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Hi,
I recently purchased a HTC Desire Android phone and I'm looking for a way to keep a simple, basic contact list updated and synched with my Gmail account.
The problem with the default way on my phone is that it will sync every contact on my Gmail. This is a problem as I only want to have contacts from my phone book synched to one gmail group and vice versa. There is an option to "disply only contacts with numbers" but I still don't like the idea of having every contact on the phone. There is also the problem of the extra empty groups I won't be using, can these be gotten rid of?
I basically just want one list and it to be my default list with all contacts and not have to go through an array of menus to get to that one list on the phone. I don't want that list to be populated by contacts who I may have only emailed once and will never email again. I don't want any gimmicks in between, no gtalk contacts, no facebook contacts, no default gmail contacts and I want to be able to then export this group to a CSV file to use with spreadsheets etc.
This seems to be possible on Android stock and even on HTC Hero Sense UI according to here: androidheadlines.com/2010/04/tidy-up-your-contact-list-with-a-custom-sync-group.html
but in the Desire Sense UI, when you go to people/groups/menu, it only gives the option to delete or add.
Seems this guy is having the same issue, he has the sync group option but his friend doesn't, both using the same phone
androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/47533-no-sync-groups-option.html
There are reports from this thread that some users have had this same problem. Some have a "Sync Groups" option when they go to People>Group Tab and click menu, most don't have this option however and I'm yet to hear from a desire user with this option. Also from this thread (google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=0ff2b08f98943ccb&hl=en) one user reported that a "hard reset" gave him the "Sync Group" option. I tried this but had no luck, still the same menu as before.
I've been trying to sort this for days and have asked on multiple forums. Hopefully somebody here can help and I'd appreciate any feedback at all!
If anyone has any idea please share, I've posted this on 5 different websites to try and get it resolved but still no luck. Would it even be possible to use the android "contacts" app as opposed to the HTC DESIRE "people" app at all? I still have my sim card in my old phone until I sort this out and need the phone for work so would really appreciate any help!
If you use exchange to sync your google contacts it will just sync my contacts and not all contacts
Thanks for the reply. I haven't tried exchange yet. Is that a separate system to Google or what is it? How does it have access to Google?
I actually want another group I've made, not "My Contacts" synched witht he phone. Would this still be possible with exchange?
No need for all that.
Go to HTCs program "PEOPLE". Press the hard menu button. Press the soft VIEW menu. Click "only contacts with phone numbers".
Your welcome !
Thanks PauloJ5, I know of that option already but it's still not suitable for my needs. I need the "Sync Group" option that's available on other android and HTC sense systems unfortunately and it just doesn't appear to come on the Desire system
Just a quick, hopeful bump
So according to this thread: http://android.modaco.com/content-page/305926/htc-desire-root-update/page/120/#entry1253966 it seems the MoDaCo founder has rooted the Desire. I wonder will this help at all in being able to resolve this issue?
In the sync options in Android, there is an option for exchange sync. Google servers support exchange sync, so you can add your google account. In the options, put in your google email as username, along with your password. Put m.google.com as server.
I would then disable google contact synchronization, and enable exchange contact sync. You might want to delete all the google contacts on your phone that have been previously stored to get rid of them (use the view option in the people manager to select just these). Not sure what this will do to your google contacts on the servers so I would back them up first (use export in google contacts on the web). Then do an exchange sync.
This will just sync your "my contacts" and not "all contacts". It won't let you sync specific groups.
Thanks again sawfoot, but if it can only sync mycontacts and not other specific groups I choose then it's not a solution for me unfortunately
It's just funny that the solution I need has been on other versions of Sense UI and also on the Android Stock but they seemed to have taken the most important function for me away from the phone I decided to go with
Just thought I'd give this another quick bump since the Root method and instructions for the desire have now been released. Perhaps a solution can be had
Just thought I'd give this another hopeful bump in the off chance of somebody who may have solved the issue on the desire (now that it's been rooted) seeing it I'm still waiting on HTC to get back to me too!
So with the extensive help of partyatmygaff over msn, I was able to root my desire and I finally got the contacts app working on it! I saved the chat transcript as it may be helpful for anyone else wanting to install from Windows XP. This is an ultra dumbed down version. I made sure to ask as many questions as possible, even if I was 99% sure of the answer myself
Some of the files were sent to me over msn like the market enabler etc, but these should be easily found online anyway. Also, the program I use for the commant prompt is called "command prompt here" I think, but you can just type in the address of the folder in DOS if you know how anyway!
