Contacts in Android - HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera

is there a way that i can port my contacts over to android with out having to re enter them all?

yes, use the search button at the top of the page

Search for "Sprite Migrate".

boomboomer said:
yes, use the search button at the top of the page
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Marry me ^^

Exchange/Gmail accounts can easily sync contacts .. no extra effort require
... which email provider do you use ?

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contacts keep missing

ive noticed a strange problem with my magic.......somehow i lose my contacts.....for example i wanted to dial a friends number and i noticed its no longer there in my contacts......a few numbers have gone missing.....
this is like the 2nd or 3rd time this has happened.......pls help me guys......
thank u
bump?? anyone??
did you pick the right group and sync group?
anheuer,can u please explain that? i didnt understand wat u were saying.....
i have noticed that basically its my starred or fav contacts that have disappeared.......
i mean i have stored the number,but when i wanted to dial that contact,i cudnt find it in my contact list at all!!
Is there some problem with the sync??
Thanks!
Go to your contacts, hit Menu,
Go in the Display group
and Edit sync groups
And check what you have.
Maybe your not allowing them to be on the phone.
If that doesn't work.
I have no clue.
Personally i would try a hard reset.
double post
i did as u said........its says all contacts........ damn...
i think there is a problem when the phone syncs with google contacts.....
celester340 said:
i did as u said........its says all contacts........ damn...
i think there is a problem when the phone syncs with google contacts.....
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Have you checked if you can see the contacts in your gmail account? (on the webmail page, not the phone)
yes i checked on my google contacts account online too.....the contacts were missing from there too....
was just looking around....found this......
http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid/22199-missing-contacts.html
only wish there was an answer to this......
thanks friend....
bump....anyone??

how to remove Footnote in email manila 2.1

how to remove a foot note in email ... i have hotmail account setup and everytime i reply to an email it automatically adds a foot note... "sent from my htc hd".... and i cant seem to find the option to remove it... anyone help....
hispeedworm said:
how to remove a foot note in email ... i have hotmail account setup and everytime i reply to an email it automatically adds a foot note... "sent from my htc hd".... and i cant seem to find the option to remove it... anyone help....
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Hi hispeedworm,
try checking the following settings:
Go to Start | System | Messaging. Select your Hotmail account and press the Signatures button - i think it would be found here.
Alternatively, open up your email account, click on menu, tools, then options then select signatures
Hope this helps.
Regards.
yes it worked... thanks alot..... mastoid
hispeedworm said:
yes it worked... thanks alot..... mastoid
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no problem at all matey
Solution found, thread closed

