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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] DataHawg:
The trick is to get all of your email contacts into Gmail on your PC even if you have to manually enter each one. Then they will sync automatically to your phone and you won't have to back anything up. If you use Outlook on your computer, I think there's a way to export your contacts into gmail with a csv file. I couldn't tell you how to do it but you should be able to find out by searching in Google forums. I did mine all manually when I first started using android and I've never had to back up anything. Google does it for me. I know this will sound really strange, but to get them all to sync to Gmail and into my phone contacts list, I had to enter a fake email address for the contacts I only had a phone number for. Now I can flash and wipe my phone all I want and all my email and phone contacts sync again as soon as my phone connects to Google servers. I have them stored on my sd card, too, but I never need to restore them from it. Make sure you have two way sync turned on in your Gmail account on your computer. If you want gmail to pull in all of your other email accounts such as Comcast or hotmail, you can set that up on your computer too in Gmail account settings. I get all my mail in Gmail now and don't even use the other email client on my phone.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Mynaga:
When you create a contact it will give you 2 options. 1 to backup internal 2 to backup to Google. It seems you selected internal so you need to go to contacts and go through the menus until you switch all contacts to Google then do your sync through settings. Best of luck if your still having issues do a titanium backup.. but like the poster said above as long as you save your contacts to Google in the future it makes going from rom to rom a breeze
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] MultiLockOn:
Sweet, thanks everyone. I've got my contacts onto Gmail. Anyone have opinions regarding Unnamed vs. Blazer?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] oscarthegrouch:
There's also a way to backup manually your contact list. In contacts program hit menu then export. It saves the file as 00001.icf in the root of your sd card. After you export, use a file manager to go and make sure the file is there before proceeding. You could then copy it to your computer or email it as an attachment to yourself.

Or it could be .vcf I forgot
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leocola:
Please help me!

My t101 was fine the day before yesterday, and i used it at that night. but on yesterday morning, when i got up, i found it was shut down automatically.

i tried to restart it, and it stayed in the startup boot screen. I thought it was system breakdown, so i tried several ROMs according to the procedures in the threads.

i downloaded 8.6.5.21, Revolver_TF_3.11_gnufabio and KRAKD-1.5.2, but none of those work. i still stuck in the boot screen.

I don't know what to do now. Please give me an advise. Thank you!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodintentions:
What's your serial number?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AzureusPT:
Have you formated /system, /data and /cache when you flashed another ROM? If not, there may be traces of the older ROM that could make the newer ROM fail or not boot at all...

I would try the following:

If you have a working nandroid backup, restore it!

If you don't have, go to recovery, delete /system, /data and /cache and flash a new ROM.

If none of the above work, you could try a NVFlash method.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hollander1985:
you could also try to load the factory default from out of CWM.

Or restore a backup, if you have one?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leocola:
when i tried to wipe data, it said error in removing something. anyway, i've solved this problem. i used nvflash with prime1.4rom, it worked. my t101 is alright now. Thanks for your advise.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leocola:
no, i don't have a backup. but i will do that, in case it happens again. thank you.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
In future always backup!!

Also when youre installing a new rom make sure to be carefull and make a clean install

Download team rogue recovery that will make sure data/media is not touched thats your internal sd

Before each rom wipe cache/dalvik cache/system/battery states/staging minimum i usually back up everything so i wipe all partitions and go ground up through nvflash.

Sent from my tf running krakd warped an twisted 1544mhz Blades kernel
[A7 General] alicez:
I had Getjar installed on my Elocity when I bought it. If I click on the Getjar icon, I get taken to a page on the Internet that no longer exists. How can I change Getjar so that when I click on it, I will get taken to the Getjar site on the Internet. Is Getjar an okay app, or is there a better one? (I don't believe I can delete the Getjar app from this Elocity A7.)

