Just got my infinity and set it up and it's downloading all the apps I have on my phone, how do I stop it?
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It asked you if you wanted to sync and you pressed yes. Just start over. I don't have it in front of me but go to system,security and look for factory reset.
I thought it meant sync calendar and stuff. What do you mean start over?
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In the setting.
I looked I settings, I can't find it, that's why I posted here
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If im not mistaken Go to setting then privacy then hit factory reset.
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It's there just keep looking. Good luck. Enjoy the infinity.
Wait why do I have to factory reset? I just want stop syncing with apps, I still want to sync with calendar and mail
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He meant to go for a factory reset and deselect the option for syncing from your Google account presented during install. Your mail and contacts are ALWAYS synced for the first account you enter on an Android device (you can disable the sync afterwards, but it will still have synced at least once) -- and you can't delete that account even if you add (an)other account(s) afterwards)
If you're happy with the results so far, there'd be no urgent need to factory reset at all and I'd just disable the account syncing from Settings >> Backup & Reset instead.
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It will start from scratch. It only takes couple of minutes. It better if you start over and leave no traces of the apps you didn't want or you can delete them one by one. It's just easier. You can still keep the calendar and gmail syncing.
mozzarella72 said:
Wait why do I have to factory reset? I just want stop syncing with apps, I still want to sync with calendar and mail
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This is a different setting. Your Google accounts sync settings can be found under Account & Sync, and have nothing to do with the app restore done by Backup & Restore. You can freely disable one or the other, or both, if so desired. As I said, you do not have to factory reset if you're happy worth the apps restored thus far. It's the fastest way to get rid of apps you'd rather not have installed on your tablet, though.
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If I delete the apps one by one will they redownload with sync still on?
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This is a different setting. Your Google accounts sync settings can be found under Account & Sync, and have nothing to do with the app restore done by Backup & Restore. You can freely disable one or the other, or both, if so desired. As I said, you do not have to factory reset if you're happy worth the apps restored thus far. It's the fastest way to get rid of apps you'd rather not have installed on your tablet, though.
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So the backup and restore syncs the apps, and the account sync syncs calendar and stuff?
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Whenever I go through the setup of android (whether due to new ROM or new device), I always skip the account stuff until after I have a running system. Then I turn off sync under the Accounts and then finally add my account. It adds a bit more flexibility as to what to sync. For your case, under the Accounts category, you have your list of accounts. Click on the account entry (and not the circular arrows) and you will see a list of all the data types that are available to sync. I don't really see any individual settings for applications, but I do see "Calendar" and "Contacts". Maybe you should try disabling all the items that you don't want and see if it stops the issue.
Otherwise, you can do like was already suggested before and factory reset then do as I mentioned to get control of what you want to sync before everything gets transferred.
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Am I the only one with this problem? And is there a fix?
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This happens to me sometimes. I usually just backout of messages, and go back in and it works fine. Hasn't hapened for a few days though.
Happens to me ALL the time...
Yeah from my searching it's been happening to all of us at one point or another. I usually delete my facebook account from the phone and re-add them. Pics come back.
Here is the fix - you probably ran permission fix in CWM. This is one of the results...
Go into Applications - Manage applications
Go to ALL applications tab
Scroll down to Contacts Storage and click it.
Clear its data
Scroll down to Market
Clear data
Open market - accept agreement
Resync your contacts. This only erases the picture cache not your numbers. It gets corrupted when you run permission checks in CWM.
I had this same problem, it wasn't storing the picture right in the SMS app, and other apps like LauncherPro weren't able to pull any of the contact pictures. I also had it not syncing my Facebook picture with my local contact (which I find annoying).
What I did is added the Facebook for HTC Sense account, and let this sync. When I installed the FB app I told it to not sync anything.
Now everything is working great.
Well my problem was due to the cwr and cuz I was saving contact to the phone and not to Google ! How can I have saving to Google default
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Well my problem was due to the cwr and cuz I was saving contact to the phone and not to Google ! How can I have saving to Google default
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Just do yourself a favor and edit your contacts at gmail.com... they push to your phone.
does anyone know of a mod that will defult the contacts to save to ur google account =instead of degfluting to the phone?
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does anyone know of a mod that will defult the contacts to save to ur google account =instead of degfluting to the phone?
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First of all:
psufan5 said:
Just do yourself a favor and edit your contacts at gmail.com... they push to your phone.
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Second of all, don't ever save your contacts on your phone, that's what google sync is for. When you start restoring saved contacts and letting google sync run, you're creating a huge mess.
In your case I would clean up the contacts on google, then wipe your phone (not restoring any contacts saved on the phone) so that everything you have on google is what you have on the phone.
I did this a while back, and have been happy ever since.
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Second of all, don't ever save your contacts on your phone, that's what google sync is for. When you start restoring saved contacts and letting google sync run, you're creating a huge mess.
In your case I would clean up the contacts on google, then wipe your phone (not restoring any contacts saved on the phone) so that everything you have on google is what you have on the phone.
I did this a while back, and have been happy ever since.
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Absolutely agree with you. After I rooted, i dont know what I did, but after i rooted, all my facebook contacts ended up on my phone. )And no, I didnt tell the facebook app to sync all) I think i added the google account and facebook accounts too fast and then hosed it up when it brought up suggested linked contacts. I just went to Google contacts, cleaned what i didnt want, made some changes to other contacts, cleared contact storage data, and had them all back how i like less than 2 minutes later. and i still had facebook for htc sense setup and it had everybody synced in about 5 minutes. been perfect ever since.
