Develop Bugs

is there a program to back up calendar entries/ texts/ contact etc?

as the title says:
is there a program to back up calendar entries/ texts/ contact etc?
so that when a new rom is flashed all the data is kept.. i know you can sync contacts with outlook but i dont have and dont really want outlook.. i would much prefer something on the phone to back up maybe on the card and restore once the new rom is on.
cheers.

PPCPimBackup

ahaa.. thank you very much!

pim backup can be found here: http://www.dotfred.net/
edited a typo

supasye said:
as the title says:
is there a program to back up calendar entries/ texts/ contact etc?
so that when a new rom is flashed all the data is kept.. i know you can sync contacts with outlook but i dont have and dont really want outlook.. i would much prefer something on the phone to back up maybe on the card and restore once the new rom is on.
cheers.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
you can also use www.microsoft.com/myphone, with it you can save online your contacts, sms, pics, vids, and calendar online, and if you change your phone you can easily take it on it without problems, i try it, i test it, and off course i approve it. enjoy

I think MyPhone is too much messed.... Too bad it, but PPCPimBackup is plainer and easier.... and after all it takes only few Kb of memory........

dudu7559 said:
I think MyPhone is too much messed.... Too bad it, but PPCPimBackup is plainer and easier.... and after all it takes only few Kb of memory........
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
my phone is not messed, it's like ms active sync, except you just take it on your phone and you can use it online, no special action to do with.

Grabbing photos from Facebook

I was using SPB Mobile Shell 3 on my last phone, and loved the ability to grab contact photos for my friends from Facebook. Is there any way of doing this with the TP2? If not, is there any way of using that part of SPB Mobile Shell functionality without losing TouchFlo?

TF3D gives you the ability of creating a favourite contacts list and allows you to connect to facebook for photos, it also gives mini updates and birthday information which is pretty handy.

I tried this one unsuccessfully. It listed my Facebook friends, etc. but when I tried to grab the photo, it just had the default picture with a Facebook icon on it

Works great here! Dutch version.

michaelra said:
I tried this one unsuccessfully. It listed my Facebook friends, etc. but when I tried to grab the photo, it just had the default picture with a Facebook icon on it
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, it does only use the Default photo. Try a program called BookSync, think this gives you more options but the developer is really good, so will adapt the program to suit needs most of the time.

i find the facebook integration on tflo3d excellent, would be nice to be able to set a different update option (its every 2 hours and i cant see a way of changing that) but the way it pulls photo and a little bit of info is great and works really well.

which facebook app are people using?

I'm using standard TF3D interface, working well

I'm using v1.0.0.7 of the "official" facebook app (i.e. the downloadable app from facebook.com). It's supposed to integrate with the WM phonebook but I can't find any menu options for that (e.g. to download photos, personal details, etc). Has anyone else managed to work out WM contact integration with this app??

the built in application didn't work for pictures, but I got tip for a SkyBook as per here http://www.magnifoca.com/download_skybook.html and it worked .. so now I got finally all the pictures updated

My problem with BookSync is that it requires .net 3.5.
Why??? It can't possibly need that.

Well it's strange, on most of my contacts the integrated app works fine. But for some contacs which 100% have a pictre, it just doesn't fetch it. The contact is linked, but the photo just not shown. Anyone has the same problem? or even better a solution?

slowatsch said:
Well it's strange, on most of my contacts the integrated app works fine. But for some contacs which 100% have a pictre, it just doesn't fetch it. The contact is linked, but the photo just not shown. Anyone has the same problem? or even better a solution?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Usually happens when you're too quick at linking the contact then leaving that contact and going to the next screen. Go back into the contact andclick on updates. Then click the menu on the right and click on the "Get Photo" again and stay in that page, it should bring it down.

Anyway to avoid having TF3D erase my original picture from teh profile with the facebook one ?

