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[Question] winmo to android contacts

I just joined the android family.
And i was wondering is there is a easy way to import my contacts with pictures and appointments and sms messages from my xperia to my magic?
thnx!

Its a few steps sadly...
1. Sync your winmo with your pc and outlook, this will get your calendar and contacts in outlook.
2. export your contacts as a csv file and then import into google using web interface. Tip create a group for your phone contacts, as by default google syncs everyone you have ever emailed. I call mine 'Phone Contacts'. On the handset you can say only sync contacts in xxx groups. This way they stay nice. You can then reassign your contacts photos in the web contacts page. These will sync down to your phone.
3. install google sync (http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe), this will then sync your outlook calendar with google, which will then sync with your phone
As for sms etc, sorry can't help you there. But you might want to look at this (http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/) sms backup program. stores all your sms's in google under a label called SMS.
Thanks

ajpalm said:
Its a few steps sadly...
1. Sync your winmo with your pc and outlook, this will get your calendar and contacts in outlook.
2. export your contacts as a csv file and then import into google using web interface. Tip create a group for your phone contacts, as by default google syncs everyone you have ever emailed. I call mine 'Phone Contacts'. On the handset you can say only sync contacts in xxx groups. This way they stay nice
3. install google sync (http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe), this will then sync your outlook calendar with google, which will then sync with your phone
As for sms etc, sorry can't help you there. But you might want to look at this (http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/) sms backup program. stores all your sms's in google under a label called SMS.
Thanks
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pfff,.....
Ok
Thank you for your reply!
I guess this is still faster then manual input.

For SMS: if you have or plan to have root access to your android phone: http://android.modaco.com/content/software/288916/windows-mobile-sms-migrator-beta-1/
Cheers.

ajpalm said:
Its a few steps sadly...
1. Sync your winmo with your pc and outlook, this will get your calendar and contacts in outlook.
2. export your contacts as a csv file and then import into google using web interface. Tip create a group for your phone contacts, as by default google syncs everyone you have ever emailed. I call mine 'Phone Contacts'. On the handset you can say only sync contacts in xxx groups. This way they stay nice. You can then reassign your contacts photos in the web contacts page. These will sync down to your phone.
3. install google sync (http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe), this will then sync your outlook calendar with google, which will then sync with your phone
As for sms etc, sorry can't help you there. But you might want to look at this (http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/) sms backup program. stores all your sms's in google under a label called SMS.
Thanks
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Thank you for this.... I think this will also work for Winmobile phones also?

venom037 said:
Thank you for this.... I think this will also work for Winmobile phones also?
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I dont see why not..

http://www.vufone.com/ supported windows mobile and android handsets.
sync using winmo, then do a full download using Android.
Granted its not free, but its an excellent took to use, and for $20 per year it can't be knocked!
Try it out... 14 day free trial http://www.vufone.com/

Sync contacts with gmail account

Does any one have problem with sync contacts with gmail account?
I have contacts in my phone. How to synchronize them with gmail?
Mail is synchronizing ok, but contacts...
When i tryed new rom-s i must sync with my PC all time, but i want to back them in my phone from gmail. I's it possible?
TY

You first need to enable the contacts sync. -≥ Go to Settings - Data Synchronization - Google and put a checkmark on Contacts.
On your phone, if you go to contacts, you see on the right side of the contact's name the word phone(this means the contact is a phone contact) You have three types of contacts - phone, google and sim contacts. All of your contacts need to be google contacts, if you want to sync them with google. You can probably manually convert every single phone contact to google contact, but that would take a lot of time.
So to speed up things, you need to do this:
You need to transfer all your contacts to your computer, Outlook or such. Then delete all your contacts from the phone. From outlook you need to export all contacts to the .csv or .vcard file. Then go to Gmail and import all your contacts from .csv file. Connect your tattoo to the internet and again go to settings - data synchronization - Google, press menu and choose Sync now. It will then transfer all your contacts from gmail to your phone. Then all your contacts will become google contacts and you will be able to sync them with Gmail.
In the future, when you create a new contact on your phone, be sure to select google as type of the contact to be able to sync it with gmail.
But be very careful with this, make a backup of all your contacts before you do this.
Bye

My contact have letters: š, ć,.. and few more letters that show ? ? instead of š, ć when i'm export contacts from outlook.. I's there any other way to convert phone to google contacts? TY

I did a bit of research on this and there seems to be no other way to convert contacts from phone to google...i found this answer from htc on one of the forums:
HTC >>There is no default setting to always store a contact as google.
If you wish create a contact save it as google and create another one, if its set to google already then it does remember if not then you'll have to do this manually.
Unfortunately it is not possible to convert all contacts to google ones, it can only be done by re-adding each individual contact.

