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Contacts Sync issues

I got my captivate on last thursday for $349 commit free. Great! Anyway, I migrated from a WinMo Tilt 2 that was hacked to DeepShining custom ROM with the latest winmo build. I was using MyPhone service to sync all my contacts online. Now that I have switched to android (and i love it), I need a way to transfer all my contacts from winmo to google. since the phone contacts refuse to sync with outlook on my desktop, i transferred all of them directly to my captivate using BT exchange. now the problem is that the phone contacts wont sync with my gmail contacts. any ideas on how to do that?

I think the best way to get contacts on to an Android phone is to import them into your gmail contacts list, then tell the phone to sync with your gmail contacts.
I came from an iphone, so I had all my contacts in outlook. You can export all your contacts from outlook to a CSV file. Then go to gmail and import your contacts in to gmail using that same CSV file. Then go to your phone under settings there's a "accounts and sync" menu. You can tell it to sync with google there.
At least thats how I did it. It worked fine, it synced all my contacts within a few seconds.

Agreed. I came from a Blackberry and just synced all my contacts to my gmail account, did some cleanup (easier to do from my laptop), and then synced it to my new phone. Very easy and quick.

Has anyone with Google contacts tried to set up a group? I have a work team that I text sometimes and it would be easy to send a group message vs add them one by one. When I go under groups on the phone I can not add any contacts (probably since they are all Google contacts). I also created the group through my computer but it does not show as a group on my phone. I looked for sync settings but I didn't find anything. Any suggestions???
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The problem is my winmo phone wont sync up with outlook. Any clues as to why this happens?
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jayrod88 said:
Has anyone with Google contacts tried to set up a group? I have a work team that I text sometimes and it would be easy to send a group message vs add them one by one. When I go under groups on the phone I can not add any contacts (probably since they are all Google contacts). I also created the group through my computer but it does not show as a group on my phone. I looked for sync settings but I didn't find anything. Any suggestions???
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I think this is a weakness of the Captivate. I have tried several options and none work perfect.
I ended up using "gsyncit" to do the Outlook to Gmail Contacts/Calendar syncing. When the Gmail Contacts/Calendar entries sync to your phone however (this will happen automatically), they end up in a single Group ("[email protected]"). So, I use the Android app "Groupy" for contacts and it keeps things sorted on my Captivate. Workable solution but kind of cludgy.

Groupy doesnt work right either...
1) Its slow as all get out, so slow it takes 30 seconds to load on my scree, then it pops up a box to "force close" or "wait". After another 20 seconds it finally loads...and this is with the latest update build as of 7/27.
2) When it does finally load, it shows my gmail contact folders, however the "Family" folder has 0, yet I have quite a few in that folder on Gmail contacts.
Bottom line, groupy doesnt work right, but worst of all a basic function to have your android phone sync correctly with your gmail contacts should work out of the box. PERIOD. I dont understand how this problem isnt at the top of everyone's complaints along with GPS and MMS?

This is still a big issue for me! Samsung needs to fix this and gps now!
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Linking facebook contacts with phonebook

I have a nexus one and have been trying to sync the contacts in the phonebook since I got it. Some of the contacts got synced because the names are identical, but with lots of them the names are different and I dont want to change them to their facebook names. too serious is there any way i can link phonebook contacts with facebook contacts without giving them the exact names?

I use SyncMyPix from the Market,it syncs your Facebook contacs pics with your contact list.....not sure if does sync their #,give it a try
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[Q] problem with g calendar always trying to sync

My calendar is continuously syncing and is draining the battery on my my touch 4g. Any suggestions on fixing this?

Check your sync settings for one and if that doesn't work just turn off the calendar syncing then when you put something new in manually sync it again
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Also check to see if you are syncing more than ONE calendar in the settings...
I noticed mine is syncing the FACEBOOK calendar with my friends birthdays, and honestly thats not info I want on my calendar....
Also check your credentials, maybe its trying to sync a calendar with a bad password? Just a suggestion, Im no expert...

Delete the synce and re add it. Should take care if the issue
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So never mind, I fixed it. I been reading around and if you set via android reocuring dates in google calendar it causes some kind of sync problem. I just went thur all of my calendar, deleted and re-entered the dates.
always going to enter reocuring dates via computer from now on.

[Q] Syncing Issue - MIUI

So I recently freshly flashed MIUI.
I got my contacts synced with my google account. but then when I installed facebook and clicked sync with existing contacts, it synced ALL OF MY FACEBOOK friends to my contact list. I can't remove my facebook friend contacts...help..Its keep on doing that. I have "sync with existing contacts" only and its syncing all the facebook accounts to my contacts..
and how do I manually sync in MIUI?

does anyone have this problem??

You would probably get an answer/help with your issue if you posted your question in the miui thread.
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So I recently freshly flashed MIUI.
I got my contacts synced with my google account. but then when I installed facebook and clicked sync with existing contacts, it synced ALL OF MY FACEBOOK friends to my contact list. I can't remove my facebook friend contacts...help..Its keep on doing that. I have "sync with existing contacts" only and its syncing all the facebook accounts to my contacts..
and how do I manually sync in MIUI?
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that facebook app does that with any ROM anytime you sync...
log out of facebook and reboot then go to menu-->settings---->personal----> accounts & Sync settings---> turn off auto sync ....under that you should see your facebook and google accounts with sync off.....anytime you you need to sync just go back there and click your account to do it manually

Anyone figure a way to back up phone calendar to google calendar?

I was able to set my friends phone to use the gmail calendar for all new appointments, but all previous ones are set to pc sync. Is there a way to back those up to the gmail calendar. I've googled for days and only read post with people with same problem and no solution although they were a year old. Hoping it was solved somewhere. Thanks in advance.

If you just want to save your call logs then I recommend SMS Backup+ its free and will sync your txt,mms & call logs to your Gmail and is easy to set up
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Did you even read the OP?
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Hey there, I don't have my pc sync checked. I only have gmail sync checked. It sync all my phone contacts and calendar events with my phone and vice versa. Hope this helps.