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[Q] xoom chrome bookmark sync

What's the deal....syncing is sporadic at best.
Anyone know the trick yet?

You need to go into settings then applications and clear all data on browser, then sync and should work fine.
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roadratx said:
What's the deal....syncing is sporadic at best.
Anyone know the trick yet?
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Yup, I have the trick you're looking for. After some trial and error, I figured this out. Its essentially a method by which one can refresh the saved attributes (in this case bookmarks) across all Google/Chrome outlets:
1) On your desktop, open Chrome and sort out your bookmarks as you would like them.
2) Then, in Chrome, on the menu bar under "Chrome", go to "Synced...", and click "Stop syncing this account", and then click the pop up to "Stop syncing".
3) Right after that, in the same location, click "Set Up Sync..." (you'll be prompted to sign in to your Google account, so do it). Once you've signed in, you'll be prompted again; this time, check off the Bookmarks option as the item you'd like to sync (no need to check off anything else. Leave the other option for Google Account password ticked as it was.
4) Click "OK" and presto, your bookmarks will be refreshed across all Google/Chrome devices or browsers. At this point you can check your XOOM to verify that those bookmarks have updated.
Its too bad they don't have a slightly easier option for doing this, but its not bad and it works. And the best part is you don't have to do a thing on the XOOM to make this happen (i.e. no wiping of browser data like saved passwords, etc.) So every time you'd like to tweak your bookmarks, or change the order of them as they appear in your XOOM's bookmark list, I have found that this is the best method you should follow.
Enjoy!

kyoteqwik said:
You need to go into settings then applications and clear all data on browser, then sync and should work fine.
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The method I've detailed above is the best way I've found to truly get this to work; I've tried your method with extremely mixed results on many occasions.
EDIT - oh and by the way by your method you'll clear out any saved passwords for websites, etc, so if you want to keep any of those, this might not be a great idea. Just an FYI

joeski27 said:
The method I've detailed above is the best way I've found to truly get this to work
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ok, tried this and it synced my bookmarks bar and one of my & bookmark folders. Any suggestions for getting the other 5 folders to get synced?
Strange that its a partial sync. Its almost as if the sync process is time limited. Couple more milliseconds and it would be complete. Just speculating
By the way, I did get a full sync a couple of weeks ago. But a FC requred killing the cache and I accidentally killed the saved data too. PITA

roadratx said:
ok, tried this and it synced my bookmarks bar and one of my & bookmark folders. Any suggestions for getting the other 5 folders to get synced?
Strange that its a partial sync. Its almost as if the sync process is time limited. Couple more milliseconds and it would be complete. Just speculating
By the way, I did get a full sync a couple of weeks ago. But a FC requred killing the cache and I accidentally killed the saved data too. PITA
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Well the only thing I have now figured to do, with regard to utilizing the "Other Bookmarks" folders is to 1) populate your bookmarks bar with everything you'd like, and then 2)long press on the bookmark(s) you'd like to place in the "Other Bookmarks" folder, then click "Edit", and at that point you can select the location where you'd like this bookmark to appear. Once its there, if at any point you want to change the order of any of your bookmarks, you'd have to come back into Chrome on the desktop and take care of it there (followed by the syncing procedure I already outlined). Again, hopefully Google will come up with an easier method than this eventually

I had the same problem and got hold of the developer of chromemarks who informs me that its Google "throttling" the amount of bookmarks synched!
In Chrome, you can you goto the addess "about:sync" (no quotes) and you
should get some stats. Then you look for the "Unsynched count"
My original count on synch start was: 3,085
Mine shows today: Unsynced Count - 2,320
It is generally going down around 50 to 100 per day! So I will be waiting for some months before I get all my bookmarks synched!
Google Throttling - Read more
All the best,
Cheers,
Dave

deejaydave said:
I had the same problem and got hold of the developer of chromemarks who informs me that its Google "throttling" the amount of bookmarks synched!
In Chrome, you can you goto the addess "about:sync" (no quotes) and you
should get some stats. Then you look for the "Unsynched count"
My original count on synch start was: 3,085
Mine shows today: Unsynced Count - 2,320
It is generally going down around 50 to 100 per day! So I will be waiting for some months before I get all my bookmarks synched!
Google Throttling - Read more
All the best,
Cheers,
Dave
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You seriously have that many bookmarks? I think you'd be better off with a list of sites on the internet that AREN'T bookmarked, it'd be shorter!

