Just did a second factory reset and synced my Google account and my contacts are finally how they should be. Also, my computer finally recognizes the phone when mounted as an external drive.
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Edit: After some searching I read that the problem could be the new update to the Facebook App. I am going to uninstall it and see what happens. The new version runs as a service instead of in the background so something might stop the phone from going to sleep.
I just did all of these steps and it took around 30 minutes. I was playing on the internet and transferring lots of files, so I can't say it is an accurate time frame for completing this.
That said, wow, what a difference. I was contemplating doing something like this a few weeks ago, I just never got around to it. I have about 90 apps/widgets downloaded from the market (mostly) and it is as though they just needed to be realigned properly, especially with Froyo.
My battery has been fixed on 61% for over 1.5 hours (with very light usage), which it would never do before and everything is running much smoother than 2.1 or the first few days of 2.2 (I did the OTA update).
Everyone really needs to give this a try.
I've noticed that as well -
I write it off as one of those things.
I'll check into this - maybe there's a little something we can do so it drops the Sprint babbling.
I followed all the instrutions but still lost my contacts and home screen layouts...
I followed all the instrutions but still lost my contacts and home screen layouts...
Is there any backup app that will save your APP PREFS so you can reinstall the prefs and be right back where you started?? If your app was screwed and and prefs were screwed up, you'd want a CLEAN install of the and prefs. But would also like the ability to kinda load a prefs file back to restore back where I was running WITHOUT having to go through all my prefs manually all over again.
Try Menu -> Settings -> Accounts & Sync -> Sync all and see if that doesn't get your contacts back.
Can you send a test mail from GMail?
If you've tried that and GMail works but still no contacts, try to log in to Talk and just see if that works. If so try to sync all once more, and if that fails, power-cycle your phone.
I can understand your trepidation at this.Hi EarlyMon...
Thanks for the post and suggestion. I MUST ask however: is your post at the above link **THE ONLY** option for the youtube issue? The reason I'm asking is because I JUUUUUST got my phone back from a 20-day repair!! I had to reinstall EVERYTHING already this week and have spent HOURS resetting all my settings and preferences.
I am running SMOOOOTH it appears...BUT FOR the youtube issue....so I really am DREADING a hard reset/wipe clean at the moment.
So, is this the ONLY way??? :-//
THANK YOU....
I do not know if this is your only option.
What we've learned as a group is that once you find one problem, you chase it and fix it and then lather, rinse, repeat - because it seems that they all have the same root cause. In some theory, if what ever's screwed up is really limited to just one thing, you could just wipe the data for that thing. In our experience, that's more like playing whack a mole - so we've turned to this. Besides, if the problem is within the guts of the OS itself, then this will be your only option. Without x-ray vision or a better option, this seems to be it.
Unlike other handsets, this doesn't put your handset at risk or require an MSL# - except one that did require reprovisioning and Sprint help - but that was the only incident reported like that so far. So, there's a statistical possibility that it could get complicated, but probability is on your side by a wide margin.
In any case - in my strongest opinion - you want a good backup strategy. Personally - I think everyone does. You've already been through a lot with yours from your description - and it's a phone. Things happen to phones, like lost, stolen, broken, dropped in the sink, you name it.
If you ever become rooted you want Titanium Backup. I backup everything I need with it to the SD card, then keep a backup of that on a PC.
Non-root users are choosing MyBackup Pro or a combination of Sprite+ASTRO File Manager, either for 5 bucks.
If the 5 bucks ain't happening, you can still backup your apps with ASTRO File Manager for free and your People contacts with Google - also free as that's how that's supposed to work anyway. You'll lose settings and sms messages and your desktop layout - but it's free and for many people, those are survivable over the 5 bucks difference.
The beauty of the suggested thread is that it deals with backup/restore and some use strategies as a discipline - anyone can push the factory reset button, but keeping your user-experience state of health is the primary goal.
With whatever you've been through, if I were in your shoes, I'd personally be sweating my backups first, YouTube second.
Once the backups are in hand, see if you have any other symptoms - poor battery life, other little glitches in various places. If so, a factory reset+radio fix is for you, otherwise, you might hold out and see if you can solve just YouTube.
But at the first sign of other troubles, I'd check that thread out. By virtue of public and private exchanges, I edit the top post often in an attempt to stay abreast of what it helps and what it doesn't.
Tried all that except power-cycle, what is that?
...I also use ASTRO as a backup to my backups.
Did you try MyBackup Pro?
For the benefit of others reading, just added Sprite Backup + Astro to the list.
You sir, have an extraordinary amount of patience.
I used the regular free MyBackup, but I followed the steps to save the 'Scene' but I understand now why it probably didnt save after the reset.
Power cycling now, I hope it helps. For what its worth, I dont ever use GMail and have always had the sync off until before the reset when I synced everything. Would that have mattered? Or is there any way to access it from the computer through my gmail account?
Power cycling did not work. When I did that though there was an exclamation next to the contacts under the sync section, saying there was syncing errors and it wasnt working right now. But when I clicked sync all it went through fine, but still no contacts, or any calender info.
I did a TRIPLICATE backup of sorts: AppBrain, ASTRO and MyBackup Pro. But I restored from MyBackup Pro.
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