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QR Code VCARD with Base64 Image Not Showing in Android Contacts
I'm generating a QR code containing a vCard with contact details, including a base64-encoded profile picture. When I scan the QR code on an Android device, all the contact details are imported except for the image—it doesn't show up in the Contacts app. Does Android’s default Contacts app support ba...
I'm generating a QR code containing a vCard with contact details, including a base64-encoded profile picture. When I scan the QR code on an Android device, all the contact details are imported except for the image—it doesn't show up in the Contacts app. Does Android’s default Contacts app support base64-encoded images in vCard 2.1?
Here's a sample QR code I generated for testing and this works with iPhone:
Gaurav Chauhan
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Mar 6, 2025, 11:28 PM
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What vCard formats/versions and encodings are supported for import?
I have tried to import vCard files using default Contacts app in Samsung Galaxy S6 ([details here][1]), but I am not sure about format required (vCard version supported) and Encoding to be used. I have used `Windows-1250` encoding and it worked but all the special characters were imported as `?`. Wh...
I have tried to import vCard files using default Contacts app in Samsung Galaxy S6 (details here ), but I am not sure about format required (vCard version supported) and Encoding to be used.
I have used
Windows-1250 encoding and it worked but all the special characters were imported as ?. When using UTF-8 it failed to import completely. What is the recommended character encoding and recommended vCard format/version?
Currently my vCard file looks like this with Windows-1250 encoding:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
NAME:XXXX Günzel
N:Günzel;XXXXX;;;
TEL;CELL:+XXXXXXXXX
END:VCARD
Vojtěch Dohnal
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Apr 28, 2015, 08:38 AM
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How can I import a VCARD file (contact information) via a QR code into Android contacts?
I would like to generate a QR code for my contact information to put on a website or my phone to show people. They should be able to scan it and import it automatically to their phone contacts. All I have found on the internet were solutions converting a VCARD text into a QR code. QR code scanners p...
I would like to generate a QR code for my contact information to put on a website or my phone to show people. They should be able to scan it and import it automatically to their phone contacts. All I have found on the internet were solutions converting a VCARD text into a QR code. QR code scanners parse it as a text (scan works) but they are not able to parse it as contact information and pass it on the contacts app to be imported. I wonder how to manage this.
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N;CHARSET=utf-8:Doe;John;;;
FN;CHARSET=utf-8:John Doe
ORG;CHARSET=utf-8:Dunder Mifflin
TITLE;CHARSET=utf-8:Manager
URL;WORK:dunder.com
EMAIL;WORK:john@dunder.com
TEL;CELL:+15551122334
ADR;WORK;CHARSET=utf-8:;;;Scranton;;;USA
END:VCARD
Edit: hosting the VCF file with the correct mime type let's you download the file and import it. But this is unnecessarily cumbersome. I think that a direct import from the QR code should be possible.
Edit: hosting the VCF file with the correct mime type let's you download the file and import it. But this is unnecessarily cumbersome. I think that a direct import from the QR code should be possible.
VPNer
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Nov 21, 2023, 11:35 PM
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I imported my Android contacts to Google contacts, and now they are all duplicated
I was under the impression my Android contacts are not syncing with my Google contact list, but after importing them to Google contacts they are all duplicated in Android. Any tips how to undo this mess?
I was under the impression my Android contacts are not syncing with my Google contact list, but after importing them to Google contacts they are all duplicated in Android.
Any tips how to undo this mess?
giorgio79
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Aug 17, 2016, 08:32 AM
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Is there a way to write a full vCard via NFC?
Is there a way to write a full vCard to a NFC tag? All of the apps I've tried off Google Play seem to only write the email address or other subset. I've tried apps such as NFC Task Launcher, NFC TagWriter by NXP and NFC Classic Tag Reader/Writer. I'd like to write a vCard with one or two urls, a not...
Is there a way to write a full vCard to a NFC tag? All of the apps I've tried off Google Play seem to only write the email address or other subset. I've tried apps such as NFC Task Launcher, NFC TagWriter by NXP and NFC Classic Tag Reader/Writer.
I'd like to write a vCard with one or two urls, a note field, phone number, email, name, and title. And yes, it's under the storage limit for the tag.
Eddie
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Jul 20, 2012, 05:02 AM
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How to read contact details sent from iphone?
When someone with an iPhone sends me a contact, it appears as a blank MMS message. I found that this happens because group chat is on on their end, but these people are not always my friends, so I can't tell them to turn it off. Is there a way to read these messages?
When someone with an iPhone sends me a contact, it appears as a blank MMS message. I found that this happens because group chat is on on their end, but these people are not always my friends, so I can't tell them to turn it off.
Is there a way to read these messages?
IttayD
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Jul 16, 2014, 04:16 AM
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Which VCF field do I use to specify a group in Android?
I'm creating a VCF file on my website. It works nicely with the export, and most data are being imported, but the group is not created or used on Android. I've tried using `CATEGORIES` and `ORG`. I also tried to look at `KIND` and `MEMBER`, but couldn't figure out how to use those, seems to refer to...
