Sometimes users of Migration+ pick “My Device” by mistake when importing and really want their contacts to sync with their Gmail account. If this happens, there is an easy fix that doesn’t require buying more Migration+ credits. The general idea is to backup your contacts from “My Device” then import them to your Gmail account on the Android phone – all of this can be done locally once you’ve imported the contacts to any account on your Android device using Migration+.

Here are the steps to do a local backup and restore:
BACKUP PROCESS
1) Open the “Contacts” app
2) Hit the settings button and select “Import/Export”
3) Select “Export to SD card” (alternatively called “Export to USB storage” on some phones) then hit the OK button to confirm

DELETE PROCESS
NOTE – you need to do this so that you don’t have duplicate entries in your address book.
1) Open the “Contacts” app
2) Hit the settings button then select “Delete”
3) Tick the “Select All” checkbox at the top of the contacts list
4) Hit the “Delete” button at the top of the screen

RE-IMPORT PROCESS
1) Open the “Contacts” app
2) Hit the settings button and select “Import/Export”
3) Select “Import from SD card” (alternatively called “Import from USB storage” on some phones) then hit the OK button to confirm.
4) Select the Gmail account you want to import the contacts to
5) Wait for the search process to finish. If you have multiple exports, it may ask you to confirm which file you want to use – select the file you just exported.

After this process completes, it will take a few minutes to sync all those contacts with your Gmail Contacts in the cloud. If you want to check on the progress of this, you can do this:
1) Click the Settings button
2) Under the Accounts section, choose Gmail
3) Look for the account you imported contacts to and see if it’s listed as “Synching” if not, the process should be complete. If you check your Gmail Contacts in a browser and they are still not listed there, but Synching is not occuring, click on the Gmail account in that list then un-tick the checkbox for Sync Contacts, then recheck it. This should restart the process.

NOTE – We’ve found that sometimes Google Synching doesn’t work if a lot of changes are made to contacts in a short period of time. If this happens, we’ve found just leaving the contacts alone for 24 hours, then retrying the above 3 steps typically works to resolve the issue.