Re: Copy Contacts to Android

On Thursday 19 August 2010 19:11:09 Donald F. Robertson wrote:
> I have just obtained a HTE Hero Android phone.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the data from the various Kontact
> applications -- especially KAddressBook -- into the phone in usable form?
> 
> I'd also like to get the Calendar ported over, but that's a lower priority.
> 
> Assuming true syncing is not available, I'd like to go back the other way
> -- phone to Kontact -- periodically.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Your contacts data is stored as a .vcf (i.e. multicontact vCard file) in a 
location of the form: /home/username/.kde(or .kde4)/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf


If you copy the file to the SD card you use with the Android, whether directly 
or by USB/bluetooth/etc, and then run up the Contacts application, choose 
Import/Export, and "Import contacts from SD card".


My own Android (a Samsung Galaxy) successfully imported all 1,012 contacts 
from the .vcf and even managed to deduplicate the file against the ones on the 
SIM card.


You can, if you wish, link this with a Google service, but it's not necessary. 
KDE calendar data is stored in a similar fashion, but under 
./.kde/share/apps/korganizer, or you can choose Export from the calendar menu 
and either .vcs (vCal) or .ics (iCal) format.


Somebody really militant could set up a KDE device action to fire when the 
device is USB connected and rsync the folders involved, although a health 
warning would be necessary that if anything went wrong with the SD card, you 
might lose data.
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