Is there any reasonably simple way to move all of my contacts to a PC, where I can easily remove duplicates and alter details and then replace them on my phone?
I use Outlook as my contact *manager and MyPhoneExplorer to sync them with the phone. But you could use just MPE to manage your contacts. I would mention Google but, even though I have an Android phone, I have no idea what using Google/Gmail/whatever is like for managing contacts.
Dave
I switched from outlook to Google when I moved from windows mobile to Android. If you go into Google contacts on your pc I'm pretty sure it has a feature to remove or merge duplicates.
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It does
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After a pretty bad experience and almost loosing all my contacts with the basic export contacts feature, I decided to do what I should have done in the first place...
Is there a decent app that allows you to export all contacts (to an excel doc for ex.) after which you could edit them from the PC and import them back on to the phone? Doing this without loosing linked contacts and synced to FB.
Why don't you use Google contacts?
Do you have a Gmail account?
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can you export from phone contacts to google contacts easily or do you have to add them manually to google contacts?
Do you have a Gmail (/Google account). If so plus you connected it to your phone than it's very easy.
Which phone/version of android do you have?
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Ofcourse Google itself is the best option.
But there is an app which exports all contact in to once single .vcf file.
Try searching marketplace.
rackspace said:
Ofcourse Google itself is the best option.
But there is an app which exports all contact in to once single .vcf file.
Try searching marketplace.
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Exporting to .vcf is the method I used without any app installed, using the phone's basic function, but after reimporting back I lost the FB synced contacts and besides opening and editing the .vcf file in excel is not so user friendly
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Do you have a Gmail (/Google account). If so plus you connected it to your phone than it's very easy.
Which phone/version of android do you have?
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I have an account and I will probably try it also, using android 2.1-update1.
www.google.com/contacts
Yea it worked great with google in 15 minutes or so... wish I thought of that before wasting 2 hrs with other methods
That's fine. You'll see the true benefit of this method soon. ;-)
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Hi,
Do you anybody know how to remove facebook friend from my contact book? Without to go through menu-people.
I tried to delete htc sync for facebook,it wasnt there but now it is back. The sync is not checked
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Hi,
Do you anybody know how to remove facebook friend from my contact book? Without to go through menu-people.
I tried to delete htc sync for facebook,it wasnt there but now it is back. The sync is not checked
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People -> Menu -> View
Yes, but it wi
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Yes, but it will remove just from people but not from phone book. When i want to go to my phone book i must through PEOPLE
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Yes, but it will remove just from people but not from phone book. When i want to go to my phone book i must through PEOPLE
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You. can do it from there: uncheck your phonebook, check the facebook contacts and delete them all, then re-check your phonebook contacts
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I unchecked my contatcts and checked jus htc facebook contact. I can see the fb contacts but when i hit delete i cant see all of them, just my contact which i connect with fb.
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I've got the same problem. I don't especially mind my Facebook imported contacts showing in the full 'People' list, but I do not want them cluttering up my phone dialler screen.
How do I make my phone dialler ONLY show the numbers from my 'real' contacts (i.e. just the ones I sync with Outlook)? I can't see any sort of View option in the Dialler screen menus.
Andre
Hi guys had the phone for around.d 3 weeks I think now love the phone screen is so crisp espesh when watching films it comes to its own. The only problem I have found and can not sort out is contact sync I want only the contact on my phone to be sync with facebook not everyone I have there also I have 3x each person sim phone and sync been playing g for days now it is easy on my hd2 any help plz
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Yep I have the same issue. I cannot stand the way this phones handles contacts and syncing. I have yet to find a way to just add contacts the good old fashion way as static data on the memory card which is what I want.
Sadly I have removed everything facebook from the phone just to keep the contacts out despite un-ticking sync contacts
come on guys there must be someone with a way round this problem
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Well, the only solution I found so far is to visit htcsense.com and edit all the contacs in there. So instead of having three contacts each with different information, I just have one contact with all the information.
But it took me about 6h to edit all the contacs
lol not really a 'solution' is it.....
i have done this now takes ages as it loads up all contacts every time. there must be another way to sort this out i love my DHD but this is rely doing my head in now. I get a bigger list when i go to tex and add a contact in there all my FB contacts come up not much fun when you have 300+ in there all with funny stuff instead of numbers come on guys you can cook up new Roms but no one knows this problem HELP plz
Use your Google contact list... It really can't possibly get any better than that.
I am, but that doesn't stop facebook populating everything. Why can't I have Facebook for HTC sense without it putting all the contacts in there...
Open the People app
Tap menu
Tap View
You can disable the other contact lists
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Oh wait to they're still in the dialer aren't they... sucks!
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Exactly!!!
OK I just disabled HTC facebook completely, and now just use the native Android app. It properly supports "existing contacts only"
It's not like HTC's app or widget are particularly good anyway
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I was running cyanogenmod, but I missed the ability to match contact suggestions.
The dialer too obviously, I know I can use an alternative dialer for this.
If there is a matched contacts method or app, I can dump sense for good.
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Bump in the night.
You tried the facebook for android app? twitter app? They synch the contacts pictures and numbers off facebook and twitter, google account would have hopefully backed up your contacts as well so it will pull it from there as well, thats the same as matched contacts (Y) all matched contacts was,
TL;DR download facebook app from market, install, just go to account settings and add an account and make it a facebook one
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profit.
I have people such as my brother who have different names on facebook and twitter. This gives me two contacts where I want one.
Have you tried Gibt contacts? I remember it offers some kind of contact merging...
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Gah... curse you, Auto correction. I meant Go contacts... should be included in Go dialer...
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Hello friends,
I have migrated from WP7 to android (CM7ite)
I am experiencing the foll. diffculties :
1) How do I link two contacts in android contacts. One contact is from contact list & the other one is from facebook having slightly different name.
due to this the two contacts are shown seperaely. In WP7, linking of contacts was butter smooth, which is not the case with android now.
2) Secondly, i m also using 3rd party application called touchpal contacts.
Touchpal contacts does not display facebook pictures, even if these contact's pictures are present in android contact list.
any clues / hints / tips anyone ....
Try go contacts for both
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Try go contacts for both
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Thanks, will give it a try !
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Try go contacts for both
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In fact, if you're on CM7 use GO apps to replace pretty much everything. GO launcher, GO SMS, GO weather, GO Widgets, GO task manager etc. They all have a very polished and high end feel which I personally feel the stock apps don't have.
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But if you prefer a rather stockish look and feel, for the first problem you have the following two options:
1- From within Go Contacts, hit "menu" and then merge duplicate contacts at once. (Batch)
2- From within Stock Contacts/Dialer app, go into the contact you wish to join and then menu > edit > join > show all > select the contact you want to join.
As for the images, I like to use "SyncMyPix" from the Play Store, it's free, simple yet intuitive and easy to use.
You can also sync the contacts to gmail and use the find duplicates function in the gmail contacts through the web. I've used it a lot, works fine
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