I don't have a Windows phone, yet, but I am trying to prepere my contact lists for my new phone.
This is how I started:
I have an private exchange account with about 200 contacts.
I have made my exchange account a Windows Live, because i use mye exchange account with MSN Messenger (about 80 of 200 contacts)
In Windows Live, I have connected Facebook and Linkedin to sync contacts from this services.
How will this exampel contact look on Windows Phone ?
Exchange: Don Johnsen, [email protected], company phone: 1122334455
Windows Live: Don Johnsen, [email protected]
Facebook: Don Johnsen, [email protected], privat phone: 5544332211, Works for Company1, Private adresse: Privatelane 123
Linkedin: Don Johnsen, [email protected], Works for Company1, Company1 adresse, Company fax nr: 55555555
How will the calender look on Windows Phone ?
Will I get facebook events in the calender ?
You don't get Facebook events in the calendar by default. I don't know if there's a way to get them to show there.
Your LinkedIn contact info will show as Live. You can link multiple sources to one contact card, it works fairly well.
Thanks.
Someone with an example of a contactcard with multiple contact info ?
What profile pictures will it use, or can I change from facebook, Linkedin or MSN ?
Will I be able to choose mailadress to send to ?
By default it uses the picture from Facebook, but you can change that and use a photo from a different contact source or from your phone.
Yes, you can choose email addresses.
It's difficult to show a contact card because there's no way to make a screenshot. There are pictures on the internet, a quick Google search will help you.
basically what happens is that you can "link" contact cards together, so that way you can see all the different information from the different places in 1 card. the disadvantage is that you will get double ups (so if you had the same email address for the person across 3 places, you'd see it 3 times in their contact card with it saying where each came from).
as for editting details, i'm not sure but from what i'm aware, you edit for 1 type. so for example, you had 1 contact with 3 different locations for data (your exchange, windows live, facebook), you cannot edit facebook of course, so what would happen is you would be given the option to edit which one you want (your exchange or windows live). so if you wanted the data to sync, you would have to edit twice, one for your windows live and one for your exchange. somewhat sucks, but that's the way it works. there might be third party applications (desktop) that can sync exchange with windows live regularly so you don't have to worry, but i'm not familiar enough with it.
I am having an issue with syncing new contacts. I connected LinkedIn to my Windows Live account. It updated some of my contacts that I already had and added others that were only in LinkedIn and not in the Live account.
They are showing up correctly in my Live account but the new contacts and updated info that LinkedIn merged are not syncing/showing on my phone.
Any ideas how to fix this?
I have several question regarding contacts, cause it seems little bit chaotic.
1. I set up my Live account, connected it with my gmail, facebook, linked in etc. and then syncd with phone - zero contacts in my phone. SO I realized, that you can sync live with gmail, but it will not import phone contacts... and if you set gmail account on your phone (not in live) it will download the contacts from the account, but will not sync them with live. It sucks. You can import contacts in live from gmail directly in browser (there is an import gmail option). Buit anyway, it sucks, because I thought, that my live account will be able to sync different contacts so they will be updated all the time - I will change something in gmail and it will be updated in WP7, I will change WP7 and it will sync with gmail. NO WAY THIS IS HAPPENING. SAD.
2. LinkedIn - my LinkedIn contacts are showing OK in Live.com, with pictures etc. But, they are not showing with pictures on the phone and they are not even showing all information from linkedin. Is there a way how to change it (I want pictures from these contacts to some of my phone conracts after i link them?
3. Facebook - I thought, that when I connect facebook in live.com, that it will be connected automatically in the phone as well. It isnt. It does show updates in people hub, but it will not show contacts in contact list, if you want them to show, again, you will have to add facebook account to your phone. BUt these will not be synced with your live, so when you link facebook contact with linked in conbtact and gmail contact and then you hard reset the phone and sync it with live, you will not have ONE contact, you will have three different unlinked contacts, becuase link is done just in phone. WHICH SUCKS.
4. Oh, and I just realized, that when I imported my contacts from gmail to live and then synced them to WP7, the contacts on my phone do not show phone numbers! My live contacts show the phone numbers, but they are not synced to the phone! WTF? Aarrrgh... So I will have to sync my gmail contacts with numbers with my phone as a separate account to be able to call those contacts...
Any advices how to avoiud these problems, or am i wrong?
chumaj001 said:
I have several question regarding contacts, cause it seems little bit chaotic.
