For some effed up reason while editing an already existing contact android decided to take a rotten fart on me and every single one of my contacts and delete all them...
How can I get them back even the funambol way doesn't seem to wanna work right since this happened. It starts the import then imports then only 3 already existing contacts show up. None of my funambol contacts.
I just wanna take a brick to the face of whoever created the crappiest contact manager ever for android, import them through gmail then ya got to edit the numbers so on and et cetera, all pure horse crap rubbed in the face of every android user.
I've got them all backed up on my HTC HD2 Windows Mobile through Turbo Contact Backup as an xml file, but a lot of good that does me for my Dell Streak Mini if funambol doesn't wanna play nicely with others.
Any help would be great!
Finally got my contacts back, but now when I go to add a new contact, I have a bunch of "(Unknow)" contacts nothing in them or anything and they only show up when adding a new contact.
How can I get rid of these?
Have u ever thought of using a gmail acct to backup ur contact? U can also edit ur contacts thru the gmail and they will sync directly with ur phone.
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LORDFIRE00 said:
Have u ever thought of using a gmail acct to backup ur contact? U can also edit ur contacts thru the gmail and they will sync directly with ur phone.
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Aherm!!!
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......"import them through gmail then ya got to edit the numbers so on and et cetera,"......
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Ever thought by reading that part that i had problems with gmail and contacts? Plus it's very well known that Android and WinMo contacts don't get along too good.
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n1nj4Lo said:
Ever thought by reading that part that i had problems with gmail and contacts? Plus it's very well known that Android and WinMo contacts don't get along too good.
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ok...u want to be a smartmouth with me after i may have misread some of your post? do you look at your contacts in gmail through a pc? all your contacts should be there... if they are not properly syncing onto your phone, reset the sync option on your phone.. then reboot your phone and try it again.
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Using HTC HD2 [Windows Mobile 6.5 Stock, Ubuntu and MccMBoXMaX SD] and Dell Streak (Mini) 5 [LXdroid 2]
is mobile 6.5 what your using?
My setup now is mainly Dell Streak (Mini) 5, I had to download contact remover and select all then unselect my contacts and click delete all selected. I don't use Google Contacts yet, due to past incompatibility issues, my contacts really need a cleaning, now invalid tags and what not from WinMo address book, but I'm to lazy to clean up 300 some odd contacts.
Had 1000 blank (Unknown) contacts that couldn't be seen by most android contacts handlers, if I had tried syncing then I'd have had that in gmail too not just my android phone book... I still say google has a lot of work to do on handling contacts.
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Dude. Enter contact into phone, sync with google. Never worry about losing contact again. How hard can that be?
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Well then ya gotta weed out email contacts and gtalk contacts... I'll just keep using Funambol a.k.a. OneMediaHub
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Try this
n1nj4Lo said:
For some effed up reason while editing an already existing contact android decided to take a rotten fart on me and every single one of my contacts and delete all them...
How can I get them back even the funambol way doesn't seem to wanna work right since this happened. It starts the import then imports then only 3 already existing contacts show up. None of my funambol contacts.
I just wanna take a brick to the face of whoever created the crappiest contact manager ever for android, import them through gmail then ya got to edit the numbers so on and et cetera, all pure horse crap rubbed in the face of every android user.
I've got them all backed up on my HTC HD2 Windows Mobile through Turbo Contact Backup as an xml file, but a lot of good that does me for my Dell Streak Mini if funambol doesn't wanna play nicely with others.
Any help would be great!
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Hi You can use Excel to view your contacts stored in XML.
then you can save that file as CSV, most compatible with all devices while restoring the contacts...
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Hi,
I'm having problems syncing my contacts from my phone to my Gmail account. Basically, they're syncing the wrong way!
If I put a new number in my phone then sync to Gmail the number is deleted as it isn't already in my Gmail contacts list.
Surely this is the wrong way around? Surely it should add the new number to my Gmail account? After all, the phone is the logical place to create new contacts.
So, what am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
If it matters I'm running Vodafone branded firmware: Baseband 1.2.28, Build R2BA024.
Thanks.
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could it be you're editing your contacts on gmail as well? then again.. it couldn't be because it's 2 different contacts right?
how bout, if you create an account in google contacts? does it get synced with your fone and show up there?
