One thing that has always bothered me and I've never found a solution for (and I've tried to Google it) is how to make a backup of my Accounts on my phone (Google, Facebook, Instagram etc etc) as well as the Google Authenticator. When I do a factory reset logging in to alot of accounts is actually always what takes most of my time afterwards.
Maybe it's possible with Titanium (I'm root) but I'm not sure how..
Nobody got a solution for this?
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I wanted to change my Google account on my phone and the only way to do this sadly is by reset back to factory settings. Which is already stupid as hell, but okay.
Anyway, I reset it. I even checked if my settings where backed up via the hidden privacy setting that was hidden since FroYo.
Yet, I lost ALL my data. All my phone numbers, my home screen configurations. My bookmarks, my ringtone settings.
Everything was GONE!
Thank god I had a vCard backup from August 7. Which contained most new numbers of my friends. I only had to ask 2 people for their number again.
I'm not sure how much stuff gets backed up with Froyo, but I suspect the reason you've lost things in this instance is because it's now linked with the account you wanted to remove from the phone.
I can confirm there are NO backup feature with froyo for the Desire...Htc said they didnt implemented yet the google cloud backup feature...search in the forum, u will find the full htc response...
Anyway when and if htc will implement it, it will be linked to ur gmail account
Sent from my HTC Desire
Well, I changed my way of storing this now.
All my contacts are no longer on my phone, they are all Google Contacts. I copied all the numbers as well to my SIM card as a backup. I will also make a monthly vCard backup (as I always did).
My calendar is synced with Google so always there.
I got an app called SMSBackup+ that can backup and restore all my text messages from my phone to my Gmail account and back.
If someday I find a way to backup specific things of my SD card to my Gmail account, I'm all set.
I wish Google had a service like Windows Mobile and their MyPhone service.
if your desire is rooted..... use titanium backup it backups everything!
and after the factory reset, configure primary gmail account using the wizard and then restore everything with Titanium Backup except [E-MAIL ACCOUNT SETTINGS]
How the hell do u back your contacts up to Google?? I've searched and I cant find the answers i'm looking for anywhere. Whenever I sync to Google from 'accounts and sync' nothing happens..and now i have successfully deleted all my contacts from my phone after clearing the Contacts app data cache, which i read might help...Luckily i have nandroids to pull the data from.. How exactly do i go about re-flashing the contact data back to the phone from the nandroid, so i can then back em up to Google/export them the the sdcard?? (without restoring the entire nandroid)
Idk if its my ROM or what..but its frustrating..
Go to your gmail account, and click the contacts tab. Do you see any of them there? If not check and make sure that you are saving your contacts to google and not your phone.
Thanks for the quick reply. There's nothing there under the Contacts tab, or any of the sub categories, but how to i check if im syncing them to Google vs the phone?
I cant tell you how to restore your contacts from nandroid, however when you do have them restored go to Settings>Accounts & Sync>Google and make sure you have Sync Contacts checked. This is a 2 way sync so any contacts you have on google will be synced to the phone and the phone to google
Yeah, I've done that as well. It even shows the date when it was last synced..10 min ago, of course i have no contacts to sync now but i'm sure that was working earlier.
I dont know that you can say its not working until you can get those contacts restored, after you do that and sync then lets deal with a non sync issue if there still is one.
I mean I had tried that before I lost the contact data..before I created this thread. The reason i wiped the contacts cache was because sync was not working. I think im just going to do a full nandroid restore anyway and end up installing a different ROM. Any suggestions?
They are automatically backed up when you sync your gmail
As long as u checked back up data with my Google account
This is one thing that I love about Google
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App
Yeah, the problem is it's not syncing automatically
I use the paid-version of Titanium Backup for all my apps and SMS Backup for texts, but what's the easiest for contacts and call logs? Google doesn't fully restore my contacts (for some reason there are some missing).
take a look at Call Logs Backup & Restore, it's free and it works like a charm
this author also has free apps to backup SMS and APNs
Are the "missiing" contacts on the desktop computer version of GMail? If so, they should all sync automatically. Are these contacts from Facebook, or SIM contacts? You might just need to sync your phone to Facebook before those contacts come up.
As a final idea, when you create a contact on the phone (at least with Sense ROMs), one of the things you get asked is where you want to store the contact. You get all your gmail accounts, exchange accounts and a Phone option. If you choose Phone, it will not sync with any online service, so that might be the reason why you loose your contacts.
For my case, I only store contacts on the Phone if I know I will delete them in the short term, that way if I change phone or have to wipe I get a free cleanup, but for contacts that I want to keep I always put them on some online account.
