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jackI have a motorola dext mobile phone, which runs android. It makes phone calls and browses the internet and reads email. But what it does NOT do is connect to the android so-called market place, which is part of the point of having a "modern" phone. According to the internet, this is probably because I didn't register it with a google account when I first set it up, and there's a bug in doing so later which causes it to just hang at the "verifying your account with google" stage.
Most, but not all, recommended the way to solve this is a factory reset.
I don't have much personal data stored on the phone, but I would like to save the contact list first.
Unfortunately, this is confusing. I seem to recall using microsoft activesync when I ported the contacts _to_ this phone. But what I think I did was move the contacts to computer from the old phone, delete old ones and reformat them, move them back to the phone, save them to the sim card, then import them from the sim card to the new phone. (At least, I remember using activesync somehow, and I don't think it works with andriod.)
But I don't know how to save the contacts from the new phone. There does not appear to be an obvious way to store them to the sim card, to the local filesystem, or to a computer. You're SUPPOSED to automatically sync them with a google account -- but this doesn't work if you can't set one up, which is what I'm trying to do.
Any suggestions?
Most, but not all, recommended the way to solve this is a factory reset.
I don't have much personal data stored on the phone, but I would like to save the contact list first.
Unfortunately, this is confusing. I seem to recall using microsoft activesync when I ported the contacts _to_ this phone. But what I think I did was move the contacts to computer from the old phone, delete old ones and reformat them, move them back to the phone, save them to the sim card, then import them from the sim card to the new phone. (At least, I remember using activesync somehow, and I don't think it works with andriod.)
But I don't know how to save the contacts from the new phone. There does not appear to be an obvious way to store them to the sim card, to the local filesystem, or to a computer. You're SUPPOSED to automatically sync them with a google account -- but this doesn't work if you can't set one up, which is what I'm trying to do.
Any suggestions?