1. I set up my Live account, connected it with my gmail, facebook, linked in etc. and then syncd with phone - zero contacts in my phone. SO I realized, that you can sync live with gmail, but it will not import phone contacts... and if you set gmail account on your phone (not in live) it will download the contacts from the account, but will not sync them with live. It sucks. You can import contacts in live from gmail directly in browser (there is an import gmail option). Buit anyway, it sucks, because I thought, that my live account will be able to sync different contacts so they will be updated all the time - I will change something in gmail and it will be updated in WP7, I will change WP7 and it will sync with gmail. NO WAY THIS IS HAPPENING. SAD.
2. LinkedIn - my LinkedIn contacts are showing OK in Live.com, with pictures etc. But, they are not showing with pictures on the phone and they are not even showing all information from linkedin. Is there a way how to change it (I want pictures from these contacts to some of my phone conracts after i link them?
3. Facebook - I thought, that when I connect facebook in live.com, that it will be connected automatically in the phone as well. It isnt. It does show updates in people hub, but it will not show contacts in contact list, if you want them to show, again, you will have to add facebook account to your phone. BUt these will not be synced with your live, so when you link facebook contact with linked in conbtact and gmail contact and then you hard reset the phone and sync it with live, you will not have ONE contact, you will have three different unlinked contacts, becuase link is done just in phone. WHICH SUCKS.
Any advices how to avoiud these problems, or am i wrong?
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My problem is the same as your number 2 problem. If anyone knows how to sync all the data it would be greatly appreciated.
I tried to google it and realized, that I am not the only one in the world with the same problem. There are lot of people with that problem and it seems, that it may appear during time, first everything is synced right from live, and then it stops working, phone numbers and pictures dissapear etc. Also, there is no answer to that problem from MS.
So, I tried following:
1. Deleted all my contacts from live
2. Diconected all the social networks in live.
3. Synced my phone with live, so there were no contacts on my phone as well
4. Deleted all account on my phone (facebook)
5. Restarted the phone
5. Imported contacts from gmail to live again
6. Connected live with facebook and linkedin again
7. Synced my phone with live
At first, it seemed to work, my gmail contacts appeared with numbers again.
There were no pictures at gmail contatcs that should have them (even that during my first sync, they were imported)
And the worst thing is, that when I started syncing my liveID to my phone it went to same weird loop. I have 350 contacts in live, but the syncing doesnt seem to stop, right now it says it is syncing contact 10000 (!) and continues to sync (also reported by many other users on MS answers forum).
So, the whole thing seems to be totally screwed.
Any advices?
I wonder if a hard reset then resyncing with my Live account would work. I'm not sure if since I added the LinkedIn relationship after the initial transfer that is the problem.
So, I hardreseted and the problem remains. It is probably caused by some incompatible data from gmail (i gues it could be HTC Sense notes about my facebook links on android). Most bizzare thing is, that it doesnt happen when you sync the same contacts directly with gmail. Hotmail is definitelly ****ed up and nobody at support is trying to solve this. There is couple of really desperate guys at MS forums.
chumaj001 said:
I have several question regarding contacts, cause it seems little bit chaotic.
1. I set up my Live account, connected it with my gmail, facebook, linked in etc. and then syncd with phone - zero contacts in my phone. SO I realized, that you can sync live with gmail, but it will not import phone contacts... and if you set gmail account on your phone (not in live) it will download the contacts from the account, but will not sync them with live. It sucks. You can import contacts in live from gmail directly in browser (there is an import gmail option). Buit anyway, it sucks, because I thought, that my live account will be able to sync different contacts so they will be updated all the time - I will change something in gmail and it will be updated in WP7, I will change WP7 and it will sync with gmail. NO WAY THIS IS HAPPENING. SAD.
2. LinkedIn - my LinkedIn contacts are showing OK in Live.com, with pictures etc. But, they are not showing with pictures on the phone and they are not even showing all information from linkedin. Is there a way how to change it (I want pictures from these contacts to some of my phone conracts after i link them?
3. Facebook - I thought, that when I connect facebook in live.com, that it will be connected automatically in the phone as well. It isnt. It does show updates in people hub, but it will not show contacts in contact list, if you want them to show, again, you will have to add facebook account to your phone. BUt these will not be synced with your live, so when you link facebook contact with linked in conbtact and gmail contact and then you hard reset the phone and sync it with live, you will not have ONE contact, you will have three different unlinked contacts, becuase link is done just in phone. WHICH SUCKS.
