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Roms, Backup, Contacts & Syncing issues..

  • 30-12-2010 12:44AM
    #1
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I finally managed to fix some strange problems and I now have a custom rom on my phone - LeeDroid. I use MyBackup Pro for my data and apps - however it has not really put everything back correctly. Before I put any new rom on I made sure to clean all my contacts on my phone - so I only want the ones showing in "People" - the ones I have phone numbers for that I use/need. I also did a huge cleanse of my Gmail. I had a crazy amount as gmail ads any email it can, but I deleted them down to just 250 or so email addresses that I need. The contacts on my phone had photos or facebook links etc (HTC Desire) so I thought everything would be ok. However, when I restore Data, I have many hundreds of contacts - and in my gmail it has pulled in loads of data from my phone with duplicates all over the place!

    If I restore to my previous backup, all I want to do is take a backup of the contacts that were stored on my "Phone" - not on the sim or google etc. Anyone know the best way to do this?
    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Chet T16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Chet T16


    Why not let google handle your contacts? I never back them up


  • #3
    Dr. Loon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,522 ✭✭✭Dr. Loon


    Yep, it's worth taking the time to sort out all your contacts with google, and then you have a constant synced backup. Initially I had contacts all over the shop, and when changing rom's and restoring backups I had numerous nightmares - contact pics going missing, duplicates etc. Let google handle it all.


  • #4
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Thanks. I figured out how to back up my Phone contacts to a vcard file, however I ended up just going through all 1000 google contacts and deleting and merging them - took hours but you are right its worth doing!


  • #5
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Hmm, slight problem. I've just notices that some of my contacts are no longer linked to their facebook account. Usually I would just go into the contact, and up the top right it says "Link" - and I would just click on the facebook button and find them there. Thing is, the facebook button is no longer there!

    Any idea how I could get it back?


  • #6
    Zagato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Zagato


    Zascar wrote: »
    Hmm, slight problem. I've just notices that some of my contacts are no longer linked to their facebook account. Usually I would just go into the contact, and up the top right it says "Link" - and I would just click on the facebook button and find them there. Thing is, the facebook button is no longer there!

    Any idea how I could get it back?


    Does your ROM have facebook for htc sense? This has to be on for the contacts to sync properly, as far as I understand


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  • #7
    Chet T16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭Chet T16


    Zagato wrote: »
    Does your ROM have facebook for htc sense? This has to be on for the contacts to sync properly, as far as I understand

    ^its amazing just how much sense brings to the android party that you don't realise until you're without it


  • #8
    Zascar
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zascar


    Yep I'm using LeeDroid which is built on sense. I did actually managed to figure out how to get the Facebook Link button back (sorry can;t seem to find it now) - so I can links people up again but for some reason I cannot link myself (my contact card) to my facebook... Weird!


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