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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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.
Just sync them with gmail?
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.
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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
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.
There won't be any settings to change in the browser based version on your PC. Any contacts in gmail will be synced with the phone assuming Contacts is checked under Accounts & Sync. If you've created the contacts and stored them on the phone itself, you'll need to export to sd and then import them into gmail. Go into People on your phone, hit the menu button and choose Import/Export. Hit Export to SD Card and then Phone and hit OK. Go into Import/Export again and choose Import from SD Card and choose Google. To set it where only gmail contacts will appear, hit the menu buttons, then View, uncheck Phone and make sure Google is checked.
Download HTC sync to your pc and connect your Bolt using the provided USB cable. You will see options to sync people to your PC.
http://www.htc.com/us/support/thunderbolt-verizon/downloads/ Oops forgot the link lol
It just dawned on me that what you were asking for was to edit contacts lol. Sorry, not enough sleep lately. Go into your gmail account on your pc, click on contacts, click on the name and it will give you edit options from there as well as a "notes" field. Hope this helps, sorry for the other posts.
Thanks for all the replies. I did figure out how to get my contacts into Gmail... I copied them to a file on the SD, then connected the phone to computer, and imported the contacts into Gmail. That part worked. I can manipulate the individual contacts in Gmail on my PC and save the changes. However, even after going to accounts and sync on the Tbolt, and making sure Gmail and contacts are checked and syncing everything, the contact on the Tbolt is unchanged and the (newly edited) contact in Gmail remains as I edited it.
What I'm looking for is an easy way to manipulate my cellphone contacts by using my PC, rather than having to carefully use my thumbnail to hit the right letters on the Tbolt screen.
go to "people" then hit menu. select view. then check the box for google only. this should show your google contacts only and should show them as updated since the changes you made. this is where it can be confusing because depending on what you check in here, you can duplicate lists (show your my verizon and google contacts).
update. it doesn't look like it will duplicate the lists in your people app.....but i do still get 2 of a contact showing up when i begin to type a name to call or message.
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.
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.
Verizon backup works OK, but it still won't push all of my changes to the phone and discard info that's on the phone I don't want. I've tried HTC Sync and sync it with my PC's Outlook contacts, and I guess that's about as good as it's going to get for me.
chuckwilmot wrote:Verizon backup works OK, but it still won't push all of my changes to the phone and discard info that's on the phone I don't want. I've tried HTC Sync and sync it with my PC's Outlook contacts, and I guess that's about as good as it's going to get for me.
Here is a simple summary to import to Google....
1. Log into Verizon Backup Assistant
2. Click on Export to CSV
3. Save File as (or Rename to) Contacts (it should already be converted to CSV so including .csv is redundant)
4. Log into Gmail/Google Voice
5. Click on Contacts
6. Click on Import
7. Browse for the Contacts (.csv) file
8. Click Import
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.).
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.
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..
So did that solution work?
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