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I haven't tried to send one to anyone yet but I had no problem sending a vcard by sms/mms on my eris (running 1.5) to myself but I suppose it works the same for sending to another android phone. I just go to my people widget, go to the contact I want to send and long press. It gives you an option to send contact as vcard, select that and enter the number and then send. When I received the sms, just short press the Vcard attachment. You can't open them to view them, you import them to your contacts and you can view them there.
How do you import the vcard, when I press on the vcard in the sms, it says vcard successfully installed but i cant find it anywhere, even if I search my contacts (as mentioned in another thread). Any tips!!!
I have the same problem on my HTC Desire. I really can't believe this is a problem. Especially since it says "vCard has been successfully imported". This is Android v2.1. Surely Google can do better than that!
I own HTC Magic with HTC Sense on board. When you go to People application, you can select Send contact as vCard from the context menu. But it seems that it tries to send vCard over MMS, not SMS.
Go to the market and download (free) app, vCardIO. When this app is running, it imports the vCard for you. And yes, it's weird that Google dropped the ball on this one, though allowing 3rd party software is kind of like empowering the solution. Right...?
Oh, and before it happens to you: I've received vCards a couple times and had vCardIO off, so I quickly turned it on and forwarded the vCard to myself.
Jon
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I had many, many problems sending/receiving vCards on my Hero running 1.5 as you all mentioned above. The problems got better on my when I upgraded the Hero to 2.1, but there are still issues. My EVO with 2.1 has the same vCard issues. I don't recall all the issues on 1.5 well enough to discuss, but the following is my experience with vCards issues on 2.1 with the HTC EVO and Hero:
Sending......
I can send a vCard using MMS, email, or Bluetooth. Sending with Bluetooth takes multiple steps and is a pain in the butt.
Receiving / Importing (the problematic part)………
When importing a vCard from a MMS, email or Bluetooth the contact always goes to the "Phone" address book (there’s no option to import to another address book). If you use the Phone address book as your primary address book, then you're done. I think most users probably use the Gmail or Exchange address books. To see all your address books, go to the People app, press menu, select view. I'm not sure if the People app is exclusive to HTC devices, or if it varies among different brands. My People app shows 5 address books:
· Google (2)
o Show auto Gmail contacts [not sure what this does]
· Exchange Active Sync (1012)
· Phone (5)
· Facebook for HTC Sence (52)
The number in parentheses is the number on contacts in that address book. If you want to import to an address book other than "Phone", you can use several work-arounds:
Work-Around 1: export your vCard from the "Phone" address book to the SD card, then import back to the desired address book. Then go back and delete the contact from the "Phone" address book. The export/import is done within the People app.
Work-Around 2: when receiving the vCard by email, you can save directly to the SD card, then import to the correct address book. Don't use the file manager to import the vCard. My file manager (Estrong File Explorer) does not recognize the ".vcf" format. So you have to use the People app to import. I think this failure to recognize the .vcf format is a major oversight on the part of Android.
Work-Around 3: Use the Bump application. Bump uses Bluetooth to transfer vCards. But Bump can only import to you Google address book. I use Exchange, so this didn't solve my problem. Bump tech support say's they are working to fix that bug and allow import to Exchange. But again, Bump is limited to Bluetooth.
Android is going to alienate business users if it doesn't close the gaps on its ability to share contacts. If someone know of an app or other work around, please add to this thread.
Just found this thread, after I got a vCard sent to me, and could not find the contents after much head-scratching. Unbelievable that this bug is not fixed!! (Yes, I really think it must be a bug...)
Anyway, what worked for me, was to start the process of forwarding the SMS containing the vcard, it was then possible to edit it, and thus I found the "CELL"-entry inside it, and was able to write down the phone number there, which was what I was after... Cumbersome... but it worked for me.
(It doesn't seem to have been properly imported into any of the address books, I just got a new entry "Unnamed" every time I tapped the SMS to trigger the "vcard Imported successfully"-induced operation.)
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