Android Phone Contacts

Hi all,

Just got a phone upgrade and I've noticed that I'm missing a few contacts.

On my old Android phone they were saved as "Google" Contacts so why should be stored in my Google Contacts account, but some are missing when I synced the new phone.

Any ideas they this happens? And more to the point - apart from re-creating them, any idea how I can re-sync them. I have tried the re-sync option already.

[joglynne]

hi Lee, I've not had that problem but just found this thread on Android Central that may give you some things to try if no one comes up with anything else.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/goo...y-missing.html

Thanks for that, but I did a bit more Googling and found a way to export them from the "phone" folder into GMail Contacts. Once synced in the Google cloud I was able to re-sync my new device and it pulled them back down.

Unfortunately I do have some duplicates so I'm merging the contact cards using the Google Contacts on the PC and will then re-sync them to the phone.

[joglynne]

Duplicates!!!!! Now those I have had experience of. I have several contacts list and different Google+ circles. Quite a few people appear on at least a couple of lists and Google just imported the whole lot. Took me ages to sort that one out satisfactorily.

Glad you got you problem sorted though Lee. I hate things like this. I know they aren't important in the scheme of things but they are dang annoying.

I always save mine to sim and only display sim contacts

[joglynne]

Come to think of it that was what I did with my Ovivo sim. and I then copied the details to my laptop so a clean list of contacts has been sitting on my laptop all the time I was faffing around. Duh!!!!

Will do that now to save problems when I change I phone next month. Cheers tiz.

Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

I always save mine to sim and only display sim contacts

Ahh but what if / when you upgrade your phone, you get a new SIM? And the SIM can only save basic contact info as far as I know.