Alcibiade said:
Anyway to avoid having TF3D erase my original picture from teh profile with the facebook one ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, you just untick click "Get Photo" when linking the contact in TF3D

Thanks. I was not even daring to try

Ok Guys , here is an important question
I have about 177 friends that are on my TP2 phone book and also on my facebook.
It's a pain in the back to link each persons profiles to the phone book of the TP2.
Imagine you hard reset TP2 , you must do all this linking one by one again and again.....
Is there a way to Copy to facebook links to each dedicated peson. I would like to copy this file and overright the new file after a hard reset or phone change.
For example I also have a Touch HD with Rhodium Rom on it, when I moved all my contacts fom HD to touch Pro 2 , the facebook links did not transfer so I had to re-link this 177 persons one by one.
There are some facebook files, I copied some of them, overwrote the existing files but it didn't work.
I'm 100 % sure when there is a new ROM for the TP2 all of you will be looking for the same answer, let's find a solution for this now before it's too late )))

doublecheese said:
Ok Guys , here is an important question
I have about 177 friends that are on my TP2 phone book and also on my facebook.
It's a pain in the back to link each persons profiles to the phone book of the TP2.
Imagine you hard reset TP2 , you must do all this linking one by one again and again.....
Is there a way to Copy to facebook links to each dedicated peson. I would like to copy this file and overright the new file after a hard reset or phone change.
For example I also have a Touch HD with Rhodium Rom on it, when I moved all my contacts fom HD to touch Pro 2 , the facebook links did not transfer so I had to re-link this 177 persons one by one.
There are some facebook files, I copied some of them, overwrote the existing files but it didn't work.
I'm 100 % sure when there is a new ROM for the TP2 all of you will be looking for the same answer, let's find a solution for this now before it's too late )))
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1 to this suggestion.
However, if you sync it with your PC, shouldn't you be able to re-sync everything, including FB links? No?
Alternatively, there is a program I found called PIMBackup (google it! XD) that might do the trick of saving your contacts and their FB links in the event of a hard reset, but I honestly don't know, since I haven't hard reset my device as of yet.

I've been there , I ve done that
Outlook Synch or PIM BACKUP or Sprite Backup - NOTHING HELPS !!!!
All Facebook links to your contacts are disappeared............ when you hard reset your phone, image upgrading to other HTC Touch phone, same story, everything is gone.... You must re link all your facebook contacts to your TP2 contacts.
It's same with Diamond 2 and guys who use HD with Rhodium/Diamond Roms.
We need a solution for this !!!!!!!

Any body got an idea for this problem ???
We'll loose all facebook links to our contacts after a hard reset !!! How to backup and restore them ?

Android 2.x Facebook Sync ???

Android 2.x has an option for adding a Facebook account under the "Accounts & Sync" menu. However, none of the cooked ROMs I've tried have actually got this function to work.
I am just curious, what exactly is it meant to do? Sense™ has Facebook integration that includes the ability to perform a few functions via the People app, as well as pull down contact pictures (the most common feature I guess). What does vanilla Android's "Facebook Sync" actually do?
I would imagine part of it involves contact images, but is that all?

actually you can download an application not that much good but it would b enough to handle the facebook activities
go to market and download addressbook application
then download facebook mix in this will be an external to that application
MolMol

Sincmypix is the perfect tool to sync contacts pictures! Just try it.
It's safe because you don't enter password in the app.
I am affrait of internal password applications.

profete162 said:
Sincmypix is the perfect tool to sync contacts pictures! Just try it.
It's safe because you don't enter password in the app.
I am affrait of internal password applications.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Syncmypix is a good one! +1 for that

I tried syncmypics a couple of days ago, and it mixed everyone's photos up. was very confusing. and it took me quite a while to go through and delete all the photos afterwards.
Am glad it's working for you guys though. Just wish there was something that worked for me too.

