Manage contacts

I'd like to be able to manage my contacts on my desktop computer rather than fool with the Tbolt screen. I tried using the HTC Sync software, but I can't get it to recognize the phone when I plug it in, and I'm not sure that's the solution anyway. What I want to do is just be able to manage my contacts (save, edit, delete, etc) using my computer and save my work to the phone. Suggestions?

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AZSALUKI

chuckwilmot wrote:
That last post is probably as close to a solution as I'm likely to get. I can set the view to the Google account, and manipulate the contacts in my Gmail from my PC. Still not what I wanted, which was to manipulate the cellphone's list from my PC. Thanks to all the posters.

if you want to manipulate the cell phone's list (not google) then sync it to your "my verizon" account, using backup assistant and you can do the same thing....from the pc, make changes in your contacts through your my verizon account. but this is what i was saying earlier.....choose one or the other to always use. otherwise sometimes you will update google and sometimes you will update the phone's contacts.

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PJNC284

Just sync them with gmail?

chuckwilmot

I like it, but I don't know how to do it. I've opened both Gmail and People, and I don't see any menu choices to do that.

Ann154

Have you tried signing into your gmail account through a computer and gone to contacts section. You can also import contacts in a vcf or csv file format into the gmail contacts.

AZSALUKI

sign into your google account on a pc. they may already be there and you don't even realize it. if they aren't then go to menu-->settings-->accounts and sync-->google-->and make sure the "sync contacts" is checked

chuckwilmot

Viewing the Google Gmail account on a PC, I don't see any place to synch contacts with my phone. I found the menu choice on the phone "accounts and synch" and did that. Still no luck on getting them into the Gmail contacts. I think I'm going to quit in frustration for the day. Maybe it'll come to me later what I'm doing wrong! Thanks for trying.

AZSALUKI

do what pjnc suggested. it sounds like a hassle, but it's really not too bad. something to note though. you can edit your contacts on a pc through your "my verizon" account if you have been using verizon's backup assistant in the past. if this is the case, then your contacts are in your my verizon account. it's really up to you which place you would like to manage your contacts. the only thing is that you can't really use both. i believe that when you add a contact to your phone, you can either add it to your google contacts or phone contacts (which i think is what backup assistant pulls from). adding or editing a number on the device will not add it to bith, unless you manually go into each list of contacts. i mention this because when i got my first android i exported the phone contacts and then imported them to my google account. i assumed i was working with the same list of contacts for quite a while after this. however, i realized at some point that when i was adding contacts on the phone, it was only adding to one of the lists (i think i was adding to google?). so while i sync with google and used backup assistant.....one of my lists is incomplete.

i only mention this because i'm a neat freak and it bothers me to know that i now have 2 sets of contacts that aren't the same, but i haven't had time to go through and find out which newer contacts have been added to google, but not my verizon. it is likely much easier to use one or the other (fyi....i also now have almost all contacts show up twice on my phone......on with dashes "-" between numbers, and one set without.).

Lil_Fiyah

try going to Google contacts. Ive found that alot of my phone contacts wont show up in gmails. go to:

contacts.google.com

It will let you add and change certain info or delete and even restore deleted contacts. It WILL NOT lets you change things in contacrts that HTC added like Facebook or Twitter contacts in connected to your contacts; they can only be changed from your phone. If you just want to change basic info this is the site to use as long as you have you phone syncing the contacts with Google.

Wildman

I havent had any issues editing any contacts on Google.com and as for the data not being synced, I must be lucky because all my contacts are syncing perfectly..

Lil_Fiyah

So did that solution work?