Guys,
I've merged a lot of contacts with their facebook, twitter, yahoo and google accounts on my phone. After flashing a new ROM, when I import the contacts from the .vcf backup file, the merged contacts are now showing up as unjoined and I need to merge them again. It is a painful process and I would be thankful if anybody can provide a solution to backup/restore the contacts exactly as they are, so that I can monkey around with my device without worry
Thanks
gkarthik16 said:
Guys,
I've merged a lot of contacts with their facebook, twitter, yahoo and google accounts on my phone. After flashing a new ROM, when I import the contacts from the .vcf backup file, the merged contacts are now showing up as unjoined and I need to merge them again. It is a painful process and I would be thankful if anybody can provide a solution to backup/restore the contacts exactly as they are, so that I can monkey around with my device without worry
Thanks
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Anybody out there have a solution? Or am I missing anything?
Sorry for quoting myself though.
I have not faced with this issue as I keep them separate and not merge into device address book. Better & safe to keep them separate probably, as they can be added independently outside the context of your device address book.
i need a solution too....too cumbersome to merge again and again....specially when you don't have something like mass merging
shashi_hv said:
I have not faced with this issue as I keep them separate and not merge into device address book. Better & safe to keep them separate probably, as they can be added independently outside the context of your device address book.
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I want to merge the contacts because we can have their profile images as the contact image and we can have all their contact addresses under a single contact, instead of keeping them separate. Because everybody has a google, facebook, yahoo account and hence I've 4 contacts for a single person.
A much needed solution..anyone any trick any app???
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Hi,
Problem: I'm trying to backup my Contact Facebook links to my MicroSD card so when I flash a new ROM I don't have to enter them all manually again.
I've realised that Sense automatically finds your Facebook contacts if you are signed in and they share the same name in Facebook and your Phonebook, but I use nicknames a lot so changing everyones name is really not convenient for me (I wouldn't know who anyone was!)
After searching the forums I saw a post stating that it will also search by email address, however after adding around a dozen emails Sense did not pick up the accounts.
Another post states that PIM Backup saves the Facebook ID stored in the Notes section of the Contact but after running my monthly ROM update and restoring my PIM backup there was a <Facebook ID> string in the notes section but with no ID number in it, so this option does not seem to be working for me.
Does anyone know where these links are stored? Maybe in a registry string or system folder? Could anyone point me to how I can manually back these links up? Or does anyone know of an existing app to do the work for me?
I have many contacts and enjoy the Facebook link feature, but having to manually link everyone every month is getting very tiresome.
Thanks in advance!
jwchips
sense writes your Facebook links info (and your favourites from the people tab) into the "notes" field of the contact, so when you sync they should all be back, though they won't show until you first sign into Facebook.
i've flashed maybe 150 times and not had to reset the Facebook links once since the first time.
Hey, thanks for the quick response.
I've just tested what you said by adding a single contacts facebook link, creating a .pib backup and restoring from it (choosing the overwrite setting to ensure the backup was creating the fb link and not keeping it from the old contact). What happens is quite strange...
After creating the link there is an id:xxxxx and friendof:xxxxx string in the <Facebook>tags, example below
<sn>id:xxxxxxx/friendof:xxxxxxx</sn>
<HTCData><!-- Please do not modify -->
<Facebook>id:xxxxxx/friendof:xxxxxxx</Facebook>
</HTCData>
which is what we are looking to achieve. But when I restore from the .pib I get the following in notes:
<sn>id:xxxxxxx/friendof:xxxxxxx</sn>
<HTCData><!-- Please do not modify -->
<Facebook></Facebook>
</HTCData>
This looks like it has kept the facebook id's in the <sn> tags but hasn't put them in the <Facebook> tags.... can you tell me why this would happen and any way to fix it?
Thanks again
jwchips
sorry can't help, don't know what a pib backup is. all i can say is that syncing with outlookit works fine, and i've read it works fine with googlemail and ms myphone syncing.
have you tested to see if it works? bearing in mind your "me" contact card needs to be signed in to Facebook for it to show?
Hey,
I logged into facebook before syncing anything, so I was logged in when creating the contacts (logged in via account manager in settings)
a .pib file is a backup file created by PIM Backup Manager that comes bundled with the Energy ROM's.
I have logged into my MyPhone service on the PC and checked the notes section of stored contacts and the facebook string is stored complete with id tags! So I am going to delete all my contacts in my phone and resync with MyPhone later today. Will edit this post with the outcome.
Thanks for the info,
jwchips
Hey,
Following on from the last post, I deleted all my contacts on my phone then checked I was logged into facebook before syncing my contacts from the MyPhone service.
