Hi guys. I am looking to root my device and install CM9.
My question however regards data and contacts. Will the install process erase all my data on my phone? Will I lose my contacts?
Thanks in advance.
If you're on sense, (which you probably are) then you can backup contacts thru the people app. Not sure what you mean by data tho. Or, if you have your contacts synced with your Google account, you just sync your Google account on cm9
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Data is sd card such as pics, music, videos etc will not be deleted, but data in the rom will be deleted if that what you want to know.
Thanks guys. The problem I have is that not all my contacts are saved to my Google account. There are some contacts that for whatever reason never transferred over to Google. I always save my contacts to Google and not the phone but some just don't transfer over.
I think the problem stems from the fact that until I got my Palm Pre I had a regular dumb phone. As I used the Pre more and more all the contacts added to the Pre were added to Google and the ones before the Pre were not.
I guess I need to find a way to export ALL my contacts to Google.
bennyboy78 said:
If you're on sense, (which you probably are) then you can backup contacts thru the people app. Not sure what you mean by data tho. Or, if you have your contacts synced with your Google account, you just sync your Google account on cm9
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Thanks for the tip I did that but it only allows me to export either the Google contacts as one file or the Phone contacts as one file.
It won't let me do them together as one file.
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Thanks guys. The problem I have is that not all my contacts are saved to my Google account. There are some contacts that for whatever reason never transferred over to Google. I always save my contacts to Google and not the phone but some just don't transfer over.
I think the problem stems from the fact that until I got my Palm Pre I had a regular dumb phone. As I used the Pre more and more all the contacts added to the Pre were added to Google and the ones before the Pre were not.
I guess I need to find a way to export ALL my contacts to Google.
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Copy contacts to SD card or sim card , or put them in a csv file that you can upload to Google.
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everytime I restore a backup of my phone I lose all my contacts that I added between the date of the backup and when i restore!
Is there anyway to keep this from happening? I keep losing important phone numbers! Im sure my gmail account sees that a contact is missing from my phone and then deletes it from my gmail account.
The simplest and best way may be to use import/export from the contacts menu. And/or your favorite backup program.
mrhocuspocus said:
everytime I restore a backup of my phone I lose all my contacts that I added between the date of the backup and when i restore!
Is there anyway to keep this from happening? I keep losing important phone numbers! Im sure my gmail account sees that a contact is missing from my phone and then deletes it from my gmail account.
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When you add a contact you are saving to Google and not the phone right? Also export all your contacts to SD card before doing anything. When in contacts, hit menu, import/export to SD card. I believe you can use this to export them to your gmail too.
mrhocuspocus said:
everytime I restore a backup of my phone I lose all my contacts that I added between the date of the backup and when i restore!
Is there anyway to keep this from happening? I keep losing important phone numbers! Im sure my gmail account sees that a contact is missing from my phone and then deletes it from my gmail account.
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Umm, that shouldnt happen...otherwise you couldnt start from a fresh rom install and then hit sync contacts, and get all your contacts back. My guess is your new contacts never synced
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squshy 7 said:
Umm, that shouldnt happen...otherwise you couldnt start from a fresh rom install and then hit sync contacts, and get all your contacts back. (which is how it works lol). My guess is your new contacts never synced
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I've never had this problem. My contacts always sync when I sign into my Gmail. Are u sure you aren't saving g them to phone and nit google
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squshy 7 said:
Umm, that shouldnt happen...otherwise you couldnt start from a fresh rom install and then hit sync contacts, and get all your contacts back. My guess is your new contacts never synced
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well what happens when you delete a contact and then your phone syncs?
I have my phone set to always save them to my main gmail account and not my phone.
So ye, I have no idea where they are going., Ive definitely saved them and seen them in my contacts.. and then later they are gone, if I have to use a restore.
I dont really want to manually export my contacts everytime I add a new contact just to ensure I wont lose their number. The instant gmail backup of contacts is one of the things that sold me on android.
Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Like delete protecting the contacts in my google account?
Like has already been said, your contacts should be syncing to your gmail. When you reinstall your phone, said contacts should re-sync just fine. Check to see that you have background data and sync on under accounts. Also, go to gmail online and see if they did copy.
Make sure your backup is as current as your latest sync and you should be fine.
