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Contacts sync with google doesn't seem to be working

I have sync enabled with my google account. I can get my gmail contacts on my phone. However, I do not see my phone contacts when I go to my gmail account.
What am I doing wrong? My contacts from my phone should show up in my gmail contacts right?
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bp787 said:
I have sync enabled with my google account. I can get my gmail contacts on my phone. However, I do not see my phone contacts when I go to my gmail account.
What am I doing wrong? My contacts from my phone should show up in my gmail contacts right?
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Hmmmm... I just checked my gmail and it does display my contacts... an obvious question but do you see the google "g" next to all of your contacts??

bp787 said:
I have sync enabled with my google account. I can get my gmail contacts on my phone. However, I do not see my phone contacts when I go to my gmail account.
What am I doing wrong? My contacts from my phone should show up in my gmail contacts right?
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See if this helps. When in Contacts, tap the (hardware key) Menu and tap Display options. See if Phone and/or Sim is checked. That toggles the display of additional contacts saved in the Phone and SIM memory.
Scratch that. I think you want your phone and/or SIM contacts to show up in your Google Account on your PC right? I don't know how to do that... Sorry, I'm not so helpful after all.

NOFSBIGE said:
Hmmmm... I just checked my gmail and it does display my contacts... an obvious question but do you see the google "g" next to all of your contacts??
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in my contacts, on the phone, I see some contacts that have a "g" next to them. These equate to the ones on my gmail account's contact list. Most of them do not display the "g" though.

RexEscape said:
See if this helps. When in Contacts, tap the (hardware key) Menu and tap Display options. See if Phone and/or Sim is checked. That toggles the display of additional contacts saved in the Phone and SIM memory.
Scratch that. I think you want your phone and/or SIM contacts to show up in your Google Account on your PC right? I don't know how to do that... Sorry, I'm not so helpful after all.
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You're right, I want all of my On-Phone contacts to be sync'd into my Gmail.com contacts list on my pc. and any help is helpful

Your phone\sim contacts will not automatically move to google's contacts online. You have to move them manually. Here is what I did to move my contacts up there:
1. In contacts, under settings, go to Display Options and uncheck the option to show your google contacts. You will turn this back on later. For now, you just need to see the contacts that you want to move to Google.
2. Under settings, go to More and then Import\Export. Then choose to export to SD card. This will create a file on your SD card with your contacts in it. Make note of the location of the file. It will likely be the sd folder and a file called 00001.vcf
3. Exit the contacts app and go to the my files application. Find the file from step #2 and long press it. In the menu that comes up, select Share and then email it to yourself.
4. Now you should be able to get to the file on your computer by downloading it from your email.
(Alternatively if your phone is hooked up to your computer you could just find the file on it and copy it to your computer)
5. Go to google.com/contacts and import the vcf file. They will now be on Google and if you have contact sync on they will get pushed to your phone. I had some duplication between names on my phone and names I had in google so I had to spend some time merging and cleaning them up.
6. In the contacts app on your phone, undo what you did in step #1 by going to display options and checking Google. You will now see all of those contacts with a "g" beside them.
Note - this does mean that your contacts will show multiple times on your phone if your display options have it showing Phone, SIM, and google contacts. I ended up going in and removing all contacts from my phone and SIM card to resolve this. The captivate does try to link similar contacts together it may not bother you. I just decided I wanted all of my contacts in one place and nowhere else.

d'oh you beat me to it. I was doing a test myself to see if it works. It sure does and when I was about to post the instructions, there it was, yours. I couldn't have done a better job.

Nice! This will work.
However, I am quite disappointed that I can't just sync my phone contacts to my google account. It's one of the things I miss coming from WinMo using Microsoft MyPhone.

... you would figure with everything this phone does a simple task such as synching with your gmail account would be a no-brainer in the droid world.
Well.. nothing is perfect.
Thanks for this! I was looking for a way to do it and couldn't figure it out but never got around to asking

Yeah I agree, its kinda bs that they won't just sync. I use "uia back contacts" from the market. Works great with dropbox.
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I know this is old topic, but I have a question about the procedure described previously for getting contacts into google...
What about in the future...if I add a new contact on the phone, will it then automatically sync up to google, or do I have to do this whole process again?

movrshakr said:
I know this is old topic, but I have a question about the procedure described previously for getting contacts into google...
What about in the future...if I add a new contact on the phone, will it then automatically sync up to google, or do I have to do this whole process again?
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When you save the contact make sure you select google contact and it should sync automatically
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[Q] Contacts keep adding everybody I've ever emailed. Any fix?

