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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] Google Contact sync

So every time you add a contact to your phone, google will sync all my contacts to my google account?
if i reformat everything, then connect google to my phone, all my contacts will be there on my phone?

yupppppppp

P00t said:
So every time you add a contact to your phone, google will sync all my contacts to my google account?
if i reformat everything, then connect google to my phone, all my contacts will be there on my phone?
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Yes as long as you sign into the same Google account that have your contacts.
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but we cant format every time we update a contact. why is the sync not working in mobile. Its showing error"sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly"
i have been seeing this message for the past one week.Is there any solution for this without formatting?

dooyoo222 said:
Yes as long as you sign into the same Google account that have your contacts.
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I dont recommend using Google Sync. Its most most inbredly retarded system ever. Every time you sync it duplicates everything (which is not technically a sync). Right now I have anywhere from 4-7 copies of the same contact number, it creates a new copy if you change the name, or add an email address etc. Then you have to "link" them to not see the duplicates, then when you want to call or text it asks which of the 7 numbers you want to use (even through they are all the same exect effing number). Google needs to take the kid with the waterwings, helmet, and droolcup out of that position.
I also have yet to see where you can delete or edit the "database" where it syncs from. Because under my contacts in google, it only shows 1 number, 1 email address etc. Yet as soon as I "sync", bam, 7 copies of everything.

GTIVRon said:
I dont recommend using Google Sync. Its most most inbredly retarded system ever. Every time you sync it duplicates everything (which is not technically a sync). Right now I have anywhere from 4-7 copies of the same contact number, it creates a new copy if you change the name, or add an email address etc. Then you have to "link" them to not see the duplicates, then when you want to call or text it asks which of the 7 numbers you want to use (even through they are all the same exect effing number). Google needs to take the kid with the waterwings, helmet, and droolcup out of that position.
I also have yet to see where you can delete or edit the "database" where it syncs from. Because under my contacts in google, it only shows 1 number, 1 email address etc. Yet as soon as I "sync", bam, 7 copies of everything.
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I wish I could tell you what you're doing wrong. I added my contacts through GMail - Contacts about a year ago. I've deleted then synced dozens of times and I still have the exact same 300ish contacts and they never double up. I used to have issues with contacts doubling up and creating more than necessary when I was on my iPhone - but since I've gone Android I've had no issues whatsoever.

tirumal said:
but we cant format every time we update a contact. why is the sync not working in mobile. Its showing error"sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly"
i have been seeing this message for the past one week.Is there any solution for this without formatting?
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sounds like you restored your contacts through MyBackup or something similar?

Google contact sync works great. Been using it for the last 3 year since I had an iPhone 3G. It definitely works much better on Android though.

I don't restore using backups, I restore using sync. Just for S&G's I wiped and synced again. It re-duplicated. I now have up to 8 entries for majority of my contacts.
I've read that if you go to Gmail (browser) and set up the contacts for your phone in a "My Contacts" folder, then wipe your contacts and load only "My Contacts" when syncing, that it will work. To me the dumb part is that you have to go in and set up every one of your contacts from scratch.
Instead of only giving the option to "link" all those duplicates it should give the option to merge, or delete select contacts.
Even though the contacts are "linked" when I go to People or whatever (the contacts app) so there is only 1 "entry" or listing, I feel that to be fixed by Sense. However, when I compose a new message, right off the bat in A's, it starts off with 5 entries for the same contact. An e-mail address, a 10 digit phone number, a + and then 10 digit number, and there two more for the 11 digit number (1 then number, and +1 then number)
It's really, really retarded.

