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What the -? Unnamed unremovable contacts?

Hi everyone,
help me! I see something very strange that I've never seen before. I go into my contacts and there are 5 contacts there called "Unnamed" and there's a sim card icon next to them with a lock. I can't delete them, I can't do anything! What are those? There's nothing in the sim manager. Oh and I'm using the original wm6.1 rom with an at&t sim.
Thanks!

help meeh
anyone? pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease?

try deleting from another phone?

Do they appear in Outlook when synced to your PC? If so, can you delete them there? If not ChumleyEX's idea sounds like the best course of action...
I had a similar thing happening on an iPod, corrupted songs which can't be deleted

strange
thanks for your replies! i tried to put my sim into another phone and there were no unnamed contacts there. i don't have outlook (ew, i don't like to use it), so i can't look there. i dunno what are those.. agh

Anyone?? I have the same issue and nothing works... Happened when switched to Aserg ROM and then was frequently switching between SIM cards from different countries..

right,
yeah it happened to me when switching between sim cards from different countries too!

does someone know how to delete Outlook databases?
I have old crap there, spb Diary was able to show me a email account folder which doesnt exist anymore for months! All uneccessary data is still stored in \*.VOL files(

solved it by trick I already used before:
1. backup contacts etc
2. rename \pim.vol to \pim.vol1
3. reset
4. delete \pim.vol1
-> Contacts is empty, <Unnamed> entries are gone

doggydog2 said:
solved it by trick I already used before:
1. backup contacts etc
2. rename \pim.vol to \pim.vol1
3. reset
4. delete \pim.vol1
-> Contacts is empty, <Unnamed> entries are gone
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awesome! thanks, that did it for me too. strange bug or whatever though

this is making me nuts. i have them again. i just switched my sim cards and tadaa.. now i can backup restore again.. is there any way to stop it?

I have the same problem. They showed up after upgrading to WM 6.1 and I can't get them to go away.

I have unnamed contacts on my phone but am a bit confused by what to do to get rid of them
1. backup contacts etc
2. rename \pim.vol to \pim.vol1
3. reset
4. delete \pim.vol1
-> Contacts is empty, <Unnamed> entries are gone
Can anyone please tell me where I am supposed to rename pim.vol? Do I do that on the phone and if so, where do I find it? If I do it on the computer can you please let me know where I locate this \pim thingy
yup, I'm a newbie

pinkdiamonds said:
Can anyone please tell me where I am supposed to rename pim.vol?
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You can rename it on the phone...use your file explorer and go to "My Device" scroll down till you see a file called pim...rename that...
use PIM backup to backup your contacts, messages etc...

Ever used your SIM in another kind of phone ie Nokia?
Pal of mine had similar problem and it was due to his Nokia saving contacts to the SIM with group info added that is not compatible to other brands (non-standard).

Farsquidge said:
Ever used your SIM in another kind of phone ie Nokia?
Pal of mine had similar problem and it was due to his Nokia saving contacts to the SIM with group info added that is not compatible to other brands (non-standard).
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yes, but all i do is that i remove my at&t sim, put in a t-mobile sim (for checking sms and stuff) and then put back the at&t again. then it shows up. with other phones (can't try other pda) there are no "unnamed" contacts.

doggydog2 said:
solved it by trick I already used before:
1. backup contacts etc
2. rename \pim.vol to \pim.vol1
3. reset
4. delete \pim.vol1
-> Contacts is empty, <Unnamed> entries are gone
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It works for me, thanks a lot.
Just by following there steps and there, after a reload from a pim backup file the unnamed disappeard.

doggydog2 said:
solved it by trick I already used before:
1. backup contacts etc
2. rename \pim.vol to \pim.vol1
3. reset
4. delete \pim.vol1
-> Contacts is empty, <Unnamed> entries are gone
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This trick had worked for me too.
It actually deleted all SIM card contact that had been stored into the phone (device). The \pim.vol is in the root folder of the device. When you renamed it to \pim.vol1 and reset the phone, the phone will automatically create a new \pim.vol which is empty and therefore you are able to delete the \pim.vol1. It is impossible to delete the initial \pim.vol, so doggydog2 actually rename the file and ask the device to recreate another pim.vol.
Thanks a lot, doggydog2!

