Hello to all the XDA family, its been a while for me. You guys have kept on rockin'
I need your help regarding something that got out of my hands apparently!!
I exported my contacts from my HTC One M8 using the native "People" app of the HTC Sense. It prompted me if I wanted to password encrypt the file, I sad yes why not, extra sec. never hurt anybody! Until now !!
It turns out that the file that got exported is a .vef file, very uncommon and I hadn't encountered it before.
I did my research as always, the Google contacts import thing didn't work for me, it accept only .vcf and .csv and I'm hopping you the great community of XDA can help me out here.
I happen to have some very important contacts save there that I must not loose hopefully.
Had anyone ever faced such issue, except from using an HTC phone, which I don't have right now, Is there any other way to get around this.
How do I get my contacts back from an .vef file ?!
Thank you very much to all of you guys and keep on rockin'.
The.Hidden
Any help here guys ?
help guys please
Hi,
Thanks for using XDA Assist.
Download Mobogenie or Moborobo to manage your contacts. It seems that it supports .vef files.
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Hi All,
Got my x10 a few weeks ago... Love it...! far better than my laggy WoeMo Diamond I've been battling with for the past year or so...
Anyway, I've given Google Sync a go, and while it's ok, it's really only good for calendar... Correction: it's only good for calendar full stop.
Sony Ericsson Sync looks like it might do the trick, but I don't have the program on my x10 - it looks like it was removed by my operator or something (I understand VHA have removed it worldwide, but dunno why - theory is that they want you to use some stupid web portal of theirs, which I understand is equally sucky)
So, to cut a long story short, can anyone send me the *.apk file for it - I've trawled the web, but can't find it anywhere...
Before anyone starts ranting about piracy, and this is not the forum for it, I'm only asking for something that should be on my phone in the first place... There are plenty of other forums I can go to for pirate software, but XDA is the only one for good honest support...
Thanks
k1sr
Ive had no problems google syncing contacts..? Sorry dont have the sony apk to help ya!
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Yeah, Google sync is ok, really, but you can't auto sync with your outlook contacts, and it doesn't sync pictures... I guess I'm really keen to try the SE Sync before I purchase one of the available syncing apps.
Mods I hope this is okay since it is a program that should be on the phone as standard. If I am breaking fora rules please delete this post and I apologise.
k1sr: The apk file you are looking for (Sony Ericsson Sync) is attached below. Hope it works out for you. I got it from my SD card folder /system/apps
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Mods I hope this is okay since it is a program that should be on the phone as standard. If I am breaking fora rules please delete this post and I apologise.
k1sr: The apk file you are looking for (Sony Ericsson Sync) is attached below. Hope it works out for you. I got it from my SD card folder /system/apps
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Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou...!
Although just tried to install, and it's reporting that apparently I need something else for it to launch: se.tactel.android.sync.service
Sorry mate. I think you'll need someone a little more phone savvy than myself to help you with that one. I had a good look through phone files and so on but I can't seem to figure out what it is that you need that I could extract and send.
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Sorry mate. I think you'll need someone a little more phone savvy than myself to help you with that one. I had a good look through phone files and so on but I can't seem to figure out what it is that you need that I could extract and send.
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Yeah, it's a little odd, as it seems that the file it's telling me it can't find is the same as the one you gave me...
Although with a bit of a search, there seems to be the following services which might also be needed:
se.tactel.PNPWizard and
se.tactel.android.sync (without the .service on the end)
If you've got any idea how to pull those off your phone, that would be awesome...!
If not, you've been a big help anyway - thanks!
I think that reloading the firmware will do the trick
Not quite ready to go down the debranding path yet, so exhausting my options first...
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I just installed Android 2.2 on my phone. And i want to sync it up to SE so i can get my phone numbers back on my phone again. Anyone know what i need to do?
The apk file above is not enough
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I just installed Android 2.2 on my phone. And i want to sync it up to SE so i can get my phone numbers back on my phone again. Anyone know what i need to do?
The apk file above is not enough
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Kind of forget it.
I managed to export a vcard file from SE's homepage. So i have all my contacts but it would be nice to keep syncing new contacts.
What's wrong with google sync? It works perfectly for me, syncs all my contacts AND their respective pictures...
You should look into that... I'm sure its the very best syncing option available...