Also, would anyone know a good, free, weasther app that I could download that would show the weather (in my vicinity) on the Home screen (background) , similar to the time that appears there now?
[A7 General] frankwg83:
amazon, google android market

use this to get android market working http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1431967

after you root the device you can install the amazon app store and buy the root explorer if you don't get it through other means. it's a useful app, buy it. you can find the getjar program in /system/app, where you drop off the google apps. be careful when you remove the default apps, try to force stop them before uninstalling. 2 of them can't be stopped(one is fring and i can't remember the other, i think it had a light blue icon) and after they are uninstalled will give an error that will keep popping up, just hard reset and continue.

for the weather app, just search 'weather widget' in either app store. keep in mind that app will be a battery drain.
[A7 General] alicez:
Thank you. Sorry, but I am new at all of this (tablets, etc.) and don't know what you mean by "root," "drop off," "default apps," "force stop," "error popping up," etc. Really confusing and I do not want to make my grandson's A7 unstable, etc.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] bluenote73:
Hey guys

I could swear I had this solved, but most recently its come to my attention

that whatever I may have thought, I actually don't have a reliable way of playing back 720p mkvs on my phone without streaming/transcoding/converting.

Plex has come a long way and works excellently, but I really want to do native playback. Has anyone done a thorough survey of players? If not I will try to do one and write back with my results.

EDIT: I should say that, I actually want to play 720p mkv's off a network share. But let's say the first goal is native 720p mkv playback, and the second goal is to do it over a share.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] shane1diamond:
Have you tried MX video player from the market? It had played every video file i have thrown at it.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] guitarist5122:
+1

Great video player
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Волк:
+2

I don't know what the res of the video was but I know is was a HQ mkv and MX played it perfectly. I've also thrown .VOB's at it. I think I will go home and toss a .ts at it just to see what it will do.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] wbynum:
What is the best solution to play MKV's that are larger than 4gb on the G2x? Most of mine are and the 4gb fat32 file size limit on the SD card get's in the way. Can android read an NTFS formatted card? Or can someone recommend a free Windows utility to downsize an MKV to less than 4gb? Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] muqtarbaig:
Hello,

I have successfully configured my office exchange account in samsung email and all was working fine until i changed the view mails as conversation in settings.As soon as i did that the email got force closed and since then it continues to force close as soon as i open.

How do i resolve it?

Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] muqtarbaig:
Resolved the issue by deleting the account and adding it again.
[General Questions and Answers] NikkyNine:
or using htc =)

try to clear data in email app and add your account again
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Bfitz26:
Is there a video tutorial to get pathsaver to 893 and then root and instructions on flashing Rome and backups I'm a bit scared
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Darca:
I think this is what you are looking for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufnDSFi4glo
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Bfitz26:
so how will this give me root and cwm???
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Darca:
Root/CWM/Custom Roms:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1455888

Or just go to youtube.com and search "How to root droid bionic" and you'll get this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiLwCKCz_Fo

I would recommend safestrap recovery over CWM. This can be found here http://hash-of-codes.blogspot.com/p/android-downloads.html Make sure to read all the direction on the site and in the noob guide before using it and you will save yourself a lot of heartache.
[HTC EVO 3D] xboxfanj:
Great video. Must watch. Done by the always awesome qbking77

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzpixaIOwSg
[HTC EVO 3D] kayncz:
like
[HTC EVO 3D] bmanforev:
I learned the basics from this guy
[EVO 4G General] 666syco:
Ok I'm about to have my HTC evo 4g flashed to run on Verizon the guy that does the job told me he'll flash a like stock custom Rom to the hand set and then change the meid from a crappie Verizon phone to the evo and it will be working on Verizon. Ok cool BUT... I'm a flash junkie I can't stop flashing roms on my incredible I wanna no if anyone can help after the evo is done can I still use custom roms on my evo. Please all help would be greatly appreciate sorry if this is the wrong spot to post this.
[EVO 4G General] Papa Smurf151:
Don't think its possible to run evo on verizon
[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
As soon as Verizon finds out ur flashed to their network on a non vzw phone you will be booted and charged the price of the full 2 year contract, don't pay it and it goes to collections and on your credit, vzw doesn't like non carrier approved phones at all so good luck

We are legion, for we are many.
[EVO 4G General] sitlet:
Yep, exactly.

