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[Q] G Mail phone contacts gone

I saved my contacts to google before I switched over to my refurbed replacement epic and formatted the sim card to keep the new phone isolated from the old one. I ended up loosing all of my phone numbers but retained the email contacts. I logged onto g mail on a computer but I see no phone numbers on that page. Is there a way to see them or should I just thank the sprint tec for screwing me. maybe i screwed myself trusting someone that does phones for a living with my data. any help would be greatly appreciated.

wolffer0 said:
I saved my contacts to google before I switched over to my refurbed replacement epic and formatted the sim card to keep the new phone isolated from the old one. I ended up loosing all of my phone numbers but retained the email contacts. I logged onto g mail on a computer but I see no phone numbers on that page. Is there a way to see them or should I just thank the sprint tec for screwing me. maybe i screwed myself trusting someone that does phones for a living with my data. any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Sounds like the phone numbers were saved to the phone and not your gmail account. When you add a phone number or a contact you need to make sure that you choose save to gmail account when prompted. then when you sign in on a new phone or after doing a factory reset you will get all your numbers back. Do the same for calendar events.
Sprint reps/techs sometimes act like they know more than they really do.

When you have the option to save , you have to try and save to both then? how do you save the existing contacts then not saved to google?

wolffer0 said:
When you have the option to save , you have to try and save to both then? how do you save the existing contacts then not saved to google?
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When saving check the do this by default box and save to google. The only ways I know to get them to google is export them to sd card (you dont have a sim card btw) and them import them back to phone. Go to contacts hit menu then import/export and do your thing. Or go to your gmail on web and add them directly to you contacts there as long as you sync it will add them. Might take a bit if you do it that way unless you manually hit sync, go menu , accounts and sync , tap google account you want, hit menu then sync now.

I did manually sync like you told me to but all of my phone numbers dont go to google. I got 1 contact to google by saving to google though but not the rest. actually i did exactly how you said to sync to google before the phone swap, but I havnt saved to google and thought i was saving them to google by manually sync. (problem is I thought) just like the sprint repair guy.

I need to know how to get them to google before I start rooting my phone the correct way, I thought it was simple in the beginning but now not so simple. I have no idea how I mixed up sd and sim card because I never had a phone with a sim sard ever.must have been a solar flare or something LOL.

wolffer0 said:
I need to know how to get them to google before I start rooting my phone the correct way, I thought it was simple in the beginning but now not so simple. I have no idea how I mixed up sd and sim card because I never had a phone with a sim sard ever.must have been a solar flare or something LOL.
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Export contacts to a .vcf file.
Directions if jumping from Epic to new/refurb Epic with contacts in the phone, rather than Google.
On your phone with your contacts:
Contacts shortcut > Menu button > "More" > "Import/Export" > "Export to SD card"
Within Google Contacts webpage:
"Import" (blue bar, near top right of screen) > Browse to the file, either on your SD card or where ever you placed the export on your desktop (if you moved it from your phone.) > Choose which group to import them to. > Import button
After you get this done, anytime you want to create a contact in your phone--just use:
Contacts shortcut > "Create contact" button > Select "Create contact" (You may have this additional step here if you have a 3rd party email app that handles contacts too, like a corporate email client. Otherwise this step is skipped.) > Select "Google" instead of "Phone"

wolffer0 said:
I did manually sync like you told me to but all of my phone numbers dont go to google. I got 1 contact to google by saving to google though but not the rest. actually i did exactly how you said to sync to google before the phone swap, but I havnt saved to google and thought i was saving them to google by manually sync. (problem is I thought) just like the sprint repair guy.
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Manual sync will only work if they are saved to google, Thats why I said go to google on web and add them there then manual sync them to phone should double the contact name i.e. you have joe saved to phone and joe saved to google not joe saved to phone AND google. If you still have an old phone with the contacts on it you could take it to sprint and have them transfer them over for you. When I did that it automatically saved them to google.
EDIT: Sounds a bit dickish didnt mean it that way sorry
wolffer0 said:
I need to know how to get them to google before I start rooting my phone the correct way, I thought it was simple in the beginning but now not so simple. I have no idea how I mixed up sd and sim card because I never had a phone with a sim sard ever.must have been a solar flare or something LOL.
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It happens

