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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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Syncing contacts with Google

So I don't get what HTC did with the Thunderbolt....on my Incredible it used to send my contacts I added to the phone on Google. However now it doesn't sync them. And I can't find an option to save to Google instead of Phone.

When you add a contact, the second field is contact type: phone or Google. Choose Google to add to the Google cloud.
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Menu>Settings>Accounts & sync check auto sync. Then tap on google and check sync contacts
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I have noticed, (and this I very annoying) , that when I first setup a new rom, after syncing my google account, it creates duplicate entries, one called phone and one called google of the same phone number.
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It doesn't sync them because by default new contacts are not set up as google contacts. After selecting to make a new contact you must before inputting the name manually make it a google contact.
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Open contacts
Hit menu
Hit view
Uncheck everything but Google.
This will make your default Google when u add a new one.
Then they will sync
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ddgarcia05 said:
It doesn't sync them because by default new contacts are not set up as google contacts. After selecting to make a new contact you must before inputting the name manually make it a google contact.
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And there is no way to edit where the contact saves to AFTER you make it? I could've sworn I could change it on my Inc.

denonlake said:
Open contacts
Hit menu
Hit view
Uncheck everything but Google.
This will make your default Google when u add a new one.
Then they will sync
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This works great, thanks. I never liked having to select Google for each new contact.
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gpgorbosjr said:
And there is no way to edit where the contact saves to AFTER you make it? I could've sworn I could change it on my Inc.
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Sure you can edit contacts. Go into the People app, click on one of your contacts, and press the Menu button and choose Edit. Not only that, but in the edit screen you can choose to link identical names in your phone book and the you can see what information is stored in the phone (which syncs to Verizon's Backup Assistant) and what is stored in Google.
Knave68's post above tells you how to make sure that your phone will sync with your Google account.

It doesn't let you switch between a phone contact to a google contact, am I missing something?

Go to people, hit menu, import/export, export to SD.
Then choose phone. This will export all your phone only contacts to a vcard file.
Then choose import from SD and set Google as the destination.
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mcmillanje said:
Go to people, hit menu, import/export, export to SD.
Then choose phone. This will export all your phone only contacts to a vcard file.
Then choose import from SD and set Google as the destination.
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Thanks. It sucks they make it that difficult but that should do the trick.

[Q] importing contacts after rom flash crashes

ok since owning the Mez i have noticed one thing/problem that has plagued me that never goes away.
after flashing a new rom, or flashing any ROM, when i go to import my contacts from my sd card that i exported to the sd card (prior to flashing) causes the contacts app to crash.
it does import a few contacts but only a few.
so out of the 127 i have backed up it may only import 20 but the progress bar says it crashes on like the 3rd contact.
it never gives me a force close error, it just flat out crashes.
i have cleared all that can be cleared and tried again and again but it wont work.
any thoughts, suggestions?
is there a place on my phone where i can just paste the .vcf file and the phone will read it and use it and everything just shows up in my contacts list?
p.s.
even deleting contacts, just 1 of them, causes the contacts app to crash

v_lestat said:
ok since owning the Mez i have noticed one thing/problem that has plagued me that never goes away.
after flashing a new rom, or flashing any ROM, when i go to import my contacts from my sd card that i exported to the sd card (prior to flashing) causes the contacts app to crash.
it does import a few contacts but only a few.
so out of the 127 i have backed up it may only import 20 but the progress bar says it crashes on like the 3rd contact.
it never gives me a force close error, it just flat out crashes.
i have cleared all that can be cleared and tried again and again but it wont work.
any thoughts, suggestions?
is there a place on my phone where i can just paste the .vcf file and the phone will read it and use it and everything just shows up in my contacts list?
p.s.
even deleting contacts, just 1 of them, causes the contacts app to crash
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I've not had a problem importing contacts from sd but awhile back I imported them to my google account so once I sign in - I've got them, no need to bother with an import.
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Importing to google instead of the phone does the same thing.
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Try seeing if you can import the vcf into your Google account online (like from a computer).

Ok i just got an FC on android.process.acore when trying to enable sync google conacts.
So now google, phone and now facebook contact sync is totally broken.
I am using the stock ec10 combo rom.
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add144 said:
Try seeing if you can import the vcf into your Google account online (like from a computer).
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Good idea i will try that
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v_lestat said:
Ok i just got an FC on android.process.acore when trying to enable sync google conacts.
So now google, phone and now facebook contact sync is totally broken.
I am using the stock ec10 combo rom.
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Did you restore apps using TB from another build? You shouldn't have any FC's on any ROM's in here - they've all been tested - especially the stock builds. FC issues come from permission problems and restoring data from another build, typically.

