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[Q] Best way to transfer contacts and call logs to a new ROM?

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.

Verizon backup assistant and the contact mess..

So my mom recently got a samsung galaxy s3, she originally had a galaxy nexus, and before that an envy 2.
We used verizon backup assistant to backup all the contacts on her envy 2, because that was the only simple contact backup available for the envy.
She now has
A. Google sync backing up all her NEWER contacts
B. Backup assistant backing up her older contacts
C. A bunch of hotmail contacts.
Basically I created a huge mess... If I were to use backup assistant on the SGS3, how would I go about changing each and every contact to sync with google past that point?
I'm just wondering if there is a simple way to go about this without going through each and every contact.

Dudenell said:
So my mom recently got a samsung galaxy s3, she originally had a galaxy nexus, and before that an envy 2.
We used verizon backup assistant to backup all the contacts on her envy 2, because that was the only simple contact backup available for the envy.
She now has
A. Google sync backing up all her NEWER contacts
B. Backup assistant backing up her older contacts
C. A bunch of hotmail contacts.
Basically I created a huge mess... If I were to use backup assistant on the SGS3, how would I go about changing each and every contact to sync with google past that point?
I'm just wondering if there is a simple way to go about this without going through each and every contact.
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In people or contacts there should be an option your whole library as a .vcf . If you put that file on the new phone it will get all your contacts. But in reality your Google account should be backing up All your contacts. I had issues back in the of days with duplicate contacts. Turns out if you go into gmail on a computer there is an option to merge duplicates. If you don't think they are all being synced with Google then the .vcf method would be the safest. Then if you get dups just merge them in gmail

animal24 said:
In people or contacts there should be an option your whole library as a .vcf . If you put that file on the new phone it will get all your contacts. But in reality your Google account should be backing up All your contacts. I had issues back in the of days with duplicate contacts. Turns out if you go into gmail on a computer there is an option to merge duplicates. If you don't think they are all being synced with Google then the .vcf method would be the safest. Then if you get dups just merge them in gmail
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Here is what I did.
Removed the hotmail account.
Exported the contact list and then imported into google
Merged contacts
Done
What I thought would happen originally was that removing my hotmail account would leave all the contacts associated with it, this was not the case.

Dudenell said:
Here is what I did.
Removed the hotmail account.
Exported the contact list and then imported into google
Merged contacts
Done
What I thought would happen originally was that removing my hotmail account would leave all the contacts associated with it, this was not the case.
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If I export the list and then import it to google. Do I need to delete contacts between exporting and importing as I assume your phone will have duplicates on the phone itself? (I already have contacts on the phone and not google so not sure if importing will now just cause the phone to have duplicates)

It depends on how your contacts were originally backed up. Assuming you wanted to start over clean it would export all your contacts, then clear the app data for the contacts (this will delete everything!) and then import the file into Google on your pc.
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Need an SMS backup app

I'm getting ready to be going to court and I need to show a lot of text messages from my phone. Most apps I've found backup to an XML file and it's really hard to navigate. I'm looking for something that will maybe backup to HTML or something like that.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

SMS backup in the market is what I use. It backs your SMS messages up to your Google account or titanium backup works well I hear.

Beezer80 said:
SMS backup in the market is what I use. It backs your SMS messages up to your Google account or titanium backup works well I hear.
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Yah SMS Backup+ backs it up to your Google account like an threaded email message, so you can easily PDF it or print it. I only got it to work right once, then it started giving me weird errors though.

SMS Backup & Restore is what I use, works really well, doesn't clutter your gmail account, though the ones posted above are much easier to print. Also check out mysms, it cloud syncs your texts between devices, with a webapp you can use print screen with.

Search for "Ritesh Sahu" in Google Play. The SMS Backup has a Dropbox plugin too.

[Q] Transfer email settings and messages from S3 to S4

So I got the new S4 from Tmobile and so far am very happy. Great performance.
I have been able to transfer most of my data, settings etc.
The problem I have is with one email account, that doesn't store messages online ( have a limit on how many messages I can keep online) using the default email application. There is no export/ import option. I want to transfer all the messages from my S3 (sent, received etc) to my S4.
I thought I'd try what I usually do once I rooted the phone, Titanium backup pro, copy backup files and restore in the S4.
The email version of the app in the S4 is 4.2 so I didn't want to restore app and data. I only restore data and rebooted like the program prompted me to do.
However, it doesn't look like the file was restored. when I launch email it still prompts me to create an account .
Is there a way I can transfer the email messages from one android email to another?
I thought I'd try to import it to a third party email app like k9 but the import function doesn't appear to work.
I have found many apps for transferring messages, contacts apps etc.. However, I didn't find anything for the default email app.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
Should I overwite the newer version with the older version with s3 using Titanium?
Thanks for your help.

Question Restoring call logs and contacts from titanium backup messed up contacts and phone app

So I backed up call logs and contacts from titanium backup before and when I tried to restore it, it messed up my contacts and phone app. Contacts app cannot import contacts from google account, it shows error. while contacts from vcf files imports but it doesn't show up in app. phone app does not logs call history, though calling and recieving calls works perfectly. Any fix for this. I'm currently using third party contacts app and dialer app.

You can access the contacts in your google account at contacts.google.com, maybe have a look at them there first, and if they're good, delete the ones on your phone and synch again.

MarkRobert said:
You can access the contacts in your google account at contacts.google.com, maybe have a look at them there first, and if they're good, delete the ones on your phone and synch again.
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Contacts are there on my account, but contacts app is fails to import contacts from account or even from a vcf file. if i create a new contact than it also doesn't shows up in it.
Anyway I had to factory reset to resolve the issue.