GTIVRon said:
I don't restore using backups, I restore using sync. Just for S&G's I wiped and synced again. It re-duplicated. I now have up to 8 entries for majority of my contacts.
I've read that if you go to Gmail (browser) and set up the contacts for your phone in a "My Contacts" folder, then wipe your contacts and load only "My Contacts" when syncing, that it will work. To me the dumb part is that you have to go in and set up every one of your contacts from scratch.
Instead of only giving the option to "link" all those duplicates it should give the option to merge, or delete select contacts.
Even though the contacts are "linked" when I go to People or whatever (the contacts app) so there is only 1 "entry" or listing, I feel that to be fixed by Sense. However, when I compose a new message, right off the bat in A's, it starts off with 5 entries for the same contact. An e-mail address, a 10 digit phone number, a + and then 10 digit number, and there two more for the 11 digit number (1 then number, and +1 then number)
It's really, really retarded.
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I'm guessing this is not what the majority of people using Google contact sync experience. Like I said, I've been using this for awhile and this has not happened to me on my Inspire, and I've flashed several ROMs and had to resync my contacts over and over. I've never had to "start from scratch". Maybe you need to go to the google help forums.

Maybe this isn't my first android phone, maybe its happened since i had my captivate, maybe it also happens on a coworkers droid x, maybe it also happens on another coworkers nexus, may it does the same thing on everybody else I know's phones.
I never said i have to start from scratch, I said that seems to be the only way to set it up to work right, is to do it from GMail on a computer. Creating those contacts in a folder you create called My Contacts.
Do me a favor. Use a stock mms app. Go to create new text, then add recipients. Unless you set all your contacts up in the My Contacts tab of google before ever syncing from a fresh phone/flash, you will see duplicates there.

It is possible to merge your contacts thru Gmail online. It does a fair job of removing duplicates but not a perfect job.
You're not the only one who can't stand the way Google handles contacts. It's a major problem coming from WM6 and Outlook to Google. I'm hoping that HTC's tool to import contacts will work and I'll be able to clear out a ton of stuff from my Google contacts that's bogus.

GTIVRon said:
Maybe this isn't my first android phone, maybe its happened since i had my captivate, maybe it also happens on a coworkers droid x, maybe it also happens on another coworkers nexus, may it does the same thing on everybody else I know's phones.
I never said i have to start from scratch, I said that seems to be the only way to set it up to work right, is to do it from GMail on a computer. Creating those contacts in a folder you create called My Contacts.
Do me a favor. Use a stock mms app. Go to create new text, then add recipients. Unless you set all your contacts up in the My Contacts tab of google before ever syncing from a fresh phone/flash, you will see duplicates there.
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Looking in my gmail contacts, they are indeed in a My Contacts group.

during sync I am facing following problems:
1. My android contact nos automatically converted from xxxxxxxxxxx to xx xxx xxxxxxxxx on google.
2. Added pictures not uploaed on google.
Is there any solutions.

Inspire and microsoft exchange 2007 contacts/sync?

Here is my issue, also want to mention I had the same issue with a completely stock inspire before ever flashing my ROM this week. Ever since I got my inspire months ago I had this issue....
My default account for work is set up on my phone..
Emails and calender sync without any issues (both ways)
Contacts will not sync from my phone.
If I enter a new contact on my work computer it will push to my phone but not the other way around.
I need my contacts off my phone sync to my work computer!
Settings on my phone for my default account is:
auto-sync
sync contacts (checked)
sync calendar (checked)
Automatic (push) selected
default account selected
When I do a manual sync, nothing. Tried rebooting and nothing, like I said had the same issue with stock ROM.
Everyone at work has the iphone (is what I had before and it sync without any issues) so I do not have anyone over here to compare or check with.
Any suggestions out there?
So everything else works except I can not sync contact from my phone to my computer...

Need to change up my question a little. I discovered that if I enter a new contact it does sync to my computer. But how do I sync my existing (580) contacts to my computer off my phone? If I go to my work computer under contacts it only shows the one or two I just tested, not the other 580 contacts......
Calendar and email work great both ways as always.....

swatcop1 said:
Need to change up my question a little. I discovered that if I enter a new contact it does sync to my computer. But how do I sync my existing (580) contacts to my computer off my phone? If I go to my work computer under contacts it only shows the one or two I just tested, not the other 580 contacts......
Calendar and email work great both ways as always.....
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You save bet would be to remove the contacts on your phone and then reload them, when you import them choose google and not phone.

