Contacts on Galaxy S3

Slattsy

There's probably an easy fix for this yet i cant see it!

Anyway, three quarters of my phone contacts are saved to sim while the rest are saved under 'google contact'.
Im assuming its best to have all the contacts backed up to my google account, however i cant find a way to transfer the sim contacts over

Anyone?

TIA

sentient_6

Go to contacts to display and select sim to see only them. Then you want to import them to the phone memory. From there if you select merge with google it should import all the contacts you've just imported to the phone.

If you go to your gmail on your laptop/computer and select contacts from the dropdown in the top left they should be all there. This was best thing about doing this myself i reckon, from your laptop you can clean everything up, merge phone numbers with emails, delete duplicates etc. Any changes will almost instantly be reflected in the phone.

Once your happy everything is in google btw you can delete everything from the sim and phone memory.

Should you get a new phone down the line logging on to google will bring everything back.

Slattsy

Cheers mate, appreciate that. All contacts now on google.

However, one small issue. Every name/number i had on sim has now been duplicated in my gmail contacts?

sentient_6

Slattsy wrote: »

Cheers mate, appreciate that. All contacts now on google.

However, one small issue. Every name/number i had on sim has now been duplicated in my gmail contacts?

You mean actually only on gmail contacts or is the phone set to display all contacts thus your seeing both? There's a option in gmail to delete all the duplicates: under 'more' find and merge duplicates.

Slattsy

Phone is only displaying google contacts, so thats fine.
But in gmail contacts they are all duplicated, weirdly.

sentient_6

Ya sounds weird but should be easily tidied up.

Slattsy

Merged the dups, no hassle. Thanks.