This only applies if you used your iPhone with a mac computer.
If you don't want to manually enter in all of your contacts you used to have on your iphone onto your new captivate, and synced aforementioned iphone with a mac, you're in luck.
You may or may not have noticed, but when an iphone is synced up to a mac computer, it saves all of your contacts to the Address Book application, and you can even further sync your Address Book application to your gMail account, which auto syncs to your android phone! So heres step-by-step:
1. Open adress book and go to Preferences.
2. Go to the accounts tab and check "Synchronize with Google"
3. Hit configure next to "Synchronize with Google" and type in your gMail account name and password, then hit okay.
4. This should sync all of your contacts to google. Now check your Contacts app on your phone and they should all be there.
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I have gotten google sync working in all Android 2.0 roms through exchange. It syncs mail, contacts, and calendar without the need for google apps. To get this working open email, and make a new exchange account and put in your gmail email address and password and then select manual setup. Select exchange account. For Domain/Username put in "/[email protected]" without quotes. The password should be filled in from the previous field. The Exchange server is "m.google.com" without quotes. Check both boxes below and hit next. Select the checking frequency(or push) and amount to synchronize. Select which options you want below, then select next. Put in an account name and display name, then hit done. If you have corporate calendar installed, then your calendar will synchronize and so will your contacts and email. Now you have push gmail, contacts, and calendar. Because exchange will only synchronize a month of emails, I also setup my gmail as an IMAP account so I still have access to my old emails. The android email app is not as good as the gmail app IMHO, but it is a temporary solution, and new emails seem to show up faster this way!
AWESOME! The best I could do was use an app to back them up to vcard and that still eff'ed up all the names. Great work!
This is just the exchange synchronisation option from android nothing to do with gapps.
This thread isn't specific for Dream G1
Hey folks,
I'm sorry this is probably a n00b question but I would like to sync my emails from my PC with my phone.
On the PC I use thunderbird to download all emails (got like 6 email accounts) to the pc and delete them from the server immidiately. (I've had accounts beeing hacked in the past because I left password emails etc in my inbox, so I started to delete them from server instead of leaving them on for more security - so I can't just "download them again" from the phone - I will need to sync the phone with the data from the PC. I could switch my email client program off course if thats needed, but I rather not let the messages lay somewhere online.
Can someone maybe explain to me how that would work or give me a link or smth?
It would be perfect if it would work both sides: Either I sync the phone with the PC or the PC with the phone, or a real sync where just the new emails get exchanged. (On the same time I'd also get this to work for my laptop but phone more important now since i got it heh)
I hope someone can help me.
you can't sync with EVERY email client..
it does sync with outlook/OE... I don't know about thunderbird tho. What you CAN try to do is change the settings to never delete emails from your server when downloaded to your computer and then sync so that when you delete them from your phone they'd be deleted from the server.
get my drift?
hmm well im used to thunderbird, but i dont have to keep using it necessarily. I'd change if it makes this whole syncing easier. Its been bugging me for a while that I didnt have my emails on my laptop but now i also need em on the phone.. so I wanna finally get this to work.
The method you described wouldnt work if I somehow download the emails to the phone first instead of the pc, it would work like u described, but if I'd rather work it in both ways, a real "sync".
With outlook you could do this yea?
Try using Gmail or Windows Live mail, its more compatabile with most wireless. Goto m.live.com or Gmail
well, if you use gmail you can easily keep it on both your computer and your phone and it would sync both ways.
Get a gmail account. Then forward all your email accounts to the gmail account. You can also set the gmail account to send out as one of the other accounts.
Setup the gmail account as an imap client in thunderbird or outlook. Create a folder under the inappropriate account named old emails or whatever. Move the emails stored in your local folders to the folder setup under the imap account (you can do it directly to the inbox if you prefer).
Setup gmail on your mobile device.
Say thanks.
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Cleaner Explanation.
1) Create a Gmail account at Gmail.com (or skip this step if you already have one).
2) Log into the web versions of each of your email accounts. Set the account to forward all emails to the new gmail account address (typically these settings are found under the settings or Options menu somewhere on the page). If you would like to continue to use these accounts you can either:
a) Give Gmail permission to send emails as all the accounts or one in particular. (Note once in the mobile apps, you cannot choose different sender addresses, only the default one. You can however change from each address on the web interface). b) Set a forwarder and then specify to leave a message on the server.
3) Setup the gmail account you created as an IMAP account (use IMAP not SMTP) in thunderbird or Outlook.
a) You can find the Imap settings for desktop clients here.
4) Once the initial sync is complete, simply drag and drop the emails from the old inbox to the Gmail account's inbox (listed in a tree menu under the IMAP.Gmail.Com listing.
5) You can now set up this email address as a SMTP or IMAP (IMAP keeps the emails on the server. This is a better idea in some cases as you have exact copies of emails on all devices you set them up as.
6) Say thanks
You can also manually do this for each email account you have, but that would take much longer and some companies do not allow or simply haven't moved to using IMAP yet (freaky right?).
Using the gmail way, you have all your emails from all your accounts plus the wonders of google. This is the easiest way to do it I can think of.
I hope my explanation is clean and clear.
thanks for the detailed explanation I guess I'll do it that way.
But the downside that you have to keep the mails on the server still stays this way. I'd really love the option to do a real sync how you expect a sync to be but I guess thats complicated or doesnt work?
I mean like.. when I'm at home .. I download the mails from my desktop pc over usb or wlan. Then I download new emails while I'm travelling or smth - and when I get back home I sync my desktop with the phone emails.
This must work somehow? I'd really hate to have to leave my emails on the server since I got bad experience with this.