Ok its confirmed. I screwed myself. It has been a hard lesson because now I have to wait for everyone to call me to make a new contact. And it seems like I will have to back up my wifes and my contacts with the sv file thingy. Thanks for the info and if anyone sounded like a **** I can shop talk all day long but I am trying to stay on track these days because starting wars does nobody good. Thanks for the patience and great answers that are simple but not really taught to well in the book

Ahhhh I feel for there no spare phone is a bummer I always keep my old one with contacts in it for just such a thing. Sorry I couldnt be more helpful on this.

Export contacts to sd card. Then go to new phone that yu have the gmail account on and import tem. Choose the location as google and it will save your contacts to gmail.... the tech isn't responsible for making sure that you properly back up your contacts. If you say yea I did that's all he is goin to worry about...
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Really I was straight forward with the guy and told him I didn't know squat about it. This is the first android phone and am new to it . I will know better next time.

Can anyone answer these ICS questions?

Does it rescan everything upon startup? Does it rescan photos when you take a picture? How do you put music on the phone if you can't drag-and-drop MP3s?
When you click the share button, does it still give you a list of 90 apps that are open?
If you have SIM Contacts hidden, when you SMS someone, does it show the SIM Contact and the Google Contact? When you send a SMS to more than one person, does it still make a group SMS, or does it text each individual person and update their message threads?
On Google Contacts, currently, my Contact Photos can only be as big as thumbnails. If ICS uses high-res, big Contact Photos, how does that work? Does Google Contacts have updated Contact Photos for you? Did it make you get rid of your old Contact Photos?
Thanks!

Wow a lot of questions I see there.
I can answer a few for you.
1. It does rescan everything on startup. Also checks for updates.
2. It updates you photos like if you take one it goes straight to gallery but doesn't do a full scan again. As far as I'm aware.
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
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NatTheCat said:
Wow a lot of questions I see there.
I can answer a few for you.
1. It does rescan everything on startup. Also checks for updates.
2. It updates you photos like if you take one it goes straight to gallery but doesn't do a full scan again. As far as I'm aware.
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
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How much it cost u? And is it worth it?
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NatTheCat said:
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
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Less worried about this one now, since it's a Galaxy Nexus-specific issue. But thank you for your answers!!

xile6 said:
How much it cost u? And is it worth it?
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Upgraded from IPhone 3gs. On 24 month contract. Then since then I've had 4 Android phones and never looked back.
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Anyone else care to take a shot at the remaining questions? Does anyone keep their contacts on their SIM Card anymore?

thehyecircus said:
Anyone else care to take a shot at the remaining questions? Does anyone keep their contacts on their SIM Card anymore?
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Hopefully not. The SIM storage is very basic and I wouldn't recommend it as anything but an extra backup.

I keep my contacts on my SIM as an extra backup, but that doesn't stop Android from putting them in my message contacts regardless of their display settings.

thehyecircus said:
I keep my contacts on my SIM as an extra backup, but that doesn't stop Android from putting them in my message contacts regardless of their display settings.
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I wouldn't recommend relying on storing SIM contacts.
Why not just use the Google contacts for your phone (and general backup) and then also export them as a csv file (from google contacts) and store on your computer/dropbox/flash drive? You can have good backup without duplicate contacts on your phone.

I also have few questions as I`m looking to switch from iPhon 4 to Galaxy Nexus after volume bug is solved.
1) Can ICS push emails directly on the screen so I don`t even have to unlock the phone? Liks in iOS5 - I don`t need to pick up the phone or unlock screen, I can see first few lines of the email.
2) Can you set custom ringtone for incoming emails?
3) Is it possible to change how fast LED blinks and what colour for sms & emails?
4) I`m using TomTom, but Android doesn`t have TomTom. Is there turn-by-turn SatNav for Android?
Thanks