deejaydave said:
I had the same problem and got hold of the developer of chromemarks who informs me that its Google "throttling" the amount of bookmarks synched!
In Chrome, you can you goto the addess "about:sync" (no quotes) and you
should get some stats. Then you look for the "Unsynched count"
My original count on synch start was: 3,085
Mine shows today: Unsynced Count - 2,320
It is generally going down around 50 to 100 per day! So I will be waiting for some months before I get all my bookmarks synched!
Google Throttling - Read more
All the best,
Cheers,
Dave
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Thanks for the tip. I had over 1000 unsync count and watched it sync to 0 in a matter of minutes.

Hmm.. I have 0 unscynced according to about:sync but I'm still missing folders on Xoom :/

bjarnia said:
Hmm.. I have 0 unscynced according to about:sync but I'm still missing folders on Xoom :/
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Actually seem to have fixed the issue. There were just a few root folders that were not being synced.. Renaming them on my desktop computer triggered a sync on my xoom.

so the problem is fixed now.
I deleted my chrome sync data from google dashboard and then added I back and xoom now has all my bookmarks and folders

Data Sync between the Xoom and the Evo3D?

Is there a way to sync data between my Xoom and Evo 3D, preferably wirelessly? I'd like to be able to sync pictures and videos or other files.

This is a good question. I have a Desire and we should seek a solution that would work between different kind of android devices and also perhaps between more than two devices.
So far I'm using two apps to do this, but not an ideal solution yet. The data sync is more kind of a workaround.
Syncing pictures/video/folders
-Titanium Media Sync [https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.MediaSync] to sync folders between device and either dropbox or ftp. This works quite well, but I still need to do it kind of manually it feels. Not 2-way. I need to manually sync folders from my ftp(originating from desire) to my Xoom when i see it necessary to update. But it automatically uploads folders of my choosing to ftp/dropbox. The app is still being actively developed, and it keeps getting better. I like all the options for choosing/filtering files to be synced, but it may look difficult at first. There are options to sync immediately when you say take a picture or wait until the device is on a charer/wifi.​
Syncing app data
-Titanium Backup [https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup] to sync app data for spesific apps/games back and forth. I do this for the games I currently play when i want to pick up from the progress I had on either phone or tablet. Make a new backup of game. Long hold on game in backups-list. Choose "send backup" and send to mail or dropbox folder. Download on other device into titanium backup folder. Go into Titatnium backup on that device and find the new backup you just copied in there and restore it.
The best thing would be to just sync the entire titanium backups to Dropbox and the do the same on the other device and it woul sync, but I do not dare to test if that would work... anybody do that? ​
There are also other similar apps that do these kind of syncing, I just happened to allready be using titanium backup. Also, there are apps that spesifically sync the data (game progress) of popular games like angry birds.
fred

frigorific said:
This is a good question. I have a Desire and we should seek a solution that would work between different kind of android devices and also perhaps between more than two devices.
So far I'm using two apps to do this, but not an ideal solution yet. The data sync is more kind of a workaround.
Syncing pictures/video/folders
-Titanium Media Sync [https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.MediaSync] to sync folders between device and either dropbox or ftp. This works quite well, but I still need to do it kind of manually it feels. Not 2-way. I need to manually sync folders from my ftp(originating from desire) to my Xoom when i see it necessary to update. But it automatically uploads folders of my choosing to ftp/dropbox. The app is still being actively developed, and it keeps getting better. I like all the options for choosing/filtering files to be synced, but it may look difficult at first. There are options to sync immediately when you say take a picture or wait until the device is on a charer/wifi.​
Syncing app data
-Titanium Backup [https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup] to sync app data for spesific apps/games back and forth. I do this for the games I currently play when i want to pick up from the progress I had on either phone or tablet. Make a new backup of game. Long hold on game in backups-list. Choose "send backup" and send to mail or dropbox folder. Download on other device into titanium backup folder. Go into Titatnium backup on that device and find the new backup you just copied in there and restore it.
The best thing would be to just sync the entire titanium backups to Dropbox and the do the same on the other device and it woul sync, but I do not dare to test if that would work... anybody do that? ​
There are also other similar apps that do these kind of syncing, I just happened to allready be using titanium backup. Also, there are apps that spesifically sync the data (game progress) of popular games like angry birds.
fred
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i will try media Sync. I want to find something I can sync data on my Mac too it possible