Loaded quite a few roms...never had my contacts lost. They always pull back down from gmail. I didn't setup anything special.
Lost contacts
I have been losing my contacts every day since my xperia s updated to ics. Now saved them to the phone to see if that helps. Don't see the point of active sync if they fight with each other and delete your contacts.
Sorry, I should clarify. I was using a lumia 800 as a tester for Nokia and installed my contacts from my Live a/c.
Can anyone help? Unlocked LT26i o2 branded. Android 4.0.4
Wrong forum.... this is the Samsung Epic 4G.
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Wow not even close......... lol
I'm trying to root my friends phone but dumb dumb saved his contacts to the phone and not his Google acct. Now when I go to people and export to SD it only gives me the Google option and fails.
So I started entering the contacts by hand into gmail. At first there were duplicates showing up on his phone but they later disappeared. I don't know if its the original on the phone or the synched one.
Any ideas how to move these to SD or get them to Google ? I guess I could add them all into gmail and when I root his phone with new Rom hope it will sync but is there an easier way ?
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Htc sync can do it
midnightmaraude said:
I guess I could add them all into gmail and when I root his phone with new Rom hope it will sync but is there an easier way ?
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If you add them to Gmail, root the phone and flash a new ROM to his phone, when you set up his Google account it'll sync automatically, so the contacts in Gmail will show up. Since flashing a new ROM requires clearing of user data/factory reset in ClockworkMod, all of the old ROM info is gone so you shouldn't have duplicates.
definitely do not waste your time writing down numbers...
Back them up using verizon backup assistant. then go to the verizon website and export the contacts into a .csv file
Then just import it into gmail.
you'll be done in less than 15 minutes.
PhillyCheez said:
definitely do not waste your time writing down numbers...
Back them up using verizon backup assistant. then go to the verizon website and export the contacts into a .csv file
Then just import it into gmail.
you'll be done in less than 15 minutes.
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Brilliant! TY.
I've been looking around for a long time in searching this site and other forum sites and no one really had the answer i was looking for, so im only wondering about this. Since we've all been rooted, i decided to install a ROM, and when i finally had it booted and everything, i was prompted to put my google account in to sync my contacts. But they didnt show up? Now mind you, i only have 1 google account, and that is the one i created at verizon when i asked for the DI2. Im currently on the Stock right now with all my data. in Settings >Account & Sync, i have the backup assistant, facebook, the google account, mail news and twitter. In the muiu ROM, i put that google account in but never got my contacts back. So my question is, are there other ways of backing up your contacts without erasing them to your SD card, OR SIM CARD? when i go to export contacts, it wants to save it as a file in my SD card, and then when i import them on another rom, it asks for a Vcard, but it doesnt work? Can anyone explain this to me?
Sync the contacts to your google account. I believe it asks you when adding a contact if you want them as a google contact or phone only. Make sure you select google contact. Then check the "sync contacts" box under your google account sync settings (its checked by default, but I uncheck it once its done to save battery life. Don't know if you do the same). Then force a resync of contacts before you change roms to make sure no new contacts or info are left out. From there change to any rom, or any other android phone and your contacts will be restored on the initial sign in.
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yeah i see what your saying. In the people app, when i click menu, and then view contacts, it says with Facebook fot HTC Sense, i have 538 contacts, my Google account has 4, and the Phone has 179. How to save all the phone contacts to my google account?
Not sure myself. Never tried it and I dont know if you can change a phone contact to a google contact once the info has already been put in. Try GO contacts from the market? Lets you back up all your contacts. Haven't tried it but I've backed up and restored texts with GO SMS from the same developer, and it worked great. Im assuming it would work just as well.
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tried it, and it worked just as i expected. Huge thanks, you saved me a LOT of time! and big ups on that SMS backup app, it did wonders. much appreciation
Glad I could help
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Anyone know where the settings are for the phone to save contacts to Google? Mine is only saving to the phone's memory, I do have Google contacts sync turned on in accounts & sync
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You are not creating the contact under your google account. When you are in contacts and create new, you get a list of options. One is create under google account, which gets synced, the other is phone only which doesn't sync.
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You are not creating the contact under your google account. When you are in contacts and create new, you get a list of options. One is create under google account, which gets synced, the other is phone only which doesn't sync.
