I've been trying several roms lately and have made nandroid backups. Now when I open s notes I've lost some files. Is there any way to recover them. When I restore the back up that has the s note files, they disappear when I first open the app and it refreshes. They were synced with my Galaxy Note 10.1 but now they are missing from it as well. At one time these files had the little cloud symbol on the upper left corner like they were backed up in the Samsung cloud but now they've just disappeared on their own.
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After doing a restore and wiping my phone data, my contacts disappeared. I'm a little confused, because I thought that since they were stored in Google, they would reappear the first time I synced up. (I may have done something incorrectly here.)
I have Lookout installed, and restored from a contacts backup I had on there. While contacts appear in my dialer when I start typing their name, they don't show up in the People app built into Android.
Does anyone know of a way to get the contacts that are obviously being stored somewhere on my phone (since Dialer can find them) back into the People app?
My AT&T HTC Tilt 2 is nearly a year old now, and I've recently run into a very irritating problem. Every time I try to use the "Update Now" feature (Contacts -> Updates and Events tab -> Menu -> Update Now) to update contacts' Facebook pictures and whatnot, the entire UI crashes and has to reload. No error messages or anything like that at all; the screen simply freezes for 15-30 seconds and the HTC Launching TouchFLO 3D screen comes up.
This issue has expanded to encompass any time I try to edit a contact (on that note, the "Link to Facebook account" button no longer does anything except cause TouchFLO to crash) or even open the Updates and Events tab.
I'm still using the same ROM that came with the phone (hard reset once or twice, so essentially the same thing), meaning Windows Mobile 6.5. Like I previously mentioned, I'm using the TouchFLO 3D UI (my attempt to update to the Sense UI went terribly).
Is there anything I can do to fix this, aside from hard resetting again? I've got a lot of contacts (more than will fit on my SIM card, in fact), and I'd really rather not go through all the steps of personalizing my phone for a third time if I don't have to. It'll be like November before I'm eligible for an upgrade with AT&T, so that's not a viable option right now, as much as I might like it to be.
Another side note: Using Windows Mobile Device Center, is there a way to basically copy all of my contacts and whatnot from my phone to my computer without adding in the contacts from Outlook? I'd really rather not deal with a bunch of random email addresses sitting in my phone's contact list. If this is possible, I may just try to use this method, hard reset, and then put the contacts back on the phone. The rest of the personalization isn't nearly as time-consuming as adding in another 80-ish contacts and then fixing the names of the ones I managed to fit onto the SIM card (because the SIM card saves them in the format of "Smith, John" in the last name field and nothing in the first name field...).
I've also got a 16GB microSD card, if that would be of any benefit in any of these endeavors.
Any and all help is appreciated! Thanks!
Any ideas?
Not sure about all your facebook issues, but a great, quick and easy program that can save and restore contacts anywhere (including your storage card, if you like) is PIM Backup:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1189061&postcount=1
I use it all the time since I flash daily and I NEVER have any problems restoring my 200+ contacts using PIM Backup.
anyone else have a refresh issue with the Snote app on the note 8?
i have recently bought the note 8 to add to my note 2 and 10 (yes i think it is ridiculous that i have the 3)
all my devices have the notes synced but only the note 8 refreshes for about a minute each time i open the snote app
i haven't had an issue like that with my 2 and 10 and i must say it is getting on my nerve specially that i''m use to quick note accessing for work and drawing
please share with us your feedback on this issue and will keep you posted if i get it solved.
Issue update
it stopped the refresh lag on it's own
don't know how, but all systems go and enjoying the experience so far.
i did receive an email from Samsung support telling me that they didn't notice any similar issues with any of the other devices.
they also suggest to force stop the program and clear cash (but do make sure u have a backup or all ur notes are synced on the cloud)
I do have a considerable number of notes synced on note 2 and note 10 so maybe note 8 was just getting use to having a lot of your notes being synced over multiple devices
if you noticed the same issue, please share and keep us all posted
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naturalxtc said:
anyone else have a refresh issue with the Snote app on the note 8?
i have recently bought the note 8 to add to my note 2 and 10 (yes i think it is ridiculous that i have the 3)
all my devices have the notes synced but only the note 8 refreshes for about a minute each time i open the snote app
i haven't had an issue like that with my 2 and 10 and i must say it is getting on my nerve specially that i''m use to quick note accessing for work and drawing
please share with us your feedback on this issue and will keep you posted if i get it solved.
