Dumb question, but I have yet to figure it out LOL. So I got 2 new phones for my kids and I add them to my contact list and sync contacts, but everytime I flash a new rom and log in to my google account the 2 new phones are never on my contact list and I continually have to re add them. How do I get my contacts to sync and update to my google account ?
Thanks for any help it's driving me nuts.
When you add a contact, there are options to save to the phone, google, or sim card, make sure you change from phone, to google.
fenixnr said:
When you add a contact, there are options to save to the phone, google, or sim card, make sure you change from phone, to google.
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Ah, never noticed that before ! Thank you
Also make sure in your setting that you google account is set up to sync the contacts
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Since we're on this topic, I've noticed that when I edit a google contact on my phone it only stays changed for a few mins until it re-syncs with google contacts and then it goes back to the way it was. How can I set it so that I can edit info on the phone and it'll update the contact on google's servers. It seems like its only a one way sync on this HTC phone. I've had galaxy S phones before and never had this problem. Thanks.
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Since we're on this topic, I've noticed that when I edit a google contact on my phone it only stays changed for a few mins until it re-syncs with google contacts and then it goes back to the way it was. How can I set it so that I can edit info on the phone and it'll update the contact on google's servers. It seems like its only a one way sync on this HTC phone. I've had galaxy S phones before and never had this problem. Thanks.
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Bump.
Is there no way to have the phone update gmail contacts on google's servers? I've never had this problem before on any Android phone. Samsung touchwiz, AOSP, and Cyanogen all worked properly.
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Is there no way to have the phone update gmail contacts on google's servers? I've never had this problem before on any Android phone. Samsung touchwiz, AOSP, and Cyanogen all worked properly.
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I have the same problem on an SG3. It is driving me crazy. At the moment is seems that the only way to get a new contact on the phone is to enter it into Google first.
This seems to be a big problem for a lot of people.
I expect that there is some simple answer and that it is simply that smething which is being misunderstood - but if some knows the answer and could post it here - there would be a lot of grateful people.
There is also the option to back your phone up with your google account when you first sync it. DoD you select that?
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Is there no way to have the phone update gmail contacts on google's servers? I've never had this problem before on any Android phone. Samsung touchwiz, AOSP, and Cyanogen all worked properly.
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Under people, make sure everything is deselect except Google contacts. Then everything should sync
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Weirdness with mine is I keep adding numbers to my Google account and it syncs but days later when I change roms It isn't saved.
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blestsol said:
Weirdness with mine is I keep adding numbers to my Google account and it syncs but days later when I change roms It isn't saved.
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i have the same problem and it drives me crazy. when i update a Google contact on my phone and after manually sync the contacts, it doesn't get updated on my Google account on the net.
please advice.
Complaints here are worthless without saying what code is being run. I use rooted/debloated stock firmware, and contacts sync just fine between the phone and gmail.
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Complaints here are worthless without saying what code is being run. I use rooted/debloated stock firmware, and contacts sync just fine between the phone and gmail.
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Same. I've never had an issue like this in all my years on android. All I can say is make 100% sure you are changing the Google contact in your phone book and not a phone/facebook/sim one. Any chances made via phone or Web to contacts should sync pretty much instantly.
Also if you have multiple accounts like I do, I'd recommend using just one for all your numbers and having the others just for email addresses and such. Maybe the multi account sync is just showing the one with the most information vs the actual one that you edited. See if this helps
finally i found the solution on the net. @ https://forums.motorola.com/posts/4b949ea56b
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Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
lvond555 said:
Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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that was a really annoying "feature" of the samsung fascinate. I guess the only way around it is to use the AOSP contacts program. I will attempt to restore it from titanium backup and see if it works
it usually sets it as gmail right out of the gate when i'm creating contacts, etc...i find myself checking every once in awhile now anyways. it is truly annoying!
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evilmansin said:
I don't have a thunderbolt but that **** would piss me off. If they have you an option to save settings as defaults but thats lame sauce... Eff VZW
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A) language
B) It's a feature of sense, therefore htc, not vzw, is to blame.
however, yes, annoying. One solution would be to export contracts to SD from phone, import from SD to google.
(you would have to keep doing this, but it's a good way to back up before wipe/flash.)
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evilmansin said:
I don't have a thunderbolt but that **** would piss me off. If they have you an option to save settings as defaults but thats lame sauce... Eff VZW
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butthurt n00b detected....launching all countermeasures!!!
