I think I'm going to do a reset, but thought I would seek advice first before I go ahead and do it.
What steps should I take before resetting?
I've been having problems with my contacts with gmail, and how my phone doesn't appear to sync (ie I add a contact to me phone, and the new contact doesn't show up on gmail later when I check).
So, what should I do?
Get an app to backup any text messages, make a good note of home screen layouts so you can get em back how you want.
Apps that store any customisation on the phones memory are going to revert to defaults, anything that stores to SD should be OK.
The phone will remember things like custom background/wifi passwords as they're sync'd to the cloud.
contacts require relinking!!!!
I did a factory reset today and I had to re0link all my phone contacts to my facebook contacts manually (again like when I just got the phone) is there any app or other way to avoid that? not that I'm planning to reset my device very often but it'll be good to know.
If your contact names are the same on the phone and on Facebook, it figures it out for itself.
not all of them are, even the ones that ARE the same the phone doesnt link automatically nor suggests as links! I copied my contacts to my SD card but I dunno if I copy them from card again later would they be all sorted like they are now or should I do it again!
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Following a recent 'return to factory settings', I notice my saved phone numbers now show like this
123-456-78900
previously they didn't have the spaces.
Numbers still connect ok, just a strange to look at (in the UK that is).
Does anyone know how I can alter this. Apologies if this has been covered previously.
BB
yes, i want to know that too!
It's just the way it saves the contacts to your SD card - best is to sync to a Gmail account and then resync back from that if you ever need to wipe the phone...
My phone has been acting terribly. The home screen is basically blank, except for the top and bottom soft buttons. I seem to be able to access all my programs. I cannot access any of my contacts though. When I tap contacts it goes to the contacts screen but there are none there.
Is there another way for me to access my contacts, so that I can write them down and save them before I hard reset?
Hard resetting will delete them, correct?
I have total commander installed, and can access that.
thanks
Use PIM backup to backup the contacts to sd card and restore afterwards
mrpistol said:
My phone has been acting terribly. The home screen is basically blank, except for the top and bottom soft buttons. I seem to be able to access all my programs. I cannot access any of my contacts though. When I tap contacts it goes to the contacts screen but there are none there.
Is there another way for me to access my contacts, so that I can write them down and save them before I hard reset?
Hard resetting will delete them, correct?
I have total commander installed, and can access that.
thanks
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download one of these and back eveything up.... pim back up (backs your contacts, texts and what not to your sd card where you can then restore back to your phone after you hard reset)
microsoft myphone... very cool. Download it and run it. You log in using your windows live account and it backs it up to the "cloud" You can access all your contacts and calendar events, texts, photos, videos, documents etc etc on the internet on a dedicated website. It can back up your phone every day if you want it to automatically. It can even use your location to find the phone if it gets lost.. well to an extent. Restoring is as easy as reinstalling the program after you hard reset and running the restore mode.
Microsoft outlook... This is the most common I think. Use Microsoft outlook and back up your contacts and what not. Connect your phone and "Active sync" it so it backs everything up. After you hard reset, re connect your phone and re-sync all the data. Depending on your carrier I think most carriers provide a trial of this program on the installation cd you got with the phone if you don't already have outlook installed on your computer. You also need to have "Windows Mobile Device Center" or whatever windows XP uses if you still use XP.. again those can be found online free or on the cd you got when you bought the phone.
Do a little reading on all of those.
They're all really straight forward.
awesome! microsoft myphone got it all....
thank you much
hopefully a hard reset gets this phone back on track now....
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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(All better now...weird...steps detailed below.)
Ok,
I have been searching xda and google for a bit now. I just finished my first ever root and nand unlock. I even did a titanium backup before completing the procedure and have a copy on both the sd and my pc.
So I get everything all booted up...but my calendar appoints are not there, my sms's are gone as is my call log. When I went through the list of things to backup on Titanium there were lots of things for SMS/MMS and calendar...I backed them all up.
I did a batch install, when those things weren't there I went back and manually loaded the data for all things that said calendar and sms.
Still nothing.
What did I do wrong? If I start to try ROMs I need to have all that stuff back...all my data. I thought that is what Titanium Backup did.
Please let me know if that stuff still in my backup somewhere...how do I get it...or how do I avoid this in future???
Ok...my call log came back...but still no sms history
Also...I had to restore all my contacts from the SD card...but now they have no pics associated with them.
OH...and internet bookmarks are back to default?!?! Where are mine? (never mind...there they are...didn't refresh right away)
I must have missed something somewhere.
Email accounts?? Not there.
Try rebooting a couple of times and everything should come back. Also if you were synced to google calender every thing just needs to be synced once more.
that is pretty weird, your calendar should be automatically backed up by Google. try going to calendar.google.com do your appointments show up there?
Ok...seems it takes a few more steps than I was aware of...
Last night I went through all the red apps in Titanium Backup and manually restored data from there, but still didn't see any changes and screens were at stock layout.
This morning I powered the phone off while getting ready for that one hour of charging while phone off. When I rebooted on way to work...VIOLA!!!...every screen set up was back.
(I had read that widgets/shortcuts didn't get replaced on screens.) All my widgets and shortcuts and screen set ups were exactly as I had saved them. Dang.
As mentioned above it seems that another reboot was needed. (Not sure if the manual data restores helped or were redundant.)
But...I still had no email accounts set up. So just now I decided to try once more after three other google results say that it is supposed to restore email. I manually restored data from Accounts, Accounts and Sync, and the two Mail widgets.
Now I have my Email accounts BACK!!! Great thing, but spoiled by amount of work to get it...(since only two accounts could have just entered them in less time.)
Been testing out apps since my root and unlock last night and everything seems fine...the email accounts even just synced on own.
Crisis averted...well until tonight when I do all this again to flash the rooted stock HTC to see how that goes. Then fingers crossed I'll get to CM6 when camera issues worked out.
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that is pretty weird, your calendar should be automatically backed up by Google. try going to calendar.google.com do your appointments show up there?
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I am one of those paranoid old skoolrs....anything I can keep out of the cloud I am going to. So my calendar is only on my phone...not synced with anything else.
That is why I hoped that Titanium Backup would have it covered...turns out it might have...all the entries I can think of are back this morning.
Hello All,
I have a Sprint EVO 4G that my job supplied to me and I need to turn it back into them very soon.
My question is pretty simple - how can I back up all of the data on it now and save it so I can pull the data later (contacts, past emails, messages, etc...) then perform a full wipe that will leave only the stock ROM there. I have the stock ROM on it still - no incrementing data, just want to make sure I do not leave ANY tracks behind when I give it back.
Thanks in advance...I am a complete noob and since this is going to happen sooner than later I want to be prepared to give it back and not worry.
Zergalot
Well if you are synced with gogle it will automatically save Contacts, calendar dates, and emails if I'm not mistaken. Anything else I would recommend getting Lookout Mobile and backing up what you need and get it from their website
Well, your contacts should be synced with your google account already. However, if you have non-google contacts (like from Exchange) then you can try something like this: https://market.android.com/details?id=no.uia.android.backupcontacts&feature=search_result
This should help with backing up SMS: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&feature=search_result
As far as emails, that one's tougher. Maybe you could just forward those emails to your gmail.
There are all-in-one apps like https://market.android.com/details?id=com.lookout&feature=search_result
and https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wsandroid&feature=search_result
However, I don't know whether there will be any issues with trying to restore that backed up data to a different device.
Thanks guys - going to work on it this weekend.