The high-res contact photos is still NO go if you are syncing with Google Contacts (GMAIL contacts) only.
If you do it this way, you will receive low res 96x96 pixels contact photos.
I know, this is ****. It's been ages we have requested this to be fixed.
But, apparently, Google won't listen.
NOTE: I read that if you synced with Google+, you will receive high-res photo from Google+. But, not all my contacts are in Google+.

rbs_uk said:
I also have few questions as I`m looking to switch from iPhon 4 to Galaxy Nexus after volume bug is solved.
1) Can ICS push emails directly on the screen so I don`t even have to unlock the phone? Liks in iOS5 - I don`t need to pick up the phone or unlock screen, I can see first few lines of the email.
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Mmm no. You can access the notifications area from the lockscreen so that you can see who its from and click into the gmail app, but it doesn't show the first lines.
2) Can you set custom ringtone for incoming emails?
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You can set a specific ringtone for each e-mail account.
3) Is it possible to change how fast LED blinks and what colour for sms & emails?
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There are certain apps that let you customize the use of the LED.
4) I`m using TomTom, but Android doesn`t have TomTom. Is there turn-by-turn SatNav for Android?
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YES. GOOGLE MAPS!!!! Its included and knocks the socks off of everything out there. (and yes it does turn by turn voice navigation).

martonikaj said:
Mmm no. You can access the notifications area from the lockscreen so that you can see who its from and click into the gmail app, but it doesn't show the first lines.
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When I drive and my iPhone is in windscreen holder, its very safe as I don`t have to take my hands off steering wheel to check who is this email from and what about.

I thought ICS was them listening! So the contact has to be stored on the phone to get high-res photos? So that means I'd have the whole SIM card contact/Google Contact/Phone Contact deal all over again? It's like they don't know how to design a phone OS sometimes...
And what's unreliable about SIM Contacts? I trust Google Contacts completely.

thehyecircus said:
I thought ICS was them listening! So the contact has to be stored on the phone to get high-res photos? So that means I'd have the whole SIM card contact/Google Contact/Phone Contact deal all over again? It's like they don't know how to design a phone OS sometimes...
And what's unreliable about SIM Contacts? I trust Google Contacts completely.
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The problem with SIM contacts is that the SIM is very specific in what it can store. A UMTS sim can store 2 numbers per person and type (I dumped my SIM with a usb sim-reader). The is no way to store a picture and all the other things Google allows you to store and sync. Sure, they could keep different databases just for the stuff the SIM doesn't support but that would just result in more problems in general and you would have a hard limit on the number of contacts set to 250.
Summary: SIM contacts are too limited to be useful today. It's only decent as a backup in my opinion.
Why are you so against having your contacts on Google contacts or just as a vcard locally? To me, Google contacts is really great as I can change my contacts from anywhere and I always have them backed up. It also makes it extremely easy to setup a new Android phone and allows me to export them to a number of formats if I need it.

blunden said:
The problem with SIM contacts is that the SIM is very specific in what it can store. A UMTS sim can store 2 numbers per person and type (I dumped my SIM with a usb sim-reader). The is no way to store a picture and all the other things Google allows you to store and sync. Sure, they could keep different databases just for the stuff the SIM doesn't support but that would just result in more problems in general and you would have a hard limit on the number of contacts set to 250.
Summary: SIM contacts are too limited to be useful today. It's only decent as a backup in my opinion.
Why are you so against having your contacts on Google contacts or just as a vcard locally? To me, Google contacts is really great as I can change my contacts from anywhere and I always have them backed up. It also makes it extremely easy to setup a new Android phone and allows me to export them to a number of formats if I need it.
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1. It'd be a hassle to delete all the numbers off my SIM. It also should be unnecessary. There's no reason why Android should be looking at my SIM after I told it not to.
2. I am not against having my contacts on Google Contacts. I have them on Google Contacts. I used to have them on Google Contacts AND my phone, but all that did is have Android list each contact three times. A nightmare!! All I am saying is, don't look at my SIM card if I say not to, or be smart enough to not list duplicates because THE CONTACTS ARE MERGED.

"Me" contact: how to edit?

