backed up all my contacts before doing anything by going to export to SD. Saved it as a v. card file
But when I import after the MOD, i only see contacts with emails, when I go to show only contacts with phone numbers it only shows me 5 people?
Even stranger, when I open in outlook, It shows only 1 contact!
But when i right click the file, and open in notepad and do a search i see all my contacts..
I'm confused, I dont wanna enter all my contacts by hand. Help?
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Hey does anyone know how to get all the contacts that are listed in my Gmail account onto my phone so that when i compose new messages i dont have to type a person's entire email address?
It seems like there has to be a way but i can't quite figure it out.
Thanks!
I'm sticking my neck out a bit here, but I think this will work
Load up your Gmail account on your PC, and go to Contacts; over on the top right of the contacts display is an "Export" link. This opens a new window, with two choices - pick the one that says "export to Outlook" and then save the file it generates somewhere on your PC. If you don't want every single contact imported to the phone, edit the .CSV file with Notepad (or whatever) and delete the lines containing the contacts you don't want. When you're done editing, save the file back as a .CSC file with the same name. That's the easy bit, now comes some fun
Use ActiveSync to copy the .CSC file to somewhere on your phone - the Storage Card is probably as good a place as any......then,
....use DotFred's "PPC PIM Backup" utility - get it from HERE - on your phone and select "Restore" from the drop down list on the first screen. Then navigate to where you saved the .CSC file on your phone and select "Next". You will then see a screen similar to the one attached - make sure you select "Comma" as the field delimiter and then tap Next to import the contact data...
CAVEAT: If you have contacts already stored on your phone, use PPCPIMbackup to take a backup of them first.....just in case this procedure f*&ks things up completely (as I said at the beginning, it should work!!).
You should now have all your Gmail contacts on your phone and you can edit them with the phone's Contacts application so they look (maybe) a bit more presentable...
Hope this is of some help
Mark.
Is there a way to backup the contacts together their synced facebook ones?
It is impossible with "my backup pro", and they can' te be saved on google servers..
Thanks a lot
Ale
I'm not exactly sure i understand the my backup pro thing, but if you go into contacts, push the menu button, click on more, then export them to SD card, it'll create a VCF file with all your contacts in it, you can save it somewhere or even e-mail it to yourself.
What i always recommend is to import that file into your gmail account (directly from the phone) this way your contacts are synced no matter what happens u'll have them on your gmail account.
Rodi,
Thanks for your reply, i'll try them next time i'll have to change my rom!!
And sorry for my english
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Khar00f said:
I'm not exactly sure i understand the my backup pro thing, but if you go into contacts, push the menu button, click on more, then export them to SD card, it'll create a VCF file with all your contacts in it, you can save it somewhere or even e-mail it to yourself.
What i always recommend is to import that file into your gmail account (directly from the phone) this way your contacts are synced no matter what happens u'll have them on your gmail account.
Rodi,
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Hi, i have a problem here.
Let me explain: I have contacts in the sim, inside the phone and the ones synced through facebook.
I'd like to sync to gmail ONLY the contacts stored in the phone and I don't know how to do.
When I press export to SD Card it copies all my contacts.
Do you know a way to skip that contacts?
Thank you
I am looking for help in loading my Google contacts to my rooted NC. I have Google Voice working. I can type in a phone number manually to send text msgs. I can also rec'v them
To load contacts, I tried:
Export from gmail to a vcard file
Used an app called 'import contacts'
note: I had several 'bad entries' that I skipped and the process said it completed, but still no contacts.
Lastly to use contacts in GV, do they show up when you click the 'To' button when composing? Maybe the contacts are there and I am doing it wrong.
Lastly, I check the reg old 'contacts' app and I do not see them their either..
Any help is appreciate.
I absolutely LOVE the NC rooted.. Cant wait for HC or GB to take this all the way home...
I hope it will be usefull for newbie as me, if you have Gmail account your contacts will follow you without using software connections or cable and wifi connections
You can syncronyze your PC contacts (outlook, LG contacts etc....) with your gmail account (with a little search you find how to) and after no problems of synchronization, your contacts will follow you in every MOD, in every android phone
A guide could be
1) save / export your contacts to a csv file on a PC (or similar);
2) save / export your contacts on your phone to a csv file (just use "exports heading to SD" and is created automatically);
3) Turn off any programs that synchronize with gmail (helps to avoid trouble while working at the end you can reactivate all);
3) Import csv thus obtained on gmail contacts;
4) Place your contacts on gmail (eliminating duplicates using "merge", accommodation name and last name .... you know is a big job) NB contact cards do not have the field name (when Google will place this thing??), I suggest you write the contacts by putting "Name" space "Last Name");
5) Delete all the contacts you have on your PC (should now be on gmail);
6) Reset the terminal Android (so you deleted the directory, but this phone is moved, and will ask to reboot again with gmail account in sync);
7) reactivated all synchronizations;
8) Now you have all your contacts at your fingertips on your computer and your terminal Android (on the latter may take some time, I waited a couple of hours);
9) For owners of Android remember that now you have to use only "google contacts" when you add or change a contact, otherwise it will be added to google contacts (basically disabled "sim contacts" and "phone contacts" if you want a backup copy, to the limit, export of SIM or SD Card).
Obviously this is "my" way to resolve the matter, will not be perfect but it worked for me.
