Chrome bookmarks not syncing with stock browser - Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Chrome bookmarks not syncing with stock browser - Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'll start with, I've reviewed the few post regarding this issue, no help. I've spoken with an associate that has the Note Pro and he's having the same issue of Chrome bookmarks aren't syncing with the stock browser. On my Note 8, the gMail account is syncing and the Chrome bookmarks are present in the stock browser.
Wondering if this is an issue that is being seen with many of the Note Pro users and if so, any resolution found or in sight?
Thanks in advance.

merics said:
I'll start with, I've reviewed the few post regarding this issue, no help. I've spoken with an associate that has the Note Pro and he's having the same issue of Chrome bookmarks aren't syncing with the stock browser. On my Note 8, the gMail account is syncing and the Chrome bookmarks are present in the stock browser.
Wondering if this is an issue that is being seen with many of the Note Pro users and if so, any resolution found or in sight?
Thanks in advance.
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It's been this way since the stock browser moved off WebKit with the N3. You can sync with your Samsung account which will allow bookmarks to be saved/shared across multiple Samsung devices but that's pretty much it.

BarryH_GEG said:
It's been this way since the stock browser moved off WebKit with the N3. You can sync with your Samsung account which will allow bookmarks to be saved/shared across multiple Samsung devices but that's pretty much it.
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Wow! That's a total bummer. Thanks.

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How can I sync my Chrome bookmarks with android?

I want all the folders supported in Dolphin, not just 500 bookmarks that aren't in folders.

I am also trying to sync my chrome contacts.
I stumbled upon this and am also having trouble finding a way to do that easily. Or at all as a matter of fact.

you may want to look at "google bookmarks assister2" its a free app that will sync you google bookmarks. Now it doesn't sync them with a browser app it will show the bookmarks in that application and you can launch them from there and it does give folders so it isn't to bad. I had some trouble getting it to sync correctly but after I did it worked pretty nice. Hope this helped good luck.

anyone found anything to do this? if i had all my bookmarks i could seriously use my tablet as a laptop/desktop replacement.
google bookmarks != chrome bookmarks (which are still synced to the cloud... there must be a way of syncing)

It would be really nice to sync the bookmarks from Chrome with the Android browser. Will look in the market..

EinZtein said:
I want all the folders supported in Dolphin, not just 500 bookmarks that aren't in folders.
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Have you tried Xmarks? It's not free (you have to pay a $1/m subscription fee to get the Android app to let you login. see: http://buy.xmarks.com/premium.php), but it will automatically sync your bookmarks to Android, as well as between computers and browsers, and it stores them all online.

Chrome 2 Phone

dkelle4 said:
Chrome 2 Phone
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thats isnt the same thing as what we are talking about. We are talking about syncing 50+ bookmarks at times. with chrome to phone you would have to send each one then bookmark each one. That could take a while

PhoneMarks, great app

k0smo86 said:
PhoneMarks, great app
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May have to give this a try myself. Thanks.

k0smo86 said:
PhoneMarks, great app
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I can vouch for this. It synced every app that was in the specified folder rather fast. I definitely needed this.

ChromeMarks (Lite/free - if you're satisfied with 1 way sync => PC to phone)

thank you for the help

I just tried PhoneMarks. I setup it up to sync with the default android browser, then went into dolphin HD\bookmarks to SD to sync from android browser to google bookmarks, then synced google bookmarks to dolphin. long story short, my chrome bookmarks are finally on my phone. thanks for the tip.

I'd love to try chromemarks, but I fear giving that many permissions to an app, that should be a stock feature. :/
I'm sure in time I'll just do it.
questions:
does it sync folders as well?
and does it just show up in the browser bookmarks, or do you have to click the app icon or whatever?

Phonemarks moves the bookmarks to recently visited on Samsung phones. Melt.

If you do however, go into most visited and untap the yellow favs star then click it again it'll add it to favourites.

Can't believe google didn't had that damn feature on last 2.x updates..! PhoneMarks, what would be the danger to use it exactly..?

[Q] Browser didn't sync bookmarks

After I flashed a custom ROM the Browse didn't sync the bookmarks.
Whith stock was fine working.
anybody can help

You should always manually backup your book marks anyway, even on my house pc i have it backed up sevral times on diffrent drives!
I hope you used a back program for the other rom!

The problem is not that i lost my bookmarks because i use the coustom rom.
i want to sync the bookmarks from crome over the cloud direct to the browser.

i'm having the same problem running prime 1.5, here's what i see in logcat:
D/SyncManager( 169): failed sync operation ***@gmail.com (com.google), com.android.browser, LOCAL, earliestRunTime 6351479, SyncResult: stats [ numIoExceptions: 1 numEntries: 1809]

today the tf sync some bookmarks, 5 of 100 i hope in the next days ore houres i get more. Did someone know if the issue is from google server ore from tf self.

