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Help Can I change a phone contact to a Google contact?

Maybe I spoke too soon.... approx 200 extra contacts appeared in gmail, but I'm now getting an error on the phone saying "android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. - Force close" everytime I try to sync my phone contacts with my gmail contacts. I guess there's some conflict happening, but there's no clue as to which contact is causing a problem... any ideas?
 
durandetto said:
I currently have a Blackberry Curve and I will soon have a Sprint Hero. So I dled google sync to my BB and synced my contacts to my Gmail account. So will my contacts on my Gmail automatically sync to my Hero once I set it up? If not what should I do to transfer my contacts? I have over 100 contacts most of them have addresses and e-mail and that would take away a lot of play time with my new phone to have to redo.

Ted
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I might be too late to answer this but I will anyway. I had a touch pro and set up the google sync with it (WinMo) and yes all mt contacts loaded almost instantly when I plugged in my google account info. So I'd say you're goog to go.

Rich
 
OK I've got my phone straight now... the only way I could do this was as follows....

1. Export all contacts in the phone to the SD card using ExportContacts.
2. Switch off auto updates on the phone.
3. Transfer the phone CSV file to the PC then import the contacts into googlemail.
4. Use googlemail de-duplication features to tidy up the list.
5. Export the tidy list of googlemail contacts to a CSV file.
6. Switch on auto updates on the phone, then delete all contacts from the phone.
(this took ages as I kept "exceeding the maximum number of deletes") The auto update also deleted all the contacts in googlemail.
7. Once both the phone and googlemail were devoid of contacts...
8. Import the tidy CSV file back into googlemail.
9. Auto update then drags all the contacts down to the phone.
10. Enjoy hassle-free contact synchronisation!

Thanks very much to everyone for their contributions to this thread! :D
 
jimeller said:
alas there is an app (uk anyway) that converts phone contacts to google contacts. ive used it and it worked perfectly. struggling to remember the name though as i uninstalled once the job was done.

i will have a root around and try and find it.


EDIT: its called contactsync. there is a warning for hero users about it causing instability, but i had no problems at all. just do a nandroid beforehand to be safe.
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Has anyone else tried this process? Seems that if it worked well we wouldn't see so many still posting about this issue.
 
cij1916 said:
I use Gmail sync because in the past year, I have lost 2 phones...without backups of my #s, I'm SOL because I remember NOBODY'S #. With gmail syncing, I don't have to do anything, within seconds it's in my gmail account.
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I use Gsyncit..is that what you are referring to?

This syncs all of my outlook contacts to google...works great!
 
My question is that I have had my gmail account since they werent free to everyone. I have around 400 email contacts that I would like to keep. I have my gmail contacts set up in 2 different contact folders; email contacts and phone contacts. Is there any way to just display the phone contacts when the hero is using gmail contacts only? Or am I stuck with seeing 400 email addresses in my contacts screen...
 
why when I sync the hero with my google account contacts, the contacts "calendar" info does not show up i.e, birthdays, anniversaries, etc that are set per person?
 
There is a free application called "Merge Contact" that allows you to copy your phone number from a Phone contact to a Google contact on HTC Hero and maybe other phones running 1.5 or 1.6. You can download it from the Market or see details about it here : www.eigo.co.uk

It only copies one contact at a time but better than nothing...
 
cajunman4life said:
The only option I have in the dropdown is "Phone." Something must be wrong...
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I have the same problem, cannot create google contacts on the phone, simply no option, only phone is available. All contacts transferred over from old phone by Sprint store are google... Also can't choose which groups to sync (other threads have stated going thru: People --> Groups --> Menu will bring up 3 options, but I only get edit or delete, no sync.)
Anyone know why this is or any fixes?
Can do the workarounds, but seems really stupid to have to convert EVERY entry or go to my PC and use Gmail to add contacts to my phone...
 
