How to export GMail Contact Phone Numbers to T-Mobile Contacts
On my first try, exporting my contacts as csv or vcf to the T-Mobile Contacts didn't quite work. It imported the names, home numbers, and home emails. After mucking with the VCF file some and reading the VCF standard for telephone numbers, I was able to get it to work.
This is how to do it properly:
This is how to do it properly:
- In GMail, go to the Contacts link on the left, then the Export link on the upper right of the box.
- Export a group of contacts (I made a new group for my wife's contacts) as the vCard format (this is a .vcf file).
- Open the .vcf file in an editor.
- Replace TYPE=CELL with TYPE=cell,pref,voice,home on all Cell numbers. This allowed T-Mobile to parse the numbers as "Personal Mobile" numbers
- Replace EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET with EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=HOME for all home emails, to T-Mobile would parse them as "Personal Emails".
- Save the .vcf file
- In my.T-Mobile.com, choose Contacts, then Import contacts from another address book
- On the next page ("Get Contacts from Other Address Books"), choose "VCF File" and then Browse to find your .vcf file you edited.
- Click "Upload and Preview", glance over the data to make sure it all looks good, then click "Add selected contacts to my address book".
- On the phone, I went to Settings > Synchronization > Sync Now, although I'm sure if I waited it would have worked.
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