Need Droid 2 Help: is it better to use Gmail contact back-up or Verizon back-up assistant?

missy2
Newbie

I stopped the sync with my gmail contacts & used Verizon back-up assistant only.  I'm still not sure why my changes online on the Verizon back-up assistant site or on my Droid 2 phone were not matching after syncing the two.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Should I use Gmail back-up assistance only for my contacts?  If yes, how do I stop the Verizon back-up assistant?

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pool_shark
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Export your contacts to a vcf file onto the sd card, from there you can import your contacts from that file into google contacts.

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pool_shark
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I don't sync my contacts I just back them up to my sd card.

 

I found this elsewhere a long time ago and it worked for me.

 

To disable backup assistant:

Step one is optional.

 

1) Be sure to have all your contacts backed up to your Gmail account. Check online before proceeding to step 2.

2) Log into your My Verizon account. Go to the contacts tab, sort by list view and select all contacts. Delete the entire list. There's a deleted contacts tab as well. Select that and delete anything that's in there.

3) Go into your droid settings tab, select applications, manage applications. Do not sort or filter, allow list to populate. Select Sync Service, (icon resembles backup assistant icon) select clear data.

4) Also in manage applications scroll down to backup assistant, select clear data. This should do it.

5) To verify backup assistant is now disabled, select settings, accounts and sync, then under manage accounts, select backup assistant. You should be looking at a license agreement screen.

No more backup assistant, no factory reset.

Piperson
Newbie

Step 1 is the problem.  How do you backup ALL you contacts on Google?  For some reason I only have about 10 of close to 100 on my Droid 2 backed up in Google contacts.

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pool_shark
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Export your contacts to a vcf file onto the sd card, from there you can import your contacts from that file into google contacts.

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missy2
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Thanks again !

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