Play Services search for "unused", or "not frequently used" contacts behind the scenes and decides to delete them? God knows what other contacts were deleted from my Contact list.
Thanks.
Anyone? This seems to be happening once a week. Does anyone know what's going on, what/who is "deciding" that some of my contacts are not needed?
I saw this post as I was researching the same issue on my Galaxy S9+. I didn't delete ANY contacts, yet there were several in the trash. I never would have noticed it but I received a notification in the drop down bar about it. I checked it out and was appalled. Like you, I wondered what else had been deleted. Any ideas or answers to this issue??
I have the same issue. Found out recently that google play was involved but i guess this is going on for a year or so. I keep on losing contacts but don't know when or why.
Trying to revoke autorisation on using contacts with certain apps ???
Where did you see that google play was involved? I'd like to read up about it. If google play is involved, I'll just delete it. I've already migrated to Youtube music, since play music is going away at end of the year. I've held onto it so far, because I prefer to listen to my music with the play app instead of the YT app. It still worries me that the contact deletion was happening, but I haven't found any more contacts in the trash since my last post.
OK, I need to revive this.
I can't believe that only 3 people in XDA are experiencing this behavior. I just checked my Contacts TRASH again and there are hundreds of contacts that are due for permanent deletion. Some say Deleted from Google Play services (on date), others say Deleted from null (on date).
Samsung won't let us choose another Contact app as default so we are forced to use the Samsung app (you can use another Contact app, but you can't set it as Default and when you click the Contacts within your phone dialer, you will always be directed to the Samsung one).
So can anyone shed some light on what the hell is going on?
Thanks.
sbi1 said:
OK, I need to revive this.
I can't believe that only 3 people in XDA are experiencing this behavior. I just checked my Contacts TRASH again and there are hundreds of contacts that are due for permanent deletion. Some say Deleted from Google Play services (on date), others say Deleted from null (on date).
Samsung won't let us choose another Contact app as default so we are forced to use the Samsung app (you can use another Contact app, but you can't set it as Default and when you click the Contacts within your phone dialer, you will always be directed to the Samsung one).
So can anyone shed some light on what the hell is going on?
Thanks.
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My 10+ uses the Samsung Contacts app. It stores on internal memory/sim and backup to the SD card.
I have all Goggle backup* disabled in it's settings and with a package blocker.
Google is spyware inc... they suck fb bad.
Do not rely on or trust Google, they will bone you proper in 3-10 years, every time.
It's their nature...
*and many more Google apks blocked and/or firewalled with Karma Firewall. Some like Goggle Play Services and Playstore I turn on as needed.
blackhawk said:
My 10+ uses the Samsung Contacts app. It stores on internal memory/sim and backup to the SD card.
I have all Goggle backup* disabled in it's settings and with a package blocker.
Google is spyware inc... they suck fb bad.
Do not rely on or trust Google, they will bone you proper in 3-10 years, every time.
It's their nature...
*and many more Google apks blocked and/or firewalled with Karma Firewall. Some like Goggle Play Services and Playstore I turn on as needed.
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But Google won't delete contacts by itself, I've always had Android phones and never had this problem (granted - I always used the Google Contacts by Default, never had an issue of Samsung not letting me disable their app).
sbi1 said:
But Google won't delete contacts by itself, I've always had Android phones and never had this problem (granted - I always used the Google Contacts by Default, never had an issue of Samsung not letting me disable their app).
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Google doesn't care... they do what they want.
Perhaps someone can explain to me how this stupid app (the Samsung Contacts) work.
I keep all my contacts on my Google account. That's my main account. I have almost 600 numbers/contacts in there.
That's what I set in the Samsung Contacts app to show, nothing else.
Can someone tell me what the heck are all these 3050 "contacts"? Nowhere across any of my accounts anywhere do I have 3050 contacts. If I set the app to show all contacts, I get the same person 50-60 times.
I tried to clear cach and data and as soon as I opened the app again, it showed the same thing.
I don't understand this. Why is it so complicated? What am I missing here?
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Google doesn't care... they do what they want.
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I know they don't care but that doesn't answer the question about Samsung Contacts App that deletes random contacts and the thousands of "made up" contacts that I posted above.
Who knows? One day Contacts lost all my contacts that started with "S". I restored them from a backup copy.
Importing ones either manually or automatically can create dup accounts. Don't forget the sim card as the same can happen with/because of it.
I export contacts from my Samsung Contact to the SD card and back up that copy on the PC.
Fun times... play with it if you want answers
I have the same problem going on for like 1 year now, and this is the point where i found out that i have the same deleteion message in the trash.
I don't know what could be a solution. Anyone?
Having this same darned issue on my s22 ultra and I'm going nuts. It's been like this for a while now
Someone tell us how to fix thus please!!!!!! I even had removed permissions of contacts but nope doesn't work.
JERZIE82 said:
Someone tell us how to fix thus please!!!!!! I even had removed permissions of contacts but nope doesn't work.
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Try disabling Google backup.
It may be bug in Samsung contacts though.
Make sure your contacts are backed up... redundantly to hdds.
I am just happy that finally, 2 years latger, I am not the only one who experience this.
I moved all my contacts to Samsung account, and the problem has gone for now. I will inspect this when I will have time
Just now noticed this issue, I own a Samsung Galaxy S20. Google Play Service deleted my contacts on 17 and 19 April 2022.
sbi1 said:
I am just happy that finally, 2 years latger, I am not the only one who experience this.
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Hello, I think I fount the cause of this. For me it started when I installed the Google Contacts App and then clicked fix & merge contacts.
Ever since, keeps adding 17 contacts in the (Samsung Contacts app) Recycling ♻ bin.
Just uninstaled Google Contacts app.
Observing recycling bin for any updates...