All contacts got wiped?!?!

[r0tor]

I did a hard reset since my Evo began rebooting itself often. Before the reset I made damn sure to sync my google contacts/calendar.

I do the reset and poof no contacts. I sync with google and poof no contacts. I log into my gmail and poof no phone number contacts. I try doing a gmail restore and nothing!

What just happened and how do i get the contacts back????

 

[TWC_SouthPhilly]

Have you gone to your gmail account on your CPU to make sure your contacts are there?

Sent from my MIUI havin, Gingerbread Throwing EVO

 

[r0tor]

Gone everywhere without a trace...

 

[TWC_SouthPhilly]

Gone everywhere without a trace...

Not sure how but it really sounds like you saved all of your contacts to your phone and not your gmail account.

Are you rooted??? Do you have a nandroid backup you can reflash???

Sent from my MIUI havin, Gingerbread Throwing EVO

 

[boggs3010#AC]

Open your contacts, Tap menu...then import /export and try importing from sd card.


As a message to all, back up your contacts to your SD card!!!! ( Export to SD card)

 

[TWC_SouthPhilly]

Open your contacts, Tap menu...then import /export and try importing from sd card.


As a message to all, back up your contacts to your SD card!!!! ( Export to SD card)

Ya, sounds like he didn't save his contacts to Gmail.

And no truer statement... backup, backup and backup some more. At least once a week I do a nandroid, app, contacts and SMS backup and transfer them all to my dropbox account. Better safe than sorry.

Sent from my MIUI havin, Gingerbread Throwing EVO

 

[Makad]

Sprint wiped my phone. I was only able to recover a partial amount of my contacts. Only contacts that were more than 2 months old were restored. Everything newer was gone.
I think no availability for a complete back up of an UN-rooted android phone, is a substantial weakness in the Android system. It is a pain in the rectum trying to return the phone anywhere close to how it was before a hard reset.

 

[TWC_SouthPhilly]

Sprint wiped my phone. I was only able to recover a partial amount of my contacts. Only contacts that were more than 2 months old were restored. Everything newer was gone.
I think no availability for a complete back up of an UN-rooted android phone, is a substantial weakness in the Android system. It is a pain in the rectum trying to return the phone anywhere close to how it was before a hard reset.

It is a huge over look by HTC. But I think they and most manufacturers feel/think most would sync there contacts with a online or cloud service like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo.

As to rooting,so you can do nandroid backups, it's the number one reason to root IMOP. I've rooted a few Android devices now, a few EVO's, a couple of Shifts.... and over half of them were just so the owners could do nandroid backups and that was it. My wife's Shift is one of them.

Sent from my MIUI havin, Gingerbread Throwing EVO

 

[Makad]

It is a huge over look by HTC. But I think they and most manufacturers feel/think most would sync there contacts with a online or cloud service like Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo.

As to rooting,so you can do nandroid backups, it's the number one reason to root IMOP. I've rooted a few Android devices now, a few EVO's, a couple of Shifts.... and over half of them were just so the owners could do nandroid backups and that was it. My wife's Shift is one of them.

Sent from my MIUI havin, Gingerbread Throwing EVO

I thought my contacts were backed up to google, but for some reason only contacts no newer than 1 month or older was backed up. The new contacts for some reason did not take. When I say full back up, I mean apps, contacts and all settings. My palm phones did a full back up, why doesn't android. To da anything close to a full back up, you have to use 3 or more apps. This is a major flaw.

 

[kg4icg]

Sounds like you disabled sync on your phone to save some battery time. My contacts are backed up on google, the TEP app and on my computer in outlook 2010. I downloaded my contacts as a csv from google and imported them into outlook 2010.