Help With Contacts - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have searched and cannot find an answer to this.
How do I create a contact card (either Vcard or CSV) for my own information. What I want to be able to do is NFC transfer my information whenever someone wants my business card or my phone number. I know I can create an NFC tag for this and adhere it to the back of a business card- but if I can do it on a tag, I should be able to create a transferable vcard on my phone for the same purpose.
Any ideas?
p.s. I do not want to create new contacts with my own information- my contact info is already stored on my G+ profile and there should be a way to create a "ME" card like we used to be able to do with older Android versions.

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[Q] Export contacts with full info - vcard 3.0 - ZERO application found

Hello all, please help, i'm going slightly mad - running KK and trying to export some contacts using the stock export function in contacts - problem is that the generated vcf is in 2.1 format. This is not good, the export lost some info, such as custom labels of phone numbers.
Then I tried to found an app on the market that does that - not ONE have i found. All of them either do the export in 2.1 format; or they backup on the cloud; or send the contacts by mail; or use proprietary format.I just want to backup my contacts with all the info on my sdcard and be able to restore them.
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Now, is it a conspiracy, or something? Please, help.
Please, can someone help me?
To recap - I want to backup and then restore offline my contacts. The problem is that custom labels of phone numers are lost - if I have a contact with a number labeled as "challet no.", this label will be replaced by "home" label at a restore.
Please, help.
Please, somebody have at least some ideas? I find very strange the fact that this basic functionality is broken .
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- there was a typo - it's not KK, it's JB running on a Note 3
- only custom labels of the phone numbers which contain blanks (at least) are not saved
What puzzles me is that nobody reported this problem, and of course the fact that an old GB release is able to better handle the backup/restore functionality.
realn said:
Hello all, please help, i'm going slightly mad - running KK and trying to export some contacts using the stock export function in contacts - problem is that the generated vcf is in 2.1 format. This is not good, the export lost some info, such as custom labels of phone numbers.
Then I tried to found an app on the market that does that - not ONE have i found. All of them either do the export in 2.1 format; or they backup on the cloud; or send the contacts by mail; or use proprietary format.I just want to backup my contacts with all the info on my sdcard and be able to restore them.
what's strange is that the stock import contacts knows how to read 3.0 vcards and that I was able to do this thing I'm looking so hard now on my ancient SGS1 running GB.
Now, is it a conspiracy, or something? Please, help.
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Same boat here. Using proprietary vCard format 3.0 and trying to do the inverse way from you. I'd like to backup the VCF files locally to regularly import them into my Android devices. The problem is that apparently Android 4.2.2 can only handle vCard 2.1 properly. I have found NO solution so far since there seems to be no software or app that convert between the two formats - vCard 2.1 <=> vCard 3.0, without data loss. I believe that reason for this is that everybody just uses Cloud services nowadays and support for local data exchange in general is neglected or non-existent!!!
In case you find any solution for your problem please let me know. Any information would be welcome!
UPDATE: I spent again a lot of time playing with my vCard 3.0 files yesterday and I finally found a way to format them in a way that Android accepts them as contact imports without errors. By using a text editor - UltraEdit, and some simple JavaScript scripts to batch process all my 434 contact entries I basically made the following 4 adjustments:
- Remove all unnecessary entries included by my proprietary contact application - Lotus Notes
- Include a line breaks before the "PHOTO" line
- Remove all line breaks that occurred when a entry value was too long and broken into multiple lines
- Remove all semi-colons in the "ADR" line
I hope this helps!
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yes, im asking on how to configure about saving a contact and its relevant question
and sorry if some part is messed up, i got big event next week and kinda nervous about it
Device : GT-i9100G , CM 11 Nightly 20140520
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Hi, I have a cool idea for a app. I am only 15 and need a little help making it, programming and graphics, badly graphics. The idea is you have this app which allows you to create your own business card within the app. If you want to add other peoples business cards you can transfer your business cards via NFC. You could then see all the business cards you have and can email, phone or add to your contacts via the app. If you are intrested email me at [email protected] and say what you can bring to the team (well me)

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This is my first android phone for SOME time and for the life of me I can't figure out how to link my contact card with the 'my card' section at the top of contacts
I'm logged in with an uptodate google account which all seems ok and all updated to 146.
Please help me figure this out?
Its a great bit of kit btw and I'm an apple fanboy!
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As far as I know there is no way to use a regular existing card for the My Card feature.
To make matters worse you can also not use an existing card or My Card for you Emergency Info. So you end up entering your own details in 3 places.
(Fortunately your emergency contacts do use the regular cards.)
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