ok i can not for the life of me find a solution to why my contacts keep deleting its happened 3 times already (and YES i have read and searched and have not found a direct answer)...im guessing it has somehing to do with the sync-ing??? Does anyone have any clue how to fix this, even after i re-import from my SIM there are now like 4 copies of each contact...WTF???
aad4321 said:
Thats strange, are the contacts showing up in gmail when you log in by PC? usually if their in there then the phone will sync them if they happen to get deleted.
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ok just checked Gmail and there are 5 copies for each contact that is weird im goin to try deleteing all except one per person then sync again...
timace said:
ok just checked Gmail and there are 5 copies for each contact that is weird im goin to try deleteing all except one per person then sync again...
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Wait a minute, you delete them in Google Contact on your pc browser and then you meant you DONT sync, right?, it syncs by itself. The phone is supposed to show you whats on your Gmail Contact list.
I have had a lot of issues exporting into CSV from Outlook and Importing into Gmail, a lot of my contacts did not show up or didnt have the name or address or certain phone number in them.
brooklynite said:
Wait a minute, you delete them in Google Contact on your pc browser and then you meant you DONT sync, right?, it syncs by itself. The phone is supposed to show you whats on your Gmail Contact list.
I have had a lot of issues exporting into CSV from Outlook and Importing into Gmail, a lot of my contacts did not show up or didnt have the name or address or certain phone number in them.
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sorry yes you are correct it syncs automatically and still unfortunately is not working out for me...guess i am forced to delete the copies one by one on my device AGAIN
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I tried synching with my work exchange server and unticked all boxes bar email (i.e. contacts, tasks etc), as that was all I wanted. Although this worked, it decided to delete all the contacts I had on my phone!
Unfortunately I didnt have any backups, is there anyway to get this back? Ive had a search around, and people mention there may be artifacts left in the pim.vol file. Ive found the file (its aorund 700kb, so Im hoping there is something in it), is there anyway to extract/view the info in there?
This phone/WM6 is really beginning to seem like more trouble than its worth
I thought that's how it was designed...
The contacts should have been left in the desktop Outlook....
The system warns when you un-tick contacts etc... it removes the link between the two devices. Hence deletes all of the contacts.. Even so it would have to sync with Outlook in order to do this process correctly.
Which is fine except they were contacts that were never originally in Outlook, i.e. I added them straight to the phone. I would have hoped these wouldnt be deleted
alchemyst said:
Which is fine except they were contacts that were never originally in Outlook, i.e. I added them straight to the phone. I would have hoped these wouldnt be deleted
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I sync my contacts to my Home private Outlook
only my Emails to the company exchange server
never had any problems with loosing contact yet ....
alchemyst said:
Which is fine except they were contacts that were never originally in Outlook, i.e. I added them straight to the phone. I would have hoped these wouldnt be deleted
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See if you can restore via your sim. Your contacts may be stored there depending on how you set things up before syncing with exchange.
Guys
Does anybody else have a problem when composing a sms that when typing a recipient some contacts are duplicated (two of each) in the scroll list that appears and also contacts that I have deleted keep appearing (although they are no longer in the people app or synced with google.
In the people app I have unchecked Google and Sim contacts so I am not sure why this is happening?
any clues?
Yes. It is. In the appointment too I got 5,6 repeated duplicates. May be... I think it is because Tattoo sync with Google Calendar besides Outlook calendar, and even Google calendar & Outlook Calendar (2007) they maintained a no. of different calendars like My Calendar and outlook ... and... So, these things created duplicate entries at some points of conflict or something.
This is really annoying.
I wonder if this happens on the hero as well - it runs the same htc sense and htc messaging app - it could be worth posting this in the hero forum as well
ok the plot thickens on this one - I just used HTC sync with outlook for the 2nd time since getting the phone to see if that would get rid of the duplicate contacts in the messaging app.
Guess what - after the sync ive now got three of evry contact showing on the drop down list. Ive got a feeling that syncing with outlook is causing this.
