Backing Up Contacts to the Palm Profile?

Backing Up Contacts to the Palm Profile?

Hey guys:

I got ,my father in law a Pre as a gift. He is gonna need to transfer his contacts over the Mogul to the Pre. I remember when I got my Pre, Sprint transferred my contacts from my Touch Pro.

However when I got a replacement phone, my contacts didn't come back because the Palm Profile doesn't save numbers that are transferred to the phone. They hand to be hand entered in order for the Palm profile to back them up (Which is why I now have mine synced to Gmail and Hotmail).

Has this changed at all? Will the contacts back up to the Palm Profile if Sprint does the transfer?

I have a similar question along these lines. Can anyone tell me how to import all my contacts to Gmail so I can have them all in one place? Thanks in advance. :dft009:happy

That's easy.

Go to Contacts >Preferences and Accounts>Look for default account. Change that to Gmail, then click "Sync Now".

Takes about an hour them to show up online,but they should be there after that.

The other thng you could do:

If you have them saved to Hotmail or Yahoo, export them into a csv file and then import that (on a computer) into Gmail.

Google didn"t work

ok, I tried to save my contacts to my google contacts. For some reason it didn't work. Maybe I"m doing something wrong?

Did you follow the directions I posted above?

Yep, I went to Contacts, Prerence& Accounts, found the Default and switched to my Google Acct. Then Sync now. Maybe I'm trying to do the wrong thing. I'm trying to Sync all of my contacts (including Facebook) to my google. Maybe it won't sync all of them from Facebook.

I dont think it will sync the Facebook contacts. But you can add them back to your phone as soon as you set Facebook back up on it. I wouldnt worry about those. But your other contacts should have synced.

But if you have them in Hotmail or Yahoo, etc,, just export them into a csv file and import them to Gmail. That is the easiest way.

Ok but what if you want to import all contacts in your phone (Palm, Facebook, etc) to your gmail. Is there a way to do that using the phone or any other way? Would like to have them backed up off palm if I ever decide to switch phones. Would really like to have them in serval places (Palm, Gmail, Yahoo) if possible. Thanks.

I have all of mine backed up through Gmail,Hotmail and Yahoo. I dont think you can get teh Facebook contacts to back up anywhere unless you hand input them in or go to Facebook from a computer and see if you can export them to your computer. Just checked all of them and Facebook contacts are not in my contact list. But I exported all my email account to csv files and imported them into my other accounts.

ok. Similar situation, my mic on my phone is no longer working so Sprint has choosen to replace my phone. I only have facebook linked to my phone. I use Hotmail but wasnt sure how to get all my folders on it. but none the less, Im worried that when they replace my phone I will lose my calender dates. im sure they can transfer my contacts from the old phone to the new phone, and as for my apps i can redownload them, my pics and music is not a problem to me, im just worried about my calender dates on my palm profile. How can i get that to be saved? also how do i get my other folders from Hotmail on my phone like my wife has with her pixi and yahoo acct? Thanks