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[Q] Overwrite google contacts with phone contacts - how?

I have a little problem. I just found out my contacts are corrupted after I tested a contact management application. Unfortunately, I only found out after some days, and after the contacts had been synchronized back to google.
The good news - I have a couple of nandroids and some titanium backups made before the contacts got corrupted. I can get back to the correct version.
The bad news - as soon as the phone syncs with google, the contacts get overwritten with the corrupted ones. I even tried clearing google contacts, and syncing, and all that got me was a empty contacts list both in google and the phone.
What I need - a way to force overwriting google contacts with the restored backup. I know I probably could go opening and updating each contact one by one (adding a space on the name or something like it) and that could work, tricking the synchronization engine to prefer the phone contacts to the google version, but I have over 600 contacts, with 150 with phone numbers; I'd rather not do that by hand.
Any suggestion?
Thanks!

Try this, Get all your contacts back from the Nandroid. Don't connect the nexus to your Google account just yet, goto the contacts in N1 & click on menu button choose to export to .vcf after that copy the .vcf file to your computer. Log into your Gmail account on the computer and delete all the Gmail contacts, then choose to import .vcf file from your computer to your Gmail account, once you've managed to get the contacts imported to Gmail setup your N1 to Sync to the Gmail account. That should do it. Cheers.

Thanks, but I had already tried that - and ended doing exactly that. The problem with that solution is that you lose all your groups, favourites, and starred contacts. Now I'm backing up contacts in gmail a group at a time, so I won't have this problem again.

jbbandos said:
Thanks, but I had already tried that - and ended doing exactly that. The problem with that solution is that you lose all your groups, favourites, and starred contacts. Now I'm backing up contacts in gmail a group at a time, so I won't have this problem again.
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Bit of a pita I know but as far as I can see there's really no other way if you use Groups.

Sean_Dillon said:
Try this, Get all your contacts back from the Nandroid. Don't connect the nexus to your Google account just yet, goto the contacts in N1 & click on menu button choose to export to .vcf after that copy the .vcf file to your computer. Log into your Gmail account on the computer and delete all the Gmail contacts, then choose to import .vcf file from your computer to your Gmail account, once you've managed to get the contacts imported to Gmail setup your N1 to Sync to the Gmail account. That should do it. Cheers.
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Actually, I'd try deleting all contacts off the phone once it's synched with Google (then sync again, obviously), THEN restoring the .vcf

while syncing my phone contacts with my google account, i want to keep changes made in my phone directory and over write these changes in my google account. currently it is other way round. my old contact details keep on copying in my phone when ever i sync. specially if any one has changed his address, i make this change in my phone and i want it to happen to my contacts google accounts also when i sync. but it is not happening. seek your help

[Q] QHow to move LP PC suit contacts to gmail contacts

As the subject indicates...
I have'nt noticed that i only had activated "showing LG PC suit contacts"
But i dont wanna use this, i wanna use the standard google one... but i see that all contacts stored after using this phone has not been synced to my gmail account..
Could anyone help me out?

I think this was raised in a random thread before.
The LG contacts only sync with the LG PC suite on your PC.
I don't think that once you have saved a contact as an LG contact you can change sadly. Only way is to select googlemail contact when setting up a new one and then copy / delete etc.
Pain in the backside

There might be a way though I haven't tried it out. You can Export all your LG PC Suite contacts using the Menu>Import/Export option in contacts
Then on your computer log in to your gmail and use the Import Contacts option in gmail to get the contacts from your SD card on to the gmail account
Delete all the LG contacts
Sync with the google account
Let us know if it works for you

mparack said:
There might be a way though I haven't tried it out. You can Export all your LG PC Suite contacts using the Menu>Import/Export option in contacts
Then on your computer log in to your gmail and use the Import Contacts option in gmail to get the contacts from your SD card on to the gmail account
Delete all the LG contacts
Sync with the google account
Let us know if it works for you
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Yes this is the right way. Bear in mind though that if you do that you no longer have the ability to sync with PC Sync. Pc Sync will show you that you do not have any contacts in your phone.

Thx guys... i'm not even sure why we need PC sync anymore...