The only way I can think of getting around this is to master reset the phone then only sync with gmail. Ireally dont want to have to do this - anyone got any better suggestions?
I saved all my contacts on the phone and deleted everything on the sim to get rid of the duplicates.
emeed said:
I saved all my contacts on the phone and deleted everything on the sim to get rid of the duplicates.
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But actually it is not the question of duplicate from sim and phone.. I never save anything on sim... actually it happened while sync with MS Outlook 2007. But never complain before because I always sync with two PCs, one at home and another at my workplace.. and now it also sync with Google.. may be conflict from that...just guessing...
Anybody have some good explanation is welcome.
Just to let you know, this also happens on my HD2, the contacts from SIM and phone are displayed in messaging. This seems to be happening right across the board with sense. There must be a registry tweak or something to correct this? Anyone?
I know how to fix this
jporch316 said:
Guys
Does anybody else have a problem when composing a sms that when typing a recipient some contacts are duplicated (two of each) in the scroll list that appears and also contacts that I have deleted keep appearing (although they are no longer in the people app or synced with google.
In the people app I have unchecked Google and Sim contacts so I am not sure why this is happening?
any clues?
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You copy all your sim, phone, twitter, facebook contacts to Google first...
Then delete contacts from all other accounts except Google.
Now if your syncd with google, you can open the contacts within gmail ( would be good if you do on PC ) and use the 'find duplicates & merge' button.
i had around 700 contacts which duplicated many a times to some 3000....
this saved me alot of effort...
refer to ScreenShots... Hit Thanks
after everything is merged in google, do you just leave everything not saved on the phone and sim, or can you import them back to the phone and eliminate the duplicates?
Hi There!
I notice that since moving my sim card from my i8910 where I didn't have duplicate contacts, that when I installed it in my new hd2, I do have duplicates but can't determine why. Usually it's because you have both sim and phone contacts displayed, but I haven't copied them to the phone yet.
i am concerned about deleting them for fear of losing them.
Also I expected contacts and on my list at the bottom I have "people" instead, and when I "add contact" it creates a new blank contact.
Where is the contacts?
Really? No-one knows the answer or has had this problem before?
Bump? Anyone?
If you remove the SIM and boot your phone, do you still have the duplicates?
Lets clarify it, do you have double contacts on your sim?
Contacts on sim have different icon them contacts on phone, does all your contacts have the same icon?
Did you sync your phone with the pc?
kilrah said:
If you remove the SIM and boot your phone, do you still have the duplicates?
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Nope, no contacts at all, Seems like the dupes are on the sim, though they don't show up as dupes on another phone I have here. Is there a nice tool for cleaning dupes off a sim?
Mikulec said:
Lets clarify it, do you have double contacts on your sim?
Contacts on sim have different icon them contacts on phone, does all your contacts have the same icon?
Did you sync your phone with the pc?
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Never sync'd, but all contacts look like sim contacts.
That is quit weird, I think sktools has an option to scan and delete duplicate contasts, appointments, tasks, ... U can try it. Before that backup your contacts, just in case.
networkn said:
Really? No-one knows the answer or has had this problem before?
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Why dont you just use Microsoft MyPhone to sync all contact info. When you log in to your account then on desktop pc just click the button "search for duplicates" and there you go. You also can add/edit/delete/... every single contact info via the web interace. And next time when you click sync in your phone the changes will be made to the contacts on your phone. (also u can sync the calender, pictures, videos, even the storage card...)
Microsoft MyPhone is probably the best thing MS invented for their phones. and it works soo soo good
I tried to use MS My Phone, the problem is that it won't sync contacts on my sim, and it appears this is where the duplicates are.
I need a tool that will allow me to edit sim contacts on my PC
Copy sim contacts to outlook, delete everything on card, sync with myphone, remove duplicates, copy back to sim? Don't know if that last step is possible though...
Anyway, I really wonder how one can still use SIM contacts for everything... I haven't used SIM contacts anymore for the past ~8 years...
I could actually kill someone right now.
