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I keep loosing the contents of my Email and SMS Inbox?? Help??

Hi, recently i've been experiencing problems with my o2 orbit.
Every so often i loose all the messages in my inbox for SMS messages and my Hotmail email account.
I then try to recheck my hotmail account via wifi and it just goes through the motions and says finished. My inbox remains empty but when i go and check on my pc there are anywhere between 5 and 15 emails waiting to be read.
At the same time i also loose all my text messages from my inbox. I can receive new messages as normal.
When i soft reset all is well again and i can download all my new mail.
Does anyone know of another solution other than to soft reset my xda?
Cheers
Ben

hi,
in my artemis, a few weeks ago, i have experienced the same problem: the text messages folder was not found.
only a hard reset as resolved the problem.
try the next:
a) save all your data via a backup program (sprite backup or spb backup)
b) execute a hard reset
c) restore all previously saved data EXCEPT the email data (is an option in spb backup, but i don't not if available in sprite backup)
the problem is a corruption in the \cemail file. but the cemail file is a system file, and cannot be pverwrite directly.
regards and lucky...

Thanks for your reply but i think i may have found the culprit!
I am using Wisbar Advanced Desktop and have a meter on the today screen counting the number of unread emails and SMS's in each of the accounts.
Apparently this is know to be buggy and delete messages from time to time. Anyway i have disabled the two text meters and so far so good.

Need help - Missing SMS messaging

I recently received my Verizon TP2 and noticed that I dont have sms/mms messaging on the phone. I was able to add email accounts to the phone but I dont see text messages in the account picker or the drop down box if I am in an email account. Any thoughts on how I can restore it without hard resetting the phone?
Thanks

on your previous phone...were you using the same micro sd card that you now have in the tp2? if so... with the file explorer, delete your old email inbox folder off your sd card.. i know that sounds strange but i had a similar instance where my sms messaging dissappeared off my phone and conflicting email folders was the cause... hope this is your problem and fix!

I already did a hard reset. But just to be safe I erased my old inbox folders on my storage card.
Thanks

[Q] HTC Desire HD Gmail Unable to Remove

Hi Every 1,
I have my company gmail registered to my phone
Now I no longer in my old company so I wanted to delete the gmail account
But it does not allow me to remove the account & the error message that I received is:-
"
This ccount is required by some applications> You can only reove it by resetting the phone to factory defaults( which deletes all of your personal data). You do that in Settings, under SD & phone storage.
"
I tried to check and HTC Market is the 1 that keep on asking me to relog my company gmail but this email has already deactivated by company
I could not delete the account yet unable to relog the company gmail
Any 1 can help to share some idea besides master reset the whole cell phone?
Thanks

So my first guess would be... that company gmail your trying to get rid of is also the same gmail that your phone is setup with, if this is infact the case, maybe try adding another google account first, and swaping everything in the phone to the account i.e. market, and google sync, and then try deleting, if that doesn't work, simply add another google account, set up everything on that account, and under accounts and sync, uncheck all of the sync options for the old google account, try deleting it again then, or just leave it there to rot and do nothing

Hi,
Noted your advice
But I could not find a way to switch my company gmail to my personal gmail in market.
This may be 1 of the limitation that Android faced

Just backup everything and do a factory reset. Bwahahahah *evil laugh*
Oopps, I went a little overboard there, sorry.
But that's the easiest way to do it.

garyfjh said:
Hi,
Noted your advice
But I could not find a way to switch my company gmail to my personal gmail in market.
This may be 1 of the limitation that Android faced
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after a new account is added, market, menu, accounts, should get a popup, window that allows you to select which account to use. Now you are going to lose anything that you previously had purchased on the other google account, maybe a way to contact google and have them transfer purchases or something.