Hi all. I just migrated from my "old" HTC fuze and got on board the Android train with a Samsung Vibrant. It's fantasic out of the box, but I'm sure after a few more minutes on the forum I'll find something that needs fixing.
One thing that does need fixing is that when it syncs the contacts, it adds anybody I've emailed or responded to, outside of my contact list.
GMail doesn't add these people as contacts, but the droid does. Any fix for this short of going through my contacts every couple days and purging???

I hope this works for you, this is with my Droid Contacts.
Open Contacts -> Settings/More/Options button -> Display Options
There should be a "Choose contacts to display". Select your GMAIL account. Mine is currently set to "My Contacts" and everything else is unchecked. Also check the others listed. Gmail will store random outgoing/incoming emails, as All Contacts, where your contacts are "My Contacts"

Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, all my contacts are google contacts, and nothing on the phone.
Is there any way to get gmail to not store all the various random emails and people I have contact with? I've dug through the settings and even tried to find something in the labs tab that might stop storage of ALL contacts, but couldn't find anything.

kcfried said:
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, all my contacts are google contacts, and nothing on the phone.
Is there any way to get gmail to not store all the various random emails and people I have contact with? I've dug through the settings and even tried to find something in the labs tab that might stop storage of ALL contacts, but couldn't find anything.
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Double check my attacked image, else only other thing i can think of is to remove and readd your google account to your phone.

Ahhh, there's the problem. When I chose Contacts > Display Options, I get a checkbox for my google accounts - there is no drill down for which accounts I can select. I'm on the Samsung Galaxy.
BTW, what screen cap app are you using?

Ok if you can't stop the phone from, getting them then you need to delete them in gmail.
Cause gmail does save everyone you have every replied, or sent email to. It's under other contacts.
just go in there and delete all the ones you don't wont

[Q] Contacts on WP7

I know WP7 is all about connecting people and stuff, but why is "formally known as contacts" now merged with "people"?
I have tons of contacts associated with my email address and scrolling through hundreds of contacts just to find my home number is ridiculous.
So my question is:
Is there a way to only display SIM contacts? Not facebook and email contacts..
EDIT.. I gave up, reseted my phone and made my primary email address my google (which i have no contacts on)
Then later added my windows live account..
Microsoft really needs to step their game up

ceo4eva said:
I know WP7 is all about connecting people and stuff, but why is "formally known as contacts" now merged with "people"?
I have tons of contacts associated with my email address and scrolling through hundreds of contacts just to find my home number is ridiculous.
So my question is:
Is there a way to only display SIM contacts? Not facebook and email contacts..
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Apparently SIM contacts can be imported but have no idea what about seeing them.
As for scrolling, you have Search button in People so no need to scroll.
You can also select by letter.

doministry said:
Apparently SIM contacts can be imported but have no idea what about seeing them.
As for scrolling, you have Search button in People so no need to scroll.
You can also select by letter.
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Yeah i know what you mean but in almost every letter category there are at least 20-39 contacts, since im using my business email for my phone...
I have imported my contacts and they are right in the mix in the overkill of contacts. Searching for them is meh, but if its the last resort i dont think Windows Phone 7 is for me. I just wanted the ability to slide straight to my contacts on the go without the hassle. Theres no reason my boss should be even there lol

If I understand correctly, you want only the contacts on your SIM to appear, but not contacts from your email accounts and facebook?
Not exactly sure how to show the SIM contacts, or if they show up by default. You could try going to Settings-->Email & Accounts, and clicking on the listed email accounts and unchecking "Contacts" under "Content to Sync". Also, going to Settings--> swype right to applications --> people, you can select to "Only add Facebook info to existing contacts" under "Include Facebook friends as contacts", assuming you haven't tried these steps already. That should prevent the contacts on your email account from being seen on your phone.
As for the SIM contacts, i would assume they show up once they are detected? Maybe someone else could verify, since I don't have any way of checking.