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it was solved for a bit over 2 months maybe after i went to google drive and unautharized the s note app from the list of options.
now it's back and driving me crazy...
are you still facing the same?
i think it might be related to the samsung account s note sync only for the note 8 as my other device is ok
i've noticed that the s note app on the 8 has different Sync options in the menu list
I have a same issue, very annoying...
Every time i reopen s note, or return from editing mode,
it refreshes for about 10 seconds.
I removed Samsung account, and disabled s note app in Google drive,
but nothing seems to be helping.
Please update if a solution found..
my solution
ok, maybe this will help someone:
what i did was
1. clearing cash of 2 s note apps in app manager
2. uninstall google drive app
3. copy all files from s note folder in file manager to some other folder (backup)
4. delete all files from s note folder
5. run s note app, and import backed up files
6. install google drive app back
s note opens very fast,
no refreshing anymore.
alinpha said:
ok, maybe this will help someone:
what i did was
1. clearing cash of 2 s note apps in app manager
2. uninstall google drive app
3. copy all files from s note folder in file manager to some other folder (backup)
4. delete all files from s note folder
5. run s note app, and import backed up files
6. install google drive app back
s note opens very fast,
no refreshing anymore.
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Hey there...
It is the same solution i have although i didn't have to make a copy or delete the google drive folder. you can depend on your samsung account backup for that
i'll write this for others visiting here with the same issue
clearing both S note apps of cache from the app manager is a must after disabling the google drive snote app (on google drive) as mentioned on previous posts in this thread
once you do this the Snote folder will be empty, so by restarting the device it gets your files back from the Samsung sync
the image icon on each note will appear in good time so don't worry it's not lost
you should avoid going to Snote settings and choosing to sync with google...your samsung sync is enough
This issue might happen again after a while (it reoccured with me after more than 2 months and drove me crazy) so you will have to go through the same steps again
other samsung note models (note 2 and 10) have different sync options than the 8 where u have the option to sync with google based on your demand rather than automatic...and if automatic it happens passively in the background when ur not accessing ur Snote...problem with the 8 is that this doesn't happen in the background so it checks ur google folders every time you access Snote
my guess is that the lag happens when the snote app requests from the google server an update on the spot (samsung app talking to google app only when you open the snote rather than before or after you are done)
I hope they address this issue in their next software updates.
So I have a 2 part Dropbox question that basically amounts to me not fully understanding how it all works even though I use it on a daily basis... maybe someone here could help me out...
So I have Dropbox, on my phone (Galaxy Note 3) and 2 PCs, Home and Office.
Question 1 - You know how Dropbox on Android automatically when you're on Wifi uploads every single picture from your phone to a "Camera Uploads" folder on your Dropbox? Well since they're all uploaded already, and I have something like 3000 photos, which is starting to make my Gallery load slowly... Wouldn't the best way to clean them out be to just completely wipe all the photos from my phone... Then go through the Dropbox folder on one of my desktop computers and delete any crappy pictures I don't need to keep, leave the rest in there for backup purposes, and then if I wanted to keep some on my phone, copy those ones back onto my phone?
Question 2 - If I go through that "Camera Uploads" folder (Or any other folder in my Dropbox really) deleting and renaming and reorganizing files on one of my desktop computers... Will all those changes instantly happen on the others? Even if I'm deleting and/or renaming and/or moving around hundreds of files? What's to stop the other computer from syncing back to the one I'm currently going through and undoing all the changes I just made? Like if I have a folder called "X1" and another called "X2" and I delete a bunch of stuff out of each and then combine them into one and then name the new folder "X" ... The other computer at work isn't gonna go and sync my "X2" folder back to the computer I'm currently working on, right?
