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App for Merging Contacts

Hi,
There is one thing that driving me nuts. Lets say I have a friend, whose names is John. In google, I have saved his email ID with name j.smith .. .. then his another email ID with johns .. .. and then finally his cell number with name john ..
After, I linked up all accounts in my HTC Desire People. I can see these three accounts in one single contact. Fare enough and perfect. But is there anyway, I can merge these three accounts into 1 so that it is synced to my Google Account and to my HTC Contacts?

Not sure if I understand correctly what you want to do but its something I've struggled with as well. There was a perfect app for this on iPhone/iOS but I have yet to find anything that comes even close on Android. Try Contacts Analyzer available on Market but it's dismal. Doesn't allow you a preview of the changes you're about to make before you commit them!

Didn't help that .. :s

Gmail Contacts
Your best bet is to just do it in Gmail from your computer, then let the phone sync. It's easy and you will have them all in the same format, and you can add pictures for caller ID, etc.

You're in trouble if you have 1,000 contacts like I used to...the idea I think is to use an app that auto-works and gets the job done as a batch without you having to edit every single contact...then you can sync to Facebook and pull in some photos IDs...

Hi,
Anybody knows of an app that merges / joins contacts?
HTC Sense has this function if you know what I mean, sometimes a chain-link icons shows up in the notification area.
I´d like to have an app that does this on a batch basis so that I can chose to do so for all my contacts instead of merging / joining one by one.
I know I can do this one by one. Go contacts Ex gives this function without doing it for everyone at one batch job. You have to acceppt one by one...
I am using , Google, ActiveSync, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. contacts
Ideas?

Tiznom said:
Your best bet is to just do it in Gmail from your computer, then let the phone sync. It's easy and you will have them all in the same format, and you can add pictures for caller ID, etc.
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This. Plus there is an option on Gmail to merge duplicates so you can at least have google do most of the sorting and merging for you. And if possible, don't let any HTC app mess with my Google contacts.

stankyou said:
And if possible, don't let any HTC app mess with my Google contacts.
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I think that's the most important idea about merging. My opinion's that any given app could mess things up and leave you with a lot of different linked contacts. Personally I prefer to edit all my contacts at my Gmail account so that I don't have to merge them again everytime I flash another rom for example.
If you're willing to take the time and patience for it it'll pay off to manually manage your contacts at Gmail.

himi-xda said:
Hi,
HTC Sense has this function if you know what I mean, sometimes a chain-link icons shows up in the notification area.
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+1
I've been searching that function for long time since I moved from the stock sense rom to others, and still no app is giving me this. I even tried a lot of different contact manager but no one works really well.
About G contacts: I really care to keep the list "clean" and every contact linked with whatsapp, email, facebook etc, but sometimes it just lose the info, even if I've just merged that contact with the app I'm currently using (I'm running MildWild) and rsynced the G account.

Try Go Contacts Ex (free), it has various functions on merging contacts (by number, email etc.)

Thanks, this works nearly perfect.

Mine im using contapps free from market, try it if you want too!￣ω￣
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yeah try go contact ex it work for me

I think you should sync with gmail.

[Q] Contact intigration

Hey all
I moved to a fascinate from my Dinc on release day (and am VERY happy). However, I do have one question about the contacts and was wondering if its me, or if anyone else noticed this.
On my Dinc, I was able to sync facebook, twitter, etc, under one contact card. So if I pulled up John Doe, it would show Johns tweets, and facebook updates. Now I am not able to do that. Was this something with HTC sence or am I just having one of those "long term life failure moments".
Thanks!

