This is my first Android phone so I'm a little unsure of the following.
I've got a number of contacts that were on my sim card as well as my Google contact list, so now I've got double entries for a number of people. Is it best to just delete the Google contact ones or the sim contacts? Are there any advantages or disadvantages of one over the other? Like for example if I have no network connection does my phone still list the Google contacts?
I went for storing my contacts only on google.
As far as I know contacts are stored on the phone locally, so even if you dont have a network connection, you still have access to your contacts.
As far as duplicate entries, you can choose which contacts are shown on the phone. I would pick a method and stick with it. I've never been a big fan of storing contacts on a sim card. I prefer having them stored in the cloud.
Red Arrow said:
This is my first Android phone so I'm a little unsure of the following.
I've got a number of contacts that were on my sim card as well as my Google contact list, so now I've got double entries for a number of people. Is it best to just delete the Google contact ones or the sim contacts? Are there any advantages or disadvantages of one over the other? Like for example if I have no network connection does my phone still list the Google contacts?
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Look for an app called MyBackup pro which basically helps you to store all kinds of stuff including contacts to the sd card or on its servers.
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.rerware.android.MyBackupPro
I've moved over to storing them on Gmail. For some reason yesterday they all vanished (I had synced them with Outlook too) but the Gmail ones got sync'd back pretty quickly. Then it hooked up with Facebook and put contact profile pictures back in too
+1 for google.
knowing that they are all there and will come back as soon as i sign in, means i am not worried about trying every app under the sun for the first few weeks to see what works, what doesn't and what breaks the phone, knowing i can just hard reset afterwards if the worst happens and everything is back within seconds!!
+1 for gmail. You can edit the phonebook from any web browser. You can force-sync by turning off&on the gmail syncing on the Hero. You can turn off displaying the SIM card contacts in the Peoples app settings, no need to delete them in case you need to use the SIM in a dumb-phone later.
I opted for storing contacts all on gmail and went through the following process.
Sync'ed all my old contacts from previous Kaiser into outlook
Manually updated outlook contacts merging in all google email contacts aswell.
Used HTCSync to update phone with contacts - worked a charm and kept all contact pictures.
Forced a sync with google on my Hero hoping that all new contacts now on my Hero will automatically become updated/created in GMail.
Unfortunately this isn't the case and all emails were sync'ed between gmail and hero, but contacts still only appear on my device.
Have I missed a setting or is it not possible to bi-directionally sync contacts between gmail and hero ?
When you create the calendar/contact item, are you selecting to put it in the google group?
Create a new contact and in Contact type (just below the name) make sure to select Google. It usually defaults to Phone, which only syncs with the god awful HTC Sync software.
once created a contact in the wrong group, you can't change it. delete it and start again.
For those of us a bit paranoid about OUR data, Is there a built in way to sync/export/import data as in Active Sync?
I mean also accessing my data while in out-of-coverage areas, in-flight mode, etc.
Regards.
The data is always available on the phone, no matter whwere you store it.
Just cos it's stored on the google servers does not mean that you can not access it when you are out of service area...that would be stupid.
It just means that instead of you having to hook the phone up to your pc using that god awful HTC Sync software, it syncs automatically to the google servers.It is still stored on the phone locally as well.
Whatever gave you the idea that it would not be?
Looking Glass said:
For those of us a bit paranoid about OUR data, Is there a built in way to sync/export/import data as in Active Sync?
I mean also accessing my data while in out-of-coverage areas, in-flight mode, etc.
Regards.
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Your contacts are also stored locally on your phone, so even if you don't have service, you won't lose your contacts.
rhedgehog said:
The data is always available on the phone, no matter whwere you store it.
Just cos it's stored on the google servers does not mean that you can not access it when you are out of service area...that would be stupid.
It just means that instead of you having to hook the phone up to your pc using that god awful HTC Sync software, it syncs automatically to the google servers.It is still stored on the phone locally as well.
Whatever gave you the idea that it would not be?
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Thanks for explaining, but post #4 above looks scary. Since I don't have any Android phone yet, I thought they might come as the g-mail servers, if you are not online, you can not browse through your "archived" mail.
Regards.
No, they are stored locally.
also, with the mail program, that stores them locally once it has recieved the ones you choose to sync as well.
it's all good!
moved all mine to google
very easy and i love it!
rhedgehog said:
No, they are stored locally.
also, with the mail program, that stores them locally once it has recieved the ones you choose to sync as well.
it's all good!
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Thanks for info. Still waiting for may Hero....... no chance to try it yet.
