Hey guys,
Can anyone tell me how to backup "Me" in Gmail contacts.
I have maintained all my contacts in Gmail and sync it with my android. However, I have maintained my details(like email addresses, phone, etc) in Androud phone but these details are no where backed up in Gmail Contacts.
Now whenever I format myphone/wipe data, I have to manually fill up all details again. I do not want to backup all details on my SD card.
Thanks,
dexter1123 said:
Hey guys,
Can anyone tell me how to backup "Me" in Gmail contacts.
I have maintained all my contacts in Gmail and sync it with my android. However, I have maintained my details(like email addresses, phone, etc) in Androud phone but these details are no where backed up in Gmail Contacts.
Now whenever I format myphone/wipe data, I have to manually fill up all details again. I do not want to backup all details on my SD card.
Thanks,
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No response till now.... does that mean there is no one who has solution to this problem.
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Use google+ app on your phone.
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so from my x10, i tried to synchronize my contacts w/ gmail, by going sync. data > google sync > contacts
now, my gmail account have contacts that my phone did not have
so by sync. i thought it meant adding contacts to my gmail contacts,
but NOOOO, now the contacts i had originally in my gmail that weren't on my phone is completely gone! that those didn't go on my phone either!
so please help!! is there anyway i can retrieve those lost contacts on gmail?!
or can someone confirm to me that it's lost forever so i don't even have to try asking anymore, thanks
The only way to get them back is if you ran the sony ericsson backup / restore before hand at some point or backed up manually or saved to your sim card. This is the only ways to get them back
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I am having trouble syncing my contacts that I inputed on my Atrix to Gmail. Even if the contact is Linked to both Phone and Google, none of the contacts show up on Gmail from my computer, but if I add a contact from my computer, it shows up on my phone. How can I sync from my phone to Gmail? btw, this is my first Android device.
Thanks.
I have exactly the same issue and it's driving me nuts! Creating a new contact on the phone adds it to the "Contacts" group but there doesn't seem to be a way to get that to sync with google/gmail. Have you found a way around this?
Ok, my phone auto syncs it with contacts and gmail, but I think I know why yours isn't.
Open the contact and verify that it has a linked profile to your google account. If it does not, then link it.
If it does, go to settings > accounts > gmail account
Hit the menu button and sync. Log into your gmail account on the desktop version, not mobile version, hit contacts, click all contacts and verify.
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DarrellRaines said:
Ok, my phone auto syncs it with contacts and gmail, but I think I know why yours isn't.
Open the contact and verify that it has a linked profile to your google account. If it does not, then link it.
If it does, go to settings > accounts > gmail account
Hit the menu button and sync. Log into your gmail account on the desktop version, not mobile version, hit contacts, click all contacts and verify.
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If I create a brand new contact I can't link it to gmail because the contact does not exist in gmail. Your method only works if I have the contact in gmail/google also.
Anyone solve this yet? I'm dealing with 150 contacts or so that were imported from a sim card and trying to figure out how to get them into gmail.
I think I might be able to do export all contacts to a file, then email it to myself, then import all contacts to gmail but I'm trying to avoid CSV errors.
thunderbolt
I am having the same issue in my thunderbolt. I just rooted it and when I went to look for a contact that I added when I got the phone I realized it never was sent to my gmail account and now it is not synced.
Thunderbolt
Through some searching I found that the thunderbolt defaults to a "phone" contact when you enter one on the phone. You have to select it as a Google contact before you even put it in the phone. You can't change this after putting in the contact. I'm glad I found this out early enough so that I only lost one contact.
I had this issue and found how to solve it:
Open ContactsApp->Menu->More->Settings
Here each phone is a bit different but you will be able to choose how to set your new contacts, whether it will be on your phone contacts, a specific gmail account or all.
In My Motorola Atrix, it automatically saves to contacts (and cannot be removed) and if you have more than 1 gmail account it all gets mixed up there and you should add/select the right one.