When in the contacts list hit menu get friends. Then hit facebook and select all the ones you want to add. Then go into each contact and link them. Twitter should work the same way.
I actually like the integration better on here. I came from the dinc too. I love this thing!
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[Q] GingerBlur

Hi guys, first time poster, long time admirer (used to be stuck in the blackberry age). Anyway, I just rooted and installed gingerblur on my AT&T atrix 4g and I love it. However, I currently have a problem with it.
So the moto blur accounts are still present (intended i think?), and the facebook motoblur account I have active syncs the pictures to my contacts just fine, but when I open up the test messaging app, the picture for the contacts are blank? I tried deactivating the motoblur fb account, and just installing the fb app from the market to see if I could do it through that. But it seems like there is a whole list of options cut out of it, and there is no option to sync photos. It seems like the google contacts is not syncing with the motoblur fb account for some reason?
Has anyone run into/fixed this problem? Thanks for all the good work and help.
P.S.- I would have posted this in the Gingerblur post but I can't since I'm such a newb.

Bumpdy Bump Please!
If a mod could move this to the gingerblur thread in development id be appreciative.

mblakev said:
Bumpdy Bump Please!
If a mod could move this to the gingerblur thread in development id be appreciative.
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I would like to know this too because I want to start out with gingerblur, and all my google contacts are in my phone lol

mblakev said:
Hi guys, first time poster, long time admirer (used to be stuck in the blackberry age). Anyway, I just rooted and installed gingerblur on my AT&T atrix 4g and I love it. However, I currently have a problem with it.
So the moto blur accounts are still present (intended i think?), and the facebook motoblur account I have active syncs the pictures to my contacts just fine, but when I open up the test messaging app, the picture for the contacts are blank? I tried deactivating the motoblur fb account, and just installing the fb app from the market to see if I could do it through that. But it seems like there is a whole list of options cut out of it, and there is no option to sync photos. It seems like the google contacts is not syncing with the motoblur fb account for some reason?
Has anyone run into/fixed this problem? Thanks for all the good work and help.
P.S.- I would have posted this in the Gingerblur post but I can't since I'm such a newb.
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I never figured this out either. So I actually reactivated the old messaging that came with blur (it's in the GingerBlur thread somewhere), and that got it back. Kinda liked the speech bubbles anyway.

Ok so I guess I found a solution for all that are having this problem. I downloaded an app call syncmypix. Its free and pushes your Facebook freinds pictures to your Google account contacts, which in turn displays them on ur messaging app. Idk but something about the contacts is screwed up in this rom.
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mblakev said:
Ok so I guess I found a solution for all that are having this problem. I downloaded an app call syncmypix. Its free and pushes your Facebook freinds pictures to your Google account contacts, which in turn displays them on ur messaging app. Idk but something about the contacts is screwed up in this rom.
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its the messaging.apk file on this rom you can pull the one from greyblur or just use an app to manage your SMS such as hancentSMS or i heard chompSMS also works

AFAIK google disallows facebook to intergrate with messaging and co. with gingerbread. As the gingerblur messaging apk is from gingerbread (as far as i know) it cant do its wizardry. Could be wrong though
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/115986/20110224/google-gingerbread-android-2-3-update-nexus-s-facebook-api-contacts-friends-list-microsoft-skype-app.htm

Ohhh that makes so much sense now. I was so confused as to why the contacts would sync with the pictures and the messaging wouldn't. I'm glad I found that app then.
However I think on stock android gb devices, the fb app can sync the pictures, but since motoblur includes this in their accounts it screws everything up.
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Need a gmail wiz

I upgraded from incred 1 to 2 and now when I add contacts to the phone I dont get the option to associate them with my mail account like I used to, with that now they are not stored in my gmail desktop. So if I do anything with this phone or lose it all of my recently added contacts will be gone. How do I fix this??

When you create a contact does it ask you which account? Like for mine is asks gmail, exchange (work account), or phone unsynced.

Also you can check your gmail settings that it is syncing contacts.
In gmail: Hit menu, press accounts, press menu again, press account settings, select your gmail account and make sure sync contacts is checked.

FoolMoney said:
When you create a contact does it ask you which account? Like for mine is asks gmail, exchange (work account), or phone unsynced.
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No its not offerig me that option, I used my main G-Email account to set up the phone, I have the contacts checked in sync in that account

Anyone else??/ I hate to go to the VZw store.. as usually I know more then they do

Did you get this fixed. When I add contacts they are automatically add it to my google account. When you say contacts do you mean email or do you mean the persons phone number and name.
How are you trying to add your contacts.
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Im trying to add phone #s. In the past I would be prompted to to chose which gmail account I wanted to associate the contact with. Now it just stores it to the phone without offering me the option.
Fixed?? not really, what I have been doing is exporting them to to the sim or SD, then importing them to the google account kind of a pain. thanks for responding.

