Best way to manage contacts on Android??

[Guest That-Guy]

Trying to manage contacts on an Android seems like hard work.

I exported contacts to SD Card (21 Contacts) then installed a new ROM and imported them back. After importing them back it had also imported all my Facebook and/or Twitter contacts (over 1000).

I went through and deleted them all just leaving my normal phone contacts but now the contacts I have left are in the Google contacts category under "System Group: My Contacts" how can I move them back so they are just normal phone contacts?

Hope that makes sense.

[Guest Flumpster]

Easiest way I have found is to go to Gmail (googlemail) on your computer and under contacts set them all up there..

It syncs them to the phone instantly, seriously, as I hit enter on the name part and go to enter the phone number the contact has already appeared on the phone.

You can also add your photos for the contact here which is very easy and any time you wipe your phone you don't have to worry about re-entering them because they all sync straight back as soon as you enter your gmail account on phone setup.

[Guest That-Guy]

Only downside to that is I don't want to share contacts between services, I have already disabled this in the Twitter and Facebook apps.

I guess the only way to fix this is to remove the contacts and re-enter them manually into the phone.

[Guest asim18]

Maybe check out MyPhoneExplorer.

http://www.fjsoft.at/en/

Edited November 21, 2010 by asim18

[Guest That-Guy]

Thanks will take a look B)

[Guest StevenHarperUK]

Importing into Google

Recently I had to migrate all my contacts from a Windows Phone - onto Android

I Did this by putting all the contacts into Google

Stage 1 - Export into a File

For windows the best thing to use is PIM Backup http://www.dotfred.net/

It puts all you contacts into 1 csv file (in anotherformat), just make sure you go into the options and turn off Binary and compression.

Stage 2 - Import into google

Make a new file with a .csv extension.

Copy the first line from below, then simply add all the contacts you need into the format of the 2nd line

Most Spreadsheet programs will let you open the CSV and edit it.

Then just import the file into Google Contacts (selecting a group when you do it) - I suggest a new group.

Given Name,Family Name,Nickname,E-mail 1 - Type,E-mail 1 - Value,Phone 1 - Type,Phone 1 - Value,Phone 2 - Type,Phone 2 - Value,Phone 3 - Type,Phone 3 - Value

Steven,Harper,Steven Harper,* ,[email protected],Home,010000000,Mobile,+44799999999,Work,010000000[/code]


Google dont tell you anywhere what the Magic format is of their CSV - it took me a while to work it out.

Edited November 21, 2010 by StevenHarperUK

[Guest AndyHibberd]

How did you manage to get all your fb contacts into the phonebook?! The fb sync doesn't work for me (2.2 FBL)

[Guest jonas_football]

Importing into Google

Recently I had to migrate all my contacts from a Windows Phone - onto Android

I Did this by putting all the contacts into Google

Stage 1 - Export into a File

For windows the best thing to use is PIM Backup http://www.dotfred.net/

It puts all you contacts into 1 csv file (in anotherformat), just make sure you go into the options and turn off Binary and compression.

Stage 2 - Import into google

Make a new file with a .csv extension.

Copy the first line from below, then simply add all the contacts you need into the format of the 2nd line

Most Spreadsheet programs will let you open the CSV and edit it.

Then just import the file into Google Contacts (selecting a group when you do it) - I suggest a new group.

Given Name,Family Name,Nickname,E-mail 1 - Type,E-mail 1 - Value,Phone 1 - Type,Phone 1 - Value,Phone 2 - Type,Phone 2 - Value,Phone 3 - Type,Phone 3 - Value

Steven,Harper,Steven Harper,* ,[email protected],Home,010000000,Mobile,+44799999999,Work,010000000

Google dont tell you anywhere what the Magic format is of their CSV - it took me a while to work it out.

Hi,

i was wondering how do i sync with google, without syncing all my contacts?

like how can i select a group and only sync that selected contact list?

because i dont want to have 500+ contacts in my phone

cheers

Jonas

[Guest StevenHarperUK]

Hi,

i was wondering how do i sync with google, without syncing all my contacts?

like how can i select a group and only sync that selected contact list?

because i dont want to have 500+ contacts in my phone

cheers

Jonas

hmmm Id say a separate google account - just for contacts - you can choose to only show contacts that have phone numbers (using Menu in the contacts app)

[Guest .loop.]

Maybe an easier way to sync from a Windows Mobile phone to Google and Android is to set up your Active Sync on your phone to use Google: (Server address: m.google.com, user and password: your Google login). Then choose what you want to sync in your Active Sync (Contacts, Email, Calendar) and sync it. Then use your Android phone to sync your data and voilà you have all your data on your Android phone without hassling with exporting and importing files.

Hope this helps

[Guest StevenHarperUK]

Maybe an easier way to sync from a Windows Mobile phone to Google and Android is to set up your Active Sync on your phone to use Google: (Server address: m.google.com, user and password: your Google login). Then choose what you want to sync in your Active Sync (Contacts, Email, Calendar) and sync it. Then use your Android phone to sync your data and voilà you have all your data on your Android phone without hassling with exporting and importing files.

Hope this helps

Thats all ok if you have current enough version of windows on your mobile - older versions cant do this