Thanks all,
But I believe the best method that drpsyko said is correct. Master reset it.
To xx_bluedev_xx,
I had tried many ways but still unable to have any pop outs says for me to switch email

You cant remove the email account used to set up device. Only way is factory reset.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA Premium App

Hi twiztedvvv,
Thanks
Before I factory reset, how should I back up my sms and contacts & email address?

garyfjh said:
Hi twiztedvvv,
Thanks
Before I factory reset, how should I back up my sms and contacts & email address?
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stock messaging app in Sense 3 provides backup option , you can backup your contacts by going to people>Menu>Export
alternatively you can use MyBackup Pro, its v good when it comes to resetting your device

Thanks atifhasan86
I manage to export my phone & company emails address to my SD card
I wonder how to import back once i factory reset it?
I will download My Backup Pro from market after i master reset it cause now i unable to download anything as my email used to set up this cellphone is deactivate

[Q] Question regarding which ROM to install & Backing Up Contacts

1: I've been running an ICS theme on my epic 4g touch for a little while and I'm looking into installing a ROM to improve speed and battery life. I've been struggling to choose between the most current version of Blazer, or Unnamed. They seem relatively similar apart from the fact that if I get Unnamed I'll have to flash an ICS theme over it, but I'd like opinions from everyone.
2: I understand for both of those ROMs you must wipe your phone. I have no issue with wiping apps as they can be reinstalled, but I need my contacts. I don't have an SD card and would prefer to not have to buy one, so is there any method to backing up my contacts that I could retrieve them post flashing?
Thanks in advance

1. I don't have either of those so can't help with that.
2. if you have a Gmail account set up you can back up contacts. its in accounts and sync under settings. just be sure to go online into your Gmail account to check. I thought I was backed up before and wasn't.

patrao_n said:
1. I don't have either of those so can't help with that.
2. if you have a Gmail account set up you can back up contacts. its in accounts and sync under settings. just be sure to go online into your Gmail account to check. I thought I was backed up before and wasn't.
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I've tried syncing the contacts to gmail before but when I checked the account, none of my contacts were there.

ya I believe I fixed it by going to accounts and sync. then clicked on the google account. unchecked all. then checked only contacts and hit sync now. if that doesn't work try removing account and then add it again. sorry I don't know of any third party way to backup the contacts.

The trick is to get all of your email contacts into Gmail on your PC even if you have to manually enter each one. Then they will sync automatically to your phone and you won't have to back anything up. If you use Outlook on your computer, I think there's a way to export your contacts into gmail with a csv file. I couldn't tell you how to do it but you should be able to find out by searching in Google forums. I did mine all manually when I first started using android and I've never had to back up anything. Google does it for me. I know this will sound really strange, but to get them all to sync to Gmail and into my phone contacts list, I had to enter a fake email address for the contacts I only had a phone number for. Now I can flash and wipe my phone all I want and all my email and phone contacts sync again as soon as my phone connects to Google servers. I have them stored on my sd card, too, but I never need to restore them from it. Make sure you have two way sync turned on in your Gmail account on your computer. If you want gmail to pull in all of your other email accounts such as Comcast or hotmail, you can set that up on your computer too in Gmail account settings. I get all my mail in Gmail now and don't even use the other email client on my phone.

When you create a contact it will give you 2 options. 1 to backup internal 2 to backup to Google. It seems you selected internal so you need to go to contacts and go through the menus until you switch all contacts to Google then do your sync through settings. Best of luck if your still having issues do a titanium backup.. but like the poster said above as long as you save your contacts to Google in the future it makes going from rom to rom a breeze
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA App

Sweet, thanks everyone. I've got my contacts onto Gmail. Anyone have opinions regarding Unnamed vs. Blazer?

There's also a way to backup manually your contact list. In contacts program hit menu then export. It saves the file as 00001.icf in the root of your sd card. After you export, use a file manager to go and make sure the file is there before proceeding. You could then copy it to your computer or email it as an attachment to yourself.
Or it could be .vcf I forgot

Question Restoring call logs and contacts from titanium backup messed up contacts and phone app

So I backed up call logs and contacts from titanium backup before and when I tried to restore it, it messed up my contacts and phone app. Contacts app cannot import contacts from google account, it shows error. while contacts from vcf files imports but it doesn't show up in app. phone app does not logs call history, though calling and recieving calls works perfectly. Any fix for this. I'm currently using third party contacts app and dialer app.

You can access the contacts in your google account at contacts.google.com, maybe have a look at them there first, and if they're good, delete the ones on your phone and synch again.

MarkRobert said:
You can access the contacts in your google account at contacts.google.com, maybe have a look at them there first, and if they're good, delete the ones on your phone and synch again.
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Contacts are there on my account, but contacts app is fails to import contacts from account or even from a vcf file. if i create a new contact than it also doesn't shows up in it.
Anyway I had to factory reset to resolve the issue.