Regards
mschmiedel said:
As a final idea, when you create a contact on the phone (at least with Sense ROMs), one of the things you get asked is where you want to store the contact. You get all your gmail accounts, exchange accounts and a Phone option. If you choose Phone, it will not sync with any online service, so that might be the reason why you loose your contacts.
For my case, I only store contacts on the Phone if I know I will delete them in the short term, that way if I change phone or have to wipe I get a free cleanup, but for contacts that I want to keep I always put them on some online account.
Regards
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i use a couple different back ups. Google backs things up, titanium back up, then I'm using sms back up and restore pro. I haven't lost a message or contact yet flashed about 8-9 times in a week since i started rooting.
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The main account on my Desire Z is the account I use for my business, which was setup as a google apps account, it works fine for email etc but was never able to be used for Picasa or other google applications.
However, they have just recently transitioned google apps accounts and now they can access all the google applications, however to get them working on your phone, the google website says I'd need to backup my phone, remove the account, factory reset and then readd the account...
I'm not sure I like the sound of this as potentiall I could lose things if I've not backed everything up etc...
Is there anyway I can do this without having to do a full reset? So I can use the newly accessible apps likes picasa etc
Thanks
I am having the same issue - my calendar no longer sync's correctly as it's still attached to the me%[email protected] address, even though it displays the 'merged' account [email protected] Very frustrating!
valve90210 said:
Hi All
The main account on my Desire Z is the account I use for my business, which was setup as a google apps account, it works fine for email etc but was never able to be used for Picasa or other google applications.
However, they have just recently transitioned google apps accounts and now they can access all the google applications, however to get them working on your phone, the google website says I'd need to backup my phone, remove the account, factory reset and then readd the account...
I'm not sure I like the sound of this as potentiall I could lose things if I've not backed everything up etc...
Is there anyway I can do this without having to do a full reset? So I can use the newly accessible apps likes picasa etc
Thanks
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If you're worried about losing things because you haven't backed everything up then back everything up, it's pretty simple.
Download Titanium Backup or My Backup Pro and back up your apps and data; after you reset your phone, restore your apps and data
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
I realise that but was just wondering if a reset was actually necessary or not?
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I’m running a gingerbread build and I can just go to Accounts & Sync and add a new gmail account and remove the old one.
I don’t know if that’s what you mean though.
Hi. I am having issues syncing my One X with Google Calendar. I have calendar sync on my laptop and use it every time I make a change, but not everything is syncing across - which is driving me crazy as I rely on it a huge amount. Some events sync, some don't and some are duplicated because I have moved them and they've also stayed in the original position...
I have tried everything, I think. I have deleted and reinstalled Google Calendar Sync, cleared the cache on the One X and (or course) checked that the Google calendar sync is enabled in accounts, but all to no avail. The only way I can sort it is to delete my Gmail account from the phone and then set it all up again, which is quite time-consuming and means that I have to then reset everything for that account. (I tried Synker and it didn't seem to make any difference - nor did it find a fault, it seems.)
If you could help, I would be extremely grateful - this is driving me crazy!
Note: I know there are threads on similar issues here and think I've gone through them all, but to no avail. Apologies if this has been solved and I've missed that post.
I use the app Calengoo, works okay here.
There are a few small issues I can't solve but it syncs always.
bigbamboo5 said:
Hi. I am having issues syncing my One X with Google Calendar. I have calendar sync on my laptop and use it every time I make a change, but not everything is syncing across - which is driving me crazy as I rely on it a huge amount. Some events sync, some don't and some are duplicated because I have moved them and they've also stayed in the original position...
I have tried everything, I think. I have deleted and reinstalled Google Calendar Sync, cleared the cache on the One X and (or course) checked that the Google calendar sync is enabled in accounts, but all to no avail. The only way I can sort it is to delete my Gmail account from the phone and then set it all up again, which is quite time-consuming and means that I have to then reset everything for that account. (I tried Synker and it didn't seem to make any difference - nor did it find a fault, it seems.)
If you could help, I would be extremely grateful - this is driving me crazy!
Note: I know there are threads on similar issues here and think I've gone through them all, but to no avail. Apologies if this has been solved and I've missed that post.
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I had similar issues, check if you have any calendar labs options activated and deactivate them. In my case it solved sync problem.
al.dexter said:
I had similar issues, check if you have any calendar labs options activated and deactivate them. In my case it solved sync problem.
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Thanks. How do I do this, please?
Right - sorry for being dim. I found this and nothing was enabled, so that probably wasn't the issue.
Does anyone have any other options (PLEASE!)