Yeah if I add a contact to Gmail it syncs to my phone fine. Just not the other way around.
*confused*
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Anyone?
Perhaps I should have put this in the Q&A section!
Sorry Mods. My fault!
Care to move it for me? I don't want to start a duplicate thread.
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Okay I'm going to bump this one last time! I know that's bad form but I've been searching google and asking on other forums too and still can't find the answer!
If anyone can help it's the users on this forum!!
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Okay I'm going to bump this one last time! I know that's bad form but I've been searching google and asking on other forums too and still can't find the answer!
If anyone can help it's the users on this forum!!
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Pl try clearing the contacts from going to settings>applications>manage applications and clear the cache data from the contacts...it ill erase all ur current contacts on Phone and than u can recync all again from Google..hope that works...
Okay I'll give it a try. Thanks man.
I'll let you know how I get on.
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i also have a question to this case. obviously (and i think this is also the reason why this thread was opened) gmail sync only syncs the contacts from your gmail-account to the phone...actually it would be more valuable if i could transfer the contacts from my phone to my gmail-account, as it would also be a kind of backup if something happens to my device.
it is also a thing of daily routine, if i receive a new number or mailadress, i do save it in my phone. because of the only sync-direction gmail->phone, i have to sit in front of my pc in the evening and add the new contact details to my gmail-account...? wouldn't it be easier if i could start a transfer from my phone TO gmail?!?!
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i also have a question to this case. obviously (and i think this is also the reason why this thread was opened) gmail sync only syncs the contacts from your gmail-account to the phone...actually it would be more valuable if i could transfer the contacts from my phone to my gmail-account, as it would also be a kind of backup if something happens to my device.
it is also a thing of daily routine, if i receive a new number or mailadress, i do save it in my phone. because of the only sync-direction gmail->phone, i have to sit in front of my pc in the evening and add the new contact details to my gmail-account...? wouldn't it be easier if i could start a transfer from my phone TO gmail?!?!
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My thoughts exactly! Far more logical that way around.
The weird thing is, it used to work that way for me. Now it doesn't. As far as I'm aware I haven't changed any settings on either my phone or my gmail account. Very strange!
Tried clearing the cache btw and that hasn't solved the problem.
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so you already did that with your X10? you transferred the contacts of your phone to gmail?
of course it would be perfect, if i could chose which side should synchronize with the other...
e.g. if i need to reset my phone, then i'd love to get my contacts back from gmail!
hope, that somebody can help us here!
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so you already did that with your X10? you transferred the contacts of your phone to gmail?
of course it would be perfect, if i could chose which side should synchronize with the other...
e.g. if i need to reset my phone, then i'd love to get my contacts back from gmail!
hope, that somebody can help us here!
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Yeah. As far as I'm aware it used to sync in both directions. When I first got my phone I ran a manual sync and all my contacts appeared on my phone. Then if I added one to my phone, or changed one, and ran another sync it would update my gmail contacts with the new/changed one.
Now it doesn't. Strange!
The only thing I can think it would be is that I changed the last part of my address from googlemail.com to gmail.com.
I wonder if that might have something to do with it?
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so you already did that with your X10? you transferred the contacts of your phone to gmail?
of course it would be perfect, if i could chose which side should synchronize with the other...
e.g. if i need to reset my phone, then i'd love to get my contacts back from gmail!
hope, that somebody can help us here!
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hey dont worry for that part as it syncs all contacts in a very clever way, for eg i had flashed my phone several times and didnt kept backup of my contacts(apart from one on gmail) and when i was done with flashing i just use to sync them again with gmail and voila..ph got updated according to copy of gmail contacts...so it doesnt deleates the contacts on gmail...
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hey dont worry for that part as it syncs all contacts in a very clever way, for eg i had flashed my phone several times and didnt kept backup of my contacts(apart from one on gmail) and when i was done with flashing i just use to sync them again with gmail and voila..ph got updated according to copy of gmail contacts...so it doesnt deleates the contacts on gmail...
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ok, thanks for your note! so we are now sure, that the transfer of contacts from gmail to the phone works properly. and how about the other way round? do you know about that?