Hey guys,
Thanks for replies... Not quite the answers I was looking for though... What I really want to know what the Vanilla Android 2.x Facebook sync is *supposed* to do, whatever that may be.
However, although this is slightly off-topic, if you chaps are looking for the best way to get your Facebook pics into your contacts, then I've found what I feel is the best solution for you.
I tried SyncMyPix which in theory is great, but in practice, it's completely hit and miss (at least if you have a 200+ list of contacts as I do). In the end, I settled for a completely external application that syncs your Facebook pics to your actual Google Contacts online. Android then syncs the Google Contacts, pics included, as normal.
This method worked brilliantly for me, and I suggest you give it a shot.
Google Contact Sync

booon said:
and it took me quite a while to go through and delete all the photos afterwards.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You can delete all the pics from Results -> Menu.

I had that native sync working and it pulled down about 300 people into my contacts list, the ones with mobile numbers listed anyway, thank god it didnt override my google cloud contacts!!

StNickZA said:
Hey guys,
Thanks for replies... Not quite the answers I was looking for though... What I really want to know what the Vanilla Android 2.x Facebook sync is *supposed* to do, whatever that may be.
However, although this is slightly off-topic, if you chaps are looking for the best way to get your Facebook pics into your contacts, then I've found what I feel is the best solution for you.
I tried SyncMyPix which in theory is great, but in practice, it's completely hit and miss (at least if you have a 200+ list of contacts as I do). In the end, I settled for a completely external application that syncs your Facebook pics to your actual Google Contacts online. Android then syncs the Google Contacts, pics included, as normal.
This method worked brilliantly for me, and I suggest you give it a shot.
Google Contact Sync
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, this is just great.

StNickZA said:
You can delete all the pics from Results -> Menu.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I didn't see that. whoops!

What are the best ways to back-up the data on my phone?

I'm going to start flashing my phone whenever any new NRG ROM's come out, but I don't know how to back-up all the data on my phone so I don't have to start all over again.
What programs are best to use? And how do I use them?
Cheers.

define data.
contacts, notes, tasks, calendar?
try outlook. or myphone.
though. there are others.
names escape my mind though.

ya men, plenty out there. depends on what your needs are.
some just care about messages, some wants to have all back.
maybe configuration of apps.
-
I am using an small easy script I wrote in mscr, you can give it a try.
no good for messages but doing all the rest.
it works the way that ONCE you have to copy files holding configuration to SD card to dedicated folder, then it's doing it itself on scheduled time.
once you reflash rom, it will restore them all back. registry as well.

just back up your contacts to your sim and use Microsoft My Phone. Backs up all the basics, simply, quietly and not a problem to restore the info. It even holds your douments too. Should already be on your phone (the best part). I now never hesitate to hard reset if I want to do something

Cheers guys.
But stuff I'd like to save are the likes of all the settings. All my contacts etc. are all on my account on Microsoft's exchange server, it's just all the individual settings which i wish i could keep instead of flashing then spending half an hour doing them all over again!

daniel_lfc said:
Cheers guys.
But stuff I'd like to save are the likes of all the settings. All my contacts etc. are all on my account on Microsoft's exchange server, it's just all the individual settings which i wish i could keep instead of flashing then spending half an hour doing them all over again!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
that's what this script is doing, if you are familiar with creating reg files. and you are able to point out files responsible for settings in whichever app, give it a try. it's launging somewhere around on xda-dev, but i would update it if you like.
e.g. skype:
you copy application data\skype to SD\backup\application data\skype
and it will every 2 weeks copy them, again and again. It's done in background and very slowly, not slowing other processes, you can't notice. then there is simple restore which through config.txt herds them back.
for registry e.g facebook, create facebook.reg and put in SD\backup
just adding pim.vol will take care of contacts and calendar.
there is an option to add a file: "backup.all" which would mean that the whole folder is going there.
it's simple but what more I need?

hi guys
....... and sorry wich is the best way to back-up all he sms?

75ls said:
hi guys
....... and sorry wich is the best way to back-up all he sms?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i am using PIMbackup:
http://www.dotfred.net/default.htm
it's simple, small, free and the guy who wrote it looks smart, he did the fdc task manager too, there is no concurrence in that one.
I've been using something payed and fancy and big before and it messed my messaging.

thank you very much i downloaded it and as soon as possible i'll try it.from the web site it seems very good!

Titanium backup not restoring contacts ..