There's a "me" contact register in People app.
How to edit it? Or how to merge it with my already existing "me" contact?

Not sure if there is a way to edit or merge it, but I renamed it to myself and signed into Google+ and then a few minutes later it had sync'd all my info over.

Stigy said:
Not sure if there is a way to edit or merge it, but I renamed it to myself and signed into Google+ and then a few minutes later it had sync'd all my info over.
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So the only way is creating a Google+ profile? I don't want to use Google+.

It paired with my G+ account automatically, otherwise just open it then go Menu>Edit and add some fields

Would be a lot easier if I could just merge with the contact I had already created with my information.
Besides, if I put a phone number in the "me" contact, would it go to Google+ profile?

Phantom1275 said:
So the only way is creating a Google+ profile? I don't want to use Google+.
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Just delete that piece of trash Facebook account and get Google+. If you do understand it, you won't regret the change.

lambda30 said:
Just delete that piece of trash Facebook account and get Google+. If you do understand it, you won't regret the change.
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And if I don't have neither Facebook nor Google+? I'm not really a social-network person...

If you inputted your name into the "owner info" during setup it replaces the "me" contact.

lambda30 said:
Just delete that piece of trash Facebook account and get Google+. If you do understand it, you won't regret the change.
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The problem is none of my friends are on Google plus, which is kinda the point for a social network and since I rarely post but only stalk lol, G+ doesn't make a huge amount of sense for me at the moment besides keeping a barely there profile up.d

Phantom1275 said:
And if I don't have neither Facebook nor Google+? I'm not really a social-network person...
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Fair enough. Before ICS, the connection between the Me contact on the phone could have been made to the "me" contact in Google Contacts from Gmail, if your phone number stored on your SIM card (check it in Settings-About phone-Status) is exactly the same with the phone number from the "me" contact in Google Contacts from Gmail.
Dunno if you followed me there, but if you did, give this a try. Also, you can change the phone number stored in SIM card by using some old Nokia/Samsung/LG phones that have this option in their settings. Just try on as many old dumb-phones as you can.

Why you need to edit yourself?
Its you with your number..why to change your own number to a wrong one!?

typhoonz said:
Why you need to edit yourself?
Its you with your number..why to change your own number to a wrong one!?
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What? Maybe he wants it to say his name instead of "me"

lambda30 said:
Fair enough. Before ICS, the connection between the Me contact on the phone could have been made to the "me" contact in Google Contacts from Gmail, if your phone number stored on your SIM card (check it in Settings-About phone-Status) is exactly the same with the phone number from the "me" contact in Google Contacts from Gmail.
Dunno if you followed me there, but if you did, give this a try. Also, you can change the phone number stored in SIM card by using some old Nokia/Samsung/LG phones that have this option in their settings. Just try on as many old dumb-phones as you can.
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Yeah, I'm following.
In fact, been there, done that. I had that problem of "telling" my Nexus S that contact "Thomaz" (this is my name) was me, so my picture would be shown in SMS app when I replied a message. Took an old Motorola V3, edited my SIM card stored phone number, and it worked.
I guess this would also work with Galaxy Nexus, but I was wrong.

I used to have a "ME" contact but its no longer required.
Now in the people app, there is a SECTION labeled "Me" with my name as the contact.
Just delete everything else and use it. FYI I do use Google+ so I don't know if it came there or not.

magnimus1 said:
The problem is none of my friends are on Google plus, which is kinda the point for a social network and since I rarely post but only stalk lol
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Facebook is for connecting to people you already know. Google+ is for connecting to people you should know. I hardly know anyone on Google+ and I've connected to people because their posts interest me. I don't wade through nearly as much "had xyz for lunch" posts on Google+.
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Phantom1275 said:
Yeah, I'm following.
In fact, been there, done that. I had that problem of "telling" my Nexus S that contact "Thomaz" (this is my name) was me, so my picture would be shown in SMS app when I replied a message. Took an old Motorola V3, edited my SIM card stored phone number, and it worked.
I guess this would also work with Galaxy Nexus, but I was wrong.
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Oh, okay. Sorry, couldn't have assume that you already knew that.
How come it doesn't work ? I tested it right now and it works. I cleared the cache for Contacts Storage and Google+, set Google+ to not sync contacts, then let the Contacts app sync with Google servers. After that, it showed Set up my profile under ME. I tested to see if I show up in SMS app, but a message pops up saying: The contact doesn't exist.
I put my name and my phone number EXACTLY as the number written on the SIM card and it worked. In SMS app, in a sms thread, if I touch the spot where my picture should be, a pop-up shows my name, picture and even my phone number. I assume that if I also put my email and other info, it will definitely show those too.
Checked again. Actually, even if I put only my name in the setup, it still shows from the SMS app, so I really don't understand where the problem is.