Can you explain a little more please, not following you...
thanks

swatcop1 said:
Can you explain a little more please, not following you...
thanks
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Ok your issue is with the contacts that are stored on your phone not syncing up to your account. how did the contacts on your phone get there? Did you import your contacts from sd card?

I did a backup before I flashed I guess. When I restored my back-up it installed all my contacts back.
I used TB for all my app back-ups before I flashed. If I recall before I even set up my work email on the new ROM I already had all my contact back. I assumed they came from the TB.

swatcop1 said:
I did a backup before I flashed I guess. When I restored my back-up it installed all my contacts back.
I used TB for all my app back-ups before I flashed.
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What did you use to back things up? Was it titanium back up or another app?

Yes sir TB, the paid version.

swatcop1 said:
Yes sir TB, the paid version.
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Ok here is what I would do as I never use TIBU to back up contacts. Go into people and hit menu, select export to SD card. Then try to re import them. It should ask you where you want to import them. Choose Google or you exchange account.

Well I guess what happens is that TB also backs up your data within you apps. I am using GO contacts. Thats how it backed up my contact I assume.
Will try what you just mentioned right now.

swatcop1 said:
Well I guess what happens is that TB also backs up your data within you apps. I am using GO contacts. Thats how it backed up my contact I assume.
Will try what you just mentioned right now.
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Yes it does and that why I dont use it for anything contact related as I believe (mind you this is just my 2 cents) that contacts are wrapped up in the system data as well. I normally just export all contacts to sd and then import them. I dont even use google to back them up lol

swatcop1 said:
Here is my issue, also want to mention I had the same issue with a completely stock inspire before ever flashing my ROM this week. Ever since I got my inspire months ago I had this issue....
My default account for work is set up on my phone..
Emails and calender sync without any issues (both ways)
Contacts will not sync from my phone.
If I enter a new contact on my work computer it will push to my phone but not the other way around.
I need my contacts off my phone sync to my work computer!
Settings on my phone for my default account is:
auto-sync
sync contacts (checked)
sync calendar (checked)
Automatic (push) selected
default account selected
When I do a manual sync, nothing. Tried rebooting and nothing, like I said had the same issue with stock ROM.
Everyone at work has the iphone (is what I had before and it sync without any issues) so I do not have anyone over here to compare or check with.
Any suggestions out there?
So everything else works except I can not sync contact from my phone to my computer...
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There is a little computer application that will sync your google contacts with outlook easily too but it's a little screwy sometimes.

I exported them to the SD card then I imported them back but It did not asked where to import them back to.
After it was finished they did not sync. Just to check it out I enter a NEW contact on my phone and sure enough it went to my computer. There is gotta be a way to put my existing contacts on my computer...
Also what to mention that when I exported them to my SD card, all my contacts were still on my phone (i checked after I exported) even though I did not import them yet. Is this right? Or should I export my contacts to my SD card then delete all contacts in my app then go back and import from my SD card?

Correction should I delete all contacts in my native contact list, not the app...then import from SD card

Hold on, my correction, it did ask what account to import them into and I did select the wrong account. Doing it now and importing them into my google email account as you mentioned.

chicobrown726 said:
There is a little computer application that will sync your google contacts with outlook easily too but it's a little screwy sometimes.
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Thank but my contacts are sync.ing Just trying to get the pre existing one to off my phone.

swatcop1 said:
Thank but my contacts are sync.ing Just trying to get the pre existing one to off my phone.
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Did importing them to your google account work? It should. just might have to force a refresh.

Yes I checked my google account and they are there, but I do not use my google account for anything other than the market. I am trying to get them on my exchange account at work.

