So android seems to have this inherent limitation with respect to Groups. i.e. in order to set a group ringtone, or have my groups displayed in Launcher Pro widgets, I need to make a contact on the Phone, assign this Phone contact as part of a group, and then link the Phone contact to an existing contact (Gmail, corporate, etc.).
This works but it is a pain in the neck to update to new ROMs as there is no easy way that I know of to backup and restore this information. I tried an export of my contacts before flashing and the export went fine. However, this forced me to export ALL of my contacts including the GMAIL and corporate ones. When I imported the contacts (after upgrading ROM), I imported them all to the PHONE which created duplicate entries for all the GMAIL and corporate contacts that got re-synched.
Does anyone know of a better solution for backing up and restoring only the PHONE contacts and groups? If there is no good solution, is there enough interest to justify development of an app to do this?
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after flashing bunches of times, and for some stupid reason importing contacts from the sim each time and then having it sync with google, i have 6 or 7 identical numbers under each contact.
any ideas of how i can pare 'em down to just the one?
thanks!
Go to your gmail which is here http://gmail.com.
Login and then select contacts on the left side and edit away.
ps: maybe not a good idea to import sim all the time...the first time should be enough because it with auto sync to your gmail account.
that's kinda what i've resigned myself to. i guess i was just hoping that some dev had had a similar prob and had written a quick app...
oh well...
Im not sure if anyone would spend time writing an app that does that because not many people have that problem.
I guess you could use Outlook to import the contacts and see if it detectes the duplication. Or if you do some analysis on Gmail's export format, I suppose you could use regular expression to do the job as well. As zeezee said, it probably doesn't worth it to develop an app for this.
Had the same problem a while back, easiest way i found was to login to your gmail account, export all contacts as a .csv file. Open it in excel or any spreadsheet program and delete the numbers out of all but one column for each contact. After that save the file (might want to keep a copy of the original just in case), delete all your contacts from gmail, then import your edited .csv file. Let me know if you have any questions.
If you login into gmail, amd export you contacts as a cvs, then clear all you contacts and re import the csv, google will detect the dupes, and fix it for you
For best results log into Gmail and select contacts.
Check each one of the dupes and select merge contacts.
This way you won't lose any detail in case contact 1 has the email
and contact 3 has phone number and home address.
I have to do this after a day of flashing because my MyFaves numbers
always get added back into Contacts.
Hey guys,
When my car’s bluetooth downloads the contacts from my captivate, it downloads some contacts, but doesn't download the ones from my exchange server. They show up fine in the contacts app, but the car doesn't receive them. I thought it might be an issue with the way they were put into the contacts, so I undid the built in android exchange account, deleted the contacts, then installed touchdown and populated it that way. Still no joy.
Does the Captivate only send certain contact groups? If so, is there a way to move contacts from one group to another, or to choose which one is considered the “main” group?
After using Kies to sync Outlook with my Captivate without any major issues (To sync my Contacts and Calendar) it stopped working after a recent automatic update. Now in order to sync I have to do a driver recovery before I connect my phone. When I synchronized earlier today, for some reason, it put duplicates of all my contacts in the "Not Assigned" group, but it also linked these with the existing contacts that I had painstakingly organized in several groups. So, if I delete any contact in the "Not Assigned" group it also deletes the contact that I have placed it its corresponding group. It beats me why Android links all contacts by default without giving the user the opportunity to choose?
I have over 1,500 contacts and unlinking the contacts one by one is not practical. It took me a long time to put all my contacts in groups in the phone given that the Outlook categories do not correlate to the phone groups. Whenever I added a couple new contacts in Outlook all I had to do was assigned them to their respective group in the phone after I synced. I guess what I'm looking for is a tool or a script that I can run to batch unlink the merged contacts. Removing all the contacts and resynchronizing is not practical either as I would have to group even more contacts now than when I grouped them over a couple days when I first got the phone.
Kies, Kies... has the potential to be an indispensable tool, but it just falls flat on its face if you ask it to do anything. Even the most fundamental function (Connect) it a PITA. It looks like Samsung spent more time on making the GUI look pretty than it did making the actual functions work.
Can somebody pls advise, whether there is a possibility to sync contacts on both WP7 device and cloud across all accounts from which you are pulling your contacts/email?
The idea is that I have 3 accounts - Gmail, Live and Exchange, and I want contacts to be sync'd to all of them, instead of having different sets of contacts on each account.
The reason is that when I go on a terminal that isn't my phone, I don't want to be missing contacts or contact updates.
This is not supported currently.
As an alternative solution: You must import all your contacts from different accounts and consolidate them on your Live ID associated with the device. In order to separate them from each other you can use "Groups" feature. Now you can access all your contacts via the Live ID.
How do people have their contacts when using multiple Google accounts?
I email people from work using work and personal accounts, depending on the content so I want my contacts available on both
It seems most contact merging apps only address duplicate contacts but not contacts that are present in more than one account.
That is they consolidate multiple contacts into one but they do not "join" the contacts
Presently I have so many contacts and each contact had so many joins that my note 3 suffers when browsing contacts.
I also don't understand why Google and Google plus contacts are separate.
Some of my contacts have the maximum Ten joins and I need more, so clearly in not doing things the way Google intended.
Options: use a third party service to keep multiple accounts in sync, but only sync one to the phone.
Find a utility which can join (not just merge) contacts automatically
Also, my contact pictures keep disappearing. Not all of them, but some.
Can anyone explain how social networking contact syncing works when using the social network syncing versus using something like contacts plus and connecting it to Facebook?
I've been having a hell of a time trying to understand the philosophy behind Android contacts but I've not been able to make sense of how they were actually intended to be used. It seems totally haphazard