If you sync to dropbox with titanium media sync it would be updated on your mac (in your dropbox folder). But remember - it's a one-way sync so files wouldn't sync back the other way. Not everyone needs it to though... And I don't know if that's even possible. You could anyway access stuff through the dropbox app of course..
Btw. I just remembered the two other big alternatives:
Dropsnap
https://market.android.com/details?id=me.ctso.dropsnap
Sugarsync
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sharpcast.sugarsync
I haven't tried them myself but one of them would probably also do a great job for what you wanted. Dropsnap seems a bit simpler in function than t. media sync and sugarsync seems to rely on having their software on your computer. I allready had dropbox so I didn't want one more sync/cloud service
fred

Another option:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148612
---------- Post added at 09:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:21 AM ----------
Just found another (possibly better) option:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1319352
With this, you might be able to just select the app, not the files to sync.. easier...

sync issue: won't sync at all anymore

Hello.
Issue: After installing update for Angry birds, Android started all alone the cache cleaner, and offered me to free room, because it found that 100M free were not enough. I accepted to clean cache for apps older than 8d, and refused everything else. Since then, I can not sync.
I will run very quickly over what I did to fix my issue
- phone to HTC, who said that if I can not sync to google, i must sync to PC
- if I don't have Windows and Outlook, i can fix my sync issue by wiping the phone
- also stated that HTC developers could not be contacted
- and that Android developers could not be contacted either
- and that Android does not ship any kind of bug reporting system
- and that wiping my user profile would FOR SURE fix my sync issue
- sync is supported only with Microsoft Windows
They just forgot that ...
- bug report system starts automaticly when any app crashes (I get it several times a week)
- http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list exists ...
- Android is running above Linux, and selling a Linux phone which would not sync with a Linux desktop is just ... non sens
- wiping my user data profile is just the opposite of what I need; I don't want to see the green arrow sping around for the fun; I *need* to synchronise my calendar and contacts to merge my work of the day with my Gmail profile; wiping user profile would mean ... loose all work of the day
and september the first have been the most busy day I had in the past 3 months. So much work I was exhausted, and would never in life be able to remember all customers I was happy to get, and all providers I hardly could contact, all meetings I have arranged with my customers and providers ... no way to contact all of them to re-ask the date we decided; I would forget some, and loose ... money.
I also tried to remove some Google account from my phone, to test sync on a secondary account; after removal, and re-creation, account could not sync. Gmail is stuck on "your emails will appear shortly". Gmail just does not read my emails on server.
Mail can still work, because it does not depend on the sync stack; it has it's own mechanism to read emails.
The same account can work fine in Mail, and fail in Gmail. Not an account issue.
I also tried to untick all sync things every where in the sync section or params, and only ticked Weather ... and clicked on manual sync. The last sync time stick to 31st 2AM ... even weather won't sync. Even when only this is ticked, even after reboot ...
My question to this forum is now:
- which package owns the sync layer stack ?
- which folder in /data/data can I remove to clear any possible sync issue ?
- will this erase, or keep, my changes to contacts and calendar ?
- can any third party app sync my EXISTING calendar, and contacts to Gmail, the same way Mail can ... read my mails when Gmail fails ? something that would update my recent changes to server, so that recent changes in my phone would be updated on server, so that I can continue my work from computer ? I have several calendar apps on the phone, but all seem to rely and depend on Android Sync service, and let it bother about sync between device and Google servers. Only Mail seems to perform an independant access to server.
I need sync to work at any price. I can leave with many bugs in my phone; but a failing sync just makes me leave, not just money, but contracts ...
I could work with an other device, and through this one to bin; but I need to sync ONCE the work i did in the last 36h.
HTC Sensation
Leedroid 2.2
Android 2.3.4
Sense 3.0
RomManager 4.4.0.2 with ClockWorkMod 5.0.1.0 failed to backup my phone (CWM 5 complains that I don't have RM 4.4 or higher).
I am doing manual backup. Trying to revert to previous versions of RM and CWM (this software still sux as much as before), and doing manual backups in // (raw block dump, so that I can loop mount them from computer easily: I will do a diff between dump of today, and last week, what will highlight the work of this week; painfull, but efficient) .
I need a quick fix, i can't work anymore; if this is not fixed by monday 8AM, I may loose my job. I tried to backup my work as soon as I came back home, and now, I am loosing everything. I am doing daily backups; but this single day worth a year for me. If I can't sync it, I am ruined.
Many thanks for any kind of constructive help.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=19755
in short: sync failed because of disk full; by full, you shall remember that Android considers a disk full when free space is less than 7%, or 98M (not sure yet which approach is used).
I am just ... O_O ...
So, yes, there was a link with the cache cleaner ...
After freeing 30M, everything works fine again.
Working. Fixed. Lost 12h and ... lot of pain and fear.

