I was SONY user since Xperia X10, Sony has the option to merge contacts from different account manually even the name are different.
Is there any option to do that in Honor 8?
There is an option for auto merge but that merge option is not smart for same name of different people or for same people with first & last name in one account and first middle last name in another account.
You need to go into Contacts and then More than now Organise Contacts for ans select the Merge duplicate contacts.
From this point you and select the contacts to merge together..
Nyssa1104 said:
You need to go into Contacts and then More than now Organise Contacts for ans select the Merge duplicate contacts.
From this point you and select the contacts to merge together..
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well from this option you can only check/uncheck exact name contact to merge you cannot manually merge contacts
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Hi everyone,
I've been searching for an app to do this but I haven't found one. I might write up one soon but I'm too busy, so today I found a relatively simple way to do it manually. Basically, this gets Facebook contact information, including email and phone numbers, of all your friends and copies them to your Gmail contacts. There are quite a few steps, but this is really something you have to do once. When this is all said and done, your Google contacts will have all the necessary information, and you don't have to worry about rejoining all the contacts if you lose the data (by flashing a new ROM, for instance).
Things this will not do:
1. Grab contact photos. There might be a way around that, but I'm not sure.
2. Link social media, like statuses and such. This is all STATIC information.
3. This only works on Galaxy S phones (I think). Other phones might be able to follow the same general procedure if they're able to import ALL facebook contact into the phonebook.
This assumes that all of your contacts on your phone are synced to your primary Gmail account.
So, here's the procedure.
1. Create a backup of your Google contacts, save them to your Desktop. You can do this by going to Gmail -> contacts -> Actions -> Export.
2. To be safe, you can export your phone's contacts as well, in case something goes wrong. To do this: Contact -> Menu -> Import/Export -> Export to SD.
3. Import ALL of your Facebook friends into your contacts. To do this: Menu-> Get friends -> Check all of them, then press Save. This part can take awhile, so be patient.
4. Export all of your contacts to your SD card again. Contacts -> Menu -> Import/Export -> Export to SD. This includes ALL your contacts, existing and facebook contacts, but the important part is that the Facebook contact information is included. The file will be named 0000x.vcf, where x is some number, and it should be located under /sdcard/external_sd.
5. Transfer that .vcf file to your computer. You'll need a file manager like Astro, and you can email the file to yourself.
6. In google contacts, create a group called "Original Contacts", and add all of your current contacts to that group.
7. Also, create another group called "Facebook" (or whatever).
8. In google contacts, import your .vcf file, which was exported from your phone. To import: Contacts -> Actions -> Import. Check the option "Add all contacts to this group:" and pick the group "Facebook".
9. When that's done, go to "My Contacts" -> Actions -> Find and merge duplicates. Check to be sure that the right contacts are being merged, then press OK. All of your existing contacts that have associated Facebook information will be merged.
10. Go to your "Original" contacts group, and remove the "Facebook" contact label from all of them.
11. Go to the "Facebook" group, select all of them contacts, and delete them.
12. Ta da!!! All of your original contacts now have Facebook information right in Google contacts, and data portability is no longer an issue! All the contacts you didn't care about are also gone as well!
13. This step is optional. By doing this, you might find that you'll get contacts that have duplicate entries for phone numbers. To fix this, you can export the "Original" contacts group as a CSV file, open it up in Excel, and quickly remove all the duplicate phone number entries. This is actually a very quick process - it took me about 2 minutes. Save that file, then go into Google and delete ALL of your contacts. Then, import that CSV file you just edited. Now, you have all of your contacts but all the duplicate data entries have been removed.
14. Clean up: you can delete the Facebook group and the 'Original' contact group, as those were just to keep things organized.
Photos are probably not preserved. They weren't for me - other people might have different results based on whether they perform the optional step or not.
I hope this helps everyone!
If I add a new contact, do I need to sync the contact with google contact manually?
As far as I know, yes you do.
sagarsaoji said:
As far as I know, yes you do.
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How to manually sync?
nick_martin said:
How to manually sync?
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I exported my phone contacts to the sd card and imported the .vcf file that generated in http://google.com/contacts.
You can also long press a single contact, choose "send contact as vCard", mail it to yourself, and then select "import to contacts" in gmail if you're on a desktop pc, or alternatively you can open it in the mail app on your phone, select contact type "google" and save.
If there's an easier way to do this, I'd be glad too hear of it.
Edit: when you enter a new contact on your phone there's a dropdown box at the top that lets you select Google, SIM or phone as the contact type (the default being "phone"). Select google and it'll automatically be added to google contacts.
Edit 2: There's also a "send contacts" option in the People app menu that allows you to send multiple contacts at once.
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Edit: when you enter a new contact on your phone there's a dropdown box at the top that lets you select Google, SIM or phone as the contact type (the default being "phone"). Select google and it'll automatically be added to google contacts
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I entered a new contact as a google contact, then saved it. After that, I went to google voice and check the contact, I didn't see the contact I just added.
That's why I asked how to sync manually since it doesn't sync automatically after adding a new contact.
