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Backup Contacts Etc...

Sorry to be a noob but I cant think of a valid way to backup all my contacts on my phone and also any other data stored on the phone memory such as email account.
I have a problem whereby when my phone is set to vibrate, it doesn't when receiving a text message and I have tried all settings to make it, but to no avail, I have been advised to reset to factory settings to restore this back to normal.
Any ideas people?

Your contacts should automatically sync to the Google servers if I'm not mistaken?

How do you mean? auto sync? are you reffering to the Sync mode on PC, or just by using the phone and using the internet google would take a copy?

Desire does auto backups for specific things, not for contacts though (if you are not syncing)
To backup your contacts manually go to People - > Menu ->Import/Export -> Export to SD card

Hi sorry to revive an old thread, but how do you then reinstall the contacts after a factory reset?
Edit: Ignore that, People - menu - import export - import from sd card!

HTC or Google Sync Help

I am new to Android and I don't know what I've done or how to stop it from happening, please help!
These issues only happen after a Factory Restore!
1, How do I stop Market from remembering and re-downloading My Apps that I've installed prior to Restore!
2, When I sign in to my Google account from Accounts & Sync, my contacts show up in People app which is fine but when I hit Menu / More / Linked Contacts there are 5 linked of each contact, I have 80+ contacts that is a lot to delete after each Restore.
More on this, Now I only synced and connected to my PC once and that was when I first received this Phone to sync my contacts.
After a Restore there are no contacts on the Phone or microSD I have no contacts in my GMAIL account and this is my only mail account Synced So these are on Google Server somewhere how do I get rid of these contacts or edit them so I don't have to delete them every time I Restore.
Stock Android 2.2.1

Titanium backup - Emails and account

Hi Everyone
I am having an issue with Titanium Backup, and would like to know if anyone have had similar problem and would know how to solve that.
TB would not restore my accounts. I have notably Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync accounts for my mails (as they are the only one apparently allowing push emails). I have made backups and restore after a change of rom, and it didn't work out for my accounts.
I read similar issues on forums, where it was advised to do a complete backup and restore.
I made the following test: I used batch, then Backuo all user apps + system Data. I deleted one of my accounts. Then batch restore (I made restore missing appa + all system data, where I selected restore data only). It did not replace the account I deleted.
Can you advise me doing something differently.
Thanks in advance for your help

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Still trying to figure this out myself as well, as well as possibly somehow restoring widgets...

Have you tried (from your description it doesn't look like it) backing up apps and system data separately ? Then just restore the data

Hi guys,
Im currently facing the same issue too.
I manage to restore all apps with data including bookmarks. But it doesnt restore the actual Email accounts such as my Yahoo and gmail.
So everytime I flash a new ROM, I have to manually set them up again.
Hopefully there is a way

works for me

Hi guys, did anyone managed to backup and restore it ?
it seems like titanium backup it as when I do a full restore i find it but just can't identify which packages are involved ..
Quite sure that email alone is not enough ..

I'm having the same issue. It's accounts and sync we are after. It's not an option as far as I can tell.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium

Hi,
I'm having the same issue.
Just installed Vanilla Root Box 4.2 yesterday on my Galaxy S2 and again I wasn't able to restore correctly my email accounts (both IMAP and EXCHANGE "Corporate").
How I proceeded :
RomNuke
Install Root Box 4.2
Restore Accounts (data)
Restore Email (app + data)
Restore Exchange Services (app + data)
When you explore Accounts TB says it's a DB in /data/system/users/0/accounts.db.
Once I setup my email account, I can see it here.
*A bit sad that Exchange passwords are in plain text here*
So I thought that would be the solution.
But when I restore it, all but email accounts are restored.
Someone has a trick to restore correctly email accounts ?
Thanks

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Unfortunatly never manage to Backup/Restore those email!!
When setting up a new Rom it is very time consumming to have to re-configure them...
If at least it was possible to restore emails + Config, and I will confirme the passwords after that...

[Q] GN2 won't sync to google

I have a GN2 with the latest ARHD (12.0) installed. Just noticed that it will not sync to Google, I always get the message "sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly"
Except that it never does.
As a result I can't sync contacts, Chrome settings, and can't even log in to Google+ on the GN2. I don't know how long this has been happening.
Yet on my Galaxy Nexus I never have a problem with the same account. Google syncs every time. So it's not a Google-side problem, but a phone-side problem. . Does anyone know how I can fix this, short of a factory reset? (a factory reset would mean setting everything up from scratch, since nothing has been synced or saved).

I wouldn't recommend factory reset but if it comes to it then there are numerous other apps to backup your stuff.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda app-developers app

This usually happen when contact storage or calendar storage file corrupted.
follow these steps
- make sure ALL your contact and calendar are already on Google account or you will lose all these data during this process.-
1. go to clear data of "Contact", "Contact Storage Data", "Calendar" "Calendar Storage Data" in "application manager"
2. remove your google account in your phone.
3. reboot your phone(require) or reboot to recovery do cache and dalvik cache wipe(optional)
4. add back your google account in your Galaxy Note 2.
5. wait your phone sync your cloud data back in your phone.
Done.
This has 99% chance to solve your problem.

Delete google sync backup

Hi, i recently did a factory reset on my tab pro 8.4 and noticed that some games still have my save files with them. i assume this is because of the Google sync. Is there a way of completely deleting everything thats synced so i can have a fresh start?

I found out how to delete it, anyone else who wants to do this, just go to the Google settings app and clear appdata.

Thank you for the info.
I've just started to use the Google data backup. I usually blocked that feature.
A couple of Q's for you, if you don't mind.
Does app data get backed up automatically or does it have to be done manually ? (I'm curious if there's an option to overwrite or not).
Is it possible to find out by logging into your Google account that's associated with GP, which apps have saved data ?
And if you have two or more devices and run the same app on both (different configs), is it smart enough to know which data belongs to which device, when you restore ?
Maybe going off topic a bit, I recently bought "Smart Remote", and to back up it's settings online, it wanted me to create a G+ account.
I didn't, so I had to use Titanium Backup.
To back up the data from any app, do I need to create a G+ account, before the process will work ?
Thank you.