On 04/09/2016 03:15 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2016-04-03 at 18:11 +0200, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 03.04.2016 um 18:02 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 2016-04-03 17:53, John Andersen wrote:
On April 3, 2016 8:47:12 AM PDT, "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
If all of your phone book entries are Google entries, and none are stored ONLY in the phone's local address book, then you can edit them at HTTPS://contacts.Google.com and any changes are synced with all your devices.
But they aren't...
Then you are doing it wrong. Because this works for every other Android user in the world. Check your settings all around. Or ask some random teenager for help. 😁
No, I simply want my address book private, stored on my phone, not on google servers.
Teenagers do not know enough yet, too young :-p
Right!
I even hate to think that others, who I must call, sync their address book to the data monster, giving them my phone number without that I ever accepted anything googlish. I also hate to write to gmail addresses (although, sadly, I cannot avoid it) where my mails get analysed, again without my consent.
Any smaller company dealing with personal data this way could visit their managers in jail...
It turns out that the Motorola migration tool that I used to move things, including contacts, from my Samsung phone to my new Motorola phone, shifted all my contacts into google, without me knowing.
Now I have to decide whether to leave them in google, or not, and if not, how. But that is OT for this list.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
I remember doing that with my Wife's new moto phone, and there was a choice right up front about which addressbook to store in. I remember almost selecting the wrong one. By the way, that Moto Migrate app will cease to function when you upgrade that phone to the latest version of the OS, Marshmallow, so be sure to get all those things migrated before you do that upgrade. On the Other hand, There is a, as I recall, a mass move feature in Marshmallow to move contacts between addressbooks. I do this once in a while when I absentlmindedly put something in the wrong one. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done.