I've mentioned this atvthe end of a previous post elsewhere on these forums, I'm repostibg to be more specific.
How do I get google to sync my calander (completely) to sgs2??.
It's a problem I've had for about a week; google won't sync my entire calander to droid. I've read a lot and it seems I'm not alone in this; yet I've tried all the work arounds, and still nothing.
Any advice?
Also, if I factory reset my device, will I have to root my sgs2 again? (I had done this prior to rooting and still didn't help google calander sync afterwards, it would only sync 1 month's worth of prior events).
Thanks
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Settings->Accounts->"your account"->Sync calendar
that doesn't work, it only places the last 30 days of calendar on my droid
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A search has not fully answered my question. After having to factory reset today, I noticed my calendar (I input from the phone itself) did not sync with google calendar and back things up. I lost prior three weeks and next two weeks of appts. After looking through settings of the calendar app and the phone itself and messing with it, it still doesn't sync. Is there something missing? I noticed some others in the search had similar problems, but couldn't tell if they were the same as mine or not. Thanks!
stupid question but under your Gmail account you have calendar set to sync right? What happens when you tap the sync icon, does it sync or error out?
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stupid question but under your Gmail account you have calendar set to sync right? What happens when you tap the sync icon, does it sync or error out?
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Yes the calendar is set to sync, when I sync it says it does. But again, if I check google calendar elsewhere, it hasn't changed.
Make sure you have your google calendar selected when adding events. The phone has its own calendar as well as all your google candidates that you have permission to write with. Perhaps you were writing to the phone's calendar instead of your google one?
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Thanks, yeah I unchecked every car account excpet my google calendar and it still doesn't sync. Will see if replacement devcie does the same.
I have searched all over the forums and I cannot find anything about this. I made a google plus account the other day and after I made it I went to my gallery and there were backups of all my pictures and I don't want them there. I've tried just about everything from going into the app and seeing if there were any options to stop it, from going into my phones settings. I can't seem to find where to turn this off at, it's really getting on my nerves because I want them gone and I can't just delete them! Thanks in advance!
Did you rush through the installation of Google plus? There's an option to sync pictures and stuff I think.
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Did you rush through the installation of Google plus? There's an option to sync pictures and stuff I think.
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I saw that and I unchecked it and still they won't go away.
If I remember correctly you have to login to your Google account settings and then uncheck from there but it has been a long time since I turned mine off.
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If I remember correctly you have to login to your Google account settings and then uncheck from there but it has been a long time since I turned mine off.
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I went to an app that was called google settings and I went to camera & photos and turned off auto backup that's the only thing that I can think to do. I went back and still no dice the photos are still there.
This is the image from my phone showing the pictures. You can see that there is the one folder that is named camera. The other ones are the backup photos can't be deleted.
That's Picasa back ups. Go into settings, under Accounts select Google. Then at the top it should show your Gmail account and when it synced last, tap it. Then scroll down and uncheck Sync Picasa Web Albums. That will stop it adding any more. To get rid of the ones already there I THINK you clear data/cache for the gallery app... But it's been awhile since I did it. I just remember it took me forever to get rid of them... I didn't need over 1000 pics backed up twice.
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That's Picasa back ups. Go into settings, under Accounts select Google. Then at the top it should show your Gmail account and when it synced last, tap it. Then scroll down and uncheck Sync Picasa Web Albums. That will stop it adding any more. To get rid of the ones already there I THINK you clear data/cache for the gallery app... But it's been awhile since I did it. I just remember it took me forever to get rid of them... I didn't need over 1000 pics backed up twice.
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Thank you so much! That worked, so happy that they are gone! I thanked you.
Awesome! Glad it worked... And that I remembered correctly!
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Anyone else having issues where the Google Calendar isn't syncing? In my account settings, the option to sync Google Calendar isn't even listed. I've got App Data, Hangouts, People Details, etc, but nothing about the Calendar. I use the Google Calendar app exclusively, never tried the LG one and hated the Samsung one on my previous phone. I am currently rooted.
Already tried:
Removing Google Calendar and reinstalling.
Removing Google account and re-adding.
Rebooted
Shut down and powered back on
Works here. Did you select it as one of the calendars to sync?
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Works here. Did you select it as one of the calendars to sync?
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It's not an option for me to select. There is no calendar in the Account Settings and in the Calendar app itself, it is not listed. When I click add calendar, it just sits there with a spinning wheel and does nothing.
Works fine for me.
When you go under your Google Account settings uncheck the Google Calendar sync then recheck it...... that helps sometime.
As was already mentioned twice, that option does not exist for me on my phone. There is no option under Google Account settings to even select the calendar as something to sync. It's just not there at all.
I believe I had a similar problem a few years ago and the issue was the calendar was corrupted in the account. I think the solution was to log into gmail via a browser and copy or make a new calendar. Google search the issue and you should be able to get more exact instructions.
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I think you can get it back by adding a second "dummy" account and letting it sync. It's recommended to be on data when doing so.
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Well, I ended up doing the full factory unroot process (basic rebuild from factory ROM file). Irritating as it is, my Google calendar now syncs. I'm not sure what was causing it not to, but there it is.