I would like to get away from having to sync with google and facebook for my contacts.
Is there a way to back up my google and facebook contacts, then delete those accounts from my phone, then re-import the backed up contacts to my phone?
Thanks,
PEZ
You can try the import/export option in Contacts to see if that work.
PEZ Dispenser said:
I would like to get away from having to sync with google and facebook for my contacts.
Is there a way to back up my google and facebook contacts, then delete those accounts from my phone, then re-import the backed up contacts to my phone?
Thanks,
PEZ
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As far as just backing up your Contacts...
Go to People then Select Export to Sdcard, then for your Facebook just Uninstall the App then Reinstall it and Select the option Not to Automatically Sync!
Good Luck man...
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While syncing with the google account I lost some of my contacts, dont know why but I am experiencing this everytime I sync. Even importing and exporting loses my contacts. Any ideas?
djdhruv said:
While syncing with the google account I lost some of my contacts, dont know why but I am experiencing this everytime I sync. Even importing and exporting loses my contacts. Any ideas?
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Go to Settings -> Privacy -> there will be an option to backup/restore your contacts using your Google account. Next time you flash a ROM, turn on Sync after adding your Google account and it will restore your contacts and favorite contacts as well.
Hope this helps you.
when u first added your contacts, did u create them under ur gmail account or ur sim card/phone-only? the contacts under ur gmail account get synced while the contacts in ur sim card dont
also check the display options (phone>menu button>display options) to see if ur contacts are just hidden
I tried all of your suggestions but if I try to re-sync my contacts then I will lose some random contacts and they are synced via my gmail account
is there a way to permanently link my facebook contacts to google contacs; It's annoying every time i flash a new rom my contacts get restored from google but i have to re-link them with my facebook contacts to get their pic and email
me too! Very disturbing every time! Anyone,help with this?
Contacts backup
arisgoku said:
is there a way to permanently link my facebook contacts to google contacs; It's annoying every time i flash a new rom my contacts get restored from google but i have to re-link them with my facebook contacts to get their pic and email
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You can try this: Sync your contacts with FB and Google. Go to your contacts app. Make sure the display options are such that both FB & Google contacts are displayed. Merge possible duplicates. Once all of this is done. From the contacts menu, export the contacts to SD card.
Now you've the contacts backup file which contains numbers, emails plus the the display pictures. After flashing new ROM, just import from this file.
Hi,
I have skype, whatsapp and a few other apps installed on the phone and their contacts are showing in the main contacts app. I use Google contacts as my main source for contacts.
I want only the contacts from my Google account to show. I can use the 'contacts to display' option to select the google account but this is not good enough as apps like gosms take all the address books available and uses them and as such is pulling old names from whatsapp etc.
How can I remove all the contacts from the contacts app with the exception of my google contacts. If I want a whatsapp or skype contact I will go in to the relevant app.
Please help!
harveyd said:
Hi,
I have skype, whatsapp and a few other apps installed on the phone and their contacts are showing in the main contacts app. I use Google contacts as my main source for contacts.
I want only the contacts from my Google account to show. I can use the 'contacts to display' option to select the google account but this is not good enough as apps like gosms take all the address books available and uses them and as such is pulling old names from whatsapp etc.
How can I remove all the contacts from the contacts app with the exception of my google contacts. If I want a whatsapp or skype contact I will go in to the relevant app.
Please help!
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Try this
goto contacts
settings
contacts to display
then Customised list
and select what you want in there and uncheck what you dont want. expand all the options to check/uncheck
see how you get on
Yap thats what I would do too
I had this issue by my own
Many contacs where shown twice or else
winwiz said:
Try this
goto contacts
settings
contacts to display
then Customised list
and select what you want in there and uncheck what you dont want. expand all the options to check/uncheck
see how you get on
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I did do that and it works within contacts but not in other apps that access your contacts like gosms etc.
if you wnat only the google contacts to be shown why dont u delete the other ones
jiffer1991 said:
if you wnat only the google contacts to be shown why dont u delete the other ones
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Deleting whatsapp account just causes it to reappear and deleting skype is not possible, just gives a message saying I would need to wipe the phone to get rid of it.
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
Whenever I configure my Google account on any new phone all the contacts are automatically copied from Gmail contacts to device phonebook.
These contacts are synced between my old phones and Gmail and are with Google servers.
I can delete all contacts from Gmail app in order to stop this auto contacts sync.
My question here is if I do so will it delete all contacts from device as well. I have unchecked auto sync-up data option in contacts settings. And how
to stop this contacts sync between phone and Gmail.
I back up contacts as svf and export to SD card, and I don’t want my contacts to on Google servers.
Monsieur_Bond said:
Whenever I configure my Google account on any new phone all the contacts are automatically copied from Gmail contacts to device phonebook.
These contacts are synced between my old phones and Gmail and are with Google servers.
I can delete all contacts from Gmail app in order to stop this auto contacts sync.
My question here is if I do so will it delete all contacts from device as well. I have unchecked auto sync-up data option in contacts settings. And how
to stop this contacts sync between phone and Gmail.
I back up contacts as svf and export to SD card, and I don’t want my contacts to on Google servers.
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If you have disabled the auto-sync (Settings > Google account > Uncheck Contacts) contacts won't be synchronized but you can do what you want on Google servers it will never modify the phone data.
FYI if sync is ON and if you delete a contact on Google servers (from the webpage) it will be deleted on your device too.
Primokorn said:
If you have disabled the auto-sync (Settings > Google account > Uncheck Contacts) contacts won't be synchronized but you can do what you want on Google servers it will never modify the phone data.
FYI if sync is ON and if you delete a contact on Google servers (from the webpage) it will be deleted on your device too.
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When I was configuring my new devie I copied all my contacts using a vcf file which I got from my previous device, but later when auto-sync
happened, there were multiple contacts for same name.
Here I would like to know if I delete all contacts from Google server (logging in through webpage) and doing a sync, will it delete those contact as
well created by copying from vcf. I mean those contacts did not came from my Google account so that have nothing to do with Google sync.
Monsieur_Bond said:
Here I would like to know if I delete all contacts from Google server (logging in through webpage) and doing a sync, will it delete those contact as well created by copying from vcf..
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No. It will only remove the contacts mentioned on Google servers.