Ubuntu – Ubuntu Touch import Contacts

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How to import contacts in Ubuntu Touch (current release i.e. installed on 17. september)?
The manage-address-books.py mentioned in the release notes seems not to exist anymore (at least I did not manage to find it).

Is there a simple way to import vCards using syncevolution or does a DBus service exist for creating/importing contacts?

Best Answer

Yes, you can use syncevolution. This is how I imported my Google contacts:

adb shell sudo -u phablet -i syncevolution --configure --sync-property "username=email@gmail.com" --sync-property "password=XXXXXXX" Google_Contacts
adb shell sudo -u phablet -i syncevolution --sync one-way-from-server Google_Contacts addressbook

That second line will import 50 contacts at a time. Repeat to get more.

Related Solutions

Ubuntu – How to sync contacts on Ubuntu Touch

Ubuntu Touch has EDS (Evolution-data-server) installed. So you can sync it using syncevolution.

First install latest stable version from repo:

For =>14.04

sudo apt-get install syncevolution syncevolution-provider-uoa

For <=13.10

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://downloads.syncevolution.org/apt stable main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install syncevolution-evolution

If you are using Google-Contacts, then export all contacts as vcf (i.e allcontacts.vcf) & then import it using following command at terminal (Change the path & database accordingly):

syncevolution --import /path/to/file/allcontacts.vcf backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal

To know the names of all available databases type:

syncevolution --print-databases

For more info visit:

NOTE :

If vcard file (contacts.vcf) doesn't have new line space after END:VCARD, syncevolution might fail to import all the contacts.

Ubuntu – Backup/Export contacts from Ubuntu Touch (official launch r100, Ubuntu 13.10 – armhf (20131017))

I guess there aren't too many people using Ubuntu Touch out there, but fortunately thanks to Khurshid Alam answering this question: How do I sync contacts on Ubuntu Touch? I was able to backwards engineer how to back up my contacts from his method to import (I was not able to backwards engineer the method I posted in my question).

So just to clarify,

here is the easiest way to export your Ubuntu Touch contacts to a file:

Open the terminal from your Ubuntu Touch device and type:

sudo syncevolution --export /home/phablet/Documents/utcontacts.vcf backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal

This will save your contacts to a file called utcontacts.vcf in your Documents directory.

Once you have a new installation of Ubuntu touch you can copy the file back to your Documents directory and restore your contacts by opening a terminal and typing:

syncevolution --import /home/phablet/Documents/utcontacts.vcf backend=evolution-contacts database=Personal