Re: [Debconf-discuss] Need help with data rescue on Android device
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 08:55:30PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 17/08/15 18:08, Marc Haber wrote:
> > all of a sudden, my Android tablet claims that I have only three
> > contacts left (one of them being myself, my wife not being among
> > them). It's a Galaxy Tab 2 running CyanogenMod 10.1.3 based on Android
> > 4.2. The device does not sync anwhere, but I run nightly backups to SD
> > card and Dropbox.
> >
> > If somebody is there who knows his way around Android better than me,
> > I'd like them to look at the device before I re-flash the device and
> > hope that the backup is OK. Being bitten by un-restorable backups on
> > Android in the past, I'd like to know to copy raw data files that
> > might be rescue-worthy over to my notebook before re-flashing.
> >
> > I am Zugschlus on IRC and am regularly found around the NOC office in
> > front of room Heidelberg.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> Please check your settings, your address book may be in a mode where it
> is only showing a subset of the contacts stored in the SIM card
Checked double and triple, not there.
> I understand you do not sync, but did you recently uninstall any app
> involving sync functionality?
Nosireebob.
> Even if you don't want to sync to the cloud, have you thought about sync
> to a Debian server? I sync my phone to DAViCal over HTTPS
>
> https://packages.debian.org/davical
I thought about that for like two years, but this issue has recently
lost some of its urgency :-(
Greetings
Marc
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