Hope it helps.
freedom_il said:
I had this issue and found how to solve it:
Open ContactsApp->Menu->More->Settings
Here each phone is a bit different but you will be able to choose how to set your new contacts, whether it will be on your phone contacts, a specific gmail account or all.
In My Motorola Atrix, it automatically saves to contacts (and cannot be removed) and if you have more than 1 gmail account it all gets mixed up there and you should add/select the right one.
Hope it helps.
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This is the correct method and set by default on the Atrix.
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delta530 said:
I am having trouble syncing my contacts that I inputed on my Atrix to Gmail. Even if the contact is Linked to both Phone and Google, none of the contacts show up on Gmail from my computer, but if I add a contact from my computer, it shows up on my phone. How can I sync from my phone to Gmail? btw, this is my first Android device.
Thanks.
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i have the same problem only i want my facebook contacts !
firefox3 said:
i have the same problem only i want my facebook contacts !
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Make sure FACEBOOK is added under MANAGE ACCOUNTS and then look at DISPLAY GROUPS to select ALL CONTACTS.
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Make sure FACEBOOK is added under MANAGE ACCOUNTS and then look at DISPLAY GROUPS to select ALL CONTACTS.
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Didnt work even when i view facebook it says no facebook contacts ! i have 1,394 friends and before i updated i had them all in my contacts
firefox3 said:
Didnt work even when i view facebook it says no facebook contacts ! i have 1,394 friends and before i updated i had them all in my contacts
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Just to be clear, we are talking about viewing contacts on your Atrix and not viewing contacts on GMail on your PC. The point being that Motoblur does not push contacts from the various Social Networking accounts to your Google hosted Gmail contacts. I think you already know that but wanted to be sure. Did you try to delete your FB account on the Atrix and re-add. Also, and this should not make any difference, but I do not have the FB app installed. I find it a bit useless.
Hi everyone.
Is there a way to save the information on which contacts were merged to each other, and simply load it if I change my ROM? Because I have lots of contacts which have accounts on many networks (Google account, Facebook, Skype and so on)
Will a simple export from the Android system save such information?
I just use Google to Backup all my contacts. I go into contacts and make sure they're all listed as Google contacts. That way when I flash a new Rom, then sign into Google they just automatically get loaded back onto the phone. I Believe you can also Export the contacts to the SD Card. Which should make a backup of the contacts on the card. But I have never tried that method.
But will the information about which contacts are merged with which be saved? For instance, if I have derp as a contact on Facebook and Google, merge his accs in my Android phone, then backup, update and load, will both the facebook and google accounts be merged as I resync my contacts?
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jmissao said:
But will the information about which contacts are merged with which be saved? For instance, if I have derp as a contact on Facebook and Google, merge his accs in my Android phone, then backup, update and load, will both the facebook and google accounts be merged as I resync my contacts?
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When you first reload the phone after a flash you sign into Google. It will load all Google contacts. Now when you sign in FB on your phone it will see the contact name, as long as they are the same it will ask if you want to sync/merge them.
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Did you solved this problem? It's a big issue for me too
I believe Titanium backup can backup contacts with merging information.
Just got my S3 today (I9305 actually), what's going to be the easiest way of getting my contacts off my S1? All of my contacts are joined multiple entries, mostly a mix of Google, Facebook and Phone contacts. Most of them are synced with Google, but some aren't for some reason.
I'd like to keep them in their organised, joined state if possible so I don't have to go through all of that rigmarole again. Would Exporting to SD and then Importing work, or backing up and restoring with Kies?
Thanks
contact app. export as vcf file. import it into your s3. everything should follow including pics and fb locale data
EDIT: you do have to resync your facebook contacts when you first log into facebook. just remember to restore your contacts THEN sync facebook. It should be able to resync all the contacts back to the right place since the locale data is still embedded with each contact.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.