Although this might not help you now here's the best way I found after reading many posts to keep a good list of your contacts. You'll want them in your google account *not* your phone contacts. The problem when people switch from whatever non-google phone to an Android is the carrier will import the contacts into your phone contacts. So here's the best way to get them into your google contacts.
1. Export your phone contacts to your SD card
2. Move the file to a computer with internet access to http://contacts.google.com
3. Wipe the contacts on your phone (apps in market to do this, don't recall names atm)
4. Import the csv file into your contacts account on google
5. Merge duplicates and sync them to your phone
6. Export your google contacts to your computer (or google docs) so you have a nice backup just in case!
Takes a little leg work but it'll always be worth it!
Like I said, you may know that already or have another reason for keeping them as phone contacts but you can always export your google contacts and import them into a new phone if you decide to move off Android at some point!
Another tip for your google contacts. Every email you get in gmail automatically adds the sender to your contacts. If you search in contacts.google.com for just a single space it will list all your contacts and at the bottom it will have "other contacts" which are all the ones they've automatically added. Occasionally you may want to merge these or delete them to keep your contacts from getting cluttered.

That's exactly what I said. <.<

[Q] How to covert sim/phone contacts to google?

How to covert sim/phone contacts to google? is there an app that will convet these or do i really have to do all by hand?

HB66 said:
How to covert sim/phone contacts to google? is there an app that will convet these or do i really have to do all by hand?
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You can go to phone> contacts> hit menu key and there is an import/export option. You can import or export all your contacts to google at once.
Also in the menu options under more> settings> you can set your phone so that all new contacts will go straight to google.
Hope this helps you.
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i only have the option to export to sim or sd card

That is weird. You should also have options to import/export FROM Sim and sdcard.
What ROM are you on...maybe you got a bad download.
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I have a thought..
Go to phone > contacts > menu > more > settings > Save new Contacts to. Then set google as your place to have your new contacts saved to.
When you are finished doing that reboot your phone. Then go back and see what your import/export options are. Hopefully you will now have the options to import/export FROM sdcard and Sim
**ALSO** In our phones main SETTINGS menu go to Accounts and sync then > Manage accounts > press the gmail account you want synced (make sure sync is ON). Make sure Sync contacts is checked. That will get you synced with google.
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The Accounts and Sync will do it for you. As Jerry D said I have also set the phone to save new contacts to google by default. Makes flashing new ROMs so much less of hassle, plus you can always access your contacts from wherever you can get online.

FBis251 said:
The Accounts and Sync will do it for you. As Jerry D said I have also set the phone to save new contacts to google by default. Makes flashing new ROMs so much less of hassle, plus you can always access your contacts from wherever you can get online.
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HB66 said:
How to covert sim/phone contacts to google? is there an app that will convet these or do i really have to do all by hand?
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Export a vcf file to ur SD card, then re-import it to google contacts.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Make sure u disable facebook n' Twitter contacts syncing before exporting, otherwise when u resync to ur google contacts u will get duplicated contacts for both social networks.. At least that's what i remember out of my experience... also, should u wipe ur contacts after exporting ur list? (So u only see one cope of'em from google)
Bonus: If u use Go Contacts it can batch identify duplicated/related contacts and merge/delete them if needed.

[Q] Sync Contacts?

I guess this is a really noob question. But I've been using my infuse for a while now but I don't see any of my contacts synced in the gmail account...am I suppose to do something special to get it synced?

tjy8tim said:
I guess this is a really noob question. But I've been using my infuse for a while now but I don't see any of my contacts synced in the gmail account...am I suppose to do something special to get it synced?
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In Contact settings do you have "Save new contacts to Google" ticked?

bigfau said:
In Contact settings do you have "Save new contacts to Google" ticked?
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I just did that. But that will only save the new contacts am I correct? Because I don't see my old ones synced onto google.

tjy8tim said:
I just did that. But that will only save the new contacts am I correct? Because I don't see my old ones synced onto google.
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Did push Sync sns data?

Helpp =(
Hum. I still haven't figured this out. This is my situation.
1) Got Infuse 4g.
2) Copied the contacts into Infuse from the SIM card.
3) Changed the phone to "save new contacts to Google"
4) But none of my original contacts from my SIM card are getting synced to Google.
So, what can I do so all my original SIM card contacts can be synced to Google?

I think you have to export them to sd card first, in contacts hit menu then export to sd card, then you can save those existing contacts to google by doing the same thing in contacts hit menu import from sd to google , cause switching it to save contacts to google will only save future contacts not existing
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