Hi!
I recently backed up and restored my contacts. When they restored they did so as gmail contacts.
Is there an easy way to make them phone contacts?
Thanks
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Because the various Contact types are quite different, they can not be converted between one another. You can make a Phone contact, and link it to a Google contact and vice versa, but converting so far seems to be impossible.
Until/unless maybe someone makes an app for it (copy relevant fields & then delete the original) but I havent seen it yet.
You can backup Your contacts on SD (as *.vcf file) and restore this file later under "Phone" account. 2 simple steps in "People" app:
1. Menu -> Import/Export -> choose "Export to SD". All Your Google contacts will be saved on SD.
2. Menu -> Import/Export -> choose "Import from SD" and then choose account "Phone", choose a Vcard file You just created and that's all.
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flashing a rom on my evo was very successful. My issue was restoring my contacts and apps so i thought i had to recover them. FAIL! So i guess it put the stock rom on top of the flashed rom. Yes, FAIL again, i know. So the phone was running slow as ****. I backed up alllll my apps again on titanium and my contacts. My question is, how do i get my contacts and apps again? I know this is probably easy but im stressed and cant think right now. Worked 13 hours and thought i damaged my phone.
I have always just let Google sync my contacts so if I change devices I can just log into my Google account and they get transferred automatically. As for backing up apps I don't. I don't trust it. I like to start fresh everytime and install manually that way there is less of a chance of conflicts. If u have paid apps they always show back in the market.
yea all im worried about are the contacts....i have no prob downloading those few apps over...
For contacts using google sync, for app I just back up list of them using app list backup.
wow. so only 1 contact is showing up. does this mean i have to recover all my old stuff just to get the contacts
Were your contacts saved in your Gmail?
Also did u make a nandroid before changing roms and losing everything?
yes they were synched with the gmail.....im on the gmail now trying to figure something out but i dont see anything......and yes i backed up everything before i cleared the phone up
Hope you didn't "clean contacts" any other way but while flash rom of because that would sync as well and delete them from gmail. For example: someone believed his contacts are backed up at gmail and he chose to delete them from phone... then phone sync with gmail and "update " this "new phonebook".
If future you can also backup phone using:
1. some apps
2. or simple way by - open your contacts > chose menu > Import / Export > Export to SD card (restore them same way while choosing Import).
Hmm I would do a wipe then restore your nandroid backup you already have. Then make sure all your contacts are synchronized in your Google account. One thing i have always done is export contacts to a file and keep on pc just incase i lose them. After that do all your wipes and flash the rom of your choice.
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Beat me to it
erik077 said:
Hope you didn't "clean contacts" any other way but while flash rom of because that would sync as well and delete them from gmail. For example: someone believed his contacts are backed up at gmail and he chose to delete them from phone... then phone sync with gmail and "update " this "new phonebook".
If future you can also backup phone using:
1. some apps
2. or simple way by - open your contacts > chose menu > Import / Export > Export to SD card (restore them same way while choosing Import).
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erik077 said:
Hope you didn't "clean contacts" any other way but while flash rom of because that would sync as well and delete them from gmail. For example: someone believed his contacts are backed up at gmail and he chose to delete them from phone... then phone sync with gmail and "update " this "new phonebook".
If future you can also backup phone using:
1. some apps
2. or simple way by - open your contacts > chose menu > Import / Export > Export to SD card (restore them same way while choosing Import).
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for some reason its only synching 1 contact....i tried it like 3 times...
92bubble said:
for some reason its only synching 1 contact....i tried it like 3 times...
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Forget Sync now, looks like they are gone . Did you manually delete any of them while "cleaning" your phone?
I would suggest booting into recovery flashing CALKULINS_FORMAT_ALL.zip & reflashing your rom. Contacts should be synced with google otherwise try mybackup pro. For apps I always suggest Titanium Backup. With the amount if rom flashing I do I find the donated version worthwhile. Good luck!