Regards.
Does a google contact sync to outlook from the phone?
can i DELETE ALL CONTACTS
I'm having such a hard time with contacts on my hero. Wish I would have just had Sprint transfer them over from my Touch Pro. Anyways, I want ONLY the contacts from my old phone, which have been imported into gmail. Is there a way to delete all the crap that was imported into my contacts from Windows Contacts via HTC Sync? Then I can sync only my google contacts and just live with that.
how do I delete all contacts?
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I imported my used activesync with my google (gmail) account to sync up my contacts, calendar and email. The contacts all came through but were showing up as last name, first name. I wanted them to show up as first name, last name so I started looking around. I found the "app" contact changer mentioned on here and then grabbed it off XDA. It went through and said it changed my contacts. I found that they were all changed properly. After time though, not sure if it just when the phones dies or reboots, some of the contacts change back to last name, first again. It seems random which contacts are reverting, but all of the "facebook linked" contacts reverted plus some more random ones. I can go in and run contact changer again, or go in and manually change them but this seems to make the contact changer app useless if I have to run it all the time.
Any thoughts on what is causing this problem? From what I can tell the contacts in my Google contacts list are named properly, with the first name and last name in the proper field.
I am running T-mobile stock rom, and have not ever synced up with outlook on the PC (just using gmail via server on activesync).
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE: I just ran contact changer and then rebooted my phone (actually popped battery out) and the contacts did not revert. I then ran a sync via activesync and the contacts reverted. :-(
even though the way they are displayed is correct the system still manages them last-first, so if you create a new one after running the cab it will default to last first unless you specify differently in the drop down.this may be why they change when you sync fb.
it also helps (if you are using outlook on the pc) to have outlooks defaults changed to first-last.
Thanks for the tip. I am trying to avoid hooking up to the PC with outlook but I may end up having to. The contacts that are reverting are not new ones. Also it is not only the FB contacts that are reverting back, there are some other random ones that are doing it as well. Very strange. I am guessing it is just a normal WM quirk that I will have to find a workaround.
NickPDX said:
Thanks for the tip. I am trying to avoid hooking up to the PC with outlook but I may end up having to. The contacts that are reverting are not new ones. Also it is not only the FB contacts that are reverting back, there are some other random ones that are doing it as well. Very strange. I am guessing it is just a normal WM quirk that I will have to find a workaround.
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if you do have access to outlook on a pc, i can HIGHLY recommend it as your main method of contact/calendar backup/restore.
I've been using it as my phone backup for years, and it cuts both ways, , , pc goes down? all your outlook contacts gone? no worries! theyre on your phone! Phone goes down? no worris, theyre on the pc!. hehe.
plus with outlook it saves every single field, so your facebook links and favourite poeple is saved, (yes i know that also happens on myphone and whatever, but how often are those services down? )
Hi,
I have spent two evenings trying to reorganize my contact list and understand how the different backup solutions work. I have found a lot of advice, but none that seem to work on X10. I asked for help in SE support forum, but I doubt that they will answer.
So, what is the best option for backing up contact data?
SE sync:
+ contact photos are stored
+ keeps deleted contacts in the trashbin (nice when contacts have mysteriously disappeared from the phone)
- facebook and twitter connections are lost
- address entries do not seem to work (there might be more faulty fields, I didn't test all)
Google sync:
- does not seem to be able to sync entries/modifications from phone to gmail!
- contact photos are lost
- facebook and twitter connections are lost
Facebook sync:
I have matched my contacts, but can't see any effect of it on the phone, on facebook or on SE sync... But I'm a newbie on this one.
Edit: Does not work on 1.6, we need to wait for 2.1.
Backup to SD card, e-mail/transfer file to computer: (contacts -> settings -> backup contacts -> SD card)
+ reliable (?)
- seems to destroy contact images
- requires some manual efforts
- facebook and twitter connections are lost
Have you found any options that back up everything in a fast and reliable fashion?
Please correct me if I'm wrong. I can't believe that I've got this right. I found this commercial slogan on so many websites: "You don't need to sync Android. Ever."
I can only comment on one aspect of your query and that is that Facebook sync only works for Android 2.?? so won't help you whilst your phone is on version 1.6.
Hope others can help you on the other side of things.
Open contacts settings backup contacts
TechGuru_x10 said:
Open contacts settings backup contacts
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Yes... Aka:
murmeljenta said:
Backup to SD card, e-mail/transfer to computer:
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as mentioned in 1st post
Have you found a way to keep pictures/facebook/twitter connections on this one?
