yo,
so I flashed Cyanogen 13 onto my android. made a backup before ofc and exported pictures and stuff to my computer.
but I was stupid enough to not save contacts as vCards or anything, so Im wondering if I can get my contacts back from the backup file?
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Just ask your parents for their vcards again.
hurrdurr
Resync your Google account they were backed up on.
i didn't back them up on a google account, i did a full system backup in TWRP recovery and thought I might get them back from that recovery
I know it's annoying, but restore that backup and save the contacts. It's the easiest way.
ah, damn, no way though I'll restore the old rom, reset the phone, install the rom I just installed and fix all the apps etc again. I'll just do all the contacts manually again
>Cyanogen
>2017
???
im not a fucking nerd who keeps track of all "d latezzt dank ROMz", I just wanted something small without bloatware and it seemed OK
Not to far off though. techbreach.net
The Cyanogen project doesn't exist anymore.
Your ROM has security vulnerabilities.
cyanogenmod got renamed to lineageos btw
Not OP, but I've been using Cyanogen for my phone for a few months, and I like it. I got it from Team Superluminals website, it was a version from when Cyanogen still existed. Could you elaborate what vulnerabilities it could have?
>source.android.com
I have no idea how to interpret that. Could you recommend any alternatives to Cyanogen? Should I go to LineageOS instead?
There are multiple security problems discovered in Android every month.
>Should I go to LineageOS instead?
Yes
>make a backup of the new ROM
>restore the old backup
>make vCards
>restore the new backup
Here you go user
Thanks. Will do.
ah ok, sry not to bright atm, all work no sleep y know
Okay, so I downloaded the latest "nightly" version from LineageOS' website, started up in recovery, made a backup, did the factory reset but I couldn't flash it? Got an error when I tried to.
I thought the download seemed small, only about 390 mb. Did I download the wrong one or something?
Get a Nandroid Backup Explorer Tool and extract /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db to some place. Then get a root file explorer and put that file into the same place on your current rom installation. Make sure file permissions. Are set to "rw- rw- ---".
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sod off
Download Nandroid Manager from Play Store and use it to restore your contacts, SMS, etc.
nobody ever thinks of that