I guess I'm just beeing paranoid - but I'm also perfectionist heh, so I'd love to try n get it going "the perfect way" - aka a real offline sync without usage of any server storage. (unless you count my desktop as a server..)
If you setup the system to use smtp on the phone it will dowbload the email, other than that i would suggest using a very good password.
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As a lawyer, I need to be able to sync my phone to and fro with confidentiality for my clients. I was able to do this before with my palm treo(legacy device), but now that I have made the leap into the new smartphone age I realized that androids sync with google on pretty much everything so I was wondering if anyone has any idea how to sync all of the stuff on my sensation without sending any information to google.
Also what is this tmobile theme engine they are talking about in this post:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/bring-elegance-to-your-sense-3-0-device-with-slate3duniversal/
When setting up your phone & using a gmail account, go to Accounts & Sync & uncheck syncing of contacts.
Then you can setup your e-mail accounts & contacts through HTC's exchange setup. This will not go throught google but will sync your phone to the exchange account directly.
Contact Sync
You could try using Microsoft Exchange as your email client. I use Exhange along with with my google email.
omar when i go into accounts and sync there is no feature to stop the syncing of contacts and also what is this htc exchange setup. Also i checked my gmail account and the contacts that are synced on it are only from the ones i input into google voice not my phone, but some contacts that are favorited on my phone show up on my gmail contacts as starred on android. So here is what im wondering: Does the phone only sync the contacts on my google account not all the contacts on my phone that i transfered for example from another phone
rust1n said:
omar when i go into accounts and sync there is no feature to stop the syncing of contacts and also what is this htc exchange setup. Also i checked my gmail account and the contacts that are synced on it are only from the ones i input into google voice not my phone, but some contacts that are favorited on my phone show up on my gmail contacts as starred on android. So here is what im wondering: Does the phone only sync the contacts on my google account not all the contacts on my phone that i transfered for example from another phone
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Your phone should sync each type of contacts seperatelty.
As for accounts and sync, tap on your google account and it'll open an another screen were you can choose (check) what you want to sync.
htc exchange, by going to accounts & sync > Add Account > Exchange ActiveSync.
This is only in case you have an Exchange Server to sync with.
I exchange email via Gmail only from my PC. I also have that same account setup on my phone (it is not used there), since Android requires it.
Since I do not want my Contacts/clients residing on Google's servers, I have Gmail sync turned off.
With Gmail sync turned off, can I now configure another non-Gmail email account, have it sync with my PC (direct via USB, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth), without these Contacts ending up on Google servers?
So I recently got an HD7 and I've been using it for a while and I'm getting the hang of it. I want to start adding some contacts by importing them from Gmail. My question is, if I import contacts from Gmail, will the contacts be added to the phone itself or to your Windows Live Account?
Sorry if this has been asked before.
Depends... if you "Add" them to the phone, they'll be put on your Windows Live. However, if you simply add the Gmail account to your phone (under Settings -> Email + Accounts -> (Add) Google) and then choose to Sync the settings, they'll be cached on your phone but primarily stored on Google,a nd will not be copied to your other services.
Essentially, no contacts are actually stored on the phone.
When you added a contact, you're prompted to choose which account (google, LIVE...) that you want it to sync to. If you login using Google credentials, and select to sync contacts, then they'll appear on the phone but not be merged/uploaded to LIVE.
I'm about to receive my new S4 in about 2 hours (exciting!) after having used an iPhone 3GS for quite some years now. I figured it would be a good idea to already read up on how to properly move to Google instead of using iCloud. After having quite a few guides I've come to the conclusion most of them way too confusing. There is no need to install any apps to move your contacts, for example.. All of these things can be done through the web, if you already have a Google account. So, if you don't have a Google account yet you really should set one up.. Android without a Google account is pretty useless, it's like an iPhone without an Apple account (is that even possible?)
Exporting contacts from iCloud to vCard
First things first, login to iCloud with your Apple account: https://www.icloud.com/
Select "Contacts"
Click on the little gear at the bottom left
Select "Select All"
Click on the gear again and select "Export vCard"
Save the file somewhere
Importing vCard into Google Contacts
Login to your Gmail: https://gmail.com
Under the Google logo click on "Gmail" and select "Contacts"
Click "More"
Select "Import"
Select the vCard file you just downloaded from iCloud
That's it!
It's a good idea to have this vCard file as a backup anyway, save it in Dropbox or something just in case. My iPhone once decided to delete all my contacts when I tried to switch it from iCloud to Google Contacts. Instead of doing a two way sync it only did a one way, from Google->iPhone.. Considering my Google Contacts list was empty it proceeded to delete all my contacts on my iPhone (seriously Cupertino?!)
it's useful for me, thanks
welcome to android, you will notice the difference!
I used google to do that. If you sync with google all your contacts in your phone, they will be already there when you setup your google account in the S4.
Why not have a try the Coolmuster iPhone Backup Extractor to help you? It works well.
Here's a guide about extracting contacts from iCloud.
Step 1 Log in iCloud
Open icloud.com on your computer with browser. Then, sign in your iCloud account.
Step 2 Select Contact Item
Once you successfully login iCloud, you will see all data categories like mail, calendars, notes, reminders, pages, keynote and so on. Click into "Contacts" menu.
Step 3 Extract Contacts from iCloud
You can select only one contact and extract. You can also press "Ctrl+A" (Windows) or "Command +A" (Mac) to select all contacts. Then, hit the wheel gear icon at the bottom-left corner and choose "Export vCard" option. Modify the name of the .vcf file and click "Save" button at the lower-right corner. Now, you can check the extracted contacts file on your computer and transfer it to Android devices.
I hope this guide can do any help.