Now I have three of everything in my contact list lol

swatcop1 said:
Yes I checked my google account and they are there, but I do not use my google account for anything other than the market. I am trying to get them on my exchange account at work.
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Ok your exchange account should pick up your google contacts. I am not sure as to why they are not. When you set up your exchange account does it normally sync your google contacts to it? I am playing this by ear as I dont use exchange at all. (Pisses my IT guy right off)

[Q] Google contacts sync issue on ICS leak

KNOWN ISSUE FOR UCLC4 leak ONLY (CONFIRMED):
1- Add a new contact in phone and add it as "Google contact" to your gmail.com account entered in phone.
2- Force a sync now in settings > Accounts & Sync.
3- Login to your gmail. View contacts. Is the new contact in your Gmail contacts list?
METHOD 2 (DOES NOT FIX Sync issue but was my attempt to...):
1- Export contacts displayed in phone to vcf file on SD Card.
2- Wipe all contacts on phone, push sync. THIS WILL PUSH a delete sync to google contacts on server. Continue to confirm mass delete until it is completely sync'd and contacts are gone from servers.
3- Import VCF contacts to PHONE but NOT as GOOGLE contacts.
4- Perform Merge to google. Force a sync.
Does contacts appear in Gmail Contacts or Google contacts on server?
THIS IS A CONFIRMED ISSUE with ICS 4.0 UCLC4 leak!! FIXED IN UCLD2 leak!!

wow.... no one is getting new numbers to add to their phone huh?? interestingly small.....closed world.... lol

I can confirm the sync issue
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mitch4113 said:
I can confirm the sync issue
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Thank you for responding. Anyone else? Just create a random number in your phone, force the sync on contacts.
Login to gmail . View contacts. Does that contact come up?

I don't talk to strangers why do I want their number in my phone?
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jamesd86 said:
I don't talk to strangers why do I want their number in my phone?
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Must not be a lady's man; or you're too young, or you're married and too old.
if you're old, but not too old; you must not do well with your coworkers outside of your job?
lol jk jk

confirmed issue on my end. ended up losing a friends contact info cause of it.
There is an option in the settings to merge contacts with google. Only i am not sure if that will merge everything with my google address book or not. Don't want to do that.

Confirmed the issue

I have saved contacts to a VCF file on external SD; imported as PHONE CONTACTS ONLY. Then cleared all my google contacts in gmail.
Then go back to my phone and perform a "MERGE WITH GOOGLE". Then force a sync. It does not push those contacts back to google servers. !!!

Any word on a fix or work around for this yet?

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Any word on a fix or work around for this yet?
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The only fix is to add contacts to phone, export phone-only contacts to VCard. Import to google contacts in web browser. Force sync. Google server will push it out back to phone and keep it in gmail servers.

This is truly kind of annoying.. Lost a girl's number cause of this. Lucky she stalked me otherwise I could have been SOL.
Is anyone working on a solution not workaround to this?
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I wish I would have read this before. I lost like 80 contacts!!!

Oh mama...
And i was about to install one of the new ROMS.
I am shocked nobody notice this till now. I add one of two contacts a day.

Hit the THANKS if this helped ya, then maybe a MOD will see this and make it a sticky? cuz this is probably the #1 biggest bug in ICS for our phones LOL

I deleted a number for one of my contacts and added a new number for them through google voice on the web....and my phone updated with the change with in 5min running the ICS leak

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I deleted a number for one of my contacts and added a new number for them through google voice on the web....and my phone updated with the change with in 5min running the ICS leak
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If you take a look at my ICS 4.0 bugs & quirks thread; you will see that ANY change on google WEB... WILL push back to phone. But new contact / number in PHONE will NOT push back to google web / servers.

