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Fuze: Activesync won't sync contacts

Hello,
I have tried searching but everyone is saying to backup my contacts via active sync. Well I have loaded active sync and well when I try to manage the connection, it won't let me click the box for "contacts". I can sync pictures etc but not contacts.
I don't have any #'s on the sim card because I haven't gotten around to fixing the phone to hide the sim contacts.
Is this the issue? Or is there something I don't have set right?
I did the Noob ATT remove bloatware guide and nothing else.
Thanks

i cant get active sync to update my contacts, like always, it replaces all new info i enter into previously saved contacts with the ones already stored on my PC, it is pissing me off cuz i never had such a problem with my iphone, had this exact problem with the HTC 8125 and thats why i had jump on the iphone bandwagon

car kit (AudiMMI3G) synches only Telephone and SIM Contacts, not google nor Exchange

Hello,
after trying out the Galaxy S for some days now with the stock F3 firmware, I have one question/annoyance regarding the use in the car paired via rSAP.
It seems, that the Audi MMI 3G can synch only with the Telephone and SIM contacts of the Galaxy S. The contacts imported from Exchange or Google are not accessible from the car. The xdandroid I tried on my Raphael earlier did not have this behavior regarding the import of the phonebook to the car. There all contacts were imported after the phone had received them from the Exchange server.
Is there a workaround or possible other application, that solves this quirk? I have tried some other apps like TouchDown, but this did not make contacts other than those stored in Telephone or SIM visible to the car kit.
Having to manually Import the contacts to the phone as a static adressbook (export in outlook and import from sd) is not really what I would like to do, not even as a last resort. Maybe there is a way to map exchange or google synched contacts to the phone contact list or otherwise solve this issue.
Other than that, I am mighty impressed with this phone and the android system.
It would be great if someone could help.
Thanks, Chris

whoaw... major bug if true... this is standard bluetooth protocol build in Android.
It works with my Magic & my MMI.
Normally it takes a while (a minute or so) to send all contact/received/missed/dialed info over to your MMI.
What do you mean with "telephone contacts", doesn't that include the Google contacts after Google Sync?
Can you pair without problem? What firmware do you have? Tried with latest?

pinkopalino said:
after trying out the Galaxy S for some days now with the stock F3 firmware, I have one question/annoyance regarding the use in the car paired via rSAP.
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How did you get your SGS to work with rSAP? My understanding was that Android didn’t support this protocol. I’ve tried for some time to get it to work with a VW car, it will pair but won’t connect.
MaNIaC

I wouldn't call it major bug.. annoyance at best, ill thought out, perhaps, but given that Samsung added a proprietary rSAP protocol to their android "flagship" shows, they generally know what they are doing.
To clear up any confusion regarding phone, SIM and accounts contact entries:
The phone can naturally sync with exchange, or similar, servers as well as the google account and will add those into the contacts application. If you go to optins in there, you see, that you can switch on/off the visibility of those as well as telephone and sim called entries. Thus the problem with these sourced of synched into the phone contacts being somewhat handled separately by the samsung (touchWiz?) contacts application.
The Audi MMI synches just fine and will pair both hands free and rSAP mode without problems. The permission to access the phone's contacts is asked and if given, the contacts are synched.
The problem is, that only the contacts named SIM and Telephone get to be imported to the MMI. Others - here, the ones coming from the phones earlier synch with either google or exchange are omitted. They are availeable in the contacts app from samsung, but they are somehow treated separately according to their source and not "spliced" together...
The idea is great, being able to switch on/off visibility of certain contacts according to their source, I just whished I had some more control over the process.
Touch Down, for instance, offered to copy the contacts imported over the air from exchange, to "telephone" - only in Touch Down "telephone" really means google, which does not help, because the contacts would have to be copied into Samsungs understanding of Telephone as storage location/type.
The contacts app on the 2.1 build from June of xdandroid did not handle the contacts separately regarding their import source into the phone. More nicely, also the categories given to contacts were properly imported into the phone there. Not so in the SGS contacts imported over the air from Exchange 2003.
If now, someone could find a way to make any contact set to be visible on the phone itself being somehow "replicated" in the telephone part of the contacts on SGS, the MMI would see them and synch them. Contacts added on the SGS and stored as "Telephone" (Phone, probably in English) when saving, get imported to the MMI. That was the starting point of my workarounnd thinking.
So in short, the Samsung Galaxy S I9000 has full rSAP and Bluetooth 3 and does pair with car kits and hands free units admirably. Contacts are synched between car components and phone as long as they are either labeled phone or sim according to the SGS contacts app logic.
Ideas, anyone?
Cheers, Chris

MaNIaCv1 said:
How did you get your SGS to work with rSAP? My understanding was that Android didn’t support this protocol. I’ve tried for some time to get it to work with a VW car, it will pair but won’t connect.
MaNIaC
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rSAP - Samsung proprietarily includes it - I was surprised myself when it offered this while pairing.
When pairing, did you check "always grant permission" on the Galaxy S? In my case, if not doing this, pairing and connecting would not go through at all. On another forum in German, someone with a recent VW system has it paired alright. I don't know the specifics so I wont make any guesses, but the flawlessness of the process in my case made me believe, that it should work with no problems generally...