CarloIT said:
I hope it will be usefull for newbie as me, if you have Gmail account your contacts will follow you without using software connections or cable and wifi connections
You can syncronyze your PC contacts (outlook, LG contacts etc....) with your gmail account (with a little search you find how to) and after no problems of synchronization, your contacts will follow you in every MOD, in every android phone
A guide could be
1) save / export your contacts to a csv file on a PC (or similar);
2) save / export your contacts on your phone to a csv file (just use "exports heading to SD" and is created automatically);
3) Turn off any programs that synchronize with gmail (helps to avoid trouble while working at the end you can reactivate all);
3) Import csv thus obtained on gmail contacts;
4) Place your contacts on gmail (eliminating duplicates using "merge", accommodation name and last name .... you know is a big job) NB contact cards do not have the field name (when Google will place this thing??), I suggest you write the contacts by putting "Name" space "Last Name");
5) Delete all the contacts you have on your PC (should now be on gmail);
6) Reset the terminal Android (so you deleted the directory, but this phone is moved, and will ask to reboot again with gmail account in sync);
7) reactivated all synchronizations;
8) Now you have all your contacts at your fingertips on your computer and your terminal Android (on the latter may take some time, I waited a couple of hours);
9) For owners of Android remember that now you have to use only "google contacts" when you add or change a contact, otherwise it will be added to google contacts (basically disabled "sim contacts" and "phone contacts" if you want a backup copy, to the limit, export of SIM or SD Card).
Obviously this is "my" way to resolve the matter, will not be perfect but it worked for me.
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in the name of many users ... thank you.
This is indeed very welcome information.
Figured out how to backup myself. But this is way better.
Thanks for sharing the info!
oh thank you, i hope to help someone, with the search too
I like changing ROM once a week so this is the best way
tnx very much for this guide
EXPORT OUTLOOK CONTACTS
In Outlook, click Import and Export from the File menu.
Click Export to a file, then click Next.
Click Comma Separated Values (Windows), then click Next.
In the folder, select the Contacts folder, then click Next.
Navigate to the folder where you want to save the contacts as a csv file.
Type a name for the exported file, then click OK.
Click Next.
click Finish
IMPORTING CONTACTS IN GOOGLE GMAIL
Log on to Gmail, click Contacts at the top of the page.
The contact list will appear in a new page.
Click Import Contacts.
Click Browse and locate the CSV file created using the steps described in the section "Exporting Outlook Contacts" section.
Select the file, then click Import Contacts.
After your contacts are imported, a dialog box that indicates the total number of contacts imported.
i wonder if there a way to save contact to SD card.. so i don't need to Sync to Gmail anymore.
if any1 knows it.. tell me please..
cause when i sync to Gmail.. 1 contact can be 4 on my contact after i sync..
or is there anyway to delete contact on Gmail..? so when i sync it won't fill up my contacts..?
try this
go to contacts > press menu button (left button) > choose export to sd card
droidface said:
try this
go to contacts > press menu button (left button) > choose export to sd card
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hmmm.i think what he is saying is that if we can make the default storage of contacts be in sd card so he wont need to resync after wipe data.
as far as i know it can't? don't know if others can but me myselft don't know any method to do it.
can press "Thanks" if i helped,;]
2nd post op is right can tact can be exported to sdcard with that option and after a wipe they can be restored
one other thing the op of thread can do is go to "contact to display" setting and unticking Google from the list
eksdiey said:
hmmm.i think what he is saying is that if we can make the default storage of contacts be in sd card so he wont need to resync after wipe data.
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Personaly i think it's not good idea, things are saving in phone memory (like widgets, contacts, settings) are essential to good working phone without his sd card. Placing there contacts is quite weired :|. Wonder that would be unpractical if you using 2 sd cards
okay, here's a tip how i reorganize my contacts so i dont have duplicates and also clean contacts database..
at first we need to use gmail and it would be easier to open it from pc..
step 1 : sync your phone contacts with google
step 2 : open gmail, login and go to contacts (click on the text gmail, you'll see 3 menus: gmail, contacts and tasks.. choose contacts)
step 3 : export your contacts to sdcard, and import them to gmail.
step 4 : on the left, choose "My Contacts"
step 5 : select all contacts, and on the "More" drop down menu, select "Find & merge duplicates..."
step 6 : recheck your contacts manually for empty names or numbers/emails without names (in my case, there are some emails with no name, so i just delete the not important ones, and merged the ones i recognise with the correct contacts)
now, if you think you've sorted all of the contacts then you could MERGE/DIVIDE the contacts into groups..
you could do that by ticking all the contacts and click the "Groups" drop down menu, and uncheck everything except "My Contacts" group.. this step is to remove "imported" groups from android..
if you need to divide contacts into groups then you can select the contacts and create a new group from the "Groups" drop down menu..
Now, if you think your contacts are perfect, this is the last step.
EXPORT YOUR GMAIL CONTACTS to pc for safety reason.. then
DELETE ALL YOUR CONTACTS FROM THE PHONE (you could install "go contacts" or similar app to easily bulk remove them.)
SYNC your contacts from your phone
and you are done.. after all contacts are correctly synched to your phone, you could export them again to SDcard for later use..
sorry if the steps are messy and maybe a little unclear, if there's any questions just let me know