Backup phone contacts to Gmail

[SudeepShakya]

I have saved all my contacts to phone/sim and I also did sync all the contact/etc to gmail, but when I open Gmail and open Contacts, there are no phone contacts.

What's wrong with it ??

[Rickard]

The phone will only synchronize contacts that are stored as Gmail contacts to your account. Go to Contacts -> [menu] -> Export contacts -> Internal storage. Then import them again from Contacts -> [menu] -> Import contacts -> Internal storage. When you do this the phone will ask where to save your contacts, here select your gmail address.

[SudeepShakya]

Can u please post with images, coz I can't see Export contacts.

[Rickard]

You need to tap the menu button (3 dots in the lower right corner) to see this option:

[SudeepShakya]

Well, I do have the menu button (3 dots in the lower right corner), but ur ui and mine is different, I have Xperia SP software verison 4.1.2.. I don't have Export Contacts and Add Account, etc in my phone .

[Alexander1]

Perhaps it's named 'back up contacts' instead of 'export contacts' in your device. 

[SudeepShakya]

Yes, it is.

If I backup and then again import the same contacts, don't u think its inefficient and redundant ??

[Rickard]

When you add a contact in your phone you can select which account it should be stored to (for example local contact, gmail contact, ActiveSync contact depending on what accounts you have in the phone). In order for a contact to be synchronized to your gmail account you need to store it to that account.

I suspect that you have not selected to store all your contacts to your gmail account and that is why you can't see all contacts on gmail. By making a backup and then importing it you can select to import them to Google instead of manually adding those contacts again.

[SudeepShakya]

Yes, I will try and then post. 

[SudeepShakya]

By following ur steps, i backed the contacts, but now there are two contacts with same information.