Glad to know that I'm not the only one struggling with this issue... I've just been saving to phone contacts and been backing up my contacts list to make sure i don't lose anything... a majority of my contacts are on GMail but since I've purchased the phone, obviously, i haven't been able to sync up the new added contacts to Gmail unless I go back and input them in to GMail by hand on my Mac.

I'll give some of these options a try and report back.
 
Use "export contacts" from the market. It should export all of your contacts to an excel file, which you can then import into gmail, and they will then sync back to your phone. It worked great for me!
 
Chief YYZ said:
I have the same problem, cannot create google contacts on the phone, simply no option, only phone is available. All contacts transferred over from old phone by Sprint store are google... Also can't choose which groups to sync (other threads have stated going thru: People --> Groups --> Menu will bring up 3 options, but I only get edit or delete, no sync.)
Anyone know why this is or any fixes?
Can do the workarounds, but seems really stupid to have to convert EVERY entry or go to my PC and use Gmail to add contacts to my phone...
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OK, as advertised a factory reset will fix it (both the Google/Phone option and the sync groups option.) Not rooted, so a bit of a pain to redownload apps, reconfigure phone and such, oh well. Found a post on sprint forums that said clearing data from gmail and google apps will allow you to resign in to google and fix the problem. Doesn't work, you lose your link with Google and cannot go to the market or use maps and all your google contacts are unavailable. Trying to resign in will not work (unless rooted, then you can delete a data file or so I'm told), phone will not connect to Google servers, you have to factory reset to sign back in to Google at phone setup.
 
Someone who's rooted let us know if this works

read response #3 at

Hero by HTC:How to change or delete gmail account?

You will not be able to reconnect to Google after doing this, you will get error message "Can't establish a reliable data connection to the server" when entering sign in information, BUT

This claims if you are rooted you can fix it

Issue 3477 - android - HTC Hero - can't sign Gmail account if user skips signing when initially using the phone. - Project Hosting on Google Code

Post #16 has the answer, post #32 confirms it.

Again, not rooted, no Idea if this really works, try at your own risk.
 
I have a Samsung Intercept - when I bought it, the Sprint store copied all my phone contacts to the new phone, none of which were backing up to my gmail contacts. After three hours on the phone with Sprint, someone finally realized the difference between Phone and Contacts (and only Contacts will backup to gmail, but not Phone). But I cannot find the Merge Contacts app that people are talking about. I did download Merge Contact, but it still is not converting my Phone contacts to Google Contacts.
 
HBZookeeper said:
I have a Samsung Intercept - when I bought it, the Sprint store copied all my phone contacts to the new phone, none of which were backing up to my gmail contacts. After three hours on the phone with Sprint, someone finally realized the difference between Phone and Contacts (and only Contacts will backup to gmail, but not Phone). But I cannot find the Merge Contacts app that people are talking about. I did download Merge Contact, but it still is not converting my Phone contacts to Google Contacts.
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Welcome to the forums! Although you have posted in the Sprint HTC Hero forum, I think the steps outlind in the post referenced above should work for you as well. I was able to convert MOST of the "phone" contacts on my wife's new Hero to "google" by exporting them to the SD card, then importing them by using the Google acct as the option.

For further help with your Intercept, may I suggest the Intercept forum?
 
Bob Loblaw said:
Is there any way to convert my a phone contact to a Google contact? When I got the phone I just put in people a phone not knowing that if they are Google contacts, they are automatically backed up in my gmail. Now I want to reset the phone but I don't want to have to redo all my contacts. If they are Google they will be automatically put back on when I sign into gmail after the phone resets, correct?
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Use free app "ContactSync" ContactSync download for Android - Softpedia
It worked perfectly on my HTC Magic (Andoid 1.5).
 
I just sent the vcf file to my google mail account and when I received it it presented me the option to add it to my google contacts. Click->done, now you have the contact googleized. You should then merge the two contacts (phone-google) into a unique one.
 
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