I bought my SGH T989 a few days ago and at the store the reps transferred my contacts from my old phone (old verizon smart phone). Today I rooted and installed Juggernaut 4.1 ROM on it, and to my dismay, none of my contacts are in there anymore.
Are they still in my internal SD card? I can't seem to find them. I had done a backup of all my apps in Titaniumbackup as well as a nandroid backup of the stock ROM. Is there any way to recover my contacts either with Titaniumbackup or would I have to go back to the old stock ROM, export my contacts, then flash Juggernaut again?
I had just assumed my contacts were stored on my SIM card and they would have been there after the new ROM was flashed
If they did a "Transfer" they were not on your sim they were in phone memory, and if you flashed a wipe ROM they are gone ...
One reason it is best to save/transfer your contacts to google, that way they are in the cloud and sync back to your phone when you set it back up after a flash ...
There may be some contacts in the sim, but that is not where they are "normally" stored ...
Thanks for the response. Would doing a restore to my nandroid backup bring them back? I'm guessing going back to the t-mobile store and asking if they can transfer the contacts again is out of the question. Looks like I'll be entering these contacts in by hand. /Sigh
Temescal said:
Thanks for the response. Would doing a restore to my nandroid backup bring them back? I'm guessing going back to the t-mobile store and asking if they can transfer the contacts again is out of the question. Looks like I'll be entering these contacts in by hand. /Sigh
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OH, if you have a nandroid, that should put them back , but it will also put you back to the ROM you had before ....
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Hey guys so I just flashed this ROM onto my phone and I love it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1175842
Only problem is that I'm missing all my contacts. How do I get VZW backup assistant to run so I can get all my contacts back?
Thanks guys!
have you checked the market? i never use backup assistant; i always keep my contacts synced to google :\
jayochs said:
have you checked the market? i never use backup assistant; i always keep my contacts synced to google :\
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Yea I didn't see it in the Android Market. Anyone else have any ideas as to what I can do?
Not sure but I don't think VzBackup will work on Sensation Based roms. you can restore your previous rom download contacts from verizon and then save or export them to your sd card...Newts Incredible Sensation uses the Inc2 Framework so VZBackup works with out problem. Good luck most Sense 3.0 and 2.1 rom are based from Sprint and earlier roms(before GB) were having lots of problems when they left the vzbackup software in.
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Hey guys so I just flashed this ROM onto my phone and I love it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1175842
Only problem is that I'm missing all my contacts. How do I get VZW backup assistant to run so I can get all my contacts back?
Thanks guys!
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VZW Backup Assistant is generally considered useless bloat and is stripped from most, if not all ROMs. Most veteran ROM flasher have supercomputer-like memories and can input their entire phone book from memory after each flash.
....na. Just kidding. We use our Google accounts. It works better too, and you can access it from any computer, edit it, and never worry about losing all your contacts if something happens to your phone. If all else fails, make a nandroid of your current ROM, wipe the phone and restore your old ROM with the phone book in it, set up a Google account to link to the phone and sync your address book to it, then wipe, restore your new ROM, and log into Google. You're entire address book will rebuilt itself, no user intervention required. If you plan on flashing different ROMs to experiment with them, it's the ONLY way to go.
You're other option is dig through the files of the old ROM for the right .apk and copy that to the new ROM. Don't ask me how though. If it were me, it would be faster to just do the flash thing.
here's a flashable version:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8099658/backup_assistant.zip
put it in the root of your sdcard and flash from recovery.
disclaimer:
nandroid first just in case.....
rocketj said:
here's a flashable version:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8099658/backup_assistant.zip
put it in the root of your sdcard and flash from recovery.
disclaimer:
nandroid first just in case.....
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To OP
After you flash this and if it works and you get all your contacts transfered, I would suggest you export your contacts to your SD card. It'll make a .vcf file that you can use (also save it to an online site, or email yourself the file) so in the future instead of having stuff like this that can constantly use up your connection and CPU you can just import this nifty file.
Google also syncs your contacts but I don't always trust it as sometimes it doesn't pick them all up (maybe I'm just doing something wrong)
I stick with Google sync over backup assist aswell. Although sync doesn't always import all of my contacts but majority of the time it works great
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VZW Backup is useless! Just as several others have suggested, it is always best to use your Google account to store and manage your contacts. Especially when you start flashing ROMs regularly.