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Yeah. As far as I'm aware it used to sync in both directions. When I first got my phone I ran a manual sync and all my contacts appeared on my phone. Then if I added one to my phone, or changed one, and ran another sync it would update my gmail contacts with the new/changed one.
Now it doesn't. Strange!
The only thing I can think it would be is that I changed the last part of my address from googlemail.com to gmail.com.
I wonder if that might have something to do with it?
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hm, so it should normally align both states maybe? is the sync-function really checking the contacts of the phone and those in gmail an adds only the contacts on that side, where they are missing?
well, i have tried the sync once and it deleted all the new contacts on my phone! there was only a transfer of my gmail-contacts to my X10...phone book was ignored and even overwritten!
any hints what sunjin an i do wrong?
hm, so it should normally align both states maybe? is the sync-function really checking the contacts of the phone and those in gmail an adds only the contacts on that side, where they are missing?
well, i have tried the sync once and it deleted all the new contacts on my phone! there was only a transfer of my gmail-contacts to my X10...phone book was ignored and even overwritten!
any hints what sunjin an i do wrong?
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It used to sync both ways for me but now it doesn't. This is very, VERY annoying as I frequently add new contacts to my phone but I now have to remember to go add them to Gmail too or they get deleted next time I sync. Illogical if you ask me.
Can anyone with a different phone/version of Android confirm if this happens to you also?
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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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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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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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This is a subject that really has bothered me for a long time. WHY DO I HAVE DUPLICATES!
I'm not yelling at anyone, but damn I'm frustrated. And on top of having duplicates and even triples. Now for some damn odd reason half my contacts won't even dial out because at some point the system decided to take my contacts at random and add +1-315- in front of the number..
There was a point in Touchwiz i could just delete all and restore from sd and they would be neat again. But that day has past. I have been contemplating wagging a war on my now 400+ contact list, but have that small doubt that this fascinate will go down without a fight. I have tried to search for reason within the twisted realm of google, and the deepest directories of my phone. I was going to call google themselves and ask why their Android sucked so bad in the contact department, but i used (google voice search) and said "call google".... And just when the phone went to dial the little troll inside it added a +1 in front of the number, so the call never even rang through.
All this hopeless nonsense dealing with a part of the phone that should be so straight forward brings forth the 1 big question
Where is John Connor.
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I had that problem one time. I just deleted everything and only use google now to sync contacts... dont use verizon back up assistant or anything else.
I too has this problem it was resolved when I only used my Google account for contacts. At one point I had two personal accounts and my work contacts, it is fustrating but it forced me to use one email for contacts. If not you will have multiple contacts piping up for months.
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Can anyone tell me where on the phone contacts reside so i can hit them With a chuck Norris bomb
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Go to your email syc settings and check only the account you want to syc with. This should clear your duplicate contact issue.
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Can anyone tell me where on the phone contacts reside so i can hit them With a chuck Norris bomb
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Contacts, menu, more, display accounts, un check the ones you don't want displayed
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If you have miui you can merge contacts with the miui contacts app... if not there are market apps that will do that job.
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Ok. So i have a true fix for my problem..
I use ex dialer so just using the option in contacts to not show syncs did not work.
What i did.
1 airplane mode
2 export contacts to sd
3titanium backup wipe data for system contacts
4 menu> sync settings> turn off auto sync
5 reboot recovery
6 wipe all cache
7 reboot
8 open contacts
9 tap menu> display options> google.
10 long hold "all other contacts" and remove sync group
11 menu> sync settings> turn on auto sync
12 toggle off airplane mode if is still on
13 should be success
Seems google mirrored my contacts to 2 different sync groups. This gave me hell. Glad i dug into the problem and hope it helps others.
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Hi Guys, hope this thead is approppriate here.
I wonder how do you manage your contacts, for me it turned out very messy. Well I don't really have problem with Google contacts, but since our phones are also capable to show FB and many accounts contacts i would be awesome to combien all the useful infos....something like ENHANCING my Gooogle contacts using other accounts infos (like picture ansd birthdays, among others)
I don{t know if this is a temporary issu....but My FB contact are not synching well and and pictures are not always synched.
I used to have an iPhone 3gs and ther was this app called "MyPhone+"....was very handy......anyone know something like this for Android!
Hope you can help me....!
Thanks!