You can see the transcript here: http://www.vantasks.ie/xpdesireroot.html
There is a good bit of filler, but it really covers absolutely everything you need to know so once you get to the bottom of the page, your desire should be rooted and ready to go
So I got the contacts sync thing working anyway, I can now sync with my chosen group from Gmail, but I can't believe it, if I have this group selected and I save a new contact, it wont save to that group, but just the "all contacts" group even though that's not selected
Always something! The guy in post 10 here: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f9/add-or-edit-contact-groups-12668/ seems to have got it going, but as you can see in my reply, post 11, it's not saving to the desired group for me!
Hi everyone,
I've just bought this new Desire phone.
I need some explanation about how the contacts are working:
I linked the phone number of my sister with facebook and now, in the contact folder, I see her number twice.. 1 from google account, 1 from facebook? Is there a way to avoid this?
I also tried to excanghe (with bump) our contacts (from Legend to Desire) and now in the contact folder i see this note: "added by bump on 08/05/2010 etc." 3 times!!! And I cant find how to delete these notes.. anywhere!
Tried also to delete the contact, and re-add it but at the time i sync with google, notes comes back again!
This is strange... anyone can help me about that?
Bye bye and tnx in advance.
For your first problem, you can merge the two contacts by selecting the first contact, clicking on the top right link icon, and choosing the second contact.
I don't understand your second problem so cannot help.
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do you know how I can keep Desire contact pictures updated via facebook?
To OP, you can manage your contacts on your computer by going to google.com/contacts - organize them, merge them, etc, and then they'll sync to the phone.
To JuSteR, if you enable Facebook sync, their Sense contact pictures should automatically be updated with their FB profile picture.
Facebook sync is enabled. It updates status, news, messages but contact piuctures
adjei7 said:
For your first problem, you can merge the two contacts by selecting the first contact, clicking on the top right link icon, and choosing the second contact.
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Contacts are merged.. But still shows the same number twice. The copy-number disappears only if I unlink the facebook profile from the contact page
(note: the facebook profile does not have a phone number).
adjei7 said:
I don't understand your second problem so cannot help.
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The Bump(tm) application from market, added to the contact a note (actually 3 notes) but if I try to modify the contact I don't find any note where are them? (see images for a better explanation)
Tnx all for help!
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Facebook sync is enabled. It updates status, news, messages but contact piuctures
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That's a bug. The contact pictures will not be updated automatically. You have to go to setting option, sign out then sign in facebook sense again to make the contact pictures updated.
tnx for the advise!
Forced to use FB picture
I actually has the opposite problem, I managed to sync Facebook contacts with my Google contacts on my Desire.
But now I'm forced to use Facebook contact picture on contacts that linked to their Facebook accounts, even if I select one of the contacts to use it's Google picture, it stays until the next sync, right after that it pops back to its Facebook picture.
Anyone knows how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
To hide contacts from unwanted accouts(google), you go to
People -> press meni button -> View
and select witch accouts will be visible.
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That's a bug. The contact pictures will not be updated automatically. You have to go to setting option, sign out then sign in facebook sense again to make the contact pictures updated.
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I do not have so sign out of my facebook account. My contact pictures (all linked to FB) are updated each time I go online, sometimes, here you may be correct, it takes time and not all are updated.
if you find your FB contact pics are not updating.
> unlink them from Facebook
> back out of contacts
> enter contacts again
> re-link the contact and select Facebook at their picture.
Any ideas regarding forced FB contact pictures issue I noticed above?
Is there any way to change the contact's "location" (SIM, Google, Phone) ?
I would like to get all my "Phone" contacts synchronized with Google, but i can' find any way how to change the setting from "Phone" to "Google".
I can't find any way to sync all the contacts (SIM+Google+Phone) with Google.
Is it a bug or do I missed somthing ?
Have you tried Contacts > Menu > Import/Export?
that doesn't work, I've tried. There are a few threads here asking exactly the same question.
All we'd like is to be able to put all the contact links we have from google, facebook, phone, phone, phone and phone for one contact to go under one contact, hopefully, the google one, to include all the relevant info from all the places like facebook. I don't believe anyone has said how this can be done yet.