I have contacts in my phone. How to synchronize them with gmail?
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In phone or SIM?
Just make sure you enable the sync in Settings as noted above and enable background data; every contact should be then synced between server and phone (but I'm not sure about SIM contacts, probably not) when you go online with your phone.
Many of my contacts even have Serbian Cyrillic letters (абвгдђежзијклљ...) and everything works just fine, no matter if they were created in Google Contacts online (www.google.com/contacts) or in my phone.
However, I haven't try sync between phone and Outlook because I use Ubuntu and Google Contacts only

Dejan i have tried this...i created a phone contact and tried to sync it with google and it doesn't work for me....the contact needs to be a google contact. But for the ščćžđ letters, yes gmail supports them in contact names, sorry for misleading you.

I solve problem.
With program expcontacts export all people to sdcard in csv format.
Delete all contacts from phone.
Import csv file from sdcard to gmail contacts.
Sync contacts with gmail.

Great workaround Liderzre, skipping the whole outlook thing, for the people who don't use windows and outlook or for the people who don't want outlook to mess up letters čćžšđ in their contact names

Thanks for the great app. All in order now, but not syncing...oh well on to remedy another problem.

liderzre said:
I solve problem.
With program expcontacts export all people to sdcard in csv format.
Delete all contacts from phone.
Import csv file from sdcard to gmail contacts.
Sync contacts with gmail.
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Excelent app
It did everything that was needed.
Thank you.

liderzre said:
I solve problem.
With program expcontacts export all people to sdcard in csv format.
Delete all contacts from phone.
Import csv file from sdcard to gmail contacts.
Sync contacts with gmail.
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for some reason the app only add the contacts that i have on my Gmail account to the CSV file... anyone else having this problem?
update: ok i had to use another app but now my contacts are in my gmail account YAY the app name is UiA - Backup Contacts

best way to transfer contacts from my HTC diamond to X10?

I'm getting my X10 in a couple of days, I currently have an HTC Diamond (Windows Mobile phone).
What's the easiest way to transfer my contacts from the Diamond to the X10?

I am not familiar with winMo. can you backup/export the contact to sd card. if you can then just insert the same card in to X10 and import the contacts from sd card.

hsnmz said:
I am not familiar with winMo. can you backup/export the contact to sd card. if you can then just insert the same card in to X10 and import the contacts from sd card.
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Unfortunately the HTC Diamond does not have an SD card.
Any other ideas?

Hi, I also have this problem. I have a HTC HD with the SD card. But contacts are made in Outlook. One format andriod dont suport or recognize., do not know if there is any solution, I read earlier in a different forum that man can change the format and export from outlook and straight into the SD card. But I could not get it to work :s
open for solutions, i have like 5-10 contacs on my phone atm ;s

Jamolah said:
Unfortunately the HTC Diamond does not have an SD card.
Any other ideas?
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dude use Sprite Migrate follow the link you can transfer contacts, text messages and call logs all to android. and its free.

What i did was i sync my WindowsMobile phone with Outlook, then downloaded and ran CompanionLink for Android which basically syncs your Outlook contacts, calendar, and notes with your Google account. So if your X10 is syncing with Google, all your contacts will copy over. It's a very neat program.

I believe you have to pay for CompanionLink after the evaluation period.
Another way to do this is to copy your Outlook contacts to Gmail contacts. Google provides instructions on how to do that. For the calendar, Google provides software to sync the Outlook calendar with Google calendar.
As the previous poster stated, once you got your Xperia, you just set it up to sync with Google and that should do it. The only issue is that if you still use Outlook as your main program, there is no automatic sync of the contacts between Outlook and Gmail contacts. You may just have to pay CompanionLink for that.
Also, if you work for a company that has Microsoft Exchange servers, then the Xperia already comes with Moxier apps to sync with the info. from work.

