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Importing CSV contacts directly into Windows Mobile device

I'm trying to find a free solution to synchronize my Google Apps contacts with my HTC Touch. I have decided to export my Google Apps contacts into a CSV file and import them directly into my Windows Mobile wirelessly using the data plan...
Is there any software that will let me import my Google Apps contacts directly to my Windows Mobile address book?

I needed to do something similar and found this web page: http://manish.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/importing-contacts-to-windows-mobile-without-ms-outlook/
So here you rename your CSV file to whatever.CSC, zip the file and rename the zip to whatever.PIB.
Then you can use the PIMBackup software to import the contacts.
I've done this just now while I typed this message and it worked.
I didn't need to zip * rename to PIB, I simply imported the CSC file.
The reply is a bit late, but maybe it will help someone, I certainly found this thread.

Well I think now you can just do it directly from google. m.google.com/sync

yeah but google sync works spuriously and will delete all contacts when the server is deleted so it is not good for a reliable 2 way backup. A .csv import tool is still needed.

i cant do the same with messages, it pimbackup always assumes the csv is contacts, any solution anyone?

fixed that, now pimbackup wont accept teh format

Importing the easy way!!
@ amahfouz
Try and get the CSV imported to your Outlook contacts and then just sync your phone with your PC. This should be the easiest solution I can think of!!

I had the same problem and didnt find a good solution, so i wrote an app for importing contacts from a google csv, havent tested it with other csv-files.
Works good for me.
If you have contacts on your phone already you should back them up using PIMBackup or som other app before using this app.
There might be errors in the csv-file and if there are the contacts will be created with errors like phonenumber in the name-field and so on.
How to use it, your three step guide to a better life:
1. click on "Choose file" and select the file you want to import
2. click the "Read contacts" and it will load all rows into memory and display how many rows it found
3. click "Import contacts" and it will create a contact for each row it found
if something went wrong and the contacts look wierd or something, just clik on the "Clear contacts" button, click yes when asked if you want to delete all contacts, and it will remove all contacts. Note that it deletes ALL contacts, not just the ones it just created, so if you had contact before importing these you should have made a backup like i told you to do, because now you haveto delete every contact manually.
ofcourse you use this app at your own risk, i dont take any responsabilities to what might happend to your phone, not that i think something will.
Its just reading a file and creating/deleting contacts.
Hope it helps someone...

im gunna give this a try, sounds like it will do the trick
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-thunderbird-contacts-export.html
(works perfectly )

Do you run this application on your phone or PC?

Worked a treat, Cheers

Very useful thread! Thanks a lot!

Thanks guys! This saved my skin!

Any way to get contacts back from nandroid?

Need some help, hope someone can. Friend had a rooted Evo, wanted to go back to stock so ran the s on program and then flashed the pc36IMG.zip. they never exported their contact to sd card. I tried reflashing unrevoked to no avail. I can pull up the nandroid on computer through usb. Any way to pull the info from there or any ideas how to get unrevoked to work?

29629 said:
Need some help, hope someone can. Friend had a rooted Evo, wanted to go back to stock so ran the s on program and then flashed the pc36IMG.zip. they never exported their contact to sd card. I tried reflashing unrevoked to no avail. I can pull up the nandroid on computer through usb. Any way to pull the info from there or any ideas how to get unrevoked to work?
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He should have his contacts on his google email account. Go online and login in to google and hit contacts, all of his contacts should be there, and if you add your google account to your phone it should sync your contacts,along with his email

evolishesh said:
He should have his contacts on his google email account. Go online and login in to google and hit contacts, all of his contacts should be there, and if you add your google account to your phone it should sync your contacts,along with his email
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The only prob with this is how he added any new contacts to the phone. If they added as phone contact then they will not be in google. If they were saved as a google contact then yes, when they sign back in, through the market for instence, they will auto update. From now on, tell them to always add contact as google contact when given the choice.

Not to hijak the thread but is there an easy way to move phone contacts to google contacts? I've been trying to do that for a while but haven't found the answer.

Wayno-san said:
Not to hijak the thread but is there an easy way to move phone contacts to google contacts? I've been trying to do that for a while but haven't found the answer.
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export phone contacts to SD card. Then run import and you can chose to import from the file on the SD card into your google contacts

Thanks for the info. I did that and was relieved to find that google contacts has a merge duplicates function.

[Q] com.sonyericsson.infiniteview is crashing.

Hello,
Since 4.0A.2.368, when I want to see a contact detail, it crashes on com.sonyericsson.infiniteview ?
I found that, but I have no Contacts Storage application !?
Anyone ?
Cheers

did you try the procedure with just contacts cleaning?
btw I don't have contacts storage appliation either

yes, but contacts are not disappearing .
BTW, I use Birdiesync to sync.

ChefChaudart said:
but I have no Contacts Storage application !?
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Did you remove it, and have you tried removing Birdiesync to see if the issue persists?

I backuped up my contacts to SD,
Deleted all contacts,
Imported my backup.
Now it is working
But, the 1st thing I noticed, no more categories !??

Copy contacts from Kies

Hi all...
I couldn't find any information so I've decided to ask...
I know that new roms don't support Samsung Kies any more but how to copy contacts from PC Kies to phone?
Thanks

quell said:
Hi all...
I couldn't find any information so I've decided to ask...
I know that new roms don't support Samsung Kies any more but how to copy contacts from PC Kies to phone?
Thanks
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First of all i think your thread is removed soon...
If you're on 4.0 or 4.1 you can save contacts just press menu button and they're on your sd card and if you need them again its just to import them.
And you can sync them with Google.
So if you're on 4.0-4.1 you need to manually write down your contacts on your phone then save them. :good:

I also had this problem when I moved to 4.0...
What I did was:
- In Kies, export my saved contacts do VCF (see here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=25029961&postcount=5 )
- After this, I imported the contacts to Outlook.
- Downloaded this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/googlesyncmod/
- Used this program to sync betwwen Outlook and Gmail...
If you have your contacts in Gmail, you never have to worry about this again...

the dev section is always the right place to post everything anywhere !

Just make all your contacts Google/Gmail (therefore synced) before flashing (check them online to be sure), then they will be synced back as soon as you associate your new ROM with your Google account.
You'll never need to worry about syncing or losing contacts again.
Simples

never had so much problems installing a rom

ok so I cannot use my phone as my contacts will not sync it wont even show the option for syncing contacts in android 11?
I have a moto g5.
I installed the gapps from mind the gapp.
I cannot use whatsapp as I have no contacts, it keeps asking for me to back up then asks me to type in my gmail then says that phone is already associated with this account. So whatsapp is stuck on the back up page I cannot see the messages I have received.
There is some integral part of android missing. Can you please help?

Disease8 said:
ok so I cannot use my phone as my contacts will not sync it wont even show the option for syncing contacts in android 11?
I have a moto g5.
I installed the gapps from mind the gapp.
I cannot use whatsapp as I have no contacts, it keeps asking for me to back up then asks me to type in my gmail then says that phone is already associated with this account. So whatsapp is stuck on the back up page I cannot see the messages I have received.
There is some integral part of android missing. Can you please help?
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Looks like setup is missing. It is important to clean flash lineageOS and flash GApps before first boot.
Or don't install GApps at all and use a local contacts export

kurtn said:
Looks like setup is missing. It is important to clean flash lineageOS and flash GApps before first boot.
Or don't install GApps at all and use a local contacts export
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yeah sorry for stressed out message hahah I hadnt formatted the drive first! stupid me!