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butthurt n00b detected....launching all countermeasures!!!
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LOL! Couldn't have said it better myself.
edited my previous post. Seems go contacts wouldn't solve the issue.
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however, yes, annoying. One solution would be to export contracts to SD from phone, import from SD to google.
(you would have to keep doing this, but it's a good way to back up before wipe/flash.)
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I did the same thing. I went into gmail and organized/updated all my contacts. So now all my phone contacts are Google contacts. Be sure to go into gmail and do a perge/merge of any duplicates. This makes porting contacts over that much easier.
What really annoyed me was the linking/suggested linking of contacts on the phone vs google vs facebook. After you centralize everything around your google contacts things become much easier.
To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
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lvond555 said:
Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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I think if you create the new contact in your google account (vs on the phone) then it will sync up and everything will be OK.
I have to get into my google account contacts and clean up some stuff, duplicates, etc., that seem to appear every now and then.
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To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
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Thanks, this is one step closer to what I need. I have a couple GMail accounts on my phone one of which I use solely for work contacts and I use the option of selecting which GMail account I added the new contact to. Really missing this feature
Any word if the AOSP contact app works?
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To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
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That just changes which contacts show. I am talking about entering a new contact and letting it be a Google contact by default. I don't want to accidentally set it up as a phone contact which will not sync to your Google account.
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Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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I gotta say Contact Management with Android has been probably one of my biggest frustrations. I like the ability to sync my GMail contacts, that's easy enough. But between getting pictures and "linking" "synching" and "attaching" contacts via Twitter, MS Exchange, and other means... TO not being able to only populate mobile numbers when creating SMS/MMS's and such, it is just way more difficult than it should be.
It could and SHOULD be much simpler. Maybe I'm just a wii-todd, idk.. Either way, I feel your pain dude.
Ya so was I.... Maybe since u have a mixture it isn't working for u.....Export all your contact to Google then remove ur Google account from the phone then delete all ur contacts off ur phone then sync with Google and do the steps I posted before
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That just changes which contacts show. I am talking about entering a new contact and letting it be a Google contact by default. I don't want to accidentally set it up as a phone contact which will not sync to your Google account.
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I am rooted! YAY! I didn't know that my contacts with fb would not sync, and neither are all of mine from google. booo!
Is there any way to get my facebook contacts to sync with my phone contacts? I really liked having all those pics for everyone, plus all of the other contact info. I didn't know that the backup my phone was syncing with every day (was it with verizon?) on stock GB was not a contact list that I would not be able to use on ICS. I lost a lot of contacts. How do I get all of my google contacts to show up, and how come it's only showing me some of them, and not all of them? Where do I go to manage all of my google contacts and get them on my phone? Do I do that from the desktop gmail in my pc browser?
Also, is there a way to make the contact manager list the contacts without the ginormous pictures in a side-by-side fashion? I really don't like the look or feel of it, is there a better way?
ETA: This might be helpful, duh, sorry
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Lamaterfamilias said:
I am rooted! YAY! I didn't know that my contacts with fb would not sync, and neither are all of mine from google. booo!
Is there any way to get my facebook contacts to sync with my phone contacts? I really liked having all those pics for everyone, plus all of the other contact info. I didn't know that the backup my phone was syncing with every day (was it with verizon?) on stock GB was not a contact list that I would not be able to use on ICS. I lost a lot of contacts. How do I get all of my google contacts to show up, and how come it's only showing me some of them, and not all of them? Where do I go to manage all of my google contacts and get them on my phone? Do I do that from the desktop gmail in my pc browser?
Also, is there a way to make the contact manager list the contacts without the ginormous pictures in a side-by-side fashion? I really don't like the look or feel of it, is there a better way?
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Facebook:
http://www.dailytut.com/social-networking/sync-facebook-contacts-android.html
For google just set your gmail up or google voice and they should automatically show up.
Just do a google search. Thats what I did.
well, that is incredibly outdated and poorly written information, but thanks.
Lamaterfamilias said:
well, that is incredibly outdated and poorly written information, but thanks.
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You're going to have to use an app such as HaxSync if you want to sync your Facebook contacts in ICS.
different contact manager for ICS?
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You're going to have to use an app such as HaxSync if you want to sync your Facebook contacts in ICS.
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thank you! I knew their had to be a way. Is there a different contacts manager for ICS? I really dislike the one that it comes with. Maybe I am just too used to the one that GB had, but I find the one is ICS to very unwieldy.
