Help for a newbie

[tjcs]

Hi everybody. This is my first Samsung phone, and I have to say I am impressed. This is better than my experience with iPhone. Just one question. Most of my contacts are in outlook. How can I set up automatic syncing so I can see whose calling?

 

[mustang7757]

HI, which Samsung phone?
If you go to the contact app then settings inside it will show option for outlook sync.

Hi everybody. This is my first Samsung phone, and I have to say I am impressed. This is better than my experience with iPhone. Just one question. Most of my contacts are in outlook. How can I set up automatic syncing so I can see whose calling?

 

[tjcs]

Note 9. So I go into the contacts app, click on manage contacts then sync contacts. I add the outlook account, then go back to the accounts list, but it doesn't appear. I assumed something went wrong, so I tried to add it again, then I get this.

 

[mustang7757]

Note 9. So I go into the contacts app, click on manage contacts then sync contacts. I add the outlook account, then go back to the accounts list, but it doesn't appear. I assumed something went wrong, so I tried to add it again, then I get this.

Maybe try go I to settings>Accounts>Microsoft exchange>sync>make sure contacts is checked.

 

[tjcs]

It's outlook.com, not an exchangeaccount, but I tried it anyway. It had me give permissions, and I got notification email from Microsoft about a new having access to my account, but the outlook account still doesn't appear in the list, and the contacts aren't syncing.

 

[methodman89]

Did you use Smartswitch? Are you set to always save Contacts to the phone, cloud or?

 

[tjcs]

I want to set my outlook contacts to sync with my phone on an ongoing basis, not just copy therm over. I don't understand why this is so difficult to figure out. should be easy.

 

[tjcs]

I always want my contacts to appear in outlook. I enter then on the web, on the outlook desktop client, and on my phone, but since I switched to the note 9, I can't figure out how to get the phone to sync.

 

[Rukbat]

Outlook.com doesn't have any phone contacts, it has email contacts. The phone probably can't read its address book for anything more than email addresses, so Contacts doesn't get filled in. Can you export those contacts from your iPhone to some file that Google Contacts can read (a csv file, a vCard file)? If so, go to Google Contacts and import the file (left column > More > Import).