Bought a new HD2 Some doubts

Hey,
I finally bought a new HD2
I've some problems,
1. I can't get Contact order to set as First Name First and Last Name last. Its just Last Name first now. How do I change that?
2. Also has anyone managed to get Google Exchange working properly? Im able to sync mails, but not Contacts or Calendar entries?
Will add more doubts if I come across.
P.S. Ive searched before posting. If I did miss, kindly show me the link
Tanmay® said:
Hey,
I finally bought a new HD2
I've some problems,
1. I can't get Contact order to set as First Name First and Last Name last. Its just Last Name first now. How do I change that?
2. Also has anyone managed to get Google Exchange working properly? Im able to sync mails, but not Contacts or Calendar entries?
Will add more doubts if I come across.
P.S. Ive searched before posting. If I did miss, kindly show me the link
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1. If you go to contacts, then select the contact, edit, and a few lines down is "file as". It's labourious so may be easier to do from a PC
If you go to "people", you need to go to the contact, edit, scroll down to reach "more" at the end and it puts you in the contact edit field described aboce.
2. No idea, sorry.
Google Sync working fine here using the settings as per their set up pages, Calender and Contacts working.
for mass managing of the contacts in the right order you can use 'contacts changer 1.3'
NZtechfreak said:
Google Sync working fine here using the settings as per their set up pages, Calender and Contacts working.
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note that google sync only works for your main calendar, if you have multiple calendars, others wont sync...
PaoloWeckl said:
for mass managing of the contacts in the right order you can use 'contacts changer 1.3'
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Thanks a lot brother! That made the task a whole lot simpler!
Just a note that Contacts changer is not free anymore.
Now another problem I've been facing is that, Im not able to Copy Paste in Contacts app. Like I want to Cut one fields details and put it in another field, but whenever I select the text, and try to tap on it inoder to hold and get the menu, the text gets deselected.
Im not able to Copy-Cut-Paste properly.
Tanmay® said:
Also has anyone managed to get Google Exchange working properly? Im able to sync mails, but not Contacts or Calendar entries?
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Be carefull because Google Sync doesn't support Task synchronization.
You've to disactivate it to be able to synchronize Contacts, Calendar & Mails.
^^ Yea bro. You're right! Tasks was the issue! Now everything works perfect
But the CopyPaste problem still exists for the Contacts app (among other random apps) Any solution for that?
I think the only solution is to install a keyboard that has Cut/Copy/Paste functions.
My favourite is Touchpal but there are others that do this.
Ironically the original WinMo keyboard did include the Ctrl key so these operations were possible
Tanmay® said:
^^ Yea bro. You're right! Tasks was the issue! Now everything works perfect
But the CopyPaste problem still exists for the Contacts app (among other random apps) Any solution for that?
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The problem exists in HTC's PEOPLE app but not in the CONTACTS app located in the Outlook folder in the START menu.
Tanmay® said:
Thanks a lot brother! That made the task a whole lot simpler!
Just a note that Contacts changer is not free anymore.
Now another problem I've been facing is that, Im not able to Copy Paste in Contacts app. Like I want to Cut one fields details and put it in another field, but whenever I select the text, and try to tap on it inoder to hold and get the menu, the text gets deselected.
Im not able to Copy-Cut-Paste properly.
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Tanmay® said:
^^ Yea bro. You're right! Tasks was the issue! Now everything works perfect
But the CopyPaste problem still exists for the Contacts app (among other random apps) Any solution for that?
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Copy and paste works fine for me in contacts, just tap on the field, then tap and hold, menu pops up and select Cut, Copy, etc...
kassor said:
note that google sync only works for your main calendar, if you have multiple calendars, others wont sync...
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after using oggsync (app install needed on the phone) for more than one year, i just discovered nuevasync (no install, use activsync), it can sync till 11calendar with free account, contacts, etc... seems to work very great

using contacts groups?

hi
on my xperia wm phone i used groups added to my contects to be able to selecting
contacs... after exporting them to my google account i can still
see the groups if im online on gmail on my desktop pc.
but in my n1 there isnt a way to see the group of a concte rather to filter contects that way....
im missing it,any one a idea of how to solve that?
Very frustrating, especially when you have 100s of contacts...
No idea how to solve this
I too was frustrated with this especially since coming from the Hero groups were easily used. Have you guys tried Contacts GroupU it does the job for me.
audino said:
hi
on my xperia wm phone i used groups added to my contects to be able to selecting
contacs... after exporting them to my google account i can still
see the groups if im online on gmail on my desktop pc.
but in my n1 there isnt a way to see the group of a concte rather to filter contects that way....
im missing it,any one a idea of how to solve that?
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Try using aContacts, supports groups, plus many more. I have been using it for months.
hi,
i found a way on the nexus one own adressbook...
you have to go to the contects then press menü -> setting -> the gmail account and there you can set which typ will be shown...
The problem is that when you enter a new contact, or edit an old one, you don't have the option to put it in a group...
elio said:
The problem is that when you enter a new contact, or edit an old one, you don't have the option to put it in a group...
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Yes, you need to this online in your google account...
audino said:
hi,
i found a way on the nexus one own adressbook...
you have to go to the contects then press menü -> setting -> the gmail account and there you can set which typ will be shown...
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But that just controls what contacts are shown in the Contacts app. All the contacts are still synced to the phone and will show up in search such as when typing a name into gmail or messaging. They need to add this functionality back in. Or we need to figure out how to ourselves.
Yep, the whole lack of any viable fully fleshed out sync with outlook is pretty painful for me and this is one of the reasons.
Desire rom lets you do this. =D
muncheese said:
Desire rom lets you do this. =D
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Sense UI doesnt have the same feature set in the contacts no ?
I recall a bunch of Sim contacts , and other oddities last I tried senseui.
xManMythLegend said:
Sense UI doesnt have the same feature set in the contacts no ?
I recall a bunch of Sim contacts , and other oddities last I tried senseui.
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Rephrase that into something coherent please.

How to save contacts to Google?

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!
Gr8gorilla said:
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
Sent from my HTC Glacier
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.

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