This one is difficult for me.. And I have no idea how to solve it
I left the company where I've worked for 7 years. I have all my personal contacts synced to my former company's Exchange account. That account has since been locked, but my phone still retains all the contacts.
How do I move these Exchange account contacts to a specific contact list in Gmail (or another account)? When I try to do a backup of the phone, I can't find any backup program that lets me backup just my Exchange contacts.. instead. it tries to backup the 3,000 gmail "other" contacts as well, which is just a huge mess and what I don't want to retain or backup. I just want the Exchange contacts backed up.
BTW.. i also have the contacts synced on my ipad, so if u know of an IOS way to do this, I can do it on there.
Anyone? HELP!
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Hi, After using gmail to sync al contacts, calendars & mail & getting fed up with the way google handles contacts, I decided to untick "contacts sync" from googlemail on the phone, then hooked phone up to pc & sync'ed calendar & contacts. In doing so, I have somehow & very stupidly removed ALL my outlook contacts...I can get to my googlemail contacts but outlook is now empty of contacts...please tell me there's a way to get them back from somewhere! Thanks very much
Check the Outlook trashcan.
lol...what a doozy. In the mad flap I was in just didn't think straight. Thanks very much indeed for that. Is there a way I can stop this happening again? I only want Outlook contacts on the phone but happy to sync email & calendar with my gmail account. Cheers again, appreciate your help.
I also decided to remove all sync'ing from my google account- if you have done the same, then you shouldn't have that issue again.
Just to be on the safe side, now that you have your contacts back in Outlook, I'd suggest creating a back up of it (perhaps regularly), to a PST file or similar. Might to be wise to use an app to backup contacts/calender entries directly from the phone- Wave Secure as an example.
Cheers for that, outlook contacts backed up yesterday straight after restoring them back! Appreciate the advice though sh500
Just a quickie now though, I've made a "group" to send funny texts onto and while ome of the texts go to the mobile number, some are being sent to emails...again, anything really simple & dumb I'm doing here? I have set the mobile number as "primary" on all the group members but the phone seems to mix up the emails with the mob' numbers if the contact has more than 1 email address, 1 of which I set as primary too. Cheers again...
Ok - when I got the phone, and I set up my new googlemail account, imported my contacts to googlemail via Outlook, and subesequently synced my phone to the new gmail account, I though that whenever I add contacts to my phone, it would automatically update my googlemail contacts. That doesn't appear to be the case, and I'm not sure why.
I currently have 386 Google Contacts accessible by the phone, and 243 phone contacts. I have a feeling that a fair few of these contacts are duplicates (as whenever I search for a person, sometimes more than one option comes up to ring).
However, I know for a fact that at the weekend, I added a new contact to my phone, and it hasn't updated my contacts on googlemail.
Any ideas why this is might be?
only Google contacts sync to Google.
Those you have in the Phone group are going nowhere.
i would imagine that when you have added them manually to the phone, you did not change it from a phone contact type, to a google contact type before you saved it.
Also, any contacts you sync from your PC (Don't do it, HTC Sync is not worth it...)will be saved to the phone group and so won't save to Google.
HTC had to bugger the contacts up in this way to get HTC Sync to work. I wish they hadn't bothered. it's bad enough having google contacts and Exchange contacts (which it is sensible to have separate), but adding Phone as well is just overly complicating things.
Ok - that sounds fair enough. Is there any way then of aggregating all the contacts into gmail format then? - ie reformat the phone contacts to gmail?
An app or something?
I use the paid-version of Titanium Backup for all my apps and SMS Backup for texts, but what's the easiest for contacts and call logs? Google doesn't fully restore my contacts (for some reason there are some missing).
take a look at Call Logs Backup & Restore, it's free and it works like a charm
this author also has free apps to backup SMS and APNs
Are the "missiing" contacts on the desktop computer version of GMail? If so, they should all sync automatically. Are these contacts from Facebook, or SIM contacts? You might just need to sync your phone to Facebook before those contacts come up.
As a final idea, when you create a contact on the phone (at least with Sense ROMs), one of the things you get asked is where you want to store the contact. You get all your gmail accounts, exchange accounts and a Phone option. If you choose Phone, it will not sync with any online service, so that might be the reason why you loose your contacts.
