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Windows live deleted ALL my msn contacts?

Hi guys,
I followed a guide on here... connected then deleted all the emails off my phone etc..
But now I have no contact on msn / hotmail on my pc or my phone?!?!?!
AWESOME.
Anyway to get them back?
Thanks.

MSN Live contacts disappear.
Hi,
So sorry for this, it's has happened to me, it usually occurs when you connect your phone to PC and Sync, and by default ActiveSync is set to 'Export' so if your Outlook has no contacts, that means it exports an empty Contacts DB to your phone, in other words it deletes all your contacts off your phone, then when you connect to Windows Live and sync your contacts, again, that will further export an empty DB from your phone's contacts to your Hotmail contacts DB, which will further delete your contacts off that and that will result in losing your MSN contacts. I had to manually re-create all my contacts, it's so annoying, in the future always create a CSV file of your contacts as a backup, also the same on your phone, use a little freeware called PPC PIM Backup, to backup your contacts. To conclude you lost your contacts for good and you just need to start inputting manually, but be aware of the above in the future.
Regards,

I used my "ALLOW" list to restore the contacts...
good luck.

Been there, done that

Yep. Happened to me too. Luckily Adium had a backup of all my contacts so it asked if I wanted to add them all when I launched it after Live Messenger messed things up.

[Q] Weird Kink Transferring Old Nokia Contacts to HTC Desire

Okay, so I decide to transfer some contacts from a Nokia 6680 to my Desire, and I did it via Bluetoothing .vcf files from one to the other. Easy enough. Like any good smartphone user, I synced them immediately w/ GMail.
However, after the sync, I opened my Gmail and could not see the newly-synced Nokia contacts. Only the pre-Bluetooth phonebook entries were there. So I did the whole Bluetooth bit again, synced, but the problem remained.
Then I noticed that the phonebook entries that remained were all classified as Google contacts on my Desire (because that's the way I saved them when I inputted them before). These Nokia contacts were saved automatically under "Phone", and so I did not have the option of saving them as Google contacts, and perhaps because of that they couldn't be saved as "syncable" phonebook entries. Neither can the phonebook entries be edited to become Google contacts after saving.
Anyone got any ideas about a remedy to this? I'm about to dispose of the old Nokia, so it'd be good if all my contacts were on GMail, syncable at any time.
Thanks for any help

Go to People press menu then import export, export to sd card and then do the same but import them. When you will import an option with save as google contacs will appear.

When I got my Android phone I exported the Nokia contacts, via outlook, and imported them directly into Gmail on my laptop. It then let me edit and clean up at the same time.
I don't know if this was the most efficient way but it worked for me.

S20+, Android 12 - google contacts wrong sync

Hello, I'm really sad.
Have S20+ with the latest official Android 12. 2 SIM cards (private, work)
All contacts are stored in google contacts only (not in SIM, not in samsung account)
I found I have a lot of duplicates in mobile.
Google Contacts - 480 contacts
Samsung device - 500 contacts. After some minutes have 560 contacts. After 2-3 hours had more than 1600 contacts.
Did wipe cache, delete data of Contacts app, restart device, factory reset. Nothing helped. So I remove all contacts from Google Contacts and add one by one again.
After some minutes I have duplicates in mobile again. Mobile shows me some duplicates again.
If I do some change in some contact via Google Contacts in PC, after some seconds I have duplicate of that in samsung mobile with the same informations (name, surname, mobile number)
Any help please? I already wrote to samsung support but their answer was "great". They replied to me all things I already did.
Thank you.

I changed one contact in Google Contacts because I made a mistake in surname. Now I have the same contact twice in mobile. One contact with wrong surname, one contact with fixed name..
Really starrting to hate Android

Question Phone deleating/not reading my contacts

My aliexpress motorola x30 keeps deleating my contacts on the phone "contacts" app. Keep changing the order in the names. Also keeps deleating the "+" in the whats app saved contacts.
Keeps "forgeting" the contacts (in the app) i imported through .csv file to google contacts or the phone's memory. (I did it both ways many times)
please help.

I'm facing this same issue. I already tried these things:
- Deleated all contacts and imported again;
- Downloaded google contacts apps and imported them to a google account;
- Tried others google account;
Maybe it's a rom problem... I can't figure it out! =/

LêxJok3r said:
I'm facing this same issue. I already tried these things:
- Deleated all contacts and imported again;
- Downloaded google contacts apps and imported them to a google account;
- Tried others google account;
Maybe it's a rom problem... I can't figure it out! =/
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Hi.
My contacts were a mess, so in the .csv format i edit them in microsoft excel, fist. ( the mess was that i export them from many phones so the +52 1 were add and the phone/whatsapp couldnt read them in that format).
So after i edit them, i save them in .csv format from excel and import then in google account linked with the phone... Same tragedy ... (I use google contacts app). So i try to import them to the google contacts app but i couldnt from the phone (google contact app), you only have the option in the gmail app, account manager - people & sharing, contacts - import).
So i open the phone's original contacts app, and then try to import the .csv contacts but it only could read .vcf files. so i imported the contacts to gmail again and exported them in "vcards (ios only)" format which is a .vcf file.
Then i downloaded the new .vcf file and imported them in the phone's original contacts app. Since 8am and until now. No contact have been erease or "forgoten" from the phone. (I imported this file to the "phones" memory and turn off the auto sync with the gmail account).
Hope it works for you too!

I'm experiencing the same issues and I didn't find solution ,
also there is anther problem that some of my contacts their name not show when they call , some of them not all.
Hope some one find how to fix this annoying issues.

S20+ contacts - sync google contacts - big problem

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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RenikSK said:
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.