Just as useful as their $2.99 a month visual voicemail.
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Hi guys i've recently rooted my phone for the first time (all worked fine) and flashed the latest Android Revolution ROM. It installed fine however it seems to have wiped my phone eg i've lost all texts, apps, contacts etc. I backed up my sd card to ROM manager before i did the root however it isn't seeing the data.
Is there any way to retrieve this data, or is it all lost?
I've read countless pages in the Android Revolution HD thread, no-one else seems to have this problem...
You would have needed to backup all your apps, texts etc with specific backup apps, such as Titanium Backup and SMS Backup & Restore.
Your contacts should be backed up onto Google's servers, and should appear when you sign your Google account back in
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Hi guys i've recently rooted my phone for the first time (all worked fine) and flashed the latest Android Revolution ROM. It installed fine however it seems to have wiped my phone eg i've lost all texts, apps, contacts etc. I backed up my sd card to ROM manager before i did the root however it isn't seeing the data.
Is there any way to retrieve this data, or is it all lost?
I've read countless pages in the Android Revolution HD thread, no-one else seems to have this problem...
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i didnt realy understand how yu backed up your data???? cause you coldnt have done a nandroid Backup before you were rooted
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you didnt?? export your contacts to SD card??
what and how yu backed up to SD card
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i didnt realy understand how yu backed up your data???? cause you coldnt have done a nandroid Backup before you were rooted
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I'm sure he meant he did it before he flashed a new ROM
Hey guys, sorry, to clarify i backed my sd card up before i flashed the ROM. I've managed to recover most of it. And i'm actually a she, which probably explains a lot...
Most confusing is that the android market on my phone is only showing about 1/4 of the apps i've previously downloaded for some reason. So i'm having to redownload everything and it's not combining with the backed up sd card app data.
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Hey guys, sorry, to clarify i backed my sd card up before i flashed the ROM. I've managed to recover most of it. And i'm actually a she, which probably explains a lot...
Most confusing is that the android market on my phone is only showing about 1/4 of the apps i've previously downloaded for some reason. So i'm having to redownload everything and it's not combining with the backed up sd card app data.
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The Market is buggy and annoying like this. Go to market.android.com, log into your phone, push all the apps listed in Titanium Backup that you want to restore via the market, which will usually be under the list of applications you already bought/installed on the top right corner of the website.
From there ONLY restore data for the applications to restore the application settings and such.
pretty much you got your answer from Hunter
do not rely on market for backing up,...invest few moneys in Titanium Back up and my Back up pro , trust me , is Well invested money
and most important...now that you are rooted learn to use the recovery and always do a NANDROID backup ( this backups internal phone CARD on your SD card )
things that were on your phone and you didnt back them up on your SD card are Lost
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And i'm actually a she, which probably explains a lot...
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Oops sorry! I really shouldn't assume, that's bad of me
AT&T Galaxy S3, 4.1.1 JB stock.
I rooted last night, using Odin and started with Titanium back up. I thought I had everything saved to my external SD. I followed a youtube video on installing the Liquidsmooth ROM, and everything seemed to go well. When the phone reboots, there were just a few icons about loading back ups and a few dock icons. When I went to restore my back ups, there was nothing there. I thought I did something wrong, so I tried to go back to the stock rooted rom (root66) and got stuck in a bootloop for like 2 hours. Finally got it back up & running with all the factory settings and now I can't access anything on the phone. Titanium still says there are no back ups, I can't get Kies to transfer anything(I thought contact numbers saved here?), nothing is syncing from Google and I can't even get my phone numbers to sync with Facebook contacts. It says I have read-only access and it won't let me delete contacts that I don't have numbers for, only hide them. Can someone help me figure out how to restore my contacts? That's number one right now. If I have lost my apps, I can always redownload those, but the contacts are way more imortant. I'm still searching and reading, but hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks guys!
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AT&T Galaxy S3, 4.1.1 JB stock.
