I need to switch all my contacts from Mobile Life to Google. I read the other threads involving this, but the solutions involved syncing the phone w/ Windows and I have a Mac. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-Adam
Try some app.(google it).
I know it on win , but on mac........?
I downloaded an app that exports contacts to a .csv file, which I can sync to google contacts online. When I do this, will they automatically sync to my phone? I want to figure this out before doing anything.. if they do sync to my phone, I want to delete the contacts on there now so I don't end up with duplicates.
Why not just delete the duplicates from you csv file before you upload it to google?
ballzak said:
Why not just delete the duplicates from you csv file before you upload it to google?
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I did! All the contacts on my phone are Mobile Life. If Google automatically imports the contacts I sync to the website, there'll be doubles of everything.. 1 Mobile Life and 1 Google.
Has anyone used the ContactExport app? I finally imported the .csv file it created to google and it didn't include any of the phone #'s or other info for any of the contacts!
If you choose "Copy Contact" for any contact you can make it a Google Contact. This will sync up to your Google account, and doesn't create duplicates.
If you choose "Copy Contact" for any contact you can make it a Google Contact. It will sync up to your Google account, and doesn't create duplicates.
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The majority of my contacts are phone contacts, is there anyway I can convert them to Google contacts so they sync with Google?
I had this dilemma yesterday. I'm hope you have Outlook. what you can do is sync you contacts with the HTC sync with outlook. then save your contacts by exporting them to CSV file. You can then import this phone to your web gmail account. Delete all your phone contacts and then sync your Google contacts by going to settings > data sync > Google > menu > sync now. I hope this helps
Damn, I don't have Outlook, there must be another way surely...
The only other way is to save to SIM and then import it from the SIM card. Only thing bad about that is that any facebook link will be lost mate.
Use ExportContacts, edit (if needed) the *.csv file to fit Google's importing rules (check this topic for reference), import the file to Google Contacts via PC and synchronize.
Or search for ContactSync in the market that will convert your phone contacts to Google ones. but try this if the above method does not work.
axellink said:
Or search for ContactSync in the market that will convert your phone contacts to Google ones. but try this if the above method does not work.
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I would trully NOT recommend that. I've tried it and as it may have seen, all the contacts have been converted do "Google" type, but non of them actually synced with Google Contacts. At least that's what happened on my Hero.
dkodr said:
I would trully NOT recommend that. I've tried it and as it may have seen, all the contacts have been converted do "Google" type, but non of them actually synced with Google Contacts. At least that's what happened on my Hero.
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I got the same results. They tried to sync, but I got a force close-msg. Had to delete all the changed contacts for it to work again
Question: How do you actually know which contacts are Google ones and which are not. In my virtually all my contacts are Google ones but there are the odd ones that are phone contacts and I'm trying to find them so I can convert them.
when you look in people they say what they are to the right of the name......
use 'Export Contacts" (contacts, contacts tab, menu, more, import/export) to send the file to your sd card as a vcf file. then go back to the same place and import them into a google account instead of phone.
What i did is, i exported my contacts on Outlook, and then went my google page > contacts > Import contacts.
I imported the file, and deleted all my contacts on phone.
Now im syncing my google contacts to phone
Hi,
I'm trying to convert some of my Google Contacts in Phone Contacts because of bugs like these that take ages to be fixed: 5046 3879 4147 3870
Anyway, I've tried so many apps and methods but I can't manage to do what I want. I can't find a way to have some of my Google Contacts be converted/copied/whatever to the "Phone Contacts" instead.
Does anyone have any ideas that might help me solve this situation? I didn't want to input all the needed contacts by hand as "Phone Contacts", that would be such a pain in the ass to do manually...
Any ideas people?
two methods.
Log into gmail on your pc
export the contacts to CSV file.
Import that CSV into Outlook
Sync outlook to your phone using HTC Sync
delete all contacts from google
second method:
Open people
select a contact
press menu
select more
select save to sim
repeat for all contacts
then, wehn all contact are on SIM, menu, Import
select Phone instead of google
delete all contacts from google.