4. Oh, and I just realized, that when I imported my contacts from gmail to live and then synced them to WP7, the contacts on my phone do not show phone numbers! My live contacts show the phone numbers, but they are not synced to the phone! WTF? Aarrrgh... So I will have to sync my gmail contacts with numbers with my phone as a separate account to be able to call those contacts...
Any advices how to avoid these problems, or am i wrong?
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All I did was to setup my Contacts in Windows Live uploading them from Outlook in the first place. Then I cleaned them up and finally I added my Facebook account.
The phone automatically matched more then half of my contacts and linked their accounts. I needed to manually link some of them because of accents in their names, but that was not a problem.
i think i may hit some these problem when i install windows phone 7 (currently running android). im looking at sorting out my calenders and contacts and need some advice. here is my setup:
i have 7 email accounts i want to sync with my phone:
2x windows live (1 main one and 1 work one)
2x google mail (1 main one and 2 work ones)
1x yahoo 1
1x ISP (virgin media)
1x work
currently i use outlook 2010 to send/recieve mail from all of them, and manage my contacts that i use. the contacts are managed as follows:
main gmail: phonebook contacts (i.e. everyone i have a phone number for)
work gmail: no contacts
yahoo: online addressbook with outdated contacts (not managed through outlook)
ISP: no contacts
work: no contacts
work windows live: work contacts (email only)
main windows live: a mix of everything, some outdated contacts
on top of this, my facebook and linked in accounts are linked to my main windows live account.
for calenders, i currently run 2, 1 from outlook, and 1 from windows live. the outlook calender is automatically synced with the main gmail calender through the google calender sync app on the pc.
my questions are:
1. what is the best account to have the 'phonebook' contacts in
2. does windows phone 7 merge all addressbooks into 1 big address book
3. if i wanted to kep my contacts/calenders synced between all my email accounts and my wp7 device, how could i go about this?
4. if i had the same address book in each mail account, would i end up with multiple contacts/multiple details in my address book on my phone?
the reason i have so many email addresses is a do freelance work on the side of my studying, and i have a seperate email account for each client i do work for. i also use things like yahoo groups and the google services.
i suppose an additional question would be:
5. can i merge all the email account into 1 account, and seperate the emails into groups (this would need to be done on the pc and on the phone). this would probably cut down my email accounts 4!
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1) You can use your personal Windows Live account as the default. It works great for having your main contacts (phonebook) and calendar synced.
2) No, you get one separate Tile for each account so you can pin it to the start screen and see the number of unread emails per account.
3) I would try to cut them down to two at the most. One for Windows Live and one for Gmail. Having too many would be a PITA and bothersome to keep tabs on.
4) The phone will automatically match contacts and their details from different account. If you find that some are not linked, you can always do it manually. This feature works great, either automatically or manual adding.
5) You can configure you main Windows Live account to retrieve mails from other account and have them separated by folders. You can even send mail using those accounts.
You can also have your two WL account merged and have one Gmail account retrieve mail from the other and keep. This way, you will end up with just two separate account, one for WL and one for Gmail.
Hope this helps.
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1) You can use your personal Windows Live account as the default. It works great for having your main contacts (phonebook) and calendar synced.
2) No, you get one separate Tile for each account so you can pin it to the start screen and see the number of unread emails per account.
3) I would try to cut them down to two at the most. One for Windows Live and one for Gmail. Having too many would be a PITA and bothersome to keep tabs on.
4) The phone will automatically match contacts and their details from different account. If you find that some are not linked, you can always do it manually. This feature works great, either automatically or manual adding.
5) You can configure you main Windows Live account to retrieve mails from other account and have them separated by folders. You can even send mail using those accounts.
You can also have your two WL account merged and have one Gmail account retrieve mail from the other and keep. This way, you will end up with just two separate account, one for WL and one for Gmail.
Hope this helps.
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i think it does. i suppose one of my other concerns is that i dont want all of my windows live contacts in my phonebook, as they are email only. is there a way of only listing contacts with phone numbers? i think what i am going to do it set up mail forwarding, and then have the mail sorted into folders in my windows live account. i have aquired a lot of contacts over the years and im sure i dont need/use about 75% of them any more!
Hi
Can someone tell me why the bluetooth in my car won't synch with the contacts on my htc one x unless I create the contact on the phone memory rather than use them from the Google account?
