What file holds all your contacts? Can it be deleted? Mine is corrupt.
i have a question about my contacts too. figured i'd ask here instead of starting a new thread. How do i delete or edit my Google contacts because every time i load a new android rom google adds 3 of the same contact so i have 156 contacts instead of just 52. I always edit it on my phone by maunally deleting all the extra contacts and everything is fine untill i load another rom.
log on to your google acount from the computer.
jaypeg123 said:
log on to your google acount from the computer.
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ok that worked it took some clicking arround but i figured it out thank you very much
So no way to delete the actual Phone Contact file? I've tried the apps from the Market Place, like Delete Contacts, but it still doesn't allow me to re-sync my Outlook contacts.
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ok i can not for the life of me find a solution to why my contacts keep deleting its happened 3 times already (and YES i have read and searched and have not found a direct answer)...im guessing it has somehing to do with the sync-ing??? Does anyone have any clue how to fix this, even after i re-import from my SIM there are now like 4 copies of each contact...WTF???
aad4321 said:
Thats strange, are the contacts showing up in gmail when you log in by PC? usually if their in there then the phone will sync them if they happen to get deleted.
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ok just checked Gmail and there are 5 copies for each contact that is weird im goin to try deleteing all except one per person then sync again...
timace said:
ok just checked Gmail and there are 5 copies for each contact that is weird im goin to try deleteing all except one per person then sync again...
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Wait a minute, you delete them in Google Contact on your pc browser and then you meant you DONT sync, right?, it syncs by itself. The phone is supposed to show you whats on your Gmail Contact list.
I have had a lot of issues exporting into CSV from Outlook and Importing into Gmail, a lot of my contacts did not show up or didnt have the name or address or certain phone number in them.
brooklynite said:
Wait a minute, you delete them in Google Contact on your pc browser and then you meant you DONT sync, right?, it syncs by itself. The phone is supposed to show you whats on your Gmail Contact list.
I have had a lot of issues exporting into CSV from Outlook and Importing into Gmail, a lot of my contacts did not show up or didnt have the name or address or certain phone number in them.
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sorry yes you are correct it syncs automatically and still unfortunately is not working out for me...guess i am forced to delete the copies one by one on my device AGAIN
Hey all...
I have all my contacts synched via google account , i also sync the same account contacts on my mac using the address book app...
now what happens is ... on my nexus one when i go to edit a contact it gives me 2 seperate contacts... both from my google account. some of them have different contact pictures but same phone numbers etc... why is that happening? i dont know how to take a snapshot if someone could guide me you would see what exactly i am talking about!!!
Maybe this will help? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK0xn93Yu24 Maybe not? There's a part in the video about merging contacts.
WizeMan said:
Hey all...
I have all my contacts synched via google account , i also sync the same account contacts on my mac using the address book app...
now what happens is ... on my nexus one when i go to edit a contact it gives me 2 seperate contacts... both from my google account. some of them have different contact pictures but same phone numbers etc... why is that happening? i dont know how to take a snapshot if someone could guide me you would see what exactly i am talking about!!!
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Edit one of the dupes and hit menu. There is a "Join" function.
uberingram said:
Edit one of the dupes and hit menu. There is a "Join" function.
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Thank you all for your responses !!!
I 've figured it out. When I transfered my contacts from Adress Book App (mac) onto google contacts, I made a mistake. Instead of directly syncing my contacts (address book app supports direct syncing with google contacts) i first exported the contacts and imported via browser. Then synced and that caused the duplicates.
I Edited / Deleted all the dupes and its functioning perfectly!!!
i want to know how to make my gmail contacts same as my android , let me clarify it , when i save a new contact to my android i only see it on my phone but it not exist on my gmail contacts, i tried to export contacts from my phone but i only get ability to export to sd card not to gmail, is there any way that makes the update in the real time with no need to backup or export ? and if not so what is the best way to export contacts to gmail!
I always thought when you made a new contact it says "1: Save to Gmail 2: Save to SIM 3: Save to Phone" and if you select Save to Gmail it automatically links to your Gmail account?
I hope anyways, i've been doing that so when i try a new ROM wont need to re-enter all my contacts again lol
geon106 said:
I always thought when you made a new contact it says "1: Save to Gmail 2: Save to SIM 3: Save to Phone" and if you select Save to Gmail it automatically links to your Gmail account?
