Importing Phone book from SIM to Samsung S3

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vshah

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if you go to settings>accounts>google>your gmail account, is "contacts" checked, and what does it say for "last synced" ?
 

Perryg114

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Ok I figured out how to import the individual v card files. You put them in a directory on the SD card or in the phone memory. Then you go to contacts setting Import/Export and tell it to import all v card files and it sucks them into the contact list. You can use the Kies software which is a pain to install or put the external SD card in a reader and store the files on it that way. Put the card in the phone and import.

Perry
 

Perryg114

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I never managed to get it to sync with Google. I don't know what is up with that. Are you sure it will show up as email contacts. I now have two different google accounts and it does not write to any of them. It says it has synced but it never shows up.

Perry
 

cytoSiN

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If you have all the individual vcards as VCFs and you load then into Outlook, you can use this little tool to sync that with Google. Works like a charm.