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Are you able to save fb contacts?

Hey guys I rely on Facebook for a lot of my contacts and it will randomly switch to don't sync and that means I have to go back put on sync and relink my contacts it's really irritating. Do you know how I can save the Facebook contacts without Facebook sync? Thanks guys!
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AriaUSer_ said:
Hey guys I rely on Facebook for a lot of my contacts and it will randomly switch to don't sync and that means I have to go back put on sync and relink my contacts it's really irritating. Do you know how I can save the Facebook contacts without Facebook sync? Thanks guys!
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If you're just looking to sync them to have their contact information in your phone then I do have a solution for that. Its a process, but once its done, its done (but is reversible).
You'll need a Yahoo email account to do this. Log into your Yahoo email account, go to your contacts page, and choose to Import. Select Facebook. This will import your facebook contacts to your Yahoo account. Ok, now from the contacts page in Yahoo, you want to select export. Create a yahoo CSV file and save it to your computer. Now log onto your Google account and go to the Dashboard and then to Contacts. Now import the CSV file you made for Yahoo and you'll have all your facebook contacts now in your gmail account which will then sync to your phone. Of course you'll have to add any new facebook contact you aquire after the process manually (of just repeat the process).
Its not the most automated solution, but it is a solution. Of course you wont be able to see updates and what not with this solution, but it will get your facebook contacts information into your phone.

^^^ this is some very useful info here. Didn't know how to do this until this step by step instructions. Thanks so much.
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[Q] Upload contacts to Gmail contacts

Hello,
I would like to upload ( & eventually sync. ) the contacts to GMail contacts.
I´m afraid to add GMail to automatic synchro, cause as far as I understand, it will double my contacts ?!
What do you think ?
Cheers

Ok after uploading do this:
Go to gmail and view your contacts. pres the "more actions" button above your contacts and choose "find & merge duplicates" this will merge the duplicates. i think this is what you mean.

Well, not completely. ( but your tip is interesting )
Main question is, how to upload to GMail ?

Where are they now? on the phone? on the SIM card? exported on a CSV file?

commodoor said:
Ok after uploading do this:
Go to gmail and view your contacts. pres the "more actions" button above your contacts and choose "find & merge duplicates" this will merge the duplicates. i think this is what you mean.
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Thanks for your response. I have the similar question. So can you please explain it clearly to us:
* the contact sync will simply add the contact of my phone to Gmail contact list? or the 2 contact lists will emerge, then we can get a complete contact list on the phone and gmail?
* if I have the duplicated contacts on my phone, how to merge them?
Thanks.

im_iceman said:
Where are they now? on the phone? on the SIM card? exported on a CSV file?
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Kind of have the same question. My contacts are now on the phone and the SIM card. After using "sync now" in the settings, I got my gmail contacts onto my phone, but not the phone contacts into gmail.
Is there some trick to do this?

I finally updated GMail using a .csv backup made by "Backup Contacts" found on market.
But I still wonder how to also synch. them ?

Hi,
What I did in your case, was:
First to backup all my phone contacts to outlook in my computer.
There I exported the contacts to a .csv file (like ChefChaudart said). With that file I imported the contacts to my gmail account. Meaning I have all my contacts (the ones I had in the phone and the ones I already had in gmail) all together in the email account.
Last I deleted the contacts in my phone, and syncronised with my gmail account. Now having all the contacts both in the phone and in gmail account.
It's not a fast way to do it, but I didn't found another way.
Cheers

You mean that if you do not delete the contacts on your phone at last step, everything will be duplicated ?

Yes - Once you have all your contacts on Gmail you don't need them on your phone.. it will sync to your phone from Gmail..
in the phone go to accounts and sync tick background data, and auto sync... job done.

Hi,
Yes, is as im_iceman says.
And maybe some of your contacts could merge. Meaning that if you had two contacts with the same name, one in the phone and the other in the email account, they could merge under the same name.
As im_iceman says, one you have them in your gmail account you don't need them on the phone, just sync and you'll have them all back in the phone, well organized, not duplicated nor merged.
Cheers

Bad, I would like to synchronize between all !
That means ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List <==> Google Contacts
But if I understand you clearly ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List 1
-----------------------Phone Contact List 2 <==> Google Contacts
Correct ?

Narud12 said:
Hi,
Yes, is as im_iceman says.
And maybe some of your contacts could merge. Meaning that if you had two contacts with the same name, one in the phone and the other in the email account, they could merge under the same name.
As im_iceman says, one you have them in your gmail account you don't need them on the phone, just sync and you'll have them all back in the phone, well organized, not duplicated nor merged.
Cheers
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So I have to clear the contact list in my phone before sync with gmail?

