Aug 31
I was very frustrated to learn that any contacts I added to my phone were not syncing to either my gmail account or my exchange account (as it had done on my Blackberry). Â This is because they are of type “Phone” and it is currently not possible to change that type once the contact has been saved. Â So this is the procedure I used to “change” the type to Exchange.
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- Export all contacts to your SD card. Â You will have to export each category by individulally (phone, sim, google, and exchange, as well as any other accounts you have)
- When the export has completed, go into your accounts and make sure none of them are set to sync contacts for now.
- Open “People” Â , navigate to view all and hit the menu button.
- Select “View”
- Select the accounts which contain contacts that you wish to change to “Exchange” or “Google” and Hit Done.
- Hit the Menu button again and select Delete.
- In the Delete screen, hit the menu button again and chose to Select All, and hit the delete option.
- Now all your contacts you want to convert are gone, we’ll re-import them under the correct account.
- In “People” hit the menu button again and select “Import/Export”, and “Import from SD Card”
- IMPORTANT: now you will be prompted as to which account to create the contacts under. Â Select the account (Exchange or Google).
- Select one of the files you exported earlier and hit ok. Â Repeat for all the files you exported (and deleted the contacts) from earlier.
- Check to make sure all your contacts were imported correctly, by going through steps 3-5 again and selecting the accounts you wish to see the contacts of.
- Now go back into your accounts and select to sync contacts again.
- Sync and you are done!
I had a bit of trouble getting my Thunderbolt to sync all those contacts after this process.  So I went into applications >manage applications and found the “Contacts Storage” and hit “Clear Data” (Warning, this will wipe your call log as well).  Then it was able to sync just fine.
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