Contacts won't sync to Windows Address Book

When I first used my iPhone, it synced everything to Windows how it was supposed to, contacts and all. I setup MobileMe and it then created duplicate contacts on my phone. I deleted them all on MobileMe then it deleted them all from my computer. I uninstalled the MM control panel, and reset sync history in iTunes and synced and my contacts do not appear. Any help much appreciated.

Oh, it's with the latest iTunes 8.2 that this occurs. With the older 7, it synced. Also, I have iPhone 3G with 3.0

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I just bought a new macbook pro and have been attempting to sync it with my 3GS. Everything works but the contacts. I can't get the iphone contacts to appear in the mac's address book even though everything is checked in itunes?

Hi,
Try Resetting the Sync History from the iSync applications Preferences window, as described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23030
-Jason

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I was having this problem with my 4s, just got an iphone5. New contacts and many calendar events I put into my phone don't come into my address book or calendar on my macbook pro.

Check delault Contacts and Calendars. (Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars)

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I have iPod Touch 4g, iOS 4.1, iTunes 10.0.1.22, Windows XP (up to date). I sync'd my Windows Address Book to the Touch without issue, I made some updates on the Touch, and now when I try to sync, it just hangs at trying to sync the contacts. No errors, it just indicates that it is syncing. iTunes doesn't actually hang, I can cancel the sync, and I can still sync songs, and it still backs up fine as first sync step.

As far as I am aware, "identities" is an Outlook Express concept that was dropped by Microsoft some time ago in favour of separate User Accounts along with Windows Address Book being replaced by Windows Contacts. I am also not 100% sure that iTunes will sync with Windows Address book. Do you see it on the drop down menu in the Sync Contacts tab?
If you do and if iTunes will sync with Windows Address Book you should only see the contacts associated with the identity you are using and shared contacts. If iTunes then syncs, it should sync with the identity you are using at the time of the sync.

I lost my contact list while sychnorizing with windows address book

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Another question is i have the ios 4.2.1 running on my iphone and it made the phone very very slow for the past 1 year and i decided to restore it to the factory settings that maybe the operating system will return to the first one. This is the reason for my try to sychnorize my contacts to itunes on my computer before restoring it to factory settings.
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Did you try and sync it with an address book on your computer that contained no entries at all? If so, then they are gone.
IF you backed up the phone before trying to do this, you may be able to recover some of the information using 3rd party software to try and extract it from the backup. I have no personal experience with any of these programs, so I'll leave specific recommendations to others who do.

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Today I was browsing through one of my groups on the iPhone and added a new contact, while I was still in the group (Business). I just synced my iPhone and the contact didn't download onto my laptop! Its still on my iPhone and it shows up both in "Business" as well as "All Contacts", but its nowhere to be found on my computer after the sync.
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I tried syncing a second time; however, instead of checking "All Contacts", I selected each group individually such that I'm syncing all my contacts. And this time it worked! I was able to import the new contact into WAB.
Weird! Any ideas why it would sync properly with method 2 but not with method 1?

BigT,
Contacts created on the iPhone should sync back to WAB using either method (using all contacts or selected groups). One feature that using "selected groups" provides is it lets you specify what group to sync contacts created on the iPhone back into in WAB.
If you notice this happening again, you may want to reset your Sync History. To reset sync history:
1. Open iTunes.
2. On the Edit menu, click Preferences.
3. Click the iPhone tab.
4. Click the Reset Sync History button.
Hope this helps,
Jennifer B.

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When you plug the iPod in go to the Info tab in iPod preferences. Go all the way to the bottom and there are options to sync contact information the next time you sync. Check that and sync again.

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Hey,
I also have this problem - do you have any solution?
I have the most up to the date verion of system on my iphone and of itunes.
I had just tried to sync my contacts from phone to windows contacts, process was quick and uniterrupted. when I unplugged iphone from pc I checked windows contacs file and part of the contacts indeed was copied. But that were only those that were in the SIM card. All of those that I added manually on iphone is not copied onto the computer.
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Contacts do not sync from Mac Address Book to iPhone

When I add new contacts in my Mac Address Book or modify existing contacts and then do a sync (using iTunes), the changes do not appear on my iPhone 3GS. Everything else seems to update but not the contacts.
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Wjosten,
Finally back to you on this. The delay was because the proposed operations were beyond my comfort zone - and I was fearful of loosing my contacts and groups (critically important).
With more time available, I made an appointment with a "Genius" at the Apple Store (Paris Opera). He could not fix it but gave me the good advice to contact Mobile Me and set up a chat support session.
It took several hours but the chat support person guided me through the process of saving my data, and then trashing the files in the cache and library folders and a few others, and finally restoring things - group by group.
Part of the problem was also conflicts between the calendars on my two MacBook Pros, my iPhone, and MobilMe.
Long and complicated but things are now working.
Thanks for trying to help.
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When I attempt to sync the address book contatcs on my Powerbook with .Mac, after much spinning and churning, it get the error message:
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This is the ONLY computer with this contact data. There is no other computer with "good data" to reset .Mac from. I have 776 contacts on this computer and it is my work base. .Mac only has 103 contacts. Sereiously, this is not a joke. You must be prepared to fix your gross errors with this software.
.Mac sync is probably the worse software implementation on the Apple platform. It has wiped on critical and important data on many occasions my cell phone and my wives Motorola phones. Getting errror messages such as these are alarming and terribly distressing. Where have Apple's standards for quality gone?

