Ah this was a real tough job for me. I hate the idea of Google that sync each and everything we kept with them in all their services. It was so foolish for me to create a Google+ account and see all my blogger pictures in that account as an album and with out a second thought I deleted everything. Bingo! I lost all the pictures I posted in my blogs till that date. Thank you so much dear Google.
Next turn was setting up my android. It pick up all the calender events from Facebook, Google account etc and I just given the option delete all events. Once again thank you so much Google. You have cleared all my calenders. Google also brought all my picasa albums including the blogger once to my android. I really hate that idea too. There is no way to selectively sync the albums. Also, sync my Google account contacts was impossible. They have brought all my Orkut contacts and whenever I reply all to a forwarded mail, the great Google used to add all those contacts to my Google account.
Thats enough. Now on wards I decided to keep a separate Google account for my personal contacts & personal events which I like to see in my mobile as well.
I've created the new Gmail account. Now the question is how to move all my phone contacts to my new account? Well that was pretty easy! Before that make sure that Google won't auto save any contacts in your new account. Go to settings and disable the auto fill (Settings > General Tab > Create contacts for auto complete).
Go to contacts, select send and then select Gmail as the mode of sending your contacts, and sent them to your new Google account. It will email all your contacts as a vcf file. Open the mail, you will see an option to Import the contacts. Now delete all your phone contacts. And just sync your phone with the new Google account. You are done. Now edit the contacts, upload the photos you need in your android etc to the new Google account and sync it. You are all good.
PS: There is no way to delete the primary Google account you have configured in your phone. So may be keep it for the typical use and what ever you need in your future phones, migrate those information to your new account gradually.
If anyone has better suggestions, please drop your comments.
Next turn was setting up my android. It pick up all the calender events from Facebook, Google account etc and I just given the option delete all events. Once again thank you so much Google. You have cleared all my calenders. Google also brought all my picasa albums including the blogger once to my android. I really hate that idea too. There is no way to selectively sync the albums. Also, sync my Google account contacts was impossible. They have brought all my Orkut contacts and whenever I reply all to a forwarded mail, the great Google used to add all those contacts to my Google account.
Thats enough. Now on wards I decided to keep a separate Google account for my personal contacts & personal events which I like to see in my mobile as well.
I've created the new Gmail account. Now the question is how to move all my phone contacts to my new account? Well that was pretty easy! Before that make sure that Google won't auto save any contacts in your new account. Go to settings and disable the auto fill (Settings > General Tab > Create contacts for auto complete).
Go to contacts, select send and then select Gmail as the mode of sending your contacts, and sent them to your new Google account. It will email all your contacts as a vcf file. Open the mail, you will see an option to Import the contacts. Now delete all your phone contacts. And just sync your phone with the new Google account. You are done. Now edit the contacts, upload the photos you need in your android etc to the new Google account and sync it. You are all good.
PS: There is no way to delete the primary Google account you have configured in your phone. So may be keep it for the typical use and what ever you need in your future phones, migrate those information to your new account gradually.
If anyone has better suggestions, please drop your comments.
why can't you simply use the concept of "groups". i save all my phone contacts as a separate group in Google contacts. android phone book has the option to display only the selected groups, right..?
ReplyDeleteYes, groups can do a part of the job. But I have multiple email addresses per person and I never organized my gmail contacts and it was never been my primary email address. I would have preferred groups if I could have created a new group, say 'Phone' and I can move all my current phone contacts there and sync in the future.
ReplyDeleteEven calender has lists (which I just figured out). I could have selected just one list to show in my android calender.
Again what to do with the picasa albums? All the photos I am using even in this blog will appear in my phone, there is no way to select an album as far as I know.
Vishnu, I had experimented a bit more on that. Yes you were right. The easiest thing I could do was create a new group phone and import all the contacts in my old phone to that group using gmail and in the android apply a filter which shows only the contacts in the phone group. I never used gmail much and hence I missed the great work they had done on contacts. Now I agree, android is handling the contacts and calendar pretty well.
ReplyDeleteBut why did they left picasa albums this way? There should have been an option to select an album and then sync.
Thanks..
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