Root if i

[meandmyevo4g]

1.if i load a rom and or a kernel onto my evo do i lose my contacts, 2.and are they saved when i did a backup

pls answer the first 1 atleast i have been trying to figure this out but i have been unable to


new problem down at the bottom

 

[beastinbolts]

1.if i load a rom and or a kernel onto my evo do i lose my contacts, 2.and are they saved when i did a backup

pls answer the first 1 atleast i have been trying to figure this out but i have been unable to

no, you will not lose your contacts.. do you remember when you got your evo and had to make a gmail account they are all there.. just run a sync and when you then load and boot up your new rom you will have to sign in to your google accoutt and it will import all your contacts for you.. this answers both your ? yes

 

[beastinbolts]

edit.. when you create a new contact ( i all ways select google) ... you may not have selected google. so if not, export your contacts to google then it will have them all

 

[ocnbrze]

1. yes and no. anytime you flash something you always have to wipe data, cache and dalvik cache. by wiping data, it is doing just that (contacts being included with the data). however, if you have all of your contacts saved under google and not phone then anytime you flash a rom you can sign on to google accounts and all of your contacts will be there. this goes for anytime you get a new android phone.

if your contacts are saved as phone then no you will lose your contacts the minute you wipe data.

as far as kernels go, you only are wiping dalvik cache and cache not data so your contacts will be safe.

2.nandroid backups are a complete snapshot of the your phone. so yes nandroids will have your contacts saved.

 

[meandmyevo4g]

thank u

 

[beastinbolts]

thank u

no problem and welcome to all things root......

 

[youdoofus]

i had this problem when i was going from sense to aosp cuz i was doing a factory reset, but the google synch cleared that right up... plus there are apks out there to save all that stuff manually on your sd card, texts too....

 

[meandmyevo4g]

hey new problem i cant access my apps i have on my sd card even thow the memory for them is taken up, and i dont have an android market.....cyanogenmod 7
thanks in advanmce

 

[ocnbrze]

just so you know with any aosp rom you need to flash the gapps file. here it is Downloading GApps.... not sure what you mean you can't access your apps on your card. do you move them to your card via froyo's apps2sd? did you back them up via titanium backup?

 

[meandmyevo4g]

i figured out how to get the market i just need to know now how to access my sd card that has apps on it, i had like 10 apps that i was able to move over to my sd card without app2sd they are games, i have flashed back to my regular rom and the games on my sd card are there, they are not there when i flash to cyro, how do i fix this?

does this make sense

 

[ocnbrze]

restore your nandroid backup that has your games. download and install titanium backup from the market. you can backup app+data. flash or restore a custom rom download and intsall tb again. restore find and restore your apps+data. hope that helps.

 

[meandmyevo4g]

ok i forgot about titanium

 

[ocnbrze]

yeah no worries. i find tb to be essential anytime i flash a new rom. just make sure that you do not do a batch backup and restore of system apps as they will contain pieces of other roms that will conflict with your current rom.

 

[beastinbolts]

yeah no worries. i find tb to be essential anytime i flash a new rom. just make sure that you do not do a batch backup and restore of system apps as they will contain pieces of other roms that will conflict with your current rom.

Not sure if you are familiar with TB but if you hit filter and select user it will avoid you from accidentally restoring system info. ( this is info you had on your previous rom and will 99% of the time create all kinds of errors ...... only restore user app and data!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!