Go to people> top left choose the phonebook as Phone - contacts then show up in the cars bluetooth contact list
If i choose phonebook as google - contacts dont show up
Anyone know why? I assume the contacts from the google phonebook aren't saved to the phones memory? I thought they were when you sync your phone with gmail
Thanks
Manny
have i posted this in wrong place?
Someone must have a thought on this?
The only way is to transfer all of my contacts to the phone memory from google?
If i create a new contact on the phone memory it gets overwritten by the google sync
Well i only synced my contacts with google and if i go to contacts i see the list of names that are also in my google account, i tried it in my car today and those names & numbers showed up via bluetooth. Even the missed and chosen calls. Don't know what your problem could be ! .... sorry
MarcelHofs said:
Well i only synced my contacts with google and if i go to contacts i see the list of names that are also in my google account, i tried it in my car today and those names & numbers showed up via bluetooth. Even the missed and chosen calls. Don't know what your problem could be ! .... sorry
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When you go to the people app on your phone, which phonebooks have been selected?
Maybe I'm an idiot, and forgive me if I'm asking a dumb question, but this feels like something that should be easy but I can't figure it out.
This is my first HTC. On every other phone dating all the way back to my Galaxy S2, when I created a contact, it would ask if I wanted to save it on my phone or as a Google contact (or automatically save it to whichever of those two I had told it to do by default.) Saving it as a Google contact automatically synced it to my Google account.
When I set up my HTC 10, it downloaded all of my Google contacts. Easy!
Tonight, when somebody texted me they got a new number, I went to change it on a contact that already exists; it asked which contact I wanted to edit: their phone contact or their Google contact. Changing their Google contact didn't update the phone contact.
So then I just deleted his contact, and created it anew; it only asks if I want to create it on the phone or on the SIM card, with no Google contact option. Furthermore, creating it on the phone doesn't sync it to Google, nor does creating it on Google sync it to the phone.
Is there something I'm missing here? Is this some HTC specific thing where it just doesn't do Google contacts? Any help on this would be much, much appreciated; I'd really only rather maintain the Google contacts and not have to micromanage contact lists or use a third party syncing app (but I guess I will if it comes to it).
NEVER MIND!
You can ignore me.
For whatever reason, "contacts" wasn't available to check in my sync settings. But I fixed it:
Removed my Google account
Deleted all local phone contacts (to avoid possible duplicates later)
Added my Google account again
"Contacts" is in the Sync settings again, re-synced all my contacts without problems.
No idea what caused it but there you go. I thought I was going crazy because I had no option to sync contacts. If anybody knows what may have caused it I'd be interested to hear, but otherwise just ignore this post :-/
Thank you! I had the same problem and couldn't add contacts to my Google list. I did the same (logged out of account and logged back in) and the sync contacts came back along with the ability to add contacts again. I wonder why that happened.
I'm having similar issues with my HTC 10, majority of my contacts are synced on my Gmail account but I'm missing about 4 numbers, the contact details are there like name but no phone number. I've checked my phone and the contact has a phone number and linked to other accounts like whatsapp but no info on Gmail contacts.
I did manually input the number onto my phone because the numbers was missing so I believe maybe it's the format on the HTC 10, I'll do more testing...
sync google accounts
It's been a while since I've been through this, but unfortunately I have a similar problem. My problem is "Google account" in accounts and sync. But I can only select google photos when I click on the sync mark. No selection box for contacts. How can I fix that?
The device has clone s3 and ics 4.0.4 on it. The gapps packages available for this release also do not work. It does not synchronize people in any case. I cleaned the data from the applications, I deleted Accounts.db and reinstalled it.
Finally, I found the following lines for Accounts.xml and added it, but still there is no positive situation. What else can I do? Thank you.
Syncable = "true"> <authority id = "3" account = ".." type = "com.google" authority = "com.android.contacts"
<PeriodicSync period = "86400" />
</ Authority>
Let me add this here, please:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/google-account-syncing-t3561756
Xenorin said:
Maybe I'm an idiot, and forgive me if I'm asking a dumb question, but this feels like something that should be easy but I can't figure it out.
This is my first HTC. On every other phone dating all the way back to my Galaxy S2, when I created a contact, it would ask if I wanted to save it on my phone or as a Google contact (or automatically save it to whichever of those two I had told it to do by default.) Saving it as a Google contact automatically synced it to my Google account.
When I set up my HTC 10, it downloaded all of my Google contacts. Easy!
Tonight, when somebody texted me they got a new number, I went to change it on a contact that already exists; it asked which contact I wanted to edit: their phone contact or their Google contact. Changing their Google contact didn't update the phone contact.
