Before I flashed my ROM i made a vCard of all my contacts In the sense ROM, now I cant seem to find it in the backup of the SD card, Please tell me where it is.
And If I find it how to import it
mahex4 said:
Before I flashed my ROM i made a vCard of all my contacts In the sense ROM, now I cant seem to find it in the backup of the SD card, Please tell me where it is.
And If I find it how to import it
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Did u back up it with Titanium??
Shiv Prajapati said:
Did u back up it with Titanium??
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Titanium doesn't back up your sdcard it backs up apps and data.
Your vcard contacts should be found on the root of your sdcard which can be accessed with any file manager. Best procedure in my opinion is to use Google account to sync contacts then they are always available.
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No Its not like that, I had my contacts on the phone, So I made it to export to a vCard, Then before I formetted it, I moved all of the folders to my PC, Now I want it back, I can't use google sync, cause I saved it into the phone.
I need to get the directory where the HTC wildfire's Sense ROM saves them into.
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I have just got a MDA Vario III, I changed my sim and storage card over from my T-Mobile Compact III but the contacts stayed on my old phone. From this I take it that they are stored in the phone memory, how do I get them out of memory and over to my new phone?
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you can add them to the sim using sim manager
or sync with outlook
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Related to that
How can I store my Calendar Events and Contacts in the SD instead of my device?
Thanks!
Cheers Rudegar, job done.
gendsl said:
Related to that
How can I store my Calendar Events and Contacts in the SD instead of my device?
Thanks!
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Not sure if it can be done INSTEAD of on device, but if you are looking for a way to restore calendar events & contacts (or, take them with you on your SD card to another device) try PPC PIM Backup. The app is an .exe so you just have to have a copy of if on your SD then you could use it on whatever device you wanted to backup or restore. You'd backup from one device and save the file on the SD then restore to another from the SD.
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Not sure if it can be done INSTEAD of on device, but if you are looking for a way to restore calendar events & contacts (or, take them with you on your SD card to another device) try PPC PIM Backup. The app is an .exe so you just have to have a copy of if on your SD then you could use it on whatever device you wanted to backup or restore. You'd backup from one device and save the file on the SD then restore to another from the SD.
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Thanks runningtiger, but That's the question i'm just wondering if it's possible to move it on the SD just to save space on my device.
I am pretty new to rooting and ROMs and all that stuff, and today I rooted my htc evo for the first time, and also installed the CM6 ROM. I have a few questions though.
First off, while I was installing the ROM I (thought) I backed up my contacts and other info. Now that I installed the ROM, how do I access my backed up contacts etc?
Also, I noticed there is no android market, how can I fix this?
Thanks guys! This is my first post and the forums have been real helpful.
cody1212 said:
I am pretty new to rooting and ROMs and all that stuff, and today I rooted my htc evo for the first time, and also installed the CM6 ROM. I have a few questions though.
First off, while I was installing the ROM I (thought) I backed up my contacts and other info. Now that I installed the ROM, how do I access my backed up contacts etc?
Also, I noticed there is no android market, how can I fix this?
Thanks guys! This is my first post and the forums have been real helpful.
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To get your contacts back go into people press menu and import your contacts, as for the market not being there you need to flash gapps, I'd provide you with a link but I am currently on my phone typing this. Good luck.
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Systemfraud said:
To get your contacts back go into people press menu and import your contacts, as for the market not being there you need to flash gapps, I'd provide you with a link but I am currently on my phone typing this. Good luck.
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I tried to import my contacts from SD card, and it scans and then says "Scanning SD card failed (Reason: No vCard file found on the SD card) I don't know why its saying that. Shouldn't my contacts have been saved when I backed up before installing the ROM?
Need more info on what you used to backup your contacts, etc.
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cody1212 said:
I tried to import my contacts from SD card, and it scans and then says "Scanning SD card failed (Reason: No vCard file found on the SD card) I don't know why its saying that. Shouldn't my contacts have been saved when I backed up before installing the ROM?
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What you can try doing is going into settings and the sync and accounts and try to sync your google account. This should work if you set up the sync. It worked for me int he past.
Systemfraud said:
Need more info on what you used to backup your contacts, etc.
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I used the backup feature on the phone when you hold the power and down buttons.
cody1212 said:
I used the backup feature on the phone when you hold the power and down buttons.
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I think you are out of luck with the way you are trying to restore your contacts. I don't think you can just pull the contacts out of a nand b/u to restore.
I don't think your completed SOL, you can flash your nand b/u back to your phone, I would think that would restore your contacts. Then you will want to either sync your contacts with Google or export them using the contacts export function.
I can not help you with restoring a nand b/u yet, it's something I haven't done yet.
Hope that helps a little, I'm still new to rooting too...
n00bhackin took the reply right out of my post! what he says sounds like your best bet
restore your backup then export your contacts (or sync them with your gmail account on the phone - I have not done this with mine - and if you had your addresses ported from an older phone then I don't believe this would have been done either unless you synced later)
when you are in your contacts/people hit the menu button - then you should see the option to Import/Export (which I believe you have seen this as your post states you are using this method to try and import them) - however you need to do exactly the same thing and export them from the contacts list you want before you can import them (which this contact/people info would be in your backup)
that will create a vCard file (which I believe is actually a *.vcf file) - also to note when you choose to export it should give you 2 options - to either export "Phone" (I believe this would be your people/contacts) or to export "Google" (which I'm pretty sure is your gmail account) - I just exported both
made as much backup as I could before I have rooted (which hopefully will be soon)
hope that was clear enough
After you get your contacts back up and running, go download Titanium Backup or MyBackup for root users. This will allow to you backup your contacts, calendar, apps + data, etc. Then you can restore them from the Titanimum or MyBackup into the new rom.
