I apologize for not reading every page of this thread... I did not see an answer to this.
I own an OG Droid and have been flashing roms for a while. Well, we just got my wife a droidx. I rooted and wanted to try out a rom on it so I picked liberty. Flashed this with no issues. Well, all except for the fact that all her contacts were gone. WHAT THE BEJESUS?!?! Thankfully I had backed up the stock ROM and restored. Contacts back. Not sure if I missed a step there but on my OG droid every time I flashed a rom my contacts were always there. Any ideas that I am missing. I am sure it is simple. Thanks in advance. Peace yo.
Normal contacts are sync'd with Verizon's "MyVerizon" using BackUpAssistant (BUA). If you migrate those contacts over to Google Contacts, they should never go missing again...
You can back them up on the phone to the SDCard, then ROM, and restore them into google contacts, or step by step to just export them from MyVerizon on the web and into Google Contacts via this method here:
Migrating contacts from "Phone" (BackUp Assistant), to Google Contacts
HTH!