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I entered a new contact as a google contact, then saved it. After that, I went to google voice and check the contact, I didn't see the contact I just added.
That's why I asked how to sync manually since it doesn't sync automatically after adding a new contact.
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Settings> accounts and sync> push the sync key at the bottom.
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Settings> accounts and sync> push the sync key at the bottom.
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It worked. Thanks. I don't understand why it doesn't sync automatically since I set it as auto-sync? It may take some time?
got the same problem,,,, but thanks it worked for me too
My contacts are in such a mess! I have them synced from google as well as the odd few from Exchange.
Google stopped syncing my contacts so I deleted the data from contacts storage which fixed that but now they are all merged or not existing.
I have removed google account and exchange but there are still contacts showing. I think these have been created internally from whatsapp which is annoying. Is there a way to delete all of these in bulk?
Or any other solutions to fix this?
First write correctly the title, seriously how people will know what is it about...
Then you have to solutions:
1st: sync all accounts you have then go to contacts > contacts to show > custom > select the one you want.
2nd: (this is what i do usually)
export all contacts on the phone
Backup the export
Delete all google contacts, everything on phone etc
Import them back in google contacts (https://www.google.com/contacts/)
search for duplicate in google contacts
rename them correctly
do the same with Exchange
Sync
clean the mess
delete useless contacts (like the pizza you ordered 4 years ago)
set up groups (like "i never phone them but i keep them in memory", "work", "favorite"
and then do the first solution to select the categories you want to show
The first 4 points are optionnal and if you do them PLEASE take care and be sure you have a BACKUP if you mess up everything
This will get your contacts clean and they will merge with all the differents accounts (like exchange+google+google plus+whatsapp etc)
Nikueltrasgu said:
First write correctly the title, seriously how people will know what is it about...
Then you have to solutions:
1st: sync all accounts you have then go to contacts > contacts to show > custom > select the one you want.
2nd: (this is what i do usually)
export all contacts on the phone
Backup the export
Delete all google contacts, everything on phone etc
Import them back in google contacts (https://www.google.com/contacts/)
search for duplicate in google contacts
rename them correctly
do the same with Exchange
Sync
clean the mess
delete useless contacts (like the pizza you ordered 4 years ago)
set up groups (like "i never phone them but i keep them in memory", "work", "favorite"
and then do the first solution to select the categories you want to show
The first 4 points are optionnal and if you do them PLEASE take care and be sure you have a BACKUP if you mess up everything
This will get your contacts clean and they will merge with all the differents accounts (like exchange+google+google plus+whatsapp etc)
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Thanks - that makes sense. The dialler still shows 2 contacts even though in people and google website it shows 1!
As for the title I've no idea what happened! I must have typed in a special character or something that removed my title! Apologies!
Can anyone recommend an App that will allow me to take two contacts and manually merge them, after reviewing the available data fields, into a single contact?
I can find a lot of apps that will do it for me automatically... But they all seem to suffer from the same set of problems.
If they can automatically identify dupes they don't really look at the data. For example, I keep ending up with contacts that have two addresses that are really the same (Like "123 Main St, Somewhere PA 12345 USA" and "123 Main St, Somewhere PA 12345"). The main Google contacts merge does this...
Or they aren't smart about identifying duplicates (I have a lot of "sparsely" populated contacts that have the name "Info" but are [email protected] and [email protected] and so on). A lot of apps do this for companies because I don't have a person's name in the First and Last fields.
Or lastly there are plenty of apps that will link contacts but not actually merge them (why bother?)
I'm willing to put in the work I just want to select one or more contacts, pick the data I want to keep and merge away.
Thanks!
Matt
The contact list includes contacts from several accounts, such as Gmail, whatsapp, Skype,Telegram and LinkedIn.
Previous phones i used used to show only one contact which on expanding showed the other accounts its associated with
Anyone who can help.......
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The contact list includes contacts from several accounts, such as Gmail, whatsapp, Skype,Telegram and LinkedIn.
Previous phones i used used to show only one contact which on expanding showed the other accounts its associated with
Anyone who can help.......
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Check your contacts app settings
multiple/duplicate contact
I have checked and know all the settings ....... the thing is in earlier versions even though we select setting . contacts display to all we used to see only single entry in contact list expanding which showed all the accounts that particular contact existed in like in whatsapp,telegram,skype etc . and selecting the asociated account we could directly communicate through that medium
now we have join all the duplicate entries manually to be able to see the contact in a single entry showing the other accounts it exists in
Somebody..... help
mtk_xda said:
I have checked and know all the settings ....... the thing is in earlier versions even though we select setting . contacts display to all we used to see only single entry in contact list expanding which showed all the accounts that particular contact existed in like in whatsapp,telegram,skype etc . and selecting the asociated account we could directly communicate through that medium
now we have join all the duplicate entries manually to be able to see the contact in a single entry showing the other accounts it exists in
Somebody..... help
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Happened to me too.Theres this app called duplicate conatcts in play store. Just download and use it.:good:
No need of anything
The lenovo app is already installed on your device
Just open the app, select merge contacts and all your contacts will be merged in seconds
Regards milkyway3