Just backup your contact list from your windows htc,save it on his flash card,you will find a file .cts or .vct,something like that...than copy this file to your computer,than go to your google acount,find your contacts and click in import contacts,just find the backup file that u did before and upload...when u finish this,just plug your xperia to usb and google sysnc will transfer all your contacts...

I transferred my Contacts from my X2 win mobile to X10 by using Bluetooth.
Just go in and select all contacts and then beam them across.
Simples!!!

macr59 said:
I transferred my Contacts from my X2 win mobile to X10 by using Bluetooth.
Just go in and select all contacts and then beam them across.
Simples!!!
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I think I'll do it that way. Do I have to accept every entry manually?

Jamolah said:
I think I'll do it that way. Do I have to accept every entry manually?
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Yes you do. But once you have done it just make a backup of your contacts to your SD card then you will not have the problem again.

Desire ROM - Contacts

I have synced my contacts back to my phone using MyPhone onto the basic Win Mo that comes with the Desire ROM.. and now want to get them onto android..
where abouts would my contacts be as i have no icon for People..
im using File Explorer where abouts are contacts located? Thanks.

you cant get your contacts from winmo into android by browsing, it just isnt possible

You can use activesync for that. Just use m.google.com and your Gmail login. It syncs your contacts, tasks and agenda etc. Works great!

If you haven't got a Gmail account you can search google for "Sprite Migrate" (It's free and gets the job done). Export your contact from WinMob, save to PC and import in Android.

WildWil said:
If you haven't got a Gmail account you can search google for "Sprite Migrate" (It's free and gets the job done). Export your contact from WinMob, save to PC and import in Android.
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I dont no where they are on WinMo.. im using the Desire ROM and it comes with a very basic WinMo.. so i synced it with MyPhone and the contacts are now in WinMo.. but i have no idea where they are?
so i was wondering if anyone knew where contacts are using file explorer, as file explorer is the only thing i can access.. and then i wud transfer them to my PC and finally onto Android.

bartju94 said:
You can use activesync for that. Just use m.google.com and your Gmail login. It syncs your contacts, tasks and agenda etc. Works great!
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i have activesync and gmail.. but my contacts are currently on MyPhone online.. and also on a basic version of WinMo that comes with the Energy Desire ROM im running.
How would i get my contacts from MyPhone online.. to Gmail? Thanks

1. flash back to a Stock ROM
2. sync your contacts and calendar (MYPhone)
3. follow the steps here
the contacts and calendar should now have been imported to your gmail account
4. try my signature WinMO ROM, Radio and Android Build Steps HERE
5. when Android boots up register your gmail account so it will sync to it
then your contacts and calendar will appear in you r Andoid

jigners said:
1. flash back to a Stock ROM
2. sync your contacts and calendar (MYPhone)
3. follow the steps here
the contacts and calendar should now have been imported to your gmail account
4. try my signature WinMO ROM, Radio and Android Build Steps HERE
5. when Android boots up register your gmail account so it will sync to it
then your contacts and calendar will appear in you r Andoid
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If i flash back to a stock rom, will all my android apps disappear?
Also the ROM im using already has a Basic WinMo, just there is no People/Contacts icon to view them.. so how would i get my contacts to gmail if there already on my phone and MyPhone online. thanks

WildWil said:
If you haven't got a Gmail account you can search google for "Sprite Migrate" (It's free and gets the job done). Export your contact from WinMob, save to PC and import in Android.
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Works well for all but bookmarks. How to convert bookmarks?

CraigR. said:
If i flash back to a stock rom, will all my android apps disappear?
Also the ROM im using already has a Basic WinMo, just there is no People/Contacts icon to view them.. so how would i get my contacts to gmail if there already on my phone and MyPhone online. thanks
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NO, your Android Apps is stored in the sd card. copy/bckup evrything in your sr card to your pc.
when you flash to stock, remove your sd card before hand. then just follow my recommendation.
. . . then format sd card (full format fat 32 ) then simply copy the backup you made
in your pc back to your sd card.
why just have a basic almost non functioning winmo, when.you can flash an Android friendly custom ROM, fully functioning. in effect you have 2 functioning OS',

[Q]Updating google contacts with my android contacts

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

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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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.