After reading this AndroidCentral posting about "somebody help me understand contacts," which I was in fact having questions about, I decided to tackle contacts in earnest.
My phone imported all my contacts from my GMail (I have had this GMail since 2006), including all the "automatically added" contacts--that is, "contacts" created from just about anybody I've ever emailed (including all the "sale8343xxx@craigslist.og" emails). It appears it added just about all of that to my "contacts" on my phone.
I deleted all of my contacts from my phone (no important ones there yet, they're still on my old Blackberry on the phone ITSELF or in GMail or Facebook etc) to remove all of the clutter & start over doing it right. I have been cleaning up the "other" contacts in GMail (the ones it automatically adds with seemingly every person you've emailed), mostly deleting them or moving actual ones into the "actual" contacts you've "created" in GMail. From there, what I intend to do is manually enter in ones off my Blackberry (I only have about 30 or so total) into GMail on my PC and then just sync from PC to phone.
I started this question out asking how I would wipe out all of my phone contacts (none are on the SIM) without wiping all of the phone data--but I then easily saw how to do it myself. That leaves the questions of how the phone "syncs."
How often does the phone "re-sync"--to wit, check my GMail for new contacts & import them? Also, is the sync "two-way"--that is, if I remove a contact from the phone, does it remove it from GMail, and vice-versa? Or, if I remove it from my GMail in the PC, does my phone remove it?
Lastly--I am sorry if this is too "loaded" of a question--if someone "un-friends" me in Facebook, does it remove them from my phone contacts? (NOT from my Facebook friends in the app, I figure that, obviously.) Or, if their contact on my phone has their phone number but they remove the phone number from their Facebook account, does my phone update to this & "remote delete" their number from my phone? (Again, I'm talking about the "contacts," not the friends list in the Facebook app etc.)
And--ANOTHER question I know--sometimes when I dial a number and hang up or I receive a call it gives a "add to contacts" button as an option--but after pressing it, it doesn't seem to add anything. The only way I see to add it is to copy the number into the clipboard, exit to home, add a contact the "hard" way, and then paste the number.
LRH
My phone imported all my contacts from my GMail (I have had this GMail since 2006), including all the "automatically added" contacts--that is, "contacts" created from just about anybody I've ever emailed (including all the "sale8343xxx@craigslist.og" emails). It appears it added just about all of that to my "contacts" on my phone.
I deleted all of my contacts from my phone (no important ones there yet, they're still on my old Blackberry on the phone ITSELF or in GMail or Facebook etc) to remove all of the clutter & start over doing it right. I have been cleaning up the "other" contacts in GMail (the ones it automatically adds with seemingly every person you've emailed), mostly deleting them or moving actual ones into the "actual" contacts you've "created" in GMail. From there, what I intend to do is manually enter in ones off my Blackberry (I only have about 30 or so total) into GMail on my PC and then just sync from PC to phone.
I started this question out asking how I would wipe out all of my phone contacts (none are on the SIM) without wiping all of the phone data--but I then easily saw how to do it myself. That leaves the questions of how the phone "syncs."
How often does the phone "re-sync"--to wit, check my GMail for new contacts & import them? Also, is the sync "two-way"--that is, if I remove a contact from the phone, does it remove it from GMail, and vice-versa? Or, if I remove it from my GMail in the PC, does my phone remove it?
Lastly--I am sorry if this is too "loaded" of a question--if someone "un-friends" me in Facebook, does it remove them from my phone contacts? (NOT from my Facebook friends in the app, I figure that, obviously.) Or, if their contact on my phone has their phone number but they remove the phone number from their Facebook account, does my phone update to this & "remote delete" their number from my phone? (Again, I'm talking about the "contacts," not the friends list in the Facebook app etc.)
And--ANOTHER question I know--sometimes when I dial a number and hang up or I receive a call it gives a "add to contacts" button as an option--but after pressing it, it doesn't seem to add anything. The only way I see to add it is to copy the number into the clipboard, exit to home, add a contact the "hard" way, and then paste the number.
LRH
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