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
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Hi All
My universal and outlook seen to have duplicated everything at least twice.
I have searched the threads and come to the conclusion it is another M$ error, but can anyone please recommend a util (preferably free) to search through outlook or the phone and remove the duplicates?
Thanking you in anticipation
Lee
Unless I'm missing something here, wouldn't it be just as easy to go into Outlook on your desktop and remove the duplicates?? Then, sync the phone again??
and in case it's not duplicated there set activesync to "make my device to match outlook" mode
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Yes it would be easy, but there are hundreds of entries.
And unfortunately the dupes are on both outlook and my universal
Still searching google for a solution
I've had this problem also, my contacts are duplicated 3 timesa and it's hard to delete it. still looking for a solution.
i had that problem before. and i know where it came from. i had yahoo go installed and i had goosync both syncing with outlook. all that syncing messed everything up.
Here is a solution - let the phone sync, and make sure that it's properly synced (not kidding). Then get a tool Anti-Dupe from w*w.anti-dupe.com
It's a desktop tool for removing duplicate entries (TODO, calendar, contacts, memo). Well it's for free, so don't expect too much. It just does it's job.
P.S.: Make sure you let it remove the duplicates one by one (ie first Contacts, then Tasks) and not everything at once. After it's done, the phone will sync and voila
Works for me almost every week (I sync 3 devices with Outlook - WM, PALM, Samsung).
A HUGE thank you
Does it work for you then?
I tried synching with my work exchange server and unticked all boxes bar email (i.e. contacts, tasks etc), as that was all I wanted. Although this worked, it decided to delete all the contacts I had on my phone!
Unfortunately I didnt have any backups, is there anyway to get this back? Ive had a search around, and people mention there may be artifacts left in the pim.vol file. Ive found the file (its aorund 700kb, so Im hoping there is something in it), is there anyway to extract/view the info in there?
This phone/WM6 is really beginning to seem like more trouble than its worth
alchemyst said:
I tried synching with my work exchange server and unticked all boxes bar email (i.e. contacts, tasks etc), as that was all I wanted. Although this worked, it decided to delete all the contacts I had on my phone!
Unfortunately I didnt have any backups, is there anyway to get this back? Ive had a search around, and people mention there may be artifacts left in the pim.vol file. Ive found the file (its aorund 700kb, so Im hoping there is something in it), is there anyway to extract/view the info in there?
This phone/WM6 is really beginning to seem like more trouble than its worth
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I am not sure I understand you correctly.. So you unticked (NOT SYNC) with your exchange the contacts, task,mails etc. Right???
Then you delete all contacts on your phone which are now completely gone.. And as my knowledge there is no way to undo the delete.
The only way that you can get that back is to have a previous backup(which you don’t have) or to sync. With the exchange again to get it in your phone!!!
I had contacts on my phone already (that I put in by hand as and when I met people for example). I then tried to sync with exchange to get my emails, but because I didnt want contacts I unticked that box. After this sync, all my contacts were gone.
The numbers that I lost were never on the Exchange server.
I'm beginning to think my mistake was to use this as both a personal and work phone, it doesnt seem to want to do things by half. I cant comprehend the thinking that goes into deleting personal contacts if you sync with your work server.
Well first it is strange and it should be not happen to lose your existent contacts when you not choose to sync with exchange.
If you had already sync. With exchange for contacts then later you would choose to unticked then the contact would be cleaned up on the device.
Anyhow have you checked your exchange account whether you have exidently sync contacts and then later unchecked??
just to double confirm I would check the contact in the exchange account and as well in the deleted items folder
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Well first it is strange and it should be not happen to lose your existent contacts when you not choose to sync with exchange.
If you had already sync. With exchange for contacts then later you would choose to unticked then the contact would be cleaned up on the device.
Anyhow have you checked your exchange account whether you have exidently sync contacts and then later unchecked??
just to double confirm I would check the contact in the exchange account and as well in the deleted items folder
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Mate, you are a genius! Just checked my Outlook contacts and they've all ended up there! Thanks a lot, I really appreciate it.
I think I shall leave the synching be for now anyway...
Thats great!!! First thing I would suggest you now is to make a backup of your PIM. save one copy in your memory card and one copy in your desktop.. You never know when you might need it :0)
Look in development section there are some good PIM backup software
cheers
Will do, thanks again.