I just updated my Sprint Evo 3d to ICS last night and before I learned that you can't see Facebook contact images in 3rd party apps without some tinkering I deleted my gmail and Facebook accounts from the phone thinking that would help. When I put my accounts back Facebook only automatically linked half of my contacts. I selected the option to sync with existing contacts. Is there any way to get it to automatically link the rest? I don't want to manually link 100+ contacts. Is there a way to manually trigger the linking? Also, I don't know if it matters, but before the ICS update I had Facebook and Facebook for sense on the phone. Now it is only Facebook.
The other 100 might now have a phone number linked to fb or the names are,diffrent or you don't have an email for them or some kind,of linking info I'm your phone but the fb app should allow you to resync the people in settings I think
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The other 100 might now have a phone number linked to fb or the names are,diffrent or you don't have an email for them or some kind,of linking info I'm your phone but the fb app should allow you to resync the people in settings I think
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All the names are identical so that isn't a problem and they linked perfectly fine when I first got the phone with gingerbread. When I first set up the phone periodically the phone would alert me to possible contact links every so often until they were all linked. It isn't doing that now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639275
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1639275
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Sitlet I think that is for a different issue. My problem isn't that 3rd party apps can't get the pictures (well that WAS my problem originally), it is that the link is not being established in the first place. I can fix the picture issue but I need the phone to prompt me about potential links between the contacts so I don't have to do it manually. The fix in that thread won't LINK my contacts right? It will just allow 3rd party apps to get the contact photos.
In case anyone cares, it took about 48 hours and last night I received the prompt suggesting I link contacts. I have no idea why it would take so long to trigger but all is well in the world now. Thanks to those who tried to help.
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In case anyone cares, it took about 48 hours and last night I received the prompt suggesting I link contacts. I have no idea why it would take so long to trigger but all is well in the world now. Thanks to those who tried to help.
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I bet it's facebook's problem. They've been having a lot of issues with the mobile app. Mine, along with many other people, has been logging out and having problems with sync lately.
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I bet it's facebook's problem. They've been having a lot of issues with the mobile app. Mine, along with many other people, has been logging out and having problems with sync lately.
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Yeah for a few days it forced me to login every time. It wasn't just the mobile app though it was doing it to me on the regular web version as well.
Now that I have this all figured out it leads me to my next question. I used syncmypix to grab the high quality images from FB instead of the **** low rez ones that it imports itself and it synced it to my gmail account. However, the phone is set to default to the FB picture not the Google version. I can go into each contact and tell it to use the gmail photo but once again, I would rather not have to do that. Anyone know of a batch way of doing this?
I'm coming from a Windows Phone, and the great thing about it was it synced all my contacts to my main hotmail. Phone numbers, everything. I'm not interested in moving to GMail, Hotmail has always done it for me and that's that.
So as I'm completely 100% new to Android. My question:
Can I sync my hotmail contacts to the S3? As in, will they show up with their numbers and all? And is there a way to keep it syncing? Will changes made to either the phone or Hotmail reflect?
Many thanks guys, and looking forward to getting this beast of a device!
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Can I sync my hotmail contacts to the S3? As in, will they show up with their numbers and all? And is there a way to keep it syncing? Will changes made to either the phone or Hotmail reflect?!
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Seems like you can, search for Hotmail on Google Play (As a new user, I'm barred from linking).
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Seems like you can, search for Hotmail on Google Play (As a new user, I'm barred from linking).
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Cool thanks man. I'll Google it. I want to make sure I can before I pull the trigger.
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A ha, and it looks like we have a possibility.
Official Hotmail app
It says it syncs contacts, but does anyone know if that's just for the email app, or for your phone's contacts???
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I'm coming from a Windows Phone, and the great thing about it was it synced all my contacts to my main hotmail. Phone numbers, everything. I'm not interested in moving to GMail, Hotmail has always done it for me and that's that.
So as I'm completely 100% new to Android. My question:
Can I sync my hotmail contacts to the S3? As in, will they show up with their numbers and all? And is there a way to keep it syncing? Will changes made to either the phone or Hotmail reflect?
Many thanks guys, and looking forward to getting this beast of a device!
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Yeah when I add a Hotmail account using the built in email client it asks if I want to sync contacts, I usually don't since I use Gmail. I just tried it and it showed one person with a phone number which could be right, but honestly don't know if the number is from Hotmail or something else.
