backup restore

[rmcelroy]

I am fairly new to this scene...

I have recently put Liberty 1.5 on my phone. I was wondering about backup restores...

Surely there has to be a quick and eacy way to reload specific apps/contacts/ect?

for example, say Liberty 2.0 comes out, if I make a full backup, wipe my phone, and install 2.0, what would be the quickest/easiest way to reload all my stuff?

thanks!

 

[spaz33g]

for apps, you can use titanium backup to backup and restore user apps and data. as for contacts you can open up your contacts app and hit menu and then import export and eport to the sd card, then when you boot u you can import them again.

 

[rmcelroy]

cool, so the full backup that was made is just for restoring a FUBAR device then?

it's all or nothing... there is no way to go in and restore items from it once you load a new ROM?

 

[spaz33g]

exactly. the backup in clockwork is all or nothing for either a damaged phone or to revert to pick up updates.

 

[rmcelroy]

awesome. I am going to try out titanium backup now.

thanks!

 

[spaz33g]

if you have any questions let me know. also just as an fyi, it doesn't really matter going from liberty 1.5 to 2.0 but when restoring apps from one rom to another never restore system apps. it can cause problems.

 

[rmcelroy]

ok, next retarded question...

so, I backed up my contacts (I thought I had around 75) I upgraded to Liberty 2.0, then I imported my contacts... (around 400?!) I obviously did something wrong.

is there an easy way to delete all contacts? then I will ujst sync with exchange and let it import what i have form there.

 

[spaz33g]

i had this happen after i returned from gingerbread. i noticed they were all syncd to google so i just deleted them from my gmail acct on my computer.

 

[rmcelroy]

yea, I just noticed they were synched to google as well. It appears that google creates a contact for you whenever you send an email to someone?

if your contacts synch with that... wil;l it then create a new phone contact every time you send an email to someone new?

if I delete ALL of the contacts out of google, then synch with exchange and turn off gmail contact synch, will I be good?

 

[PhillJ]

yea, I just noticed they were synched to google as well. It appears that google creates a contact for you whenever you send an email to someone?

if your contacts synch with that... wil;l it then create a new phone contact every time you send an email to someone new?

if I delete ALL of the contacts out of google, then synch with exchange and turn off gmail contact synch, will I be good?

Bumper car

 

[rmcelroy]

I found that yes, after I do the inital synch and it loads all of my google contacts, I just do a mass delete of my gmail contacts, make sure my device is synching with my corporate email.

then I turn off gmail contact synch. then i can import all of the contacts I just deleted with the backup I made.

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