What are your reasons for running on verizon? You can always use the 00001 prl, which will let you talk/text/3g on verizon. As long as you dont use it a whole lot (about 50% per month) you shouldnt get caught from sprint.
[EVO 4G General] 666syco:
It's going on prepaid $50 amonth unlimited so I'm not worried if they find out I already got my one incredible running on it for $50 so why not. Sprint blows were I live Verizon rules my area so its kinda worth it to me.
[EVO 4G General] ftwaynejuggalo16:
But the prl runs off Verizon towers...
[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
Buy a Verizon phone get a GNex or a rezound verizon likes to bend ppl over and give it to em hard for using flashed phones I know 2 ppl who got hit with collections 2 months in and one person who actually tried to do it again after getting caught the first time and got taken to court and charged with fraud and big reds got big bucks to shove right up your a$$

We are legion, for we are many.
[EVO 4G General] 666syco:
Ok I thought I was able to have my question answer but no I got a bunch momma boys screaming at me NO DON'T DO IT. LOOK I'M DOING LIKE IT OR NOT. CAN I FLASH ROMS OR WHAT.
[EVO 4G General] T.C.P:
Prepare for a flame war for using cap lock. A simple search would of given ur answer... Yes and no. U can flash a rom but nothing will work except for calls i believe. Ur gonna have to edit the rom u want to flash to get data working.
[EVO 4G General] Mazda:
Nah, there ain't going to be any flame war...the dude is obviously an idiot!! Chances are that they're really not really putting him on Verizon but on Page Plus BUT he's too busy being a hot head about things! He thinks we're mommas boys or whatever, OK....don't come crying 2 months from now when they bust down your trailer and haul you and your meth making girlfriend to jail for fraud because you thought you were some sort of hardcore internet gangsta that couldn't listen to what people are trying to tell you...hahaha
[EVO 4G General] fitz420:
Dude......evil offered you some sound advice. U don't have to take it......u also don't need to be a jerkoff. I don't believe he was telling you not to do it.....he was using real life examples of people who got caught and what happened to them. U should be pushing the thanks button on each of his posts as well as this one.
[EVO 4G General] 666syco:
Ok my bad I'm fast to act like a ass. Im sorry I do understand that you guys are looking out and that is great sorry once again if I offended anyone and I take it in consideration on the info given
[EVO 4G General] 666syco:
It's really going to Verizon not page plus we have in my area Verizon, straight talk, net 10, and at&t. I only get services with Verizon that's why I asked. Sorry to of opened my mouth and disrespected you guys. Ya I'm a hot head but at that note my wife is not a meth head. Man look, pick on me not my family she was killed last year by a drunk driver that got away so the topic of my wife is very touchy. Sorry for being a noon and a asshole. Thank you guys for all your help in my problems.
[EVO 4G General] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
I don't get offended I'm just trying to warn u vzw likes to throw their weight around and hard and they have the money to do it they will show up to court with some lil dip**** Rep and then 3 attorneys a criminal, civil and idk what the other was probably a second civil cuz my boy got 2 yrs in jail for fraud and a 250,000$ fine for what vzw called wire fraud they basically conned a judge into buying that he was stealing service because he didn't buy a smartphone directly from them and was off contract even tho he was still paying them their rediculous rates, I can't stand vzw u pay through your nose, ass and eyes to be treated like a dog turd stuck on their shoe their customer service skills blow harder than a f5 tornado

We are legion, for we are many.
[EVO 4G General] 666syco:
Thank you the more you tell me the more I'm ready to say never mind bad idea. I got 5 years in jail already couldn't see my kids going to the state cause Verizon is a pushy company.
[EVO 4G General] 666syco:
Ok thanks guys I agree I'm not doing it I gave the phone to my son to use as a tablet thanks for all the info and once again sorry for any disrespect you were more then helpful.
[EVO 4G General] amlavor:
I've done, bunch of people have done, and a bunch more will do it....