MyBackup Pro
murmeljenta said:
Hi,
I have spent two evenings trying to reorganize my contact list and understand how the different backup solutions work. I have found a lot of advice, but none that seem to work on X10. I asked for help in SE support forum, but I doubt that they will answer.
So, what is the best option for backing up contact data?
SE sync:
+ contact photos are stored
+ keeps deleted contacts in the trashbin (nice when contacts have mysteriously disappeared from the phone)
- facebook and twitter connections are lost
- address entries do not seem to work (there might be more faulty fields, I didn't test all)
Google sync:
- does not seem to be able to sync entries/modifications from phone to gmail!
- contact photos are lost
- facebook and twitter connections are lost
Facebook sync:
I have matched my contacts, but can't see any effect of it on the phone, on facebook or on SE sync... But I'm a newbie on this one.
Edit: Does not work on 1.6, we need to wait for 2.1.
Backup to SD card, e-mail/transfer file to computer: (contacts -> settings -> backup contacts -> SD card)
+ reliable (?)
- seems to destroy contact images
- requires some manual efforts
- facebook and twitter connections are lost
Have you found any options that back up everything in a fast and reliable fashion?
Please correct me if I'm wrong. I can't believe that I've got this right. I found this commercial slogan on so many websites: "You don't need to sync Android. Ever."
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i have to say your wrong about google sync not modifying changes from phone to google. you have to enable auto sync to allow it, if not you have to run the sync manually from time to time.
i have never used facebook or SE sync and i seem to have up to the minute modifications both on phone and web using google sync.
murmeljenta said:
Yes... Aka:
as mentioned in 1st post
Have you found a way to keep pictures/facebook/twitter connections on this one?
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Did you try logging in Facebook and Twitter and then running the restore... My Pictures from SD cards were there in contacts...... I will try today with Facebook and twitter after I reload 026 firmware.....
proatiku said:
i have to say your wrong about google sync not modifying changes from phone to google. you have to enable auto sync to allow it, if not you have to run the sync manually from time to time.
i have never used facebook or SE sync and i seem to have up to the minute modifications both on phone and web using google sync.
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Well, you're lucky. Auto sync is enabled. However, nothing moves from the phone to gmail - only the other way.
From what I have read on various forums, gmail only accepts contacts that were originally stored on gmail and then transfered to the phone. However, even such contacts are not synced back to gmail when I edit them on the phone. Perhaps my phone is buggy? I have specified the tests I have made (http://talk.sonyericsson.com/message/6621#6621), but I'm not sure that anyone can help.
TechGuru_x10 said:
Did you try logging in Facebook and Twitter and then running the restore... My Pictures from SD cards were there in contacts...... I will try today with Facebook and twitter after I reload 026 firmware.....
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Facebook and twitter data are indeed stored in the .vcf file that the phone creates.
I don't want to risk losing my 500 contacts, so I haven't dared to import the whole file. I extracted one person and made a new file, but that file would not import. Please share your experiences!
I imported contacts from my google account to my phone(stupid move). I should have just selected show contacts from google account. Now I have bunch of useless contacts on my phone(every single person I emailed with gmail, 80+). There's an option to show only contacts with numbers. I just don't get why it imports contacts without phone numbers(just like all the other android phones I had).
Now, how I delete the contacts off my phone?
Al I wanted was import contacts from my google account(with phone numbers cause those are friends I know in real life) and then export them to my sim card. I can't do that cause when you import contacts from your google account it imports everyone that you ever emailed. So stupid.
GuardianFlash said:
I imported contacts from my google account to my phone(stupid move). I should have just selected show contacts from google account. Now I have bunch of useless contacts on my phone(every single person I emailed with gmail, 80+). There's an option to show only contacts with numbers. I just don't get why it imports contacts without phone numbers(just like all the other android phones I had).
Now, how I delete the contacts off my phone?
Al I wanted was import contacts from my google account(with phone numbers cause those are friends I know in real life) and then export them to my sim card. I can't do that cause when you import contacts from your google account it imports everyone that you ever emailed. So stupid.
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i know there is an option in your contacts to show only contacts with numbers.
having your contacts from Google is better imo.no need to mess with your sim
I know having contacts from google is better. It'll always be on your account, but I would like to have my contacts(with phone numbers only) on my sim in case I use a non android phone in the future.
GuardianFlash said:
I know having contacts from google is better. It'll always be on your account, but I would like to have my contacts(with phone numbers only) on my sim in case I use a non android phone in the future.