Yes, I know there are several topics already on this topic, but I haven't seen a reasonable solution in any of them ..
I was running Virtuous Unity Sense 3.0 v1.27 ROM this evening when I created a complete backup using Titanium Backup Pro Root .... I have now flashed a fresh copy of Virtuous Unity Sense 3.0 v2.37 ROM, and Titanium Backup Pro Root .. I am trying to restore my contacts by restoring 'Data only' for [CONTACTS/CALLS... Storage], but this only restores the groups I had defined in contacts, and not the actual contacts themselves ... I have restarted the phone after doing such a restore, but still, no contacts ..
So how do I get Titanium backup pro to restore my contacts as well ?
Luckily, I did create a nandroid backup of my Desire Z before reflashing, so I can go back and backup my contacts through some other means, but I want to know how to get Titanium Backup to restore them ..
And please don't say that I can use Gmail sync ... I don't trust gmail contacts sync because of my past experiences ..
Thanks for your help !

Don't trust google sync?
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA Premium App

Titanium Backup isn't configured to backup and restore contacts. It knows that Google backs up all of your contacts to your gmail account.
Make sure your contacts are syncing and the ones you're adding aren't 'Phone Only' contacts, and then sync and flash the new ROM. When you put in your gmail address it will pull all of them back down.

Why not just use MyBackup or sync with Google?

Spastic909 said:
Don't trust google sync?
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA Premium App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
martonikaj said:
Titanium Backup isn't configured to backup and restore contacts. It knows that Google backs up all of your contacts to your gmail account.
Make sure your contacts are syncing and the ones you're adding aren't 'Phone Only' contacts, and then sync and flash the new ROM. When you put in your gmail address it will pull all of them back down.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
blackknightavalon said:
Why not just use MyBackup or sync with Google?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Guys, I appreciate your help, really, but I've already said in OP that I don't want to use Google Sync .... Let's just say I have had a really big mishap before by going down that road ..
Secondly, Titanium claims to back up *everything*, and people on this forum suggested similar to me, so I'm wondering why does nobody know how to backup/restore contacts using Titanium ...
So you guys are claiming that Titanium cannot backup/restore contacts ?? ... If this is the case, why does everyone like Titanium so much .. ? .. I mean contacts is such a basic thing ..

ahmadka said:
So you guys are claiming that Titanium cannot backup/restore contacts ?? ... If this is the case, why does everyone like Titanium so much .. ? .. I mean contacts is such a basic thing ..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
E-mail the developer about it.

^^ I was actually thinking that maybe I'm not doing something right, but I guess if you all are convinced that Titanium indeed cannot be used for backing up/restoring contacts that yeah maybe I'll email the developer
But is it a bug in Titanium, or is the feature itself (i.e backup/restore contacts) missing or something ?

ahmadka said:
Guys, I appreciate your help, really, but I've already said in OP that I don't want to use Google Sync .... Let's just say I have had a really big mishap before by going down that road ..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So you use a smartphone... A Google Android smartphone... and you're worried about using google sync?? Not to start a flame war but if you're worried about this you need to go back to a dumbphone...
So you guys are claiming that Titanium cannot backup/restore contacts ?? ... If this is the case, why does everyone like Titanium so much .. ? .. I mean contacts is such a basic thing ..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No it does not. Everyone likes it because it backs up apps+data, and System data and restores when you flash a new ROM. Its an amazing app that has saved me hours of time when flashing ROMs. It doesn't back up contacts because when you use Android, contacts are backed up 100% every time. Using a Gmail account to use the phone automatically leads to backed up data. Why make an app to back it up when your phone does it automatically?