ICS 4.0.3 Browser Sync Problems

As you may know Chrome is able to sync all his content with google servers...
ICS can do that kind of syncing too...
I'm getting "problems" with the syncing on the phone... why?
Is this happening to anybody else?

It is happening to me. I can not sync my bookmarks.
I've try deleting bookmarks on Google servers through Dashboard and then re-sync by signing in in the Chrome Option > Personal stuff
I sometimes manage to get some sync but even though I manage to sync all my folders (I can see them all in ICS browser bookmarks), a lot of them are empty.
So the sync kind of works, but somehow stops while performing it, and I don't know at which level: is it during the upload of Chrome bookmarks on the server? Is it between the server and Android?
Finally, when I sync Chrome bookmarks and hit refresh on Dashboard, I've seen different results. Sometimes only 2 bookmarks are synchronized, sometimes 58... i've counted, I have 303, excluding folders.
Please someone help, bookmark sync was the main feature I was expecting in ICS
Sync works great between Chrome and FF using Xmarks btw.
Nexus S i9023 4.0.3 stock

on chrome you can check the sync status by opening this address:
about:sync
I suspect that on the phone I'm not able to sync even a single bookmark as my whole chrome sync is encrypted using a custom passphrase and I cannot find a way to input that passphrase into ICS ...

I don't use a custom phrase. I've just tried with default settings.
1st try: 7 bookmarks uploaded to Google servers;
after deleted uploaded data, I've tried again:
2nd try: 199 bookmarks uploaded.
This erratic behavior is infuriating, I don't understand what's going on. We can't be the only two with this issue...

in setting->accounts & sync->[email protected]
did u checked sync browser?..
i dont have sync prob in ics browser

aLNG said:
in setting->accounts & sync->[email protected]
did u checked sync browser?..
i dont have sync prob in ics browser
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Yes, after like 10 minutes the sync reports the error and is tagged with a red icon

evcz said:
Yes, after like 10 minutes the sync reports the error and is tagged with a red icon
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Same here.
I followed your link: about:sync, and I noticed an "Actionable Error" on the top right corner (in full screen): "throttle"
i don't know the conditions which trigger this error, but could it be the reason the bookmarks cannot sync between desktop Chrome and ICS browser?
I've tried a clean sync:
1. Sign out from Personal stuff in Chrome Options
2. Delete Chrome data from Google Dashboard
3. Wait a few minutes and confirm in about:sync that there's nothing synchronized
4. Delete data and cache from ICS browser (in Manage Applications)
5. Sign in Personal stuff in Chrome Options
6. Choose what to sync: I chose only Bookmarks, Encrypt passwords, Use my G. Account PW > OK
It begins to sync. When monitoring about:sync, the error appears: THROTTLED
Can it be the source of our issue?
I use Chrome 16 (no beta, up to date)
EDIT:
I click on sync browser in ICS options, I got no error, but:
* ALL of my bookmarks folders are synchronized: this is good
* SOME of my folders are empty, SOME are full, 1 folder is half full
* It seems to sync in an order. In Chrome, my bookmarks folders are in the bookmark bar: 1, 2, 3, ... 10
* In ICS, the full folder are 10, 9, 8.., the empty are 1, 2, 3...
* One folder is half full, (let's say folder 6)
It seems I had no problem synchronizing folder 10 to 7, but during the sync of the 6th folder, it stopped.
Question: WHY?

at this point I disabled browser syncing and will wait a patch that will allows the user to set his encrypt passphrase
in my case (obviosly) no bookmarks are appearing and that's a good sign as I didn't provided android the key to decrypt the bookmarks

evcz said:
at this point I disabled browser syncing and will wait a patch that will allows the user to set his encrypt passphrase
in my case (obviosly) no bookmarks are appearing and that's a good sign as I didn't provided android the key to decrypt the bookmarks
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Have you tried delete the account option in Sync Parameters?

