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Backing up/Restoring "joins" between contacts

I have all sorts of weird bugs right now (been using BakedGoods 1.1) with my nexus: phone freezes up sometimes when i'm trying to answer a phone call, phone freezes up when trying to reboot/power off, text labels are misaligned sometimes...
So I've decided to flash to the cyanogen's latest ROM... but after flashing without wiping - I get infinite error popups of "process com.android.launcher2 has stopped unexpectedly", I can barely even power off the phone...
When I wipe the phone and then flash - everything seems to be alright... so I guess that's the only option left.
I've installed MyBackup and Titanium Backup - and backed up everything on my phone, but the only thing I couldnt backup was hundreds of links between contacts stored on google and facebook contacts (it took me FOREVER to link those, since my google contacts are saved in Hebrew, while the facebook contact names are in English...)
I really don't want to link the contacts one by one all over again... So my question is: is it possible to backup/restore the links between contacts?
Thanks in advance!

My question has ended up being on the bottom of Page 3, without any reply :/
I cant update my nexus without solving this issue, and I'm stuck with a buggy phone right now that freezes every now and then...
Please help, if you can :'(
Thanks...

I had the same problem but only with my gmail contacts + sim contacts, so after the second lost of "joins" I decided to do it the proper way.
Contacts were synced with my gmail accoutn and then in the gmail web I used the contacts manager to fix all the accounts for once (at least until I get a lot of new contacts), now everything is oganized in my gmail contacts and my N1 just fetches them, if I add a new contact in the N1 it will also end up in the gmail account and to make it better I used an app to sync all my contact's pictures with those on FB.
Good luck!

neoranga: thank you for your reply
I have a whole different scenario with my phone...
My contacts are already saved on my google account, but since many of my contacts have a Facebook account, I like them synced, so I can see their profile when I view a contact, and their profile picture on the phone is always in sync with their FB profile picture.
Since my contacts are saved in Hebrew, and the FB account names are in english, the phone cant 'Auto-match' them together... So I had to manually link each and every contact with its correct FB profile...
It took me so long to link them all together ( I have hundreds of contacts) and I'd **hate** to do it again, without even knowing if it'll be the last time of doing it...
There must be a way to backup these links too bad it cant sync with the google account...
Anyone else have faced this problem and got an idea of how to solve it?

[Q] Managing contacts...

I'm an android noob, just came over from the iPhone camp so please bear with me..
I've had the sgs for a couple of days and so far been trying to get a good handle on managing my contacts...
I used to backup / sync my iphone in itunes and my company outlook. I had a recent backup of my contacts in outlook, so the easiest way to get them on the android was to sync them over...
Now they show up in my corporate group.
Then I sync'd my facebook and it did a decent job of linking most of my contacts (I really like the way android does this as opposed to iphone)
I also had a recent list of contacts on my sim since I had been iphone-less for a couple of months and was using the old nokia flipper.
Now I have a couple of questions...
I've got my contacts display options only showing me the corporate and facebook groups (with phone numbers) .. so the list looks good !!! however when I send or receive a text message, it also shows all my sim contacts. A few of my sms threads were linked to the sim contact (only first name, no picture etc) .. the only way i found to resolve this was to delete that particular contact off my sim...
question 1) how do you delete all sim contacts ? (couldnt find a select all)
question 2) do I really have to delete my sim contacts? or can I disable it altogether so it won't show anywhere in my phone
question 3) next time I get some cute girl's phone number, it'll get stored as a "phone" contact .. how do I keep my corporate (outlook) contacts in sync with phone contacts... or can I put her number right in the corporate (outlook) group so it stays in sync with my exchange account ..
I don't want to end up with a bunch of numbers as phone contacts and another bunch as outlook / corporate contacts. I'd like to be able to back it all up somehow (like itunes would backup the iphone and sync with outlook)
Thanks for your insight and wisdom

if you are having trouble using Kies to manage your contacts, you can try this better alternative
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765081

I installed android manager .. still no way to delete all sim contacts !!! amazes me why such a simple task is just not possible...
well good thing i have my 8 year old nokia phone that does it for me
Also annoying that I cant just turn off sim contacts so I won't have to delete all of them (another thing 8 year old nokia just does!)

indeed we have apps like this
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.shao.Copy2SIM
to copy contacts to SIM
but we have nothing to manage contacts from SIM
LOL

That's cool .. I plugged the sim in the nokia and wiped all of its contacts .. not the android doesnt get confused anymore..
now if i could only find that patch to fix my sms time stamps .. i'd be a happy android camper.. I tried 3rd party sms apps, but they dont seem to read my "exchange corporate" contacts .. so every text shows with just the phone number .. sigh

to hide your sim contacts on samsung galaxy S use the options :
contacts->menu->display option->choose contacts to display "UNCHECK SIM"
hope this helps

[Q] Facebook Contact Sync HELP!!!!

OK.. so i come across a second hero that i want to keep stock... I was going thru it and adding things when i tried to sync facebook i noticed the contacts did not sync... the updates work and what not.. and my contact card was updated.. but contacts appear in contact list.. Any help would be appreciated..
EDIT..before i get flamed i have searched XDA. havent really found a solid answer or anything that worked

If I remember the stock people app correctly you'll need to click link inside of any contact that you want to link to facebook.

