On 31/10/11 14:04, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 31/10/11 13:30, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Suggest you go to contacts on the phone. Show all contacts. On my phone, that says "All" at the top. Then, press the menu key. You should then see a View menu. I have mine set to show contacts on phone, sim and google (and facebook). It shows how many contacts on each source too.
Right, well my Desire HD doesn't have a "Contacts" app, it has a "People" app and it doesn't seem to be that flexible. I guess that's a "feature" of HTC's Sense. Is "Contacts" standard Android? (When I get a new phone I'll probably put unbranded firmware on it, but at the moment I'm using a borrowed phone so I'm not "tweaking" it too much.)
Sorry, I'm using HTC too. App title is People as you say, I just get to it from a widget called "Contacts".
I did find an option to import from SIM (but it's best to do that before losing the SIM :-), but nothing that seems to involve sync with Google.
Sync with google will happen if Home screen/Menu/Settings/Accounts and Sync/ has Auto-Sync ticked (or if you do a manual sync), AND if you scroll down, find google, click on it, Sync Contacts is enabled.
On the plus side I do have most of my contacts backed up in O2's "Bluebook" (only "most" because I didn't sync my old phone very often), so I just need a way to transfer them, and looking at it it's going to be a manual effort because the export from O2 seems to strip too much out for it to be useful. But at least they're there.
Good luck, can't help with that, don't use O2 Steve