How the hell do i do it?
Open Contact (People)
Press Menu button >> Import
um, what?
antonram said:
Open Contact (People)
Press Menu button >> Import
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the OP asked how to export to the SIM, not import from it. i dont know of a way it can be done at present. hopefully someone does figure it out. there are at least one or more apps in the market that allow back up of contacts and other data to SD card, but not to the SIM.
Actually you can do this already, just open the contact (you have to do for each one) press menu-> More... -> Save to SIM. Easy.
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Is it possible to delete all sim contacts only? I want to do this and keep my phone contacts then install them on the sim again if that makes sense....
Open "Contacts", then press "menu" and choose "SIM-Manager".
There you can check and delete all SIM-Contacts.
skycamefalling said:
Open "Contacts", then press "menu" and choose "SIM-Manager".
There you can check and delete all SIM-Contacts.
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I presume the sim manager is what it says and just the sim card. By deleting all in the sim manager will just dekete sim contacts ONLY!!!!
kirkie said:
I presume the sim manager is what it says and just the sim card. By deleting all in the sim manager will just dekete sim contacts ONLY!!!!
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Yes, as it says -just the SIM Contacts. The phone contacts stay as they are.
But I would synch the contacts with Outlook first, JUST in case that anything goes wrong.
Did that and my contacts list is empty, but all details still showing in sim manager
kirkie said:
Did that and my contacts list is empty, but all details still showing in sim manager
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I don't get this, what exactly have you done and what is the outcome?
You deleted the phone contacts and the SIM-contacts survived or otherwise?
skycamefalling said:
I don't get this, what exactly have you done and what is the outcome?
You deleted the phone contacts and the SIM-contacts survived or otherwise?
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I did what you asked in the Sim Manager and it deleted all of my phone contacts and my Sim contacts survived...
kirkie said:
I did what you asked in the Sim Manager and it deleted all of my phone contacts and my Sim contacts survived...
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I see, but then you weren't in the SIM-Manager. I just opened it and the phone contacts are unavailable there. You only see the numbers and names that lie on the SIM-Card.
Click on a contact, choose "edit" and tell me what you can do there.
Maybe you did right but just thought you were wrong.
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I see, but then you weren't in the SIM-Manager. I just opened it and the phone contacts are unavailable there. You only see the numbers and names that lie on the SIM-Card.
Click on a contact, choose "edit" and tell me what you can do there.
Maybe you did right but just thought you were wrong.
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I did the following:
Start
Contacts
Menu
Sim Manager
Menu
Select All
Delete
kirkie said:
I did the following:
Start
Contacts
Menu
Sim Manager
Menu
Select All
Delete
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I did this right now and all the SIM Contacts are gone, but the phone contacts are still there. Maybe you clicked somewhere else?
I'm trying to finally switch over to a custom ROM but the only thing that is holding me back is that I cant find a way to import my contacts from the Stock OS over to my gmail account so that when I use the custom ROM, theyll be there. My auto sync is on and it refreshed but gmail is only showing email contacts.
You can save your contacts to your sd card and then import them back over. Contacts >> menu >> export to SD
When I click menu on the people's app/contacts I dont see that option. Am I in the wrong spot?
PawkChop said:
When I click menu on the people's app/contacts I dont see that option. Am I in the wrong spot?
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I found it in Phone >> People >> Menu >> Import/Export
When I lick menu I only see the new contact button, search people, delete contacts, view, and sync exchange contacts
Theres an app (sry dont know the name as of right now) but it exports your entire contact list onto a CVS file or vCard - not that kind - and u can import all of them in gmail.
I believe there's another app that also converts all your current contacts to google contacts, so they sync automatically. I'll check the market later and post the names if u haven't found them already.
Edit: just use ExportContacts and import the cvs file in gmail. then sync them to your phone. after that just make sure when adding a number its a google contact.
kyouko said:
Theres an app (sry dont know the name as of right now) but it exports your entire contact list onto a CVS file or vCard - not that kind - and u can import all of them in gmail.
I believe there's another app that also converts all your current contacts to google contacts, so they sync automatically. I'll check the market later and post the names if u haven't found them already.
Edit: just use ExportContacts and import the cvs file in gmail. then sync them to your phone. after that just make sure when adding a number its a google contact.
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Alright the app worked beautifully. Thank you so much and Ill take that advice. . Now just gotta relink to facebook :/
kyouko said:
Theres an app (sry dont know the name as of right now) but it exports your entire contact list onto a CVS file or vCard - not that kind - and u can import all of them in gmail.
I believe there's another app that also converts all your current contacts to google contacts, so they sync automatically. I'll check the market later and post the names if u haven't found them already.
Edit: just use ExportContacts and import the cvs file in gmail. then sync them to your phone. after that just make sure when adding a number its a google contact.
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What was the name of the one that just changes them from phone to "google" contacts? Ive found it once before but i cant for the life of me remember>.<
frostrunner said:
What was the name of the one that just changes them from phone to "google" contacts? Ive found it once before but i cant for the life of me remember>.<
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It was called contactsync > Linky
Official Website - Found at bottom and I quote
WARNING: phone instability has been reported on HTC Hero. Use ContactSync at your own risk!
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Personally I wouldn't use it as many people have reported that it messed up their hero. Its easier still to use "exportcontacts" and import the .cvs file in gmail and then sync them to your phone.
for some reason they keep saving to T-mobile. not google......
help please?
