I save a contact, X1 asks me where do i want to save it, outlook or SIM..once i save in outlook, for what ever reason i do a hard reset, the NEW contacts are GONE!!!
Same problem here, just gave it a hard reset as I installed something faulty and now all my new contacts are just gone. I was assuming it was saved on my memorycard...
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Arnold
Contact Filter
Hi Guys,
Maybe a little obvious but have you tried fiddling with the contact filter setting in the contact menu on the dialler screen. It allows you to filter by either Sim or Outlook. maybe you have that set incorrectly.
Regards,
Creamy
I hope you mis-spoke
Seriously? Hard-reset erases EVERYTHING on your phone. Outlook contact info is always on phone memory, not SD card.
If you want to save it before a hard-reset then use a PIM backup program or sync first to an exchange server/desktop outlook and after hard-reset recover your contacts.
If you meant soft-reset, then that may be a different issue that I cannot help with, but if you mean hard-reset PLEASE be aware that it resets EVERYTHING on the phone memory back to original ROM files.
If you have contacts saved to SIM they will not be affected by hard-resets. By default new contacts are saved to phone memory and not SIM.
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I have upgrade from an XDAI to an XDAII, I have trawled through this forum and cannot find the answer. Please put me out of my misery want to transfer the data stored on the XDAI to my XDAII what is the best way of doing it. Obviously you cant use backup and restore and I have tried copying and pasting the Db directory (not possible).
Any clues anyone, I would be very gratefull
what data because if it's just contacts and appointments and tasks and such tnen it activesync with outlook and will automaticly be transfered
programs you can reinstall using activesync 's addremove programs
It is contacts appointments etc.. but I cant use my contacts and appointments because I administrate about 20 of these XDA's so they only connect as guests. I dont want all of the appointments and contacts in my Outlook.
spirit backup or something i think let you choose what you will be backing up maybe if you can choose only those things you can restore it on the xda2 even though it came from xda1
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It is contacts appointments etc.. but I cant use my contacts and appointments because I administrate about 20 of these XDA's so they only connect as guests. I dont want all of the appointments and contacts in my Outlook.
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You could just add a new user to windows and use that user's outlook for activesync to store the information in, then delete everything and move on to the next one.. Not ideal, but it should work.
Oh, if you make the user's profile mandatory (not sure if you can do that on a stand alone windows computer, but you can on a domain), all the settings (including outlook contents) should be lost when you log out. That should make things easier still. Just get the user's profile so far as to enable it to sync, make it mandatory, and then log in, sync, sync, log out, repeat.
Can you not just back up to an SD card those apps/data you want and then restore to the new advice. Not tried it, just a thought.
Regards
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.
hey people, few days ago when i am using my phone, i realised some contacts has 2 entries and some has 3 similar entries. so i delete them one by one and thought that will be the end of the problem.
after that, i never use my phone to sms. but today when i look through the 'People' application, all my contacts got duplicated. and when i try to delete one of it, it ended up deleting both of them. i never sync to any places, including gmail at all.
can anyone help me with this problem?
I believe some of them are from facebook contact and some of them are contacts stored in your simcard...
This annoyed me too. So I took the pain to delete all my contacts stored in my simcard.
Give it a try.
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I believe some of them are from facebook contact and some of them are contacts stored in your simcard...
This annoyed me too. So I took the pain to delete all my contacts stored in my simcard.
Give it a try.
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hmm. i already choose do not sync from facebook already. if i delete all my contacts from simcard, i need to add them 1 by 1 back? cause right nw when i delete 1, both will be deleted
One is "call mobile" and another one is "sent message"?
A screenshot may be helpful...
Another good way is, if you still have your old phone with you (with all your contacts in it), then delete all the contacts in this new phone, including the simcard.
Then select "set up", i.e., the icon looks like a magician's hat, select send from my old phone from there...
its back to normal again...
all i did was take out my sim card and put it back to my old phone to copy the contacts into the mem card there. after i placed my sim card back to my desire hd, the total number of contacts go back to normal and all the duplicated contacts has disappeared.
this is strange
I found that even having facebook contacts sync disabled I was still getting this problem. I had to stop using the facebook facility built into sense and only use the facebook app but that seemed to work.
Has anyone ever had the problem of contacts not showing up because they are linked together with another random contact? This seems to happen from time to time when I switch roms and the phone performs a sync. I have to go through each contact and see why is linked and hidden from showing up. I can't figure out why or how to easily fix.
The only thing I can think of is if you changed the contacts's name/number in the past, and it didn't sync then, but I'm not familiar with this issue...you can export them to your sd, clear your google contacts, the import from the sd card and re-sync...that might help.