How did contacts export themselves onto new phone?

november

I have a new Moto e which I've just set up with giff gaff.

Other phone is a Blackberry with Orange/EE.

I opened contacts on the Moto e which was empty as expected, as I wanted to transfer by hand a few numbers. Got distracted. Put the phone down on my desk next to the Blackberry.

Picked up the Moto e again to transfer the numbers and it had picked up my complete address book from the Blackberry :eek:

Does anyone know how? I didn't ask it to (don't even know how to :rotfl:). Bluetooth is off on both phones. How did the Moto e even know the Blackberry belonged to me?!

DCFC79

Thats odd, didnt know that was possible. Be interesting to see if anyone knows more.

Jivesinger

Are your contacts synched to your email account?

If you've setup the same email account on both phones, perhaps they've both synchronised to the same online list of contacts?

OneADay

If the SIM card was swapped from old phone to new phone, it would be contacts stored on sim card memory appearing in new phone.

Or if you signed up to say Gmail on both phones using same account, it could have synced the phones.

november

No the contacts aren't the same as the contacts on any email account or synched to anything. The Blackberry contacts were independent of anything else.

No the Sim cards weren't swapped at all. I now have 2 phones with 2 sim cards - one on giff gaff in a Moto e and one on Orange/EE in a Blackberry.

I haven't set up email accounts on the Moto e yet.

Yes I have Gmail forwarded to the Blackberry phone. But I didn't use my googlemail email address to even register for with giff gaff so not sure how the Moto e would find out? However having looked at it again I think that is what it has done as it's copied the address book from the Blackberry then for one friend it has added the photo from her google profile to her address and phone number!

OneADay

You have not signed into facebook or something on the Moto E ?
Or connected the phone to your pc?

Did you do an initial set up of the Moto E by entering an email address?

november

I think that's it (having spoken to my son also as he set it up). The Moto E asked for my Google email address so Gmail is set up. This email is also forwarded to my Blackberry. So Google obviously used the 2 to link the phones up and forward the contacts off the Blackberry (which are not the same as my Gmail contacts).

I still thought you had to ask it to do that though - it's rather annoying as I didn't want them on the Moto E so will have to delete them manually!

Nope I haven't signed up to Facebook on either phone. Use the computer for that. Nor had the Moto E been connected to the computer at that point. So it must be the Google email account.

Thanks for all the help

OneADay

november wrote: »

I still thought you had to ask it to do that though - it's rather annoying as I didn't want them on the Moto E so will have to delete them manually!

Don't delete them from Moto E without turning off Google syncing on there first.

If you delete them without doing that, the deletions will sync on to your Blackberry account (though I could be wrong - can't remember if google contact syncing is available on Blackberry).

Anyway - if you want to delete, then go to Settings on Moto E, then to the gmail account somewhere in there you will sync contacts, switch that off. Then you can safely delete contacts from the Moto E and they won't disappear from your Google account or Blackberry.

november

OneADay wrote: »

Don't delete them from Moto E without turning off Google syncing on there first.

If you delete them without doing that, the deletions will sync on to your Blackberry account (though I could be wrong - can't remember if google contact syncing is available on Blackberry).

Anyway - if you want to delete, then go to Settings on Moto E, then to the gmail account somewhere in there you will sync contacts, switch that off. Then you can safely delete contacts from the Moto E and they won't disappear from your Google account or Blackberry.

Many thanks. Advice much appreciated. Found and done! :T