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testando said:
What's wrong with google sync? It works perfectly for me, syncs all my contacts AND their respective pictures...
You should look into that... I'm sure its the very best syncing option available...
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Iv used it but don't know how to get contacts from it when the phone is all clean.... It seems like its uploading the contacts but don't know to where...
Just FYI, Outlook can be synced with Google. Export the contact data from Outlook as .csv then import it in Google.
Afterwards, just sync Google with your phone.
Probably pretty late addition to this... but similar to the original post I could use a SE Sync apk... not because the Google one isn't good (because it is) but because SE backed up my things before I started using Google, and now need to retrieve a number from the sync.
You can kind of do it online, but I found a problem where if you used non-standard fields, then online you can't see them.... like I can't see a name of someone I'm looking for, but I know the contact worked on the phone. It's frustratin and not the end of the world, would just be nice to have the option to install the SE software on the SE phone.
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Google syncs contact pictures, and with the new Sync Zone on Sony Ericsson PC Companion, you can do bi-directional sync of contacts and callendar with MS Outlook through Google.
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Google syncs contact pictures, and with the new Sync Zone on Sony Ericsson PC Companion, you can do bi-directional sync of contacts and callendar with MS Outlook through Google.
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yeah i agree....in case just make a backup to ur sdcard....
I have been going through some ROMs recently and have found that no matter what ROM I try my contacts always do not sync fully/at all. I've been backing up using gmail and backup assistant but neither of these methods have worked for me. Also I can never access my backup assistant after I flash. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
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If you are having problems getting all your contacts imported over make sure they are all stored in your gmail account's dashboard. If not then you will have to send your contacts to your sdcard to a .vcf(I think) and import them to gmail that way you know they are stored there. Then you just have to make sure you tap the sync contacts button in Accounts> Your gmail account, about ten times until it says it synced with a time stamp close to the time you tapped it to sync.
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I have been going through some ROMs recently and have found that no matter what ROM I try my contacts always do not sync fully/at all. I've been backing up using gmail and backup assistant but neither of these methods have worked for me. Also I can never access my backup assistant after I flash. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
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I had a problem similar to that. Let me see if I can remember what I did...
I think what I did was go to Verizon's website and went to the Backup Assistant on their page. I think after that, I exported all my contacts into a .csv file or something. From there, I went to my Google Mail account and then imported all my contacts from .csv file into my google account. I don't think that was it exactly, but something like that.
-Kevin
Awesome thank you so much guys hopefully I get my contacts working today once I can flash one of the ROMs I got from a couple days ago =)
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Is there an easy way to move contacts from a WP7 device to an Android device? And from Android to WP7?
Thanks all, been having some issues. Syncing into the cloud is not a desired solution for this issue.
You have gmail and all your contacts synced? Then there isn't a problem as the phone pulls all that info off your gmail account for both WP7 and Android.
I can say this as fact as I have both a Samsung Vibrant and HD7.
Wanted a different way not using the cloud because its for client phones at my work, just wanted an easy way to move their data from 1 smart phone to another when the company issues them new devices.
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Wanted a different way not using the cloud because its for client phones at my work, just wanted an easy way to move their data from 1 smart phone to another when the company issues them new devices.
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Are the contacts stored on sim cards? For android there is simcopy app, not sure if there is a similar app for wp7 though.
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you can export all, or groups of contacts from within gmail. it's a very nice feature, being able to gmail someone a complete list of contacts this way. also, exporting via mac-centric cards works nicely.
i keep all our android phones contacts up to date by simply sharing a group with family.
i'd imagine there is a simple way to do this from exchange ( ? ) but we are not and will never be an exchange/windows based home.
i am about to sell my hd7 and get sensation ,please someone to tell me how to save my contacts and the later on how to load them in the new sensation .
step by step guide pls ?
tnx
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i am about to sell my hd7 and get sensation ,please someone to tell me how to save my contacts and the later on how to load them in the new sensation .
step by step guide pls ?
tnx
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use the power of the cloud, luke. (explained above)
hi again
nowhere is explained how to do it , can you please tell me as I dont understand the told above ???
Just a quick refresh ... I dont have the htc sensation yet ,i have the hd 7 and what i want to do it save contacts somewhere and later transfer them to the new sensation phone .
please help me to understand how to do that with gmail.
