I've been unsuccessfully trying to sync my Chrome bookmarks with the GT 7+ for the past week. I enabled the sync, tried clearing caches and force closing both bookmark sync and browser, rebooting, etc... Not a single bookmark. Looking under accounts, it shows last sync date as my initial date I tried, and has the in-progress circle that I can't get rid of.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I have a ton of bookmarks and it would be a PITA to have to set them up manually...
I'm having this same problem and have yet to have found a remedy. Which is unfortunate since it would make things quite easy
I have the same problem, but eventually it will sync a few bookmark from your Google Account.
Same problem - -"
1st time i got some folder in my goggle account before force close.
i have tried set default and do it again, but 2nd time unfortunately nothing happen except force close - -"
Any Idea?
has anyone figured this out? I bought the tab today and everything has been perfect except the bookmarks refuse to sync
so i was googling around to find more information about this, apparently this is what we can do http://www.galaxynexusforum.com/forum/galaxy-nexus-help/631-sync-browser-fail.html
There seems to be a data error. If you're getting the exclamation mark do the following.
Untick Browser Sync on your GN and close the browser.
Go to Google Dashboard (google.com/dashboard)
Scroll down to Chrome and 'Stop sync and delete Data'. Fresh the window after a few minutes to make sure it says there is not data/empty.
Go to Chrome and login for sync. Wait a few minutes then go back to Google Dashboard. See if the sync got picked up.
If so, go back to Browser Sync and tick the box. Open op the browser app and there should be a pop up that shows your Gmail account is logging in/syncing and the folders should appear slowly.
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honestly I have not got it to work yet, but if you guys figure it out, let me know how
Syncing on Firefox
I am using the sync with firefox and it is working great. I actually have Waterfox on my laptop so I can run 64-bit, but firefox on my GT 7+ is working great, and pics up all synced bookmarks and even open tabs on my laptop.
I enabled bookmark syncing yesterday evening; it finally completed about 24hr later. My PC Chrome bookmarks first showed up on the tablet this morning, and just now the tablet's browser bookmarks showed up in my PC Chrome browser.
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I have the At&t Captivate, but it looks like this is an issue that could stretch across all Galaxy S phones. A quick Google search will bring up quite a few posts/threads on Samsung's Facebook page about it too.
I use the built-in SNS sync for Facebook, which is what Samsung uses under the default Android Account settings.
I've flashed a few ROMs, and at some point (I think it was after trying some of the I9000 ROMs), my Facebook wouldn't sync my contacts anymore. I get the message "sync is currently experiencing problems. try again later".
The things I've tried:
-Flash back to stock & other ROMs
-Clear all cache data in CWM
-Delete SNS Account data under Application Settings
-Delete Samsung Mobile from my applications on Facebook
-Changing my Facebook password
-Tried logging in with someone else's Facebook account, same error with their's
The Android Facebook app loads up fine, but with Samsung, it doesn't sync contacts, it forces you to use SNS for that.
Under Contacts, if I go to the Activity tab, I can see the news feed, but it still errors out and won't pull any contacts over.
Any other suggestions?
Facebook changed how it does authentication, guessing samsung hasnt updated to handle that yet.
Odd that mine works fine. Only time I have seen problems is if I don't log into google account first after flashing. Just flashed to andromeda and everything synced fine.
After you've signed into facebook (settings->accounts) try going into the contact app itself and press the menu button.
2 options might work.
1. "sync sns data"
2. "get friends"
Hope this helps
newter55 said:
Odd that mine works fine. Only time I have seen problems is if I don't log into google account first after flashing. Just flashed to andromeda and everything synced fine.
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I had Google setup since its required for the Market, but I didn't sync anything with it (I use Exchange), so just to try it, I checked for it to sync contacts and tried again and still got the error.
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After you've signed into facebook (settings->accounts) try going into the contact app itself and press the menu button.
2 options might work.
1. "sync sns data"
2. "get friends"
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I've tried that too, and it just seems to initiate the same SNS Sync and errors out.
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Facebook changed how it does authentication, guessing samsung hasnt updated to handle that yet.
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I'm not sure about that since some people seem to have no problems with it. I also tried someone else's Facebook account just to make sure it wasn't a setting in mine, and her's didn't work either.
My bookmarks won't sync from my PC to transformer. Is this a known problem if so is there a known fix/workaround ?
