I've been trying to figure out how to add custom ringtones to certain contacts and no matter what I do, I haven't been able to find the option. Then I looked at one of my two contacts synced to my Google account, and there was the option. So it would seem for some reason, "corporate" contacts synced with my Exchange server can't be assigned indivdual ringtones. Does anyone happen to know why, and if there's any way to make it work?
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I think this is the answer many of us are looking for to only have My Contacts Sync not all contacts.
Go to People->Menu->View->uncheck "Show auto Gmail Contacts" and "Google"
So you should only have Only contacts with phone #'s and Phones if you want.
Also here is a link to the Google Gmail Contact help section discussing this problem with 1.5 so a few things you will notice are different.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=3836f88898c31b01&hl=en
Hope this helps.
This solved the problem of syncing just My Contacts. This will not sync all contacts!
when i do it, it doesn't do anything.
with "Google" unchecked, the accounts sync doesn't do anything because the People app isn't even searching through my Google account for the contacts (but it is checked in the Data & Synchronization setting screen)
If Google is selected then it will pull All Contacts, The only downside to syncing Only contacts with #'s is if you only email someone they wont show.
See, Google expects you to keep your contact list clean and in good order. They figure that if you have a contact in all contact then you probably want them on all synced devices. So if you want it to work a different way you have to be tricky. This is an amazing phone and Android does have some limitations but we can't have everything. I also think that people would start complaining that this contact or that contact is on their phone if Android had to many options and one got switched on accident. So this is my work around and anyone that i know that I contact that doesn't have a # I put in a bogus one and then they show up.
i have a more shoddy way of working around it, though i'm experience problems with contact sync in general right now
what you could do is just use another Google account and use that one to solely sync your contacts. just export from your main account and import to the contact only one, and sync from there
however, my problem right now is that the phone won't do any sort of contact sync at all with contacts. anyone know why this might be?
Did you flash the 2.1 file? If so try to reinstall it.
Custom ringtone for exchange (corporate) contacts?
Does anybody know how to do this? (option for ringtone does not appear for corporate contacts - zedge does not work either with them)
what do you mean by corporate contacts... as long as contacts are stored in phone vs set to google. there should be an edit option which has a ringtone selection.
These are contacts that are stored in an exchange server (or synchronized therewith). When I edit them, the title "corporate" appears on top (along with my corporate email address). No setting of ringtone is possible. I do not want to store them in the phone because I have proper sync with my exchange server.
Thanks,
E.
I can not figure out how to just sync the 'My Contacts' group instead of ALL the gmail contacts. I have 3000 contacts and I don't want them all. I also can't figure out how to sync groups at all.
Anyone solve this problem yet?
the best I have seen is to check "only show contacts with phone numbers".
that's just not going to get it done....
I can't believe I am the only person who has this problem?
Nope, you're not the only one. I, too, have this issue and would love to get the original contacts app back (the one where I can select which group of contacts should be used from the list of contact groups defined on google)
I hate the new Contacts app..
I don't have a SGS, but if your rooted couldn't you remove the current contact.apk and grab the original one from a stock build an install it via ADB or such?
Just throwing out ideas to help.
You are not alone in missing this! I find this very annoying after creating a trim my contacts list in gmail and syncing that with the g1. Samsung better fix this oversight because I haaate scrolling through my hundreds of contacts!
Did you guys overlook, that you also cannot assign a ringtone to your contacts that were synced from G1 to Gmail to Vibrant? Cannot put your gmail contacts as groups. Also, the checkbock for send directly to voicemail is gone.
for now..
.. I installed aContacts from the market. It isn't great, but it makes life a bit easier.
When I try to create a new contact, either manually or after I receive call from a new number, I see option to store on Phone/GMail/SIM. It always defaults to GMail.
1) I don't use GMail and so I don't need it. What's the point of doing so? maybe it is just that it will be synced with GMail contacts?
2) Gmail contacts list is empty, meaning that all my contacts that were synced from Outlook, are phone contacts and not Gmail contacts. Am I correct?
3) And if I am correct, how can I change the default behaviour? to always store on phone by default instead of Gmail?
If you use the Market you need a Google account, whether or not you use it for email is your choice.
If you think of the Gmail account as a safe way to store your contacts online.
If you were unfortunate enough to lose or have your DHD stolen then you lose all your contacts stored on the phone & SIM.
Other than choosing the other options from the drop down menu, I don't know of any other way.
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If you use the Market you need a Google account, whether or not you use it for email is your choice.
If you think of the Gmail account as a safe way to store your contacts online.
If you were unfortunate enough to lose or have your DHD stolen then you lose all your contacts stored on the phone & SIM.
Other than choosing the other options from the drop down menu, I don't know of any other way.
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Yes, I hamy gmail account just for the market.
If I lose my phone, etc., all my contacts are still in Outlook and hence in all of my backups.
So if this is the only benefit of storing contacts in gmail, how can I change default behaviour to phone?
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how can I change default behaviour to phone?
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You can't.
Then, what would be the difference if for some new contacts I forget to change to phone and for some I don't and as a result, half my contacts are in gmail and half in phone?
I don't understand your question, as you seemed to answer it yourself.
If you forget to change where the contact is saved then the contact will be added to your Gmail contacts.
They will still appear in your contact list as normal.
I Am able to sync my Google reader, my gmail and calendar but my contacts dont seem to be able to sync? how can i fix this?
Go to Settings and then Accounts and sync. Click on your gmail address and make sure that all the options are selected including Sync Contacts. Have you already done this?
One silly mistake I made when I first got my phone was I added a bunch of contacts as a "T-Mobile" contact and when they didn't show up as a Google Contact I figured out what I did wrong.
thanks for your reply and yes i have tried that but i just cant seem to get it to sync when i flashed cm 7 the contact sync work but i have returned to stock sense rom but it doesnt seem to want to sync.
Ive had a few different problems like this before so....
Do you mean; When you add your gmail, it doesn't sync and add your contacts that you have saved to your gmail account? Or when you add a new contact it doesn't save it to your contacts on your gmail account?