cannot add new contacts - Droid 2 Global General

Every time i try to add a new contact it gives me the error "can not create a new contact without a valid account." The only way i can add new contacts is to add them to my google contacts list and then sync. Is anyone else having problems with this?

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Save contact joins? accounts sync question

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?

[Q] How to add "phone-only, unsynced" contacts?

I can't find the answer to this questions anywhere, so I thought the good old xda community could help.
I have two exchange accounts set up in my phone and no Gmail accounts. Before I was able to add contacts as "phone only, unsynced". Now that I have the exchange accounts whenever I want to add a contact I have to choose one of those two accounts but there is no option to save "phone-only".
Question: How can I add phone-only, unsynced contacts?
Thanks in advance for any insights!
Try turning off sync temporarily on both email account under Setting-->Accounts then add a contact and see if that gives you the unsync option back when adding contacts. Let me know how it goes
Sync is off in both accounts. I only receive email through push. Thanks for suggestion though! Any other ideas?
Any ideas on this? Appreciate any help!
Possible answer
Sorry for reviving such an old thread but I had this problem and while I was searching for a solution this came up so for the sake of completeness here is a possible answer.
There is an app that allows you to import appointments from iCal files now while that is not you issue to do this the app creates a dummy account on the phone that is unsynced and from my experience you are able to add contacts under that account.
So hopefully this works for you.
Also just to mention this app is not mine nor have I had any input into it.
The app page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905213
Solution
Hi, I'm looking into upgrading my Motorola Atrixand in the meantime decided to update android. Immediately following the update (to 2.3), I realized that my old SIM contacts were missing. However, I noticed the missing contacts, although deleted from my SIM were somewhere on my phone. Ex. in my text history, the names were still there. I could click on a contact and when in edit mode, it read: unsynced contacts from att address book. I found no solution on android forums, etc. So I logged in to att.com and performed a search. It lead me to instructions on how to migrate contacts from 1 phone to another. I know I'm only referring to the same phone, but I tried it anyway. It worked!!
All you need to do is go to contacts, menu, export to sd card (hopefully your phone supports external storage). Then import from sd card. All my contacts are back. I first tried to export to SIM card, but It didn't work (however, this is where I could visually see my missing contacts as it allows you to select - I have over 800 contacts so I dont have time to go through the list) - I'm guessing this issue occurred to people whose complete contact list would not fit on the SIM. Probably if your contact list did fit on the SIM you did not experience this issue. If it happened to you and you do not have external storage I guess you could still use the SIM option by selecting a few contacts at a time - if you maxxed out the SIM storage you would need to delete them from SIM before copying more.
Anyway, once you do this it adds all contacts to the Google address book so you're now good to switch phones and get them just by adding your Google acount.
Hope this helps some folks - I was feeling desperate without about 150 of my oldest contacts.

[Q] Backup linked contacts

Hi,
I love trying out all the different ROM's for my desire S, but I am getting slightly frustrated with having to re-link all of my contacts after flashing to a new ROM!
Is there a way I can backup linked cantacts so when I again register my ActiveSync, Facebook, Gmail and phone accounts and contacts they are linked together nicely again!
Many Thanks
Campbs
campbs said:
Hi,
I love trying out all the different ROM's for my desire S, but I am getting slightly frustrated with having to re-link all of my contacts after flashing to a new ROM!
Is there a way I can backup linked cantacts so when I again register my ActiveSync, Facebook, Gmail and phone accounts and contacts they are linked together nicely again!
Many Thanks
Campbs
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Where is you're primary contact source, for example, mine is google contacts and I find that the contacts linkage data is stored within the google contact info field within <HTCData><Facebook>id:999999999/friendof:8888888</Facebook></HTCData>. This then means whenever I then add additional accounts, eg FB etc only the contacts links that I've said NO to in the past are re-prompted for? as the linkage data in the google.contact.info field is automatically applied
So possible add the Google Account and get google contacts first when setting up your device. Does that make sense?
ben_pyett said:
Where is you're primary contact source, for example, mine is google contacts and I find that the contacts linkage data is stored within the google contact info field within <HTCData><Facebook>id:999999999/friendof:8888888</Facebook></HTCData>. This then means whenever I then add additional accounts, eg FB etc only the contacts links that I've said NO to in the past are re-prompted for? as the linkage data in the google.contact.info field is automatically applied
So possible add the Google Account and get google contacts first when setting up your device. Does that make sense?
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how do I know which one is the primary?
kyogoku said:
how do I know which one is the primary?
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Sorry I made that term up, what I meant is which source do you keep the most contacts in and keep up to date, Google contacts, Outlook or FB?
That source I called primary as it is ultimately where your contacts reside, the others are simply places that the same contacts are in...and can add value to your initial records....
I add my google account first so that I get all my real contact (my friends) and then only sync the other accounts to where I have an existing user, so that my contact list is not filled with 100's of unnecessary people, just my friends contact records have extra data added to them.
See this post related to contacts that might be of use

[Q] Att Edge makes duplicate contacts when synced with Google contacts

Help, my att Note Edge creates multiple duplicate contacts when it syncs with my Google Contact account (my phone's contacts list shows 2,500 contacts
where as my google contacts shows only 280 contacts - which is the correct number of contacts). Also I get a notification message saying that Sync was
unsuccessful because "Too many Contacts deleted. There are 1019 deleted items for Contacts, account ....... @gmail.com. What do you want to do?" Do any
of you have a fix for this problem? thanks
I only know how to manually link them. Open one and look for the chain link you're icon, it will suggest similar name's you check them and click done and they're then all grouped. Kind of a pain you have to do each one but it's effective for multiple contracts.

Add new contact

Every time I try to add a new contact, I am asked if I want to save it on the telephone account (not sync'ed) or on the google account: is there a way to force the choice by default?

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