I know i can do it that way...but at one point in time it would import my contacts from facebook to my contacts on the phone... i would have their emails, phone numbers, etc.. just by syncing facebook... i have heard s few people say this will not work with 2.1 bc something is wrong with facebook and the phone communicating... still trying to figure this out

thats the only way I know how to do it,on cupcake it was automatic as long as you set up the contact to sync when you put it in your contact list originally. I think they took a step backwards in that aspect when the did the update.

almost makes me want to downgrade..lol...i really miss that feature...

The Facebook contact sync should work just fine. They didn't remove that feature in 2.1.
Try deleting the cache and data in your Contacts, People, and Facebook apps. Go into Settings-->Applications-->Manage applications and then scroll down and find Contacts Storage. Open it and Delete cache and data. Then do the same in People and any Facebook ones too.
!!!Warning -- This will delete all the contacts from your phone, so make sure they are all linked to Google before you do this!!!
Afterward, it will take a few minutes for all the contacts to be re-synced/re-added back to your phone, but this may fix the issues you're having and get your Facebook ones in there now.

sync with facebook

this is doing my head in , i used HTC sync to get all my phone contacts over to my new phone from outlook
i now want to link certain contacts only to their facebook profile
if i use FB for htc sense and dont sync all contacts, if i try to find them and do it individually then no FB contacts appear in the search if i sync all i get all my FB friends in my phone book and calender.
same happens if i use the facebbok app, im sure im missing an easy way to just synce with my existing phone contacts only
please help

Not sure if I get what you're after.
You only want *some* of your contacts linked to their FB profiles - but not all? Is it really that much of a hassle?
If it is, then my suggestion would be to use the FB app, and link existing contacts (the middle option) and then for the people you don't want linked, go into each one individually and break the link (there is an icon in the top right that you can press to do this)

im getting all my FB friends birthdays in my calender and i dont want that when i go to phone in the list is all my FB friends and i dont want that either , i want just my appointments in the calender and my phone contacts in my phone book

for the phone contacts only in phonebook:
open up people app.
hit menu.
hit view
disable/enable any contacts from any app that you wish.
to remove facebook birthdays:
open calendar app
hit menu
hit more
hit calendars
turn off facebook calendar
Hope this helps you!

thanks very much i will give that ago

got the calender sorted but still getting all my FB friends numbers in the people tab
think its already sync them all to the phone cause under the phone option or sim option i have 174 contacts and should only have about 40 can i reverse this on the phone and on htc sense as i thik when i re sync with that it will put them all back on
edit sorry not getting them in the people tab but if i hit phone and then scroll through my contacts on the phone dial pad screen all my FB contacts are there ?

yeah, don't know about that one, sorry

combat goofwing said:
got the calender sorted but still getting all my FB friends numbers in the people tab
think its already sync them all to the phone cause under the phone option or sim option i have 174 contacts and should only have about 40 can i reverse this on the phone and on htc sense as i thik when i re sync with that it will put them all back on
edit sorry not getting them in the people tab but if i hit phone and then scroll through my contacts on the phone dial pad screen all my FB contacts are there ?
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Hey Mate I understand what your saying and its one thing thats pissing me off as well. When you go to the dial screen all you fb contacts are listed and their details, but on the people one its just your contacts that you want on your phone.
I too would rather not have every contact persons deatils on the dial screen but I cant seem to figure out how to remove them.

I've worked out how to remove them from people but the still appear in the dialer its a nightmare I want to be able to chose who shows in the dialer and who doesn't
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please to hear its not just me beaing a bit picky

I also wish they didn't show up on the dailer screen... Just makes everything messy.
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My neither, many of the details aren't complete and I've even got some different duplicate names as some of my friends don't use their real name.
It is a total mess. I think I just switch it all off as my contacts are perfect. Also I don't like how HTC is putting facebook tags in the Notes field on a card, it is now messing up my core address book.

Same here.
I want all my social apps on my phone (Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, hyves etc).
But I don't want all that crap in my contacts (or peoples) app.
I want to connect the people to the accounts I made on my phone, but I want to be able to chose it.
One other thing, I can't choose which social network I want to select the information from.
Some pics are better from Facebook, others from Twitter.

Check the "Only people with phone number" to show in the View options of People app?

It's not people app that's the problem only my phone contacts are in there .It's when you go into phone dialer thrashing every
FB contact showds up
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I just deleted the Facebook details from sync settings and use a third party app (Bloo) to use Facebook. I know you don't get to use stuff like 'friends' widget etc but honestly all this social network integration is screwing with address books.
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hi guys,
i feel exactly like you. this **** messes up everything. i managed it somehow to get all the facebook, skype contacts out of the phone app. but i dont know how. i was messing arround on the weekend, and was syncing for and backward and deleting and resyncing everthing until i got it how i liked it. but it dont know anymore what how.
but a good alternative for a contact app with social networking integration is contapps. Its not perfect yet, it s still in development and there are some new features coming.
because the goal of the app is to interact with social networks without messing up your phone contacts.

sync problems, solutions?

Hi,
i store my contacts at my google acc. But i feel like i miss everything if i dont get the newest facebook profile pictures of my contacts straight to my phone asap !
The Problem is, i came with an fresh new phone, link my google account and want to synch. (google contacts because i think its the best way, **** yea google!) Until now its fine, but as soon as i link my fb profile too, my phonebook is exploding. now i get the latest pictures and adresses etc, but they do not merge with the contacts from google. At least not automatically.
Now i have the contact with this old, ****ty, not so glamourous picture but with the up-to-date phone numbre and the same contact with the wanted, new photo, but without any numbre, because facebook is read only.. wierd. help!