A friend had sync turned off in his s4. I exported his contacts to microsd using contacts-export to sd. Now when i tried to import the vcf file to the s5, i can not figure out how to. The s4 has been factory reset and sold so there is no way to sync to google servers. Jow can i transfer the contacts.vcf to the s5?
I guess you could import vcf to Google on a computer then synchronize with S5.
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You can do it on the S5. Open contacts. Go to the settings menu(top right 3 dots). Go to settings, then you will get a screen that says Call and Contacts. Open Contacts and you will see Import/export option
Thank you very much for your suggestions. I used termdj's method and it worked.
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After a pretty bad experience and almost loosing all my contacts with the basic export contacts feature, I decided to do what I should have done in the first place...
Is there a decent app that allows you to export all contacts (to an excel doc for ex.) after which you could edit them from the PC and import them back on to the phone? Doing this without loosing linked contacts and synced to FB.
Why don't you use Google contacts?
Do you have a Gmail account?
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can you export from phone contacts to google contacts easily or do you have to add them manually to google contacts?
Do you have a Gmail (/Google account). If so plus you connected it to your phone than it's very easy.
Which phone/version of android do you have?
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Ofcourse Google itself is the best option.
But there is an app which exports all contact in to once single .vcf file.
Try searching marketplace.
rackspace said:
Ofcourse Google itself is the best option.
But there is an app which exports all contact in to once single .vcf file.
Try searching marketplace.
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Exporting to .vcf is the method I used without any app installed, using the phone's basic function, but after reimporting back I lost the FB synced contacts and besides opening and editing the .vcf file in excel is not so user friendly
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Do you have a Gmail (/Google account). If so plus you connected it to your phone than it's very easy.
Which phone/version of android do you have?
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I have an account and I will probably try it also, using android 2.1-update1.
www.google.com/contacts
Yea it worked great with google in 15 minutes or so... wish I thought of that before wasting 2 hrs with other methods
That's fine. You'll see the true benefit of this method soon. ;-)
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I transfered all of my contacts from my iphone at a sprint store, but when i try searching for a contact when composing a new message, the phone cannot seem to recognize the contact name. This happens to the majority of my contacts, only a few actually work. Anyone know a fix or why this is happening?
thanks in advanced
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sounds like something got borked when transferring contacts. I would try linking the contacts with numbers in the Contacts app and then try it again and see if it works. Try a few, to see if its working. I manually enterred all of my contacts a while back when I switched from Pre to Hero to my google account (I know, there is an easier way, now). So I haven't had any contact issues.
It was happeneing to me too, but no port from iphone. Also when contacts would call it would only display there number even though the were already contacts with pictures.
I Just played with the contact settings and not sure how I fixeed it sorry.
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menu>more>import/export export all your contacts to sd card. delete all contacts and menu>more>import/export and import all your contacts using google instead of phone. i had the sam problem going from the samsung rant to my evo
My dear friends,
Since when i bought my Galaxy S3 i google sync contacts with no problem between all my devices but from today morning i noticed one surprising problem i.e when i create a new contact on say the Galaxy S3 and another on my iPhone 4 and when i sync they all appear on both devices but when i DELETE both ways that of the Android remains and does not delete, which means i have to manually delete it on Galaxy.Please help and thanks.
There's likely to be an issue on the iPhone. It's not removing it from your gmail account. Check your settings.
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There's likely to be an issue on the iPhone. It's not removing it from your gmail account. Check your settings.
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No i do not think because when i check my google contacts on my computer it has been deleted!
Check that all contacts on the phone have a G symbol on them. When creating a contact on the phone, be sure it is a Google contact and that you are not creating a contact on the phone only.
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Thanks but in creating new contact sometime "G" symbol is not available.
Then you need to change the default setting by clearing the defaults of the contacts app in settings, applications, all
You HAVE to have the G for sync to work.
Export all your contacts to sdcard and use that file on your desktop and import it Google Contacts. Use the merge duplicates after importing.
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Hey guys, having a stupid issue here, I have SOME of my contacts from my evo3d that are not syncing with google, Most of my contacts synced and loaded to my new GS4, but not all of them, and it is not like it is just my most recent additions, just some random ones. I have had this happen before so i tried exporting all contacts to a .vcf and then importing all of them on the GS4... still some of them are not transfering, any ideas???
Are those contacts having some unusual characters in names or any other contact field, like ä, á, ă, š, ş and so on?
Btw, why don't you use the new Samsung tool to move data from your old phone to the new one?
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Are those contacts having some unusual characters in names or any other contact field, like ä, á, ă, š, ş and so on?
Btw, why don't you use the new Samsung tool to move data from your old phone to the new one?
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nope no weird characters... the tool wont work since the usb on my old evo3d is going out
You can try exporting them to an SD card. ( In contacts > import/export > to SD ).
Or try doing it on Gmail directly by uploading the file to gmail once you export it to the SD.
If you tried these and it didnt work, make sure your contact settings is set to display all acounts or sources. ( Contacts > Menu > Contacts to display )
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I export my contact to the usb memory to factort reset a friend phone because play store was fc every time it opens. When it factory reset and i try to find the vcf file and the pictures all was deleted. Why? This never happends to me in any android device. What I did wrong. He loose almost 1000 contacts about his work and people that ows he money is there a way i can find back all of his contacts?
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Are his contacts synced with google/gmail?
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Are his contacts synced with google/gmail?
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Not all of them. Just 74 out of 1000
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Have you checked his contacts using the link on Gmail? Google backs up contact changes for 30 days, so he may still have them stored under his contacts in Gmail.
by "usb memory" do you mean you exported/saved the vcf file to a flash drive, micro sd or some other form of external storage? if so, and you connect that storage media to a PC, i'm assuming you cannot locate the file?