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[Q] Backing up Contacts

I was just wondering if I backed up my contacts to my sim card, they can't be harmed when I upgrade my captivate to 2.2 right?
sorry if this is a stupid question or if someone asked it already

do a google backup (you need a google account) it will sync your contacts. Or a 3rd party software, like mybackup pro..

Right. Export them to a file on sdcard. and keep a copy on desktop in case your sdcard fails.

how exactly do you back it up to google?

you go to the sync menu in the options and you setup your google account... then click sync contacts.
It works fine with me xD

how to sync contacts to google server after importing from sim card

hi everybody,is this possible? after i sync all my accounts from google i found my old sim card with a lot of losted numbers then i just copy/import all that numbers from sim to phone memory and there are all together now but when i sync that new contact does not appear when i log on to my gmail account on computer
thanx in advance

Go to setting, accounts and sync. Manually sync contact by toggling the check mark off and on again.

I think you didnt understand me,on my first sync with google servers phone pick up all email adresses and numbers that i have saved in my email account,but after all i found my old sim card,i take out new sim card and put the old sim card i just copy/import 200 lost numbers not emails and when i finish importing when i hit sync againg phone and servers only synv old numbers that i had before there is no new phone numbers when i log into my gmail account on desktop pc how i can solve this please?
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What rom are you using? Some roms gives you the ability you save your contacts to your sd card (vcf format I think) once you do that. Go to your contacts from your email, click on more and it should give you the option of importing contacts from file, choose your vcf file saved on your sd card and it will add your new numbers to your list

Copy and moving contacts on WM

Something that baffled me was contacts that went missing on my xda orbit..I now realise that the contact are on the sim as well as the phone. I have now put my sim card into my HTC HD mini but a large number of contacts are still on my xda.?
Ive searched the web....I cannot find the contacts folder on my xda using sync with PC...and I don’t want to sync the phone contacts with my outlook contact.
Can any advise how I can group all the contacts together and edit them before storing back on the HD mini.

well there should be an option to transfer your phone contacts to SIM. And then copy from SIM to your HD.
OR there are softwares to backup and restore contacts, search for Contacts backup.

Cheers, I was hoping that there was some tool to export or save contacts from the phone in say an excel format so I could manage them on the PC.

Spent 3 hours joining/merging contacts on SG2, how to transfer to another android?

So I have a gmail account and hotmail account with contacts synced to my phone. Spent 3 hours joining contacts/ updating emails etc. I then used the merge with google in the contacts menu, but not all of the contacts show up in my google accounts. I then export to vcard, transfer vcard to another phone, but all of the contacts are not updated/joined.
Very frustrating...
I basically want to have the same contacts on my phone, gmail and hotmail accounts, and have all 3 synced all the time. What's the best way of doing this?

i dnt know if it works cross phone but titanium back up of the contacts settings and details etc, (may cause problems as the settings are optimized for a specific phone.) i used this to copy contacts back to phone after changing roms, but some htc like roms conflict with settings in samsung type roms etc.. its worth a shot as long as you got a nandroid back up you will be ok i doubt you'll need it just for contacts though

Menu button -> Import/Export -> Export to external storage. After done, transfer the generated file to another phone. There, Contacts app -> Import/Export -> Import from external storage

Copy contacts to him card. Then import them on the other phone
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So were you using google sync?
If you install google sync all you have to do with your new phone or with any phone is link that phone to google sync and all the contacts will automatically sync to your phone?

This brings back bad memories. The only option I came across, after much reading, were paid apps to sync. Going to check and see if I saved them. I did use kies/free trial of google sync (only available to business or something along those lines...), which made a mess of outlook.
The method above, export to card/import from card works. The issue for me is keeping them synced.
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Felimenta97 said:
Menu button -> Import/Export -> Export to external storage. After done, transfer the generated file to another phone. There, Contacts app -> Import/Export -> Import from external storage
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This does not keep the contacts merged. I went through and manually merged my hotmail/cellphone and gmail contacts in my ATT S2, and I want to transfer that list completely intact to my Telus S2. It shows up as individual contacts again though =/
i have all contacts backed up to titanium, as well as vcf and kies, so I'll try some things out tonight. Worst case, I'll clean my gmail contacts, fix it all there, and then clone to hotmail and my phone

jeweladdict said:
This does not keep the contacts merged. I went through and manually merged my hotmail/cellphone and gmail contacts in my ATT S2, and I want to transfer that list completely intact to my Telus S2. It shows up as individual contacts again though =/
i have all contacts backed up to titanium, as well as vcf and kies, so I'll try some things out tonight. Worst case, I'll clean my gmail contacts, fix it all there, and then clone to hotmail and my phone
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was able to get them back with my titanium backup. Use the green font CONTACTS

Solution for Facebook contact loss when upgrading to ICS roms...

One of the Top 3 reasons we all tend to revert back to a GB rom as a daily driver is to get all of our Facebook contacts back. I figured out a way to export all your facebook contacts' phone numbers and import them into Google Contacts... This way more of us can make that much desired move to an ICS rom without any serious takeaways.
1. Flash any GB rom to your phone and sync all Facebook contacts
2. Download GO Contacts EX from Google Play Store
3. Once all contacts are synced, use GO Contacts EX and export all contacts to your SD Card.
4. Email the vcf file to yourself and import into your Google contacts.
5. If you're like me and want all the contacts' pictures, download a 3rd party Facebook app like Friendcaster Pro and sync with your contacts after upgrading to the ICS rom....
Now you have all your Facebook and Google contacts on ICS.
Happy flashing!!!