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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.

Sync contacts TO google

How in the hell do I get my phone contacts to sync to Google? I tried settings_accounts_Google sync but it only pulls my gmail contacts to my phone. I want to put my phone contacts to gmail. Backup assistant works fine, but some of the custom roms out don't use it. I can't find any info on this. HTC told me when I create contacts and choose Google instead of phone that they will sync. What about the 80 or so that backup assistant did upon activating my phone? And also, if I save future contacts as Google contacts and not phone contacts, does backup assist still back these up too?

In phone book hit menu and export contacts to sd card. This will give you a file that can be used to import your contacts on gmail.com
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or just go to backup asst online.. vzw.com/backupassistant, and then export your contacts to a .csv file..which you can then import into google..doesnt take long.

In order to get the ones already saved in your phone to sync to google I think you're going to have to go with one of the options they said since I dont think there is a way to change them from phone contact to google contact.
However, when you add new contacts there is a drop down toward the top that you can change from phone to google so that after you save them it will sync automatically.

So if I import them to Google, it will sync. I get that. Now if I add new contacts as Google contacts does backup assist still back them up also?

Move phone contacts to Gmail contacts?

Is this possible?
Would be great to avoid ever getting duplicates etc...

back up your phone contacts to SD card....then delete your phone contacts.
Then import the backup you created and select import and google contacts they should then start sycing to your gmail account
hope this helps

Curfish said:
back up your phone contacts to SD card....then delete your phone contacts.
Then import the backup you created and select import and google contacts they should then start sycing to your gmail account
hope this helps
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Thanks, but will the newly imported contacts end up in gmail??? Won't they just end up in phone again (as it was originally)?

No cause you are importing as google contacts so they will sync with gmail contacts
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the only downside i see to this is that some of the contact's options are not available to google contacts. for example you can't set personal ringtone to google contact..

the only downside i see to this is that some of the contact's options are not available to google contacts. for example you can't set personal ringtone to google contact..
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Could you add a phone contact "tab" later if you want?
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Bump. Still wondering... Thanks

[q] how to sync contacts from pc after flashing hero

HI
I am looking for a way to restore my contacts whick i have on outlook to my hero.....
suprisingly htc sync is not working after a rom upgrade......pls help guys
its a huge task to add contacts manually.......

HTC sync is a feature of Sense Roms ,. Unfortunately you cant have that on CM 6 based roms as they lack sense.
my recommendation for a Quick fix for you may be to flash a sense rom and sync your contacts and then change your contacts to google contacts as opposed to phone or sim contacts and then back them up on your google account.

jagpilotcv said:
HI
I am looking for a way to restore my contacts whick i have on outlook to my hero.....
suprisingly htc sync is not working after a rom upgrade......pls help guys
its a huge task to add contacts manually.......
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it could be because there is a new version of htc sync on the web page for 2.1 eclair.. if you don't have it already that could be your problem

jagpilotcv said:
HI
I am looking for a way to restore my contacts whick i have on outlook to my hero.....
suprisingly htc sync is not working after a rom upgrade......pls help guys
its a huge task to add contacts manually.......
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Log in to your Gmail account (the one that you used originally on your phone) on your PC and go to Contacts. In the "More Actions" menu there is an option to Import contacts. Export your contacts from Outlook to a .CSV file, then import them into your Gmail account. Once they are there, they should synchronise with your phone correctly, and from then on, if you wipe your phone, when you sign back in with your google account on the new ROM, the contacts will automatically transfer again.
Zeb

Zebwen said:
Log in to your Gmail account (the one that you used originally on your phone) on your PC and go to Contacts. In the "More Actions" menu there is an option to Import contacts. Export your contacts from Outlook to a .CSV file, then import them into your Gmail account. Once they are there, they should synchronise with your phone correctly, and from then on, if you wipe your phone, when you sign back in with your google account on the new ROM, the contacts will automatically transfer again.
Zeb
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thanks mate
worked like a charm.....

jagpilotcv said:
thanks mate
worked like a charm.....
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Happy to help The only issue there is that you need to keep the gmail contacts up to date as well as your Outlook contacts, but it does work well

Hey what I figured out recently when I got my hero is more of a work around than an official way to do this. What I do is I select all the contacts in my outlook contacts folder, then I right click and say send as a business card. What this does is create an e-mail with all your contacts listed as business card .vcf files. All these files will appear in the new mail dialog under attachments. I right click on that particular dialog and select all - it then offers you the option to cut/copy all these vcfs - once you do that then you can just paste them in whichever folder you wish. Once they are all there just transfer them to a folder on your SD card and use the import feature thats in the contacts application. You can import from SD card and it will locate and list all those vcfs of the SD card. Thats about the best and easiest way I've found of doing this. However when I change the contact on the phone I will try obviously have to find some reverse method to get it back into outlook sychro'd Only got my hero two days ago so will figure something out soon hopefully

Fastest way to import phone numbers?

Is there any way to import phone numbers quickly, such as a copy and paste from the computer if possible, from an older phone?
I have a bunch of numbers from my razr2 that I would like to stick onto the vibrant, and if there is an easier way I'd rather do that than mess with the razr2's messed up capacitive buttons.

Sim card?.....

Sync your number from razer to outlook or outlook express. Then import it to your gmail contact. You should create a new group in contacts to keep it organized. Once logged in on your phone it will sync all automatically.
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woops, didn't realize it was that easy. i apologize for the silly question.
is it ideal to put numbers on a sim or straight into the phone? this is with a 2year contract from tmobile.

Phone is better because there are certain features that will only work with the number on the phone.
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What features only work with the numbers on the phone? 2.2 made it so you could assign custom ringtones w.o saving the number to the phone.
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Well, I have sent contacts as vcard (via bluetooth) from SE phone to Samsung Vibrant, every number/e-mail/adress is in a right place.
Quick and safe

I can say it would be a good idea to have all your contacts backed up on gmail as well. I've had sim cards go bad, so if it does, you just lost your contacts. I'm not sure how the razor sync's contacts, but if you can sync with outlook, it's really easy to get them to gmail. You basically backup your contacts to a file, then go to gmail and import that file. Trust me, having them on gmail will make it easier on you. If you were to change any numbers, it will auto sync with gmail, and if you get a new phone, (android), all your numbers will sync automatically through gmail.

+1 its like magic
dougstoner said:
I can say it would be a good idea to have all your contacts backed up on gmail as well. I've had sim cards go bad, so if it does, you just lost your contacts. I'm not sure how the razor sync's contacts, but if you can sync with outlook, it's really easy to get them to gmail. You basically backup your contacts to a file, then go to gmail and import that file. Trust me, having them on gmail will make it easier on you. If you were to change any numbers, it will auto sync with gmail, and if you get a new phone, (android), all your numbers will sync automatically through gmail.
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dougstoner said:
I can say it would be a good idea to have all your contacts backed up on gmail as well. I've had sim cards go bad, so if it does, you just lost your contacts. I'm not sure how the razor sync's contacts, but if you can sync with outlook, it's really easy to get them to gmail. You basically backup your contacts to a file, then go to gmail and import that file. Trust me, having them on gmail will make it easier on you. If you were to change any numbers, it will auto sync with gmail, and if you get a new phone, (android), all your numbers will sync automatically through gmail.
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Very good explanation. Thanks.

+1 for Google Contact sync. It also allows you to export in csv format so you can easily sync those contacts with other applications as well. Not to mention a web interface for editing and grouping those contacts which then automagically syncs to your phone.
Also, saving contacts to the phone gives you a lot more storage than a SIM card. I believe a SIM can only hold up to 250 contacts.