If you keep a spreadsheet file with all your contacts you can easily import them to your phone. This is done by uploading the CSV file to your gmail account where you import it.
First step: Save a CSV file
Follow the Gmail Help page, which describes what your columns are supposed to be called and so on. Save the file to a CSV file.
Second step: Importing the CSV file to Gmail
- Sign in to Gmail
- Click Contacts (located below your list of views) on any Gmail page.
- Click Import in the top portion of the Contact Manager.
- Click the Browse… or Choose File button and locate the CSV file you’d like to upload.
- Select the file and click the Import button.
If some of the fields in the CSV file are left out Gmail will tell you why. Also a smart thing is to make a Category for your contacts, this way you can delete them all again if you made a big mistake.
Many thanks to Google Android Bruger Blog!
Hi,
I am looking for a sensible AND secure solution to import my contacts from my old phone to my new htc.
Call me old fashioned…. and maybe I am paranoid about my privacy and security but I can’t believe that millions of people are simply uploading all their contacts thousands of miles away up to an internet hosting service to transfer them to a phone they hold in their hand. (lets pretend I am a politician or policeman or doctor with lots of sensitive names and addresses!!!).
This is IT gone wrong.
Call me old fashioned again but I thought Android was meant to be ‘semi-open source’. If so why is everything pointing towards Google?
…. and call me old fashioned yet again but why can’t I simply import/export a csv of my contacts? The first phones did this 10 years ago!!
….. Why Outlook? I don’t have a copy. I use the Mac and Linux. This means I am still stuck with Microsoft windows
Thank you,
Peter
Posted by Peter Kuramapu on May 26th, 2010.