So then I just deleted his contact, and created it anew; it only asks if I want to create it on the phone or on the SIM card, with no Google contact option. Furthermore, creating it on the phone doesn't sync it to Google, nor does creating it on Google sync it to the phone.
Is there something I'm missing here? Is this some HTC specific thing where it just doesn't do Google contacts? Any help on this would be much, much appreciated; I'd really only rather maintain the Google contacts and not have to micromanage contact lists or use a third party syncing app (but I guess I will if it comes to it).
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Halo !!!
I have same trouble with sync on my htc 10, but I think the problem is not only in the phone, because I have the same google account on another phone, ( alcatel idol 3) and also the same problems with contacts. For example, a sudden disappearance, a certain number of contacts, from my contacts list in both phone ???? On htc 10, a special problem is synchronization is not always possible, I have auto sync on, but the contacts cant be synced when I want to do, but in follow a few days thay are.
That,s whot i do not understand, I tried cleaning cash, and re-installing Google Account, but the problem comes back after a while, so..thats it. If anyone knows something more, would like to here. Thanks !!!
If Power Saver mode is enabled, Contacts Sync is disabled. Sounds crazy but just disable Power Saver (on HTC it's under Settings->Power->Power saver) and the contact sync will start right up. No need to remove and recreate your google account, restart the phone, or any of that - just flip the one switch.
Hello,have S20+ with the latest Android. Using 2x SIM card (home, work). Every contacts are synchronized to my private google account.
Curently I have 500 contacts in Google Contacts. Device shows me 518 contacts.
Sync doesn't work well. Deleted all contacts from google (500 contacts), in device are 43 contacts now. Deleted them and everything from the trash. Imported 500 contacts to google again, mobile shows me 571 contacts now.
Have this problem for some months. Sometimes I found a lot of contacts are deleted (in trash). Google shows me contacts was deleted by device ie at the night if I sleep.
- tried factory reset, didn't help
- yesterday I removed all contacts again and manually add every contact via google contacts. When 30 contacts was in google contacts, device shows me 42 contacts (a lot of duplicates again).
Any fix for that please? It's really uncomfortable. With iOS I didn't have these problems. I'm thinking about returning to iOS again!
example of duplicates in attachment.. If I go to find duplicates in device (by number, name, email), it still shows me there are no duplicates
I cleaned up some contacts and just found this:
google contacts: 488 contacts
s20 (phone app): 503 contacts
s20 (contacts app): 513 contacts
wtf?
SIM will have some carrier contacts and may have some you saved there in the past?. You may have saved some to the native or other dialler contacts before making Google the default account for contacts
Dont think the device has a problem, just think you havent realised how contacts works or realised theres carrier and dialler contacts.
Stop reimporting them and creating more issues.
Stop manually recreating them because Google will sync and create duplicates - youre creating the problem there...
Google Contacts has an option to merge and fix contacts, both in the Contacts app and in the online web page
Sign in - Google Accounts
Please never mention that locked down abomination of a phone OS again, we like freedom here...though it may be jarring to some
you're not right man..
1. don't have any contacts in SIM cards (tried both SIM in another device)
2. made factory reset (without restore backup) few times, still same problem
3. never had this problem with Android 11. It started with Android 12 I think
4. today tried delete all contacts and reimport again 4x. Everytime device showed me wrong number.
4.1 - first import shows me 28 contacts difference
4.2 - second import - 15 contacts difference
4.3 - third import - 41 contacts difference
4.4 - fourth import - 1 difference
5. if device shows me duplicates, there are no duplicates in google contacts
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you're not right man..
1. don't have any contacts in SIM cards (tried both SIM in another device)
2. made factory reset (without restore backup) few times, still same problem
3. never had this problem with Android 12. It started with Android 13 I think
4. today tried delete all contacts and reimport again 4x. Everytime device showed me wrong number.
4.1 - first import shows me 28 contacts difference
4.2 - second import - 15 contacts difference
4.3 - third import - 41 contacts difference
4.4 - fourth import - 1 difference
5. if device shows me duplicates, there are no duplicates in google contacts
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Youre seeking support for a beta? Report it to Google....thats what betas are for
sorry, made a mistake in post. It started with Android 12. Using latest official version.
1) What contact app are you using?
2) What is your default account for handling/syncing contacts
Hopefully both Google....or both Samsung
1. default samsung's app
2. my default account for syncing is google account.