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Contacts from Nokia

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.

[Question] import contacts from phone to android

Hi, how i can copy all of my contacts from phone memory to android? (no on SIM)

Michga said:
Hi, how i can copy all of my contacts from phone memory to android? (no on SIM)
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Originally Posted by h0mer View Post
No, currently you can't sync your SIM-contacts. However through a few tricks it's possible. First of all you should copy all your contacts from your SIM to your phone memory (in Windows Mobile). Then you basically sync your contacts from phone memory to your Google account.
After that you boot to android and set up your google account. It should sync the contacts automatically.
Regards,
h0mer
worked for me

outlook
I syncronized them using activesync to outlook. exported tot a .csv.
imported the csv in GMAil, en sync-ed my kaiser android with that google account
Why do it easy when you can do it the hard way

I can copy the SIM contacts to phone, but i can't copy back to SIM card, any idea?

That's because android phones are supposed to sync with the cloud. Not the sim card.

Get yourself a google mail account, setup calendar online (google) then sync - look at their instructions for active sync.
Boot to androd and sync to google
works well as if like me you're running via haret then contacts and calendar stay in sync windows / android and my email too
shame it can't do tasks and sms

WHY? DO IT THE EASY WAY!!!
Go to contacts (android), press the windows button on your kaiser and select import-import from sim?

Sprite mobile
another easy way of doing that is using
sprite mobile
http://www.spritesoftware.com/Products/Migrate/Migrate-Your-Data-Now/How-To-Transfer
here you go
nick

My question is... how do we sync pics from facebook to the contacts? I've imported/syncd all my contacts from facebook but it won't show pics for them :-(

DJHile, if you're using my build it should sync pics, I choose 'sync with existing contacts' and it shows the pics automatically.

polyrhythmic said:
DJHile, if you're using my build it should sync pics, I choose 'sync with existing contacts' and it shows the pics automatically.
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Poly, I am indeed using your build and used the exact same sync option as you but unfortunately, I get nothing but the android silhouette :-\
I do have quite a few contacts but none of them have a picture.
EDIT: I'm a dummy. It won't sync if I'm not getting some sort of data connection or wi-fi connection which I wasn't when I posted this... Then I installed the wifi fix update, wifi is good and somehow it fixed my cellular data connection problem also... contacts are syncing now!

i used sprite migrate to transfer my contacts...allthough it did not appear in google market so i downloaded and installed it manually...then when i opened the application in android it said that the version is expired(just downloaded from the site...)so if anyone intend to use it you just have to adjust the date 1 year ago...eg. 11/3/2009 instead of 11/3/2010...hope this helps someone...

thanx man!u have solved me problem,genius man

Contact sync - am I missing something?

I use my work email as a central source for contacts, managing them in Outlook. I sync with my Desire using HTC Sync, which works well and creates them on the phone as contacts with a type 'phone'. I would like to then sync these with gmail, but can't find a way to do it - and yes I've searched everywhere!
So the ideal would be - I add a contact in Outlook, which sync's with the phone using HTC Sync, which then wireless syncs with gmail - shouldn't be too hard, should it?

You could just export the Outlook contacts to a vCard and import that to Gmail.

That's my point - I could do it that way but it's a lot of manual effort. Surely there is some way of automating it?

Google are still working on the sync app, they've released the api to the community, unfortunately the only people working I'm it are corps wanting to make money, so until google pullover socks up. You either buy an app like 4team sync2, or manually update everything. There is a lb app called GO sync contacts, but while its free the dev has open
Sourced it, and gave up. There is an issue with it, so until someone fixes it. You need to buy one of these apps.
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ewans said:
That's my point - I could do it that way but it's a lot of manual effort. Surely there is some way of automating it?
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When I converted my phone contacts to Google contacts I did 3 things:
1. Exported all phone contacts to vcf file.
2. Copied the vcf file to my desktop
3. Imported the vcf file to my Google accounts (via Google contacts web UI).
It took about 1 minute.
I presume exporting all contacts to vcf in Outlook takes about the same time.

But the problem is I update my contacts daily (i'm a sales guy) so I want to keep them updated in all 3 places automatically by just updating Outlook. If either HTC Sync could create them on the phone as 'google' contacts, or I could sync 'phone' contacts to gmail, this would work.
If one of the apps mentioned above does this I'd be happy to pay for it.

