On 31/10/11 12:29, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 31/10/11 12:16, Tim Green wrote:
For contacts I sync with my Google account and use a webbrowser to export all the data on a regular basis. Would that help?
Likewise. I set up my phone so all the contacts are stored on/shown from Google. That way, I can add/edit on any PC, or on my phone, and the changes are synched between them. You can import or export the contacts via the google contacts web page, you can back up your google contacts to your phone or sim if you want to.
OK, so I'm obviously being a bit dim here, but I can't quite work this out.
Looking at my contacts in Google I find lots of them there (but not all of them). I exported to CSV, changed 0nnn to +44nnn and imported, now I have duplicates of everyone (which I can merge but end up with each now having both the 0nnn and +44nnn numbers assigned to them).
However, now that I've tidied that up as best I can within Google, I can't see how to sync them back to the phone....
Also, there are apps to archive text messages, but I've never used on so can't recommend one. I find the website for the android marketplace useful.
Thanks, I didn't think to look in marketplace as I was expecting to install something on the Linux desktop end rather than the phone end, so that's given me something to go researching.
Thanks for the help.