^^ I also have no intention of starting some kind of a flame war, and I only made my statement bold so that new repliers can see that point .. Like I said, I am grateful for your help ..
The reason why I dont like Google Sync for contacts is because two times my contacts got wiped out from both server and my phone, leaving me contact-less .. in the end I had to resort to an older nandroid backup to recover a partial amount of my contacts back ... now whether that was my fault or google's is unknown to me .. what is known to me is that for one reason or another, Google Sync for contacts has never really worked for me .. But apartment from this, I use google technologies, and google sync for many other things, and I love the company and their ideas ... I just don't like google sync for contacts, thats all .. And I had mentioned this point clearly in OP, and its not like I HAVE to use that, right .. ?
Anyways, I thought that Titanium could also backup contacts .. even if Google Sync does backup your contacts, it doesn't hurt to have other methods too, right ? ... I mean if you search on market for backup apps, you'll find tons of them .. redundancy ... so why should contacts backups be exclusive to google only .. ?
Anyways, the reason why I had made this post was because Titanium DOES show a backup of contacts, which is not working for me ... so I thought that I'm not doing something right ... if Titanium didn't support it entirely, then it shouldn't even make the backup in the first place, right .. ? But it did, and its just not working .. So I thought maybe I was doing something wrong myself, and that the app (i.e. Titanium Backup Pro) is fine as literally millions of people use it ..
I'm sure its able to backup/restore contacts ... I'm sure I'm making some mistake somewhere ..
And like I said, I didn't make this thread to start a flame war .. I just made this thread to get an answer to my problem, that all ... hope you understand

I guess I scared everyone off ... oh well .. :/

Titanium backup is awesome. It has saved me hours - multiple times, but to the best of my knowledge it backs up only the contacts application/settings... if it does backup actual individual contacts I would never know; as everyone else has said, I personally use Google sync. I imagine most users are in this boat. Maybe it's time you and Google contacts sync makeup.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

I'm telling you, use MyBackup to handle the contacts.

Ditamae said:
Titanium backup is awesome. It has saved me hours - multiple times, but to the best of my knowledge it backs up only the contacts application/settings... if it does backup actual individual contacts I would never know; as everyone else has said, I personally use Google sync. I image most users are in this boat. Maybe it's time you and Google contacts sync makeup.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I believe this to be true. It backs up the 'contacts' app and the settings for said app, but doesn't handle individual contacts info.

Why not use google contacts then export contacts to file,then you have your contacts in triplicate,phone,google and file?I must be luckly as I love the google sync function

TitaniumBackup does save contacts, you need to restore manually maybe Contact-backup-blabla (text is colored green in the list) and you need to reboot device.
But what is strange - for some reason data from my Gemini Calendar has not been restored I entered so many events... Damn...

there is backup for "Contacts and dialer" which i suppose is the app, and other entry for "CONTACTS/CALLS" which i think is the actual data. but since i have google sync up i'm not sure.
Also if you are so worried about google, how about that CarrierIQ that lies deep in the kernel and logs all your key-presses and sends em to everybody?

Cant help you with ti but i can recomend useing the option to download all contacts from google. That way you have a backup if they ever get wiped for some reason. Good luck
Sent from my HTC Vision using Tapatalk

love TB makes romming a breeze! Just use google contacts sorry you had a bad experiance but i have always used them or the carriers backup service in the past. Like the others said if you want that feature then get an app that supports is specifically or export from google lol.

Got a solution?
Hi everyone,
ahmadka, did you manage to restore your contacts?
Because I am facing the same problem. I switched from stock 2.2 to Cyanogenmod 7.1
I did a backup with TiBu. I backed up the ROM with ROM Manager.
I even backed up my SMS and Call logs using separate applications.
I thought TiBu would restore my phone contacts, but no.
There is an entry called contacts in TiBu, but it only restores a few contacts, not all.
I know the contacts are in the stock ROM, in a contacts database file, but how to retrieve them?
Do I have to flash the stock ROM, backup my contacts and reflash Cyanogen?
Isn't there a simpler way?
Thanks!

never had or heard of anyone loosing contacts stored through google, but whatever. i doubt there are many developers trying to make apps for android for something google does so well already.
titanium back isnt and i doubt will ever be a place to backup and restore contacts.
solutions, use google sync
use a pen and paper
download to simcard
download to sdcard
make your own app that does this
by an iphone, then go on apple forum and complain to them
ok just being an ass, sorry in one of those moods