Enter your computer’s IP address or host name in the field that says “Enter machine name/IPaddress running Thunderbird”. Click on the Settings button -> Connection button. Now, run the application “Thunderbird AB Sync free” on your phone. Select Preferences against the add-on Android Contacts Sync 2.1. Select Install add-on from file and choose the above AndroidContactsSync.xpi add-on file. On the Add-ons Manager tab, you will see a Search box on the top.

Click on the menu option Tools -> Addons. Once you have done that, start up Thunderbird. It should be this name AndroidContactsSync.xpi. It says it only works with Thunderbird 12, but I tried on Thunderbird 17 and am okay with the results. Once you have downloaded the apk file, copy it to your Android phone SD Card.ĭownload. This tool written by the author on that page is the saviour for the day for those of us who do not wish to synchronize contact lists over the internet. Both your computer and your phone must be on your wireless LAN network. Note this works well over a Wireless LAN. Now that you disabled the synchronization of your data to a Google server, you are ready to install the software required to enable you to locally synchronize contacts from Thunderbird to the Android Phone. Next, click on the Contacts Icon -> Menu button -> More -> Settings -> Save new contacts to and choose Phone. Next, click on Apps -> Settings -> Privacy. Make sure Sync Contacts, Sync GMail and Sync Calendar are unchecked. You will see your primay gmail account.ĥ. Goto Apps -> Settings -> Accounts and SyncĤ. Make sure you disable contacts synchronization on the Android phone. Before trying it out, make sure you take a backup of your computer’s contact list.

Anyway, the below is a result of awareness of data privacy and the need to protect contacts’ privacy. Unfortunately, the people failed to visit their Google Account Settings and uncheck the option that did so. There have been instances where some people have told me that they synchronization the birthdays of their contacts to Google Contacts, and were surprised that their contacts were wished a Happy Birthday from the Google Contact list. Many of us would be uncomfortable providing the contact details of other people to some server on the Internet. With the Android phone, I was surprised to find that any synchronization of contacts information between the phone and a PC, needs to be done via the Internet through Google contacts.

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