Trying to migrate from Diamond to Sensation... Here is the funny problem.
While importing contacts from Diamond, I got a contact we shell call FRIEND. I earlier synced Diamond with GMAIL, and migrated contacts on my other phone, Desire. So to start, I have a FRIEND contact with a mobile phone number XXXXX, the same number is on GMAIL and on Desire. Ok.
On the Sensation I add another mobile phone for FRIEND contact, say YYYYY, and I also delete XXXXX. I sync it with GMAIL. Now on GMAIL I have the contact with no phones (XXXXX deleted, YYYYY wasn't added) and on Desire I still have number XXXXX. Now I force sync on the Desire. It keeps XXXXX number. So now I have:
On Sensation number YYYYYY
On Desire number XXXXX
On GMAIL no number
And all that is called "synced".
What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much.
how did you sync diamond with gmail?!?!? its not android, diamond is windows mobile, so it may not sync contacts or sync them properly?
ikhzter said:
how did you sync diamond with gmail?!?!? its not android, diamond is windows mobile, so it may not sync contacts or sync them properly?
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When turning on Sensation for the first time, it asked me if I want to import contacts from other phone. I said yes. What phone, Diamond. It asked me to turn on bluetooth and transfered contacts.
Maybe this is the problem, I now have both Phone contacts and Google contacts linked to each other. Should I just delete Phone contacts and leave Google contacts only? How to delete all Phone contacts without demaging Google contacts?
dejanr said:
When turning on Sensation for the first time, it asked me if I want to import contacts from other phone. I said yes. What phone, Diamond. It asked me to turn on bluetooth and transfered contacts.
Maybe this is the problem, I now have both Phone contacts and Google contacts linked to each other. Should I just delete Phone contacts and leave Google contacts only? How to delete all Phone contacts without demaging Google contacts?
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Well what i did, or would do in your case is all the contacts form Touch diamond.
sync your Sensation first then delete your google account from it.
go to gmail, click contacts, manually enter them in from your diamond, then re, enter your google account into your sensation and re sync, i had to do this on my desire hd once when all my contacts messed up, i manually edited them added second numbers in gmail as i had duplicate contacts.
It turned out that having Phone contacts is undesirable - they messed up the sync. How to delete them is another question. I have too many contacts to be eager to retype them, so I did this:
1. Export contacts to the CSV file in GMAIL
2. On the Sensation People / Menu / View and select only phone contacts. Then Menu / Delete / Menu / Select all and finally Delete.
3. I kind of hoped that after that everything will be ok, but for some reason it also deleted linked Google contacts. So I just had to sit back and watch my GMAIL contacts disappear, one by one. Some of them remained, which probably means not all the contacts were successfully linked before. But most of the contacts were deleted.
4. I imported GMAIL contacts to GMAIL from the CSV file created in step 1
5. The better part - now I sit back and watch contacts appear on the Sensation, this time Google contacts only, no phone contacts.
6. I kind of hoped this ends the procedure but no - the links to the Facebook contacts were destroyed, so I had to make links again the hard way - manually. Took some time.
7. Now I should do the same procedure on the Desire, but I cannot bring myself to do it.
There MUST be a way to backup contacts together with their links to Facebook contacts. Any ideas?
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.
From day one I was syncing with Exchange account and I was adding new contacts always to that exchange account.
Now I am using another one and I want to copy or move my contacts to the new exchange account.
How can I do that?
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From day one I was syncing with Exchange account and I was adding new contacts always to that exchange account.
Now I am using another one and I want to copy or move my contacts to the new exchange account.
How can I do that?
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Try doing it on your pc and then sync on your phone. I'm not 100% sure but Microsoft Office Outlook might help.
I dont have access anymore to my old Exchange account so I typed in all my contacts in my Hotmail Outlook account. Contact pictures are missing which is redicilous but I hope that Microsoft will update its Live ID in the future.
Outlook also needs a Skype implementation and have to get rid of the old pager and other old stuff things.
Then it will be a solid way to sync contacts.
So you didn't find a way to do that easier? 'cause i need to to that, too.;(
are you using outlook hotmail connector?
Hey all
Yesterday I bought a HTC One S. I set up my Homtail Account via Exchange AS and the following Problem occurs. When adding an event to the calendar the phone starts syncing and eats up all the battery but it isn't able to write to that calendar on the server so that i can see it at my pc.
If i delete the account and add a hotmail account under Accounts & Synchronizing the calendar syncing works but I am not able to add or edit Hotmail Contacts..
This functions are working on my old Desire Z with 2.3 and on my Transformer 101 without any problems. Told that the guys from HTC Support -> They told me to exchange the phone. ridiculous...and absolutely not a qualyfied answer
So it can't be a Server issue... WTF is wrong? has anyone an idea? Has anyone else this problems?
Thx in advance.
Hello and sorry if this was repeated. I sync my contacts from Outlook.com using HTC (m8 & m9) stock mail app. The second mobile number in a contact is always showing as "Car" number not as "Mobile" Number in my phone. Sometimes, some additional strange changes is happening in my contacts details too. My question is this a problem relates to Android, HTC, or MS Exchange service?