Backup assistant and syncing contacts thru gmail.

Hello,
I have a droid x and might switch to the iphone. I read the "get prepared" section in the FAQ's and it said to use BA so I can transfer my contacts. I've use BA with past dumb phones, but never with a smartphone. When I got my X I used gmai to sync contacts. Out of curiosity I tried BA and it only would sync 19 of my over 100 contacts.
1. Any ideas why only 19?
2. If I get the iphone can I just set up and log into my gmail account and sync my contacts that way?
Thank you,

Coendous wrote:
Hello,
I have a droid x and might switch to the iphone. I read the "get prepared" section in the FAQ's and it said to use BA so I can transfer my contacts. I've use BA with past dumb phones, but never with a smartphone. When I got my X I used gmai to sync contacts. Out of curiosity I tried BA and it only would sync 19 of my over 100 contacts.
1. Any ideas why only 19?
2. If I get the iphone can I just set up and log into my gmail account and sync my contacts that way?
Thank you,
BA only syncs phone contacts, not google contacts.
youo can log into your gmail account on a pc and export the contacts
i beleive you can also export them from the phone to your sd card.
i know nothing about apple prodcuts and am not sure what they require to import.

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