At first I lost all but those that I had received an sms from, and then when I deleted all my messages, my contact list is now blank? How do I retrieve my contacts? (100+ numbers I haven't got written down anywhere)
check deleted items?
Have you checked ''Deleted Item''
A volatile folder where sms r stored after deleting from inbox
denjo said:
Have you checked ''Deleted Item''
A volatile folder where sms r stored after deleting from inbox
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I don't care about the deleted sms, I need my entire contact list / phonebook back.
*edit* and I just used SIM Manager in Accessories to get all of my old (ie from before I bought my Orbit) contacts from the simcard, but still no sign of another 75+ missing numbers.
Have you not synchronised with Outlook?
most likely sync with empty contact outlook have cause this
Captain Sisko said:
Have you not synchronised with Outlook?
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My work pc had to be reformatted, using a copy of windows without outlook? Windows Live Mail or some such rubbish instead. Is there any way of retrieving my contacts then?
If you reformatted your PC and lost Outlook, then you have more than likely lost the contacts for good. You should have deleted your PC partnership on the phone, reinstalled Outlook and then synced as that would of just added the contacts back to your new install of Outlook.
I hate to say it, but unless you have the files from your old windows installation, then your stuffed.
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Hi guys,
I followed a guide on here... connected then deleted all the emails off my phone etc..
But now I have no contact on msn / hotmail on my pc or my phone?!?!?!
AWESOME.
Anyway to get them back?
Thanks.
MSN Live contacts disappear.
Hi,
So sorry for this, it's has happened to me, it usually occurs when you connect your phone to PC and Sync, and by default ActiveSync is set to 'Export' so if your Outlook has no contacts, that means it exports an empty Contacts DB to your phone, in other words it deletes all your contacts off your phone, then when you connect to Windows Live and sync your contacts, again, that will further export an empty DB from your phone's contacts to your Hotmail contacts DB, which will further delete your contacts off that and that will result in losing your MSN contacts. I had to manually re-create all my contacts, it's so annoying, in the future always create a CSV file of your contacts as a backup, also the same on your phone, use a little freeware called PPC PIM Backup, to backup your contacts. To conclude you lost your contacts for good and you just need to start inputting manually, but be aware of the above in the future.
Regards,
I used my "ALLOW" list to restore the contacts...
good luck.
Been there, done that
Yep. Happened to me too. Luckily Adium had a backup of all my contacts so it asked if I wanted to add them all when I launched it after Live Messenger messed things up.
I just reinstalled my OS on my laptop and i must not have backed up my outlook contacts properly cause they were not importing from the file that i thought had them. i had them all on my phone and thought i could transfer from the phone TO Outlook. I was trying to check the settings in activesync to make sure it doesn't just delete the phone contacts with the blank outlook database, but before i looked it had already deleted everything, leaving me now with zero copies of my contacts. Is there any way at all to retrieve the contacts from somewhere in the phone or am i dead in the water? Thanks in advance
Contacts ALL gone....
You need to use Pim Backup in case of these events. Its freeware and available on the forum.
I wiped and reloaded my dash with RW 6.1 and synced my contacts from Dashwire. Strangely however, none of my contacts show up in the contacts list, but if I start typing a name the names come up. Also, when people call they are recognized. So where did my contacts go??
sounds like they are on the sim card and are hidden. Try this, go to Start>Settings>Phone>Call Options and see if the "Show SIM contacts" is checked.
If the above doesn't Solve your problems. You should of had backed up all your Contacts before doing the update.
Thanks for the quick responses.
gospeed, the "show sim contact" option is selected.
axiomkid, backing up is not the issue. 1. they are backed up on dashwire and 2. they are outlook contacts. the problem is not losing my contacts...its finding them on my phone.
Edit: I also just checked the 'Contacts Information' in the Sim Manager and see that I have 357 contacts. The SIM capability says 0/0. Hope that helps a bit more.
wow, that is strange! although I have never used that software I dont know where they could be "hiding"!