You actually bought a phone from verizon, you own both phones, chances of they getting you is 1 in one million.

People come out with the dogs not knowing exactly the rules of stealing/cloning/swapping.

If you swap esn/meid your phone become the donors phone bottom line that's what they will see.

if you wanna know how to do it, pm. I dont charge a penny, to whoever want to learn. this applys to

most phones.

If you search around you will see a tons of guides/how to on how to flash to cricket/metropcs/virgin and etc...

anyway people are using one's phone carrier on another.

Iphone or any gsm phone, they are exclusive for specific carriers. though people jailbreak or unlock to use

in another carrier.

they been doing this since mmmmm since mmmm?? well a very long time ...lol

I mean knowledge ahead, doing or not is totally up to you.

I can guarantee voice/text will work, now regarding data maybe, I've seem people with data and other not or struggling with 1x.

PS

everybody know that pulling the trigger can kill, however most people are not willing to do so. You decide your will.
[EVO 4G General] sweatmanpb:
Thanks for the helpful info, but i am going to flash my phone over to verizon anyway. I already bought the donor phone and paid for the month of service so there's no turning back now :P I'm having a few issues so so help would be excellent from the poster above. If you could shoot me a pm it would be much appreciated!
[EVO 4G General] amlavor:
send a pm with your question...
[EVO 4G General] .Elite_The_King.:
Exactly, this is great support right here at its best not a put down as others.:thumbup:

Sent from my powered Shooter E3D with Infection of AnthraX Jamz by wolf.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Ajt2014:
Alright, so I rooted my phone the other day and then got it backed up using titanium backup. I put the backup on my laptop also to be safe. Well, something happened. I am not that familiar with Roms and everything. Well, I got the Darky's Rom 9.5 and then put it on my phones sd card. I started the phone up in the cmw (i think thats what its called) and then deleted the cache and data and stuff like that then I selected the install zip from sd card. Well, I did that and then my phone started to reboot. It kept getting to the Galaxy S 4G and then goes black for a second then re appears. Well, I cant seem to do anything. I can put it in download mode and I can go back to the cmw mode and everything. Well, I have the titanium backup so I just want to restart my whole phone and then re-root it again and then re install all my apps using the titanium backup. I am pretty nooby at all this stuff on phones. Please help me. I can still put stuff on my phones sd card and then I can go to install zip from sd card. If there is a way, please let me go back to the "out-of-the-box" settings. I think I need the default ROM for this. Anyways, thank you. I really need this to work. I hope I didnt break my phone! ='(

Also, this is my first thread thing like ever in my life, so yeah, dont get angry at me if I did something wrong

I would really appreciate it if someone could walk me through how to fix it. I will be on here waiting for replies, so we can have a conversation if you do not mind. Please help me, I cannot lose this phone.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] shahkam:
Did you do an nandroid backup???
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] theGeeko61@gmail.com:
You are safe... you say that you can get the phone into download mode, right?
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Ajt2014:
I can get it into download mode. That is why I am not freaking out as bad right now lol But yeah, what do i do? I need to download stuff and use kies and stuff again right? Thank you so much for replying too! I am so happy right now! lol But yeah, I can do pretty much everything except start the phone and get past the samsung galaxy s screen.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Ajt2014:
I could not do that nandroid backing (that was with the rom manager right?). Whenever i opened rom mananger and tried to back up the files, it never actually backed them up. It kept going to the one cwm and said error. So, I just did the titanium one and made sure to have it on my computer and my phone. Thanks for replying too! it means a lot
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] theGeeko61@gmail.com:
I would advise you to follow this thread if you have the GB bootloaders...

or this thread if you don't...