From what I've noticed on some non sense roms, when I add contacts they are automatically added to my Google account. Maybe HTC took that option out if you dont have multiple account on there. Seems like a stupid option.
"Would you like your contacts to persist thru diifferent rom's/devices or do you want them to be lost everytime you reset your phone (or manually back them up)?"

I use Google to host my email account for business. Since my Eris the contacts have been backing up to my Email account, now with this phone its not so easy.

Are you using sense or aosp?
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Incredible 2, is there anything but the stock sense ROM

Bobby Buggs said:
Incredible 2, is there anything but the stock sense ROM
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Idk. I'm running og dinc. And that's the forum your in. My knowledge about gmail is really only on aosp roms. I haven't used sense for about a month after I got my phone. Almost a year ago. Sorry I could not be of more help
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Yes I know, INC 2 section was not up yet, Im sorry for posting it here.

No apologies necessary
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Questions about Email Client and keyboards

Hi everyone...
I have just moved to the G4 from the Samsung S5 and I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping someone can help me with.
First of all on the S5 I have an email app..but on the G4 I can only see Gmail...have I missed some thing?
Second...on the G4 when I'm writing a text or email the numbers are on the letters and can be reached by holding down a letter till the number comes up..is there anyway of getting them on a separate line
I would like to achieve this without rooting my phone..I appreciate the benefits of rooting a phone as I have previously rooted a couple of HTC phones..but at the moment I don't want to root my G4
Thanks for looking and any help is appreciated
Manc.
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Manc said:
Hi everyone...
I have just moved to the G4 from the Samsung S5 and I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping someone can help me with.
First of all on the S5 I have an email app..but on the G4 I can only see Gmail...have I missed some thing?
Second...on the G4 when I'm writing a text or email the numbers are on the letters and can be reached by holding down a letter till the number comes up..is there anyway of getting them on a separate line
I would like to achieve this without rooting my phone..I appreciate the benefits of rooting a phone as I have previously rooted a couple of HTC phones..but at the moment I don't want to root my G4
Thanks for looking and any help is appreciated
Manc.
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On the email, if you want something other than the Ģmail app you'll have to install an email app from Play, there are many to choose from. I personally like [email protected] Mail Pro for my 5 email accounts.
You may also want to take a look at a different keyboard as there are tons of those also, many free.

You can use the Gmail app for other email accounts. As for keyboard look here I've just done it and it works
http://updato.com/how-to/add-number-row-to-google-keyboard-android
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With Gmail app, all email accounts can be added in the setting if you swipe from the left. I used to have email app as a separate one as well in a Samsung smartphone. Actually I found it is convenient to manage multiple accounts in Gmail app.
The number and symbol can be accessed via the left bottom so called 'symbol key', hit it and you will get numbers in a separate line along with various symbols.

Thanks for all the replies...I'm going to give Gmail app a try..is there a way of removing Gmail from the app but still leave my Gmail account on the phone... basically I don't use Gmail for emails so there is no point in having it on the client..sorry to be awkward lol
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Manc said:
Thanks for all the replies...I'm going to give Gmail app a try..is there a way of removing Gmail from the app but still leave my Gmail account on the phone... basically I don't use Gmail for emails so there is no point in having it on the client..sorry to be awkward lol
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Just go into Settings>Apps and disable it. It won't affect anything else. It's a system app and without rooting that will be the best way to hide it.

Manc said:
Thanks for all the replies...I'm going to give Gmail app a try..is there a way of removing Gmail from the app but still leave my Gmail account on the phone... basically I don't use Gmail for emails so there is no point in having it on the client..sorry to be awkward lol
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if gmail is the main one you used to sign your phone in, I assume you can go to gmail app setting and change the option for that account specifically to "don't sync email", then it won't bother you.