Hello.
I have 2 gmail acounts. Private and business.
I want to sync my phone with both, but to keep contacts assigned to separate accounts.
I want also when create new entry to choose to which account contact will be assigned.
Is that possible?
Mike
With multiple accounts, it should ask you which account you want to create it under. What software are you running currently? Do you have Sense or no?
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Recently purchased the Samsung Omnia 7, while I know this is still is a up and coming OS I was hoping someone could help me to make do of it for the time being…
My main issue; is the People hubs, it seems to add all my email accounts and inorder for me to get to a certain phone number I have to go through endless email address.
Is there anyway I can change settings so the People hub just displays phonebook contacts and not email address?
If no is there any applications as a simple phone book?
Other small issue, the screensaver can I disable the time and date? So it just displays the wall paper?
Many thanks in advance
1. nope. it will pull all your contacts for every account you add. i know what you mean as well in terms of that. the reason that there aren't any apps either is because there is no PIM API to access your contacts. so without this, there isn't yet an alternative to that. you can however quick jump the list by tapping on the accent colour square seperating each list group (looks like a [#] or [a] or ). and then quick jump to where you want. or you can hit the search button whilst on people hub to do a quick search.
2. again nope. this is how it is for all windows phones at present and i don't think it's going to change (add customisations) any time soon, unless we truly get a full jailbreak (dev unlocking is only thing rocking at the moment).
you can't disable contacts syncing from the primary live account. but you can for secondary ones. What i did was basically create a seperate wp7 live account and uploaded only the contacts that I wanted. Entered it as the primary account, which syncs all the contacts. I then disable email for the primary account.
Enter my proper hotmail account. Disable the contacts, calendar sync and enable only the emails. Rename it from Hotmail 2 to Hotmail.
That should get the job done.
digger1985 said:
you can't disable contacts syncing from the primary live account. but you can for secondary ones. What i did was basically create a seperate wp7 live account and uploaded only the contacts that I wanted. Entered it as the primary account, which syncs all the contacts. I then disable email for the primary account.
Enter my proper hotmail account. Disable the contacts, calendar sync and enable only the emails. Rename it from Hotmail 2 to Hotmail.
That should get the job done.
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Awesome reply!! Made so much difference.. the only bloody bad thing about this was inorder to make a hotmail account primary and secondary i had to reset the ruddy phone lol
If I add my other hotmail account, will I have to add those contacts into the people tab? I ask because it is a slush account and is only used for forums, shopping, etc. I haven't used it regularly since 1999 or so, so the contacts in it are out of date and not used anymore.
You can choose what you wanna sync on that account (email, contacts, calendar)... I have a second Live/Hotmail account and I've only synced email for it.
Excellent, many thanks Avandor.
Hi there,
I'm new to WP7 and realized that contacts on device are automatically synced to accounts in the associated live account!
Is there any way to disable live services or use the phone without having to associate with a live account?
No. A live account is required.. and you can't disable live contacts.
In the upcoming mango update you can hide them in your contact list, but prior to that it's not an option.
In my case my live contacts and my facebook contacts had some overlap, so I just linked the contacts from both to avoid having duplicates.
How about using a new live id without any contacts?
Argh!
That is a big deal is privacy is of any concern.
Andrmgi: by hiding do you mean keeping it on the device and preventing it from uploading to the live account?
surlary: a new account wouldn't help since it would automatically sync whatever contact you enter into the phone with a live account.
I think it is a reasonable request to not want your contact list on virtual servers! I don't think my friends would like me to hand over their contact info including home phone number to MS.
At one point when I just started, it asked if I wanted to associate a contact with one of the two email accounts (dafault live accout and gmail). I wish I could see that screen still. I'm thinking I could setup another email account that is not google and associate all contacts with that account.
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.
Hi,
I have a personal exchange account and a work exchange account. I have contact numbers associated with both but would like to make my work account the default account for contact. My personal account is the default for sending emails at the moment, how do I make the work one default for contacts please.
I have a nexus 4 running the latest android.