Ever since I got my TB, I realized that my Gmail doesn't sync correctly. I put contacts on my device and it does not show up on my contacts list in GMail. on my PC. What do I need to do?
04CiviCon20s said:
Ever since I got my TB, I realized that my Gmail doesn't sync correctly. I put contacts on my device and it does not show up on my contacts list in GMail. on my PC. What do I need to do?
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an annoying feature of sense is that new contacts entered onto the phone dont get saved as gmail contacts but rather contacts saved in the internal memory of the phone. to change that either when u edit or make a new phontact there is an option to set the contact type and u gotta always select gmail. it doesnt default to it which is annoying thing to remember coming from an AOSP phone
ddarvish said:
an annoying feature of sense is that new contacts entered onto the phone dont get saved as gmail contacts but rather contacts saved in the internal memory of the phone. to change that either when u edit or make a new phontact there is an option to set the contact type and u gotta always select gmail. it doesnt default to it which is annoying thing to remember coming from an AOSP phone
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Thanks for the Speedy quick response. I will try that right now. That "Link" icon that always pops up when booting from a wipe, Confuses the hec out of me. I always choose "Dismiss". I checked my contacts the other day and I had doubled what it was supposed to be and had to manually delete all the dups..Never had this issue w/DX..Guess am still learning Droid still..Thanks again..
edit..That worked. i had no idea that was the case. You're right..That's annoying and there's no way to make that "Google" option a default setting. That's just wrong considering goolge runs android..
Thanks ddar, for answering my question so forum moderator may delete this posting please. Thanks
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So, this is my dilemma.
1. I have a SIM Card. It has contacts on it. Android automatically recognizes them.
2. I have my contacts saved to Google. Android also automatically recognizes them.
If I go to enter in a name to send a text, it brings a pull-down menu, with duplicates of everyone. One is for SIM, and one is for Google Contacts.
The Contact list IS slow with Google instead of it being saved directly to my phone. I want to save them directly to my phone. If I do so, the "send a text to" list triples, so each name appears three times.
The contact list, I can exclude everything but phone contacts. Is this something I can do in Messaging? Should I give up on Messaging and its many issues and move to Handcent and deal with its own issues?
I check before I go to bed and it is bumped off the main page?? Where are the people who can help at XDA anymore? It seems every topic I post gets pushed away
So... anyone?
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Merge Google contacts then uncheck Google backup. Then make sure there's only one of each,then save to ur phone.worked for me!
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Why don't you just go to your contacts page from Gmail on your PC, sort them all out how you want them and then let them automatically sync to your phone?
DirkGently1 said:
Why don't you just go to your contacts page from Gmail on your PC, sort them all out how you want them and then let them automatically sync to your phone?
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this is the easiest method!
Go into your contacts, for every contact that has a duplicate, do this:
1. Press Menu Button and select "Edit Contact"
2. When in the edit contact area, press the menu button again
3. Select "Join" and pick the associated duplicate contact.
This worked great for me with all my duplicate Facebook and Google contacts.
Hope that helps.
Hello,
New android user here after 4 years with an iPhone. I am extremely happy with my skyrocket and have no plans on going anywhere
Slight problem I could use some help with. I am a gmail user and keep 'my contacts' pretty organized and updated since this was the contact list that i synced with my iPhone. I would have thought moving to an android would be even easier, however I have a slight problem that I cannot seem to figure out.
I synced my main google account and chose 'contacts' as one of the items to sync. My contact list was imported just fine, however, upon composing of a new message, when I type a few characters, rather than attempting to match those characters with one of 'my contacts', the system seems to pull suggestions from every single email address i've ever used in my gmail account (over 1400). Obviously I would only rather the system pull from 'my contacts', but I have no idea how to fix this. I've deleted the contact syncing and restarted the phone, verified that there were no contacts in my contact list, but still got the same results when attempting to compose a text message.
Is there a way to delete those contact suggestions for good?
