Restoring phone contacts

[PainRack]

I recently lost my handphone and well..... I need to find a way to get my old phone contacts on to my new handphone.

The way I figure it, there's a couple of ways I could get my lost contacts.


One, from my previous backed up contacts on the computer. The funny thing is, LG PC Suite doesn't seem to want me to access the telephone backup if I don't have a LG phone. I'm not buying another one of their POS phones again so..... I need to know. How the FUCK do I get access to my contacts on the PC?

Two. From online stuff. I synched it with gmail, but I realised that my gmail contacts didn't have my phone directory attached. Did that to facebook, but I'm still missing a lot of important numbers.

The last two sources I can think of is whatsapp and google itself. I'm using an android phone, previously had a LG Optimus One phone. I'm not sure why, but apparently, my gmail doesn't have my friends phone numbers. Just email, no phone. Apparently, I didn't do a proper sync. Is there any other sources from google?

Furthermore, what about whatsapp itself?

[PainRack]

I did find some old *.vcf contacts on my computer.... from 2011, which makes me wonder where the fuck my 2012 june update is.

However, how do I migrate them wholesale over to my phone?

Its a pain, since I stored some critical passwords and a lot of my work on my old phone and I can't seem to find the god damn backup...... And the key to restoring that would be to actually get hold of friends.. and frankly, I met some pretty ladies over the last 9 months which I won't mind chatting with again......

[Executor32]

For the .vcf files, you can either copy them to your phone's SD card and import them using the Import/Export function in the Contacts app (People, if you have ICS or JB), or you can import them using Gmail on your computer. If you don't already know, to do the latter you click the Gmail button below the big Google logo, then click Contacts in the little popup menu. Then, after you're on the Contacts screen, click the More button at the top of the contacts list, then click Import in the popup menu.

In the LG PC suite, can you view your contacts at all? If so, you should be able to export them by clicking Menu->Import/Export, which I think will let you export them as a .vcf or at least .csv. .vcf files can be imported using either of the two methods above, but .csv files can only be imported through Gmail on your computer.

[PainRack]

Gmail doesn't seem to let me do it at a rate faster than importing one file at a time... Ah well......... back to the grind then.

[Terralthra]

1. Copy all your vcf files into one directory
2. Open Windows command prompt.
3. Enter the following DOS command: copy *.vcf all.vcf
4. Import all.vcf into your Google account.

[PainRack]

1. Copy all your vcf files into one directory
2. Open Windows command prompt.
3. Enter the following DOS command: copy *.vcf all.vcf
4. Import all.vcf into your Google account.

Thanks! I didn't realise they retained such a functionality in windows.

[Terralthra]

It's actually a fairly odd method of doing concatenation; under *nix based OSes, there is a specific "cat" command to do that function. Nevertheless, glad it worked.