Hello
So i have finally decided to try out custom roms . But i need a way to migrate my sms, contacts and calender to the new rom without any compatibility issue
i know that google has contact calendar sync but i am guessing their are better ways to migrate all of them including sms at once
is their Any free app that can make this happen
thanks
not exactly sure what you mean by "sms contacts calendar" but here's what I do. My Contacts and Calendar are synced to my google account so as soon as I sign in on a new rom those are automatically synced up. As far as my actual sms messages I use a free app called "SMS Backup" that stores them as xml on the sdcard. So just install the app on the rom and then restore.
Hope that helps.
thanks for the reply and sorry for the confusion, have edited the post . i am looking for an all in one app that can do all the the three task at once. i have seen some backup application but they also backup settings and other things. i think that will create compatibility issue
SMS - "SMS Backup & Restore" from the market
Contacts - People App > Menu > Export > Export To SD Card
Calendar - Sync with Google
My Backup Pro can backup and restore selected items. All you need is to tick the box before SMS, MMS, Contacts and Calendar when performing a backup and then do the same when restoring. I think that would be your one-click app you are looking for.
hi all
i used the "backup contacts" app to create an csv file from my contacts before flashing my arc
now i see no option to restore the file to my phone except for importing my contacts to gmail first (a thing i don't know exactly how to do AND i don't want to do due to security considerations! i never trust google!)
any way, another similar app "Contacts Backup Pro_2.5.1" didn't recognize my csv file which i'd copied in sdcard directly as the software had asked
do u know how i can restore the csv file to my contacts?
thanks in advance
go to contact menu, press menu button, choose import contact, choose import from memory, it will scan your sd card for contact file
but...
but it says it can't find any Vcard contacts. I saved my contacts on a CSV file. So what do I do?
If you didn't trust google you wouldn't be using Android. And in future make proper backups.
benyben123 said:
but it says it can't find any Vcard contacts. I saved my contacts on a CSV file. So what do I do?
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If you did backup your contact to memory card, it must be found unless u format ur card
The other way is go to account & sync setting, click on your account, choose sync contact if your contact are already saved on google
Whenever I try to back up the contact file pcsc_pcsc file it doesn't work. How can I make a backup of all of my contacts to my windows computer?
You can open up the dialer > contacts tab > menu > export > export to sd card card, then you can copy the vcard to your pc. Though they're always backed up if you sync them to google.
No solution to your question but I use gmail on the EVO and Thunderbird on the PC and never have to worry about backing up contacts
Seems I'm unable to fully remove my contact photos. If I delete the current contacts photo it reverts to a previous blurry photo that has no option to delete. I dont have anything synced so I dont no why Im unable to fully remove the photo.
Anyone have this problem or a solution?
Orion78 said:
Seems I'm unable to fully remove my contact photos. If I delete the current contacts photo it reverts to a previous blurry photo that has no option to delete. I dont have anything synced so I dont no why Im unable to fully remove the photo.
Anyone have this problem or a solution?
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try going into your google account and deleting photos off of there
Backup your contacts to your sdcard (open the contacts app > menu > export > select phone or the google account its under and then wait)
Now go to Settings > Applications > Swipe over to all > Contacts Storage > clear data and cache
Now go to the contacts app and import your contacts again (Menu > Import > wait... > select the correct csv file if it prompts, and select "phone" to import it into your phone and not a google account)
CNexus said:
Backup your contacts to your sdcard (open the contacts app > menu > export > select phone or the google account its under and then wait)
Now go to Settings > Applications > Swipe over to all > Contacts Storage > clear data and cache
Now go to the contacts app and import your contacts again (Menu > Import > wait... > select the correct csv file if it prompts, and select "phone" to import it into your phone and not a google account)
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Yeah id tried all that.. importing contacts came back with the same pics.. only solution was to delete my entire contacts list and redo the whole thing over.. ughhh
Orion78 said:
Yeah id tried all that.. importing contacts came back with the same pics.. only solution was to delete my entire contacts list and redo the whole thing over.. ughhh
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Damn, that sucks. I believe you couldve also exported them with an app (that exports contacts as XML) and all picture data wouldve been lost