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Copy Contact List from iPhone 4 to 3 w/o iTunes?

MotionMan

MotionMan

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(Weird, I thought I posted this this morning, but I cannot find it anywhere)

I have an iPhone 4. My friend has an iPhone 3 (iOS 4.x, no iCloud). I want to bulk copy most, but not all, of my contacts to his phone. We do not share an AppleID, iTunes or any other kind of accounts.

How can it be done?

MotionMan
 
ChAoTiCpInOy said:
Can you use iCloud to sync it over? Or maybe google contacts?
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No iCloud (iPhone 3 running iOS 4.x)

The problem with Google contacts is that it does not transfer the contact pictures. If that is the last resort, I will do that, but I was hoping for something better.

MotionMan
 
Can't iTunes back up the contacts to a csv and also import? I suppose you'd lose the contact pictures as well though.
 
MotionMan said:
The problem with Google contacts is that it does not transfer the contact pictures. If that is the last resort, I will do that, but I was hoping for something better.
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My contacts on Google have pictures. The only place they could have come from is from Exchange and my iPhone.
 
So I tried out a few things and what worked was exporting the contacts I wanted to a vCard, e-mailing the vCard to the iPhone 3 and importing, pictures and all.

Thanks.

MotionMan
 
mycontactsbackup (free in the app store) will do it for you, but will get every single contact you have! looks you did solve it using a similar method 🙂
 
Offline transfer is indeed the option to go for in your case. I am not sure how you exported the .csv files but I think you could have used iTunes and a Windows Address Book (winXP)/Windows Contacts (Win7) in order to export your iPhone contacts to your PC. If you don't want to pass via iTunes you can go for offline iPhone contact apps such as this one:

http://www.copytrans.net/iphone-contacts.php


I would say there is more ways to transfer your contacts offline than through some server sync.

In any case a transfer of contacts via a Goolge sync, would have not been very flexible on which contacts should be transferred. I believe it would have simply transferred over all of your contacts to your friend's iPhone.

Also, what comes to mind with Gmail/Google sync, is the question whether allowing Google to sync contacts on the new iPhone will continue keeping the contacts on the iPhone if you log out from that account, otherwise your friend will need to constantly be logged in to your Google account.
 
GuyfromIpanema said:
Offline transfer is indeed the option to go for in your case. I am not sure how you exported the .csv files but I think you could have used iTunes and a Windows Address Book (winXP)/Windows Contacts (Win7) in order to export your iPhone contacts to your PC. If you don't want to pass via iTunes you can go for offline iPhone contact apps such as this one:

http://www.copytrans.net/iphone-contacts.php


I would say there is more ways to transfer your contacts offline than through some server sync.

In any case a transfer of contacts via a Goolge sync, would have not been very flexible on which contacts should be transferred. I believe it would have simply transferred over all of your contacts to your friend's iPhone.

Also, what comes to mind with Gmail/Google sync, is the question whether allowing Google to sync contacts on the new iPhone will continue keeping the contacts on the iPhone if you log out from that account, otherwise your friend will need to constantly be logged in to your Google account.
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I exported selected contacts from Mac Address Book to a vCard. I e-mailed the vCard to the iPhone 3 and imported the contacts there.

MotionMan
 
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