I have found this helpful in my limited flashing experience.
I agree, these two programs are must haves...Always backup contacts to google and not phone.
I'm not sure you even have google apps installed. That's how you get the market app and you should have all yurt contacts backed up through google. That way when you sign in on a new rom, it will sync your contacts back to your phone.
Swyped from my gingerbreaded EVO son
you can get gapps from here:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Latest_Version#Google_Apps
it is at the bottom of the page use the HDPI one for EVO
I have all my contacts stored on my Google acct.
OMFGB EvO
Hi All, and thanks for the nub help.
My wife decided to store all of her contacts on her phone instead of using her google account. Now I'd like to flash a new rom, but I cannot think of a way to backup those contacts. I'd gladly go through each one and convert it to a google-stored contact, but there seems to be no obvious way to do that.
Is there a way to backup and restore these contacts? Or to move them go google?
Thanks!
oatkiller said:
Hi All, and thanks for the nub help.
My wife decided to store all of her contacts on her phone instead of using her google account. Now I'd like to flash a new rom, but I cannot think of a way to backup those contacts. I'd gladly go through each one and convert it to a google-stored contact, but there seems to be no obvious way to do that.
Is there a way to backup and restore these contacts? Or to move them go google?
Thanks!
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Theres an option when you are viewing your contacts screen to import/export to SD card. When in the contacts list just hit menu I think and youll see the option. It will create a file on your SD card and after you flash your new rom you will be able to import them back into the phone. Hope this helps. If you have any questions dont hesitate!
You should be able to do it. Open the dialer, then tab over to contacts, push menu, and then push "export to SD card." That will move them. Now you can flash your rom, and once you get it set, go back to the dialer, contact, then import from SD card, and you should be all set.
you could download Lookout from the market and it will back up ALL your contacts just make an account i love this app it allows you to locate your phone if you lost it and it scans your apps for viruses
Thanks all
Thanks for the help everyone. I forgot to mention that the Export to SD Card feature was crashing with a software error. That being said, I managed to use My Backup to backup the contacts.
Thanks!
No prob, and glad you got them backed up.
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
I changed the ROM on my friend's phone (they got my retired Epic when I upgraded to a note), taking a backup before hand, and it turns out that they had a bunch of contacts stored in their phone rather than in Google.
After the verbal admonishment was done about using google to keep contacts for this exact situation, the question came up on how to recover the contacts. As stated, I've got the backup of the prior ROM, but when I tried to restore it (was on people's rom, changed to CM 9.1) the restoration fails when trying to format a partition rfs style.
So the issue is trying to dig the contacts out of the data in the backup directly so that it can be re-entered into the newly minted CM ROM (and google). Where do I look inside the backup to find contact data stored in the phone?
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I believe I found it in the following file:
data\data\com.android.providers.contacts\databases\contact2.db
But how do I get to the data properly? windows doesn't mention the database format.
tigerknight said:
I changed the ROM on my friend's phone (they got my retired Epic when I upgraded to a note), taking a backup before hand, and it turns out that they had a bunch of contacts stored in their phone rather than in Google.
After the verbal admonishment was done about using google to keep contacts for this exact situation, the question came up on how to recover the contacts. As stated, I've got the backup of the prior ROM, but when I tried to restore it (was on people's rom, changed to CM 9.1) the restoration fails when trying to format a partition rfs style.
So the issue is trying to dig the contacts out of the data in the backup directly so that it can be re-entered into the newly minted CM ROM (and google). Where do I look inside the backup to find contact data stored in the phone?
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I believe I found it in the following file:
data\data\com.android.providers.contacts\databases\contact2.db
But how do I get to the data properly? windows doesn't mention the database format.
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Try this... if saved to the phone, it should've stored it somewhere on the sd card (maybe???) Boot the phone, insert the sd card that was in use when saving the contacts... now open up the contacts application, hit the menu button, select import/export and select import from sd card... may work, may not work, idk, but definitely worth a try...
flastnoles11 said:
Try this... if saved to the phone, it should've stored it somewhere on the sd card (maybe???) Boot the phone, insert the sd card that was in use when saving the contacts... now open up the contacts application, hit the menu button, select import/export and select import from sd card... may work, may not work, idk, but definitely worth a try...
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Tried that already. It's looking for the contacts in vCard format - which this is not. From what I can find it appears to be sqlite - I just need a way to properly load/read the file so I can grab the contents.
Wish I could help you more, but that was the only thing I could think of....
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Actually, there is a method to restore that bml backup on mtd... it involves renaming the backup in a few spots, let me see if I can't find that post and I will post it here... then you should be able to restore the nandroid and recover the contacts..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1420584
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430130
Either one of those methods will work to restore that bml nandroid on your mtd partition...
That happened to me once and I just backed up my current rom then restored that one and exported the contacts to the sd then restored my original rom and imported contacts. Doesn't take too long and may be the simplest way to do it.
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lilajrestnom said:
That happened to me once and I just backed up my current rom then restored that one and exported the contacts to the sd then restored my original rom and imported contacts. Doesn't take too long and may be the simplest way to do it.
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He already got it...