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Market Gmail contact sync issues

I installed the gmail update that was in the market. Since I installed it, my contacts have not synced with gmail. I noticed my phone was not sleeping and started looking and I found that the google contacts were not syncing but would try and after a few minutes it would get this error message:
Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly
This has been happening for 7 days and after the sync fails it trys again and prevents the phone from sleeping. I have tried removing this update and I have been unable to. The only solution I know is to wipe the data and flash the rom again. Is anybody else having this issue?

I am on a stock ROM and i still get stupid issues revolving around Gmail. The giant POS keeps my phone trying to sync all day, so I use ATK to simply kill Gmail, then go into running applications and stop the sync.
It is VERY annoying.

I did some more testing and here is the strange thing. The mail and calendar sync with no problems. It is just the contact sync that causes this error. I made a change to a contact while logged into gmail on my pc. I enabled the contact sync and after a little while it gave me that error. However it did sync the contact and change I made on the pc was reflected in the contact now on my Evo. So I did it the other way and changed a contact on the Evo and synced again. After getting the error message I checked the contact on my pc and the change was there. So the contacts are syncing but something is not telling the evo that the sync was completed properly. Anybody have any ideas what is causing all of this? I have to leave it disabled for the contacts if I want my phone to sleep.

Though I have encountered the same problem as described but I would like to eliminate the connection issue first. My interest is to sync contact from gmail to phone (a Samsung Galaxy S with Android 2.1). Normally I will not use 3g (GPRS is too expensive in this part of the world) but connecting thru wifi. I am very sure the connection is thru as I am able to access my gmail account thru the phone browser. I then get to phone menu and start syncing (setting, sync) but got the "sync is currently experiencing........" error message. My question is whether there is any restriction that sync must go thru 3g (GPRS) connection or not.
- JayCee

juliantchan said:
Though I have encountered the same problem as described but I would like to eliminate the connection issue first. My interest is to sync contact from gmail to phone (a Samsung Galaxy S with Android 2.1). Normally I will not use 3g (GPRS is too expensive in this part of the world) but connecting thru wifi. I am very sure the connection is thru as I am able to access my gmail account thru the phone browser. I then get to phone menu and start syncing (setting, sync) but got the "sync is currently experiencing........" error message. My question is whether there is any restriction that sync must go thru 3g (GPRS) connection or not.
- JayCee
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I have tried it connected via wifi, 3G, and 4G. For me it didn't matter what connection I was using I still get that sync error when syncing the contacts.

Well I thought everything was fine until today. I noticed my awake time was once again the same as the up time. I got to looking and not it appears as if the google calendar is hanging on the sync. It does not give an error like the contacts does but the sync icon never goes away. I unchecked it from the sync and the phone is sleeping again. I don't know what is going on. Time to factory reset and flash the rom again.

Same issue. I've flashed several different roms in the last few days. Any rom that has the updated Gmail app is causing my contacts to "loop" in the sync and eventually give me the "currently experiencing" error message with lovely "!" (thanks, needed that). Older versions work fine.
Here's the wierd part...
I added a contact online and it still synced perfectly to the phone.
I added a contact to the phone and it showed up online.
THUS - I believe this is a phantom error message.
Hope that helps. I'm annoyed myself. I wanna update but keep running my old backup since sync isnt an issue with the older gmail.

Slightly off topic, but task killers are completely worthless, especially on Froyo.
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I believe the error message is invalid as well. But it keeps the phone from sleeping because it keeps trying to sync. The only fix is to enable it, sync, then disable the contacts from syncing. Has anybody been able to find out any information as to what is going on with it? I was wondering if it is something that we can report as a bug to either htc or google.

Stock ROM, Rooted, Sync hang?

I am on the stock ROM rooted. I have a gmail, google apps, facebook app - Not HTC Sense (contacts only) and weather(3 hours) accounts setup. Something seems to hang while syncing and the sync icon stays on for a long time. This will cause emails to be delayed in showing notification.
I cannot figure out what it is that is causing the issue. I am also assuming this is not good for battery life. When it is hung like that I can look at each account on the accounts & sync tab and none of them show active syncing. If I cancel the sync and then sync now they will all sync and complete as expected.
Any one else seeing this? Any ideas on figuring out what account is causing it?

Mine does this too. I'm rooted, running Perfect Storm v1.0. I also did the 'Kernal/OS tweaks'. I'm not sure what caused it, but it's been doing this on and off for a couple days. I also had that ooVoo video app installed and when I uninstalled it, the sync indicator went away. (I had previously set the ooVoo sync to off). I'll post if I find anything.

I selected each account and disabled sync for each one and it still showed the sync icon later on. Do we know what all triggers the sync icon?

Any one else having this issue?

I was having the same issue. No idea what was causing it, I thought it was Facebook, but I froze it and it still was popping up. I did install advanced radio tools in settings from Jcase and leankernal from Imoseyon...

Yeah I am unrooted still and have this same issue with gmail delay. I can send an email to my self and watch it pop up almost immediately on my old eris connected to wifi but actually have to launch gmail to get the email on the thunderbolt. WTF!? Thats basic stuff. I cannot for the life of me figure out how it works fine on the granddaddy eris but not on the grandson TB. I have one personal gmail account and one gapps account. The only difference in the phones (other than the obvious massive power difference) is 4g so I wonder if this 1st gen 4g device wasn't polished enough back at the HTC labs?

n2imagination said:
I have one personal gmail account and one gapps account.
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I have 1 of each account type as well. What about other of you having this issue?

