Saving contacts to phone en masse

[ptc]

HI,

I've successfully synced my phone with Plaxo Mobile Plus. I also have used the feature that allows me to save synced contacts from Plaxo Mobile plus into my phone's native phone book.

Is there a way to save all my synced contacts into my phone at once? I'd rather not have to do it one contact at a time. This would be a big time crunch, not to mention the airtime I'd burn on my verizon account.

Any help?

Alternatively, is my phone (LG VX5300) capable of syncing directly with my plaxo mobile plus? If so, how do I go about that sync?

Thanks! Loving Plaxo Mobile so far!

ptc

[kas]

Hi PTC,

Great question and thanks for trying Plaxo Mobile Plus!

We kept the bulk contact selection for syncing to Plaxo Online because of data plans, but it might be a nice feature to add an option on the phone that says "I want all my contacts sync'd".

Next time you're online, log into Plaxo Online, go to the contacts view, select all your contacts there, and from the drop down box that says Plaxo Mobile Plus at the bottom of the screen, choose "sync selected to phone". Then a small phone icon should appear next to each contact you have selected.

The next time Plaxo Mobile Plus autosyncs or you manually sync, the contacts will all be written to your phone's address book (if there is space to fit and the contact is "well-formed" for the phone.*)

*well-formed - Phones have limitations on the characters that can go into certain fields - e.g. most phones limit phone numbers to containing numbers (except in rare cases)

>>Alternatively, is my phone (LG VX5300) capable of syncing directly with my plaxo mobile plus? If so, how do I go about that sync?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Is this where you'd like a "sync all my contacts" option? If you are thinking of a syncML solution, I don't think the LG VX5300 supports syncML.

Let us know if this info helps.

Best,

Kathy

[kas]

PTC,

Does this mean that the VX7000 you asked about in the other post didn't work out?

Best,

Kathy

[ptc]

Well, here's whole sordid tale. I called Vzn tech support and was told my phone needed to be "flashed". I took it in to a store, had it flashed, and attempted download again, still without success. The in-store tech took the phone back and after much tinkering came back and told me there was something wrong with the phone. Since it was covered under warranty, they switched me out with a VX5300. Then they tried the download again and it still didn't work. They said it must be something in my account and that I should call phone support again when I got home, which I did, and after a good while working with them they still couldn't help me. They opened a repair ticket with a group called Network Repair and told me to sit tight. Today I tried the download again and it worked just fine. Network Repair got it going, somehow. I don't know what the problem was, but it does not appear to to have been an issue with the VX7000 at all. Even so, now I have a VX5300 which is fine with me.

But I'd still like to know if I can plaxo sync with the native VX5300 phone book, or if I can at least commit all my synced contacts to the VX5300's memory at one time.

Any help?

ptc

[ptc]

And I just noticed the post above, answering my question.

Thanks!

[ptc]

Hi Kathy, thanks for the reply.

Well, I've gotten as far as the drop down menu at plaxo online that contains the option to sync my contacts to my phone. And I've followed this up with a manual sync. With the search feature on my phone, I see that the contacts I selected are indeed in my plaxo mobile plus list. However, I then have to manually choose to save them to the native phonebook on my phone. It seems that the sync places the contacts into a place where my phone can access them, but not actually into the phone.

There's an option in the plaxo phone menu that reads "save contact to your phone" or something similar. When I choose that option, the selected contact then appears in my phone's native phonebook and I don't have to be online to access it. I'm hoping that to load all my contacts into the phone book on my phone, that is, to migrate them from my plaxo online list into the phone iteslf, I don't have to go one contact at a time. It takes several seconds to do one. But the alternative is to go online to access contacts and that burns airtime minutes pretty fast.

Any help?

You can disregard my question about direct syncing, I thought that meant something else.

Thanks!

ptc

[kas]

Hey PTC,

If you went to Plaxo Online and selected all your contacts and used the drop-down, and the phone icon showed up next to your contacts, when you did that next sync from the phone, all of your contacts should have been written the the phone's address book. You don't have to go through one at a time from Plaxo Mobile Plus and save them.

Are you sure the sync finished without error? (It should have said "X contacts updated from Plaxo to phone; Y contacts updated from phone to Plaxo" and with a link you have to acknowledge saying "Done").

You can either contact Plaxo Support or send me a private message so that we can walk through this together.

Kathy

[aferrell]

Is there a way to integrate the selection of which contacts to sync to the phone into the toolbars, specifically the Outlook one?

I use MightyPhone currently, and it integrates with Outlook to allow you to check a box in the contacts details if you want that contact to sync to your phone. It basically just assigns a "MightyPhone" category to the contact. Works out well. If you sort by categories in Outlook, you can immediately see which contacts are selected to sync with your phone.

[kas]

Hi Aferrell,

Plaxo Mobile Plus does integrate with Outlook today for tagging - though not elegantly. Same as for MightyPhone, setting an Outlook category will do it. It's in our roadmap to add more support for mobile into the clients.

The category to use is

My Phone


Best,

Kathy