I have used Sony Xperia S (Android 4.1.2; 6.2.B.1.96) for almost 1 and half years. Recently I have changed the mobile carrier. As soon as I inserted the new micro sim card, the mobile started the settings reset automatically. I wasn't even given an option of rejection. After the setting reset, every app that I have dowloaded was gone, together with SMS messages , contact, ect. But the data appears still in the mobile, since the available storage hasn't change and I can use the USB data cable to copy some data out. Is there anyway to recover the data or reverse the unwanted "setting reset"? Especially the SMS and the social app chatting records? My phone hasn't been rooted. :crying::crying::crying:
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2 totally separate phones (dash's) one with Rogers and one with stock Tmo WM6. Hard restart all contacts disappear! Since in their infinite wisdom you cant disable the sim contacts from showing, I rely on them STAYING in the phone memory! Anyone else with this issue? It has happened only twice in maybe 4 months, but is very frustrating!
Thanks for any advice!
A hard reset will restore the phone to factory default (no contact list). It's supposed to do that. Keep your contacts synchronized via outlook and activesync.
Sorry, I was lying when I typed hard reset. I yanked the battery so it wasnt exactly a soft reset but I did not do the clear storage either I guess next time it locks up I will be more patient!
gospeed.racergo said:
2 totally separate phones (dash's) one with Rogers and one with stock Tmo WM6. Hard restart all contacts disappear! Since in their infinite wisdom you cant disable the sim contacts from showing, I rely on them STAYING in the phone memory! Anyone else with this issue? It has happened only twice in maybe 4 months, but is very frustrating!
Thanks for any advice!
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You should be syncing your phone with your contact list on your PC or exchange server if you are lucky enough to have one. This is one of the most basic things you can do on a smartphone. What if you lost your phone???
I do sync. But I dont take my computer with me either. So today, all day, I was without contacts. Now they are back caused I sync'd.
I guess we should be telling people that want louder call volume to get a hearing aid and people that want to run another ROM to buy the right phone
backup
I use Sprite Backup for said problem and its golden. Simply make backups of your data on the go and when things happen like say an impossible to stop boot loop or a data error, you can still restore everything.
I guess I am just the kind of person that would rather look at the root of the problem, not the band-aid repair after it happens again. I will look into the backup, but I will probably just carry my spare deactivated sim card so I can transfer stuff back if it fails me again.
So does anyone know a way to KEEP the contacts on the sim, yet hide them from view on the contacts list? It surpirses me that something my 8 year old Nokia does WM6 wont let you do . I have never accidentally lost my sim contacts- but the duplicate thing is annoying
The rogers rom for the htc s621 (dash) allows you to hide sim contacts without a registry edit. goto settings then phone... you'll find it there.
also there is a reg edit for said issue for roms that don't offer this option. I have not personally found a smartphone rom without this option but the regedit is: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Phone]
"ShowSIM"=dword:00000001 ->0 to disable, 1 to enable.
Now you can keep your contacts on your activated SIM.
THANK YOU!!! I had not realized Rogers did this!
Found the check box under Settings/Phone/Call Options
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.
Hi All!
Happy Christmas and merry new year to you guys!
I re-post this, because i apparently asked it first wrongly on a ROM-thread..
I wanted to check from you if anyone has any guide/tool that I should use when moving all olad apps from an old phone to a new phone. I will install Gin2Kitcat on the new phone, and many apps in my old phone save their data in the phone's memory, so they will not be transferred to the new phone by just moving the SD-card and re-installing the apps.
Is there anything else (than sms and callogs) that I should remember to backup before moving data to a new phone (in my case to a brand new Xperia Pro instead of my old over 2 years old Xperia Pro! )
For apps, you will need root. And Titanium Backup is the best option there.
Contacts - use the built-in contacts app to back them up.
Messages, Calendar, Call Log - personally using Mobile Backup 2 app.
You can use Titanium Backup to backup messages, call log, browser bookmarks and Wi-Fi settings as well. Contacts can be synchronised with your Google account so you don't need to backup. Just in case, you can also backup your contacts to the SIM card or SD card if I can remember correctly.
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Hi all,
Before I bought the Z1C I had the Sony Ericsson K750i for 9 years -- that phone has still a sweet spot in my heart. Great phone for the time.
I succeeded in uploading all data on the K750i to my PC using MyPhoneExplorer (which also installed BlockAndSurf Adware so beware :-/)
Unfortunately I am unable to connect the Z1c with MyPhoneExplorer using USB -- It says that there is no device connected to USB.
Is there anyone who succesfully connected Z1c with MyPhoneExplorer?
I am also interested in other ways to transfer as much data as possible from my old K750i to my new Z1c... text messages are the most important, followed by calendar data, tasks and contacts.
regards
Dries
did you try with this app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fjsoft.myphoneexplorer.client
No I did not! I installed the app and it complained that USB Debugging must be on.
After some googling I found that the USB debugging is a developer option which are hidden in KitKat but can be activated by tapping Build Number 7 times (under About Phone).
After I did that, windows automatically detected the phone and installed the ADB device driver and was able to connect the Z1 Compact with MyPhoneExplorer.
Unfortunately, it is still not clear for me how I can upload the messages, contacts etc from my K750i to my Z1 compact: when I connect, MyPhoneExplorer asks to create a new new user for the identified phone. So I have two "users" now in MyPhoneExplorer but I do not see how I can move the messages and contacts from the K750i user to the Z1 compact user...
Ok I managed to transfer my contacts and messages by
1) make a backup of my new phone.
2) make a backup of my old phone.
3) restore the backup of my old phone on my new phone restricted to contacts and messages
This resulted in a complete replacement of the contacts of my new phone by the contacts of my old phone
4) Move all messages to archive on PC
5) restore backup of my new phone
Result is that I have all the contacts and messages of both my old phone and new phone on my new phone.
Unfortunately, the date and time of the messages of my old phone is the date of the transfer from pc to phone... i.e. today at 18:50
Does anyone know a method to change the date and time of a text message?
Hi Dear Comunity i have problems with my LG G5 LS992 Sprint this phone was bought in EEUU, but i am using in Venezuela with the carrier Movistar VE, i can configure the APN and the phone is connected to the Movistar Network, download some apps like youtube, telegram, instagram, whatsapp, etc.
My problem is some strange, occurs only with all instant messaging apps, for example:
In Mobile Data i can send text or any emoticons, download and see Videos, Pictures, etc, but if want send (Upload) pictures, voice notes, video, or pictures for the another chat is not possible, is like the phone dont have data connection with the server or have a firewall or some similar, i am check that apps have all permissions (mic, camera, gps, phone, contacts, etc). In the same moment i try open web browser and all is fine.
The problem only occurs using Mobile Data, if i am in Wifi the phone 100% functional, dont have problems
The phone Have Android 7.0 stock mode.
Do You have Any solution to that problem?
I make factory reset, install/uninstall apps, reconfiguring APN, insert MicroSD copy files since internal to MicroSD, Try with another Carrier (the phone is unlocked) and the result is the same.
Sorry for my english.
I have the same problem with LG G5 LS992. Any Solutions?
install HiddenMenuCall and open it
Choose LG Hidden Menu>>Field Test>>NAO Test>>NAOT>>NAO Setting>>NAO Test Toggle:enable>>NAO CARRIER>>SPR