my gf has an epic rooted but completely stock...her phone all of the sudden only works on speaker phone now. so she called samsung to get a new phone and they just told her to hard reset her phone. when she did, she lost all her contacts, even the ones that were synced in gmail...anyone know how to get them back or why that happened? and also has anyone else had the same thing happen with the speaker? tia for any help offered.
danielpat89 said:
my gf has an epic rooted but completely stock...her phone all of the sudden only works on speaker phone now. so she called samsung to get a new phone and they just told her to hard reset her phone. when she did, she lost all her contacts, even the ones that were synced in gmail...anyone know how to get them back or why that happened? and also has anyone else had the same thing happen with the speaker? tia for any help offered.
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It sounds like she truly didn't have her contacts saved to her Google account and they were all on her phone. The only way to clear out your Google contacts is to log into the Google contacts webpage and manually delete those contacts. (As far as I'm aware right now.)
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hey everyone, i'm new to this whole rooting thing, and i havent seen any threads regarding problems yet, so i thought it might be useful to start one.
i dont know if i'm the only one experiencing this, but ever since i've rooted (stock tmobile rom, didnt touch the eng build or slidemeroot rom), i've experienced a major problem. i wiped my phone to factory settings prior to rooting to try to get it to root properly, and ever since rooting, i'm unable to sync my contacts saved on the tmobile website to my phone. syncing the weather, gmail, yahoo mail, and facebook all work perfectly, but sycning my tmobile account just isnt working.
it might be a server problem with tmobile, but is anyone else experiencing this? or maybe other problems?
normally i'd post this kind of problem somewhere like the tmobile forums, but i looked through there and nobody else has posted about any similar problem.
it's a tmobile issue.
My phone was doing this prior to rooting.
T-Mo fails at sync... I'd use Google to store contacts. Keep it in the cloud and those with the know how = Google.
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Its not fair to blame the mob... especially since YOU rooted your phone... they cant guarantee itll work if you change settings and the phone in general... come on now... I bet if you un-root and revert to stock itll work fine...
Lots of other people are having the sync issue that arent rooted.
There are threads on the official tmobile board.
And this has been going on with my phone since monday, prior to root.
In fact, if you log into your mytmobile account and go to the contacts page, you can see it hanging there trying to sync, it will eventually timeout and tell you its server error.
sk8rbebop said:
T-Mo fails at sync... I'd use Google to store contacts. Keep it in the cloud and those with the know how = Google.
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done and done. didnt realize this was a recurring problem with tmobile.
just to clear things up, i wasnt blaming anyone, i just thought it was strange that i was syncing fine until i rooted. i spoke too soon.
That always happens to me after every reboot. I have to check and uncheck tmo contacts or sync will continue forever. The best way is use gmail contacts and remove all myfavs and it will stop syncing forever. Yeah, all and all tmobile contacts suck. Why even use them? Google works better anyways. And you can always bkup to sim.
My wife's EVO's display will not work. The phone comes on, but no display. She never synced her contacts to Gmail. Does anyone know of a way we can get the contacts off of this phone?
chrismgan said:
My wife's EVO's display will not work. The phone comes on, but no display. She never synced her contacts to Gmail. Does anyone know of a way we can get the contacts off of this phone?
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Maybe a Sprint store can help you with that. Maybe HDMI out? Dunno...
Yea, maybe we'll give that a try unless someone else has any suggestions.
This may be something dumb but all of the sudden my phone went nuts. I now have over 40 of the same contact. No idea how it happened. Is there something I can do to fix this? I really don't want it to happen again!
richardcshipley said:
This may be something dumb but all of the sudden my phone went nuts. I now have over 40 of the same contact. No idea how it happened. Is there something I can do to fix this? I really don't want it to happen again!
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best thing to do is save contacts via google when you save them, and then grab them back from google, ive never had overlaps of double contacts unless i have it saved it in sim + the phone + google, that might be triple trouble. but try that and hope it helps.
wali01x said:
best thing to do is save contacts via google when you save them, and then grab them back from google, ive never had overlaps of double contacts unless i have it saved it in sim + the phone + google, that might be triple trouble. but try that and hope it helps.
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I do save them to my exchange account. Just was wondering if anyone knew why it happened, would like to stop it from happening again!
I'd assume this is the same for any phone but I have an old phone that I gave to someone to use with their number. It's currently deactivated because I got a new phone and activated this new one with my number.
When she goes into Verizon and activates my old phone with her new number will it "reset" the phone? Will it disconnect my facebook, twitter, gmail, etc. account? Will it delete my contacts?
Thank you very much in advance!
qwerty6859 said:
I'd assume this is the same for any phone but I have an old phone that I gave to someone to use with their number. It's currently deactivated because I got a new phone and activated this new one with my number.
When she goes into Verizon and activates my old phone with her new number will it "reset" the phone? Will it disconnect my facebook, twitter, gmail, etc. account? Will it delete my contacts?
Thank you very much in advance!
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I've used other SIMs/numbers in my gnex with no issues. Does not reset.
britoso said:
I've used other SIMs/numbers in my gnex with no issues. Does not reset.
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I want it to reset..or disconnect my google, facebook, app stuff at least. I lost my phone and had to buy a new one and then my old one was found. Someone is using it for a few days and I want to make sure my old texts can't be read and my passwords for all of my apps, access to email, google voice, etc. are all disconnected.
When she activates it with her new number does it make her sign in with a new google account? I know my photos will be on there and stuff but basically everything else google/phone related.
Just boot into recovery and do a factory wipe/reset.
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Hello, I have a stock z1 compact and in the last 2 months every time I try to access the contacts or make a call the phone or contact app crashes making it a nightmare to make calls.
I have cleaned the cash, reinstated the full phone to factory, nothing works, anyone has a solution for this? Or an idea on why this happens? Is it the sync on LinkedIn and Facebook contacts?
Thanks for the support
Anyone?
No idea, never heard of it.
In any case, try to reset again and only sync google contacts, leave LinkedIn and Facebook away. If it still works, add either Facebook or LinkedIn and check again. If it still works add the third one and you might know the reason.
I there thanks for the idea I tried it yesterday actually and keeps doing the same thing I think I might go for a rom instead of stock. Can I do this having a branded phone?
You can do that, but I still wonder why it happens.
What exactly happens? Do you get the option to submit the data to google?
Which release are you currently running on the phone?
It just appears the damn error message of a app crash saying that the contacts application crashed and asking to close it.I am the latest version. Thanks for your help
Probably it's some contact which has some weird letter/symbol in his address. Maybe you could check all your contacts in gmail, if you synchronize it. But yeah, no idea why this is really happening.
Hehe damn computers! Well Thanks nevertheless for caring very much appreciated