Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
CDurham221 said:
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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I had the exact same problem. The only fix I could find was to edit the contacts name with the drop down arrow, and move the full name into the "First Name" field. It's the only way that will remain the same after syncing with activesync.
CDurham221 said:
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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use marketplace to find contact changer. its one dollar and will do ALL ur contacts the way you are wanting (first name last name) i didn't know of this till AFTER going thru them all and changing them one by one on outlook
that solves half of my issue. but also the other half of my problem is that since i already erased all o my contacts out of my phone from outlook it wont let me re sync it back to my phone to get all my contacts in there. it says synchronized 4/12/10 and wont let me re import my full list from outlook on my computer to my phone.
so is there a manual way to force the sync or to completely erase all information from outlook so it sees it has to re sync it?
CDurham221 said:
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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Changing the order in which they show in your Outlook doesn't actually change anything that needs to be synchronized to your phone. The Outlook sort order doesn't get synchronized.
Plus, it's a WinMo thing that it shows the All People by last name, first name. You can, however, buy a $0.99 app that will allow you to change this:
http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/details.aspx?appId=1ef4f47b-4145-49b5-bb91-de7c1a46dacd&retURL=/search.aspx%3Fkeywords%3Dcontact
Personally, I think it's not needed, especially when you can quickly type in the first few letters of a person's first name and it shows the matching contacts quickly.
Thank you guys. I do appreciate it. I just need to find out now how to get my hd2 to manually force the contacts back in my phone. it keeps saying its already been synchronized and wont update.
all you need here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269316
check out that website. it has a lot of useful tips on there but i still cannot get my phone to re sync and bring back in the contacts. i deleted the partnership and re entered all the info it needs to sync back up it. it connected and said it synch'ed but no contacts came back into my phone.
ok guys, if anyone is having the same issues. instead of synchronizing over the air i connected through wmdc and created a partnership and it synched all my contacts.
i used the contact manager and it worked flawlessly awesome stuff guys. thanks to all
This is somewhat unrelated. However, I can't start new threads.
I'm using google active sync as well. I have email in my google account setup in different folders. I can see the folders but they are all empty. Only the inbox has mail in it.
Solution: HD2 active sync and importing contacts
MS Out look and Activesyn. There is no need to purchase software at all. Plus you can use your Outlook contact database for any phone in the future. or emergency swap the phone out before travel...
1- Export all out look as *csv (windows)
2- Modifying the first name by merge first and last name together becomes first name only (couple minutes by formulate)
Was Was Was
First name Last name
John Summervile
Kelly Summervile
After After After
First name Last name
John Summervile BLANK
Kelly Summervile BLANK
3- Delete all the contact on MS outlook and import modified *csv file again. Look at the "File as", it should show "John Summervile "instead showing "Summervile, John"
4- Launch Activesynce again.
Good luck!
my laptop doesnt recognize my htc hd2
ok i have a dell laptop running windows vista
i dont have software cd for htc hd2
when i connect using usb phone to laptop,,,,comp tells me that had trouble installing device so its not installed properly
please help..............................................................
i looked up on another thread and i can sync phone until computer recognizes phone
Hello,
I am currently using a stock-based ROM and want to switch to Azure. My problem is that I spent a lot of time to collect profile pictures, link contacts to their FB accounts etc.
Is there a way to backup my contacts to include everything as it is now? The in-built export does not save every information.
My Legend is rooted, so I thought there could be a way to backup the contacts app including it's data as it is stored on my phone now but I have no clue how to do that.
Every idea or solution is highly appreciated! Thanks for you help!
I have the same query ... maybe someone with some expertise can help ??
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Ok I just tried it risking to go through everything again (especially manually linking contacts to their FB Accounts with different names and merging FB-only accounts with my phone contacts took a long time).
I just found out about Titanium Backup and am pretty sure that it gets the job done easily, just in case you want to spend the money for it, which I can't
What I did:
- Copied "/data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db" to my SD-Card using Root Explorer.
- Installed Azure
- Installed Root Explorer again
- Moved contacts2.db back overwriting the new empty one.
- Installed Facebook
- Synced my contacts again.
- Restarted my phone
Worked great. My contacts are back, everything is linked correctly even the ones with different names, FB-only accounts are merged with phone contacs again.
Maybe someone with more experience knows an easier method or a good app for this to save some time.
Hi,
When my BT connection with the carkit still worked (see threath ' BT problems') I noticed that my contacts were displayed more then one time with the same phonenumber.
Looking in Contacts on the DHD I can see that the information inthere contains 'Google' and 'Mobile'. Probably the Googlesync and the Outlooksync.
Which one do you guys use and why.
Problem is that I want to use the sync on my pc between Googlecontacts and Outlook so I don't have to change or add things twice, but I only need one contact on my phone
Thanx!
Leon
Hi,
Well from what I know is that if you use google contacts it uploads and syncs your contacts to your google account where as with the normal phone contacts it stays on your phone unless you have a HTC Sence account which syncs them to their site.
Hope that helps a bit.
~Sean
Okay, Thanx. I do have a Sense account, but somehow they also stay on my DHD, while I only checked the Google-box.
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Hey all need ur help; I am having problems saving new contacts to my contact list and saving edits to old ones. You see I am able to create new contacts and even save them, but after a few mins they disappear like I never even created them. I also experience a similar problem with editing old contacts as the changes stick only for a few mins before going back to what it was. Hence my only option for creating new contacts is to add it to my simcard thru sim manager and then import all contacts from sim to my contact list. I have tried factory reset which only helps solve the problem for an hr max before it starts the problems again (contacts created during the hr period stays). I haven't rooted or done anything to my phone yet as I want to solve this problem first so please help.
btw my streak is from att, currently unlocked
Still looking for help all please
Hello,
Today I got my Nexus 4 after using the Desire S for the last 2 years.
I exported my contacts from the HTC to my computer, then I put the file into the nexus and imported from storage.
I can't find some of my contacts which I saved into the phone memory of the HTC, what should I do?
Can anyone please help?
broshm said:
Hello,
Today I got my Nexus 4 after using the Desire S for the last 2 years.
I exported my contacts from the HTC to my computer, then I put the file into the nexus and imported from storage.
I can't find some of my contacts which I saved into the phone memory of the HTC, what should I do?
Can anyone please help?
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Sync your contacts to your Google account from your old android and sync the contacts to the Nexus 4.
Or better yet just start using gmail and import all your contacts once on-line. Then you will never have to load them onto another android phone as they will automatically sync to every new phone as soon as you log into your Google account.
That's basically what I said. LOLOL