I was wondering if anyone knows how to add all the facebook synced contacts to the phone.
I don't know if it is just me, but apps like Car Home refuse to call facebook synced contacts. They will however call contacts stored on the system. This happens in a lot of apps actually (apps that let you choose a phone to dial).
Doing this manually is obviously not an option when most of my numbers are synced from Facebook.Are there any ways to export those and then import it into Android?
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hello, I'm switching from my beloved touch pro to the nexus one, but don't want to manually put all of my contacts to my new phone. is there a way for me to export all my contacts from windows myphone contacts to google and to the nexus. i tried just importing my contacts through my live account, but that only pulled the email contacts and not all of my phone contacts. I'll take forever to do it manually, and if I save them to my sim, I'll lose a lot of info. any help? I'm lost at this point.
I looked for a solution to this for a days. The best solution is http://www.spritesoftware.com/products/migrate/how-does-it-work- up to now.
thanks. looks like exactly what I was looking for. I'll give it a try and report back.
I found that installing Google Mobile App on my Touch Diamond2 synced all my contacts to my Google Account and therefore automatically appeared on my N1.
http://www.google.com/mobile/google-mobile-app/
lilHermit
There's many ways of doing this....
If any of these apply you can try any of these...
First you can just import them using bluetooth I'm sure. You could just 'mark all' or select all your contacts in your phone book on your phone and just send them using bluetooth to the nexus.
You could also import them into Outlook express and save them as a file and import them into gmail under contacts in gmail.
Or you could set up an extra gmail account and sync your phone's contacts to that account using Google sync and then export those contacts as a file and import them back into your main gmail account or keep them there and use that account to sync with your nexus.
Sorry for making it sound confusing but I'm coming off a symbian S60 V5... I know there's many ways of doing this
I dropped my HTC Touch Diamond down a storm drain, so I'm replacing it with the HTC EVO. My phone synced a day or 2 before, so I have all of my contacts online with Microsoft My Phone. I see no "export" option anywhere on the page. Any help/suggestions for retrieving and importing into the new phone?
I think the easiest way is to set up your gmail account as an exchange account on your Windows Mobile phone and set it to sync mail and contacts.
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
Then once you set up your N1, your contacts will sync automatically. I love this feature from Google as much as any other. You will never lose your contacts again, no matter what happens to your phone. Also, you can edit and add contacts in your gmail account online and they automatically appear on your phone.
DejaOffice will sync your Nexus contacts to Outlook via USB without going through the google cloud.
Is there a solution for exporting contacts from myPhone? I have broken my TD2 and my TD1 so I can't use that to sync the contacts to the phone and export them. If I could I would probably sync all my old text messages as well.
I am embarking on an approx 30 min task of copying and pasting all my 400 contacts from MyPhone to excel then I can import them. At least I get to tidy up my contacts and remove any duplicates.
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Life saver
lilHermit said:
I found that installing Google Mobile App on my Touch Diamond2 synced all my contacts to my Google Account and therefore automatically appeared on my N1.
lilHermit
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This was great.. man u really helped me out..
Is your N1 syncing your contact's profile photo with their facebook profile?
Mine don't sync. I have to go to edit contact and do it.
N1 does recognize and pair the contacts with facebook profiles..just doesn't sync pictures.
strange!!! I have no problems with this... sync merges Google contacts & Facebook contacts along with the Facebook profile pics... unless there is a Google contact pic...
I have it syncing on some, but not all.
I have found the ones with problems either
A) Don't have a complete name in my phonebook
B) Have a different number in facebook.
Hmm.. quite wierd.
I am seeing a trend...
I was using HTC Sense 2.5 on WM. And all the contact whose photos were synced with facebook by sense 2.5, do not sync with facebook in android. And for some reason, gmail contacts (web, browser version) shows these pictures in contacts, but android does not.
I just deleted a contact's photo in gmail..and android instantly synced it with facebook.
im having this problem tooo! just noticed it today. i cant figure out why it wont sync tho!!....
You can go for this, worx nice
AddressBooker & exporting my Facebook Phonebook:
http://brad.livejournal.com/2398409.html
I find that Facebook only syncs people with first & last name on your contacts list. It doesn't sync only first names. I wish there was a way around that.