lambda30 said:
Oh, okay. Sorry, couldn't have assume that you already knew that.
How come it doesn't work ? I tested it right now and it works. I cleared the cache for Contacts Storage and Google+, set Google+ to not sync contacts, then let the Contacts app sync with Google servers. After that, it showed Set up my profile under ME. I tested to see if I show up in SMS app, but a message pops up saying: The contact doesn't exist.
I put my name and my phone number EXACTLY as the number written on the SIM card and it worked. In SMS app, in a sms thread, if I touch the spot where my picture should be, a pop-up shows my name, picture and even my phone number. I assume that if I also put my email and other info, it will definitely show those too.
Checked again. Actually, even if I put only my name in the setup, it still shows from the SMS app, so I really don't understand where the problem is.
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Let's see if I get that clear: you put your name and phone number in "me" contact, exactly like it's written on the SIM card, and now this info is shown in SMS app when you touch the spot. But do you have a "lambda30" contact, or you had to create a "lambda30" profile under "me"?
That's the point: I haven't had to do that in Nexus S. When I edited the phone number on the SIM card, it found a contact "Thomaz" with that number, and it understood that "Thomaz" was me, nothing more. In SMS app, I could see the picture assigned to "Thomaz" (my picture, actually), could touch it to see my contact card and etc. No need for a "me" profile.

Phantom1275 said:
Let's see if I get that clear: you put your name and phone number in "me" contact, exactly like it's written on the SIM card, and now this info is shown in SMS app when you touch the spot. But do you have a "lambda30" contact, or you had to create a "lambda30" profile under "me"?
That's the point: I haven't had to do that in Nexus S. When I edited the phone number on the SIM card, it found a contact "Thomaz" with that number, and it understood that "Thomaz" was me, nothing more. In SMS app, I could see the picture assigned to "Thomaz" (my picture, actually), could touch it to see my contact card and etc. No need for a "me" profile.
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No, it works with lambda30 name under Me.
Actually, I have observed that there are 2 different types.
1. In SMS app and Contacts app (non-Google apps), the info of your profile is taken from ME contact (which in my case is synced with Google+)
2. In Google apps, like Google Talk or Gmail, the info is taken from a separate contact from Google Contacts in Gmail (it is located in Other Contacts), which you can edit in Gmail.
It really is kind of stupid, but that's the situation...
LE: Also, in this situation, I think that the SIM card phone number doesn't even do anything... because like you said, on the Nexus S, the Contacts app would have automatically created your profile; which it doesn't here... So I think that the SIM card number is useless now.
So, if you want a ME contact that is uniformly seen throughout Android, you have to edit the ME account in Contacts and also edit your contact in Gmail in Other Contacts with the same info. But it still doesn't really do the trick, because the Gmail contact will not have a high-res picture of you. But, rather than having nothing, it's still good.

Along the lines of discussion here:
I'm looking for a way to BACKUP the "Me" contact. Because it doesn't seem to be sync'd via google sync / gmail - on restore of my phone to defaults, when google pulled down all my contacts, the "Me" one I had filled out wasn't there.
I use TiBackup - any idea of which file I need to backup to make sure I have that? Or a way to manually back it up?

Can any of you guys add twitter information to your "Me" contact? It seems like only Google+ works and you cannot "Join" any contacts to the "Me" contact.