Yeah I know about those settings, I even removed my Facebook account from the phone. But with my windows live account under content to sync it only has "email" as an option. Nothing else.. I also heard that since its the primary email It does everything by default and cannot be removed without a factory reset.. Which i just cannot do :[
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Gmail my contact syncing problem

Hi you guys,
I've just moved from Blackberry to Android HTC Chacha and I face with problem with syncing my contact stored in Gmail.
When I do the syncing from Gmail to HTC Chacha, it syncs not only My Contacts (only phone number) but also all the email addresses which I sent email to.
My phone contact in Gmail is nearly 300 but the contacts stored in the phone now become > 900 contacts.
I do some searches and find one solution:
- Go to people -> menu -> view -> Google -> tick only My Contacts.
Now when I view contact (people) i see only the contact with phone number. But when I do the search for a contact, it appears the results of email addresses too.
Could you guys plzz help me on that

Ah after awhile I found a way to solve this trouble.
Sol. 1: If you just want to see & use the phone contact in the mobile phone; all you have to do:
- Open people app (contact).
- Press Menu key then View.
- In Google menu, untick all except for Ungrouped Contacts
- Then back, press menu key, delete -> delete all.
(Don't know whether when you do the sync again the email addresses will bump to you phone again).
Sol. 2: (what I myself used):
- Open gmail
- Choose contact function
- In the contact list, choose Other Contacts. Then just delete all the contacts (email addresses) here.
- Delete all the contact in mobile phone, then do syncing.
Some ppl suggest that we may choose which list to be viewed from the people app (press menu -> view). But actually it is nonsense. Even though what we see is the phone contacts only, but when do the search for certain contact; the email address appears

great ways

i have a question , when i sync gmail accout and my phone , i got all contact duplicated in gmail contact and phone contact

xenggl said:
i have a question , when i sync gmail accout and my phone , i got all contact duplicated in gmail contact and phone contact
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i have same problem too....
anyone have idea?

xenggl said:
i have a question , when i sync gmail accout and my phone , i got all contact duplicated in gmail contact and phone contact
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s.m.hosein said:
i have same problem too....
anyone have idea?
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I think you're just going to have to manually delete duplicates the first time. After that, there shouldn't be any issues with duplicate entrees. I've only had that issue when I put contacts on my phone first and then synced with Gmail after.
That's just based on some of my experience. So anybody, correct me if I am wrong.

Question I want to see only one set of account contacts than 2 in whatsapp / contacts

Hello,
I have two google accounts in my device (because I want to see 2 Gmail mails but only that) and when I serach for contact I see it from two accounts (it's written in two accounts) also how to set that the whatsapp will see only contacts from one account and from the second one?
Thank you

In Settings/Google choose the relevant account and you can turn on and off sync for any feature (calendar, contacts...). Don't know what will happen with the already synced contacts though, you may have to remove and re-add that second account.

I7210I said:
Hello,
I have two google accounts in my device (because I want to see 2 Gmail mails but only that) and when I serach for contact I see it from two accounts (it's written in two accounts) also how to set that the whatsapp will see only contacts from one account and from the second one?
Thank you
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At least in the "Contacts" app, clicking on the 3 lines at the top left seems to separate the contacts between "all accounts" and the various accounts you may have on the device.
I does not seem that there is the same capability in the Phone app -- so, if anything, you'd have to go through the Contacts app particularly to accomplish what you seek (if you go by this method).
Can't say anything on whatsapp as I've never used it...sorry...

Thank you both, yes that what I did, add the first account and sync it all, and than add the second one and not sync all, just the GMAIL, but the thing is that in whats app I see all the contacts and in the contacts app itself, when I search for someone, the result is from both of the accounts, but when I look only at the contacts app itself I see only from one account

I7210I said:
Thank you both, yes that what I did, add the first account and sync it all, and than add the second one and not sync all, just the GMAIL, but the thing is that in whats app I see all the contacts and in the contacts app itself, when I search for someone, the result is from both of the accounts, but when I look only at the contacts app itself I see only from one account
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mmmm if you are looking more for whatsapp specific condition/circumstance, it would probably serve you better to change the title of your thread to reflect that; vs. the generic "i want to see only one set of account contacts (in general)"....

simplepinoi177 said:
mmmm if you are looking more for whatsapp specific condition/circumstance, it would probably serve you better to change the title of your thread to reflect that; vs. the generic "i want to see only one set of account contacts (in general)"....
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It's whatsapp and the contacts app...both of them actually

I7210I said:
It's whatsapp and the contacts app...both of them actually
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Oh, okay...it was a bit hard to follow in your Post #4...
Well, at least it was figured out with the contacts app....
If anything, it would seem that it would be on the developers of WhatsApp to implement that protocol/feature. You may want to look into trying to contact them with a "feature request" or whatever similar/comparable they might have to such a thing...

and for the contacts app, there is solution for the search and to see only results from one account?
Thank you