Hi folks,
couple of questions around contacts.. both my wife and i now have the desire.. she just couldnt keep her hands off mine so i bought her one over the weekend..
She's keen to have her contacts in one place, set up calendar events for birthday etc.. Is that best done in gmail and then sync with the phone?
Also why can i see my facebook picture in messages (and can i get rid of it?) but i cant see my wifes when i get a message from her?
How do you get the contacts from the phone book into gmail?
Cheers,
Mick
It took me a while to figure out that there are 3 types of contacts
- phone
- google contacts
- facebook
Your phone contacts do not synchronize by default.
Google contacts are synchronized with your Gmail contacts (both ways).
Facebook contacts don't need an explanation
You can create all 3 types for one person and then link them (although you may experience some inconsistencies) so you will have one entry per person.
I myself have all the contacts saved as google contacts and I can manage them either in Desire or via my Gmail account.
so if you have phone contacts.. can you export them to google contacts?
micks_address said:
so if you have phone contacts.. can you export them to google contacts?
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Yes, you can. I exported my Phone contacts to the SDcard and imported them to my Gmail account.
Thanks - and in gmail then can you set up birthdays etc.. and the phone will then pop up reminders?
cheers for your help
mick
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Yes, you can. I exported my Phone contacts to the SDcard and imported them to my Gmail account.
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Yes, you can manage your contacts via Gmail and sync them to your phone.
And about the birthday reminders - they do pop up (sort of).
I don't find the birthday notifications good enough. The phone reminds you 7 days in advance (which is too soon in my opinion) and only by showing you a little green sign in your phonebook. No sound, no vibration... nada.
I ended up creating an appointment for all my main contacts (using Google calendar, so it wasn't that big of a deal) so I would not forget them.
cheers - it would be nice alright if it would give you a pop up for appointments.. i guess the calendar is the way to go.. with gmail - can you set up appointments there.. and sync them with your phone? or do you use the phones calendar to set up appointments?
thanks,
mick
The synchronization works both ways. You can add/remove appointments on your Desire and they will be added/removed to your Google calendar (and vice versa).
EDIT: Desire can also show all your shared calendars as well (with corresponding colours). For example my wife shares her calendar with me (so I don't have to ask for the millionth time when some of her appointments are due) and I can see her entries marked in a different colour in my Desire's calendar.
The calendar sharing must be done from Google Calendar itself.
As for the notifications... I was trying to find an application which would extract birthdays from your contacts and either set them as appointments automatically or manage the reminders from the app. Unfortunately I was not able to find a working one.
My Favorite is using Google Contact method. So our contact will auto Sync with Google.. this is seamless backup solutions for me
Just bought my Desire
I wanted to start out clean, so I wiped out my Google contacts and calender.
Now I'd like to pull all of my FB friends to the phone and to Google Contacts, including birthdays into calender.
I've set up the sync to FB, and when going to People -> Online Directories -> FB I can see all of my FB friends, and can even call which ever of them has a phone number available on he's details, but for every contact who's details I want to see, the phone has to connect to the internet to retrieve that information, meaning it's not stored locally on the phone. Also, there are no contacts at People -> All.
Also, birthdays now appear on the phone's calender, but after syncing the phone calender with Google calender, I don't see any of that on there, meaning it doesn't sync ...
Another glitch is that although birthdays now all appear on the phone's calender, events which I have marked as attending on FB don't appear at all on the phone's calender.
Basically what I'd like is to copy all of my FB friends to my phone's memory as well as to Google contacts, and keep them linked and auto-synced.
Also to have all the birthdays that I already have on my phone's calender appear on my Google calender automatically, as well as FB events.
Is that too much to ask? :-X
Help would be much appreaciated...
So no ideas how to get it done... ?
Solution for birthday notifications
Go to a contact (any contact) and then go to the events tab (with the circle arrows). Press menu, go into settings, and there is your holy grail.
How does that help ... ? :-X
Hello. I deleted everything on my calendar on gmail.com, but when I synchronize to gmail calendar I still have the notifications etc on my calendar on the phone!
Hi,
does anyone receive birthday reminders via smart notice? I've got birthdays in my google calendar but there are no reminders. "Birthdays" is ticked in smart notice settings.
What do I have to do to get notified?
Regards,
Rudi
rknuette said:
Hi,
does anyone receive birthday reminders via smart notice? I've got birthdays in my google calendar but there are no reminders. "Birthdays" is ticked in smart notice settings.
What do I have to do to get notified?
Regards,
Rudi
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I think birthday's have to be set in your contacts.
Ok, I should have mentioned it, that birthdays are in my calendar AND in my contacts...
After the latest LG update (10h-EUR) I receive birthday reminders.
I use Facebook Calendar Sync and every night at 12 it lists upcoming birthdays and I think rknuette it's right, they need to be in the calendar.
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For me also birthday reminder does not work. I have saved them to contacts and calender too.any solution?
Hi guys,
I've succeeded in synchronizing my phone's calendar with my watch's calendar.
But I would like my watch to vibrate and notify me when an event set in the calendar is going to rise.
How can I do that without relying on the calendar app's notification on phone, please?
Thanks a lot.
Ok, yesterday I noticed that contact birthdays were not showing in my stock Calendar app, so after checking the settings, I don't have an option under my Google account to select the Birthdays calendar to show. It only appears under the My Phone section.
If I remember correctly, showing birthdays was part of the Google calendars that were selectable in the calendar app options.
Is anyone seeing the same? Thanks for any help given.