Hi,
For some time my phone started hiding random contacts - I can only access them through whatsapp - tap a contact and then "show in phonebook" - it's there! But not in the phonebook!
I am storing contacts on phone only, and backing up to memory card - no synchro with gmail etc
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Hi there,
Does Android offer something like Microsoft MyPhone where you can backup and manage contacts and calendar events? I've seen several independent software companies making something like this but I'm not crazy about leaving my contacts on some unknown server. I'd be more comfortable with Google or Android or even if I could continue using MyPhone. Maybe there's something like PIMBackup that will hold everything ina compressed file on my SD card?
Any help would be great guys. Thanks!
Based on your sync preferences you can manage your contacts and calendar being backed up.
You can backup your contacts onto your sd card (press menu ad select import/export and choose export to SD card) and for the calendar you can use your gmail calendar so that you can view it both on phone and computer via internet, just make sure your sync settings are set to sync the calendar
I have just got a new hd2 through my insurance and synched with google to get my contacts back. However I also need to synch with my work exchange to get my appointments. Rather than have 2 synchs - I just used google to save my contacts - I removed the google synch. however this means my contacts dissapear.
Is there any way to keep my contacts on the handset without maintaining the sych?
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oops if a mod can change the title to have "synching issues with contacts" that would be delightful.
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oops if a mod can change the title to have "synching issues with contacts" that would be delightful.
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first, i am assuming you are using windows mobile.
second, what i understand is that you want to sync only with your work place server and you somehow need to have your contacts as well.
one option could be to merge your contacts with your work place server.
also, try this...sync with google to get your contacts downloaded back to your device. then use "pimbackup" to back up your contacts to a file on your sd card. then remove the google synch. now, set up your work place synch. finally, restore the pimbackup of contacts you made earlier.
i'm not sure how your work place server would behave now that your device will suddenly have all of these contacts restored from your backup. the partnership MIGHT cause your contacts to merge into your work place server automatically, which could be a good thing because then you would have everything on one server to sync with.
cheers I will try pimbackup.
I want to keep my personal / works stuff (contacts) separate, however I want my appointments on my work calender. I refuse to use my minutes for work lol.
so I only synch contacts on google and calender on exchange.
@ASCIIker
synch google, pim backup, remove synch, pimrestore worked.
Cheers
that pimbackup is a GEM of an app!
highly recommended for those that want to stick with windows mobile. i used to have it automatically back up (to my sd card) all my contacts, call logs, and sms messages every 3 days. i had set the process to take place at midnight every 3 days and the whole operation (300 call logs, 300+ contacts, and 7000+ sms messages) would take a meager 1.5 minutes on the HD2!!! restoring was just as fast, except for sms messages (because sms message restore triggers "re-threading" of conversation threads).
on android, setting up the device with a google account handles contacts. an app called "sms backup and restore" handles sms backups (have it set to 3 days here as well). but have found NO app on android that neatly backs up and restores call logs, let alone all THREE items (call logs, contacts, and sms messages)!
cheers from pakistan!
Hi there, I'm new to android and I installed the Facebook for Android app.
I manually inserted some of my friends into the Contactlist.
I tried to sync my Facebook-friends that are presented into my manually added Contactlist.
When I want to send a textmessage (sms) and search for a contact, I can see my entire facebook friends... But I only want to see my manually added contactlist (with the facebook sync like: photo's, profile, etc)
So my problem:
- Contactlist ok (only my contacts from phonebook)
- Messages not ok (I can see my entire facebook)
Open Facebook, tap the stylized facebook text on the top left corner so you go to the 9 icon grid layout, then tap the Menu softkey, Settings, scroll down, tap Sync Contacts, choose Sync with existing contacts, then OK.
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Open Facebook, tap the stylized facebook text on the top left corner so you go to the 9 icon grid layout, then tap the Menu softkey, Settings, scroll down, tap Sync Contacts, choose Sync with existing contacts, then OK.
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I allready did this, but ALL the facebook contacts are still in "Message"
Try Don't sync, let it clear out your contacts list, then try sync with existing contacts again.
Also, check that you don't have facebook syncing contacts with the Social Hub.
yamanote said:
Try Don't sync, let it clear out your contacts list, then try sync with existing contacts again.
Also, check that you don't have facebook syncing contacts with the Social Hub.
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I deleted my fb accound and then I synced with existing contacts...
But in Messages I see all the facebook friends again.
I never opened social hubs, I did it now but I don't have any feeds because I have 0 accounts into feeds...
But on the tab Messages i see the link to messages...
And again same story = All facebook contacts.
I also tried to delete them by KIES. But KIES only shows the right contacts (not the facebook contacts)
Just checked on my own phone and yeah I have the same issue.
Try Add recipient>Groups>My Contacts? Or Favourite all the people you want to text and tap the Favourites tab every time you text maybe?
Sorry that's all I can help you with. Dunno how to completely rid the nonessential contacts from Messages short of exporting the ones you want from Facebook and reimporting via Google or something.
seems to be a bug with Samsungs implementation of FB integration, you can choose to hide facebook only contacts but when messaging it will show your full Contacts list (including facebook) regardless of the selection made in the Contacts menu.
hope samsung sort it out !
Yeah same issue. chose only sync with existing contacts but it still synced all
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App
Annoying bug, I have a work around!
Any work around?
This is the same issue with mine, I have tried loads of things, it looks like a bug as selecting sync with existing contacts, should just sync existing contacts not 'All' which is what it's doing!
However I have recently started using 'Go SMS' as my default SMS app and when I follow the same process to text someone I don't get the whole of my FB friends now!
Try it see what you think but I prefer GO SMS to the default Samsung SMS app.
Hello,
I'm having duplicate contacts on my phone. Can anyone help?
I'm getting 2 contacts for everything. Looks like the phone is creating multiple contacts, Is it possible to avoid this (rather than stop syncing with fb and gtalk)
thanks
Maybe it's showing your google contacts and your phone contacts, or your phone and sim contacts, have a look in your settings in the contacts screen, and make sure you only have one of the settings ticked.
Also if you are importing to gmail account, you can use gmail to remove duplicate contacts.
It all depends where the contacts come from.
If you go into the gmail web version on a computer and look up the contacts and there are duplicates - then delete the duplicates and sync.
If the duplicate contacts are stored on the SIM - then either delete them or choose the option not to view them.
If the duplicate contacts are stored on the phone (but do not sync with gmail) - I would just delete them (you could always back them up with KIES on the computer).
If the duplicate contacts come from different applications (gmail, facebook, etc) then you just 'link' them. This way gmail will sync only with the gamil contacts and Facebook will only sync with the facebook contacts but most importantly you only see a single contact with all the info from both souces in it.
Related question.
Is there any way to backup and restore linked contacts when you do a full wipe and restore? Titanium Backup doesn't seem to like doing this, and linking them again really annoys me.
Any ideas?
Every time I set up my Google account on the phone, it automatically add Google contacts to my phone contact as well as the phone dialer.
My phone dialer has hundreds of contacts of people that I've ever emailed, communicated, or do business with.
This is extremely annoying, anyway to stop Google from syncing or adding Google contacts to my phone?
Thanks!
You can go to Settings - Accounts - Google and toggle off sync of Contacts, then open Contacts, tap the 3 dot menu and select "Contacts to display" and select as needed...
If you keep your Google contacts organized, you can keep phone contacts in a "Phone" folder in Google Contacts and just show that label, or you can move your email contacts to a different label.
Remember the phone uses Google account as the storage for your contacts, there is no "local" account for contact storage once you have added a Google account to the device.