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why would u even consider using anything else but android?
like i said go to contacts hit menu and look for display group and click on contacts with numbers
theres an option where you can just show contacts with phone numbers, rather than everyone you have ever emailed. also, just clear some of the contacts you dont normally are in touch with via gmail.
If you wanna delete your contacts simply go into the market and search delete contacts don't remember the icon what it looks like but you should find the app that works
b0ricuaguerrero said:
why would u even consider using anything else but android?
like i said go to contacts hit menu and look for display group and click on contacts with numbers
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yea well, it's call future proofing. My next phone will probably be android, but just in case.
stop saying contacts with numbers. When you try to copy phone contacts to sim card it shows all contacts, not just ones with phone numbers. You don't get it. Even if I display only contacts with numbers it'll still show all contacts when copying them to sim card.
skater4690 said:
If you wanna delete your contacts simply go into the market and search delete contacts don't remember the icon what it looks like but you should find the app that works
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yea hey thanks. I will try to find an app for this.
GuardianFlash said:
yea well, it's call future proofing. My next phone will probably be android, but just in case.
stop saying contacts with numbers. When you try to copy phone contacts to sim card it shows all contacts, not just ones with phone numbers. You don't get it. Even if I display only contacts with numbers it'll still show all contacts when copying them to sim card.
yea hey thanks. I will try to find an app for this.
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id recommend that you just delete all you rcontacts and start from scratch but idk what you rgonna try but good luck
Folks,
I’m confused. Froyo offers me to link contacts from T-mobile and Google accounts. Sometimes so much information overlapping that I cannot make sense what I have duplicate and what will happened if I switch from android to non-smart phone (sometime I need it when traveling). Please suggest
1. How to keep contacts full copies of contacts on T-mobile and Google accounts?
2. Should I link contacts in my phone or keep them separately?
Thanks in advance for explaining.
The link contacts feature in the phone only DISPLAYS duplicate contacts as one. It does not actually merge them. Does that make sense?
You need to adjust your settings so that you save all new contacts to the location you want. In addition you can go to the T-mobile website on your computer and download a file of your contacts which you can then import into your google account.
You can also edit your phone's display options. Check the settings in your contacts app.
Basically you just need to explore the configuration settings.
You can go into sync options and disable the T-Mobile sync. That is what I did. I then made sure to import all my T-Mo contacts into my Google account then deleted the duplicate T-Mo ones out of my phone. Now I have a single unified contact list that only syncs to my Google account and is accessible anywhere I have web access.
If you need to swap to a dumb phone, just save the ones you need directly to SIM before you do.
Thanks all.
I'll do as suggested. One more question though. is it possible to import all contacts from Google to T-mo if i ever need it?
Thanks
supplier_new said:
Thanks all.
I'll do as suggested. One more question though. is it possible to import all contacts from Google to T-mo if i ever need it?
Thanks
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Try the T-mobile website. Maybe they'll let you import as well as export.
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I exported tmobile to sd card.
Used google contacts via pc and merged all of them there, to clean it all up.
Then moved saved Vcard to SD card. I am only using google though, not Tmo for contacts
Ok.... this seems to be giving me the biggest headache yet. I've tried using some of the apps available to sync contacts over-the-air.... only to come up short with chunks of the contacts names missing. I've taken the phone down to AT&T to have them copy the contacts from my iPhone to the SIM for my Atrix, and when i tried texting a friend of mine, it told me the phone number was invalid. Also noticed my contacts that i had multiple numbers for only showed one number, which could be why the text didn't work.... might have been to his home number. Now i've tried sync-ing my iPhone contacts with iTunes using Windows Contacts, went to the contacts folder for my user account on my computer, selected all the contacts, and chose to export them in CSV format, and the Moto Phone Portal utility for importing the contacts in the web browser can't complete it saying it's an invalid format.
Anyone know of an easy way to do so short of typing them all in manually?
elementaldragon said:
Anyone know of an easy way to do so short of typing them all in manually?
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Got gmail? you can import the csv directly to there, merge/delete contacts there, and they'll sync.
There's an app I used that let me export my contacts to a .csv file, and sync them with google contacts, which were pushed to my Atrix automatically.
Setting Gmail up on the iPhone as an exchange acct should definitely sync your contacts.
Yea.... but that also leads to it importing every single e-mail address i've ever sent an e-mail to..... which i'd like to avoid, even if there is that option to only show those contacts with a phone number.
elementaldragon said:
Yea.... but that also leads to it importing every single e-mail address i've ever sent an e-mail to..... which i'd like to avoid, even if there is that option to only show those contacts with a phone number.
