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Contacts backup and transfering

I have finally catched some time and esited my contact list, so now ALL my contacts have adress, picture, mail, all numbers an so on...
For now I have backuped them on Microsoft MyPhone so that when I flash any rom can easily sync them back to my Diamond.
But question is,how to transfer all those contacts to android platform(so that all pics, adreses and other are still there)??

Anybody?

Not sure if it will work as I have never had the need to try but would creating a Google account and setting up synch with that do the job?

I have google account for a long time
But how to sync it with mine contacts?

OK, its another hoop to jump through but I am fairly certain that Seven offers the option to synch calendar/mail/contacts with WM and Android devices and a Google account. My PIM data is all held on an Exchange system so I have never used the contact side of Seven.

[Q] Contacts not syncing to Gmail after initial sync -- Samsung Captivate

Hello,
I recently obtained a Samsung Captivate and synced my contacts (through the stock "sync" feature in Android) from my phone to Gmail. This worked very well, however after this initial sync, new contacts that I have added to my phone have not synced with Gmail. Help? Also, I don't know if this matters, but I use k-9 mail instead of the default Gmail app. However I have tried also having the default gmail account on and it doesn't seem to have helped

Anyone? It's getting to be a bit of a problem

I'm having a similar problem
I just got the Samsun Fascinate yesterday and I'm having the same problem. My contacts synced fine from google/gmail but when I added a new phone number into the phone yesterday it never synced up. I was able to add new accounts in the google/gmail and have those sync up on my phone.

markdoucette said:
I just got the Samsun Fascinate yesterday and I'm having the same problem. My contacts synced fine from google/gmail but when I added a new phone number into the phone yesterday it never synced up. I was able to add new accounts in the google/gmail and have those sync up on my phone.
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When you create new contact are you ticking Google on the "save contact to" pop up?
good day.

Nope. I got that figured out now though. Thanks for the tip!

I think google broke something somewhere, since yesterday automatic sync in gmail got broken, not only for me but I've seen others having the same problem.
I am on the international version of the Galaxy S

I realize this is an old thread, but my problem is almost identical, so I don't want to clutter the board with a new thread...
Captivate. Stock. US.
My contacts have NEVER sync'ed upbound to Google account.
In Contacts>Menu>more>Accounts, sync IS turned on.
By the way, the Google account has NO contacts in it. And I don't need the arrangement to move contacts from google to phone, only from phone to google (as a back-up).
Am I missing some step to make it start syncing?
Here is another thought...all my contacts are in SIM; do they have to be in phone memory for sync to work?

Apologize for the bump here, but this problem remains...no sync from phone up to google--only the other way.
I enter new contacts (generally phone numbers and name only) on the phone--not 1st in gmail. So, I need for PHONE-ENTERED contacts to sync upbound to goggle, but it does not do it.
Is there an app that makes this work, or is it just a Samsung/ATT/google fail with no fix?

If the contact is not flagged as a google contact then there is no way to get it to sync to google. So to remedy that you need to delete all phone based contacts and reneter them as google contacts. Use the below steps.
From the main contact screen hit the menu key then select more then settings then save new contact and select google and all contacts will now be saved as google contacts and thus sync both ways.

sparker366 said:
If the contact is not flagged as a google contact then there is no way to get it to sync to google. So to remedy that you need to delete all phone based contacts and reneter them as google contacts. Use the below steps. From the main contact screen hit the menu key then select more then settings then save new contact and select google and all contacts will now be saved as google contacts and thus sync both ways.
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Hmmmm...if you do this (make all contacts be "google" contacts, do they reside on your phone or only "up" at google. IOW what if you have no data net connection at all (phone or wifi), are your contacts still on your phone?

Have you tried logging in @ http://www.google.com/contacts? Export My Contacts to a local file in Outlook CSV format. Then use iCSV Address Book in Android market to import them from the local csv file.

Omnichron said:
Have you tried logging in @ http://www.google.com/contacts? Export My Contacts to a local file in Outlook CSV format. Then use iCSV Address Book in Android market to import them from the local csv file.
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I have no contacts at google--they are all on the phone...actually on the SIM; I want them to go up to google, thus your suggestion will not work (nothing at google TO export).

movrshakr said:
I have no contacts at google--they are all on the phone...actually on the SIM; I want them to go up to google, thus your suggestion will not work (nothing at google TO export).
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then try it the other way around. Export your contacts in your phone to a csv file then upload them from within google/contacts... did I say that right?