Much appreciation
under groups in the contacts app select your account and arrow down. I believe u can then select exactly ehat syncs. You will have to delete all, and I mean. ALL the contacts on your phone, becuz all 1400 emails on there. Then resync with mew settings. That's should work.
icenight89 said:
under groups in the contacts app select your account and arrow down. I believe u can then select exactly ehat syncs. You will have to delete all, and I mean. ALL the contacts on your phone, becuz all 1400 emails on there. Then resync with mew settings. That's should work.
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Thanks, I will try that. Do you know of a way to bulk delete contacts?
icenight89 said:
under groups in the contacts app select your account and arrow down. I believe u can then select exactly ehat syncs. You will have to delete all, and I mean. ALL the contacts on your phone, becuz all 1400 emails on there. Then resync with mew settings. That's should work.
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I couldn't seen to find anything called 'groups' in my contacts settings
I have moved contacts from SIM to phone, added contacts over time, and before changing phones, moved all contacts to the SIM creating duplicates. Some I think are from facebook and have no numbers. Some I have up to 5 duplicates.
In display options I have "Only contacts with phone numbers" unchecked with everything below also checked. A particular contact has 6 entries. A couple have numbers, most are empty and one facebook. When I select show only contacts with numbers I get 2. When I go to SIM management to export to SIM I see 6 again. There is no way to distinguish which has a number or any way to filter. All there is, is a checkbox and a name 6 times. I even merged the 5 of them and when I went to export to SIM I saw all of them separately again.
I can't write all 800+ to the SIM so how can I only transfer the ones with numbers attached??? The only way I can delete the contacts without numbers is to open the contact, see if it has a number and delete. I seriously don't want to do that 500 times.
Is there a smart way to write only the contacts with numbers to the SIM? I surely would appreciate the help!
Running 2.3.6
Why are you saving to sim card? Just manage them in contacts app and they sync with Google account between devices. There's an option in Google desktop contacts to merge duplicates.
BTW, sim contacts are stored as one contact per number. So a phone contact with 2 numbers will actually create 2 separate entries when exported to sim card.
I'm looking up Google Contacts and it has been discontinued. I found Google Desktop, but then started running across all these plug-in and fixes for different problems of mismatched databases...
I write them to the SIM so I can switch it another phone and have them all. It's just how I've been doing it since before any back-up capabilities. I suppose I need to open a new email account that doesn't have a couple of hundred email addresses to deal with and no phone numbers. Facebook contacts got copied as a name only because they were an entry I guess. No email address or anything.
I do need to find some way of merging all the duplicates. Do you have another suggestion that's not going to require me to read and dig up a discontinued program that I can continue to use? lol
I'm referring to the contacts in your Google (i.e. Gmail) account, certainly no discontinued and no plugin required, just log into it from a browser and go to the contacts tab. All of your contacts should be synced from your phone and you can find duplicates and merge there, which will then sync back to your phone.
Guess I'm making the assumption that you have a Gmail or Google apps account, which is almost a necessity with an Android device.
^ what he said. Its much easier to manage contacts in Gmail and have it sync over. If you change number or lost your phone no need to ask people for their number ever.
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I agree that it's easier to maintain it how you say.
That was nuts! I thought they were already synchronized with gmail, but I guess not. I went through and deleted what I wanted in gmail, then everything in my phone. I went to sync bac and it said it couldn't becuase of too many deleted contacts. I thought, yes, just delete them. Then I watched all my contacts disappear from my gmail account on my PC. Gmail has a cool feature to resore contacts as they were minute by minute. Eventually I got the whole list back and on my phone.
Thanks for the help! Saving them to the SIM is old school now...
I rooted my phone last night and thinking about installing ICS, the second leaked version UCLD2 because I'm not liking the lock screen on 2.3.6. I want to find a setup for my Skyrocket that people are liking, but that's kind of hard.... Hey, here's a great ROM. Camera is broken, WiFi has issues, screen gets stuck in wrong orientation... but it's great! Does't seem to be much out there for the Skyrocket. I was looking in the forum here under my correct phone type. Suggestions? I know, wrong thread, just asking a BTW...
