Hey all,
Someone stole my Dash =( and now I'm probably going to get the Android - I was wondering how I could recover my contacts... I've got Vista, so it syncs via device center, and I know I did have them syncing.
I thought they would be in my Outlook address book, but none are there; nor in my Windows Mail contacts.
Did something go horribly wrong? Or is there way to find them?
Thanks
Y don't you copy them to Sim card?
I'm sure on the Dream, you'll be able to transfer contacts from sim.
My phone was stolen... I don't have it or the SIM card any more.
There syncing on the Outlook.If they where not there then you have to get them one by one
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Hi all. I have an Artemis. I want to copy my phone contacts from Nokia E50 to it. I tried from nokia to send all contacts at once via bluetooth, but nothing. If i send contacts one by one, it works. The problem is that i have 600 contacts and probably i'll get old moving them one by one. Is there an automatic procedure?
Hi, I know how frustrated you would be at this moment but please avoid double postings.
Why don't you first sync your nokia with the pc using the nokia sync program, and then sync your Artemis with the same pc? That is the surest way to have the same set of info on both devices.
the problem is that i don't use outlook. i have it, but active sync does't syncronize my contacts. From nokia, I uploaded all contact to outlook, but i can't syncronyze the ppc
macoveibp said:
the problem is that i don't use outlook. i have it, but active sync does't syncronize my contacts. From nokia, I uploaded all contact to outlook, but i can't syncronyze the ppc
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Have you put any effort at investigating why it doesnt sync?
macoveibp said:
Hi all. I have an Artemis. I want to copy my phone contacts from Nokia E50 to it. I tried from nokia to send all contacts at once via bluetooth, but nothing. If i send contacts one by one, it works. The problem is that i have 600 contacts and probably i'll get old moving them one by one. Is there an automatic procedure?
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I think another way is to copy all contacts in E50 to SIM card and put it into your Artemis. Then you can use Artemis's SIM manager to copy all SIM contacts to your phone. Hope this helps.
Khuanchai said:
I think another way is to copy all contacts in E50 to SIM card and put it into your Artemis. Then you can use Artemis's SIM manager to copy all SIM contacts to your phone. Hope this helps.
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Unfortunately the sim may be good only for 250 entries, with the entry name truncated to 13 characters
hanmin said:
Have you put any effort at investigating why it doesnt sync?
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Chances are since he doesn't normally use Outlook, then it isn't check to synchronize with it in ActiveSync.
hello mate!
i had similar difficult this morning. Copying my 200+ contacts from O2 XDA Exec to Nokia 8800 Sirro.
This is how I worked it out. [Make sure, your phones are properly connected and synchronizing with PC properly before you go ahead with this].
First synchronize your XDA with outlook, making sure, that all your contacts are copied there. MS Activesync works just fine.
Next connect your Nokia phone to PC. Open up Nokia's Synchronization Software in PC Suite. Goes with the name of "Synchronize". Open it up, and follow the directions to Restore contacts from Outlook to your phone [follow directions: PC to Phone].
I successfully moved/copied my contacts and calendar reminders from XDA Exec to Nokia 8800.
One point to be noted. A couple of my contacts on XDA had Images embedded with them. [You know where u put your girlfriend's pics] When these contacts got restored, they still had images with them. But names changed to unnamed. Had to rename them once manually. I couldnt work out the reason for this, probably something that Outlooks does not support properly.
Hope this helps.
Need help from the experts! I did a search on this forum for my issue and I haven't been able to find one.
I don't have Outlook on my PC. I hooked up my phone to my PC and I have Activesync 4.5. I had synced up the phone and all I did was transfer music from the PC to the phone. Now I don't have any contacts at all! I looked to see if it was on my SIM card and I don't see anything. I don't know where to look in Activesync for my contacts. Please HELP!
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Need help from the experts! I did a search on this forum for my issue and I haven't been able to find one.
I don't have Outlook on my PC. I hooked up my phone to my PC and I have Activesync 4.5. I had synced up the phone and all I did was transfer music from the PC to the phone. Now I don't have any contacts at all! I looked to see if it was on my SIM card and I don't see anything. I don't know where to look in Activesync for my contacts. Please HELP!
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you may want to see if your contacts are listed in outlook express or another email client you may have on your PC. One of the options you may have done (i know cuz this has happened to me b-4) is this: when you first create an activesync partnership it will ask you 1.) if you want the items on your device to be replaced by the PC, 2.) if you want the items on the PC to be replaced by the phone or 3.) do you want to merge the items. If you picked option 1.) and didn't have any contacts in on your PC to be sync'ed then what will happen is ActiveSync will remove all of your contacts out of your phone to prepare for syncing of contacts from your PC, (even if there are no contacts on your PC). I'm afraid that unfortunately, unless your contacts have been stored somewhere else, (Like Outlook express, or an MSN e-mail account like hotmail) you're kinda out of luck.
