OK so here is my problem... I have all of my google contacts and such, everything that i manually put in and then i have my facebook contacts. They are separate entities meaning i can edit all of my google contacts but i am unable to edit any of my facebook contacts. So I would like to know if there is any way to dump all of my facebook contacts into my database of google contacts so that i can edit a few things... any ideas?
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I have contacts on my phone most of them don't have email accounts they are just phone numbers. When I try to sync my contacts to the gmail account on my phone none of the numbers show up in my gmail account contacts listing. However, if I have contact phone numbers in my gmail account and do a sync, the phone numbers come to my phone. Basically, it is like the sync is only working in one direction. How can I fix this?
I'm fairly confident the sync does only work in that one direction...someone else correct me if I'm wrong?
bird333 said:
I have contacts on my phone most of them don't have email accounts they are just phone numbers. When I try to sync my contacts to the gmail account on my phone none of the numbers show up in my gmail account contacts listing. However, if I have contact phone numbers in my gmail account and do a sync, the phone numbers come to my phone. Basically, it is like the sync is only working in one direction. How can I fix this?
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when you add a contact on your phone, you have to choose "google" as where it's saved or else it won't sync to google
Kaik541 said:
when you add a contact on your phone, you have to choose "google" as where it's saved or else it won't sync to google
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Ok, so how do you add the google 'g' to contacts you already have on your phone without just recreating them all?
bird333 said:
Ok, so how do you add the google 'g' to contacts you already have on your phone without just recreating them all?
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I am not in front of my phone, but there is an option to export all contacts to a file and then an option to import them. I imported all my mine and added them to "phone" so i could add custom ringtones.
You may be able to add them all to google on the phone the same way.
There is also a market app for exporting contacts to csv - you may be able to do this then import through google on the desktop. YOu can use the linking feature to link phone contacts to google contacts.
I am currently Syncing my contacts via Gmail. the thing that is causing problems is the contacts images. There only syncing on maybe 5 of the 20 contacts. All I have are gmail contacts on my phone and no other contacts. Anyone got any idea whats its only pulling some and not all of the google contacts images?
How does one sort google contacts? situation is: i have all of my phone contacts backed up via gmail. though when i add them to my phone i also get a ton of random email addresses in my contacts on my phone, so therefore i have to go through everytime and delete all of them.
how do i create just a folder on gmail so it will only sync those contacts and not email addresses?
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How does one sort google contacts? situation is: i have all of my phone contacts backed up via gmail. though when i add them to my phone i also get a ton of random email addresses in my contacts on my phone, so therefore i have to go through everytime and delete all of them.
how do i create just a folder on gmail so it will only sync those contacts and not email addresses?
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Going off memory (phone upstairs and to lazy to go get it) but
you can't control what syncs, but there is an option in the Captivate contacts to only show contacts with phone numbers.
chasesavestheday said:
How does one sort google contacts? situation is: i have all of my phone contacts backed up via gmail. though when i add them to my phone i also get a ton of random email addresses in my contacts on my phone, so therefore i have to go through everytime and delete all of them.
how do i create just a folder on gmail so it will only sync those contacts and not email addresses?
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Go to your contacts on gmail and move anyone you don't synced to your phone out of the "My Contacts" group.
this will still allow me to sync them to the phone?
i did realize "my contacts" does include many email addy's.
Gmail used to add all contacts to the My Contacts group including those that you just email without you specifically adding them, it no longer does that but you do need to go through the My Contacts group in Gmail and uncheck all the ones you don't want synced from the My Contacts group. They will just then be available under Other Contacts I believe in Gmail and not synced.
Stock the Captivate won't currently sync just My Contacts. Cognition gives you the option to hide the others. (In contacts>menu>more>display options>google then select which groups to display
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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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.
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I have maybe 10 contacts sync'd from my gmail but most are from exchange. When I go into contacts and try to edit one of the exchange contacts (have mailwise), it still says I can only save it into gmail. When I click on linked contact in the attached screenshot, it clearly says exchange
How do i fix this? I want to maintain all contacts in exchange and also save any edits directly there
When I go into contacts -> settings, under default account for new contacts, it only shows my gmail and it's checked
Have you ever been able to fix this problem? I have the same issue on several Android devices from different brands; none of the native Contacts apps is able to add new exchange contacts.
The only app that can add a new contact is "Contact Editor free" that I have downloaded from the Google Play store.