Go contacts in the play store
Samsung Galaxy SIII (SPH-L710)
you can manage contacts over here https://www.google.com/contacts/
If you only need to add the syncing aspect, Friends Sync by WATTO Studios is my Fave. It's consistent, small, fast, & syncs more fields than other apps. The logo is ugly, though, IMO.
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from your account of Gmail , enter the version web and edit your contacts, it works for me.:good:
Windows Phone has an option of linking two or more contacts. Quite useful. There must be an easy way in Android as well.
When you go to Contacts and select any contact, there should be an option to join contacts. You can cut out the duplicate entries this way and have all the info show up on one name.
When you join contacts it's works but if you wipe flash new rom all changes revert back
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Google Contacts the very first time is a mess, but after you reorganize all your contacts everything works simple fine
Myphoneexplorer is quite good for cleaning up contacts. Used to allow merging but for some reason that got taken away.
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/
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I keep all my contacts in Microsoft outlook on my PC and sync using "myphonexplorer".
Categories in outlook sync with groups in both stock android contact manager and "go contacts".
I prefer "go contacts" to the stock contact manager because if fully customizable and allows group messaging without the cap on number of contacts also group chat..
"Myphonexplorer" syncs contacts, messages, calendar, and files via usb and Wi-Fi. Also allows you to text from your PC.
The only things missing from "Myphonexplorer" is mms and group messaging from PC which would be really nice.
Both "Myphonexplorer" and "go contacts" are free in the play store.
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I have to try this tips out. Thanks
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When you join contacts it's works but if you wipe flash new rom all changes revert back
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Not if you sync them to Google after you have them sorted the way you want.
i don't want to open a new topic just for this question, so i'll post it here:
When adding a new contact to a google account from android, is there any way to auto insert that contact to a custom created group? I keep forgetting to add the new contacts to a specific group and i want this operation to be done automatically, any solutions?
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i don't want to open a new topic just for this question, so i'll post it here:
When adding a new contact to a google account from android, is there any way to auto insert that contact to a custom created group? I keep forgetting to add the new contacts to a specific group and i want this operation to be done automatically, any solutions?
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vCard sucks.. it doesnt support enough kinds of information, such as categories.. it doesnt work worth crap for CJK Characters either.. I cant believe every single program for Android only supports vCrap anyway.. but its all we have for now I guess... Windows 7 only has vCard 2.1 support.. .. but, it could be remedied on the software end by a program that would allow you to group contacts by a specific field.. you could then use one of the other existing fields as a "Categories" field...
there arent really any good programs from what I've seen.. honestly, I think i need to learn how to program an Android app just so I can find something useful so i'm not always stuck in suckville
but then, i dont think android will be around much longer.
Hello guys
I'm using Galaxy S2, running ICS 4.0.3
I have lots of funny contact names because of the SKYPE nicknames. Also, some contacts are made from email handlers.
So to organize them nicely, I spent last few hours on my Gmail / Contact account, renaming, adding photos, merging etc...
Except, that when I want to SYNC it. Not all of the contacts update, and some remain as they were.
I would trash them all and import new set from Gmail, but I'm worry that when I do that, it might trash my gmail contact as well
Any idea what's the best way to deal with that ?
Also, is there any way to change the contact font size? I have many long names, and lots of contacts. The screen cuts most of the names
off and many of the contacts share same name. I have to open the contact, to find out details in order to know who I'm looking for.
Any suggestions, much appreciated.
Did u try manually syncing gmail contacts under settings? Some times you have to manually push it. Also, what android version/ROM are you running?
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Jcossack88 said:
Did u try manually syncing gmail contacts under settings? Some times you have to manually push it. Also, what android version/ROM are you running?
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Hi there
Yes, right after I made changes in my gmail contacts, I went to settings and did the Sync Now.
Let me explain what doesn't update exactly.
I have many phone numbers to HP staff. They used to be sorted like: James - HP, Azman - HP, Raymond - HP etc.... Because they were all over my address book, I rename it in gmail contacts to HP - James, HP - Azman, HP - Raymond. Having them all grouped together in my list, given the first letters are identical. It works great in gmail contacts, but out of these 3, only HP - Azman get updated after SYNC. The rest remain the same.
This is something I don't understand.
Thanks for taking the time and looking into my post
Cheers
Seba