What if i backup contacts with "Unnamed" as well and after reset and deletion of file reimport backup file? Will i get "Unnamed" contacts again?

Check this out: milospjanic.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-to-get-rid-of-unnamed-contacts-in dot html

[Q] Willingly uninstalled a default app (how could i be soo dumb)

Please help me, i have a Galaxy S gt-i9000 with froyo (rooted) and i downloaded some custom dialer/ contacts and sms packs (it looked nice so i thought .. why not give it a try) but one of the apps said that its recommended to remove the default app so that it wont cause any conflicts. i wanted to uninstall the default dialer app but i ended up uninstalling the "Phone" app .. and now i cant use the contacts widget.. touching a contact wont pop up the menu with options (call, video call, send sms ..)
i wanted to check if i can try anything in Kies (restore or something) but my phone doesn't seem to be recognized anymore in Kies :|
Is there anything to be done?
any advice is deeply appreciated.

i have attached phone apk for you to install. you just need to unzip it and place it under /system /app and then reboot. make sure system is mounted RW
if that fails, reflash the ROM.

thank you for the prompt answer.
i downloaded the zip but i cant get to the root folder .. i mean .. i can only connect the phone in storage mode ...
should i try using a card?

sonofsin said:
thank you for the prompt answer.
i downloaded the zip but i cant get to the root folder .. i mean .. i can only connect the phone in storage mode ...
should i try using a card?
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You need either Root Explorer (paid) or Astro File Manager (free) from the market. Storage mode is fine, just copy the unzipped apk from your pc to the internal storage, then use one of the apps above to move it to /system /app.
Make sure you mount /system /app as rw or it wont paste.

ok so i copied it in /app ... asked me if i want to replace .. canceled and tried to run the phone apk that i already had ... it said App not installed.. so i copied and replaced the one from you .. and tried to run .. still no result :|
the phone apk is there ... but i think the dialer app is the one actually missing .. could you please add the dialer app as well?

sonofsin said:
ok so i copied it in /app ... asked me if i want to replace .. canceled and tried to run the phone apk that i already had ... it said App not installed.. so i copied and replaced the one from you .. and tried to run .. still no result :|
the phone apk is there ... but i think the dialer app is the one actually missing .. could you please add the dialer app as well?
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Is this what you're looking for?

i got that one as well ... the one with the green square and a white phone in it .. i think called simply dialer i think.. ok a big favor: can you please add every file related to phone* and dialer* in a rar/zip please.
right now i have from dialer: dialertabactivity.odex (i think there should be a dialer.apk here as well)
and from phone: Phone.apk, Phone.odex, Phone_Util.apk, Phone_Util.odex, PhoneErrService.apk, PhoneErrService.odex, PhoneSetupWizard.apk, PhoneSetupWizard.odex
pff .. i erased the contacts.apk as well :| i just figured that one out :|

sonofsin said:
i got that one as well ... the one with the green square and a white phone in it .. i think called simply dialer i think.. ok a big favor: can you please add every file related to phone* and dialer* in a rar/zip please.
right now i have from dialer: dialertabactivity.odex (i think there should be a dialer.apk here as well)
and from phone: Phone.apk, Phone.odex, Phone_Util.apk, Phone_Util.odex, PhoneErrService.apk, PhoneErrService.odex, PhoneSetupWizard.apk, PhoneSetupWizard.odex
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Yep, it's the one with the green square, no Dialer.apk on my phone, just DialerTabActivity (apk&odex)Ok I've added a few into this rar, most you probably have, but I found 2 contact ones you didn't mention, so maybe they will help, these are all I have on my laptop that are related to the phone I think, see if they help.

