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Google to phone contacts

Hi!
I recently backed up and restored my contacts. When they restored they did so as gmail contacts.
Is there an easy way to make them phone contacts?
Thanks
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Because the various Contact types are quite different, they can not be converted between one another. You can make a Phone contact, and link it to a Google contact and vice versa, but converting so far seems to be impossible.
Until/unless maybe someone makes an app for it (copy relevant fields & then delete the original) but I havent seen it yet.

You can backup Your contacts on SD (as *.vcf file) and restore this file later under "Phone" account. 2 simple steps in "People" app:
1. Menu -> Import/Export -> choose "Export to SD". All Your Google contacts will be saved on SD.
2. Menu -> Import/Export -> choose "Import from SD" and then choose account "Phone", choose a Vcard file You just created and that's all.

recovery over flashed rom....

flashing a rom on my evo was very successful. My issue was restoring my contacts and apps so i thought i had to recover them. FAIL! So i guess it put the stock rom on top of the flashed rom. Yes, FAIL again, i know. So the phone was running slow as ****. I backed up alllll my apps again on titanium and my contacts. My question is, how do i get my contacts and apps again? I know this is probably easy but im stressed and cant think right now. Worked 13 hours and thought i damaged my phone.

I have always just let Google sync my contacts so if I change devices I can just log into my Google account and they get transferred automatically. As for backing up apps I don't. I don't trust it. I like to start fresh everytime and install manually that way there is less of a chance of conflicts. If u have paid apps they always show back in the market.

yea all im worried about are the contacts....i have no prob downloading those few apps over...

For contacts using google sync, for app I just back up list of them using app list backup.

wow. so only 1 contact is showing up. does this mean i have to recover all my old stuff just to get the contacts

Were your contacts saved in your Gmail?

Also did u make a nandroid before changing roms and losing everything?

yes they were synched with the gmail.....im on the gmail now trying to figure something out but i dont see anything......and yes i backed up everything before i cleared the phone up

Hope you didn't "clean contacts" any other way but while flash rom of because that would sync as well and delete them from gmail. For example: someone believed his contacts are backed up at gmail and he chose to delete them from phone... then phone sync with gmail and "update " this "new phonebook".
If future you can also backup phone using:
1. some apps
2. or simple way by - open your contacts > chose menu > Import / Export > Export to SD card (restore them same way while choosing Import).

Hmm I would do a wipe then restore your nandroid backup you already have. Then make sure all your contacts are synchronized in your Google account. One thing i have always done is export contacts to a file and keep on pc just incase i lose them. After that do all your wipes and flash the rom of your choice.
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Beat me to it
erik077 said:
Hope you didn't "clean contacts" any other way but while flash rom of because that would sync as well and delete them from gmail. For example: someone believed his contacts are backed up at gmail and he chose to delete them from phone... then phone sync with gmail and "update " this "new phonebook".
If future you can also backup phone using:
1. some apps
2. or simple way by - open your contacts > chose menu > Import / Export > Export to SD card (restore them same way while choosing Import).
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erik077 said:
Hope you didn't "clean contacts" any other way but while flash rom of because that would sync as well and delete them from gmail. For example: someone believed his contacts are backed up at gmail and he chose to delete them from phone... then phone sync with gmail and "update " this "new phonebook".
If future you can also backup phone using:
1. some apps
2. or simple way by - open your contacts > chose menu > Import / Export > Export to SD card (restore them same way while choosing Import).
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for some reason its only synching 1 contact....i tried it like 3 times...

92bubble said:
for some reason its only synching 1 contact....i tried it like 3 times...
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Forget Sync now, looks like they are gone . Did you manually delete any of them while "cleaning" your phone?

I would suggest booting into recovery flashing CALKULINS_FORMAT_ALL.zip & reflashing your rom. Contacts should be synced with google otherwise try mybackup pro. For apps I always suggest Titanium Backup. With the amount if rom flashing I do I find the donated version worthwhile. Good luck!

[Q] import contacts from a csv file?

hi all
i used the "backup contacts" app to create an csv file from my contacts before flashing my arc
now i see no option to restore the file to my phone except for importing my contacts to gmail first (a thing i don't know exactly how to do AND i don't want to do due to security considerations! i never trust google!)
any way, another similar app "Contacts Backup Pro_2.5.1" didn't recognize my csv file which i'd copied in sdcard directly as the software had asked
do u know how i can restore the csv file to my contacts?
thanks in advance

go to contact menu, press menu button, choose import contact, choose import from memory, it will scan your sd card for contact file

but...
but it says it can't find any Vcard contacts. I saved my contacts on a CSV file. So what do I do?

If you didn't trust google you wouldn't be using Android. And in future make proper backups.

benyben123 said:
but it says it can't find any Vcard contacts. I saved my contacts on a CSV file. So what do I do?
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If you did backup your contact to memory card, it must be found unless u format ur card
The other way is go to account & sync setting, click on your account, choose sync contact if your contact are already saved on google

contact backup

Whenever I try to back up the contact file pcsc_pcsc file it doesn't work. How can I make a backup of all of my contacts to my windows computer?

You can open up the dialer > contacts tab > menu > export > export to sd card card, then you can copy the vcard to your pc. Though they're always backed up if you sync them to google.

No solution to your question but I use gmail on the EVO and Thunderbird on the PC and never have to worry about backing up contacts

[Q] cant backup all contacts

hi guys, just realized that when I backup my contacts it doesnt backup all of them.
I have 531 contacts in Gmail / Phone
But when I run any backup program, Go backup / Miui Backup it only backs up 250?
I do not have any contacts in the SIM card.
Any ideas / suggestions?

providence said:
hi guys, just realized that when I backup my contacts it doesnt backup all of them.
I have 531 contacts in Gmail / Phone
But when I run any backup program, Go backup / Miui Backup it only backs up 250?
I do not have any contacts in the SIM card.
Any ideas / suggestions?
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Go into the People App > Menu > Manage Contacts > Import/Export Contacts > Export to Phone Storage.
This will create a single file backup of all your contacts. Also all your GMail contacts are auto backed up to the Google servers anyway.