so has anyone noticed that any new numbers entered in the tb is not syncing to you google contact list? i have all settings correct in the syncing settings.. set to google to synch contacts but yet theres no upward syncing going on at all. this worries me because i change androids so often i dont want to loose all my contacts here on on...
has anyone figured out this and how to fix the sync? i hope this is not a sense thing...
any info would be appreciated .. thanks
When I get new contacts I usually export my contacts on to my SD card and when I flash a new ROM i, import from my SD card. Ive noticed my new contacts dont upload to gmail as well.
When you input a contact into the phone, you have to select it as a "Gmail" contact instead of a "Phone" contact. Very easy to miss this option when you are putting a contact in. Once you have the contact in, I don't know of a way to change them to Gmail contacts other than doing some weird import/export thing.
Actually the phone doesnt allow you to pick where to save to.... still so way to get it to sync..
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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
Where are the Google contacts stored?
The only place I can see them is when I am creating a message and tap add contact. There seems to be all the contacts from my Gmail account many of which do not have phone numbers and some of which I wouldn't want certain family members to see.
I have tried every setting in contacts and accounts I can find but no luck. I have cleaned up my Gmail account contacts and did a sync hoping that would over write them but no luck.
Any help is appreciated.
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Where are the Google contacts stored?
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Google Contacts are stored on your phone and Google server if I am not wrong.
Regards.
By default Gmail adds anyone you email to your contacts. This used to be so annoying to most people.
Sign into Gmail on computer, go to settings, general, "create contacts for auto-complete" and check off "I'll add contacts myself".
Now go to your Contacts and start deleting the ones you don't want.
As for where they are stored, they are stored on Google's servers and not necessarily on your phone. Any changes you make either on your phone or via the web are pushed and synced I'm real time.
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LordLugard
Yep cleaned up the contacts on the gmail account. turned of the auto add. Did a sync still have them on the phone.
ithehappy
I know they are stored on the phone and gmail account but where on the phone??
Can you see all the contacts when you hit the contacts tab in the phone menu?
If not then from within contacts Menu, More, Display Options and select the google contacts, under that there is a few options of what to display.
Why not try this last resort, remove your Google account on the phone and add it again.
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vessy
You are the man.
Yep need google contacts on in order to see them in Contacts. Then delete them and turn off google contacts again.
Now I can rest easy.
Thank you very much
No problem, glad to help, found out the hard way too!
Feel free to hit the Thanks button.
How to get contacts autofill in gmail
Hi,
I use viewsonic tablet with android 2.2 running. I have a gmail application installed . Whenever I try to send a new email or take a picture and want to send through gmail instantaneously, I get up to emal "To " field. In there it expects me to type the whole email address again. This is even true if I want to send it to my own gmail id. I mean to say that autofill of email addresses doesn't work. All my contacts is synched with gmail account and that show all the contacts which is available through my email account.
Is there a way to get around and get this autofill option enabled?
Thanks
Ravi
ok when i go in to edit any of my contacts on my photon it is showing google contacts then under that it shows phone contacts Unsynced. it use to never show this way on any contacts. It use to just show google contacts which is what i want to use. because the phone contacts thing shows the same as the google contacts. is there any way to get ride of all the phone contacts unsynced with out having to edit all 200+ contacts?
Also what is the difference between the two?
Also its showing the addresses twice now as well, is there any way to fix that or is that part of the google contacts/phone contacts unsynced problem?
You have some contacts saved on your phone storage, but they are not synced with your Google account and may not be there. If you have them all on your Google account also, just remove them all from the unsynced storage with a batch delete app.
If you don't have them on your Google account, go to the phone contacts and export them to your sdcard. Then import them from the sdcard into Google contacts. Now, once you're sure you have those contacts on your Google account, if you still have the "phone contacts unsynced", delete them using a batch delete app. But first make sure you have them on your Google contacts.
Let us know how it goes.
Have a nice day!
I just ended up doing a reset through the recovery option and it fixed it. Thanks for the help.
J.Parsons said:
I just ended up doing a reset through the recovery option and it fixed it. Thanks for the help.
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You're welcome
I have all of my contacts stored in gmail contacts online.
In the course of trying to tidy up contacts on my phone, deleting duplicate/unnecessary info and 'joining' multiple accounts (mostly gmail, facebook and whatsapp) I had a bit of a Homer Simpson moment managed to delete all of my contacts (D'Oh!!).
Fortunately, as I said above I have them in gmail contacts online and had also exported them to my SD card as a vcard and so have managed to get them back (albeit having to tidy them up again).
Here's the thing though, when I go to the Contacts menu item 'Contacts to display' the contacts show when All Contacts or Gmail account are selected, but when I select Phone contacts in 'Contacts to display' the list is empty.
How do I move/copy my gmail contacts so that they are held in the actual phone memory and displayed if I opt to display Phone contacts only (i.e. no longer link to my gmail contacts)?
Cheers in advance,
Rich
I think what you need to is to sync your contact again. Contact to display is only show if your phone have a contact that is available in your gmail contact only.
copy contacts to phone only
hollow1 said:
I think what you need to is to sync your contact again. Contact to display is only show if your phone have a contact that is available in your gmail contact only.
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I think you've misunderstood my original question. I have got the contacts visible when I view all contacts or view gmail contacts, but there is an option in the contacts menu to view contacts on phone only (i.e. not those stored in gmail contacts). When I use that option I don't see any of my contacts. Therefore, what I need to be able to do is copy the contacts across from gmail contacts so they are visible in the phone contacts only view, but I can't figure out how to copy them across to the phone.
Never had to do it on either my s2 or s3 before. I did do it on my old HTC via a menu option along the lines of 'Copy contacts to phone' but there isn't a menu option like that on the s3 unless I'm missing something obvious.
Anyone got any ideas?
Cheers.