The first time I used live messenger (as an experiment by the way), it synchronized all my messenger contacts to my jade's contact list. So now, i have about 250 messenger contacts, 90% without telephone numbers, which kinda... sucks .
Is there a way to delete these contacts with one handling, so i don't have do delete all of them one by one, also without deleting my outlook contacts?
if i'm not mistaken it's even more limited than the regular messenger, where you can't delete multiple contacts anyways.
Deleting is not one by one..
It think the deleting process is much simpler just go to contacts / Menu / Select Contacts / several and then mark every conact you want to delete and after that delete them using one click on deleting option...
but the harder one is how to unselect the option that syncronize the conacts without uninstalling the WLMessenger ????
lol. that's new to me.
wouldnt going into the settings of windows live messenger and de selecting the merge contacts tab automatically delete them? if not it would then be easier to manually delette them.......... or am i missing something......
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Are there any apps out there that will fix duplicate contacts? When I had my WM phone, for some reason a bunch of times when I flashed new ROM's then reconnected to my Exchange server, it would restore the contacts with one more instance then the time before of several contacts. The result is that now that I have my Inc synced up to the server, I have 2 of some contacts, 3 of some and even some have 4. For WM, there was a program called Trine Fix that would search for duplicate contacts and merge them. It worked well (until I flashed another rom). Is there anything like that for Android?
you prob want to check your sync settings and turn off sync contacts with google, make sure you dont have backup assistant(that was a pain in the ass for me and cant turn it off unless you master reset)
just a thought
I am using fission 2.4.3 ROM and i like the way it looks and all but is there a way to edit the Facebook syncd contacts like the factory Global contact list settings? it says facebook contact information is no editable on this device... am i missing soemthing? before the root and rom i syncd my contacts and was able to add numbers, emails and drag them onto the home tabs for shortcuts..
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Doesn't seem like such a great idea now does it? LOL
Here is what you do, it will require having or making a Yahoo Mail account but it will solve your problem.
If you use Outlook (like I do) it will be way more complicated but only because you probably want to use Outlook as your master list.
Step One - Go to Yahoo mail and import your facebook contacts into your yahoo mail contacts. (they have a wizard that does this for you) Then export Yahoo Mail Contacts to a CSV file. (This will work for myspace and linkedIn as well!)
Step Two (Google) - Import that CSV file into Google contacts and have your phone sync if it doesn't automatically (sometimes it takes awhile to sync)
Step Three - Look in your phone contacts you will now see dupliacte contacts of all your facebook friends. One will be from Google and the other will be from facebook. Select the facebook contact and JOIN or LINK (depends on your rom) it to the other duplicate.
You will now be able to edit all the fields not filled in by Facebook and a have a single contact for that person. (If you look you will see in the contact which profiles are linked together. You will have one profile for each contact source that has been linked. (one for Google and one for Facebook)
If you have Fission running you need to go into EDIT contact before you will get the JOIN button in the menu.
I have found that it is best to do most of your editing in Google Mail and then syncing anything else (such as outlook) to that (I use Companion Link).
And while it is ok to add contacts into outlook and sync with Gmail it is better to check those contacts for correctness in Gmail.
If they are correct in Gmail they are correct on the phone. And should you ever have to factory wipe data you will be sure to get all your contacts back when you resign into GMail on your phone.
Trying to migrate from Diamond to Sensation... Here is the funny problem.
While importing contacts from Diamond, I got a contact we shell call FRIEND. I earlier synced Diamond with GMAIL, and migrated contacts on my other phone, Desire. So to start, I have a FRIEND contact with a mobile phone number XXXXX, the same number is on GMAIL and on Desire. Ok.
On the Sensation I add another mobile phone for FRIEND contact, say YYYYY, and I also delete XXXXX. I sync it with GMAIL. Now on GMAIL I have the contact with no phones (XXXXX deleted, YYYYY wasn't added) and on Desire I still have number XXXXX. Now I force sync on the Desire. It keeps XXXXX number. So now I have:
On Sensation number YYYYYY
On Desire number XXXXX
On GMAIL no number
And all that is called "synced".
What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much.
how did you sync diamond with gmail?!?!? its not android, diamond is windows mobile, so it may not sync contacts or sync them properly?
ikhzter said:
how did you sync diamond with gmail?!?!? its not android, diamond is windows mobile, so it may not sync contacts or sync them properly?
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When turning on Sensation for the first time, it asked me if I want to import contacts from other phone. I said yes. What phone, Diamond. It asked me to turn on bluetooth and transfered contacts.
Maybe this is the problem, I now have both Phone contacts and Google contacts linked to each other. Should I just delete Phone contacts and leave Google contacts only? How to delete all Phone contacts without demaging Google contacts?
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When turning on Sensation for the first time, it asked me if I want to import contacts from other phone. I said yes. What phone, Diamond. It asked me to turn on bluetooth and transfered contacts.
Maybe this is the problem, I now have both Phone contacts and Google contacts linked to each other. Should I just delete Phone contacts and leave Google contacts only? How to delete all Phone contacts without demaging Google contacts?
