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Android Contacts Sync
I have Dropbox up & running on 2 Android phones. I have ticked the box in Dropbox Settings to Sync Contacts on both phones. What am I supposed to do next? I can find no sign of any "contacts" on Drop...
- I know this is an old(er) post, but I wanted to do this today and found this page. After a little playing around, there is a very simple way to do this.
Firstly, The 'Sync Contacts' option label in the Dropbox settings is misleading, it is there to share Dropbox content with your contacts.
You can however very easily add your contacts to Dropbox:
1) Go into your contacts app
2) Select all your contacts
3) Select the share button
4) Select 'Add to Dropbox'
It will upload a file called 'Contacts.vcf' to your Dropbox, and will be visible in your files. Just make a folder for it and you're good to go.
Hopefully this helps someone looking into this same issue.
1) The current feature called "Sync Contact" should be renamed to "Access Contacts".
As Ian said: "So the purpose of "Sync Contacts" is not to sync the contacts. !? How foolish of me not to realise.
I mistakenly thought that "Sync Contacts" was intended to sync contacts.
The issue is not that it doesn't work then, it is just misnamed."
2) A lot of people want a solution to actually synchronize their contacts, especially across platforms. A search for a solution using dropbox brought me to this page also. I have two Macs and an Android phone. The Google contact sync is indescribably horrible. iCloud does not work on Android. "Leaving this task to other developers" is not happening. It would be great if Dropbox would make this work on the 4 major platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android).
If you decide not to address this very real need, please encourage other developers to do this by describing a good solution on a wiki post and inviting the community to do that (and rename the feature so that developers don't feel like Dropbox actually intends to get into this space).
Thanks,
-rohan
