W4LLY

Could this be my problem? When you go to add a new contact, you have two options. Google Contact, or Phone contact. If you make a phone contact, does it not sync with your google contacts? Why would it have two options. Perhaps when I reset my phone this is why I lost a few numbers.

Let me know if anyone else has seen this or knows what I'm talking about.

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JAS_21

That's probably what happened. If you set a new contact as "phone" it doesn't snyc. I figured this out before the leak, when i looked at my contacts on gmail and some were missing.

kissfan_88

yeah if you save it google, it will activate sync (if 3g/wireless is on) and will sync it with your google account as long as you have said google account. I find saving only family and important numbers to google, where as coworkers and other random numbers i just save to the phone. its all up to the individual on what they want. keep your numbers on an google or let the phone hold their weight.

Philosophre

Since I don't e-mail my parents anything and see no point in having their e-mail address. I choose add to phone instead.

W4LLY

Ah, so it was a trap, I see.

Is there a way to back up "Phone" contacts?

TheBr0ken

People > Menu > Import/Export. Save to SD Card

Whole phone contact/google contact thing is r3t@rded to me. Especially when i want to edit something. now i have to pick which one I want to update. and what if I have duplicates by accident (which I do) it does link them together, but the do I edit the first google or the second. Just doesnt make much sense to me

Oh btw, dont have FB set to sync when you export or you will back up all your FB friends as contacts too. something else that doesnt seem smart

Last edited by TheBr0ken; March 12th, 2010 at 10:34 AM.

gridbug

+1 BUMP ...been wondering about this as well. Seems awful muddled for what should be a streamlined process for a smartphone, yes?

SuperStuff

I just use Google Contacts for everything. I hated having two different contact types and one not being backed up online.

truelove79

Yup, I just use google contacts for everything. That way everything is always backed up all the time. What's the point of having a phone contact?

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TheBr0ken

so what bout us that have phone contacts and google contacts? Lets say I want all of them on google. how do I change it from phone to google? And then I also better make sure my outlook is not syncing too. cause then I will have outlook contacts that i update and are not being synced to google and if I edit a google contact it wont show up on Outlook. just doesnt seem "streamlined" why cant there just be a contact list that is shared between all 3 and they all sync to the phone?? On my BB I could edit a contact on my phone and it would get synced with google and outlook. if i edited something on outlook it would get synced with my phone then my phone would sync to google. doesnt seem to difficult to me.

NightsSatin

So I am having an issue.. I went to Add a new contact and where it says to choose "phone contact" or "google contact" The "google contact" is gone.. I want to save all my contacts as google contacts.. But what happened to that option and how do i get it back?

I am still running the 1.5OS

hlaalu

made this mistake when I first got my mine, what a pain in the ass. i don't know why they did this.

Frisco

I'm on 1.5 as well. I ran into that rather frustrating aspect of syncing, so I had to go in and delete all "phone" contacts and then re-enter them as if they were new contacts. The "google" choice was there for each one then.

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NightsSatin

So i deleted all my contacts off my phone.. and Even now.. when i go to add new contact.. it only gives me the option of adding a phone contact. There is no google contact option...

Frisco

Following deletion of the contacts, did you shut down and restart the device? That is what I did, assuming it is always a good thing to do once any change is made.

Incidentally, I first tested the method by deleting one "phone" contact and rebooting to see if the "google" choice reappeared for that contact when re-entered, and it did, so I went ahead and manually updated my list of contacts (wrote them down) and deleted them all.

Last edited by Frisco; April 12th, 2010 at 06:27 AM.

Yosef

When I go to People>Menu, I don't see Import/Export - Save to SD Card. How do I get to this menu (OS1.5). Thanks

NightsSatin

I didn't reboot. Maybe that would have worked... Creating a new google contact was never an option in that drop down list.

I found on another forum a fix, which worked.

Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > Google Apps > Clear Data. (basically this logs you our of Google)

Then

Settings > Data Synchronization > Google and signed back into Google.

Now the option to create a new contact as a google contact appeared.

Apparently it was a google setting bug??? I don't know.. but it worked..

Frisco

Yeah, somebody else was having the same problem reported in another thread. I remember telling them to go into the app manager and clear data, then start over. Sorry I forgot to mention that in my post up there about re-doing the contacts; could have saved you some time.

Yosef

Is there a way to change a Phone Contact to a Google Contact without deleting contacts and reentering them? Or is there an app that will do this?

Frisco

Perhaps an app master will come up with this.

Or a hack master.

(hearing rooter's footsteps closing in)

andrizoid

if you have lookout, which is a good thing to do-locates phone via gps if lost, turns on a siren if you cant find your phone around the house, scans all apps looking for malicious content, back ups call history, pictures, and backs up contacts, you can back up your contacts to it and then restore then at any time. this works for google and phone contacts

cableguynoe

I did not add a single contact on my Eris. I did them all manually but on my computer on Gmail contacts. Within 3 minutes i went to my phone contacts and they were all there.
Much easier to do it on a computer..

jamadza

Hi,
I play a little with import/export options and I found out how to import google contacts to phone contacts...