I copied sim to contacts, contacts to My Phone. Deleted Sim Contacts (using sim manager which I didn't know deleted contacts as well), then sync'd to My Phone and now I have 0 contacts anywhere!
I didn't know know myphone was a one way sync, now I just lost 165 contacts!
I wonder what the chances of sim contacts recovery is?
I had another phone that had a copy of my contacts from 2 months ago. Thank the Gods! Not impressed with Windows Mobile and it's crappy Contact Management though!
networkn said:
I didn't know know myphone was a one way sync
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It's not, but it's perfectly normal it acted that way. Sync works both ways, once you have set up a sync relationship, the modifications on one side will follow the ones on the other side. That's the whole point of syncing.
I.e if you modify/delete a contact on myphone, it will modifiy/delete it on the phone on next sync. If you modify/delete on the phone, next sync will apply that to myphone. As you deleted everything on the phone, it's normal that next sync deletes them on myphone too. It can't guess the deletion wasn't intentional... You should not have synced, but have either run a restore operation, or deleted/recreated the partnership checking that myphone overwrites device.
Every sync system works that way, not just winmo/outlook/myphone... you just need to learn it
networkn said:
I could actually kill someone right now.
I copied sim to contacts, contacts to My Phone. Deleted Sim Contacts (using sim manager which I didn't know deleted contacts as well), then sync'd to My Phone and now I have 0 contacts anywhere!
I didn't know know myphone was a one way sync, now I just lost 165 contacts!
I wonder what the chances of sim contacts recovery is?
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Check the "Archive" section on the MyPhone website, they are in there.
Hey all...
I have all my contacts synched via google account , i also sync the same account contacts on my mac using the address book app...
now what happens is ... on my nexus one when i go to edit a contact it gives me 2 seperate contacts... both from my google account. some of them have different contact pictures but same phone numbers etc... why is that happening? i dont know how to take a snapshot if someone could guide me you would see what exactly i am talking about!!!
Maybe this will help? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK0xn93Yu24 Maybe not? There's a part in the video about merging contacts.
WizeMan said:
Hey all...
I have all my contacts synched via google account , i also sync the same account contacts on my mac using the address book app...
now what happens is ... on my nexus one when i go to edit a contact it gives me 2 seperate contacts... both from my google account. some of them have different contact pictures but same phone numbers etc... why is that happening? i dont know how to take a snapshot if someone could guide me you would see what exactly i am talking about!!!
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Edit one of the dupes and hit menu. There is a "Join" function.
uberingram said:
Edit one of the dupes and hit menu. There is a "Join" function.
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Thank you all for your responses !!!
I 've figured it out. When I transfered my contacts from Adress Book App (mac) onto google contacts, I made a mistake. Instead of directly syncing my contacts (address book app supports direct syncing with google contacts) i first exported the contacts and imported via browser. Then synced and that caused the duplicates.
I Edited / Deleted all the dupes and its functioning perfectly!!!
Hi,
I am already synching emails with gmail in push and was wondering if it's possible to also sync contacts (and calendar) BUT ONLY FROM PHONE TO GMAIL: I use primarly my phone as source and would like to sync with gmail mainly as an additional backup.
thanks
Here u have an instruction: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
siwy05 said:
Here u have an instruction: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
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thanks, but this I already know: was wondering if it's possible to sync only one way the contacts, from phone to gmail... cannot find any options for this
As u can see on screenshots in step 11 there is such possibility also there is an option to not to overwrite phone data when there is conflict
siwy05 said:
As u can see on screenshots in step 11 there is such possibility also there is an option to not to overwrite phone data when there is conflict
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u sure? sorry but cannot see that...
anyway, i have tried, and it made a total mess: duplicated contacts, contacts sorted by surname, name instead of name, surname, inconsistent number of contacts between phone and gmail...
Same problem here.
I just want to use gmail as as backup for my contacts, calendar... but every time I sync... I end up with duplicated contacts and calender entries .
Does anyone have a solution to sync only from phone 2 gmail?
thanks,
Bart
For me its working without any problems, have no idea whats the problem