ChefChaudart said:
Bad, I would like to synchronize between all !
That means ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List <==> Google Contacts
But if I understand you clearly ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List 1
-----------------------Phone Contact List 2 <==> Google Contacts
Correct ?
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What I would do, and I actually did:
All contacts in Phone list ====> to Outlook (in your case Thunderbird) =====> now to gmail account *====> and now synchronize from gmail to the phone.
* When I had all contacts gathered in one place (gmail account) I deleted them from the phone.
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So I have to clear the contact list in my phone before sync with gmail?
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Once you make sure you have all of your contacts in gmail, I would recomend you to delete them from the phone so after you synchronize with gmail you won't get your contacts duplicated, meaning that in your phone you would have every contact two times.
For obvious reasons, just in case both my phone AND gmail account fail at the same time or any other problem, I keep a backup of all my contacts in outlook.
Cheers

How to import facebook contacts to gmail ??
I m interested in birthdays... On my widget only birthdays from gmail account is shown so is there a way to import birthdays from facebook along with the contacts ???

doesn't work.. will be incorporated into the next update later this month..
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doesn't work.. will be incorporated into the next update later this month..
Sent from The Arc!
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Thanks... Will wait...!!!

Actually I wasn't quite right... you can sync contacts.. you just can't sync their birthday info and such like..

I'm not familiar with Thunderbird but.. can't you use Google as your primary source.. which syncs to your phone.. and the sync Thunderbird with either the live google account, or with the phone? Then you'll have everything you need..

[Q] Deleting all contacts

Rooted KF, I want to setup contacts to sync with google using the contact sync adapter. I read that the contacts should be cleared out first so they don't duplicate with google. Is there an easy way to delete all the contacts? I tried deleting contacts cache and data and that didn't work.
THANKS

ontwowheels said:
Rooted KF, I want to setup contacts to sync with google using the contact sync adapter. I read that the contacts should be cleared out first so they don't duplicate with google. Is there an easy way to delete all the contacts? I tried deleting contacts cache and data and that didn't work.
THANKS
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Nevermind, I am good... I did a little trick, when started the contacts on the kf syncing with google contacts I did get the duplicates in GC. Then I accessed GC over the web and did a restore to an hour ago, when the kf synched again the duplicates are all gone.

Help !!! HTC DHD contacts messed up

Hello friends please help all my contacts on my HTC DHD are messed up after the version upgrade to 2.3.5 & sense 3.0. It's now showing one contact linked with some different email if and phone no really its become a big problem. Any help if very much appreciated.
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Do you have all of your contacts linked with your gmail account ? If so I'd try removing all the contacts you have in your phone now and then re-import them by synchronizing your google contacts into your phone.

wtr_dhd said:
Do you have all of your contacts linked with your gmail account ? If so I'd try removing all the contacts you have in your phone now and then re-import them by synchronizing your google contacts into your phone.
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try it... bcause sync present issues

How are they mis-linked? is it google contact details or is it facebook/twitter contacts mixed up with google ones?
If it's the latter, you could go to accounts settings, remove the various facebook/twitter sync accounts. Sync, then add those accounts back again and wait for the suggested links to be presented and see how it goes.

how do you delete the contacts in CM9

i am running cm9 beta and synced my contacts up with outlook using myphone explorer. unfortunately, it synced them in triplets and now have thousands of the same contacts. does anyone know how to delete contacts without having to do each single contact??????

Delete the sync'd account. Or do a factory data reset. Either way you'd have to re-add contacts so they aren't multiplied.
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how do most people sync their outlook contacts to their android device? i have been using myphoneexplorer but is not working right with cm9 beta

Manage Apps
Clear data of Contacts and Contacts Storage.
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Oh wow. Sorry to hear that man, sounds like you have a big mess. Check your contacts on your desktop's gmail. If it isn't in triplets, make a backup, delete outlook acc on phone, clear contacts, and let your list populate.
If it's in triplets on your gmail contacts already, simply selecting delete/merge duplicates should rid most of it, also it's easier to manage on desktop gmail contacts with the handy checkboxes. When all is tidy, backup the csv, and let your phone sync to your tidy cleaned contacts list.
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yes, i have done that, but seriously the majority of the business world does not use google contacts, but rather, outlook. does anyone have an idea as to how to sync outlook contacts with android? i use outlook for just about everything.

mookiemoo said:
yes, i have done that, but seriously the majority of the business world does not use google contacts, but rather, outlook. does anyone have an idea as to how to sync outlook contacts with android? i use outlook for just about everything.
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Doesnt android ask if you want to create an exchange account? Wouldnt outlook be incorporated with it? i wouldnt know cuz i dont use those services
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Manage Apps
Clear data of Contacts and Contacts Storage.
just figured out what you were saying in few words. i reset back to fresh cm9beta. but now, knowing i can delete all my contacts this way, thank you. i will do that in the future!

mookiemoo said:
yes, i have done that, but seriously the majority of the business world does not use google contacts, but rather, outlook. does anyone have an idea as to how to sync outlook contacts with android? i use outlook for just about everything.
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If the contacts are saved to the Exchange server, and not locally, you should see them after you set up an Exchange account in Android. If your contacts are saved in Outlook locally, then only that computer stores them and they won't sync.
Since this is a corporate Exchange server, you can get your IT guy to set it up for you. It isn't difficult, and that's why he gets paid.
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I haven't used them in years, but there are services that will sync your Outlook contacts with your Google address book.