I'd like to know this as well, stupid T-Mobile. Why do we need our contacts backed up on your servers when Google does it for us.
This should have been posted in General but there is setting under add contact, at the top it says tmobile, right under the name, click he arrow next to it and choose google instead of tmobile and that will fix it. You will have to do it each time though!
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This should have been posted in General but there is setting under add contact, at the top it says tmobile, right under the name, click he arrow next to it and choose google instead of tmobile and that will fix it. You will have to do it each time though!
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Thanks bro
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While you are on the main page for contacts hit the menu button press more and it will give you a long list of all the contacts. Also if from the home screen you click menu/ settings/ accounts & sync and click on google you can tell it to sync with your contacts. Do this again for Tmobile and you can tell it not to.
21productionz said:
While you are on the main page for contacts hit the menu button press more and it will give you a long list of all the contacts.
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True but irrelevant.
Also if from the home screen you click menu/ settings/ accounts & sync and click on google you can tell it to sync with your contacts. Do this again for Tmobile and you can tell it not to.
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True but irrelevant.
The problem is that contacts are tied to EITHER T-Mobile or Google and T-Mobile is the default. All those contacts that were on my SIM card? They all went to T-Mobile. Maybe there is a way to move things around (and en mass), I hope so. Anyone?
I've found this while googling...works for me.
From People - Menu - View. Check Phone and uncheck Google. Then Export to SD card. This creates a vcf file of all the phone contacts.
Go back to View and uncheck Phone and check Google. Then Import from SD card. This imports the vcf file back in under Google.
You may have some duplicates if contacts were in both places. You can simply delete them. You should then be able to sync with GMail.
Once this is done, you should be able to also go back to Menu - View and reverse the check marks again and delete all the entries under Phone since they're now under Google too. Then uncheck Phone and recheck Google, so going forward you're only dealing w/Google contacts.
If you run into problems, you still have the vcf file on your SD card if you need to re-import.
Soo... whenever I added contacts to my phone, I always saved them to "phone" and not go Google. But, I really want to start customizing/rooting/and play around with installing custom roms on my phone, but in the mean time... I don't want to lose any of my contacts.
Now, when I realize that if I had saved them all to my Gmail account on the phone..I could always just sign in and retrieve them once I've wiped my phone. However, I didn't save them to Gmail...they're just saved onto the phone.
Does anyone have any advice to me as to how to move ALL my contacts from my phone to my Gmail account? Thus, being able to retrieve them (or in other words...have a safe place where they're Backed Up)?
Thanks!
Not sure how to do what you are asking and I would like to know as well. one thing you can do is export them to the memory card. Then import them when change roms.
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I just did this not too long ago. Go to contacts and hit menu. Then export to sd card. Then hit menu and import to gmail. Tell me if this helps.
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sprice5 said:
I just did this not too long ago. Go to contacts and hit menu. Then export to sd card. Then hit menu and import to gmail. Tell me if this helps.
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Bingo! thank you.
(You go to Contacts...hit "MENU" , then "MORE", click "IMPORT/EXPORT" click "EXPORT TO SD CARD" then ok. It'll then back up your contacts on your SD card.
then...
go to Contacts, hit "MENU", select "IMPORT/EXPORT", select "IMPORT FROM SD CARD", then it'll give you the option of "PHONE" or "[email protected]". Select your gmail account, then click IMPORT. and viola!"
Thank you!!
duplicates
did this proceess delete thge orignaal contacts or generate duplicate entries (one on pho e and the other in gmail)m
yea there are a lot of issues with contacts and their facebook photos being updated after you export them to your sd card...
It automatically does this for you. When you flash a rom you just sign into the market and all your contacts will then dl onto your phone.
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sprice5 said:
I just did this not too long ago. Go to contacts and hit menu. Then export to sd card. Then hit menu and import to gmail. Tell me if this helps.
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this helped alot thank you
my phone has stopped syncing from phone> gmail (at least as far as contacts go) gmail>phone works fine. if i change a last name, add a phone number to a contact on the phone it does not update the contact list in gmail. in fact gmail will override the changes on the phone and put it back the way it was. is there a setting somewhere where the 2 actually sync?
that happen to me to im tryin to find that out to
Glewis21 said:
that happen to me to im tryin to find that out to
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stupid samsung... i'm trying to flash a rom and i'm afraid i'm gonna lose numbers now
Well.... how are you saving contacts on your device? When you create a new contact on the device, are you selecting Google or Phone?
If you select Phone, then it won't sync over to Google because the contacts are locally saved.
If you select Google, then everything is saved on their servers and then replicated to your device.
murso74 said:
stupid samsung... i'm trying to flash a rom and i'm afraid i'm gonna lose numbers now
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To export your contacts on your phone, the breadcrumbs are: Contacts > Menu key > Import/Export > Export to SD card.
After that you can import those directly into Google contacts on the webpage.
If you don't want to use Google, then just import that export file into contacts on your device after your flash.
You could use a backup application like Titanium Backup or MyBackup Root.
murso74 said:
stupid samsung... i'm trying to flash a rom and i'm afraid i'm gonna lose numbers now
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Under contacts hit menu and export contacts to sd card. You can also export them to your gmail. Then always choose google as a save option when adding phone numbers.
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