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[Q] How do I restore my contacts and apps?

Hey, guys. I just installed the DK28 Froyo Stock ROM. I was using Lookout Mobile Security to backup all of my contacts and pictures.
However, all of my contacts aren't syncing from Lookout. Is there an easier way to get back all of my contacts from Lookout?
Also, my account only shows the apps from the Marketplace that I had purchased, but not downloaded. Is there anyway to download everything I had before? Thanks.

Don't know about Lookout; I always sync contacts through gmail.
Don't know about pictures; all of mine are on my SDCard.
Your free apps do not show up in the marketplace...until now. Now that you're running 2.2.1, anything you DL will re-dl every time you replace ROMs or wipe your phone. (this may be due to updated marketplace and not 2.2, but I'm not sure)

Lookout is garbage. I use appbrain to save my app and google to save my contacts. Have you tried logging into your google on your phone to recover your contacts?
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othan1 said:
Your free apps do not show up in the marketplace...until now. (this may be due to updated marketplace and not 2.2, but I'm not sure)
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It's due to both.

It's Lookout Mobile Security. It's a great piece of software. However, I think it's stuck on restoring my photos.

blackdragon79 said:
Lookout is garbage. I use appbrain to save my app and google to save my contacts. Have you tried logging into your google on your phone to recover your contacts?
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No, Google didn't sync all of my contacts. Just some. Is there a detailed way to show how to sync my phone contacts with Google? It wants to sync like every e-mail address I've ever e-mailed with my phone.

Accounts problem on 2.3.4

Hi everyone. I installed 2.3.4 on my Atrix and have run into my first real problem.
I was in my contacts and noticed that my Facebook contacts were not showing. I went into my accounts to add my facebook account and I am unable to. I press the facebook icon and nothing happens. It says that there is a facebook account linked with Motoblur, but I cant access any of the settings (I dont even know if thats possible).
Can anyone tell me if there is something that Im doing wrong or is this a known problem?

Did you do any freeze commands in titianium backup?

No, I have never used the freeze function in Titanium Backup.

JohnnyDanger said:
No, I have never used the freeze function in Titanium Backup.
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Same thing has happened for me. I don't even have titanium backup installed on my phone.

If you have the official facebook app installed, there are two facebook icons in the accounts settings, tried clicking both?
The one put there by the official facebook app has never worked on any blurred phone that I've used, can only use the default facebook account that comes with motoblur. Happened on 2.2.x and 2.3.4 for me.
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go back into the setup app and log into motoblur

dan-htc-touch said:
go back into the setup app and log into motoblur
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I tried that but did not work.
I think Im going to try to do a factory reset and go through the motoblur setup again.
**Edit**
Well I did what I said and it worked. I think that there must have been data left on the phone before I installed GB and it was causing things to not work right. Everything seems fine now.

Contacts: No "merge with Google" available in China ROM - How to sync?

Hello,
It took me a while to understand that the Contact app in the Chinese Stock ROM is somehow customized.
Since Google Play Store and Gmail apps are not installed here then I managed to get them and pushed them to system/app. Fine, can access GMail and the app store using my gmail account.
However, although I've set in <Acoount> my Google account to sync People details, there is no freakin way to sync them in the Contacts app. No "Merge with Google" item to select, only Samsung. So frustrating!!
Does anybody know how to sync the contacts? I'm not talking about importing.
Otherwise do you think I should try to get from a fellow SGS4 owner the official (and not restricted) Contacts apk (btw is this SecContacts.apk?)
thanks a lot for your help
L.

Nobody? :crying:

lavive said:
Nobody? :crying:
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I have the same issue. Just bought a samsung in China and I'm unable to sync google contacts.
I've downloaded the GoogleContactsSuncAdapter.apk and will install onto my phone tonight. Hopefully this will work. Will let you know how it goes.

Well, how did that go lavive? Cause I'm having the same problem

kogosa said:
Well, how did that go lavive? Cause I'm having the same problem
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I didn't a way until now
Maybe we'd better look for a contact apk from a Samsung's international Stock ROM, and replace the one from the Chinese Stock ROM.

how to get rid of this junk on calendar?

Anybody know how to get rid of this crap on calendar ? I've looked,but can't find solutions. I'm tired of the notifications. I posted picture below. Thanks

Just uninstall the crappy app that causes it.

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Just uninstall the crappy app that causes it.
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I wish it was that easy. I've diabled the stock calendar and installed a different one and same results. I've had this problem since I was on G5. I have no idea to what's causing this.

Not the calendar app causes this but a other app with some add/spyware in it.

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Not the calendar app causes this but a other app with some add/spyware in it.
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Like I said its not that easy. I have done a factory reset and get same results. I did not download anything at all

Well, check permissions on all your apps, and block all the ones that shouldn't have calendar access.
Then check Facebook and block that calendar access, because that seems something that would pop up in Facebook and no one would check.
Finally, it's likely that all that stuff has been synced to your actual account, so you're going to have to delete all those entries.
If you use a Gmail account you can do it from Google calendar online, and if you use something else, you'll be able to do it from that calendar.

SolarisSixth said:
Well, check permissions on all your apps, and block all the ones that shouldn't have calendar access.
Then check Facebook and block that calendar access, because that seems something that would pop up in Facebook and no one would check.
Finally, it's likely that all that stuff has been synced to your actual account, so you're going to have to delete all those entries.
If you use a Gmail account you can do it from Google calendar online, and if you use something else, you'll be able to do it from that calendar.
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Thank you my friend . I did not know you could do that. It took some doing,but its all gone now.

Glad to have helped. Be careful stuff like that doesn't get synced to your account again.

Edit: good to see it's solved

Contacts Deleted from Google Play Service?

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...