Note 8-Contact Management Question?Info?

[123spongebob123]

Been playing with Note 8 and saw an option I think it was in contacts where you can transfer all contacts to either Google or Samsung contacts.
Over the years changing phones-using Samsung- Google- CamCard in said I had 2068 contacts that could be put in either.
My contacts set uo to custom and have tons of addresses separate and repeats of phone numbers and addresses.
Looking for the best way to get them all in one with NO duplicates.
Is either Google or Samsung transfer the best way?
Advice and or suggestions would be appreciated. Any YouTube or Thread would be great!
Appreciated, thanks!!!

 

[edubb256]

There is no best way. It depends on how you use your contacts and to what other devices you want the contacts to be available. Since I use Outlook with Office365 for work, I have all my contacts (and calendar appointments and tasks) synced there. If you are primarily using gmail, then syncing with Google is probably best.

 

[123spongebob123]

There is no best way. It depends on how you use your contacts and to what other devices you want the contacts to be available. Since I use Outlook with Office365 for work, I have all my contacts (and calendar appointments and tasks) synced there. If you are primarily using gmail, then syncing with Google is probably best.

Appreciate the reply and answer. Question there was no option for transfer all to outlook. I have 5 different sources for contacts. How can I transfer all to outlook. Never was able to figure that out. Thanks

 

[edubb256]

Appreciate the reply and answer. Question there was no option for transfer all to outlook. I have 5 different sources for contacts. How can I transfer all to outlook. Never was able to figure that out. Thanks

I've never transferred to Outlook. I've always either enter them initially with my Office365 account as source, or entered into Outlook directly and then they would sync automatically back to the phone.

To answer your question: The way I would do this is to export the contact to vCard files. Then put the exported files on your computer and import them into Outlook. Again, I've never done that, so don't know how smooth it works.

 

[mmcpher]

Contacts are a critical component for most users, so its surprising to see the way Android allows them to be tossed back and forth across the general scrum between "pure Android" (presumably Google Contacts) and Samsung Bloat Contacts. To say nothing of the need to sycn and intergrate with Outook/365. Depending on where and when you are attempting to access your contacts, you get one of those serielly persistent pop-ups that predicate access on your making that way the default. Since the icons predictably look alike, its hard to tell which app you are designating as default. And then sometimes, just to keep you on your toes, the contact list will be empty. I think (but can't be sure) this happens when a non-default contacts app updates and doesn't sync and then later is inadvertently selected as the new default. Contacts are crying out for order. I particulalry do not like making my private contact list subject to the usual, fractured Android scrabbling over device defaults.

 

[djlee0314]

Been playing with Note 8 and saw an option I think it was in contacts where you can transfer all contacts to either Google or Samsung contacts.
Over the years changing phones-using Samsung- Google- CamCard in said I had 2068 contacts that could be put in either.
My contacts set uo to custom and have tons of addresses separate and repeats of phone numbers and addresses.
Looking for the best way to get them all in one with NO duplicates.
Is either Google or Samsung transfer the best way?
Advice and or suggestions would be appreciated. Any YouTube or Thread would be great!
Appreciated, thanks!!!

So not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but I get OCD when it comes to contacts and want them in all same format, no duplicates, all backed up, etc. My suggestion would be to only use one cloud service to manage your contacts. In my case, it's Google as it's very easy management. So upload all of your contacts into Google or into your phone and sync to Google. Then on a desktop go to contacts.google.com and you'll see all of your uploaded contacts.

From there, you have an option in left menu for "duplicates" where you can merge them all together, edit if needed, etc. A major benefit of using Google, at least for me, is that if I add a contact either with my phone (make sure to choose save contact to Google account vs. to phone) or via contacts.google.com it auto syncs.

I personally find if I really need to manage my contacts doing it through desktop is much easier. Anyways, hope that made sense and helped a bit. I also use Samsung Cloud to backup my contacts (as a fail safe) but don't use Samsung to manage them.

 

[edubb256]

Contacts are a critical component for most users, so its surprising to see the way Android allows them to be tossed back and forth across the general scrum between "pure Android" (presumably Google Contacts) and Samsung Bloat Contacts. To say nothing of the need to sycn and intergrate with Outook/365. Depending on where and when you are attempting to access your contacts, you get one of those serielly persistent pop-ups that predicate access on your making that way the default.

That is how all modern contact managers I know of, work. I seems like a good approach to me because many people may have contacts from difference sources they want to keep separate (e.g., work vs personal). This way is flexible and doesn't seem at all complicated to me.