Have you tried Companion Link?
chuk

If your willing to pay go for 4team sync2 it works very well, silent operation. And forwards all details you, can set sync times too. From memory its about $25
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http://www.soocial.com/

Thanks guys, Companion Link, 4team and Soocial may work, I'm going to look at these in more detail.
Shame that all I really need to do is to set the contact type to 'Google' when I sync and it would work, or sync contact type of 'phone' with Gmail.

How about making the PC the central sync point? i.e. use both GO Contact Sync and HTC Sync on the PC running Outlook.

[Q] Weird Kink Transferring Old Nokia Contacts to HTC Desire

Okay, so I decide to transfer some contacts from a Nokia 6680 to my Desire, and I did it via Bluetoothing .vcf files from one to the other. Easy enough. Like any good smartphone user, I synced them immediately w/ GMail.
However, after the sync, I opened my Gmail and could not see the newly-synced Nokia contacts. Only the pre-Bluetooth phonebook entries were there. So I did the whole Bluetooth bit again, synced, but the problem remained.
Then I noticed that the phonebook entries that remained were all classified as Google contacts on my Desire (because that's the way I saved them when I inputted them before). These Nokia contacts were saved automatically under "Phone", and so I did not have the option of saving them as Google contacts, and perhaps because of that they couldn't be saved as "syncable" phonebook entries. Neither can the phonebook entries be edited to become Google contacts after saving.
Anyone got any ideas about a remedy to this? I'm about to dispose of the old Nokia, so it'd be good if all my contacts were on GMail, syncable at any time.
Thanks for any help

Go to People press menu then import export, export to sd card and then do the same but import them. When you will import an option with save as google contacs will appear.

When I got my Android phone I exported the Nokia contacts, via outlook, and imported them directly into Gmail on my laptop. It then let me edit and clean up at the same time.
I don't know if this was the most efficient way but it worked for me.

Contacts syncing

I want to export contacts located onmy HTC DESIRE SIM card to GOOGLE account. It is because I want to sync such contacts with my linux based PC (Thunderbird with apropriate plug-in) and my Android based tablet. So:
- Hoh can I export SIM located contacts to my GOOGLE account? I am not able to fing the way to do it. Any help?

mackowiakp said:
I want to export contacts located onmy HTC DESIRE SIM card to GOOGLE account. It is because I want to sync such contacts with my linux based PC (Thunderbird with apropriate plug-in) and my Android based tablet. So:
- Hoh can I export SIM located contacts to my GOOGLE account? I am not able to fing the way to do it. Any help?
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cant you use export/import function? => export all contacts to SD, import into Google Account on phone and than delete the sim contacts.

Of course I can export to SD card and I can directly import such file to Thunderbird. But my idea is to sync contacts automaticaly (or on demand) my HTC to my PC and Android based tablet, using Google cloud (account) without deleting SD stored contacts. And i still want to have synchronised contact databse in PC, HTC and tablet even in off-line state that without logging to my Google account.
And I dont know how to import contacts from HTC to Google account. If the only possibily is to manually export contacts to SD card, more simple is to import such file directly to PC using for example "file expert". But I want to have all syncing work to be done automaticaly

mackowiakp said:
Of course I can export to SD card and I can directly import such file to Thunderbird. But my idea is to sync contacts automaticaly (or on demand) my HTC to my PC and Android based tablet, using Google cloud (account) without deleting SD stored contacts. And i still want to have synchronised contact databse in PC, HTC and tablet even in off-line state that without logging to my Google account.
And I dont know how to import contacts from HTC to Google account. If the only possibily is to manually export contacts to SD card, more simple is to import such file directly to PC using for example "file expert". But I want to have all syncing work to be done automaticaly
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sorry maybe I was not clear enough. I meant export it to a file on your phone and import it into your phone's google account. After that it will sync all contacts in your phone's gmail account to your gmail account (internet) which you can connect with your tablet or PC (not outlook though). Would be a cloud solution you are talking about I hope. At least thats the way I go, only got contacts in gmail anymore, no sim contacts or whatever.
---for import into your phone: go into "People" app, select import/export, select import, select into gmail, select exported contact file

Yes. Now I understand the way You suggest to do.
But I find most easy solution of the problem. There is small program avaliable in Android Market which allow syncing phone Android contact list directly to Thunderbird (linux based in my case) over network. So now I have my "private cloud" and I can sync tablet, PC (linux Mandriva) and phone without problems. Does not matter is it SD stored contacts, Goggle and so on. I think this is solution for WIN based PC too if Thunderbird is used as mail client (not tested by myself).