Known issues, minor workaround if you have less than a 100 bookmarks:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18937
I had the same problem on my Asus Transformer 3.2,but found the solution. From your home screen.go to settings/manage applications /all/browser then clear data.go back to the browser and it should automatically sign you back into your gmail account. Then go to your browser settings/ general / sync to chrome. In a few minutes they should be back. Also make sure your gmail account/browser are in autosync in settings/accounts and sync. This worked for me and if this helps you please let me know.
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Funny thing is mine have not been syncing either.. Didn't really care though but I noticed it hadn't been working. Funny thing is I didn't do anything except reboot my tablet yesterday and now they sync. I made no other changes to the device at all.
Hi guys, I'm having problem Syncing Bookmark between my GTab 7.7 P6800 with SkyHigh 3.6 and Chrome for Windows.
The tab just can't sync it, and it's quite annoying... The fact is that sync bookmarks works like a charm with Chrome for Android, but nothing at all with the stock browser... I would use chrome, but I really need flash for browsing
I checked on settings/account and sync/google account and i found the source of the problem: it seems that the sync function has stop working, in fact there's a "sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly". But the "shortly" has last a moth now!!!
I've tried to delete the google account and log in again, but still not working... So I tought it was a chrome for windows problem, I whent to google dashboard and deleted the sync setting from there... but still not working.
The problem occur even with my Galaxy Nexus!!!
So I'm guessing that the problem is not on the GTab, but in my google account...
This is simple to fix.
Go to your sync settings page. Click on menu button and select "remove account".
Then go back, and "add account".
So basically you need to remove your account, then re-sign-in.
Chrome seems to work fine for me until I sign in to my account for sync.
When I sign in and go to the initial start page with previously/most visited sites, nothing happens if I tap on a site or manually enter one to visit. After a second try of manually typing in a site it will usually work, though. I have the same issue when trying to go into the bookmarks section from the bottom of that page, but most of the time that button is unresponsive. After 5 seconds of tapping something, the tab brings up the "Aw snap" tab crash message. It gives me the suggestion to clear the cache and app data, but it only works as normal again until I sign in.
I've also tried to give it time to maybe finish the sync after signing in, but I've never had to do that on my N4. Still messy even after (probably unnecessary) waiting.
Rooted + unlocked bootloader, but stock.
I haven't had any issues with chrome sync.
I found out more. When I sync all of my stuff except for bookmarks, everything is fine. I'll sync Chrome from a real computer when I get a chance, to see what happens with those bookmarks. Maybe they're messed up in some weird way.
Will post any findings so this thing is documented.
Edit:
I will get my Nexus 4 back from the person who owns it now and see what happens when I sync on it. Maybe it's a Chrome issue, rather than a Nexus 5 issue. We will see.
Well this thread can be moved to the appropriate place and locked if necessary.
The issue was with Chrome mobile itself, it was unable to sync the giant bookmark directory I have. Either the sheer number of pages I've collected over the years or the directory structure. The same problem occurred on the Nexus 4 I was able to get back and test out, and on the Chrome beta app.
In case someone runs into this on any new phone, I fixed it by syncing to Chrome desktop, running an extension to remove both duplicate and 404'd bookmarks, and cleaning up the folder structure. After that, I went to the Google dashboard and cleared it, then turned sync back on to send the stuff back to Google's servers.
My Mate 9 is a set from Singapore telco and used in Singapore, so it had Google Play Store included.
Google Contacts sync worked fine for the first 1 year of use, never had to worry about it, it just worked in the background.
Then I noticed things were not quite right. (I sometimes add/edit contacts thru the phone, and sometimes I add/edit them thru my desktop browser via Gmail > Contacts.)
I noticed that if I manually did sync now, it would spin for about half minute, and the Last Synced time would update, as though successful, even though there was no effect. Changes did not go either way.
After Googling, I did these steps:
Main Settings > Apps.
three dots to show system apps
find "Contacts Storage" then "storage", then "clear app data".
This resulted in empty Contacts book. No change after repeated "sync now".
After a phone restart, the sync kind of worked, and I had Contacts in my phone populated again.
But I noticed now that changes are only going one-way, Add/Edit/Deletions do go from Google to phone, but changes do not go from phone to Google.
Do you think I should try removing the Google Account from the phone and re-adding it?
UPDATE: Without other changes, a few days later, I noticed that 2-way sync was working, although the sync latency seems longer than expected. In 2016, 2017, I was used to seeing a contact appear on my Whatsapp within 10 seconds of adding into Google Contacts via desktop browser. But now, it might take many minutes? hours?