When you create/ save a contact on the device, you have the choice as to which account to create / save it in, which is perfect.
When you open a vcard that someone has sent you, and you want to save it to say...your Gmail, or Exchange account, you save it and you have no choice as to where it saves to, which is the device; very useless.
Now here's the kicker: Now you want to move that contact to your Gmail or Exchange account, so this is what you have to do
1) In contacts, set your contact application (Samsung) to display ONLY the device contacts
2) Export the device contacts to USB or your SD card
3) Click "Import contact from SD card" and if you had only one device contact, it created a file with that contact's name.
4) Now, when you import, you must change the device to display the contact account you want to import to, then click "Import single contact" and guess what, you find that it has backed up ALL of your contacts from all of your accounts and it will now restore them all to the account you chose, but will duplicate every single contact, even though you specifically chose "Import single contact.
This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Either they have a patent issue they can't get around without paying for, or they have the dumbest coders/ developers in the world.
We should have the option to default the create/ save to a specific account, or a simple way to move one or more contacts to the account of the user's choice, and it's an easy fix to implement. I could even live with the device asking me where to save the vcard to each time I open one that someone has sent to me...wow...
Why isn't there even an app that can do this??
When you open a vcard that someone has sent you, and you want to save it to say...your Gmail, or Exchange account, you save it and you have no choice as to where it saves to, which is the device; very useless.
Now here's the kicker: Now you want to move that contact to your Gmail or Exchange account, so this is what you have to do
1) In contacts, set your contact application (Samsung) to display ONLY the device contacts
2) Export the device contacts to USB or your SD card
3) Click "Import contact from SD card" and if you had only one device contact, it created a file with that contact's name.
4) Now, when you import, you must change the device to display the contact account you want to import to, then click "Import single contact" and guess what, you find that it has backed up ALL of your contacts from all of your accounts and it will now restore them all to the account you chose, but will duplicate every single contact, even though you specifically chose "Import single contact.
This is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Either they have a patent issue they can't get around without paying for, or they have the dumbest coders/ developers in the world.
We should have the option to default the create/ save to a specific account, or a simple way to move one or more contacts to the account of the user's choice, and it's an easy fix to implement. I could even live with the device asking me where to save the vcard to each time I open one that someone has sent to me...wow...
Why isn't there even an app that can do this??
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