That is annoying, even my old blackberry would sync to partial names, and that thing is primitive in comparison.
Noticed a couple of things:
Address book names and facebook contact names have to be the same.
If you have a photo linked to the contact (i.e you synced from another phone to google and pulled the contacts back down) then you often have to specify that the phone uses the facebook profile pic rather than the pic held directly against the contact.
It's a bit of a faff around, and if you delete the pics from the contacts on your gmail account (as someone mentioned above) it should default to the facebook pic assuming there is one for the contact.
<edit> Also ensure you have facebook setup to sync friends into contacts. Facebook app -> Menu -> Settings -> Sync Contacts </edit>
Highland3r said:
Also ensure you have facebook setup to sync friends into contacts. Facebook app -> Menu -> Settings -> Sync Contacts
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This helped me. Thanks.
I could not add a facebook account directly in "Accounts", but enabling sync in the FB app automatically added it to "Accounts".
Hi everybody,
I was able to export all my outlook contacts into a csv file and then upload it to google so that i could sync my captivate.
It worked great!
the only thing that i'm having a problem with, is that since they're considered google contacts, it won't let me assign a ringtone to them or even separate my contacts into groups.
Now i know third party apps let me assign ringtones, but its kind of annoying that i'm more limited on options when they're google contacts and not contacts saved either on the SIM or on the phone's memory itself.
Does anyone know a way around this? i've tried playing around with the menus, but there's no option to just save them to the phone.
ok, so after playing around for the last hour or so, i've figured out the answer to my own question.
i exported the .vcf file from gmail, then imported it into the phone and that did the trick!
After the 5.1 update, i'm having some troubles with the contacts storage. I have a few problems, like:
- after the sync, I have a few duplicate contacts, wrong contacts picture and for some contacts are merged wrong...like 4-5 people merged in one contact
- if I hide some contacts (yahoo, skype etc) from contacts app, the modifications are not replicated in dialer app.
I already tried to reset my phone, clear data for dialer, contacts, contacts storage applications. Anyone else have this problems?
Same problem
I had the same problem. If you have all your contacts synced online, the original contacts should stay as it is on Google contacts which you can see in your gmail on your PC . So go to the apps settings and clear contacts cache. That should delete all your contacts except for the ones saved in your sim card. Remove your google account from your phone and then log in again. Your contacts should get synced with the ones in your gmail. I tried this and most of the contacts were fixed but there are still some which are merged. For those, go to their contacts on your phone and there should be a separate option in your options. The merged contact will get separated. But I guess you will to have to individually do that for the contacts that are still merged.
alexlacra said:
After the 5.1 update, i'm having some troubles with the contacts storage. I have a few problems, like:
- after the sync, I have a few duplicate contacts, wrong contacts picture and for some contacts are merged wrong...like 4-5 people merged in one contact
- if I hide some contacts (yahoo, skype etc) from contacts app, the modifications are not replicated in dialer app.
I already tried to reset my phone, clear data for dialer, contacts, contacts storage applications. Anyone else have this problems?
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If you have Sync.Me or similar app uninstall it. I think it started to mix contacts after Facebook changed something in API making those sync apps useless.
So my main goal is to sync my existing contacts with facebook so it will show their photos when someone calls or texts etc...
So in facebook there are three options:
Sync All - Sync data about all friends to contacts
Sync with existing contacts - sync data only about friends already in contacts
remove facebook data - remove facebook data from Contacts, Use information about friends only in facebook
Now, the second option seems to be the one I need, but what ends up happening is that ALL my facebook friends pour into my phone's contact list and it becomes a cluster. Why doesn't this work? Has anyone else experienced this?
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theyangman said:
So my main goal is to sync my existing contacts with facebook so it will show their photos when someone calls or texts etc...
So in facebook there are three options:
Sync All - Sync data about all friends to contacts
Sync with existing contacts - sync data only about friends already in contacts
remove facebook data - remove facebook data from Contacts, Use information about friends only in facebook
Now, the second option seems to be the one I need, but what ends up happening is that ALL my facebook friends pour into my phone's contact list and it becomes a cluster. Why doesn't this work? Has anyone else experienced this?
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Just open your contacts app and hit more/settings and tap on contacts to display and pick what contacts you want to show.
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