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You have the option in the Atrix to only show contacts with phone numbers if that's any help.
I gave up and just did it by hand.
Don't!! OMG!! there's a SUPER easy way to do this, and it takes literally a few seconds.
1. You've got your iPhone, Sync it to iTunes (on the computer), THEN choose to sync your contacts with Google contacts.
A- Before doing this, ERASE ALL of your google contacts.
2. After you've synced with the iPhone All of your iPhone contacts will now appear magically in your google contacts in a second.
Then just sign into your atrix and they will all appear on the atrix.
Boom done.
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you can use iTunes (version 7.7 or later) to synchronize your Google Gmail contact list with your iPhone or iPod touch address book
Mac OS X
Install iTunes 7.7 or later. The latest version of iTunes is available here.
Connect your iPhone or iPod touch.
Select your iPhone or iPod touch in the device list.
Click the the Info tab.
Select Sync Address Book contacts.
Select Sync Google Address Book contacts.
Click the Configure button.
Enter your Google Gmail ID and password, then click OK.
Sync your iPhone or iPod touch.
Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
Install iTunes 7.7 or later. The latest version of iTunes is available here.
Connect your iPhone or iPod touch.
Select your iPhone or iPod touch in the device list.
Click the Info tab.
Select Sync contacts with.
Select Google Contacts.
Enter your Google Gmail ID and password, then click OK.
Sync your iPhone or iPod touch.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1245
computermilk said:
Don't!! OMG!! there's a SUPER easy way to do this, and it takes literally a few seconds.
1. You've got your iPhone, Sync it to iTunes (on the computer), THEN choose to sync your contacts with Google contacts.
A- Before doing this, ERASE ALL of your google contacts.
2. After you've synced with the iPhone All of your iPhone contacts will now appear magically in your google contacts in a second.
Then just sign into your atrix and they will all appear on the atrix.
Boom done.
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So.... you trade off the lack of useless contacts on the Atrix with the lack of your usual contacts for Gmail. That seems almost counter-productive if you ask me.
I'm just looking for a way to get my contacts, with all their numbers where they should be, and without having to do the whole "Only show contacts with phone number" thing.... and so far none of the logical ways of doing so seem to be doing the logical thing.
elementaldragon said:
So.... you trade off the lack of useless contacts on the Atrix with the lack of your usual contacts for Gmail. That seems almost counter-productive if you ask me.
I'm just looking for a way to get my contacts, with all their numbers where they should be, and without having to do the whole "Only show contacts with phone number" thing.... and so far none of the logical ways of doing so seem to be doing the logical thing.
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umm did you not read my post?
computermilk said:
Don't!! OMG!! there's a SUPER easy way to do this, and it takes literally a few seconds.
1. You've got your iPhone, Sync it to iTunes (on the computer), THEN choose to sync your contacts with Google contacts.
A- Before doing this, ERASE ALL of your google contacts.
2. After you've synced with the iPhone All of your iPhone contacts will now appear magically in your google contacts in a second.
Then just sign into your atrix and they will all appear on the atrix.
Boom done.
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That would work if my iphone would actually sync with itunes in a timely fashion. I just synced my iphone 3g, to get all my pictures and music, it took 4 hours... IT was quicker for me to do it by hand.
johng75 said:
umm did you not read my post?
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Yes... i did. Did you not read mine? The part i quoted was from the post above yours. And the second part i posted was in regards to your post. Kinda would prefer not to have to use the "Only show contacts with phone number" option if i don't have to.... which is exactly what using Google Contacts entails...
btw, when I use to sync Google contacts with my iP4 I never had useless email addresses sitting there. It only saved contacts that I entered and saved intentionally.
Bump app
i just downloaded "Bump" you can get the app for the iphone and for the Android. it took me about 20 sec to transfer aprox 100 contacts with pictures and all info intact.
waltah! said:
btw, when I use to sync Google contacts with my iP4 I never had useless email addresses sitting there. It only saved contacts that I entered and saved intentionally.
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this.
anyhow just import your csv file to your google account.
if you're concerned about a "clean" sync...simply create a fresh new google account first.
Where is the "Show contacts with phone number only" option on the Atrix?
I just cannot seem to find it!!
tuxgurl said:
Where is the "Show contacts with phone number only" option on the Atrix?
I just cannot seem to find it!!
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Bump..... Anyone?
Holy **** guy. We don't need advertisements.
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