Changes in contacts after 2.1 upgrade

[pridout]

Like many other I am delighted to finally have 2.1 on my Hero. But I have found a slight niggle with the way contacts are stored which seems a bit different and wondered if anyone else had noticed it and/or found an easy solution to the problem it causes.

When I installed 2.1 I didn't check the sync settings and the default was to sync Google contacts, so it appears all those contacts have been synced to my phone. I don't use those, so I un-checked the sync Google contacts flag and set the view option in the People app to only view Phone contacts.

My recollection is (but I could be wrong) that under 1.5, if you un-checked the sync Google contacts setting, all the Google contacts were removed. This does not seem to have happened this time. In the View contacts settings page it's still showing 1613 Google contacts.
The real problem is that when I use the phone keypad smart dial, it still finds the Google contacts so they still come up as options. (As do the SIM card contacts despite the settings in the People app).

Has anyone else found this? And if so, is there a way to 'un-sync' the Google contacts so that they are removed from the phone?

 

[robogo]

Why not just delete them all from your phone?

 

[pridout]

Why not just delete them all from your phone?

So how do I bulk delete the 1613 Google contacts? I don't want to go through them one by one deleting them. I have 148 phone contacts that I want to keep so don't really want to delete everything.

 

[SchOX]

One possibility is to sync contacts with PC sync - delete all contacts on the phone and resync from PC to Phone...

 

[pridout]

One possibility is to sync contacts with PC sync - delete all contacts on the phone and resync from PC to Phone...

Thanks SchOX. That's my fallback option. But I think that I will have to re-link all my Facebook contacts. A pain, but easier than deleting 1613 contacts individually!

 

[SchOX]

In 1.5 it kept all the "FBlinks" - in 2.1, I do not know - I no longer have any Phone contacts - only Google contacts.

 

[omebius]

In 1.5 it kept all the "FBlinks" - in 2.1, I do not know - I no longer have any Phone contacts - only Google contacts.

how do you change a phone contact to a google contact?
i want all my contacts sync'd with google but it only syncs the google ones not the phone ones. still running 1.5

 

[robogo]

So how do I bulk delete the 1613 Google contacts? I don't want to go through them one by one deleting them. I have 148 phone contacts that I want to keep so don't really want to delete everything.

On 2.1, you do it like this:

Open up People. Press MENU. Select VIEW. Now, here you deselect everything EXCEPT Google contacts so that your phone shows ONLY your Google contacts. Press DONE. Now, press MENU again. Press DELETE. Press MENU when the contacts open, and tap SELECT ALL.

Then hit DELETE and voila, your Google contacts should be deleted from your phone. And if you use sync, from your Gmail and Google Contacts as well

P.S. before doing anything, best you back them all up, eh

 

[SchOX]

how do you change a phone contact to a google contact?
i want all my contacts sync'd with google but it only syncs the google ones not the phone ones. still running 1.5

There is a app called "ContactSync" witch does this, but it's buggy on hero 1.5 and here is what happened to me:

Issue 2377 - android - "Android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly" - caused by data that can not be synced - Project Hosting on Google Code

My workaround was:

- I used "ExportContacts" to create a .csv file of all contacts
- imported the .csv to gmail, and auto merged contacts in Gmail.
- exported all Gmail contacts (to keep a backup) to a .csv
- deleted ALL contacts on phone
- synced again from Settings | Data Sync...
- when Sync complained about "Too many deletions"
- - chose "Undo deletion"
- - all contacts where synced from Gmail to phone.

The workaroud shuld be enough to do this, but not as easy as the app...