YET AGAIN the facebook id's are in the <sn> tags but the <facebook> tags are still empty! If I log into MyPhone from a PC and check the noted the id's are in the <facebook> tags, what is going on?
Does anyone know a way of backing up the contact notes? I'm thinking of installing Outlook after work today and trying to backup/restore from that, but I'm getting tired of constantly inputting everyones facebook links!
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
Jwchips
i can deffinately confirm that outlook works fine. restores facebook links, and also the people page favourites.
Hi all,
So, the topic is ... i have currently these accounts syncing and present on my phone list:
- Exchange server (all my private/corporate contacts)
- Google/Gmail Contacts (very similar to exchange, with a couple of less detail)
- Linkedin
- Facebook
- Whatsapp
What happens after a full reset is that i have to merge again and again all the contacts to have a single view of one person with all the accounts linked. Currently i have merged all the contacts via the join feature, and its ok. The topic is:
Is there a way to create a single list of contacts with all this info put together (merged and synced), backup all to google, so that in my next format, i can sync with gmail and have all perfect for use, without the need to merge all things again?
am i been clear in what i want?
I get what you mean. I've always just ended up merging them again anyway.. you might wanna try backing up the contacts storage app and restore data only on tb afterwards? I'm afraid I never tried backing it up but seems reasonable.
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Have you found a solution?
I have the same problem, after a full wipe I have to link again some of my contacts.
Hello,
(I have already searched about this on forum, but didn't get a proper answer. So I am writing it down here.)
I have an issue with the "people" (contact) app of ICS.
I am being asked to make an account to make contact groups, which unfortunately I can't allow!
I can understand that you might not think this being an issue but can you please suggest about making
offline contact groups without making an account.
I hope you guys will help.
I am running on rooted phone with cyanogen mod.
Thank you.
I used an app called "Import Contacts" to import a .vcf file from my previous phone on gingerbread to the new one running 4.2.1.
This app imported it into local contacts.
But, if you want to manually add a new contact, you are still left facing the same problem.
I haven't figured a way around it.
bbi897 said:
I used an app called "Import Contacts" to import a .vcf file from my previous phone on gingerbread to the new one running 4.2.1.
This app imported it into local contacts.
But, if you want to manually add a new contact, you are still left facing the same problem.
I haven't figured a way around it.
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Thank you for your help.
I already have contacts installed.
My issue is with creating groups from them.
As phone asks to create an account to do so.
That's where I am stuck.
I mean there must be a way to make contact groups without adding an account!
I really wish to have that option.
This is something I have never thought about as I am sure that most of us out there using android phones usually create an account in order to do what you can't... but I have to admit that it would be really great if creating contact groups without internet can be possible!
Found anything yet, anyone?
Hi!
I just came across this thread through Google when searching "use groups without google account". I think it's ridiculous to need a Google account to use use groups, I mean, it's a feature that has been on most "not even smart" phones for a while now. It would be really good to know if there's a way to have groups without creating / adding an account and without the need of third party apps.
Does anyone have a solution for this?
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Any Sense gurus out there who can help...
Under My profile in Contacts, it has somehow pulled in my old work number and email. For the life of me, I can't figure out where this is coming from. I can't edit it by clicking Edit my contact card. Can you somehow figure out what contact info is coming from where? I'm pulling from these sources:
Facebook
Google
LinkedIn
Yahoo!
I've verified there's no old work info in an of these places.
It's also using an old Gmail (or Google+) profile photo, and updating both of those sources isn't having any impact.
Not super important in the grand scheme, but weird and annoying... and I'd rather not delete all contact sources and start over.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
Ever since I upgraded to 5.5.3, my contacts keeps merging wrongly.
All my contacts are stored on the gmail account.
The phone keeps merging contacts with different phones and different names.
Even after separating the contacts manually, they sometime return to be merged, with a different contact.
Anyone heard of this bug or know how to fix it?
Had the same problem on my Galaxy Fame, running on Android 4.1.2
Any solutions?
Gesendet: S2/ XDA Forums
Unfortunately, no solution so far.
emoneta said:
Unfortunately, no solution so far.
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Export your correct list of contacts, then delete all your contacts from gmail and phone. make a manual sync of your account, possibly it will tell you that are to manny contacts deleted. log on your account from pc to check if there is no contacts! after that you can import the list exported earlier! or add them one by one in gmail , from a pc. after your can make a sync to see if will not mess up!
You can try first to download Contacts sync fix from playstore , maybe it will fix the problem!