ROM
check out skyrocket Android development for Listing of Roms. I'm using SKYICS
I think that's where I got the UCLD2. I don't like it at all. I don't know if apps don't work because they're not ready, of if it's this version of ICS. People say it sucks for the battery and it's because messaging sits there and uses 90 of the cpu even in my pocket and the phone gets hot for no reason. I'll look up yours. Thanks Raven
Just click menu and merge with google
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I dont know what i'm doing wrong but hoping someone can tell me. Whenever i save a contact I save it as a google contact. I store the number but if i flash a new rom I lose that contact I saved. I tried going into settings>accounts&sync and syncing all the accounts to see if it saved it but when I go on my pc and check my google contacts it doesnt appear. What am I doing wrong? Ive lost many numbers I needed....
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bx10r said:
I dont know what i'm doing wrong but hoping someone can tell me. Whenever i save a contact I save it as a google contact. I store the number but if i flash a new rom I lose that contact I saved. I tried going into settings>accounts&sync and syncing all the accounts to see if it saved it but when I go on my pc and check my google contacts it doesnt appear. What am I doing wrong? Ive lost many numbers I needed....
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I have the same problem and have solved it by backing up my contacts on both my phone and my google account and then restoring them after booting the new ROM. I also use the backup with the contact program and I use GO launcher as my "menu manager". I use the GO Backup tool as a third level of backup. Any other method from anyone else would be useful as it is bit of a messy solution. BUT it does stop me losing contacts. I have also used the Microsoft Outlook tool as yet another backup when I sync. Can't have too many backups when the gremlins are out get your contact list.
Anyone?
My Galaxy S6 will only boot to TWRP BUT it is locked up and unresponsive in TWRP. However, Windows still sees the internal drive on the phone. I can copy anything from the phone to the computer but I have no idea where the contacts are. Can I get my contacts off the phone from Windows like this somehow? Please be my new hero.
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I can't believe there not a way to do this.
You won't be able to pull anything that will help. It's all encrypted by default. If you don't have an encrypted device then you will have to pull the contacts db file.
They should be backed up to Google.
Tiribulus said:
My Galaxy S6 will only boot to TWRP BUT it is locked up and unresponsive in TWRP. However, Windows still sees the internal drive on the phone. I can copy anything from the phone to the computer but I have no idea where the contacts are. Can I get my contacts off the phone from Windows like this somehow? Please be my new hero.
Thanks
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Not sure if you have only saved your contacts locally on your handset however when you put in a new contact you have the option to save it to Google contact at your email address i believe new contacts are saved to your Google account as default so you should check if this is the case ,
You would have had to changed the setting to local save only for them not to be saved online / hope this help's
Hi7m3up said:
Not sure if you have only saved your contacts locally on your handset however when you put in a new contact you have the option to save it to Google contact at your email address i believe new contacts are saved to your Google account as default so you should check if this is the case ,
You would have had to changed the setting to local save only for them not to be saved online / hope this help's
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zelendel said:
You won't be able to pull anything that will help. It's all encrypted by default. If you don't have an encrypted device then you will have to pull the contacts db file.
They should be backed up to Google.
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Thanks guys. Does that mean that they should show up in gmail?
Tiribulus said:
Thanks guys. Does that mean that they should show up in gmail?
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Go to Google. Com and under contacts. Your contacts should all be there as long as you kept syncing on.
zelendel said:
Go to Google. Com and under contacts. Your contacts should all be there as long as you kept syncing on.
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There are 17 contacts there and I had like 400
Have you tried putting your sim to another phone to see if any contacts are saved on it ?
I know your sim only hold's around 100 contacts but it would be a little better than 17
( i know i am stating the obvious )