you got a DialerTabActivity apk?
i copied all and overwrite them but still cant install the apps back. i would of wanted to keep my apps and stuff ... is there any other way to reinstall the default apps that i stupidly uninstalled? (Contacts, Dialer, Phone) dont know if it helps .. but i used the "Uninstaller for Root" app

sonofsin said:
i got that one as well ... the one with the green square and a white phone in it .. i think called simply dialer i think.. ok a big favor: can you please add every file related to phone* and dialer* in a rar/zip please.
right now i have from dialer: dialertabactivity.odex (i think there should be a dialer.apk here as well)
and from phone: Phone.apk, Phone.odex, Phone_Util.apk, Phone_Util.odex, PhoneErrService.apk, PhoneErrService.odex, PhoneSetupWizard.apk, PhoneSetupWizard.odex
pff .. i erased the contacts.apk as well :| i just figured that one out :|
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Ok here's everything I could find on my phone, let me know if any of them help ok

the fact that i copy them in apps doesn't make them appear in the menu (i think that i still have to install them) and i always get the application not installed error when i try to run the apk to install.

sonofsin said:
the fact that i copy them in apps doesn't make them appear in the menu (i think that i still have to install them) and i always get the application not installed error when i try to run the apk to install.
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Ok, I could be wrong here, but I'm fairly sure I read somewhere on here that you need to MOVE system apps, not COPY them, so go to system/app/ again and delete the ones you copied, then Move them from root of your sd to system/apps again. Then maybe try a reboot. I'm not sure this will solve it, but it's probably worth a try...

well ... no wireless here ... no wap on my sim ... cant get astro at the moment seems that everything i thought i was doing was bogus .. the file manager was saying that it was pasting/ copying/ deleting but it wasn't ... I'll replay tomorrow after downloading astro and after i actually do everything suggested
Thank You Very Much For The Help and hope you didn't lose all your patience .. i will be back tomorrow

sonofsin said:
well ... no wireless here ... no wap on my sim ... cant get astro at the moment seems that everything i thought i was doing was bogus .. the file manager was saying that it was pasting/ copying/ deleting but it wasn't ... I'll replay tomorrow after downloading astro and after i actually do everything suggested
Thank You Very Much For The Help and hope you didn't lose all your patience .. i will be back tomorrow
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Sorry, I assumed you were using Astro, or Root Explorer.
Astro is free on the market so it should be ok for me to post it here (if not, someone tell me ok?).
Gimme a few minutes to upload it...

ok .. i'll wait as much as it takes .. just to get this bastard working

Hey, happy to help, if I'm actually helping lol. That's what the sites for
Ok I've attached Astro, but I'd recommend buying Root Explorer, it's what I use. Also I've included a pic of the permissions needed by each of the files I put in the rar. I don't know about Astro, but in Root Explorer you just long press the app to get to permissions menu. You may not even need them, I'm not sure. Will check back tommorrow to see if you're making any progress.

ok thanks once again .. and good night
well astro cant edit permissions .. or at least not the free version .. or maybe they changed it in newer versions (in case there are any)

sonofsin said:
ok .. i'll wait as much as it takes .. just to get this bastard working
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Lol, know how you feel, soft bricked mine twice when I started messing around with kernels and themes, but thanks to this site and it's members I've been able to solve any problems so far.

sonofsin said:
ok thanks once again .. and good night
well astro cant edit permissions .. or at least not the free version .. or maybe they changed it in newer versions (in case there are any)
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Damn, that's a pity, that was the latest version from the market, think you should buy Root Explorer if you can.
Permissions aside, did you successfully move the files with Astro?
If you did, dont try to install them, try a reboot first, I think that's what I did when I put the email.apk from SGSII into my SGS.
Sorry I didn't solve your problem tonight, will try again tommorrow if you want

i couldnt even move them cause the app dir is read only ... same for the files ... so unless i can get an app that can edit permissions i cant try moving/rebooting .