Why downgrade to an inferior sensation? I'd take the HD7 over it any day
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Hi Guys,
i got a serious problem, i synced my contacts with google, now i got the problem, that i got every number like 5 times (all the same nr.) @ the contact list.
This is pretty annoying, because of this issue i got around ~4000 contacts saved..
Is there any app or so, that lets me just check/uncheck the contacts i want to delete so i can easily resort my contact list.
All the apps i found so far are only able to delete a single contact per task.
Thats a bit awful with ~4k contacts, thats why i ask you now
thx in Advance
Syther
Hey
really no one?
Bump ^^
thx in advance !
I'm calling shenanigans on the 4000. I just manually deleted my contacts. I found a multiple select contacts app so I could batch delete contacts.
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Simple steps: make sure all your contacts are on Google, wipe data, login to Google, fixed!
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Hello Guys,
thx for the responses.
I already did several wipes (installed different builds) but google automatically syncs all ~4k contacts to my mobile phone.
Maybe someone had this problem too and could solve it easier then delete every single contact alone.
regards
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I'm calling shenanigans on the 4000. I just manually deleted my contacts. I found a multiple select contacts app so I could batch delete contacts.
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What is the app's Name?
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I had the same issue as you, syther.
I didn't think about looking for an app that would do that.
1) Go online (using GMail) to the Google account your phone is linked to.
2) On the left there should be a button called "contacts."
3) Click it and it should bring you to all your contacts that are synced to it.
4) Click the "more actions" button and go to "find & merge duplicates."
It won't merge all of the duplicates, but it'll merge most of the ones you have hopefully.
An example of a contact not merging would be
Joe-Bob (555-555-5555) and Joe-Bob (+1555-555-5555)
For that scenario I just went and deleted it manually through GMail to ensure it will never sync those contacts again.
Hopefully that will lessen the burden of deleting your contacts manually.
-lilhugo
you will also want to create groups in Google's contacts. What you may have happening is the ton of random one time emial addresses that got saved.
I've created a "main" group that only has legitimate contacts and haven't had any issues since.
You can also export all of the contacts out of Google into a .csv file that you can open in excel and fix to your hearts desire.
Thank you !
I could´ve come on that idea on my on lol - most time, the simplest things you cant find hehe
awesome i solved it through gmail directly really thank you people!
Well, i gave up setting default actions to "call mobile" to all contacts that i have inside of this widget, as every time i reboot they all are gone except the #1 contact in it, that has the setting stored.
Do you have the same behaviour?
Maybe there's some possible fix for that?
I have the same thing going on with mine. I have about 8 contact so far and only 5 of them will keep the default action, so i just gave up until its fixed. Hopefully it will be fixed in the update.
I had this problem and have found the fix....works for me.
Go to the web site for Gmail and put the contacts that you want to keep a "default action" in the "Starred in Android" folder.
No issues here. All mine are sticking. I have them backed up to my exchange server though and did my initial sync to bring them in.
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Ok, what is the proper way to save your contacts so that they sync with the phone and gmail account. noob to android and this is confusing me.Or is there a step by step somewhere that tell you the proper way of doing this. searched and found alot of different ways of doing this but still confused. please help.
Thanks
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Ok, what is the proper way to save your contacts so that they sync with the phone and gmail account. noob to android and this is confusing me.Or is there a step by step somewhere that tell you the proper way of doing this. searched and found alot of different ways of doing this but still confused. please help.
Thanks
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I'm not sure. I've been syncing with exchange since smart phones existed and when I setup my exchange account on my new phones it just pulls everything in. My last phone was an HD2 so I had the people widget setup on that. Every sense Rom I used after that has just synced and pulled them in.
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Andy-D said:
I had this problem and have found the fix....works for me.
Go to the web site for Gmail and put the contacts that you want to keep a "default action" in the "Starred in Android" folder.
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It helped, i sent you thanks
chrisg1548 said:
Ok, what is the proper way to save your contacts so that they sync with the phone and gmail account. noob to android and this is confusing me.Or is there a step by step somewhere that tell you the proper way of doing this. searched and found alot of different ways of doing this but still confused. please help.
Thanks
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What i did was exported all my contacts from my previous phone (nokia n900) to vcard, then in gmail i went to contacts page, imported all contacts from vcards. then in my HTC i just set to sync with my google account and voila, it works