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Thanks!! Wasn't seeing that
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Are you able to back up your contacts and then import them into Gmail? I know you can back them into a .vcf file onto your SD card, but I don't know if you can import that file into Gmail.
Right before I got an Android phone, I backed up all my contacts into VZW, then exported them as a .csv file, then imported them into Gmail. It takes a little longer, but worked.
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Are you able to back up your contacts and then import them into Gmail? I know you can back them into a .vcf file onto your SD card, but I don't know if you can import that file into Gmail.
Right before I got an Android phone, I backed up all my contacts into VZW, then exported them as a .csv file, then imported them into Gmail. It takes a little longer, but worked.
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Yes a vcf file will work. That is how I did it. Worked wonders.
similar issue here which just started happening....cannot save a contact on either my phone OR within gmail contacts. really strange.
my wife swears it has to do with the facebook sync/unsync. conspiracy!! lol.
New question: How do I sync contacts stored on the device to Google? When creating a brand new contact on the phone it asks where you want to save it, but for contacts that are imported via Bluetooth you have no choice as to where they are saved. Thus, I have contacts on the device I want uploaded to Google and can't figure out how to do that.
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Ok, this is a silly question. I have a second S4 which is for work. I have a gmail account specifically for that device (Google Apps corporate stuff as seen HERE), it syncs with my office outlook, etc. That said, I have a number of contacts on my personal S4 which I had been using until I got the company S4 which I want to now send to the work S4 so I can delete them from my personal S4.
Now then, what I want to happen is to be able to send the contact, have it upload to Google, and be done (thus also syncing with my Outlook in my office, etc). What I tried was to open contacts, menu/import/export/share namecard via/Bluetooth and sent them via Bluetooth. That worked, they show up in my contact list just fine, and they are stored on the device. Problem is, they don't seem to upload to Google.
Once (if?) they do, I want to be able to delete them from the device so they are ONLY stored on Google. Will deleting them from the device also delete them from Google again? How would I resolve this conflict if so? I don't want to sit and manually type all these contacts out into Google via web browser (or the phone) to have them sync down to the phone. One would think there would be another way...
Silly questions, I know. But hey, maybe someone has done this before.
I don't exactly remember where it is but if you're using the stock rom if you go to settings (don't know where it really is) there's some feature that allow you to do that, contacts msgs etc.. Its not group play but it's similar to it.. If you're using the stock rom then look for it kuz that's one of the things I first saw when I got the s4...
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Ok, so I ended up just sending all the contacts via Bluetooth since I needed them. That works fine, however they still haven't uploaded to Google. Web searching reveals lots of people with this issue.
New question: How do you force sync contacts stored on the device to Google?
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Ok, so I ended up just sending all the contacts via Bluetooth since I needed them. That works fine, however they still haven't uploaded to Google. Web searching reveals lots of people with this issue.
New question: How do you force sync contacts stored on the device to Google?
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Settings->Accounts->Google->your account->Sync now should work.
It doesn't.
To the top, still looking for an answer here.
Try this
Select all the contacts that's on device and export it to sd card.
Now chose import from sd card and select which gmail account to import to.
The phone will scan the sd card and should pick up the file you exported earlier.
Edit: I just make up a bunch of contacts and save it to my device. Did the export to sd and import to my gmail account and it sync.
baseballfanz said:
Try this
Select all the contacts that's on device and export it to sd card.
Now chose import from sd card and select which gmail account to import to.
The phone will scan the sd card and should pick up the file you exported earlier.
Edit: I just make up a bunch of contacts and save it to my device. Did the export to sd and import to my gmail account and it sync.
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You're a genius. Since this is a work phone and didn't come with one, I had no SD card in it and obviously didn't want to spend my own money on one for it, thus the export to SD wasn't an option listed. I took the old SD card from my Sensation 4G, did as you suggested, and it worked. Thanks so much!
The only downside was that since I had so many contacts, I got a couple errors that I was trying to do too many at once. Hopefully it all panned out, I will be able to check Monday at the office. I am hoping the new contacts added here will sync down to my Outlook at work, but I think they will.
Thanks again!
EDIT: Everything worked fine. Thanks again!