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that doesn't work, I've tried. There are a few threads here asking exactly the same question.
All we'd like is to be able to put all the contact links we have from google, facebook, phone, phone, phone and phone for one contact to go under one contact, hopefully, the google one, to include all the relevant info from all the places like facebook. I don't believe anyone has said how this can be done yet.
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That's really not the same thing as what the OP was asking. Mind me asking why you want to change that, tho? It's only a horrifying mess in the edit contact screen, when viewing the contact I only see one entry (Name, phone, email, address, nickname, facebook profile).
Of course, when I hit edit I have
Google contact with phone, email
Google contact with another email
Google contact with phone, email, address, nickname
Facebook contact
It's all very derp.
I don't want to link all the contact accounts for one person (his twitter, phone, gmail accounts) together.
what i want is to move all the "Phone" contacts to "Google" contacts location.
Example: when I click on People->Menu->View, then i have
SIM 0
Google 41
Phone 123
contacts
I want to have 41+123= 164 Google contacts only.
because i want automatically backup contacts on Gmail (e.g. to be able to restore them after ROM flash)
When i click on individual contact, then i see "Phone" on the right upper corner of the contact screen. i want to see "google" there. But it's not editable. Its only linkable ...
When i restored my contacts using mybackup pro they all restored as google contacts as well as phone contacts, so then i just deleted all of my phone cntcts using a contact deleter app from the market.
Google contacts all the way!
The google contacts have the phone and facebook info combined so photo birthday and all that.
thanks for the tips.
unfortunately my myBackup trial has allready expired.
but i have exported all "Phone" contacts to a *.vcf file, then deleted all contacts and finally imported them from *.vcf into "Google" contacts.
hopefully it will not mess up after synchronization with google (which is running in this moment)
I recently kinda done this, I just exported all contacts, and then imported multiple rather than one or all, and when you import it asked you where you wish to save them, Gmail, phone or sim, This is the ONLY way I can see about doing this
It's probably the only way to do this and it worked for me.
problem solved.
Hi all,
I am running a completely stock HTC Desire and I have a really strange annoying problem.
The problem is if I add a new contact, it adds the person, as when I am on "Phone" and tap the numbers to spell their name they appear.
Also if I go into google mail and contacts, I can see the contact.
What I cant see is the contact in the "People" application.
This is really frustrating and I was wondering if anyone had any idea how I can fix this? Just to note, I am adding contacts setting them to my google group exactly the same as I have always done. Im not sure when this started to happen.
Thanks for your time.
When adding the contact via phone, are you ensuring the contact type at the top is a Google one?
When adding the contact via Gmail, are you ensuring the contact is added to teh 'My Contacts' group?
Try this...
Go into your Contacts.
Hit your Menu key and select Display Options.
Select your GMAIL account.
Make sure there are checkmarks in each of the lines, especially "All Other Contacts.
Click Done.
HTH
Hi guys,
I was wondering how you update your contacts with their facebook pictures and such, since for some reason only a few of them seem to be synced and I can't seem to control when to refresh it and such (the names match and such, that can't be the problem).
edit: I found out how to do it by manually joining profiles to contact names. However, the first contact in my list is called "1 eigenaar" ("1 owner") which has my home phone number in case my phone would get lost. Is there a way to link your own facebook profile to one of your contacts? Also, can you link contacts to a facebook account of a person that isn't in your friend list?
Lastly, is there a way to make contacts appear with their nicknames in the name list without having to put the nickname in one of the normal (first/last) name fields?
Thanks
Sure man! just install the facebook app from maket it will ask about the sync. To link numbers just enter the contact then on menu, click on "edit" then choose "sync"
About the nicknames, I can't help :/
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Hey Nietzschean ,
could U tell me how u manually joined the facebook profiles to your contacts ?
I'm also on CM7 but i can't find a way to do this.
Thx
I think mine actually merged themselves, at least the ones with the same name.
First uninstall your facebook apps from your phone
restart the phone
and install again from market.
when you finish the installation just open it and the apps will ask to sync friends from your contact.
Go to your contacts, "Edit" your contacts. Then when you're in the "Edit" mode, hit the "Menu" key on your phone. Then use "Join" and search for the appropriate facebook profile.
I had this same problem with CM7 and MIUI, might of been me, but reading another post I downloaded a app call syncmypix and it worked perfectly!