Google contacts sync

[bluefoam]

My contacts are on the phone (HTC Hero) & none on my gmail account. The phone won't sync them with the server because they are 'phone', not 'google' contacts. But I can't find the option on the phone to change them. I can set up a new contact as a google contact, but can't change the existing ones. Any suggestions?

[adamsrice]

I'm having the same problem, but I think the easiest way to deal with it is to just load all your contacts to your phone, and once in a while export them back to google via computer to keep things up to date. Otherwise you can cut and paste changes on your phone. Personally I would just have google contacts on my phone except that sometimes I go out of data range, so I only have important numbers on my phone. I really wish they would figure out the sync from phone to google like my blackberry had.

[pina]

all you actually needs to do is save all your (sim)contacts to an external file. I think you can select them all, then choose the option to send as a business card or something. Normally, your phone will save it as a .vcf file, which you can import in google mail.