Kontakte: Google, Telefon -> Zusammespiel, Erfahrungen....

• Kontakte über Google sauber pflegen
• und auch aktualisieren/syncen
• keine mehrfache Anzeige der Telefonnummer in Handcent-SMS-App

• Kontakt kann nicht in Gruppen zugewiesen werden
• Zuordnung eines eigenen Klingeltons je Kontakt nicht möglich

• Kontakte können in Gruppen zugeordnet werden
• Hinterlegung eines Klingeltons je Kontakt möglich

• in Handcent-SMS wird nun jeder Eintrag doppelt angezeigt...
• im Kalender werden Geburtstage auch doppelt angezeigt je Kontakt

I solved the Contacts sync problem by applying the same steps, but now clearing the 'Contact Storage' database instead. Precise steps followed:
1. Press your device's < Home > button, then press < Menu >.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select Data synchronisation
4. Disable Contact synchronisation
5. Return to Settings by pressing the < Back > button on your device
6. Select Applications, then Manage applications.
7. Select Contact Storage.
Note: It may have different names, depending on your language, e.g. "Opslag contacten" in Dutch
8. Select Clear data. Answer OK when prompted.
9. Return to the list of applications by pressing the < Back > button on your device.
10. Select Contacts and then select Clear data. Answer OK when prompted.

Next, restart your device (switch it off an on) and resume datasynchronisation for your contacts
1. Press your device's < Home > button, then press < Menu >.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select datasynchronisation
4. Enable Contact synchronisation
After this the device will re-sync with the server.

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Think of phone contacts and google contacts as two databases that your "Contact" or "People" apps access seamlessly. But, although it presents you with all contacts on the same interface doesn"t mean you can pass contacts over the "frontier" from one DB to the other. As with any DB, exchange of data involves an export/import process.
To answer johnp58's initial request, here's how to extract the phone DB and import it in the google DB on an HTC Desire with the "People" app (all these contacts will then be synced on your google account).
NB: all actions are done from the first app tab called "All"
## Exporting phone DB
- press "Menu" and tap "View"
- you must activate the view of the contacts DB you want to export (here it's Phone) so check only "Phone" and tap "Done"
- you're back in the "All" tab and all the names that you see now are from your phone contacts DB
- press "Menu" again and tap "Import/Export"
- choose "Export to SD card" on the popup that rise
- then choose "Phone" on the new popup
- the next popup then shows you the place and name of the VCF file that will be written, tap "OK"
- once the export is finished, you're back to the "All" tab
## Importing to google DB
- press "Menu" again and tap "Import/Export"
- now choose "Import from SD card" on the popup
- choose "Google" on the new popup
- android then find your previously created VCF file and imports it or guides you to chosing a particular VCF file if you already had some on your SD card (choose import a single vCard file)
## Sticking to google contacts
- press "Menu" and tap "View"
- now to activate only google contacts view (check "Google" and uncheck "Phone")
- also uncheck "Show auto Gmail contacts" or you will keep seeing all people Gmail can find in the addressees of every single email you have in your account (namely the content of the "All Contacts" group in the Google contacts web interface), then tap "Done"
From now on, all you see in the "All" tab are google contacts, that are synced with your google account.
However, next time you create a contact entry from the phone, BE CAREFUL to select "Google" for entry's type or you'd have to do all that export/import thing again just for a few accounts created in the phone DB by mistake (plus it would bring up duplicate entries of your first import, which is really tedious and unpleasant to fix). When the next created account is set as a google one, "People" app normally keeps presenting you with this type of account by default for all future creation.
You can just switch the words "Phone" and "Google" in what's described above if you wish to move contacts from google DB to phone DB.

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