I'm not sure if I understood your question.
You mean deleting from within chrome on my pc?
On the PC it appear to be working correctly... and there's no way I'll ever upload my browser data/bookmarks/history using the default settings (no encryption)!!!
In the unfortunate case they are not able to fix the syncing while using encryption I'd rather switch to firefox and use firefox sync

Dont use encryption in Chrome sync for everything, set it for passwords only. Then the bookmarks will sync.

I see... well if that's the only way I'm sorry: I will not push to google my history or my favorites just because ICS is not able to sync encrypted content

I found that I can't change the option of encrypted data types in Chrome.
and the status is Encrypted with Password.
I'm using beta version of Chrome. And Nexus S with ICS OTA. Browser sync error.
Is there anything I can do to sync the bookmark?

evcz said:
I see... well if that's the only way I'm sorry: I will not push to google my history or my favorites just because ICS is not able to sync encrypted content
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Hey,
I finally got it working. I posted a thread on reddit and updated it as the issue was solved.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/nhe8p/issue_with_ics_browse_cant_sync_with_chrome/
In short, the problem seemed to come from the sync process, not from ICS browser. For some reason, it didn't sync properly. The sync "THROTTLED" and wouldn't complete. That's why I saw all folders but not all bookmarks. I reduced the number of bookmarks (I still have 100+) and the sync passed (SUCCESS shown in about:sync in a Chrome tab).
If I remember correctly, I chose to sync only bookmarks and passwords, with an encryption on passwords. But it may work with a full encryption.

Thanks, will check it out

Yup, it seems to be the encryption in google chrome. I couldn't sync my bookmarks with my Nexus S (ICS), so I deleted the sync and started it again, without encryption of the bookmarks, only passwords. Now bookmarks sync again.
Not the best solution, though...

evcz said:
on chrome you can check the sync status by opening this address:
about:sync
I suspect that on the phone I'm not able to sync even a single bookmark as my whole chrome sync is encrypted using a custom passphrase and I cannot find a way to input that passphrase into ICS ...
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HA! That seemed to be my issue, never thought about it. It's syncing, and still showing as syncing, but not giving me the error this time. Nothin in my Gnex browser -- yet. Will check back in a sec...

I have the same problem! hope someone find a solution!!

Maybee this helps.... for me it is working since i loged out and signed in again in chrome on my pc
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1181420

Any News on that? Same problem with i9000 and cm9...

[Q] How to Delete Sync'd + Stock Bookmarks from Browser?

running CleanROM 2.4 + Browser2RAM + stock browser. all great.
in terms of browsing, i like my devices discrete. i.e. there's stuff i only want to see on my desktop for work, and stuff i want on my tablet, phone. but now i have like 300+ bookmarks (organized into folders, thank goodness) on my tablet. thing is, i can't delete any of it!
1) at first it appears that i CAN delete bookmarks. but upon reboot, bookmarks are still there.
2) logged into Google Dashboard and deleted synced Chrome bookmarks and disabled this function. deleted some bookmarks, rebooted the tablet, bookmarks still there.
3) disabled com.android.providers.partnerbookmarks. deleted some bookmarks. rebooted. deleted bookmarks still there.
i understand that with Browser2RAM, upon reboot, everything goes back to the original state and ASUS becomes the home page. so why are my bookmarks still there? and better question: how can i delete them?

IDIOT, i am.
Clear Data on Browser
disable Google Bookmarks Sync (though i noticed this seemed to be enabled, regardless) or clear Google Chrome Sync in Dashboard.
done.

AM Radio said:
IDIOT, i am.
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LOL
I do stuff like this all the time...
Hang in!