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Anyone solve this yet?
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scroll down on the main page of this forum underneath all the device model specific forum sections and you will see one for Mac specific.
In it, I would suggest a search using text from your error you are getting.
I have not used the BlackBerry on a Mac, so I am not any help there. But, there are others that should be.
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2. Please resolve your thread by marking the post "Solution?" which solved it for you!
3. Install free BlackBerry Protect today for backups of contacts and data.
4. Guide to Unlocking your BlackBerry & Unlock Codes
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before I upgrade my laptop to win7 64 bit with DM 5.0, I had Vista 64 bit with DM 5.0 and I was able to sync windows address book.
Now on my win7, I can't select it anymore. I install the same software what I use on vista to win7. I use a blackberry tour, OS 4.7.
Like the picture see here : http://images.crackberry.com/files/u7860/Outlook_Sync_Selection.jpg
you can see that you can select windows address book/mail.
I try on win7, to install the latest DM, but still can't check windows address book/mail. I uninstall it, reinstall DM 5.0, also no luck. I remove intelisync, try again, still no luck.
Any idea how to get the it to sync with windows address book/mail ?
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So, since it is a selection (from your image), what happens when you select it?
1. If any post helps you please click the below the post(s) that helped you.
2. Please resolve your thread by marking the post "Solution?" which solved it for you!
3. Install free BlackBerry Protect today for backups of contacts and data.
4. Guide to Unlocking your BlackBerry & Unlock Codes
Join our BBM Channels (Beta)
BlackBerry Support Forums Channel
PIN: C0001B7B4 Display/Scan Bar Code
Knowledge Base Updates
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How to backup my iPhone 4 Contacts to PC Windows Address Book

I need help backing up my iPhone 4 Contacts on to my PC Windows Address Book

An alternate solution is to add windows address book to your web mail accounts. You can also add your iPhone to the web mail accounts and they will talk to each other over the cloud. If you visit your webmail accounts and see if the IMAP protocol is activated it will be able to sync to Windows address book and the iPhone when ever they are activated.
This will also enable you to even view your webmail accounts with all your information stored on the cloud at your webmail service.

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I have not been able to sync my yahoo mail with my iphone. I get the error message itunes couldn't syce with yahoo address book because an internet connection is not available. I am connected thru a routed - and never loose connection & am able to view websites when I get this message. I have synced with windows address book (not really sure where that comes from), but when I did that I lost a bunch of contacts that I put into my phone.

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Why is there missing info in the windows address book fields after syncing iphone 4 contacts?

I am reaching the end of my rope trying to deal with syncing/backing up contacts and other "non copyright protected" content from my iphone 4 and my desktop (and preferably my laptop as well). I've spent literally days trying to solve this problem with ultimately no solution. So, cutting through my MULTIPLE issues and focusing on one primary I need help backing up my contacts from my iphone 4 to ANY computer. Here is what I am working with:
A relatively ancient (5yrs) Window XP desktop with virtually no contacts in Windows Address Book and with only the native Outlook Express on it.
An iphone 4 ios 4.3.1 that was initially and is still setup/synced with the above XP box (minus checking the sync contacts box).
An iphone 4 contact list that is primarily populated by about 200 contacts transfered from an old ATT SIM from the previous ancient phone.
A new Windows 7 laptop that I would love, love, love to use in conjuction with the XP for syncing/backing up not protected, personal data and iphone purchases.
So, with that in mind I have been syncing my phone with the XP w. the "manual manage music..." box checked and all other syncing options other than apps unchecked. I wanted to backup by contacts for emergency recovery and to allow sycncing for the increasing business contacts. Should be easy right? Not so much. I tried clicking the "sync contacts w/ windows address book" option and then synced. I go to WAB and the contact list is there. However, if I look w/in each contact the fields are not filled in. If it was a contact that had name, number, address on my phone the WAB version has the name listing but nothing in the number/addy fields. Now, this is true w/ virtually every contact and most were from that SIM transfer. HOWEVER, contacts that I added ON the iphone (ie manually w/ the phone) DO have complete information.
So, what do I do to make an actual, complete backup of all the contacts on my iphone w/o having to manually reinput all of the real information?? I'm frankly terrified that in trying multiple solutions I will lose all my phone contacts which at this point in my life would be absolutely devistating (ie I would probably lose my job). If it is a matter of newer hard/software I would gladly sync to the new Win 7 laptop instead but there I run into the other aggrivation of apple making it so bloody difficult to use one ios device with more than one personal computer. I'm dumbfounded and frustrated on soooooo many levels and would send countless good vibes to anyone who can help! Advice? Solutions? I'd promise my first born but who wants that these days...? Help, please! ;-)
BTW, sorry for the long wind but I'll add on my "optimal solution" if anyone is feeling especially helpful and has an answer:
I'd like to be able to plug my iphone into both my XP desktop and my Win 7 laptop and sync/backup to both freely (that is after all the real intent of syncing, non?) I don't care about music, videos, or other protected content. I manage that manually and frankly, I can do without having on the iphone as long as I can accomplish being able to sync/backup/restore all the iphone stuff like apps, settings, personal info, and contacts to both the desktop and the laptop. The purpose is that I need to be able to use and recover everything (on the road or at home) if either my laptop or my iphone dies/disappears. But, understanding impermanence as it relates to portable devices, I want a solid backup of everything at home waiting on my desktop. Is that really too much to ask apple???

Seriously folks? I know it was long but I added all info to negate a need for endless back/forth clarifications. No answers???
FYI, i tried syncing contacts to google/gmail and it was a total clusterF as well. No gmail contacts, synced iphone, gmail contacts populated w/ all info but w/lots of repeat entries. Used seek and merge repeats in gmail and then resync but no such luck. Lots of iterations and nothing but fails. Seems everytime the phone and the gmail lists are "as desired" a new sync puts a ton of repeats back into gmail or onto phone. Still perplexed and still needing help....
pretty please....

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