[Q] Transferring contacts

I just received my Note 2 in the mail and was wondering if anyone knew a way to transfer the contacts from my old phone. Normally I would just import to sim and swap sims and export them. Or I would do it at ATT. However I live an hour from an ATT store and my old phone takes a 3g standard size sim card. Walmart wireless gave me an option to do mobile back up to transfer my contacts however my xperia is blocked from downloading 3rd person apps. So I was wondering if anyone had any tips for transferring contacts. I hope this is an ok place to ask.

Back up to your google account and restore from it .
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You can blue tooth them over
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Mad383Max said:
Back up to your google account and restore from it .
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I always keep contacts backed up with Google, that way after flashing new roms, etc, they come back automatically. You can do it in sync settings on your old phone, then it's the default setting when you first turn on your new phone.
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I always keep contacts backed up with Google, that way after flashing new roms, etc, they come back automatically. You can do it in sync settings on your old phone, then it's the default setting when you first turn on your new phone.
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+1 Google account is great. Contacts calendar docs cloud storage gmail,sign into one account and everything is synced. Very simple considering you need an account for the play store.

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I always keep contacts backed up with Google, that way after flashing new roms, etc, they come back automatically. You can do it in sync settings on your old phone, then it's the default setting when you first turn on your new phone.
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This.
jethro650 said:
+1 Google account is great. Contacts calendar docs cloud storage gmail,sign into one account and everything is synced. Very simple considering you need an account for the play store.
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And all your bookmarks.

Going from Android to Android should be so easy, if you contacts are synced with you Google account. They just magically appear once you add you add your Google account to you new phone.
I love Google Magic!

[Q] ATT S3- Managing/copy contacts, SIM and phone and display

ATT S3 i747
There are multiple questions in my mind, all related to the same general thing...management of contact storage on phone or SIM, and managing what is displayed when you hit contacts icon.
a. How do (can?) you choose whether SIM contacts or phone contacts are displayed when Contacts is opened? If you cannot select which set will be shown, which ones ARE shown?
My desire is to have ALL of my contacts on the SIM, but I use some of them only infrequently. I would like to have a sub-set of the total set (on the SIM) to show in contacts. My general idea is to have that sub-set in the PHONE storage, and display the PHONE set in Contacts...but be able to switch over to view SIM when needed.
Is the above possible?
If not, how do I achieve the same result--to have contacts display a subset of my total set, but be able to access the total set occasionally?
Thanks.

Try in contacts
Menu > contacts to display > customize
There you can choose which contacts to display.
I wouldn't worry too much about where they are stored. Sim card contacts are imported automatically and the contacts list is synced with Google.

jefferson9 said:
Try in contacts
Menu > contacts to display > customize
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Huh. Are you talking an ATT S3?
Contacts>(contacts tab)>menu drill down on my phone has no such entry as "contacts to display". It has 8 items...
delete
sim management
import/export
merge w samsung acct
merge w google
accounts
speed dial setting
send email

Hmm my bad I should have mention I'm on aosp not touchwiz. Sorry

So, since that help was for a non-touchwiz ROM, I still am looking for answer to the original question if anyone can help. I don't see how to do it--or how to accomplish what I want a different way.

Some AOSP ROMs have Sim Management the same way, but not with as many options...

I don't have aosp. I have stock!

movrshakr said:
I don't have aosp. I have stock!
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It's still the same... and don't yell at me...

I just fail to see why people keep bringing up AOSP when it helps not a twit answering the question of this thread.
And it is NOT "the same" as the previous "how to" from someone usiong AOSP will not work on my stock phone whatsoever.

Unfortunately the way you would like to do it isn't possible. All contacts will show. But you can create groups, such as Work, Friends, Family, and even manage them easily at www.google.com/contacts
The groups are accessible in your Phonebook...

I use googke contacts....all of my contacts are stored and added to google.if i mess things up..they are restored when I log back into google.
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dunlap92 said:
I use googke contacts....all of my contacts are stored and added to google.if i mess things up..they are restored when I log back into google.
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He's inquiring about the organization of the contacts... creating groups would be the easiset way, but still have a full phonebook...