This is what i found so far. Okay well hope this helps someone to find a fix...
1. create new contact in phone, wont sync with google account.
2. create new contact on line (google account), syncs with phone
3. Edit existing contacts in phone, all edits to contact made in the phone will sync with google account.
So if you have an existing contact and and you edit any fields from the phone, the changes will sync up with your google account. Only new contacts created in the phone will not sync.

Does saving to the contact to phone then doing a merge work? This is a shame.

there is a contacks.apk that works. unfortunately I can't do any manual dialing after. in the themes and apps section there is a thread on inverted apps. I am going to look to see if I can get the corresponding phone.apk to see if that works. but I did save a contact and the addition was pushed to google.

[Q] Nexus 5 won't sync gmail contacts?

Hi All,
I tried to find something similar but to the best of my searching abilities, nobody seems to be having the same issue.
I've been using an HTC One (a GNex before that) for the last few months. When I got it, like my other previous Android phones, at the initial setup it pulled down all of my contacts.
When I set up my N5, however, the contact list was the last one from my GNex! The hundreds of new contacts since then are not on the new phone. It's enough to make me want to just sell the phone instead of going through each contact individually.
On my HTC one in the People app it shows 494 contacts under my gmail address, and last sync was a few minutes ago. On the N5 I don't get the same screen, but I have a total of 123 people in the app, and it shows that it has synced with my gmail.
Does anyone know what's going on here, and how to get my contacts onto the N5?
Thanks!

You probably saved your new contacts on the htc on the phone not on google...
Change them to google or export them all and import into google.
ALSO, make sure you had the htc one set to sync contacts...settings..accounts...google...click on your email..

apristel said:
You probably saved your new contacts on the htc on the phone not on google...
Change them to google or export them all and import into google.
ALSO, make sure you had the htc one set to sync contacts...settings..accounts...google...click on your email..
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My contacts are saved to Google. In my People app on the HTC, When I click to choose source, "Google (my email)" is selected, with 495 contacts.
As I said in the original post, everything is synced, and the last sync was a few minutes before the post.
I tried the export and import but all that did was double the number of contacts under my Google account (gmail address).
Is there anything else I can try?

I am currently using an iPhone 4 and the idiots at Apple have removed the option to export contacts to Google in their iTunes program... SO now I have installed a little app called Bump, that should help me transfer all my contacts to the new Nexus 5 when i get it. You can try it with your two phones if you like. Seems pretty simple, however i have never used it yet...
Here is a link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bumptech.bumpga&hl=en

well if what you said is true, you should be in the htc one forum, not the nexus 5. Apparently your htc is what messed up.
I really have to go with user error here, its pretty basic stuff. I highly doubt your htc one failed to sync contacts even though it was set to sync google contacts...if so..you are the "one."
I know that sounds rude, but, really.....its basic stuff here.
GOOGLE how to backup contacts and restore them on an android phone, unless you want your hand held here.

Hey whatever happened to the OP's problem ? Did he/she fix it ? I have recently transferred all my contact from my iPhone to my new N5 with absolutely no problems with this app. I can confirm it works like a charm and totally recommend it. It takes less then 10 seconds to complete everything. The actual transfer took like 1 second !!!

I have a similar issue.
I too am coming from an HTC One, but I don't think that's the problem in my case. I've logged into my Nexus 5 using my Google credentials, but none of my Google contacts are appearing. I checked my contacts list in Gmail from my laptop to be sure, and all my contacts are there. I went back to my Nexus 5 and manually synced contacts in the settings, but nothing changed; my contacts are still not showing up.
I would love to know if anyone has found a resolution to this issue.

Have you made sure that "Auto-sync app data" is checked off,
"All contacts" is selected in Contacts to display,
and "Contacts" is checked off in your Gmail sync account.

Are you using a corporate Google account? You may need to ask your administrator for help.

Did you log into http://contacts.google.com and see if they are shown there? If so they must also be in My Contacts which the HTC might not be setting. Also on your phone, check settings and then check if they are in another folder just not being displayed.