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Synchronise only specific Contacts with Outlook

Hi,
my Outlook contains several hundred Contacts and i don't want to synchronise them all with my HD.
Is there any way to synchronise only some of them?
I already opened a new folder in "My Contacts" naming it "Contacts HD" but ActiveSync always wants to synchronise all of my Contacts instead of only the ones in that folder.
Any help???
Thanks, Oliver

Outlook will only sync the contacts folder.
Create another Contacts folder and drag all the contacts you don't need to sync into that.
You used to be able to sync categories - but Microsoft removed that useful feature - thanks Microsoft.

I had same concerns but the HD handles hundreds of contacrs effortlessly. Have you tried it?

I know, but not everyone wants to keep all the contacts on there!

Syncing only My Contacts not All Contact

Hi,
The Google sync on the hero syncs with the "All Contacts" list on google contacts. This list includes the email address of pretty much everyone you have ever emailed! I just want it to sync with "My Contacts" which does not inlude all those extra addresses, just people you actually know.
Is this possible?

yes, and is in at least two other threads.....I Know cos i answered there as well!
open people - go to the groups tab - menu - sync groups
untick all contacts

Messed up contact list using google sync... any advice?

Hi,
Summary: I used Google sync without thinking, ending up with a mixture of e-mail contacts and phone contacts on my phone and on gmail. Could use some help separating them again.
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I have synchronised my X10 contact list with the Sony Ericsson sync service (website).
I also have a gmail account. Some days ago I added my computer's e-mail address book to that account.
Yesterday I decided to sync my phone with gmail (by selecting the following on the phone: settings - data sync - google sync). I simply wanted to upload my phone's contact list to gmail. I didn't consider that ALL my e-mail contacts would be added to the phone. I don't need those there...
So, any advice on how to get rid of all the e-mail contacts that google added to my phone?
At the moment, my complete contact list (the one I would like to maintain) exists at SE sync service.
In gmail's contact list, I can select all the e-mail contacts, and probably delete them. However, gmail's list only contains 60% of the contacts that were originally on my phone (of course I would like to keep 100%).
I am thinking about deleting all contacts from gmail and from the phone, and downloading them from SE sync service. Does that work they way I'm hoping? I'm a bit worried about losing my phone contacts from SE sync service.
Any advice?
Also, is there a way to set up gmail contact list so that the phone's contacts stay in one folder, while e-mail contacts stay in another folder?
(I do have some "phone contacts" with e-mail addresses, some "e-mail contacts" with phone numbers, etc, which might complicate things.)

murmeljenta said:
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So, any advice on how to get rid of all the e-mail contacts that google added to my phone?
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If you go to Phonebook>Menu (left button)>Display group (or something similar)>Contacts with phonenumber , then all contacts without a nummer will be hidden.

Vin87 said:
If you go to Phonebook>Menu (left button)>Display group (or something similar)>Contacts with phonenumber , then all contacts without a nummer will be hidden.
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Thanks for the tip... However, I do have some "phone contacts" with e-mail addresses, some "e-mail contacts" with phone numbers. I don't need all those contacts twice.

murmeljenta said:
Thanks for the tip... However, I do have some "phone contacts" with e-mail addresses, some "e-mail contacts" with phone numbers. I don't need all those contacts twice.
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Merging these contacts on gmail.com>contacts using your computer would be the easiest and fastest thing to do I guess.
Or make a new group in the gmail contacts and transfer all your phonecontacts to that group, then let the x10 only show the contacts in the new group.

[Q] Contacts annoyances (with GMail)

Hi,
I'm a bit annoyed by the way the Galaxy S works with Contacts:
All contacts are synced to Gmail instead of My Contacts
Gmail Groups are not synced, all Gmail contacts are in one group
No easy way to convert phone contacts to Google contacts or to merge contacts into a google contact
Essentially, I want to use GMail exclusively to manage contacts and have all of them synced between GMail and the phone.
I would appreciate any suggestions on how to achieve this, or maybe there is a better Contacts app out there?

This is not SGS issue, but the Android platform has been designed in the way that it's cloud computing centralised, in this case, Android phone is just the "client", you still need to maintain your contact in Gmail (web).
I tried delete a GMail contact in the phone, but that action will not delete the Gmail contact in Gmail server, sadly.

I've searched for solutions and found that the first two issues are solved on some phones, but that the Samsung Galaxy does not have the option to change the sync behaviour.
I want to maintain my contacts in GMail, but the problem is that the phone does not respect the GMail groups and it syncs "All contact", which means everyone I ever sent a mail. It should sync "My contacts", which only contains Contacts I created in GMail.
I hoped that there is maybe an alternative contacts app that does what I want.

_Fabian_ said:
I want to maintain my contacts in GMail, but the problem is that the phone does not respect the GMail groups and it syncs "All contact", which means everyone I ever sent a mail. It should sync "My contacts", which only contains Contacts I created in GMail.
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I was also annoyed by that fact. But fortunately you can select to display only contacts with phone numbers associated in the contacts
application.
Just hit menu button while showing the list of contacts -> Display options -> only contacts with phones.
This at least solved my major issue with the google synching. Nice: typeahead in the gmail app still works for all people you ever sent a mail.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Try this , it did the trick for me

_Fabian_ said:
I hoped that there is maybe an alternative contacts app that does what I want.
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I have tried Contacts Evolved in the Market. It is a littly buggy, not even sure if it is actively supported. But it does display Gmail contact groups, segregated in tabs.
The actual syncing is still being done by the brain dead Samsung Contacts app, which cannot be uninstalled. It apparently does download the groups data element from Gmail contacts, but fails to do anything with it.

When I tried jp3 2.2 firmware the google groups showed, looks like it will be fixed in the 2.2 update.

Thanks for the answers. Displaying only contacts with phone numbers helps, and if the group thing is fixed in Froyo, thats alright for me.
Now I only need to convert my phone contacts to Google contacts, there should be an easy options like Phone to SIM and vice versa, but I could not find it. Looks like I may have to do it by hand.

This is like the only bad thing for me. Do more people confirm that it is fixed in Froyo?

[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.
piercewei said:
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..
Sent from The Arc!

im_iceman said:
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..