I'm creating a VCF file on my website. It works nicely with the export, and most data are being imported, but the group is not created or used on Android.
I've tried using
CATEGORIES and ORG. I also tried to look at KIND and MEMBER, but couldn't figure out how to use those, seems to refer to URI's and not a group name in the phone book. If I export a contact, it doesn't fill in the group in the contact.
Which VCF field do I use to specify a group in Android?
Kenneth Fribert
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Sep 27, 2013, 04:35 PM
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Can I generate a QR code for a contact?
I'm pretty sure I remember someone showing me a tool they were using to generate QR codes for individual contacts on their Android. How do I generate a QR code for a contact?
I'm pretty sure I remember someone showing me a tool they were using to generate QR codes for individual contacts on their Android.
How do I generate a QR code for a contact?
Amanda
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Jun 10, 2011, 09:31 PM
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How to create QR contact code from vCard
Just came across a website with a QR code that when I pointed the mobile phone camera towards it (I am using a mobile phone with Android 10), it opened a window with Name, Phone, Email, Website, Title and a button to "Import contact". I know that it is possible to generate QR codes specific for soci...
Just came across a website with a QR code that when I pointed the mobile phone camera towards it (I am using a mobile phone with Android 10), it opened a window with Name, Phone, Email, Website, Title and a button to "Import contact".
I know that it is possible to generate QR codes specific for social medias, like WeChat and Facebook and those will detect your social medias, but I am wondering if it is possible to generate a QR contact code readable solely by the camera of my mobile device, ideally from my vCard with similar functionalities as the one above, more specifically the "Import Contact" option?
If yes, how do I do it?
Gonçalo Peres
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Dec 29, 2020, 07:44 PM
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preview a vCard without adding it to the contact list
Is it possible to preview a vCard (placed online, as a file or QR code), the same way it's done for NFC? How it works for NFC: https://youtu.be/NCkBAELTODk Firefox just saves vCard silently, without asking any questions. Trying to open it with contacts asks where to import it.
Is it possible to preview a vCard (placed online, as a file or QR code), the same way it's done for NFC?
How it works for NFC: https://youtu.be/NCkBAELTODk
Firefox just saves vCard silently, without asking any questions. Trying to open it with contacts asks where to import it.
sergio
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Dec 29, 2019, 08:37 AM
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How do I read a vCard?
so someone tells me i need to call a few people. they send me a vCard called contacts.vcf. i import it. i open my phone app and start to dial, but wait...i don't know their names. How do i look up a recent vCard on my phone? How do i know who's contact i've been sent? when i navigate to a .vcf file,...
so someone tells me i need to call a few people. they send me a vCard called contacts.vcf. i import it. i open my phone app and start to dial, but wait...i don't know their names.
How do i look up a recent vCard on my phone? How do i know who's contact i've been sent? when i navigate to a .vcf file, i can't open it. all i can do is import it. polaris office won't import/open it. is there an android txt editor i can use to peruse a vCard?
yours truly,
Confused by vCards
Note 3, kit kat
user56312
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Mar 16, 2014, 11:16 PM
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vCard sent to my Android shows up as text
A friend sent me a couple of contacts via vCard mms. I received them as text messages, with for example the contact avatar rendered as plain text and some of the characters replaced with android emoticons. I could dig the relevant info out of the text message, but I would like to simply import it as...
A friend sent me a couple of contacts via vCard mms. I received them as text messages, with for example the contact avatar rendered as plain text and some of the characters replaced with android emoticons. I could dig the relevant info out of the text message, but I would like to simply import it as a contact to save doing that tedious process. If I press and hold on the text, I get option to save the email or the phone but it is just scraping the text - not properly importing the vcard format.
Is there an easy way to import the contact? (note: for something so simple as this, I would not really be interested in a paid app)
My friend was using iPhone 4. I am on Galaxy Nexus.
wim
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Jan 18, 2012, 02:45 AM
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Import contacts with group
I'd like to import around 1000 contacts within a group into an android phone (OS 7.0). I have the vCard only. Is it somehow possible? Hope this is the right place for that, thanks in advice.
I'd like to import around 1000 contacts within a group into an android phone (OS 7.0). I have the vCard only. Is it somehow possible?
Hope this is the right place for that, thanks in advice.
ArmandoS63
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Mar 28, 2018, 10:28 PM
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Samsung Galaxy A3
Can someone help me please. I imported a vcf card into my Samsung which asks if I want to save it to my contacts. I say yes, I have even selected edit and then done, I have set my contacts to view all and checked each option, but the imported contact is nowhere to be found.
Can someone help me please. I imported a vcf card into my Samsung which asks if I want to save it to my contacts. I say yes, I have even selected edit and then done, I have set my contacts to view all and checked each option, but the imported contact is nowhere to be found.
arthur bosman
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Sep 9, 2015, 08:59 AM
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Hangouts doesn't show the content of vCard
When I receive a vCard (.vcf), Hangouts does not show the content of it! Is there a setting for this or simply this feature is omitted in Hangouts? Here, in this picture I sent a vCard and the other persons sent another vCard. I cannot see the content of either of them. ![vcard as mms][1] And when I...