Once you have GB, you'll be able to re-flash with other GB ROMs...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Ajt2014:
Alright, I am not sure if I have the GB bootloaders. I am currently downloading the fully back to stock thing and am going to follow the directions. I have all my apks and data from before it broke, will I be able to put my titanium backup folder into my sd card and then backup the data? Or should my backup still be on my sd card. Yeah anyways, is it safe to do that? will all the files be one it correctly? Im just worried. But anyways, thank you so much. I was trying to read other forums but I couldn't figure it out. And I learned something, do not try to flash things when you do not know what you are doing lol.

I read somewhere that rom manager does not work for my phone; is that true? Do I even need Rom manager to flash my phone? sorry for all the questions, it is just so hard to find all these online haha Thank you very much again
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] theGeeko61@gmail.com:
Before getting into this tight spot... what had you done to your phone (re: modding)?

It sounds like nothing... which means it was a stock. Don't be confused by the judicious use of the word "stock" in these forums (I speak from experience here)...

Many of the "stock" ROMs which you will see are actually modified-stock ROMS. Some even say SMS-... indicating "Subtly-modified-stock"...

If your phone has the original ROM, then it is not GB. In that case, you'll need to use the second link... if you have a Windows machine. If your machine is not Windows, then that link will not help you because it uses ODIN which is a Windows-only tool.

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This is true (as of this date to the best of my knowledge)...

No, if you look at the Wiki (link in my signature), you will find that there are 3 ways (excluding ROM Mangler) to flash ROMs to your phone.

Do not apologize... The difficulty of finding things is exactly the problem which the Wiki (and these forums) seek to solve.

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I got stuck almost where you are at... about 1 week ago exactly... I can relate to being worried. But, that's the good news... you need not worry, since you can get into D/L mode... A Senior Member helped me. And this is what xda-dev is about. Users helping Users...
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Ajt2014:
Thank you so much! I am actually working on my phone and everything now! Ok, I noticed that it is no longer rooted. I am going to re-root it the same way I did and try to use my titanium backup folder to backup my apps and data. I have the paid titanium app too so thats good. And yeah, thats about everything =] Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. I love the quick response and everything. Thank you very much.

And one more thing, I am not sure if you have this phone, but what is your favorite (or The best) ROM for this phone? I want to flash it this time properly and with a good ROM. Thank you again
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] theGeeko61@gmail.com:
If you have to use the 2nd thread (the GB Ext4 Starter Pack), you will be formatting your SDCARD. So, no, the backup will not be on your card. We need to get those onto your computer somehow (if you haven't already backed up SDCARD onto your computer).
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Ajt2014:
I used the first one. So I still have everything. I think it will all work out perfect=] Thank you
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] theGeeko61@gmail.com:
You are very welcome. Thank you for letting me help... :D

I do have this phone... it's my favorite... (until May, when I get the S II)...

As for ROMs, my advice to you is to install the Valhalla-Final. My advice is based on the fact that this is the

only

final GB ROM that I am aware of. I have recently installed this and I have nothing bad to say about it.

On the other hand, if you like

bleeding edge

, then keep your eye on Valhalla Black Edition. I played with it over the weekend and, although still a work in progress, I have high expectations of it.

Not to be narrow-minded, I have heard good things about the one which you were originally setting out to install... I may look at it myself! :cool:

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Edit your original post, and add [SOLVED] to the title... Glad you found xda-dev!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] Ajt2014:
Thanks haha I am excited lol yeah, I just think I did something wrong with the rom manager and that whole thing screwed me up haha But yes, I will actually research how to get that valhalla rom and try it out haha Thank you again! I am changing it to solved right now lol
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mayuracw:
what is the best AD hoc supporting GB rom?? except CM

or ant patch for ad hoc??
[HTC Wildfire S] spdgowda:
Hi everyone,

I was using andriod 2.3.3 premium features on Wildfire S A510e handset. I was really happy seeing freinds photo with syncronised link in handset of gmail account and facebook account . Now after installing cm7, i am feeling very bad to see that I am unable to link with syn contacts of facebook or google accounts. Please help.