is there a way to permanently link my facebook contacts to google contacs; It's annoying every time i flash a new rom my contacts get restored from google but i have to re-link them with my facebook contacts to get their pic and email
me too! Very disturbing every time! Anyone,help with this?
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arisgoku said:
is there a way to permanently link my facebook contacts to google contacs; It's annoying every time i flash a new rom my contacts get restored from google but i have to re-link them with my facebook contacts to get their pic and email
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You can try this: Sync your contacts with FB and Google. Go to your contacts app. Make sure the display options are such that both FB & Google contacts are displayed. Merge possible duplicates. Once all of this is done. From the contacts menu, export the contacts to SD card.
Now you've the contacts backup file which contains numbers, emails plus the the display pictures. After flashing new ROM, just import from this file.
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I just rooted my stock 2.1 hero, and plashed froyo FusionRom on it. Before I root, I installed an application from the market that will backup my contacts as a .csv file. now how do i load my contacts again? I tried importing them to my gmail account and then syncing my phone to google contacts, but i still don't see any contacts appearing. The strange thing is when I call/get a call from someone who used to be in my contacts list, his name appears in the Call Log tab. But not in the contacts tab???
So how do people who flash many roms deal with this problem?? I mean I can insert the contacts manually by creating a contact and filling their phone numbers one by one (all 255 of them) but that doesn't look like something I want to do each time i load a new rom.
YDardeer said:
I just rooted my stock 2.1 hero, and plashed froyo FusionRom on it. Before I root, I installed an application from the market that will backup my contacts as a .csv file. now how do i load my contacts again? I tried importing them to my gmail account and then syncing my phone to google contacts, but i still don't see any contacts appearing. The strange thing is when I call/get a call from someone who used to be in my contacts list, his name appears in the Call Log tab. But not in the contacts tab???
So how do people who flash many roms deal with this problem?? I mean I can insert the contacts manually by creating a contact and filling their phone numbers one by one (all 255 of them) but that doesn't look like something I want to do each time i load a new rom.
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Google contacts syncs all mine down from the cloud every time
So you put them into gmail, now go into google contacts on your PC and see if you can see them there. If so, check the settings on your google account in your phone's settings menu, and be sure it's syncing contacts to the phone from that account.
You can open a .csv with any spreadsheet application (i.e. excel) - just add them to your gmail contacts online and they'll sync up.
While syncing with the google account I lost some of my contacts, dont know why but I am experiencing this everytime I sync. Even importing and exporting loses my contacts. Any ideas?
djdhruv said:
While syncing with the google account I lost some of my contacts, dont know why but I am experiencing this everytime I sync. Even importing and exporting loses my contacts. Any ideas?
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Go to Settings -> Privacy -> there will be an option to backup/restore your contacts using your Google account. Next time you flash a ROM, turn on Sync after adding your Google account and it will restore your contacts and favorite contacts as well.
Hope this helps you.
when u first added your contacts, did u create them under ur gmail account or ur sim card/phone-only? the contacts under ur gmail account get synced while the contacts in ur sim card dont
also check the display options (phone>menu button>display options) to see if ur contacts are just hidden
I tried all of your suggestions but if I try to re-sync my contacts then I will lose some random contacts and they are synced via my gmail account
I would like to get away from having to sync with google and facebook for my contacts.
Is there a way to back up my google and facebook contacts, then delete those accounts from my phone, then re-import the backed up contacts to my phone?
Thanks,
PEZ
You can try the import/export option in Contacts to see if that work.
PEZ Dispenser said:
I would like to get away from having to sync with google and facebook for my contacts.
Is there a way to back up my google and facebook contacts, then delete those accounts from my phone, then re-import the backed up contacts to my phone?
Thanks,
PEZ
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As far as just backing up your Contacts...
Go to People then Select Export to Sdcard, then for your Facebook just Uninstall the App then Reinstall it and Select the option Not to Automatically Sync!
