I just joined the android family.
And i was wondering is there is a easy way to import my contacts with pictures and appointments and sms messages from my xperia to my magic?
thnx!
Its a few steps sadly...
1. Sync your winmo with your pc and outlook, this will get your calendar and contacts in outlook.
2. export your contacts as a csv file and then import into google using web interface. Tip create a group for your phone contacts, as by default google syncs everyone you have ever emailed. I call mine 'Phone Contacts'. On the handset you can say only sync contacts in xxx groups. This way they stay nice. You can then reassign your contacts photos in the web contacts page. These will sync down to your phone.
3. install google sync (http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe), this will then sync your outlook calendar with google, which will then sync with your phone
As for sms etc, sorry can't help you there. But you might want to look at this (http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/) sms backup program. stores all your sms's in google under a label called SMS.
Thanks
ajpalm said:
Its a few steps sadly...
1. Sync your winmo with your pc and outlook, this will get your calendar and contacts in outlook.
2. export your contacts as a csv file and then import into google using web interface. Tip create a group for your phone contacts, as by default google syncs everyone you have ever emailed. I call mine 'Phone Contacts'. On the handset you can say only sync contacts in xxx groups. This way they stay nice
3. install google sync (http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe), this will then sync your outlook calendar with google, which will then sync with your phone
As for sms etc, sorry can't help you there. But you might want to look at this (http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/) sms backup program. stores all your sms's in google under a label called SMS.
Thanks
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pfff,.....
Ok
Thank you for your reply!
I guess this is still faster then manual input.
For SMS: if you have or plan to have root access to your android phone: http://android.modaco.com/content/software/288916/windows-mobile-sms-migrator-beta-1/
Cheers.
ajpalm said:
Its a few steps sadly...
1. Sync your winmo with your pc and outlook, this will get your calendar and contacts in outlook.
2. export your contacts as a csv file and then import into google using web interface. Tip create a group for your phone contacts, as by default google syncs everyone you have ever emailed. I call mine 'Phone Contacts'. On the handset you can say only sync contacts in xxx groups. This way they stay nice. You can then reassign your contacts photos in the web contacts page. These will sync down to your phone.
3. install google sync (http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe), this will then sync your outlook calendar with google, which will then sync with your phone
As for sms etc, sorry can't help you there. But you might want to look at this (http://code.google.com/p/android-sms/) sms backup program. stores all your sms's in google under a label called SMS.
Thanks
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Thank you for this.... I think this will also work for Winmobile phones also?
venom037 said:
Thank you for this.... I think this will also work for Winmobile phones also?
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I dont see why not..
http://www.vufone.com/ supported windows mobile and android handsets.
sync using winmo, then do a full download using Android.
Granted its not free, but its an excellent took to use, and for $20 per year it can't be knocked!
Try it out... 14 day free trial http://www.vufone.com/
Hi everybody, I just like to know if it would be possible to create an outlook contact starting from our facebook contacts.
I mean, I could have a contact on Facebook, and the same contact maybe it's not in my phone's address book...basically I would like to achieve this so that I could manage all birthdays directly on my phone...does exist any app for this?
Thanks in advance
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to copy gmail contacts to our leo win7 hd2s )...
Thanks in advance for ur comment and answers...
Rgds
MeTinnn said:
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to copy gmail contacts to our leo win7 hd2s )...
Thanks in advance for ur comment and answers...
Rgds
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Have you tried setting gmail up as an activesync account?
Server: m.google.com
User: your email address
Password: your gmail password
Domain: leave blank
Then you should be able to sync them in
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Have you tried setting gmail up as an activesync account?
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I believe that's the only way people r using their contacts in LEOs (or hotmail sync) ...Ive been using it that way since it's first day on my hd2 but i would like to copy contacts to phone cause when u disable gmail sync it also deletes all ur contact then u need to resync everything again ...
Well, import the contacts on PC to your Live ID. There is an online tool for that in Live altough syncing with google is better, because it syncs even contact pictures and has less corrupted information. You probably cant have contacts without the cloud link.
Ummm have you tried just setting up a gmail account on the phone??
Sync'd my contacts just fine, I do not use any contacts from my live account only from gmail ...
no phone numbers present when sync from google
does anybody has solution
ray_bharati said:
no phone numbers present when sync from google
does anybody has solution
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U should reedit ur contacts on ur outlook (i believe u had them in ur office outlook) and change the phone number from "general number" to "mobile number" and then resync them again with ur gmail account ....
hope it helps ...
Rgds
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.
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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.
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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!
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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..
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Hi everybody.
All my contacts are syncronized with google contacts.
I have contacts with more than 4 numbers like:
Contact 1
Home XXXX
Office XXXX
Mobile XXXX
ID XXXX
When I receive a call, the phone show me the name and the number, but don't show information like home, office, mobile.
Samsung support tell me that I need to save my contacts in the phone, but I really need my contacts in google.
Somebody can help me.
Regards.
Ummm.... save it in phone and let phone sync with Google?
It doesn't work
Bodisson said:
Ummm.... save it in phone and let phone sync with Google?
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Thanks for your answare, but unless you tag your contacts as Google contacts, they will not sync to your Google account.
Hmmm.... dunno.
I have restored contacts from my SGS II to my (then new) SGS IV. All were synced to Google, even if none of them was marked as Google contact.
Do I need to say that I did NOT want Google to have my contacts?