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
Galaxy S 4G Android 4.0.4 on CyanogenMod 9. Even if all Accounts & Sync options are are disabled, as soon as you try to add a new contact, you only have two options: Add new account or OK [to synchronize with Google servers.] If you Remove Google account from Sync settings - all your contacts on phone are deleted! What happened to phone-only contact storage without synching? It appears to be only available if you remove all accounts from phone.
Of course the work around is to export contacts to SD Card, remove account which deletes everything, then import from SD Card and *only then* can you add without synchronizing.
Can this be done without removing your Google account, just adding contacts to phone-only and not use synchronization, just use Google account for Google Play store?
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..
I've noticed random calendar entries missing from my google calendar from the last 3 weeks, and many entries missing from future weeks, but they're all still on my phone. I've just created some test calendar entries on the phone to see if they would update online, yet they're not appearing on google calendar. But my google account on the phone confirms it's syncing, with 'last synced 5/12/2013 at XX.XX am/pm time'
Is this anything to do with my samsung account?
Samsung account said session expired. I forgot my old password so created a new one on the samsung site.
A popup message saying 'Update Samsung Account?' has been continually appearing, even though I've downloaded the update several times. If I remove the samsung account, does it affect my google calendar or will I lose anything else important?
My phone contacts seems to update ok though.
So, how do I get google calendar to see my phone calendar events?
Looks like everything is a mess, i would do a full wipe if i were you, but im not so here we go. Are u using the samsung calendar or google calendar to look at your google calendar events? If you are using samsung calendar, did you choose to sync your gmail within the calendar app settings?
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Looks like everything is a mess, i would do a full wipe if i were you, but im not so here we go. Are u using the samsung calendar or google calendar to look at your google calendar events? If you are using samsung calendar, did you choose to sync your gmail within the calendar app settings?
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Hi. I'm using my google calendar to look at my calendar events. I don't recall choosing to sync gmail with the samsung calendar.
In system settings on the phone, the google account tells me it just synced a few minutes ago, with the green sync icon next to it, even though it hasn't actually updated any new calendar entries on google calendar online. In system settings/Samsung account, it just occurred to me that my Samsung account is a different email address, an ntlworld.com address, not the gmail address I use to log in for google calendar. But it's always been that way, so I'm not sure if or how my samsung account would affect what's happening with my google calendar? Currently I've disabled sync on the samsung account because the pop up message kept appearing, and the sync icon was red saying sync error. Added a test calendar event to my phone but not showing up online. The settings in my phones default calendar are ticked for my gmail account/email address, ie, 'My Calendar', 'Contacts Birthdays', 'UK Holidays', there's nothing showing my samsung account email address. I'm rather confused!
When I type my new password into the Samsung account on my phone then click 'Done', it says 'In Progress'.. 'Signing In..' then always says 'Unfortunately, Samsung account has stopped' and Processing failed. So I can't even log in! Do I need to remove the samsung account and reinstall it? And should I do a backup first with 'My Backup' which I have installed?
Hmm. Go to settings, accounts, and click on your google account, in there you should find tick boxes like "app data" "browser" "calendar" etc., make sure calendar is ticked. If it is ticked, un-tick it, clear data of calendars, reboot, and tick it again. As for your samsung account, you should probably make a new account or fiddle with its settings from your web browser maybe. Could be samsung apps fault too, you need to re-install the stock rom to overcome that. ( Or maybe finding its app and clearing its data)
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Hmm. Go to settings, accounts, and click on your google account, in there you should find tick boxes like "app data" "browser" "calendar" etc., make sure calendar is ticked. If it is ticked, un-tick it, clear data of calendars, reboot, and tick it again. As for your samsung account, you should probably make a new account or fiddle with its settings from your web browser maybe. Could be samsung apps fault too, you need to re-install the stock rom to overcome that. ( Or maybe finding its app and clearing its data)
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Yeah there's 13 sync boxes, including app data, sync calendar, sync gmail, all ticked and synced within the last 2 hours. Sync google play news wasn't ticked but I've now ticked it.
'Clear data of calendars'. You mean in Application Manager/Calendar Storage? TIn there it says 0.99mb total calendar storage and there's the 'clear data' box. I'm a bit worried, won't that delete all my calendar events? In which case, shouldn't I back up first?
Yes it will clear your calendar data, but they should be backed up on google servers, did you put new entries after this problem occured? Check your google calendar from a PC, everything there should be safe.
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Yes it will clear your calendar data, but they should be backed up on google servers, did you put new entries after this problem occured? Check your google calendar from a PC, everything there should be safe.
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That's my whole point though, when I go to 'Calendar' from google chrome, my calendar appears but random older entries are not there starting from about 3 weeks ago, yet some are there. Many entries are also not there for future calendar events I've entered in my phone. And any new entries I made today are not showing up either. So the google servers are not automatically backing up what I'm putting on my phone's calendar. Which is why it's a risk to clear phone data, because its only my phone that is actually showing all my entries, but the server isn't.
Then try just clearing the cache of calendar storage and google calendar. Also make sure your gmail is ticked on google calendar' settings too. You can backup with titanium backup (tho i don't know if it will work %100, calendar backups are always messy). Lets try not deleting your data for now. Does deleting google account and re-creating delete your entries? If not, you can try that as well. You can also try re-installing google calendar app via an apk without deleting it.
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Then try just clearing the cache of calendar storage and google calendar. Also make sure your gmail is ticked on google calendar' settings too. You can backup with titanium backup (tho i don't know if it will work %100, calendar backups are always messy). Lets try not deleting your data for now. Does deleting google account and re-creating delete your entries? If not, you can try that as well. You can also try re-installing google calendar app via an apk without deleting it.
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The cache is greyed out, there's nothing to clear.
I'm not rooted so can't use titanium backup, I'm currently backing the whole phone up fwith My Backup Pro. Then I'll delete the samsung account and see if that makes any difference. If not, I'll delete the google account and reinstall it.
"Also make sure your gmail is ticked on google calendar' settings too." Yeah, in calendar settings on the phone, everything is ticked. 'Calendars', I click on that and there's a bunch of things that can only be ticked or unticked. 'My Calendar' is ticked, 'My Task' is ticked, then under that it shows my google gmail address ticked, uk holidays, contacts birthdays also ticked. That's all there is.
There aren't a problem with settings then, as you also thought, you should try backing up and deleting and re-creating accounts.
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.
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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.