WinMo to Android - Moving Outlook Contact

For those of you who have been looking for a way to transfer your contacts from your Windows Mobile phone to the Captivate, I found that Sprite has a way to do this.
I didn't want to post all my contacts on Google because they don't belong there since, in my case, they belong in Outlook. Outlook being the standard business client for the majority out there. I was looking for a way to get my contacts from the old phone (HTC Tilt2) to the new phone (Captivate) without posting it to Google.
I ran across this:
http://www.spritesoftware.com/Products/Migrate/Migrate-Your-Data-Now/How-To-Transfer
Make sure you have sync'ing turned off prior to loading the contacts to the phone for your primary account so you're semi-assured to not sync them to Google.
It worked well for me. I wish that Google would have had the thought to meet the needs of businesses as well as the personal side of using Android. I use my phone for both business and pleasure and am a little tweaked at the Android OS for not making an Outlook client that sync's with the standard contacts list. Yes, without having to load seperate software to store them in like I've seen being released.
Let me know what you guys and gals think about using Sprite....

I keep reading that phone contacts sync to Google. From what I can see, Google only syncs your contacts from Google to your phone and not your phone cantacts to Google. If there is a way to sync your phone contact to your Google account, I would like to know how to do it?
In other words when I got my Captivate AT&T transfered my contact from my old phone to the new phone. I then added my Google account to my phone and the Google contacts were added to my phone but the phone contacts did not go to my Google account. Phone has Google and phone contacts and Google has Google contact only.

LBCaptivate said:
I keep reading that phone contacts sync to Google. From what I can see, Google only syncs your contacts from Google to your phone and not your phone cantacts to Google. If there is a way to sync your phone contact to your Google account, I would like to know how to do it?
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There is a Outlook plugin/app you need to install in order to sync contacts from Outlook to Google. Search and you will find it. I don't know the name of the plugin or app becaue I don't use it.
Microsoft also have Outlook Connector that you can install to sync contacts from Outlook to Windows Live accounts. Then you can setup your Android phone (or Windows Phone 7) to sync with your Windows Live account using Exchange ActiveSync. Or you can setup GMail to import contacts directly from your Live account.

I use Kies to keep them sync'd

[Q] Keep contacts and calendar offline (and backup them to dropbox)

Hi. First of all I'd apologize twice: once for me english the other for the probably noobish question. Now let's see if you can help me with my problem.
I have just got a samsung galaxy s (after some flashes, it now has android 2.2.1). I temporary imported my old phone contacts to gmail. Now I wanna import those contacs to the phone but not through syncing since, after having imported them, i want to delete them from google contacts and avoid the phone to sync the contacts again (for security reasons I dont feel comfortable leaving so much info on the email account). I'm not sure how to do that.
I'm also nor very sure how the stock calendar works. If I have a facebook/google accounts, does it sync with them?
In short, I want to know how to maintain my contacts/appointments only on my phone, but leting other fucntions (like syncing emails) keep working as normal.
Also I want to ask other thing. I used to use PIMBackup on my windows mobile phone. I'd like to know if there is a similar app for android. My idea is ti let the app do sheduled backups of contacts,appointments... and if possible, upload them to Dropbox.

google is not free
you use their software
they sell your personal data

How to transfer contacts from Blackberry Bold to new Droid Charge?

Is there a program that will port all of your contacts, pictures, etc. from a Blackberry to the new Droid Charge?

Is your BB bold also a VZW phone?? If it is u can just use Backup assistant.

yes they both are VZW phones... right now I sync my Bold with my outlook contacts on the computer.. I was thinking that I would have to sync with outlook first, then start up the new droid charge and sync the droid charge with outlook? is that possible or does Droid phones NOT sync with outlook contacts?

Far as I know, Android phones don't, but I'm not an Outlook user at home, so not sure.
Another way is to sync your BB with Outlook, and then export it to CSV format, which can then be imported in your google account contacts page and synced to your phone, but it seems a bit more roundabout than VZW's program. But perhaps it would save more data that way.

Use Google Sync on your BlackBerry, then open the Charge and login to your account and everything will be there
Sent from my Charge using XDA Premium App

is Verizon Backup Assistant or Google Sync best to use to move all my data from my blackberry to my new Droid Charge?

Google by far

achandler2 said:
Google by far
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Agreed, I used backup assistant becuase I already had all my contacts in there so it was very easy, backup assistant doesnt move photos or any other kind of data, just contacts.

so does the Google Backup move all the BB data? photos, contacts, calender, etc.?

aliensquale said:
so does the Google Backup move all the BB data? photos, contacts, calender, etc.?
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Someone correct me if im wrong but I bleieve google only does contacts and calender, not messages or photos.