MB NTG1 comand
I have a NTG1 Comand in my Mercedes, and the rSAP conection works like charme, with the SGS(2.2.1 jpy).
Only thing that not works is the PBAP so only my sim card contacs r listed!
edit: Now i saved all Google contacts to SD card and after save all V-cards
to the internal phonebook, so all contacts are on Google and on the SGS now.
Tomorrow i try to sync them with the MB comand again.
Mike

Just be glad you don't have an MY09 BMW with iDrive - Galaxy S and car do not play nicely at all lol, sometimes they pair sometimes they don't lol

anyone has a solution for this problem?

Hi,
In my understanding VW & similar premium systems won't synch any contact that has an email address. That automatically excludes google and exchange contacts. I synch my SGS to Outlook, and I'm looking for a way to synch only the phone numbers, no emails. Will keep you posted on my progress.
Cheers

pinkopalino said:
rSAP - Samsung proprietarily includes it - I was surprised myself when it offered this while pairing.
When pairing, did you check "always grant permission" on the Galaxy S? In my case, if not doing this, pairing and connecting would not go through at all. On another forum in German, someone with a recent VW system has it paired alright. I don't know the specifics so I wont make any guesses, but the flawlessness of the process in my case made me believe, that it should work with no problems generally...
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havo you finally foud a way to sync exchange contacts ?

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.

[Q] Bluetooth contact transfer

Hi,
I'm having some trouble connecting my sensation with my car. I've just got a BMW with idrive that's fully up to date.
On BMW's website it says the sensation is well supported (defently with address book anyway) and the version tested is 1.45.401.2 (Android 2.3.4).
Everything connects and pairs fine, I can make calls, read emails and SMS but the address book doesn't work. If I watch the address book just after pairing, it all fills in fine (I've got about 200 contacts and they all show up) but after 15-20 seconds they all just dissapear.
I have tried flashing various different ROMs and as far as I can tell HTC Sense seems to be the culprit, cyanogenmod syncs the address book fine but doesn't support SMS or email sync (I'm happy without email but would like SMS)
oddly, flashing to stock 1.45.401.2 doesn't work.
This is my 3rd day of googling and reading forums... im starting to lose to will...
Anyone got any ideas?

Ah, figured out some more info on this.
If I wipe the phone (stock rom) and enter a normal contact in the phone it syncs with the car no problem, appears and stays forever.
If I then sync the phone with my exchange server, boom, it never works again. unless I delete the exchange account from the phone then un-then-re-pair.... the one contact stored in the phone magically works in the car again.

Fixed!
It all seemed to be caused by having spaces in the phone numbers. I removed all spaces from my contacts numbers and everything works perfectly now.
Posted the solution here for a sense of completeness.

What model & year of BMW do you have?
I ask because I have a 2007 335i, and I have not found any way to get contacts to sync with my car using any Sense ROM (including the stock ROM.) I do not sync contacts with Exchange; I only have created-on-phone contacts.
The car would sync perfectly with my old phones (an iPhone and a Nexus One, both stock and CM7), and will sync perfectly with the Sensation if I use an AOSP ROM like CM7, but if I install any Sense ROM, the car only acts as a headset -- I can use it to talk handsfree, but there's no dialing, contact sync, etc. at all.

Yeah, its a december 2011 320d (e92) with the second gen iDrive.
I'm sure you already have but have you tried removing spaces from phone numbers? or it might be worth double checking it, I know I missed a couple the first time I checked through them.
Past that all I can think is to remove anything unusual from the contacts... categories, labels ect. The notes field seems to be ok, I use that and it hasn't effected the contacts syncing.

[Q] bluetooth missing contacts?

So, I recently bought a car with bluetooth handsfreelink. And it synced my contacts (which is cool). But I noticed that some contacts appear to be missing for some reason.
My phone does have Google+ and Facebook (though I have not let it sync my facebook friends) installed.
My question is, how does the phone decide which contacts to make available via bluetooth? Sort of need to figure that our since one of the contacts that isn't available is my wife's!

RedBullet said:
So, I recently bought a car with bluetooth handsfreelink. And it synced my contacts (which is cool). But I noticed that some contacts appear to be missing for some reason.
My phone does have Google+ and Facebook (though I have not let it sync my facebook friends) installed.
My question is, how does the phone decide which contacts to make available via bluetooth? Sort of need to figure that our since one of the contacts that isn't available is my wife's!
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If you are using JellyBean, it could be that you are experiencing a problem where car audio systems don't handle the new stack in 4.1.1 properly.
If you are on ICS, try unpairing and repairing a few times, you might also try requiring a prompt for phonebook access and see if you get a few prompts in a row. If you are running a stock ROM (not sure if this is ICS only or not), you should try disabling the PBAP service (running applications).

It is in fact running jellybean (stock version).
I suspect the reason is that some of the contacts couldn't be imported because they had some issues, I am wondering if there might be a log that articulates what the reason they were skipped might be?