How to export UT contacts from contacts.db without a working phone?
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Alas, my Nexus 5 didn't get to celebrate it's symbolic 10 year anniversary, I can't get it to boot any longer.
While waiting for a new UT device I have to 'go Lineage' for a moment. And I was hoping to find a way to import, directly or indirectly, the -salvaged just in time- contacts.db file into Android.
Any ideas? Can for instance syncevolution be run outside of UT?
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Ok, it was much easier than I believed. I just had to
- query the contacts.db (I used DB Browser for SQLite) as
select vcard from folder_id;. - select all results, copy and paste them into a text file and save this file as contacts.vcf.
- open this file in Android, confirming that contacts need to be imported.
- query the contacts.db (I used DB Browser for SQLite) as
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