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Small facebook & contact issues

I'm sort of stabbing in the dark here, but my issue is this: When I open my received text messages, the peoples contacts that I have sync'ed with facebook should show their photo. This is how it worked when I first got my phone.
I have done a few factory resets since then, and yesterday loaded a new rom. I loaded my contacts that I had backed up to SD card.
For some strange reason ALL of my contacts have hiphens ( - ) in their phone numbers. I think this is causing some texts to not be delivered.
Also, when in the messages window, all of my contacts photos wont be displayed. But if I go to the people directory they are displayed fine.
Now, is there a way I can delete the cache or similar without factory resetting the rom?
I have rom manager, and I used this to reboot into recovery before loading a new rom. In there was options for deleting cache and things (to be honest I didn't know which was the correct one so I did them all before loading a new rom). Now when I go into rom manager it just loads a sign like this a!
so I cannot try that again.
Thanks for any help given!!

Why did you back up to memory card if they're going to be saved to the cloud via your Google account?
Otherwise I have no answer for your question.
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I had all sorts of problems with the facebook integration.
The magor one I had was that the phone would automatically use the facebook phone number and not the one in the phone which was very annoying when people put fake numbers in their facebook profile or don't update for their new number and also all the numbers had a +44 on them which meant my phone wouldn't dial them at all!
My advice is remove your facebook account and see what happens. The try adding it again. If the problems persist then keep it removed. Life will be easier without your phone and facebook contacts being merged and updated all the time... trust me!
Phil

Thanks for your replies.
Regarding the backing up of contacts, does anyone recommend a GOOD FREE app for backing them up? I simply do not wish to use Google to back up my contacts. They are personal, and I would prefer to keep them on the phone. Google contacts is pointless to me.
If you would like Google contacts I have no say but I would rather not have my contacts spread out all over the place, with different versions etc...
It's going to take me forever to edit everyones phone number, and each time I flash a ROM I'll need to do it again..
Worst still, since flashing PaYs ROM the Google sync actually worked for the very first time since receiving the phone - So, now Google contacts has all of my contacts but the phone numbers have dashes is ( - ) which is wrong. Like the person above me, us in the UK have issues when dialing strange numbers!

Google contacts is fine, means you never have to worry about them being backed up as it's automatic...otherwise you've gotta sync them with yur email client on your PC which is hassle...I was a stickler for backing up to Outlook but now use Google...
The dashes come up after restoring contacts from the SD card...don't know why it does it but it can't be removed (another reason not to back up to sd card)

while in the htc people app, just press menu button then you can export your contacts to your sd card, which you can then later on import again.

Flaggie said:
while in the htc people app, just press menu button then you can export your contacts to your sd card, which you can then later on import again.
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Can you please explain the point of this post? Is that a French flag?

dieselboy said:
Regarding the backing up of contacts, does anyone recommend a GOOD FREE app for backing them up? I simply do not wish to use Google to back up my contacts. They are personal, and I would prefer to keep them on the phone. Google contacts is pointless to me.
If you would like Google contacts I have no say but I would rather not have my contacts spread out all over the place, with different versions etc...
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You asked for a way to back up your contacts without syncing them with google contacts, I provided you with a way to save them without having to use any app.
(it's the dutch flag, just made the World cup soccer finale)

Flaggie said:
You asked for a way to back up your contacts without syncing them with google contacts, I provided you with a way to save them without having to use any app.
(it's the dutch flag, just made the World cup soccer finale)
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Fair play, but it is this way of backing up contacts that is giving us the problems as per post #1 and this discussion
I have done a few factory resets since then, and yesterday loaded a new rom. I loaded my contacts that I had backed up to SD card.
For some strange reason ALL of my contacts have hiphens ( - ) in their phone numbers. I think this is causing some texts to not be delivered.
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Congrats on the world cup. I have stopped paying attention since we lost.

sorry my bad, i'll let you guys get back at it

Try contact2sim
Limitation of course is the small sim memory for numbers only.
Astro file manager has some backup capabilities. HTC sync....
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[Q] Messages<--where gone thou?

Hi a while ago i was trying to root my phone,so i copied the contents of two sd cards on to my pc,whilst resetting everything last time,and inserting the memory card with one of the images,all my messages returned again,so somewhere on the sd memory this lives,id rather not go through the process of transferring stuff off etc of my current mem card,so does anyone know the location of the data relating to messages?
I know it seems longwinded but if anyone knows id appreciate it as i need one of those messages

I am sure that SMS messages are not stored in the SDcard. They should be stored somewhere in the /data folder in the internal memory...
However, I think your messages came back from HTC sense account sync if you had one before you wiped everything.
Setup HTC sense account again and cross your fingers, if you have a sense account now, delete it a re-do it and hope that might help.

You are in fact a legend,that worked
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I really fail to see what HTC Sense Accounts were about. It was probably a major factor in me getting a DHD over the D (of course, now that I am running a custom ROM, I wouldn't go back!).
Anywho, they are meant to be able to track your phone, see where it has been, store all your messages etc. I set it up as instructed, logged in, ran through all the hopes, enabled all the right settings, and what happens? Nothing. 95% of the time when I try to access the site, it doesn't want to work. Also, it has only saved about my first 5 text messages.
In the end I find that using SMSBackup+ is the best thing to do. It allows you to backup all your texts/mms/call log to your GMail account.

[Q] How do i migrate from old phone to new phone?