Any other solutions to the "hidden" contacts that do exist on my phone?
I somehow missed that we were talking about Outlook contacts, so my bad on the sim part...I use Outlook to sync my contacts so I am not sure about where they could go using alternative software- but have you tried to sync with Outlook to see if they somehow appear? Its about all I got! Wish I could help
I guess it will help if I gave the whole scenario. After reinstalling 6.1 I synced my contacts from Dashwire to the phone. Everything was fine. I then setup my Outlook email and did a sync and the contacts were duplicated. I could not find any solution to delete ALL contacts. So I d/l Jeyo Companion and deleted all of the contacts from the phone. I then synced again from Dashwire to test and now I am sitting with this current problem. I have been trying to delete my outlook account and start over, but I could not (disabled).
Hope this clears some things up. I am going to try and delete my outlook on the phone and see what happens.
Hi, how i can copy all of my contacts from phone memory to android? (no on SIM)
Michga said:
Hi, how i can copy all of my contacts from phone memory to android? (no on SIM)
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Originally Posted by h0mer View Post
No, currently you can't sync your SIM-contacts. However through a few tricks it's possible. First of all you should copy all your contacts from your SIM to your phone memory (in Windows Mobile). Then you basically sync your contacts from phone memory to your Google account.
After that you boot to android and set up your google account. It should sync the contacts automatically.
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h0mer
worked for me
outlook
I syncronized them using activesync to outlook. exported tot a .csv.
imported the csv in GMAil, en sync-ed my kaiser android with that google account
Why do it easy when you can do it the hard way
I can copy the SIM contacts to phone, but i can't copy back to SIM card, any idea?
That's because android phones are supposed to sync with the cloud. Not the sim card.
Get yourself a google mail account, setup calendar online (google) then sync - look at their instructions for active sync.
Boot to androd and sync to google
works well as if like me you're running via haret then contacts and calendar stay in sync windows / android and my email too
shame it can't do tasks and sms
WHY? DO IT THE EASY WAY!!!
Go to contacts (android), press the windows button on your kaiser and select import-import from sim?
Sprite mobile
another easy way of doing that is using
sprite mobile
http://www.spritesoftware.com/Products/Migrate/Migrate-Your-Data-Now/How-To-Transfer
here you go
nick
My question is... how do we sync pics from facebook to the contacts? I've imported/syncd all my contacts from facebook but it won't show pics for them :-(
DJHile, if you're using my build it should sync pics, I choose 'sync with existing contacts' and it shows the pics automatically.
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DJHile, if you're using my build it should sync pics, I choose 'sync with existing contacts' and it shows the pics automatically.
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Poly, I am indeed using your build and used the exact same sync option as you but unfortunately, I get nothing but the android silhouette :-\
I do have quite a few contacts but none of them have a picture.
EDIT: I'm a dummy. It won't sync if I'm not getting some sort of data connection or wi-fi connection which I wasn't when I posted this... Then I installed the wifi fix update, wifi is good and somehow it fixed my cellular data connection problem also... contacts are syncing now!
i used sprite migrate to transfer my contacts...allthough it did not appear in google market so i downloaded and installed it manually...then when i opened the application in android it said that the version is expired(just downloaded from the site...)so if anyone intend to use it you just have to adjust the date 1 year ago...eg. 11/3/2009 instead of 11/3/2010...hope this helps someone...
thanx man!u have solved me problem,genius man
Hello All,
I just lost al my contacts from my phone. I was attempting to sync them to outlook but apparenlty the blank zero contacts from outlook got synched to the phone.. NOW I have no contacts wondering if I can retried them.. somehow..
Thanks
i think you cannot retrieve them anymore. they are all lost. at list mine was, coz i did the same thing!!! i forgot to check "change the item on the pc" instead of on the phone... and all contacts where lost. too bad. after that im using microsoft myphone as backup, and all the contacts are uploeded at their server and i can retrive them if something like this happen.