There may be a third party app from the market that would do it, but i've never bothered trying as the photo thing does not bother me. if it's a little pixelated, i don't care, just as long as i know who it is.
Second method looked nice until I tried and realized that long names are truncated. It also doesn't save e-mails and birthdays. These make this option not feasible.
As for the first method, are you sure that syncying contacts with outlook using HTC Sync will sync them to the "Phone" and not "Google"? I don't want to have all the work of installing Outlook if it doesn't work... Just to make sure before I start.
yes, anything synched using HTC Sync goes into the Phone group.
As the Google apps are not open source, HTC Sync cannot inject contacts into the Google group and so instead puts them all in the phone group.
Thanks, I'll try that then
The title is the question. Please forgive me, if my searching overlooked the answer.
Just to be clear, my aim is to get "phone" contacts up to google.
I've deleted and removed the "phone" and "sim" contacts. I thought the "phone" contacts were just the stock numbers to check balances and stuff?
Why not just open your gmail and add them manually on your PC so they sync with google.... then go to display options and only show "google"
Thanks, but I'm looking for a non-manual solution.
Manually, I imagine, on the phone I could link all instances of a contact; edit or create a google contact containing the contact details; unlink the google contact; and delete what's left.
With more than a few contacts, that's more work than I'd prefer.
If you want to copy contacts that are saved to the "phone" and get them into your gmail contacts list you can....
open contacts..
press menu..
choose more..
select import/export..
export to sd card...
send that file to your computer or gmail.
in gmail click on contacts..
more actions..
import...
choose file.... the .vcf you created earlier
and gmail will bring them in and if you have sync enabled on your phone everything will be exactly the same on phone and in gmail and the phone..
probably an easier way to do this but this is what i found since i had 80+ numbers from my old blackberry sim
I would like to sync Google account contacts and calendar events.
I am aware of the way of doing it using Corporate/Exchange sync. However this method only syncs My Contacts, and some apps don't work with such contacts very well. (These apps use Google contacts and events extra customized data which is not synced using exchange)
Is there an apk that can be installed to facilitate true Google Sync?
Any other way of achieving this?
TIA
Damn good question. Anyone have any answers?
1: in a pc, go to gmail, contacts, export in vcf and download to your computer, and send a email to yourself attaching the file
2: in bluestacks, open a internet explorer like dolphin or other, and go to your gmail account.
3: download the vcf file to bluestacks, and then execute that.
4: enjoy your contacts in your bluestacks and apps.
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1: in a pc, go to gmail, contacts, export in vcf and download to your computer, and send a email to yourself attaching the file
2: in bluestacks, open a internet explorer like dolphin or other, and go to your gmail account.
3: download the vcf file to bluestacks, and then execute that.
4: enjoy your contacts in your bluestacks and apps.
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You don't need to email anything to yourself. Just create a folder named "Contacts" inside your documents folder and put your vcf file there. After that you only need to click "Import from SD" in the contacts import dialogue of Whatsapp app.
I admit that these are a way to get your contacts to Bluestacks but neither is an answer on how SYNC your contacts. Every time you edit your contacts on your phone you have to do this again. Not a good solution.
hello, how can I do the same process but, conversely, pass the bluestacks contacts to the cloud in Google contacts?
hi
Is there a way to create normal phone contacts that are not "google contacts" ?
It seems that in 4.2.2 you always have to have contacts linked to accounts, and therefore either create a google account or exchange email account...
And I also searched some time, but did not find a satisfying application that can backup contacts to excel and reinsert them... why always passing by google or sending it by email?
Is there maybe also an alternative contact application (compared to the standard android one)?
any help would be appreciated
Because syncing it with Google is the easier way including backup.
You can still save contacts on your phone or sim though and export to csv or whatever should be there no?
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Go contacts can do this. Use local phone to store contacts only, export to csv format..