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Well what i did, or would do in your case is all the contacts form Touch diamond.
sync your Sensation first then delete your google account from it.
go to gmail, click contacts, manually enter them in from your diamond, then re, enter your google account into your sensation and re sync, i had to do this on my desire hd once when all my contacts messed up, i manually edited them added second numbers in gmail as i had duplicate contacts.
It turned out that having Phone contacts is undesirable - they messed up the sync. How to delete them is another question. I have too many contacts to be eager to retype them, so I did this:
1. Export contacts to the CSV file in GMAIL
2. On the Sensation People / Menu / View and select only phone contacts. Then Menu / Delete / Menu / Select all and finally Delete.
3. I kind of hoped that after that everything will be ok, but for some reason it also deleted linked Google contacts. So I just had to sit back and watch my GMAIL contacts disappear, one by one. Some of them remained, which probably means not all the contacts were successfully linked before. But most of the contacts were deleted.
4. I imported GMAIL contacts to GMAIL from the CSV file created in step 1
5. The better part - now I sit back and watch contacts appear on the Sensation, this time Google contacts only, no phone contacts.
6. I kind of hoped this ends the procedure but no - the links to the Facebook contacts were destroyed, so I had to make links again the hard way - manually. Took some time.
7. Now I should do the same procedure on the Desire, but I cannot bring myself to do it.
There MUST be a way to backup contacts together with their links to Facebook contacts. Any ideas?
I need some help here...............
I am running stock mango. Phone wont sync all my contacts with any 1 client. Some are on Google, some on Facebook, and some yet on Live/Hotmail.
How do I push all of my contacts to one place for off phone storage?
Is there anyway to get all of my contacts to sync somewhere away from the phone in the event I lose my phone or all data is lost?
There must be something somewhere????
Btw, syncing contacts to Windows Live is a nightmare.
Now since you mentioned Google, I suggest you sync/backup your contacts there.
Settings, (system tab) e-mail+accounts, Google, check the box for Contacts
If you have others, uncheck Contacts in all other accounts.
Now go to Settings (applications tab) people, filter my contact list and choose whatever you like but make sure you uncheck "Windows Live".
Sync, and all your contacts should be backed in Gmail (check Contacts there from a PC).
Alternatively, if you can save your contact list as a .CSV file and import directly in Gmail (in your desktop's browser).
Thanks for the help!!
The only account that I have a checkbox for contacts in is Google, even windows live doesnt have a checkbox.
I went into setting>application>people>filter and unchecked windows live from sync and tried again, still wont load.
I have some of my contacts stored in Google, but not ALL of them!
How do I create a .csv file on my phone and export into google?
It's normal to see the checkbox only in Gmail.
Make sure on PC you check properly your Gmail account in Contacts, you should see "My Contacts" and "Imported MM/DD/YY" if you import them via CSV. Also, You might want to make sure the contacts from your SIM are on the phone (might be why you're missing some contacts).
Alternatively, you can edit your contacts yourself in Gmail.
This guide might prove very useful to you for transferring, importing, exporting contacts.
Still no dice. Cant find how to access my contacts via SIM since doing the Mango update.
This is getting frustrating. No one is having the same problem with the Arrive?
Import or Export ?
I am sorry but I am bit lost in the conversation.
What is that you want to do ?
Import Contacts in the Phone or Export Contacts from the Phone to somewhere else ?
I want my contacts exported somewhere, that way if my phone crashes or is lost I have all of my contacts stored offline somewhere safe.
WP7 says this is done automatically through Windows Live and Google......its not happening on my phone, only SOME contacts are stored in each
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Btw, syncing contacts to Windows Live is a nightmare.
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I've historically had the opposite experience. I think Gmail contacts & calendars are both pretty inconsistent, and my Live account has been 100x better to sync with. I even had issues on Android with Gmail contacts/calendar.
Still cant sync contacts or calendar with Gmail........any suggestions? I cant be the only one with this issue, can I?
Is there an App for Google yet on Mango?
I posted this elsewhere on the forums a moment ago and it relates to getting google contacts to sync with my Nokia Lumia 800.
I set it all up nicely and then found that none of my google phone numbers were synced. I had a similar experience with my old android phone (well the opposite problem actually)
I fixed this by highlighting all my contacts in google on a PC and making sure they were all in the "my contacts" group as that seems to be the only group that the phone will sync. Once done, all of my contacts were there.
Don't sync the google calendar so cant comment
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How come when I set facebook to sync only data for contacts I have it does under contacts. But if you tap the phone icon in contacts it brings up all of the facebook contacts. I have even tried unselecting sync data in the settings and in the pull down menu. It is starting to piss me off. The only way to get rid of it is to remove account from settings, then the ones I wanted to sync are.gone with the rest of my 300 facebook contacts I did not want on my phone. Now they are still there under "contacts'
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I believe if you disable the full sync in facebook, and uninstall it-it should bring your sync'ed data off of it. Otherwise you could manually delete it within the system. I'd think its not that big of a deal though. Just my opinion.
Cant you just go into Contacts, click the phonebook button and deselect your Facebook account from the list. This would make it so it only shows your phones contacts in the contact list, but everything will still be synced with your facebook account.
You can go into sync under settings and click facbook and uncheck contacts I believe. This will remove facebook contacts from your contacts list. You can also filter the contacts list itself and tell it to only show contacts with phone numbers.