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Im somewhat new to this WM6 stuff. I previously had a Sony Ericsson and when I had switched to my new Wing, I had saved all my Contacts to my SIM card and when I went to load my contacts from my SIM onto my PPC, they all look like "Norman/M; Norman/H; Norman/W" or instead of "Norman Kiwan" it would show "Kiwan;Norman" for all my contacts. It gets really annoying and I was hoping maybe some of you found a program I can use to easily edit/change my contacts on my phone... it would be extremely appreciated! thank you.
- Norman
That's quite simple. Space character is not allowed in name string on SIM That's probably why you have a semicolon between the first and the last name. /M or /H are shortcuts for (M)obile or (H)ome phone number. Remember on SIM one number is always one independent record. Just save numbers to Contacts in your phone, then synchronize with Outlook. Amend contacts there and synchronize back.
ok so pretty much use outlook to change the contact's name... just gotta figure out how to do that with outlook.. ill give it a shot.
Now in terms of using MSN messenger, for some reason even if I put in the settings NOT to sync contacts it still does! and its just a huge mess seeing all these phone contacts and email contact everywhere... is there a way to get rid of those too?
thanks for the help!
- Norman
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Not syncing contacts means only not syncing contacts when you sync manually. but when you start messenger it syncs contact's automatically.
Contact manager..amzing and easy install
lol
I hate the way contacts are sorted on wm6 too!
Check this one out is pretty good one, actually i love it!
http://www.pocketcm.com/
Haven't had problems with contacts ever since my first WM phone ( got used to it quick) but the only problem I ever had was that you couldn't delete multiple contacts at once. Tried to do this for the first time in over a few years and seems like the SIM Manager has had quite an overhaul since I've last tried to use that feature. If it were a Microsoft program I think we would still be having this program.
Thats enough ranting for now
Peace
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.
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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!
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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?
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.
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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
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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.
Sent from my HTC Glacier
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
Can someone let me know what/where t-mobile's contact sync .apk can be found in a rom (like ice), or maybe post it if it is handy? Loaded up evil's z rom the other day, went into contacts and unchecked sim card contacts from view and only 4 contacts showed up, one of them being myself. Haven't ever gotten around to loading contacts into google yet, this is an obvious reason to do so...would just like to get my contacts back on my phone. Tried to search in the market for it, but the only one I found apparently only works for 1 type of phone. Thanks in advance
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Can someone let me know what/where t-mobile's contact sync .apk can be found in a rom (like ice), or maybe post it if it is handy? Loaded up evil's z rom the other day, went into contacts and unchecked sim card contacts from view and only 4 contacts showed up, one of them being myself. Haven't ever gotten around to loading contacts into google yet, this is an obvious reason to do so...would just like to get my contacts back on my phone. Tried to search in the market for it, but the only one I found apparently only works for 1 type of phone. Thanks in advance
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I am not sure that will even work as it may rely on Sense and most rom don't have Sense framework only those that has Sense supported so if you even pull the .apk it may not work. But I see you don't trust google I use to be like that and at this point honestly I don't care if they want you they will find you so make your life easy and import it to Google. Now I know TMobile does not have export if you logon line and access it so what you need to do is have rom like stock rom or IG which has it and export it to CSV file and then import it to Google contact under Android.
Yeah, been meaning to clean up my contacts and import it all just hate getting caught with my pants down...so are you talking about the my sense framework or just sense in general? Do you think this is worth posting under evils rom since he ported it and would know the ins and outs and to see what he thinks or do I just need to bite the bullet? Thanks again...
why didnt you just do a contact sync with your gmail? thats what i always do. and it loads on every rom i link my gmail to super quick.
syaoran68 said:
why didnt you just do a contact sync with your gmail? thats what i always do. and it loads on every rom i link my gmail to super quick.
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I did have it set up but believe that it only pulls contacts to your phone and doesn't push new ones back-correct me of I am wrong-just wouldn't be syncing my contacts to 2 different places if they both did the same thing...and haven't fully set up contacts in google yet other than emails...it is definitely the way to go...
So after a lot of searching on-line, bt syncing with my old phone, etc., etc.,...finally came upon this
http://yincrash.livejournal.com/188605.html
and it worked as far as Name, Home Mobile Phone, Home Phone, Home Email, Work Mobile Phone, Work Phone...just saved as a csv file and imported to my gmail...am now official thanks for the help
I've been using Ubuntu One Mobile as a back up plan. It has a small monthly fee though.