Am new to android and after spending a few hours on the forums am still at a loss as to the details of syncing contacts. A few particulars:
1) There are 2 Google mail accounts and both have contacts with 12 groups; however only one should be synced, else there would be duplication and error.
2) In the new phone currently have about 1,000 contacts, mostly in two groups called Imported 8/30/11 & My Contacts when there should be about 200. Neither of these 2 groups are needed, wherever they came from.
3) Have recently cleaned up the gmail contacts in the account to be synced.
4) My guess is that it would be best to start over and delete all contacts from the phone -- however, don't know if that risks losing some needed ones. Is there a method to delete the contacts in an entire group, but not the group itself? (Perhaps by opening the group and selecting all if there is such a setting?)
5) I have made a .vcf file in the desktop computer of one of the groups but cannot insert it to that group in the Note. Apparently they are placed into "unassigned" or elsewhere. Can this be done by group with the same name?
6) From the forum I see that it's somehow possible to merge 2 or more contacts -- wish I had known that yesterday as perhaps it could have been cleaned up in the phone, and not Google.
7) The phone has the same 2 mail accounts as Google. Presumably the correct account can be used for downloading the correct contacts from Google, then syncing. If a contact was placed into "phone" instead of one of the accounts can it readily be moved?
Believe that's sufficient to cover the basis in order to reach a working list. With a little luck, one of you can steer me to a site or thread that carries that information without having to rewrite the book!
1) There are 2 Google mail accounts and both have contacts with 12 groups; however only one should be synced, else there would be duplication and error.
2) In the new phone currently have about 1,000 contacts, mostly in two groups called Imported 8/30/11 & My Contacts when there should be about 200. Neither of these 2 groups are needed, wherever they came from.
3) Have recently cleaned up the gmail contacts in the account to be synced.
4) My guess is that it would be best to start over and delete all contacts from the phone -- however, don't know if that risks losing some needed ones. Is there a method to delete the contacts in an entire group, but not the group itself? (Perhaps by opening the group and selecting all if there is such a setting?)
5) I have made a .vcf file in the desktop computer of one of the groups but cannot insert it to that group in the Note. Apparently they are placed into "unassigned" or elsewhere. Can this be done by group with the same name?
6) From the forum I see that it's somehow possible to merge 2 or more contacts -- wish I had known that yesterday as perhaps it could have been cleaned up in the phone, and not Google.
7) The phone has the same 2 mail accounts as Google. Presumably the correct account can be used for downloading the correct contacts from Google, then syncing. If a contact was placed into "phone" instead of one of the accounts can it readily be moved?
Believe that's sufficient to cover the basis in order to reach a working list. With a little luck, one of you can steer me to a site or thread that carries that information without having to rewrite the book!