Any one who can guide me on how to change contact groups (source) from "phone" to "google" after the contact is created?
This has made me with a goddarn shatty contact list!! Even worse, I cannot sync more than a few contacts since about 95% of em got "phone" and I cannot edit them from google/contacts..
Hope you lads get my point..
Streaker said:
Any one who can guide me on how to change contact groups (source) from "phone" to "google" after the contact is created?
This has made me with a goddarn shatty contact list!! Even worse, I cannot sync more than a few contacts since about 95% of em got "phone" and I cannot edit them from google/contacts..
Hope you lads get my point..
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I had exactly same problem with my Magic because I imported my contacts from SIM. This is how I did it.
1) Used HTC Sync app to sync contacts to outlook express
2) Export contacts from outlook express as CSV file
3) Imported into google contacts through web interface on PC (http://www.google.com/contacts)
4) Edit as you need and you will have option change group to My Contacts for each contact
This process is little laborious. You also change the view of contacts in contacts application options.
yschandra said:
I had exactly same problem with my Magic because I imported my contacts from SIM. This is how I did it.
1) Used HTC Sync app to sync contacts to outlook express
2) Export contacts from outlook express as CSV file
3) Imported into google contacts through web interface on PC (http://www.google.com/contacts)
4) Edit as you need and you will have option change group to My Contacts for each contact
This process is little laborious. You also change the view of contacts in contacts application options.
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There's ExportContacts in the Market that will export your contacts as a csv file onto you SD card. Then you can import them into google contacts. That's what I did anyway.
My phone will arrive in few days and I am worried about contacts synchronization.
Is it possible to only synchronize one folder of the Gmail contacts with Nexus one or it will fetch all contacts and import them into the cell phone contact list?
I have a folder named phone and I want to only import that folder into the cell phone contacts and not other contacts. Also I want only that set of contacts to be synchronized with the cell phone and not all of them.
Thanks.
That is controlled on the phone. Go to Contacts, Menu button, Display Options. From there you can specify which group (folder) to sync on each 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
I backed up my phone using MyBackup Pro and wehn i tried to restore everything, it saved my contacts as Google contacts.
Now im wondering how to save it as Phone contacts, becuase according to HTC Sync, i have 0 contacts.
Ive tried a few apps, but all they do is convert Phone to Google and not the other way around. Any ideas?
Alright well i downloaded an app called Export contacts, which exported my google contacts as a .csv
I tried to import ot outlook and it wouldnt do it, so i had to import to Gmail, then export again and then import to Outlook.
Man, i really need to go through and merge both my phone and my 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