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Originally Posted by toddpedersen
Using SPB Backup, seems to really only effective if your backing up the current ROM and restoring to that same ROM.
If you had a previous ROM that you did your back up on, and then flashed to a new ROM, there seems to be issues because the new ROM more than likely has differences in file locations, registry entries etc.
What I seem to find works best is to backup your contacts via My Phone, which is too late for you now, then after you have the new ROM installed, restore those contacts to the new ROM. I do not recommend syncing old texts via My Phone, as there have been reported problems with doing that.
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I disagree. When using SPB to restore contacts (which is what the OP you replied to stated he did) I have never had an issue ever. I use SPB every single flash to restore my contacts and sometimes also my texts and emails with zero issues. I've been doing this since the TP1 days, so have probably done it well over 100 times. As long as you do not restore system state then it is ok to use SPB to do a restore between different ROM's. I even used SPB to restore contacts and texts when I went from my TP1 to my TP2 with no issues.
Also I see you telling people that restoring old texts is an issue, that is partially true. Restoring a large number of texts is a problem. Then again so is saving a large number of texts on your phone with 6.5. On 6.1 I used to have over 24,000 texts on the phone no problem (just from being lazy about deleting and it did not slow the phone down.) On 6.5 once I get over a few hundred it starts to cause major slowness going into and exiting the text message app. If nothing else it has gotten me used to deleting texts again. However I have also used SPB to restore a small number (200 or so) of texts many times and again had absolutely no issues.