Good Luck man...
ok when i go in to edit any of my contacts on my photon it is showing google contacts then under that it shows phone contacts Unsynced. it use to never show this way on any contacts. It use to just show google contacts which is what i want to use. because the phone contacts thing shows the same as the google contacts. is there any way to get ride of all the phone contacts unsynced with out having to edit all 200+ contacts?
Also what is the difference between the two?
Also its showing the addresses twice now as well, is there any way to fix that or is that part of the google contacts/phone contacts unsynced problem?
You have some contacts saved on your phone storage, but they are not synced with your Google account and may not be there. If you have them all on your Google account also, just remove them all from the unsynced storage with a batch delete app.
If you don't have them on your Google account, go to the phone contacts and export them to your sdcard. Then import them from the sdcard into Google contacts. Now, once you're sure you have those contacts on your Google account, if you still have the "phone contacts unsynced", delete them using a batch delete app. But first make sure you have them on your Google contacts.
Let us know how it goes.
Have a nice day!
I just ended up doing a reset through the recovery option and it fixed it. Thanks for the help.
J.Parsons said:
I just ended up doing a reset through the recovery option and it fixed it. Thanks for the help.
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You're welcome
Hello everyone.
My phone started behaving weird.. it keeps switching to vibrate by itself. I'm not sure yet whats causing this but I searched around and I found that it might be caused be some app. So I'm thinking about restoring factory settings, but I want to keep my contacts intact.
The thing about my contacts is that I spent a lot of time joining people's phone numbers with emails, Facebook accounts.. etc.. I tried to export a backup using Contacts app but it said some info fields might be lost. So I'm wondering if there is a way to keep contacts as s after resetting the device.
Thanks in advance,
Aserar said:
Hello everyone.
My phone started behaving weird.. it keeps switching to vibrate by itself. I'm not sure yet whats causing this but I searched around and I found that it might be caused be some app. So I'm thinking about restoring factory settings, but I want to keep my contacts intact.
The thing about my contacts is that I spent a lot of time joining people's phone numbers with emails, Facebook accounts.. etc.. I tried to export a backup using Contacts app but it said some info fields might be lost. So I'm wondering if there is a way to keep contacts as s after resetting the device.
Thanks in advance,
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Go into Settings > Accounts and make sure all of the ones you have contacts with are synced and if you have some that are just stored on the phone only, make sure to sync to your Google account.
Will this keep Facebook, and other profiles linked to their contacts in the contact app?
Also, I deleted some Facebook contacts from my contacts app. If I synced Facebook app, will this remove the contacts from my Facebook account,? or re-adding them again to the contact app?
Aserar said:
Will this keep Facebook, and other profiles linked to their contacts in the contact app?
Also, I deleted some Facebook contacts from my contacts app. If I synced Facebook app, will this remove the contacts from my Facebook account,? or re-adding them again to the contact app?
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When you install the Facebook app back to your phone after factory reset and login. It will ask you to sync your contacts with the Facebook Profiles. In other words. This will link your contacts with the Facebook profiles on your friends list. And no it will not remove the contacts from your Facebook.
Jacobw53 said:
When you install the Facebook app back to your phone after factory reset and login. It will ask you to sync your contacts with the Facebook Profiles. In other words. This will link your contacts with the Facebook profiles on your friends list. And no it will not remove the contacts from your Facebook.
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But note that when I installed fb app and synced contacts with the fb profiles, most profiles (I believe the ones that had no phone number) were not linked to contacts. I had to use the Join feature in Contacts app to link them one by one. I wouldn't have to do it again, would I?
Aserar said:
But note that when I installed fb app and synced contacts with the fb profiles, most profiles (I believe the ones that had no phone number) were not linked to contacts. I had to use the Join feature in Contacts app to link them one by one. I wouldn't have to do it again, would I?
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Yes you would they don't save joined. Most just in case you don't install one of the apps again.
There is no way to do what your looking to do without redoing them.