Obviously these are both a simple but clear misunderstanding of how all this cloud syncing works. I get it in principle, and use it constantly, but there are certain ideas of it that I think I'm just overthinking probably.
Any help would be appreciated.
Also I know that Q&A goes in the Q&A forum but I thought since this is a software thing and not really a phone thing it would be more appropriate in here...
From how I know it works (at least for me) as long as all accounts are logged in with the same info (name/password), and are auto-syncing, the folder that is modified first will be copied to the others when you open Dropbox on the others. In your example you have three (two PCs, and your phone). If you change something from your phone, it will replicate to your two PCs. If you change something on one of your PCs, it will replicate to your other PC, and your phone. It also works with the online site the same way. I just changed something in my phone, logged on to the website through my PC browser, and it replicated right away to match what I did on my phone.
EDIT - And I know you are talking about pics and gallery, and for that I would move/delete from the app on your phone, and not through the gallery. I think if you do something in the gallery it will just change back because you're not actually modifying Dropbox. I'm not really sure since I do all my stuff through Dropbox itself. You can try with one pic to see if it deletes from your other places if you delete it from the gallery.
Thanks for the reply. So yea if it's basically doing it instantly, then I think I'd be safe doing my plan the way I'm planning on it. My plan is to delete everything off the phone, which I know from experience doens't sync deletions to the dropbox... Just new pics get synced to dropbox... So if I delete pic11111.jpg it will still be in my dropbox folder... So with ALL my pics deleted from my phone's gallery, I can then go to my computer and spend a couple hours deleting specific garbage pictures, and those will then sync between the 2 pcs. Then I can move them out of that "Camera Uploads" folder and into a more permanent "Pics" folder. Or move first is probably even better...
Thanks again.
I use Dropbox all the time, I've got 4 accounts (Need that extra space) and then I've got it installed on my Note 3, Nexus 7, and a Galaxy S3. As for computers it's on my Mac, two laptops and a PC desktop. I installed them on all of those for the referral bonus space but now they all have the exact same account. So in answer to your question, you could go on your phone go into settings and turn off camera uploads, but then you would need to go into your gallery and manually upload the pictures you want to keep (which isn't a huge hassle to me at least.) Since you are using cloud storage technically all the photos that get uploaded wouldn't get eating up your space unless you have google+ enabled as well, then they will appear on your phone. Not all of them, but a good majority. I don't know what kind of a computer you use, but when I have dropbox on my MAC sync all of my folders that i have, I swear I get pictures that are quadrupled all the time....so frustrating. In answer to your second question, you can modify any picture, document, etc, that has been uploaded from dropbox to a computer and make any changes you want to it without it making changes to another linked computer. Only way it it would is if you put that changed photo for example, back into your dropbox folder. Hopefully that made sense
So, my A5 2017 was giving my problems so I backed it up to Samsung backup, or at least I tried. I thought I read somewhere that Samsung stoppped their backup service for that phone, and said to back up using Google. So., I also backed up there.
The thing is, the problem happend while I was away and couldn't get it looked at right away. I thought I was SOL, but I looked at my Google backup and the date is still from before the reset! I just don't know how to tell it to restore the phone using what's in my Google cloud storage.
If that ends up not being possible I did manually save as many files as I could. Even going into directories that the phone said were empty but still would show files if you went down the rabbit hole deep enough. All I really want are my contacts, whcih I THINK I exported to a file anyways, and just as important, my text message history. If I could get back what I had in my Notes app that would be great too, but that's way down the list.
Does anyways know how I would do this? I do see in the Google settings that I can restore the contacts, or so it says, but I looked in the cloud folders and there are 2 zip files that start with "takeout" and then I think a dash and numbers. I looked in them and it definitely has way more then just my contacts in it.
I'm a small business owner and I use this phone for work, so losing all the texts is actually kind of a problem. I actually didn't realize how much so until it happend.
Thank you very much for any help you can offer!
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