Import Gmail Contacts To Samsung Galaxy S7

Nowadays Gmail have many users and they saved their contacts in Gmail account. Samsung Galaxy S7 is the new version of Samsung and contacts stored in device phonebook. Sometimes we need to access Gmail contacts from device contact list. Without installing Gmail app on your device, It can be done through Synchronization method.

Why we need Synchronization

• You may be saved important contacts in your Gmail and sometimes it shows out of storage space issue, you will get it from your device.
• You have some internet connectivity problem, and its emergency you need a contact. At this time you can easily access the contact in offline mode.
  By only two simple steps and without downloading any software you can easily import Gmail contacts into Samsung Galaxy S7.You can import contacts in both Manual and Automated methods.

Also read: Import Contacts From Excel to Android Samsung

Follow these steps to do the Manual Method

Export Gmail Contacts List into CSV File.

Follow these steps to export Gmail contacts into .csv file.

• Sign in to Gmail with your Username and Password.
• Click on the Gmail icon top left corner of the web page and choose “contacts”
• From more dropdown menu select “export” option.
• Click on “go to old contacts”
• Select type of contacts from three option available.
  [Selected contacts, Group and all contacts]
• Select in which format you would like to export from these three options [Google CSV format, Outlook CSV format and Vcard format]
• Click Export
• Select location to save your csv file.
• Click ok.

Transfer CSV Contacts From Pc To Samsung Galaxy S7.

Follow these steps to transfer CSV file from PC to Samsung Galaxy S7.

• Connect your Samsung Galaxy S7 to PC, Click “Open Device to view files”.
• Select and drag the file into your device storage space.
• When the transfer completed, disconnect the device from PC.
• Click Contact app on your device, then select import/export option from top right corner of your device screen.
• Select “import from SD card” and choose the contacts to move to your Samsung Galaxy S7.
• After that you can see all your Gmail contacts in your device contact list.

Above method is manual to do the importing Gmail contacts into Samsung Galaxy S7. Suppose you have already installed Gmail app in your device, automated method that can help you to migrate. By using automated software we can achieve all above mentioned functionalities.

Follow these steps to do the automated method.

Before make sure that you have installed Gmail in your Samsung Galaxy S7.

• Click Contacts icon.
• Select import/export option from context menu.
• Choose “import from storage option”.
• If you have more than one Gmail account, then select a mail id to from which all contacts can be imported.
• It will shows” automatically searching for Vcard”.
• Click on “finished importing Vcard contact” dialogue box.
• You can see all the Gmail contacts with your Existing phone contact list.

Key Attribute

• Selected contacts: You can select single or multiple contacts.
• Group: You can select contacts from a particular group like my contacts, starred or most contacted.
• All contacts: Shows all contacts.
• Google CSV format: For importing into Google account.
• Outlook CSV format: For importing into Outlook or another application.
• Vcard format: For importing into Business card or another application.

How To Remove Gmail Contacts From Android Contact List

After synchronization you can raise a question that, how to hide or remove Gmail contacts from your device contact list. Sometimes you may not need all contacts to show in your device, otherwise its difficulty to search a particular contact from a bulk of contacts which is already synchronized. So follow these steps to delete Gmail contacts from your Android device.

• Click on Contacts app in your device.
• Select “Contacts to display” from more option [icon with three vertical dots].
• Press Google which shows existing Gmail ids. Choose one Gmail id from which you want to erase all contacts from your device.
• Select contacts and delete it.

Here we are discussed about how to import Gmail contacts to Android device. But it’s not only contacts, you can also import files, Calendar, folders, Google slides and Sheets that you have already created in your Gmail account. But file format will vary for each document. For example, if you are importing Calendar it will be saved in .ics or .csv file format.

Conclusion

In this post we come to know that how to import contacts from Gmail to Samsung Galaxy S7 or any Android device in both manual and automated procedure. We can say that any trusted third party software tool can also do the same procedure and solve all above discussed problems. Before buying any software tool, it will better to do the trial version and check its efficiency.