Help "Convert" phone contacts to Google contacts?

rossw · Dec 17, 2011

Kwex said:
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!

Just did this and still no sync to gmail. Was searching around for quite a while and found out that the sync seems to fail when you have low internal memory - which I did. So I deleted a few big apps (like flash) temporarily, and went back to the sync menu and it started working again!
Now I have an online backup of my contacts too which is great in case I ever lose my phone.

red3recon · Sep 8, 2012

If you have a Galaxy S3, go to contacts, click the menu button and select "Merge with Google" easy peezy!

The way it should be!

PaulRivers · Dec 6, 2012

red3recon said:
If you have a Galaxy S3, go to contacts, click the menu button and select "Merge with Google" easy peezy!

The way it should be!

I know this is an old thread, but wow - I have an Samsung Galaxy s3 and was thinking I would have to merge them all by hand to get rid of the "phone" contacts - but you're right, just one menu item, and they're all converted - thanks!

It leave me with a slightly annoying set of duplicate (but joined, so you only actually see one contact in the list) google contacts, but it's not a big deal, and splitting them and deleting them would be way less work than copying all the info over like I thought I was going to have to before.

Thanks again!

pat3332 · Dec 27, 2012

I know this is an old thread, but just thought I'd mention that I gave my wife my Rezound and had to convert all of her contacts to Google.
I accomplished this fairly easily by opening Contacts/Menu/Move contacts. It brought up a window to choose between Google and phone contacts. I chose phone and next. The next window gave me the option to move the contacts to Google. Took about 30 seconds. Then I went to settings/Acounts & sync/Google and synced the contacts. Now they all show up online at my Gmail account.

20GT · Oct 26, 2013

I also know this is an old thread.
But I also had the same problem for a long time but just fixed it easily by chance
My phone is a LG Motion Metropcs but it my work for others as well
this is what i did.
hit menu in phone contacts selected all 248 contacts - export as VCF saved to SD card.
deleted all contacts on phone
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logged into Google gmail on PC
deleted all contacts found there
deleted all groups possible
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On phone imported my backed up VCF file to contacts
during the import process it asked me what account to save as contacts as
Phone or Google - choose Google
check your contacts they should not all be Google contacts
hit sync - up they go to your gmail Google account.
check if completed - all done

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