I rooted last night, using Odin and started with Titanium back up. I thought I had everything saved to my external SD. I followed a youtube video on installing the Liquidsmooth ROM, and everything seemed to go well. When the phone reboots, there were just a few icons about loading back ups and a few dock icons. When I went to restore my back ups, there was nothing there. I thought I did something wrong, so I tried to go back to the stock rooted rom (root66) and got stuck in a bootloop for like 2 hours. Finally got it back up & running with all the factory settings and now I can't access anything on the phone. Titanium still says there are no back ups, I can't get Kies to transfer anything(I thought contact numbers saved here?), nothing is syncing from Google and I can't even get my phone numbers to sync with Facebook contacts. It says I have read-only access and it won't let me delete contacts that I don't have numbers for, only hide them. Can someone help me figure out how to restore my contacts? That's number one right now. If I have lost my apps, I can always redownload those, but the contacts are way more imortant. I'm still searching and reading, but hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks guys!
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In the process, did you wipe your internal/external SD?
Also, did you sync your contact with Google? That way, after a factory reset, you can connect with Google and it will put them back on your phone.
BWolf56 said:
In the process, did you wipe your internal/external SD?
Also, did you sync your contact with Google? That way, after a factory reset, you can connect with Google and it will put them back on your phone.
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I might have wiped the factory one on accident, but the external sd still has my pics & music folders. The titanium back up folder on the external however is empty.
When the phone restarted after the bootloop fix, I had to add my gmail info again, and it never prompted to restore contacts. That's what prompted me to search for them , see I don't have admin access and see that I couldn't merge a contact I was text messaging with his facebook info because I have read-only access.
I've searched for a while and have found nothing. After I wiped and reset my phone for cyanogen and have recovered most things with Titanium Backup, I didn't use Nandroid, I use that's my problem? Well either way I lost all my contacts. I thought I was was synced with my 2 Google accounts and 1 Yahoo account, but I guess not. I could put them all in again, or do one of the lame Facebook events / posts for them. I don't really care, but is there a quick way I could get them back? I did some auto search thing for contacts on my phone and it found nothing, same for the SIM card. Would it be somewhere internally in the phone? Or has that been wiped?
As you didn't take nandroid its's hard to recover the if they're not synced to google. Are you sure the numbers aren't saved to your sim card. Other way would be, if you have everything backed up from your previous rom, then you have your contacts but you would have to flash stock (or whatever rom you were on) restore tb backup, download app from google play that backups your contacts, flash CM and restore your contacts with the same app
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As you didn't take nandroid its's hard to recover the if they're not synced to google. Are you sure the numbers aren't saved to your sim card. Other way would be, if you have everything backed up from your previous rom, then you have your contacts but you would have to flash stock (or whatever rom you were on) restore tb backup, download app from google play that backups your contacts, flash CM and restore your contacts with the same app
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By "download app from google play that backups your contacts" do you mean tb, nandroid, or something else?
Well I'm using super backup, it's free, and I've set it to backup my messages, contacts and call logs every day. So that should do it And obviesly you can backup them right away
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Hi Team,
I am in desperate need. I tried to get superuser on phone and rooted with CWM. But now the phone is in boot loop and I don't know what can I do besides factory reset. Phone is Galaxy S3 SPH-L710.
I tried the back up using the vol down + Home menu and got back up file on my external sd card. But i can't figure out that it has all my contacts or not..
If I reset the phone, I will loose all my contacts.. I need them..
Anyway to verify? if I reset, will I be able to restore it from SD card ?
Please help..
JB
If you made a backup from recovery it is likely your contacts are in that backup. The trouble will be making use of the backup you have.
If you reset and restore that backup you will be right back where you are now (assuming that you made the backup of a bootlooping phone). You really needed a backup before you got messed up.
What type of contacts are they (Phone, Gmail, etc). If they are Gmail then they should be synced to your Gmail account. Log in and check. If so then they will come back to the phone when you add the gmail account.
If they are not in your gmail then you will have to find a way to extract them from the Nandroid backup. I have read that Titanium Backup has the capability of restoring data from a Nandroid. I have not tried it though, so, YMMV.
Your best bet may be to try to clear the bootloop. Have you tried wiping Cache and Dalvik cache in the recovery?
Titanium backup pro will let you extract the contacts from a nandroid. But if they are your Google linked contacts they will sync when you add your account. This comes in handy when switching phones or ROMs. I link all of my contacts to my GMail now so I don't ever loose any. They can be viewed from your PC by logging into Gmail and then selecting contacts on the Gmail main page to make sure they are there.
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If you have a stock rooted ROM before you backed up, you can just flash another stock ROM, make sure it boots up, and restore data from the not working backup.
Do an advance restore and restore data only. Worked when I backed up stock and flashed another pure stock ROM with root.
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