how to retrieve deleted photos from Sdcard0

hello Geeks
i have a problem to Retrieve deleted photos from my internal sdcard01
I used to have CM10.1 4.2.2 and last week i flashed to Stock rom as i m going to sell the phone.
now i realized that the photos i took after CM10.1 flashed, all of them are saved into internal SDCARD0.
and i m having trouble to retrieve all the pic. most of them are my baby's pic. so sad.. if i couldn't get them back.
is there any successful way to restore them back? or Apps?
please help!!!
thanks in advance.

ydoubleun said:
hello Geeks
i have a problem to Retrieve deleted photos from my internal sdcard01
I used to have CM10.1 4.2.2 and last week i flashed to Stock rom as i m going to sell the phone.
now i realized that the photos i took after CM10.1 flashed, all of them are saved into internal SDCARD0.
and i m having trouble to retrieve all the pic. most of them are my baby's pic. so sad.. if i couldn't get them back.
is there any successful way to restore them back? or Apps?
please help!!!
thanks in advance.
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if u didnt format they should still be in storage in dcim or in /data/media/...
if they are not there then they are gone

kessaras said:
if u didnt format they should still be in storage in dcim or in /data/media/...
if they are not there then they are gone
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i think it is formatted when i flashed back to stock ROM.
i was using LG tool and kdz files.
does it mean i am totally gone?
oh my gosh.. i will never forgive mysefl..

Check data/media/dcim folder. Hope thsy are still there

Flying_Bear said:
Check data/media/dcim folder. Hope thsy are still there
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there is no files inside /data/
so it is no hope?

ydoubleun said:
there is no files inside /data/
so it is no hope?
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you must be looking at a wrong folder.
go to root folder of your device (where system, sys, etc, sdcard, data, storage and other system folders are) and check there.
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actually, you aren't rooted, that's your problem. root, go to data/media/0/dcim. the photos should be there i think.

Flying_Bear said:
you must be looking at a wrong folder.
go to root folder of your device (where system, sys, etc, sdcard, data, storage and other system folders are) and check there.
edit:
actually, you aren't rooted, that's your problem. root, go to data/media/0/dcim. the photos should be there i think.
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Its Rooted, after i flashed back to 4.1.2, and i rooted.
which explorer u want me to use from google play store?

ydoubleun said:
Its Rooted, after i flashed back to 4.1.2, and i rooted.
which explorer u want me to use from google play store?
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root browser is what i use. any should work, really.

Flying_Bear said:
root browser is what i use. any should work, really.
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There are 3 folders under /data/media/DCIM
1..thumbnails
2.100LGDSG
3.Facebook.
No pic in 2 and 3. but small jpeg (<20kb) files are in 1.
so what is the solution?
btw thanks for your replies

Ur looking in wrong folder again. Look in data/media/0/dcim

Flying_Bear said:
Ur looking in wrong folder again. Look in data/media/0/dcim
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there is no 0 folder under media. what's wrong with my root folder?

Nothing is wrong, it got deleted during factory reset unfortunately. No way to get pics, im afraid. Sorry

Flying_Bear said:
Nothing is wrong, it got deleted during factory reset unfortunately. No way to get pics, im afraid. Sorry
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Oh no. how about data recovery from PC using some 3rd party sw?

ydoubleun said:
Oh no. how about data recovery from PC using some 3rd party sw?
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did u do a backup to a 3rd party sw ? there is no way to recover something that doesnt exist

kessaras said:
did u do a backup to a 3rd party sw ? there is no way to recover something that doesnt exist
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no. i didn't. i thought all my photos and videos were saved in external sd?
so poor thing.

Under linux i use Photorec, but if it is formatted ... If you have a full nandroid backup on your SD...
P880 <3 CM

ydoubleun said:
Oh no. how about data recovery from PC using some 3rd party sw?
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give it a try, but i doubt it will work. sorry :<

at least from now on, use the new way to backup. use a cloud backup app. for example for pictures i prefer myshoebox. u can do the same for contacts and everything. that way even if u go to another phone and log in to your cloud, you will always have your apps, your photos , your music , your contacts , everything.

