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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I addicted to looking at and trying out new roms but its so annoying that i have to download everything back and all my text are wiped bla bla i think some people might understand.
anyway i can install new themes but when its done loading that all my apps and everything is still the way i left it?
thanks in advance
First of, download and install Titanium Backup or Titanium Backup Pro. With it, you can backup all of your apps and their data. After doing that, go into recovery and make a nandroid backup of your current set up. Doing so will put your device back like it was just in case you don't like the new rom, theme or whatever it is you plan to flash. Afterwards and while in recovery, wipe everything except the SD card then flash your new rom. None of your previous apps should be installed.
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Flattering us won't help.
And well to get your apps back, backup with titanium, restore apps and data, not system settings. And for you second question, it depends on what the app themes, you can always re-do the icon.
And jeeze, I'm the last one in the 7:08, 7:09, 7:10 time reply train.
Also, I just learned about backing up adw desktop settings ...restores all folder and apps where they were when you backed up. Super convienent...use after restoring from titanium backup.
ok so i just got to install titanium backup (which i have already but have never used it) and backup my apps and data as is (does this include my text messages? )
and the difference between titanium and Nandroid backup is the titanium backs up my apps and nan backup takes me back to my last backup was just incase the current rom i installed is not to my liking or faulty? right?
Correct me if im wrong, i can take it
tell you guys the truth i just care about my text's messages being erased. i don't mind installing the apps again.
Download and install SMS backup+ from the market, it's free. Once you set it up (easy) it will back up all your SMS and MMS to your Gmail account. When you load a new rom you can restore all your txts as well. You can set it to back up automatically or manually, your choice. To restore just start the app nd click restore, boom, all sms are loaded back up.
Thanks alot guys i really do appreciate it.
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Mybackup pro will do that call logs text msgs and mms
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KB112 said:
Download and install SMS backup+ from the market, it's free. Once you set it up (easy) it will back up all your SMS and MMS to your Gmail account. When you load a new rom you can restore all your txts as well. You can set it to back up automatically or manually, your choice. To restore just start the app nd click restore, boom, all sms are loaded back up.
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i got a new rom and clicked restore and it restored "0"
and i did back it up all 139 texts.
Did you check your gmail account? It should show all your texts saved to a folder. If it didn't, then you never properly backed them up.
Once you install the new rom, be sure you signed back into your account in the backup app.
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Okay, well I have a noob question. I have a Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch. A week ago I flashed Starburst 1.9 and everything went smooth installing wise. Followed install instructions by wiping data. The one thing that bummed me was losing all my contacts(but backed up by gmail account) and losing all my text messages. Apps lost I could live with.
So my question is, how do I back up my texts, contacts, etc and restore them easily? I want to flash Calkulin's ROM and I'm just going to install his FORMAT ALL zip then flash the ROM.
Any advice is appreciated!
Your contacts should automatically restore (if backed up in your Gmail) when you add your Google account in the new ROM. For backing up texts I personally use SMS Backup & Restore on the Android Market.
Go SMS also free from the market and a great SMS app (in my opinion) also has a backup feature to back up and restore your messages.
Thanks guys. Downloaded the app.
Noob questions again, are there any bad "side effects" using the above app. Also, how do I get the texts back after backing them up? CMR then use install zip from sd card after flashing rom...correct?
Thanks!
With Go SMS it is within the app itself, I haven't done it in a bit so do not remember the exact steps.
If I remember right it is menu, then something about a batch. It isn't too hard to find if you play around with the app.
Good luck
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
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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 ....
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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Hello I have a Galaxy Note 2 for T-mobile. I was in the application manager playing around with a couple stuff and I accidentally deleted the Phone application instead of force stop/clearing the data. So I downloaded different dialers and contact applications so I could avoid the factory reset.
With the new dialer/contact program, I no longer had the pictures for my contacts, I didn't even have an option to save contacts/send contacts.
So I went ahead and rooted it so I could set up a backup just in case I were to screw this up even more than I could have. So I created a backup about 5 times. I then factory reset the phone thinking I would get my Phone application back and then I could restore it and get my features back.....
Well it doesn't. so I was able to restore it from the backup and it brought me back to the first step where I had all my contacts, no phone options. Sooooo... I decided to put on a new rom and I downloaded the MyROM thinking it would bring the phone option back and in case it didn't, I was going to just restore it again.
I put the Myrom on there and the phone application came back, but I realized I had forgot to save my contacts. I thought to myself it shouldn't be too much of a problem since I had the backup file saved 5 times for safety. Well.. it won't let me restore it anymore. It keeps saying
" Error while restoring /system "
so I looked around online and they said to update CWM and try. Still doesn't work.
unroot it and try reroot. - still doesn't work.
So I just ordered a new note 2 through warranty. I have tried unrooting/rerooting minimum 40 times. it still won't restore from backup.
If I could just restore that backup so I can see my contacts... sigh.. am I doomed?
I am on 4.1.2 android btw.
I tried to restore backups from google as well btw.. it only brings back like 20 of them back....
Thanks for your time and sorry for the essay.
Your contracts should be backed up to Google.
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You can no delete system apps in the application manager.Maybe you disabled.factory reset &Odin the stock rom that will fix ur phone
Google should restore your contacts if you saved them to Google.
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I'm so lost, first why did you order a warranty phone, did tmo and Samsung do this? Maybe it's their fault some how?
Anyways it seems like you didn't have contacts saved to Google, but just to your phone. You could try an advanced restore in cwm and only restore data, that may work
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Ronnieruff: Only 20 of my contacts are backed up in google. I already tried restoring from there
deeznuts1977, Believe it or not, the I was able to delete it. I didn't believe it at first as well. But there was no way to open the system phone application after I deleted it. It was removed from the application manager as a whole... Since the phone system app is gone as well, I'm assuming that;s why I couldn't export to my SD card, nor could I save pictures for contacts. Or send via bluetooth as well. I reset and odined the phone already./ I cant restore my nandroid backup which is where all my contacts were at.
kintwofan I ordered a phone through warranty hoping I could restore the backup from that phone, since I put the backup on an external SD card.
When I press restore data, I thought it normally said restore complete blah blah, and press reboot system now, and it'll reboot right? However after I press restore data it just restarts the phone and I'm stuck on the Galaxy Note 2 bootloader screen... I have to reflash odin to get it to boot..