When I receive a vCard (.vcf), Hangouts does not show the content of it! Is there a setting for this or simply this feature is omitted in Hangouts?
Here, in this picture I sent a vCard and the other persons sent another vCard. I cannot see the content of either of them.
And when I tap the message, I still cannot see the content from there.
And when I tap the message, I still cannot see the content from there.
şaloma
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Oct 23, 2014, 11:33 PM
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vCard sent to my android from an iPhone arrives as text message
Is there any easy way to save a contact which has arrived like - BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 PRODID blah blah blah Into the contacts? I believe it happens when someone "shares" a contact with you from iPhone. If there is only the number or email there it is pretty easy to dig the details out of the text...
Is there any easy way to save a contact which has arrived like
- BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
PRODID blah blah blah
Into the contacts? I believe it happens when someone "shares" a contact with you from iPhone. If there is only the number or email there it is pretty easy to dig the details out of the text message, but if it sends a small profile picture that comes in decoded as a massive text message which is quite annoying. It would be nice to have a way to import that text message into a contact, with the avatar and all.
wim
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Jan 20, 2013, 04:25 AM
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Android Beam - vCard Not Init'ing
When I try to send a contact from one nexus 5 to another, Android Beam fails (everything is enabled). Other things such as a pic, a Play App link, etc. work just fine. When I pull the log, I can see vCard fails to init. I'm not using any special apps. Just plain stock Android running 4.4.2. Any idea...
When I try to send a contact from one nexus 5 to another, Android Beam fails (everything is enabled). Other things such as a pic, a Play App link, etc. work just fine.
When I pull the log, I can see vCard fails to init. I'm not using any special apps. Just plain stock Android running 4.4.2. Any ideas what's causing this issue?
01-20 14:18:56.187 W/ContactsProvider(16573): Failed to init VCardComposer
01-20 14:18:56.187 E/ContactNfcHandler(30975): IOException creating vcard
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Steve
ApolloRaptor
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Jan 20, 2014, 08:52 PM
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Sorting the contact by VCard's categories
My contacts are currently stored on a CardDav server (more specifically, an OwnCloud instance) and I am using DAVDroid to do the synchronization. The problem I have is that I want to be the VCard categories to be used to sort and filter my contacts, a little like the groups of the default contact ap...
My contacts are currently stored on a CardDav server (more specifically, an OwnCloud instance) and I am using DAVDroid to do the synchronization.
The problem I have is that I want to be the VCard categories to be used to sort and filter my contacts, a little like the groups of the default contact app, and the default Contacts apps does not seems to allow that. Also, moving my contacts to gmail storing to use the group feature instead is not really an option.
Regards
Teocali
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Jan 9, 2014, 01:42 PM
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Problem opening VCF files on tf300
I am trying to help my Father debug an issue he has on the TF300 since it upgraded to Jelly Bean. We are both unable to open a vCard file from email or from Astro file explorer. It appears to the user that nothing happens when he hits view in Gmail. He receives vCard emails all of the time from his...
I am trying to help my Father debug an issue he has on the TF300 since it upgraded to Jelly Bean. We are both unable to open a vCard file from email or from Astro file explorer. It appears to the user that nothing happens when he hits view in Gmail. He receives vCard emails all of the time from his work. I can save it, open "people" and then import it, but I cannot import it from Gmail view it. We can open it from Gmail on Jelly Bean on both my Galaxy Nexus and my Nexus 7.
This sounds like a file association issue, but there are no defaults under Contacts. Does anyone have any ideas on how to debug this? Is there an easy way without USB debugging to determine what program gets called?
Edit:
What is the easiest way to log every process opened after a file is clicked on? I am happy to use USB debugging at this point.
Michael WS
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Sep 3, 2012, 08:38 PM
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Add calendar event from QR-encoded vcard
Is there any way to BOTH * decode QR codes for vcard-format calendar events without mangling the dates, AND * add them to the calendar (ICS or newer) when recognized? So far, using QR codes generated from two different sites (http://qrickit.com/qrickit_apps/qrickit_qrcode_creator_vcal.php and http:/...
Is there any way to BOTH
* decode QR codes for vcard-format calendar events without mangling the dates, AND
* add them to the calendar (ICS or newer) when recognized?
So far, using QR codes generated from two different sites (http://qrickit.com/qrickit_apps/qrickit_qrcode_creator_vcal.php and http://blog.qr4.nl/QR-Code-Calendar-Event.aspx) , I've tried three apps. Two of them (QuickMark Lite and QR Barcode Scanner) misinterpreted the dates, and the one that got the dates right (AT&T Code Scanner) didn't know what to do with it after decoding (all it could do was decode it, and display it lamely in a text window).
Bitbang3r
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Jan 9, 2013, 08:10 PM
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