Messaging contacts...

[DroidRick]

I confess, my contacts are all screwed up.
It happened because an exported contact file (.vcf) got corrupted.

So here is my situation.

The corrupted file refuses to be read by my phone.
I was able to get my desktop Google account to read the contact file.
There are approx. 300 contacts (with about 80 dups).

I got Google on my desktop to remove the dups, so it's down to about 220 or so contacts.

I want those contacts on my Phone to show up as 'Phone contacts'
not 'Google contacts'.

I set up my wifi, set up a Google account on my phone, and synced the contacts from my desktop to my phone.

Now I have the contacts on my phone, but they are Google contacts, not phone contacts.

BUT... the good news is that they are in their correct *groups*. This is very important.

I exported the contacts to SD card and then imported them to my Phone.

Getting so close...
Now I have my contacts JOINED in both my Phone and Google.

I want to at least unjoin them and even better, delete the Google contacts.

My phone is rooted. I removed the Accounts.db file. This removed
the Google contacts... BUT....it left my Phone contacts with dups and also not in groups!

I'm sure there must be a way to accomplish this.
Anyone know how?

 

[chanchan05]

Why bother transforming them to phone contacts anyway? Google contacts gives you automatic backup + ability to manage them on a PC.

 

[DroidRick]

Why bother transforming them to phone contacts anyway? Google contacts gives you automatic backup + ability to manage them on a PC.

That is true.
However I prefer to:
A) Have control myself, of making backups.
B) Not have my info/contacts floating around in ether space.

As all of you know, it would take an awful long time to unjoin 200+ contacts, one by one. Lord knows why they haven't implemented batch unjoining?

And even then, I wouldn't know how to delete the Google contacts without losing my contact groups.

 

[chanchan05]

That is true.
However I prefer to:
A) Have control myself, of making backups.
B) Not have my info/contacts floating around in ether space.

As all of you know, it would take an awful long time to unjoin 200+ contacts, one by one. Lord knows why they haven't implemented batch unjoining?

And even then, I wouldn't know how to delete the Google contacts without losing my contact groups.

You have to manage contacts on the phone itself and manage groups without touching Google if you want that. Some manufacturers provide PC suites for this. That's as close as you can probably get unless you manually restructure your contact groups yourself.

 

[DroidRick]

You have to manage contacts on the phone itself and manage groups without touching Google if you want that. Some manufacturers provide PC suites for this. That's as close as you can probably get unless you manually restructure your contact groups yourself.

I understand that (manage contacts without Google).
However, in this case, because my contact file (.vcf) was corrupt, I had no choice but to try a different route.
That route involved using a Google account on my desktop etc. as per my first post.