However, you'll have to have a Gmail account to use Play Store etc, and it works really well for new devices/resetting etc, just put in your Gmail and you can restore everything on first boot.
If I was you I'd strongly consider swapping to Gmail, just my thoughts.
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Yeah when I add a Hotmail account using the built in email client it asks if I want to sync contacts, I usually don't since I use Gmail. I just tried it and it showed one person with a phone number which could be right, but honestly don't know if the number is from Hotmail or something else.
However, you'll have to have a Gmail account to use Play Store etc, and it works really well for new devices/resetting etc, just put in your Gmail and you can restore everything on first boot.
If I was you I'd strongly consider swapping to Gmail, just my thoughts.
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Thanks for the help, man.
Well I've had the same Hotmail for like a decade, and just had to switch it actually to Microsoft's new dumbass "@outlook.com" thing. There are so many people who have it, and I like their SkyDrive. All personal taste and all that.
At any rate, I do have a gmail address, and will be using it for Play. But not as my email. Which I do understand is a pain, and a purposeful handicap on my part.
From what you described, it does seem like it imported a number into your phone's contacts. Seems hopeful.
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Thanks for the help, man.
Well I've had the same Hotmail for like a decade, and just had to switch it actually to Microsoft's new dumbass "@outlook.com" thing. There are so many people who have it, and I like their SkyDrive. All personal taste and all that.
At any rate, I do have a gmail address, and will be using it for Play. But not as my email. Which I do understand is a pain, and a purposeful handicap on my part.
From what you described, it does seem like it imported a number into your phone's contacts. Seems hopeful.
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Yeah I just opened the contact and removed the Google account part from it and it still showed a number and I checked my Hotmail on computer and it listed the number, so it seems like it should work, but I'm still not 100% sure. Hopefully someone here might use it like that and will have a better idea.
Yeah I still use Hotmail for my emails, just Gmail for everything else haha.
Yep, you can I have Facebook,. Google+, Twitter and Hotmail all synced up to my contacts
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Yep, you can I have Facebook,. Google+, Twitter and Hotmail all synced up to my contacts
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Excellent!! :laugh:
Thanks very much
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Yeah I just opened the contact and removed the Google account part from it and it still showed a number and I checked my Hotmail on computer and it listed the number, so it seems like it should work, but I'm still not 100% sure. Hopefully someone here might use it like that and will have a better idea.
Yeah I still use Hotmail for my emails, just Gmail for everything else haha.
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Right on!! I figured that was it.
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Right on!! I figured that was it.
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Yes you can, it was a pain to do at first as you have to configure your hotmail sing m.hotmail.com or something as far as I remember, you'll find on google what to do anyway... I, like you, came from windows phone and I do miss that amazing system but the s3 is sick
dont know if you also know that you can if you want also use activesync to connect hotmail to the built in email app, thats how i use it and it works a treat for me
for your users name its "\[email protected]" and for server use m.hotmail.com
It already has been mentioned that you have an Hotmail app and you can also configure an Exchange account. For what you want, you should go for Exchange account, because the app imports your contacts but it doesn't allow to edit them (I don't remember if you can add a new one, but I think you can't); with Exchange you can edit and add contacts, but you only get the first calendar (Hotmail app can sync all calendars). Since you haven't mentioned calendar I guess it's not important.
Does anyone else have a problem using the G3 and saving contacts? I have a Bumbped Verizon G3, and my Girlfriend has the T-Mobile G3, but BOTH of us are unable to SAVE new contacts. I have ben usuing/Flashing android since the OG Droid and have never had a problem with my google account, but it just strikes me odd as we've never had problems until we've been using the G Series phones.
Does anybody else have this problem? Any Ideas?
I'm Running Skydragon Also. I like to stay as close to stock as possible.
Are you checking to see if the number is being saved to the phone or your google account.
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the google.
when I first add a contact it'll bring up which account i'd like to save it to and I make sure its my gmail, then I go to my actual gmail in my settings and sync everything about a good ten thousand times, and once I flash a new rom it's all gone again.
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when I first add a contact it'll bring up which account i'd like to save it to and I make sure its my gmail, then I go to my actual gmail in my settings and sync everything about a good ten thousand times, and once I flash a new rom it's all gone again.
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I would suggest you make sure you have all the contacts you want on your device, then log in on google contacts from your PC and erase everything and re-sync your phone. I had to do this before my contacts would stick or stop duplicating themselves when I first got this phone.
I always save the contacts to the sd card. And restore from the sd card.