Storing Data Online

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  1. ugadawgs23

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    I've been looking for an app that lets me store contacts online so when I wipe my data for a new ROM, I can quickly sign in and restore everything. However, I have been using Lookout, and when I transfer my contacts to the website, it creates around 5 copies of every contact. Anyone know of a way to fix this, or an app that dosn't do this? Thanks.
     
    #1 ugadawgs23, Jul 3, 2010
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    Have you considered using Google mail. It stores your contacts and after you wipe and log back in it automatically restores your contacts. You Droid and Gmail work very very well together.

    Mike
     
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    Yes, I used that to update my contacts this go around. For some reason, I only have twenty of them, though. I have around 70 contacts in all, but 370 listed because it makes copies of them for some reason. I'm sick of going in and deleting four of every contact if that makes sense. For instance..it will list like:

    Mom
    Mom
    Mom
    Mom
    Mom
    Mark
    Mark
    Mark
    Mark
    Mark
    etc... I don't want to have all those extra copies of them.
     
    #3 ugadawgs23, Jul 3, 2010
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    Gmail does that?
     
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    I'm sure it's not supposed to but for some reason mine is like that.
     
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    Are you using multiple accounts? If so you may want to move everything to Google or sync. I believe the syncing requires you to manually make each contact.

    Hookbill has lots of posts on this so do a search on his posts.

    Mike
     
    #6 mwhartman, Jul 3, 2010
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    Happend once to me, don't know what caused it. Logged in to gmail on PC, made changes, resyncd with phone, never happened again, and I do full wipes all the time.
     
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    Haven't had exactly that happen, but I've been working to understand how contacts work between gmail and my droid, and there is a function in gmail that will identify and remove duplicates. I aIso learned that if you categorize your contacts in gmail, you can determine (on the droid in the account settings area) which categories will be shown on your phone.

    If you keep fooling around with your contacts in gmail (and use the export/import functions to create and restore backups) you'll eventually get it straightened out.
     
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    Not on my Mine.....
     
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    Ok, I just ended up going through and deleting the duplicates manually. Took awhile but whatever.
     
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    It's easier doing that on the PC. Or or that where you cleaned it up?
     
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    If you use gmail just sign on on your comp and go to contacts and hit the "find duplicates" button..
     
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