I've been experiencing this all day. Won't sync my g-mail accounts. I froze HTC Sense, could that be the cause?
EDIT: Unfroze sense and it still won't sync my g-mail. Syncs my contacts fine, just not my calendar or my e-mails. I deleted data and it did nothing except remove all of the e-mails that I had on my phone. Still wouldn't sync so I booted up my backup, and it STILL is not syncing. Please tell me I'm not the only one experiencing this problem.

Thunderbolt Constantly Syncing

My phone is always Syncing something...I deleted all my accounts and re-added them...its getting to the point where it drains my battery so much. I'm running das BAMF 1.4 with 4.3b kernel. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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AisforAustin said:
My phone is always Syncing something...I deleted all my accounts and re-added them...its getting to the point where it drains my battery so much. I'm running das BAMF 1.4 with 4.3b kernel. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Maybe it's your Calendar. The Calendar kept syncing all the time for me on my Eris, Incredible, and now Thunderbolt. I just do a manual sync of the calendar after I make a change, and as soon as I see the time change, I uncheck the box and the circle stops spinning.

ttran97 said:
Maybe it's your Calendar. The Calendar kept syncing all the time for me on my Eris, Incredible, and now Thunderbolt. I just do a manual sync of the calendar after I make a change, and as soon as I see the time change, I uncheck the box and the circle stops spinning.
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it's not. I unchecked it and it still was syncing. I even unchecked the box to totally stop background sync and it still syncs... =/

I get the same sync too. So annoying. I think thats why the phone is so slow.

I keep sense unchecked for sync. Seems to stop the constant syncing
Blundered from my Dunderbolt

If it's syncing your mail (it did this to me shortly after installing das bamf 1.4) go into each email account, menu -> more -> settings -> send and receive -> update schedule, and change the frequency for peak and off-peak to manual. even with sync set to off, it'd still sync all my email accounts. This means you'll have to manually check your mail though.

i know this probably isnt your problem but just incase... i tried to delete friend steam and i had that same problem

ttran97 said:
Maybe it's your Calendar. The Calendar kept syncing all the time for me on my Eris, Incredible, and now Thunderbolt. I just do a manual sync of the calendar after I make a change, and as soon as I see the time change, I uncheck the box and the circle stops spinning.
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I'll give this a shot and see if it stops my sync problem. I mean, I'm getting 7hours of idle battery life sometimes. Usually slightly better but man it's rough.

Adrozz07 said:
I keep sense unchecked for sync. Seems to stop the constant syncing
Blundered from my Dunderbolt
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What he said. Mine was constantly syncing too. After doing some fiddling, I narrowed it down to my Sense account.

It could possibly be a sync started, and even thought you've disabled Auto Sync, it might just be completing the sync. I turn on autosync, wait for the circle to show up, then disable it but the arrows stay. Just my .02

I updated to BAMF 1.5 and the sync issue went away for me. Still have sense checked and no friendstream.

I'm having the same issue but I KNOW its my primary Gmail contacts. (Under accounts & sync its spinning constantly). I noticed someone said that they deleted friend feed and I have also done that.
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*edit*- reflashed the PS ROM and this time didn't delete the friend stream thing and now I have no issues. (I as well have sense sync checked and no issue with that either).

I've had the same issue on BAMF 1.5. I've found my Exchange constantly spinning until I go into the Sync options and then it would complete and stop. I thought it might have something to do with the security mod for Exchange mail so I installed the stock mail.apk I haven't noticed the sync sticking again since but I have noticed the Facebook contact sync will take awhile to complete. I have that set to sync once a day.

[Q] Gmail and Calendar stopped Syncing

Recently my gmail has stopped background syncing, as well as my google calendar. I think my contacts aren't syncing either. If i got into gmail and hit refresh it pulls all the emails, same the other services.
Why has it stopped doing it automatically? Labels are set to sync, background updates are on, im connected to wifi, my google account is set to sync, not rooted. The standard email is updating in the background with my uni account like it should. Gmail is working on my Desire (MIUI).
Please help.
Cheers

Go into Applications for each. Choose "clear cache " and then "clear data ". Ignore the warnings.
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I tried this, it didnt work, I then unchecked both sync, and bacgrkound sync, and checked them again, and now it works.
Thanks

Sorry to bump an old thread, but this is happening to me again. I deleted all the data and restarted, but it's still not background updating. Kind of makes the Xoom worthless for me as that's my main use for it... (unactivated 3g xoom on wifi only). anyone have any ideas?

[Q] Phone automatically restores SMS - How to stop it?

Hi,
I got my Sensation a couple of days ago.
As I set it up, I choosed to sync with my google account (of cause), as I had a Desire before this.
Only thing I backed up/restored with MyBackup Pro was Bookmarks.
But.. The phone has now for the last 2 days (as long as I've had it) been restoring SMS, and I can't find a way to stop it, and really I've got threads over 6-7000 msgs, so I really want to "start over" - Everytime I delete the threads and I look at the phone 5 mins later, they are partly restored again.
So, how do I stop this? Is there a way to delete the treads from the cloud or something? I looked in my Google account, but I only see the contacts and the usual stuff there.
Thanks in advance

You only log in to google. Not htc sense account
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Okay, and how do I do it if I do not want to lose my HTC Hub and so on?
If only I could delete it or choose not to sync just that..
EDIT:
Oh.. Sync HTC Sense is an option, so is HTC Hub.. Well, we'll see if this helps, tried disabling HTC Sense sync

It didn't work.. It's still syncing

Neo3000x said:
It didn't work.. It's still syncing
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in text message app go to settings>general settings>uncheck "show sent message history" as well as "show call history"
I have done this and my messages delete without reappearing... I also use handcent sms