Hi there,
My sim card is full so I transferred all my contacts on to my google account and put them under "Starred android"
Right. What I want to do is to be able to save contacts in my phone and have them grouped in to "starred for android" how do I do this?
Starred in Android is when you favorite a contact. If you want ALL of them as starred, favorite ALL your contact.
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It just seems very, very inconvenient to me, that you'd have to create favorite contacts, and not just be able to mark a contact in your list, and make it a favorite. :S Can't I do anything about this?
You can use existing contacts but they need to be Outlook contacts rather than SIM contacts.
Hey all,
So I have the Rogers Dream, and whenever I go into my contacts app, it doesn't show any of my contacts. However, if I wanted to send a new text to someone, I can start typing a letter or whatnot and it will show their name and number perfectly. How do I go about correcting this issue?
Also, how come my dream won't sync to my PC? It only sees it when I activate the USB mode, I want to be able to sync my contacts over to my PC. How can I make this happen?
Thank you for your help!
Ok, on the phone open up the contacts app. Hit menu>edit sync groups. Make sure sync all contacts is checked. Hit ok. Menu>display group select all contacts and hit ok. If your contacts still dont show up then you need to get on your computer and log into your gmail account and check to see if you have contacts listed there. If there are no contacts there or not the right ones im guessing your contacts are on your sim card. If this is the case then in the contacts app menu>import contacts.
There is no real sync to pc option on the Dream. Your contacts, calendar, etc. are all synced automatically with Googles servers. If you want access to that info on your PC then you just have to log in to your gmail account and you can see your contacts, calendar, etc.
Hey thanks for the help with the contacts not showing up, I just had to change the view mode from All to Contacts with numbers and then back again. It must have been a glitch.
Anyways, since I can't sync them in the terms I am thinking, how can I send the contacts back to the SIM card? I have yet to see an option for that
Is there a way to show only contacts with phone numbers in my contact list? I have a lot of email contacts and I don't need to see them all, I just want the phone number contacts. Is this possible?
OK, so I added a few contacts from my phone, but they don't show up in google contacts... anyone know why? The contacts I add to google contacts show up on my phone just fine, but not the other way around
There is a view option to decide what you can see in the contact view. A filter if you will. What I did was add all my contacts to my google account so that it syncs. Then in my googlemail I deleted all of my duplicates. Once that synced, I exported my google contacts to .vcf then imported to phone contacts. The two are now duplicate. I can filter which one I want to see which is the google contacts and I can now backup my phone contacts to my computer/outlook.
OK, i found the problem... when I created these contacts, it looks like they were created of the type: "phone"... looks like phone contacts don't sync, but "google" contacts do. How do I change from phone to google contacts?
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OK, i found the problem... when I created these contacts, it looks like they were created of the type: "phone"... looks like phone contacts don't sync, but "google" contacts do. How do I change from phone to google contacts?
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This is what I was getting at above.
Export your phone contacts to file. Which will be a .vcf on your phone. Then import the same .vcf to your google contacts.
When you go to export you will be asked if you want to export your google or phone contacts. Same prompt will present when you import contacts.
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OK, i found the problem... when I created these contacts, it looks like they were created of the type: "phone"... looks like phone contacts don't sync, but "google" contacts do. How do I change from phone to google contacts?
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wow dude... well its pretty much a no brainer... when you are in the people app which is your contacts list...and you add contact (should be all the way at the top)
the very first thing you do is add a name and then the VERY SECOND line clearly sais "contact type" just make sure that sais google and NOT phone.
and i dont think you can change them in the phone once you add them in. so just make sure to do it right the first time, or delete the contact and re enter it. or do it the way it was stated earlier.
Every time I set up my Google account on the phone, it automatically add Google contacts to my phone contact as well as the phone dialer.
My phone dialer has hundreds of contacts of people that I've ever emailed, communicated, or do business with.
This is extremely annoying, anyway to stop Google from syncing or adding Google contacts to my phone?
Thanks!
You can go to Settings - Accounts - Google and toggle off sync of Contacts, then open Contacts, tap the 3 dot menu and select "Contacts to display" and select as needed...
If you keep your Google contacts organized, you can keep phone contacts in a "Phone" folder in Google Contacts and just show that label, or you can move your email contacts to a different label.
Remember the phone uses Google account as the storage for your contacts, there is no "local" account for contact storage once you have added a Google account to the device.