For my case, I only store contacts on the Phone if I know I will delete them in the short term, that way if I change phone or have to wipe I get a free cleanup, but for contacts that I want to keep I always put them on some online account.
Regards
mschmiedel said:
As a final idea, when you create a contact on the phone (at least with Sense ROMs), one of the things you get asked is where you want to store the contact. You get all your gmail accounts, exchange accounts and a Phone option. If you choose Phone, it will not sync with any online service, so that might be the reason why you loose your contacts.
For my case, I only store contacts on the Phone if I know I will delete them in the short term, that way if I change phone or have to wipe I get a free cleanup, but for contacts that I want to keep I always put them on some online account.
Regards
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i use a couple different back ups. Google backs things up, titanium back up, then I'm using sms back up and restore pro. I haven't lost a message or contact yet flashed about 8-9 times in a week since i started rooting.
I have a small problem with Exchange on my Nexus. I had a lot of duplicates entries so I used a program to delete all contacts. I am using the builtin exchange sync on the Nexus. When I removed all my contacts, it actually delted them from the Exchange Server. I assumed that the Exchange contact sync was downstream only, but I was wrong. No fear, I had a Nandroid backup. However, upon restoration there are still no Exchange contacts on the phone or server.
I was hoping someone could explain to me how this works so that I know moving forward. Interestingly enough I forgot that I use Enhanced Email on a Kindle Fire. To my amazement, the contacts are all there. So you can imagine my confusion as to how this all works. I should be able to export my contacts from the Kindle Fire and restore them properly. Please don't ask about the IT person restoring the contacts as he is not worth my keystrokes(said he had to restore the entire company mail).
Any thoughts?
So my mom recently got a samsung galaxy s3, she originally had a galaxy nexus, and before that an envy 2.
We used verizon backup assistant to backup all the contacts on her envy 2, because that was the only simple contact backup available for the envy.
She now has
A. Google sync backing up all her NEWER contacts
B. Backup assistant backing up her older contacts
C. A bunch of hotmail contacts.
Basically I created a huge mess... If I were to use backup assistant on the SGS3, how would I go about changing each and every contact to sync with google past that point?
I'm just wondering if there is a simple way to go about this without going through each and every contact.
Dudenell said:
So my mom recently got a samsung galaxy s3, she originally had a galaxy nexus, and before that an envy 2.
We used verizon backup assistant to backup all the contacts on her envy 2, because that was the only simple contact backup available for the envy.
She now has
A. Google sync backing up all her NEWER contacts
B. Backup assistant backing up her older contacts
C. A bunch of hotmail contacts.
Basically I created a huge mess... If I were to use backup assistant on the SGS3, how would I go about changing each and every contact to sync with google past that point?
I'm just wondering if there is a simple way to go about this without going through each and every contact.
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In people or contacts there should be an option your whole library as a .vcf . If you put that file on the new phone it will get all your contacts. But in reality your Google account should be backing up All your contacts. I had issues back in the of days with duplicate contacts. Turns out if you go into gmail on a computer there is an option to merge duplicates. If you don't think they are all being synced with Google then the .vcf method would be the safest. Then if you get dups just merge them in gmail
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In people or contacts there should be an option your whole library as a .vcf . If you put that file on the new phone it will get all your contacts. But in reality your Google account should be backing up All your contacts. I had issues back in the of days with duplicate contacts. Turns out if you go into gmail on a computer there is an option to merge duplicates. If you don't think they are all being synced with Google then the .vcf method would be the safest. Then if you get dups just merge them in gmail
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Here is what I did.
Removed the hotmail account.
Exported the contact list and then imported into google
Merged contacts
Done
What I thought would happen originally was that removing my hotmail account would leave all the contacts associated with it, this was not the case.
Dudenell said:
Here is what I did.
Removed the hotmail account.
Exported the contact list and then imported into google
Merged contacts
Done
What I thought would happen originally was that removing my hotmail account would leave all the contacts associated with it, this was not the case.
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If I export the list and then import it to google. Do I need to delete contacts between exporting and importing as I assume your phone will have duplicates on the phone itself? (I already have contacts on the phone and not google so not sure if importing will now just cause the phone to have duplicates)
It depends on how your contacts were originally backed up. Assuming you wanted to start over clean it would export all your contacts, then clear the app data for the contacts (this will delete everything!) and then import the file into Google on your pc.
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