Hi All!
Happy Christmas and merry new year to you guys!
I re-post this, because i apparently asked it first wrongly on a ROM-thread..
I wanted to check from you if anyone has any guide/tool that I should use when moving all olad apps from an old phone to a new phone. I will install Gin2Kitcat on the new phone, and many apps in my old phone save their data in the phone's memory, so they will not be transferred to the new phone by just moving the SD-card and re-installing the apps.
Is there anything else (than sms and callogs) that I should remember to backup before moving data to a new phone (in my case to a brand new Xperia Pro instead of my old over 2 years old Xperia Pro! )

For apps, you will need root. And Titanium Backup is the best option there.
Contacts - use the built-in contacts app to back them up.
Messages, Calendar, Call Log - personally using Mobile Backup 2 app.

You can use Titanium Backup to backup messages, call log, browser bookmarks and Wi-Fi settings as well. Contacts can be synchronised with your Google account so you don't need to backup. Just in case, you can also backup your contacts to the SIM card or SD card if I can remember correctly.
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[Q] need help getting contacts back

I uninstalled the YouMail app and it DELETED a few of my blocked callers from my contact list in the phone, and I now have no Idea what those numbers were. I tried using an application on my PC to read the contacts, and the missing/deleted ones, but all I see are red squares for the missing contact names and numbers (used potatoshare android contacts recovery) so that's not any help.
I have a few NANDROID Backups (Clockworkmod) which when they were done, the contacts were still in the contact list.
if I restore the Nandroid backup file, would the contacts be still visible? Would Google automatically delete them?
I really need to get those deleted contacts back. If anyone has a way to accomplish this, please add to this thread!
Mahalo (Thank you) and Aloha!

I'm pretty sure if you Restore the Nandroid back up, you would still get those deleted contacts. Make a Nandroid back up first before restoring. After restoring, export contacts to sd card / sim card/ which ever you like. You can then restore your recent Nandroid and find the exported contacts on your sd card.:victory:

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I'm pretty sure if you Restore the Nandroid back up, you would still get those deleted contacts. Make a Nandroid back up first before restoring. After restoring, export contacts to sd card / sim card/ which ever you like. You can then restore your recent Nandroid and find the exported contacts on your sd card.:victory:
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I tried the Restore, but the contacts were somehow sync'd with Gmail or Google or something, and the missing contacts that were in the Nandroid were again MIA!
I then shutdown and removed my sim card, and turned off my wireless router and restored the same "Known-Good" Nandroid and found all the contacts (including the ones that would be deleted after sync'ing Occurs)
I then exported the contacts and reverted to the last (today's) nandroid and imported the contacts. The Nandroid recoveries etc. take soooo much time! Somehow CWM ain't the fastest horse in the race here... For now though, seems ok, but dk if it'll stay that way.
Google had a message like "too many deleted contacts" so I'm not sure what's what.
I also printed a list of the missing ones, so all else failing, I will just have to manually re-enter the missing contacts.
Sounds like one hellava way to get next door by going around the world! LOL
Thanks for your response! Have a great day!

bobolinko said:
I tried the Restore, but the contacts were somehow sync'd with Gmail or Google or something, and the missing contacts that were in the Nandroid were again MIA!
I then shutdown and removed my sim card, and turned off my wireless router and restored the same "Known-Good" Nandroid and found all the contacts (including the ones that would be deleted after sync'ing Occurs)
I then exported the contacts and reverted to the last (today's) nandroid and imported the contacts. The Nandroid recoveries etc. take soooo much time! Somehow CWM ain't the fastest horse in the race here... For now though, seems ok, but dk if it'll stay that way.
Google had a message like "too many deleted contacts" so I'm not sure what's what.
I also printed a list of the missing ones, so all else failing, I will just have to manually re-enter the missing contacts.
Sounds like one hellava way to get next door by going around the world! LOL
Thanks for your response! Have a great day!
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You realize CWM is copying BILLIONS of files right? Over a gigs worth of data, if you ask me, for what its doing, on whats its doing, its pretty fast
And this is why i NEVER use sync Lol. glad you got it all back.

elesbb said:
You realize CWM is copying BILLIONS of files right? Over a gigs worth of data, if you ask me, for what its doing, on whats its doing, its pretty fast
And this is why i NEVER use sync Lol. glad you got it all back.
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Yes I do know it's copying a lot of files, but not billions, and I also know that TWRP copies the same data MARKEDLY FASTER.
Even with that, I somehow trust CWM a tad more with my data LOL (Slow, but WORKS!!!) LOL
Thanks again!

[Q] Contacts

I have the D850 and for some reason I am unable to save contacts to the phone. I am only given the choice to create the contacts to my Google account or SIM card. Am I doing something wrong?

hdcp said:
I have the D850 and for some reason I am unable to save contacts to the phone. I am only given the choice to create the contacts to my Google account or SIM card. Am I doing something wrong?
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Well, it turns out the problem is caused when I freeze the AT&T address book app. Unfreezing it does not fix the problem of saving contacts to the phone. It still only gives the ability to save it to Google or the SIM card. The only way to correct it was to do a factory reset and just not freeze the AT&T address book.
Has anyone else had this issue?

Are you google free?
Is there a benefit to saving to the phone as opposed to google? If you are google free, then I understand.

michael.s.under said:
Are you google free?
Is there a benefit to saving to the phone as opposed to google? If you are google free, then I understand.
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No real benefit. I just prefer to keep them on the phone as opposed to Google. One thing I do not like is Google (in particular GMail) seems to make everyone I've ever sent or received an email from is a contact.