If there is anything to save left ,then best chance is hexamob recovery on play store,but doubt it will find anything besides thumbnails.
Sent from my A1-810 using xda app-developers app

Try using recuva sw, it helped me once, but i think files have to be deleted to work and not overwritten or formatted
But since i'm not sure you can give it a try, not much damage to be done

Restoring my contacts from HSMBackup which is stored in the local HDD

Dears, I need help !! I had HTC One M7, I usually backup my phone using HTC Sync Manager as a backup option and store the files in my local hard disk. I lost my HTC phone, but luckily I backed my contacts to the local HDD but the mistake I did was, I did not completely backup the contacts to my Gmail account. Now, I am now using a non HTC android phone. I see the files are backed up in my local hard disk under the folder HSMBackup with some sub folders with junk names.. when I enter into each sub folders I see different files with .xml format. I tried to rename then to .CSV, .XSL, .VCF etc.. but it does not work for any of them. I am not sure how to recover these files. when contacted HTC support they said I need to use another HTC phone, then connect it to my PC and then backup my contacts.
Is there a way out to exact the files from these HSMBackup folder?

Hey! I'm looking for the same. Please let me know if you were able to recover the contacts! For starters, I tried a method similar to : http://blog.interrupt3h.com/?p=328 but no luck

euler74 said:
Hey! I'm looking for the same. Please let me know if you were able to recover the contacts! For starters, I tried a method similar to : but no luck
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Yes, I managed to fix this problem by myself, I had written the steps on what I did exactly and remember posting it elsewhere.. let me check of that and get back to you

Same state
durga1510 said:
Yes, I managed to fix this problem by myself, I had written the steps on what I did exactly and remember posting it elsewhere.. let me check of that and get back to you
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Please let me know ,how to recover those contacts. I am in similar situation

Was there ever a way to get the contact data from the HSM Backup folder? Thank you

Lost Data Files After Update

After the update last night, all my folders with data files (files I created, documents, shortcuts, etc.) are gone. My program files are OK. I have searched and cannot find a way to get them back. I believe I have backed them up somewhere like Google cloud or the Samsung option. But I can find no way to restore them. So, I am lost...

did you update via Odin or OTA ?

3mel said:
did you update via Odin or OTA ?
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Sorry, I'm not sure what those mean. The update happens overnight oh, so if OTA means over-the-air it would be that way

3mel said:
did you update via Odin or OTA ?
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I'm getting the feeling that night ended up in a developers forum. Maybe this was not the right place.

ADKRKV said:
I'm getting the feeling that night ended up in a developers forum. Maybe this was not the right place.
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this is the exact right place to ask.
if you have backups made the check the settings menu or use the search to look for backup restore

Thanks for the replies. I think I know the problem. I found one of the back-ups on OneDrive. It restored all programs and settings. It did not restore data files. I believe that is because they were not backed up, my bad. I can't seem to find a back-up on Google, so I must not have done that. At least I didn't lose anything critical, just a lot of shortcuts and websites I bookmarked.

ADKRKV said:
Thanks for the replies. I think I know the problem. I found one of the back-ups on OneDrive. It restored all programs and settings. It did not restore data files. I believe that is because they were not backed up, my bad. I can't seem to find a back-up on Google, so I must not have done that. At least I didn't lose anything critical, just a lot of shortcuts and websites I bookmarked.
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oh right, I understand you more clearly now. I don't think you can backup app data in such a way. the only method that can do this without root is by ADB which has to be done one app at a time. some apps can be backed up by copying there folders from /storage/emulated/0/Android/data or /Android/media but even then that might not be everything you need for a full backup.
any folders apps create outside of the Android folder can be copied to external memory and copied back later. I have to do this to guarantee that my messaging apps will have all the media I've previously downloaded.

I downloaded a program called GoodLock which saves the items on your home screen and supposedly back them up. I don't know if that just means the icons or it backs up the data. I hope I never have to find out