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you may want to see if your contacts are listed in outlook express or another email client you may have on your PC. One of the options you may have done (i know cuz this has happened to me b-4) is this: when you first create an activesync partnership it will ask you 1.) if you want the items on your device to be replaced by the PC, 2.) if you want the items on the PC to be replaced by the phone or 3.) do you want to merge the items. If you picked option 1.) and didn't have any contacts in on your PC to be sync'ed then what will happen is ActiveSync will remove all of your contacts out of your phone to prepare for syncing of contacts from your PC, (even if there are no contacts on your PC). I'm afraid that unfortunately, unless your contacts have been stored somewhere else, (Like Outlook express, or an MSN e-mail account like hotmail) you're kinda out of luck.
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Pretty much capped it right there. Good job.
How can I find out which way I went from the options you mentioned?
I don't think you can unfortunately. I would definitely delete the profice from your pc in activesync so that way if you do get your contacts back this wont happen again. The reason why i say this is because if you do this, you will be re-prompted select one of the 3 options mentioned above.Even if it's not option 1 that you selected. What's done is done and can't be undone. Meaning that even if you did see which option you selected and changed it to option 2 or 3, your contacts will not magically come back.
So my TP2 just got stolen and I had to get a brand spanking new one. I had backed up my contacts on my computer using Outlook. I'm trying to restore the contacts from Outlook to my phone, and for some reason I can't figure out how. Can anyone run me through this please?
active sync isn't working?
The phone is connected, but how do I tell the computer to send the contacts to the phone? I'm usually rather computer saavy, and I'm sure this is very simple to do, but I'm missing it.
I left ActiveSync for WMDC 6.1 when I switched to Win7, but I believe if you just sync once it is connected it should work. Since there are no contacts on your phone it should just copy them all over.
did you go through active sync device set up?
I got it. I'm a moron. Wow. Thank you anyway.
When I bought me Focus the ATT rep installed a new sim card. The rep didn’t copy all my contacts from my 2 year old Fuze running Winmo 6.5. I haven’t seen anything in Zune to copy my contacts from Outlook to the Focus. I have copied through activsync all my contacts from the Fuze to Outlook but can’t find a method to know get the outlook contacts on my Focus sim. Thanks for any suggestions.
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When I bought me Focus the ATT rep installed a new sim card. The rep didn’t copy all my contacts from my 2 year old Fuze running Winmo 6.5. I haven’t seen anything in Zune to copy my contacts from Outlook to the Focus. I have copied through activsync all my contacts from the Fuze to Outlook but can’t find a method to know get the outlook contacts on my Focus sim. Thanks for any suggestions.
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Windows Phone 7 does not currently sync directly with your desktop Outlook client (via USB, or any other directly connected method). The phone was designed to sync with cloud-based services, which means that it ties into your Windows Live ID (Hotmail contacts), or Exchange ActiveSync accounts (such as Gmail).
A workaround would be to use the Outlook Connector to add your Windows Live Hotmail account to Outlook, and then copy your contacts from your Outlook file to your Hotmail account.
The phone automatically syncs Email, Calendar, and Contact information from your Windows Live ID.
Please try a search next time, as this question and information on this topic is everywhere.
what about sms messages?
is there any way to get them into the phone?
blanket said:
what about sms messages?
is there any way to get them into the phone?
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So far, no.
I just picked up a wp7 over the weekend.
I'm coming form an Android phone, so I had been using gmail to manage all my contacts. I decided to import my contacts into Windows Live so they would sync to my device. For some reason when importing from google, all my contacts cell phone numbers went into the "Other phone" field in Windows Live.
This wouldn't be a big deal, but it looks like windows phones don't sync this field from windows live. So all my contacts cell phone numbers won't sync to my phone.
Anyone else experienced this? Any way to make that field sync?
I know I could just delete all my contacts from Windows Live and sync my google contacts instead, but I'd rather not because then I'd lose all my messenger contacts.
Thanks
I should mention I've tried syncing both my google and windows live accounts to my phone (which does give me all the mobile numbers) but then I get duplicate info such as home phone numbers, emails, etc.
Any ideas?
I'll try to look into this when I get home for you. Do you, by chance, still have your Android device with the contacts still on it? Also, what carrier do you have?
I do still have the android phone with contacts. Is there a way to export those contacts?
I suppose I could go through all my windows live contacts and manually enter all the phone numbers into the correct field, but I'd like to avoid this...
I'm on Bell in Canada (Edit: might as well put that info in my profile)
i used this http://www.soocial.com/ and it seemed to sync properly.
you only need to use it once.