by Frank McPherson, author of How To Do Everything With Windows Mobile

 
To prepare for when I would get my G1, I cleaned up my Google contacts by deleting all the entries and then importing my Outlook/Exchange contacts into Google contacts. The export/import process is not as straight forward as it should be. You export the Outlook contacts to a *.CSV file, which is very straight forward, but I had problems with the import into Google.

The problem is that addresses did not appear in Google contacts even though they were right where they should be in the CSV file. After a search I found out the problem seems to be with the version of Gmail I was using, which is the newest version. I switched back to the older version and re-imported (after deleting all the contacts first) and then the addresses appeared as they should. I was then able to switch back to the newer version of Gmail and the addresses still appear.

Today was the true test for how the contacts sync would work and it has one problem. Several of my contacts are businesses for which I don't enter a first and last name but rather a company name. The company name appears as you expect in the web version of Google/Gmail contacts, but the company names do not appear in Adroid's contacts list, instead I just see the phone numbers for those companies at the top of the list. I think to fix this I will have to edit every one of the company contacts that I have to put the company name in the last name field.

Labels: 2008, android

posted by Frank at 8:26 PM

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