Is it possible to have Google Contacts app working on this device.

The phone is great, but the only thing stopping me to use it as main phone (over my Nexus 5) is that I can 't install Google Contacts so I can have all my contacts synced and edit them from Gmail on the computer.
Any idea or solution?
Thanks
Alex

AlexFonewn said:
The phone is great, but the only thing stopping me to use it as main phone (over my Nexus 5) is that I can 't install Google Contacts so I can have all my contacts synced and edit them from Gmail on the computer.
Any idea or solution?
Thanks
Alex
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I haven't installed google contacts yet but the built in contact app will sync to your google contacts. In fact, if you add a new contact it gives you the option to only add the contact to your phone and not sync it or sync to your google account.

Google Contacts Sync

Anyone else having trouble syncing contacts through google? I am on MIUI 9.6 China ROM, and I have installed the Google Contacts app and Google Contacts Sync from APKMirror (August 7th Version). Currently, when I try to restore contacts, it says that "No contacts are backed up to this account." However, when I go to Google.contacts.com, I can see all my contacts. Is the restore within the Google Contacts app searching a different location for the contacts? Thank you.

delete the gapps you installed manually and try the GoogleInstaller_V3.apk, for me contact sync and everything google related is working fine.

gagp2p said:
delete the gapps you installed manually and try the GoogleInstaller_V3.apk, for me contact sync and everything google related is working fine.
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Is that the one that comes from the Mi Store when you search "Google"? I tried that one, but it didn't have contact sync.

https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=818070582850489460
i used this and it included google contacts sync app (and its working fine)
install everything (except playstore), playstore just download, decline install - reboot - install missing playstore.

Are you already install Google contacts too from play store? If not try to install it then turn on the sync

Had this problem as well, but fixed it. Make sure to set permissions for both the Google Contacts app as well as the Google Contacts Sync app.

This is the step to sync contacts from Google account to phone.
1.Open your device's Settings app .
2.Tap Cloud and Accounts.
3.Tap Accounts.
4.Select Google (If you have more than one account on your device, tap the one you want.
5.See if the option to sync contacts is enabled.

key here is to go to the App settings, and make sure all the permissions for Google Contacts Sync are checked, also change Battery to No Restrictions

What finally worked for me was to follow the instructions to download Googleinstallerv03.apk mentioned above... but when going into Account -> Google Account there was no "Contacts" setting...
BUT I went into Xiaomi's Contacts app and in there I chose to sync contacts from a mail account. Gmail was one of the options. I had to sign in again and now I have The Google account and a IMAP/POP3 account pointing to the same mail but it was able to sync all the contacts AND in Settings -> Account -> Google Account now it says "Contacts" and it syncs correctly..
So that worked for me on a Xiaomi Mi CC9 bought in China with the Chinese stable ROM

I couldn't get this working on my Redmi K20 Pro...
I used the Contacts app's bluetooth import feature instead.

I faced to that before, I think you need to make sure you installed a right google service. I found some time the google installer install a wrong google service, you may try to fix the problem by re-install the google service. hope it help!

You can also restore contacts from device directly.
Step 1: Enter the "Settings" on the device.
Step 2. Choose "Accounts & Sync" under the "Settings" section and elect the "Add account" option.
Step 3. Tap "Google" from the list and then follow the prompts to proceed to the next step.

Question Google contacts not syncing

Hi Guys,
i got my x60pro+ yesterday, updated it to the latest PD2056_A_1.13.7, and i cant have my contact synced to the device.
in my google account sync settings, i dont have an option to sync contacts.
nor the google contacts app shows any contact.
i checked through the system apps, and i couldn't find "goole contacts sync" app (
)
what am i missing?

ok, happed to be a "simple" fix -
from apkmiror, download the app"google-contacts-sync"
Google Contacts Sync 11-6684105 APK Download by Google LLC - APKMirror
Google Contacts Sync 11-6684105 APK Download by Google LLC - APKMirror Free and safe Android APK downloads
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the trick is to install from the imanager the app, restarted and then it appeared and synced.

Are u also having an issue with contacts that are not syncing from Google contacts app on cell to web... But it is syncing from web to cell app... Any thoughts?