Standard Contact list format

joboy · 07-24-2014, 03:23 AM

Hi there,

I am using an Android phone and I have a contact list in VCF format, I used the same contact on different phones as well as on Thunderbird on PC, after some phone changes with different version of vcf my contact now completely mess up, some detail truncated and some missing, even worse my contact contains Chinese character, not all phone and email app treated that the same, the name field order does not follow sorting at all. I wonder if there is a standard format of contact list that will work on any device ?

ondoho · 07-25-2014, 04:46 AM

i had similar problems with email address books, but i just yesterday exported my contacts from a nokia phone to vcf files, and imported those to an android 4.0 phone without problems.

if it's any help, an example .vcf looks like this:

Code:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:DNA laskutus;;;;
TEL;CELL:044144011
X-CLASS:private
X-CATEGORIES:
REV:20140714T112248Z
END:VCARD

the name of the contact is "DNA laskutus".