I hope anyways, i've been doing that so when i try a new ROM wont need to re-enter all my contacts again lol
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im doing the same but when i check my gmail contacts i cant find the new contacts thats why im asking how to export all of them automatically
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im doing the same but when i check my gmail contacts i cant find the new contacts thats why im asking how to export all of them automatically
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not sure, but when i re-flashed to another rom and entered in my gmail login, it pulled down all my contacts automatically. Maybe theres an app which will export them to Google as visible contacts? :S
i've tested it now, saved a new contact to my android under certain category and then went to that category in my gmail it not there, its been 15 minute now .
is there any application in the market or a step by step turorial to do this
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Mido said:
im doing the same but when i check my gmail contacts i cant find the new contacts thats why im asking how to export all of them automatically
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hi guys,
just simply create new contact in your Android cell phone /HD2 / or create a new contact online in your web browser and gmail account
go to Settings in your cell phone
then
Accounts and Sync /or something like that.. I have it in my own language/
and then you need to create or Add new account /gmail account/
you fill all the informations.. email, password and so...
after that you click on Synchronize and that's it
all your contacts from Android phone are in your gmail account and from your gmail account in your cell phone
it works great on my HTC HD2 with Android 2.2 Froyo
PS: works fine with gmail calendar too
I second what the above posted said. If its set to auto sync it will back them up when ever you add a new contact.
Ive been using it for a year now as I had a g1 before.
Hi,
Im new to this and installed Android on my HD2 for the first time yesterday, I have to say I am really liking it and thank you to MDJ and all others for there hard work and who have put up all the info needed to do this.
I have searched on here but cannot find an answer. When i come to change the ROM how do i back up all my contacts so that I dont have to spend ages re-entering them.
Please help.......
Contacts are stored in your google account that you registered on the phone when you first ran Android. Next time you run a new build it automatically gets your contacts when you add your google account again.
If you're not sure if you're storing your contacts on your google account, open the menu and go settings, accounts & sync, select your google account and make sure contacts is ticked.
I didn't like the idea of associating an email account with a phone at first, but after trying lots of different builds I think it's a brilliant idea!
Thank you for the reply. Checked it and its ticked. Wasnt sure whether it would work though as when i log into my google account on the PC there are no contacts there.
That sounds wrong then, as I see my contacts in Google mail on my PC.
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Make sure, that when your contact are on the phone, you actually go to settings --> accounts and sync, and tap the 'sync contacts' option once for Google Accounts.
If you do not do that, no way your contacts will be synced to your gmail account on the PC
I found that out the hard way when i started to use Android and had to manually add all contacts again
The non-googlemail method!
I personally don't like to use googlemail to keep my contacts safe.
So what I do is simply go into my phone book in abndroid, 'export' the 'PHONE' contacts to SD card. It will save the file 'pcsc_pcsc_00001' which can be copied to your PC whilst you conduct a reinstall. Once reinstalled copy over the pcsc_pcsc_00001 file back onto your SD card (root folder) and go to your phone book where you can 'IMPORT from SD Card'.
This way you can keep it away from the annoying googlemail which will dramatically reduce the quality of your avatars for your contacts.
Another newb question to the Samsung. My contacts are an absolute nightmare and I can't figure out how to get them under control. I went in and disabled (I think) sync on as many things as I could find (exchange, facebook, etc). I also went through and manually deleted a bunch of contacts I didn't want. Went in there today and BOOM. Contacts are a chaotic mess again. How do I fix this? How can I mass delete contacts and start over if it comes down to that?
#frustrated ex-apple person here.
Facebook always screws mine up, so I never sync it ever.
I'd just sync your google ones and then go fix them on contacts.google.com
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Another newb question to the Samsung. My contacts are an absolute nightmare and I can't figure out how to get them under control. I went in and disabled (I think) sync on as many things as I could find (exchange, facebook, etc). I also went through and manually deleted a bunch of contacts I didn't want. Went in there today and BOOM. Contacts are a chaotic mess again. How do I fix this? How can I mass delete contacts and start over if it comes down to that?
#frustrated ex-apple person here.
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You need to disable sync on all the apps. Contact can be sync from Gmail, Facebood, Google+ etc.. Make sure you go into each and stop all the sync, then delete all the existing contacts (most of them just have email address with no phone number associate), then restore your original contact list. If you don't have the original contact list then you need to modify your current one to your liking, then export it out to your sdcard. This will be your core original list. In the future if anything happened to your contact list, you can easily delete all then import your original list and you're back. The quickest way, is to select display only "phone" contact then other none phone number contacts will disappear when you open contact.
You can tell the phone which contacts to display by account. I have mine set to only display Google. This way I don't have to worry about what syncs and doesn't, and can link the contacts between accounts so it'll show their Facebook picture for them.