Download e.g Astro File manager. Export Google contacts to SD card (will create "something_google_00001.vcf" on SD card). Rename that file to: pcsc_pcsc_00001.vcf. Go to People, and import phone contacts from SD card. Done

If pcsc_pcsc_00001.vcf format does not work, check what format is used when Exporting Phone Contacts to SD. It was pcsc_pcsc_00001.vcf in my HTC Desire.

Enjoy.

dg370

+1

Apache

I use Google Contacts whenever I add any new contact on my device -- is there any way to default this action?

Next question: One of my FB friends just texted me, I can open the contact -- how can I "import" that to make it a Google contact? I am having a heckuva time with it - ???

thanks a lot

ericDylan

i had a problem that whenever i gave my phone to someone so they could put their contact info in they would select phone instead of google i guess because they didnt know what it mean.

from now on i guess i will be puting it in myself with them standing there ... a small price to pay to make sure i have back-ups

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sglynn

This PHONE only contact has driven me crazy too. Can I delete or merge the PHONE contacts into the Google contacts. When I had my operating system upgraded the guys at the Sprint store backed up my contacts but when they reloaded them, they must have put them in as phone contacts. Then Google synched and the whole this is duplicated. Some have become linked. (Not sure how that happened). I want everything synch with my google account which in turns synchs with my computer. So I have no use for phone only contacts.

I have 3500 contacts and 1826 PHONE contacts which I'm pretty sure are all duplicates.

I guess I'll do view by PHONE contacts and delete them all. Which should leave me with just Google contacts, I hope.

Any insights?

sglynn

Warning if Google Contact is LINKED to the Phone Contact when you delete one of them you delete both. Ouch, another crummy feature.

So anyone know how to delete phone contacts only after their linked?

MikeR_Fleming

On my HTC Evo, I have an app called 'People', but it seems to be just 'phone' contacts. How do I get to the 'google' contacts? Sorry for being dumb.. I'm totally new to the whole google thing. Before I bought this Evo, all google ever was to me was a search engine web page.

EDIT:
I answered my own question.. in the 'People' app, there is an option to view 'Auto' gmail contacts. That's why I thought it was somehow different. I kept seeing an 'auto gmail' contact in call history, but it wasn't showing up in the 'People' app.

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cmwikerson

I just found out that my new car's phonebook will ONLY sync contacts from my phone and not Google contacts.

I am trying to figure out how to send a select group of Google Contacts, such as family, to my phone in order to sync.
Anyone know?

doogald

That is horrible. The companies that write these crappy interfaces should be forced to pay you for using their crap, rather than the other way around.

This should work (if you do, in fact, have an Eris. As this is the Droid Eris forum, I am assuming that you do.)

Go into www.google.com/contacts . From there, you should be able to create a group that includes just the contacts that you want to add as phone contacts. In the upper right, there is a link "Export". Click that, next to "Only" choose the group you created for export, choose "vCard format" (should be the third option), then click Export.

This will download a contacts.vcf file to your computer. Copy that file to your SD card (by tethering the phone to your computer, for example).

Go into the People app, menu->import/export, choose import, choose Phone contacts. It will search for .vcf files on your SD card. From there you should be able to choose the contacts.vcf file and import the contacts over.

See if that works.

(Ok, if this is not an Eris, and you have a "Contacts" app rather than a "People" app, I think that the same steps will work.)

Spaz888

On my SG1, I have maybe 20 contacts in my "Phone". I have much more on Google Contacts. The EXPORTING to .vcf is not practical because this will EXPORT all of my contacts, some 430+ contacts.

How do I just export the 20 Phone contacts to my Google/Gmail account? Is there an APP for that?

Last edited by Spaz888; November 6th, 2011 at 10:25 PM.

Elbeard0

I am using a Sony Xperia Play with Android 2.3.3, but this should hopefully work on other Android phones too.

- I went into my contacts list on the phone and pressed my phone's menu button.
- I chose "Send contacts"
- It then let me select the contacts I wanted to send (I selected "all" but you could select specific ones via checkboxes if you like)
- I then pressed "Send" and sent them to my gmail address.
- When I opened the email in my gmail account on my computer, it gave me the option to "Import to Contacts".
- Click on that and you're done!

You may have some (or a lot) of duplicates on your phone now, so it may take a bit of manual work to delete the "phone" contacts now that you have Google ones.

- Or what I did, was go into my contacts list and click the "view contacts" button (on my phone it looks like a little group of people)
- From there, I clicked on "Phone Contact" and unchecked the checkbox.

So now, although I have duplicates, the phone is only displaying the "Google Contacts"

I hope this helps!

bpinto

Yes, excellent idea.
However you do not even need to change names of files. First (if you have to) filter, then just export (called backup) and then import. While importing, system asks under what (google or phone).

Apache

How can I delete all Phone Contacts?

Ideally, I'd like to delete and then disable Phone Contacts completely if possible...

doogald

Probably the most effective way (assuming that you are syncing with Google contacts; not sure about Verizon Backup Assistant, as I do not use that) is to go into settings->applications->manage applications. You may have to touch the tab "All" at the top (it appears that you do not have an Eris) and then look for "Contacts Storage" (if there is no "Contacts Storage", then look instead for "Contacts"). Tap that entry, then tap the button "clear data".

Google contacts will resync. I don't know about disabling phone contacts - I am not sure if this is possible.

prinout

Correct.