I just installed Cyanogenmod 7.1 on my backflip. It erased my contacts from my SIM Card and now I can't find them anywhere. Any help?
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Contacts erased from SIM
Started by Mike Hollcraft, Jan 25 2012 02:07 AM
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xhepera
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Posted 27 January 2012 - 07:17 PM
Mike Hollcraft, on 25 January 2012 - 02:07 AM, said:
I just installed Cyanogenmod 7.1 on my backflip. It erased my contacts from my SIM Card and now I can't find them anywhere. Any help?
It should not have touched your SIM card. Do you mean your SD card? In any case, did your original setup have your contacts synced with Google? And, if so, did you install Google apps after the flash? If so, you should be able to retrieve and resync them. If I've misunderstood your problem, my apologies.
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Posted 03 February 2012 - 05:02 AM
Getting contacts from stock blur to CM was a real pain for me, too. The contacts are likely still on the SIM; cm7 for the backflip just has a hard time reading from it. I think they're using a version of RIL that isn't completely compatible with gingerbread/the backflip. Of course, android does not store contacts to the sim unless you purposefully export them to it, so unless you did this or moved the sim from another (non android) phone that actually uses the sim, it's expected to be empty. Similarly, even if you did originally take the sim from another phone, it won't have any changes made on the backflip stored, unless you exported the contacts manually.
Anyways, you'll have to get the contacts from somewhere else, and you have two choices. If you backed them up to the sim before upgrading, you could just put it into another phone temporarily. If you used blur on the phone before updating, it will sync your contacts to the backflip again if you restore to blur temporarily (time consuming, but easy.) Blur does not sync with google servers like stock android, but Moto's own private ones, so restoring is the only way to get at this backup.
Either way you go about it, once you have access to the contacts again you'll need to install an app that can export them to a file on the sd card (blur does not support this.) Be careful when you select an app, as I went through several that didn't work (wrote empty files) before finding an app that exported correctly (I cannot remember which it was, but there are many free ones available.) If I remember correctly, the only apps I found that worked didn't use a format that android supported. Fortunately, gmail did support the format, so I was able to import my contacts there, which then synced back to gingerbread once I restored the phone.
As a side note, you'll have a hard time installing google voice, or otherwise changing voicemail settings on cm7, so set that stuff up while you're still on blur if you plan on using any of it
Anyways, you'll have to get the contacts from somewhere else, and you have two choices. If you backed them up to the sim before upgrading, you could just put it into another phone temporarily. If you used blur on the phone before updating, it will sync your contacts to the backflip again if you restore to blur temporarily (time consuming, but easy.) Blur does not sync with google servers like stock android, but Moto's own private ones, so restoring is the only way to get at this backup.
Either way you go about it, once you have access to the contacts again you'll need to install an app that can export them to a file on the sd card (blur does not support this.) Be careful when you select an app, as I went through several that didn't work (wrote empty files) before finding an app that exported correctly (I cannot remember which it was, but there are many free ones available.) If I remember correctly, the only apps I found that worked didn't use a format that android supported. Fortunately, gmail did support the format, so I was able to import my contacts there, which then synced back to gingerbread once I restored the phone.
As a side note, you'll have a hard time installing google voice, or otherwise changing voicemail settings on cm7, so set that stuff up while you're still on blur if you plan on using any of it