I have to activesync through work, but miss my google contacts/calendar updating- Is there a solution? Free would be great! Thanks in advance.
might wanna play around with seven beta
www.community.seven.com
they have some software you can run on your desktop system that will let you get your email im not sure if it will let you sync multiple calendars and contacts
but it does let you do a global search on contacts from all the email accounts you plugin
i'm a big fan of google contacts/calendar and use it with this software along with two other gmail accounts and exchange account from work
should check it out only thing is they charge you international text message everytime you set up the software
but after reading around i was able to figure out how to get around it setup all the accounts that you want and then if you are a heavy flasher like myself back up the sever directory in /application data on your phone (i use pim backup)
then when you flash restore the folder with pim backup or whatever you use and then reinstall the cab give it a few minutes after you reinstall should see your email accounts and you might have to refresh the data to get everything to sync back up it takes a while but it's better then payin for an international text message in my book
Honestly, I had my work calendar and tasks syncing with my Gmail email and Contacts for the longest time. Accidentally, I merged my work calendar into Gmail, and it RESENT EVERY SINGLE APPOINTMENT ON MY CALENDAR WITH ME AS THE ORGANIZER AND EFFED A TON OF MEETINGS UP. I havent done it in a while. let me get the process down and Ill let you know how i did it.
If there is a solution out there I would like to try it or at least know.
Its driving me crazy trying to keep up with my Google contacts ever since I stopped syncing them. My ideal situation is:
Sync Google contacts only
Sync work calendar and Google calendar
Access work email and Google( able to do this)
Thanks in advance
Iam facing a strange problem with my HD7 since yesterday. I have made some addition and deletion in my windows live contacts. Now my HD7 is no longer reflecting/updating these changes. ( Previously HD7 was updating the contacts immidiatly).
Although I have kept my mobile phone's wifit on for several hours. Beside this I have access the hotmail account through HD7's internet explorer and have done a lot of surfing on my HD7 but still it has not updated the contacts. Am I missing some thing ?
Thanks.
is it getting your emails fine still? i know it's a bit risky and will mean your changes will disappear but worst case scenario would be to remove your live account from windows phone and readd it again.
Same problem here
It happened to me just after I edited and merged some contacts on my Windows Live account.
Now I'm not able to get all my contacts there to my device and I lost all avatars but the ones of facebook.
I think I tried anything but stills not working
wp7 doesn't let you to remove ur main windows live account
I found a strange & stupid kind of solution. I tired it 3 times and it worked.
Turn on the wifi. surf the market place and recomendedly install any free software. The problem will be fixed. All contacts will be updated.
I've got similar issue. Contacts will be synced, but none of the contact pictures... Tried syncing over WiFi and 3G, no affect. Even tried to remove and add pictures to contacts on computer see what happens then... Nothing, contact pics wont be synced...
Make sure your facebook account and windows live account are sync'd.
was having the same problem until i went to settings - email & accounts and sync'd facebook!
is there a manual way to force Facebook to sync with your contacts?
I have had a number of new Facebook friends added so I can link them with my phone contacts and get the pictures etc. It done this the first time but hasnt since.
May try logging out of the Facebook contacts bit and then reenter my credentials to try again
i think a long press on the setting for the FB ...i'm pretty sure this is in the tip n tricks.
or at least on the list of tips on pocket-lint.com
awesome thanks mate!
taking about contacts I have dude , New contacts added to the cellphone how those contact get to the contacts in the email contacts because I made sync twice but the new contact that I added they are not in the account, any body knows how i can sync those new contacts thanks.
my wife got a new d2g and the contacts wont sync to Google. this is the second phone she got in less than a week do to other problems, and the phone before this would not sync either. and it is just the contacts, the calender and the gmail sync fine. under the google account on the phone all the options are checked to sync and it shows the arrows that its trying to sync but when i look online there are no contacts. any ideas?
I'm pretty sure that it's considered normal behaviour. If the contacts weren't added manually after setting up a Google account on the phone, they won't sync, or at least that's what I have here.
My dx sync just fine and I set it up the same way. Not sure what the deal is.
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Ok gonna take a wild guess here and say that you had the carrier transfer contacts from the old phone to the D2G and that would explian why they do not sync.
Look at the contacts (might have to go into edit mode) and see what "PROFILE" it says for each contact.
My guess is it says Phone Only.
What you need to do (and I'm going off memory since I am not running stock myself)
Edit each contact and in the menu there should be something that says NEW contact that will take the info from the one you are editing but ask you which account to make the new contact for. Select your GMail acct when asked and save it.
Then fine the gmail version of the contact you just made and select join or link and link it to the Phone only version.
This will give you one contact that has two profiles, phone only and Gmail.
What I suggest for anyone moving to Android for the first time is to get all your contacts into GMail (using above method) Import all your facebook contacts as well (You can do that through Yahoo Mail wizard and exporting to CSV then i8mporting into Gmail) and once your GMail has a complete and accurate contact list wipe the data on the phone and sync with Gmail to get all your contacts back. Be sure to make a backup of all your contacts on GMail once you are done to guard against future corruption issues and to be safe.
Cloud Contacts is not one of the best features of the phone but once you have integrated all your current contacts into GMail and joined them and Facebook into a proper list it is not a problem anymore.