On 31/10/11 13:30, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
I suspect you have some contacts on Google, some on the Phone & some on the SIM.
Well to be more accurate, I *used* to have some on the SIM until I lost it, but yes ISWYM.
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.)
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.
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.
Aside: For a general backup app I found https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mobileaction.AmAgent .. which looked promising but it has a Windows component which from my brief attempts so far doesn't install under Wine :-(