More than half of my contacts are saved as phone contacts. How can I change/convert them so they are all saved as Google contacts?
There is an app that does it well, but I've forgotten the name. It worked for me. If you do a forum search, it'll be there somewhere.
Yeah once you have converted your contacts to google contacts, you can sync them with gmail and never have to worry about losing them.
Instead you can start worrying about google publishing all of your contact information for the entire world to see. Thanks, googleYeah once you have converted your contacts to google contacts, you can sync them with gmail and never have to worry about losing them.
Instead you can start worrying about google publishing all of your contact information for the entire world to see. Thanks, google
Its not a vulnerability w.r.t. people hacking your accounts or whatever, it's that google have taken data that has long been private (who you email and how often) and made that data public without warning and without asking. For most people (me included) this isnt going to cause any actual problems. For some people it can significantly mess up their lives.How real is the security concern and what has Google done to address it? Is the vulnerability as great or greater than on-line banking? If I use Hide My Life, does that effectively hide the blocked entries from the sync?
I have a friend who recently got screwed by facebook in this way, she had really good reasons for wanting her profile completely hidden, and it was completely hidden, so no worries. Suddenly without warning its been made public along with her friends list. Its caused her major problems none of which are her fault.
google have taken data that has long been private (who you email and how often) and made that data public without warning and without asking.
Google have just shown that you cant trust them with your personal data.
How do you completely hide your profile from everyone except your friends? How do you stop your friends list being public? You used to be able to keep these things private, now you quite simply cannot. Not a big deal for 99.99% of us, quite a big deal for some people.Sorry, there was plenty of warning of what Facebook were about too do, and when she first logged on, she was presented with the options. Everyone was. Clearly she clicked the wrong one..
A few articles, admittedly all from the same source, but if you want more i'm sure you could (irony alert) google for them.Could you please provide your source of this information?
How do you completely hide your profile from everyone except your friends? How do you stop your friends list being public? You used to be able to keep these things private, now you quite simply cannot.
Sorry for the noob question but references to SD are strictly to an external card,?
I resolved this problem by exporting my phone contacts (not google contacts) to the SD Card. I then re-imported them to my Google Contacts ... after choosing the import "one vCard" option. With this, you'd expect your contacts to be duplicated. Luckily, you can tell your phone to just show your google contacts. To do this, just go to "People">"View" (press the menu button to access more options) then untick the checkbox that says you should show contacts from "phone" and bingo, you are good to go!
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