I want to change my htc magic rom and wipe all of my stats (the phone is to slow because it had lots of roms flashed without wipe)
and my problem is that I would like to save my merged contacts (google contacts + facebook) so I can restore them right away and don't need to re-merge all my google contacts with their facebook profile
is there any tip to help?
thanks
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Hey,
I'm using Sergio's CoreDroid 1.5 on my HD2 and I've had this problem in all of the previous Android ROMs that I have used, but there are a good number of ppl who have had no problem with the same builds. Searching Google also does not turn up any suitable answer.
All the contacts in my phone are saved under Google, so whenever I make any updates to my Google Contacts on the web it is sync'd fine to my Phone. On the other hand if I edit any of my contacts on the phone (like adding an extra number or email address or change the name) they are never Sync'd back to Google Contacts on the web... instead it ends up deleting the new info from my phone when it syncs from the web!! Same is the case if I change the primary number for a contact (in case the person has two numbers in his contact) it reverts back to the original choice!
Making new contacts has a mind of its own.. Mostly it does sync back the new contact info to Google contacts, but sometimes it does not.. and the new contact is deleted because no such info exists under Google Contacts. I don't have any proof but I think it only syncs info back to Google if I choose specific groups for the newly created contact.
I have checked every setting in my phone but did not find anything which shows that my phone does not have privileges to edit contacts on my phone and reflect changes back to the web. Neither is there any setting in my Google Contacts which does not let me edit changes to Contacts from my phone.
Does any one else have this problem? My problem does not lie in a bad flash or anything.. as I have already made a lot of fresh flashes but nothing seems to work!
UPDATE: I backed up all my contacts in Gmail to a csv file, and then deleted all the contacts. I then imported all the contacts back to my Gmail contacts. Up till now all the contacts that I edit remain that way, and also reflect the changes back to Gmail contacts. I guess it was a problem with Google or something, cuz when I made all my contact lists last year they were made on Gmail and after that none would update when I changed anything on my phone, as I have already pointed out. But now all work as they are supposed to. You can also backup contacts on your phone and delete from the phone but it is not recommended as the phone backup does not remember the group divisions. So your best bet is to use Gmail as it will preserve the groupings. Also after backing up remember to delete the contacts from Gmail and also from your phone and then import back into Gmail, otherwise it will make a mess of making double contacts. Do let me know if this worked for you.
So I really like the ability to link contacts and after playing with a few custom roms, I noticed the phone does not seem to save an information used to join the contacts. Is there a program or someway to preserve these joins in the case I flash my phone or something.
Also, with facebook contacts, I chose to only add certain contact and not the all option. What If I want to go back through my facebook contacts and add another one. I don't know how without removing the account, adding it back and choosing all the contacts over again (and losing their respective joins). Any tips?
hello,
when i change ROM or in any other way i delete contacts from phone, and after that i restore them (i am using My Phone Explorer) it simply doesn't create contact pics i had before wiping. this is main reason why i hesitate to try out new ROMs cos each time i have to manually attach pics for my contacts. So is there a way to do this (it doesn't have to be My Phone Explorer, it can be some other program or market app)?
also another thing that bugs me is that after i sync contacts from FB with phone it gives greater priority to FB contact pics than to those of phone itself, so contacts display FB pics instead of those from phone. I know i can fix this manually but again why should i each time i flash new ROM, if there is a way to do it automaticly. So, is there a way?
thank you
Hey folks,
I just finished saving my current phone contacts to Google instead of to my phone. I then deleted all the "Phone" versions of my contacts. Now all my contact icons have defaulted back to the basic picture when I open my Contacts app and begin scrolling. The only way I can see the individual icons is if I go all the way to the edit contact screen, or by logging into my Google account on a PC.
Do I need to re save all my contacts to my phone's local memory to get them to re show up again when I start scrolling? Or delete them all and restore them?
Thanks for any help.
ETA: I'm running dman's awesome streamlined Gingerbread ROM, and Entropy's lastest test kernel.
Figured I'd add this for futurer searchers...
I just had to force resync and all my contacts with pictures were restored.
Hello.
I use a Galaxy Y and as you know, it has a very small internal memory. We have CM7 and CM11 now and the thing with CM is we have to externally flash gapps. Considering the small memory, I hesitate to flash the gapps package and I've tried my level best to isolate myself from using Google services on my phone. But the one thing I cannot stop using is the contacts sync feature because when exporting the contacts to the SD card, the exporting seem to miss some contacts. So I have to use the cloud sync feature for my contacts but then for that one feature I'll have to flash the whole package and wait for everything to update bla bla ...
Is there any other service that I can use with which I can sync my contacts ( to gmail to? Not send it as an attachment) and not lose any contacts? Any help appreciated.
P.s also, I had come across a thread somewhere about a person moving away from Google services altogether but never managed to find it again.
shree_tejas said:
Hello.
I use a Galaxy Y and as you know, it has a very small internal memory. We have CM7 and CM11 now and the thing with CM is we have to externally flash gapps. Considering the small memory, I hesitate to flash the gapps package and I've tried my level best to isolate myself from using Google services on my phone. But the one thing I cannot stop using is the contacts sync feature because when exporting the contacts to the SD card, the exporting seem to miss some contacts. So I have to use the cloud sync feature for my contacts but then for that one feature I'll have to flash the whole package and wait for everything to update bla bla ...
Is there any other service that I can use with which I can sync my contacts ( to gmail to? Not send it as an attachment) and not lose any contacts? Any help appreciated.
P.s also, I had come across a thread somewhere about a person moving away from Google services altogether but never managed to find it again.
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I can't really think of a solution to your problem without using gapps, so my suggestion is to just use as few gapps as possible: [GAPPS][GUIDE][TOOL] PROJECT SLIM-8mb GApps & AUTO SLIM-FACTORY (free 134mb /system) have a look at this link and go the gapps folder to pick the right package for your OS (just give me a shout if you're confused) and it'll only use up less than 10MB but it contains contacts sync which you need. Hope this helps