So my main phone is a Galaxy S II, I'm more used to its system of contacts. Apologies if this is obvious.
I got all my contacts ok from the cloud, and added Facebook, last.fm. My question is, how do I link contacts between services? Some of my last.fm contacts in particular aren't being automatically linked.
Thanks for the help.
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Hi
Previously had all my contacts on the sim. Now that I have samsung galaxy s, and will probably stick with the same O.S. for the future, it would be nice to convert all my #s to google. Can't find any option on the phone to do this.
Thanks
Kiwi
Hi,
that is a good question..i searched for the same function but i did not find a proper option...i only managed to link my phone contacts with my facebook contacts, which is really cool
Thanks, if they are linked then where is the phone number stored, is it still only on the sim or does it go into the "facebook contact" which i imagine the facebook contact is stored on the phone.
I wish there was some sort of smart contacts manager application on the PC that you could merge sim <-> facebook <-> gmail contacts all into one set of gmail only contacts.
check this topic out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081
it has several Contact managing tools i've been using to keep all my contacts in sync
I have yet to find an easier way
thanks to you.
Sorry if this is the forum for this. I finally transfered my phone contacts to google contacts. I went to vzw, exported to .csv, and imported to gmail. So far so good. I deleted mt contacts from my phone, and synced my google contacts. All good there. I accidentally deleted a couple of contacts off of my phone, but they are still in gmail. How do I get them back onto my phone. I know with backup assistant I can retrieve and resync them to the phone, but don't have the foggiest how to do it with gmail. Thanks for the help.
Menu/settings/accounts & sync
Q&A would of been better suited for general questions.
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I tried that but it didn't add it back to the phone. I went back to gmail and it seems they were removed from there as well. Is that normal, if you remove it from the phone it also gets removed from gmail contacts list? How can I delete a contact from the phone without deleting it from gmail?
Login to gmail from your pc, you can choose which you want to sync or make a list.
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Hey everyone,
hope everyone's doing great.
I have a general question about android and the gmail contacts sync.
At the moment, I have my main gmail account, which is where I get all my emails, have my calendar, etc. And I have a separate gmail account which is especially made for my contacts and only contacts. I keep them nicely maintained in there, it's very tidy and I have no issues with it whatsoever.
My issue, though, is that I have my ~800 contacts from my main gmail account that I don't really want. I have disabled syncing of contacts on the main gmail account but they're still there.
This gets annoying (and a bit untidy) when trying to send a message, I type the first few characters of the contact and I get multiple entries of the same person, all duplicates.
Is there a away to get rid of all the contacts from my main gmail account and only keep the ones from my other (contacts only) account???
Thanks in advance,
Mike
I have not tried this, but it may work with a bit of playing around.
In your GMail account, go into 'Contacts' check the box next to all the people you want to appear on your phone.
Click on 'Groups' Tab and click on add to Android group or HTC Favorites.
If all your contacts are already in these two groups, uncheck the ones you do not want.
Try sync see if you only get this group.
I have looked around and can't find a forum discussion on this. Sorry if I missed it.
I love Google Now. I am using the Sprint Samsung Galaxy S4. I have activated all the cards in the available cards section including the birthday card. I noticed that my Google Now shows me a new card when I have an appointment in my calendar approaching (so thus it DOES see my calendar and syncs appointments). However, for the life of my it won't see birthdays and anniversaries of my contacts that also display in my calendar as items.
I am really frustrated with this and have tried many different things. I thought it was just a calendar thing. Google Now syncs with calendar but maybe not "extra" calendars like the "birthday and anniversary" one that I have (added through gmail). But then again my Google Now also syncs with my contacts where birthdays are located. After all, contacts is where the calendar pulls the data from in the first place. So can someone please help me understand how to get the birthday card on Google Now to show me this info when it is relevant?
Thanks much in advance.
I believe Google now gets birthday information from Google + (not from calendar)
It's silly that it syncs with my contacts and calendar but wouldn't implement this. Only like 5% of my contacts are on Google+. After all shouldn't Google now learn more and more about me the more info I give it? Well... I gave it my contacts info lol.
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I am using Note 3 for past few days, and it is becoming difficult to manage my contacts in 1 place.
I use many social applications like whatsapp, chaton, fb, twitter etc. and keep receiving new contacts from those places.
Also, keep adding new contacts manually or via different email applications (inbuilt email or directly opening emails via browser firefox/chrome).
Problem:
I want to keep all my contacts centrally in 1 place.. so I do not loose them.
Examples:
I added 2 contacts directly via whatsapp today someone shared the contact, after adding same to my contacts. 1 of them got added to my google account other did not, it got added to device.
Same happens when adding contacts via email addresses or social media apps.
Please guide your share your expertise, i am sure, I am not able to see things properly.
Hi
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Phone settings, change default save to your preference.
Contacts > optionkey > merge accounts?
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I have few accounts, list in order displayed on phone.
Device - 0 contacts
Sim card - 0 contacts
Whatsapp - (few contacts who use whatsapp are displayed here.. All contacts are present in google account)
google ([email protected]) (I have all my contacts stored in this account) (around 450 contacts here in different groups)
Exchange account ([email protected] this is primary/default email) There are many contacts here, which I dont want to add/merge to my phone, as this are business contacts and I only use them mostly for email. Many of this contacts also have phone numbers national/international both
Samsung ([email protected] using same exchange email id) Not sure how many contacts this has.
Facebook (More then 1500+ friends/relatives/business people here) Many of this friends are already present in my google account. I dont want to merge this data with my proper list.. as I never communicate with this friends on phone..)
Now.. when anyone sends me a contact via whatsapp or any other above accounts, it gets added to device or respective accounts only.. which troubles a lot..
I also want to sync only photos of people who are listed in gmail account (not all facebook contacts).
But next time, when I will do flash my rom.. it will disappear again !
Please help.. hope I am able to frame the question/problem properly..
Since I last upgraded to lollipop, all the photos I had for contacts are lost (as google does not syncs photos on gmail or google people)