Same issue without custom ROM.
Hello all,
I have a B60K that I can't seem to get the stock browser to sync bookmarks with. This was on the 3.1 that came with the TF along with the one from earlier today (Kernel 2.6.36.3-00011-g3eb19ec).
It worked fine on my old B50K (also stock, just with the previous 3.1 update).
I have tried Resetting the browser to default a few times along with deleting the account and setting it up so that I am only syncing the browser on the TF and only syncing bookmarks in Chrome.
An odd thing is that now the B50K TF will no longer sync. I had reset it to factory but not returned it yet. If I boot it up and just setup what is needed to sync the browser it doesn't work.
Below are a couple of messages I that helped me find this post.
Any assistance with the sync would be great. That being said, I would also be happy if anyone could point me in the right direction for just importing the bookmarks as a temp work around.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
263:0x56b I/BookmarksSync
Sync failed due to soft error: While parsing a protocol message, the input ended unexpectedly in the middle of a field. this could mean either than the input has been truncated or that an embedded message misreported its own length
138:0x99 D/SyncManager
Failed sync operation ***@gmail.com (com.goggle), com.android.browser, SERVER, erliestRunTime 783558, SyncResult:stats [ numIoExceptions: 1 numEntries: 4199 ]
931:0x414 I/AccountTypeManager
Loaded meta-data for 2 account types, 1 accounts in 3ms

I am stock 3.1 with latest OTA. The bookmark sync stopped working about a week ago, not long after installing Google+
I get about 50 bookmarks, starting fom the last ones, then sync fails.
Would love to know if anyone has fixed this.
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mcmikeal said:
Hello all,
I have a B60K that I can't seem to get the stock browser to sync bookmarks with. This was on the 3.1 that came with the TF along with the one from earlier today (Kernel 2.6.36.3-00011-g3eb19ec).
It worked fine on my old B50K (also stock, just with the previous 3.1 update).
I have tried Resetting the browser to default a few times along with deleting the account and setting it up so that I am only syncing the browser on the TF and only syncing bookmarks in Chrome.
An odd thing is that now the B50K TF will no longer sync. I had reset it to factory but not returned it yet. If I boot it up and just setup what is needed to sync the browser it doesn't work.
Below are a couple of messages I that helped me find this post.
Any assistance with the sync would be great. That being said, I would also be happy if anyone could point me in the right direction for just importing the bookmarks as a temp work around.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
263:0x56b I/BookmarksSync
Sync failed due to soft error: While parsing a protocol message, the input ended unexpectedly in the middle of a field. this could mean either than the input has been truncated or that an embedded message misreported its own length
138:0x99 D/SyncManager
Failed sync operation ***@gmail.com (com.goggle), com.android.browser, SERVER, erliestRunTime 783558, SyncResult:stats [ numIoExceptions: 1 numEntries: 4199 ]
931:0x414 I/AccountTypeManager
Loaded meta-data for 2 account types, 1 accounts in 3ms
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I am getting the exact same thing on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 running rooted-but-otherwise-stock 3.1. I have tried deleting the account but that didn't help. Local problem (client) or problem on Google's side? Any known fix yet?

I am having this problem too today. US TF with latest OTA, unrooted. Looks like a server problem.
Workaround is to export your chrome bookmark into Dropbox.

cooldragon777 said:
I am having this problem too today. US TF with latest OTA, unrooted. Looks like a server problem.
Workaround is to export your chrome bookmark into Dropbox.
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Thank you and where should I put the bookmarks.

I am also not sure what to do once I get a bookmark folder onto the TF. While Dropbox will make it easier to keep them synced, it doesn't actually help those of us that are looking for a method of importing them into the stock browser.
Is the idea that it is just an html file that we call up with one long list of bookmarks?

In the interim, you could try chromemarks, it will at least extract all your synced bookmarks into the app, and you can launch from there. The dev noted that Google made changes to their db structure which required a fix on July 12. That's right around when my sync started to fail.
I haven't found a way to import into the stock browser. Looking forward to seeing this fixed.
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Thanks mike5065. I tried chromemarks. Now I do have my Chrome bookmarks on the TF. That said, I need the full chromemarks version to integrate them into the stock browser.
Does anyone have any ideas for a free method to import bookmarks into the stock browser?

mcmikeal said:
Thanks mike5065. I tried chromemarks. Now I do have my Chrome bookmarks on the TF. That said, I need the full chromemarks version to integrate them into the stock browser.
Does anyone have any ideas for a free method to import bookmarks into the stock browser?
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Don't buy the full version of chromemarks it can't integrate bookmarks to the tf browser.

napoleonmm83 said:
Don't buy the full version of chromemarks it can't integrate bookmarks to the tf browser.
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Thanks for saving me (and it sounds like some others) some money. Does anyone have any other ideas?

hello all, and just wanted to share a bit of info I saw on the web--can't remember where. It seems Google changed the way it handles chrome bookmarks and sync sometime about a week ago, and that's why we can no longer sync. Hopefully an update will come that fixes it.

Wow, I just figured out some interesting things that might help clarify troubleshooting and apps for this issue for others as well.
There is a distinct difference between Chrome Bookmarks and Google Bookmarks. Further, they are not compatible. In fact if you want to import Chrome Bookmarks into Google Bookmarks you have to either do it via Firefox or a Delicious Bookmarks account. At any rate, Google Bookmarks seem to work fine syncing with HC right now. It is just the Chrome Bookmarks that are having an issue.
Here is a Google forum entry where they seem to be tracking a current issue with Chrome Bookmarks not syncing:
http://www.google.com/support/forum...ae&hl=en&fid=27043147d44d99ae0004a85d5169dc33
It may be a good idea if we start posting to that forum in order to (maybe) speed up any fix. It may add more urgency to the issue if Google realizes that the scope of the impact is greater then they thought.
Hope this is helpful to some.
Oh, on a quick side note, does anyone know if there is a name for the Honeycomb stock browser? Googling "Honeycomb stock browser" for this issue doesn't seem to help narrow down the search. It would be nice if I knew the name.
Thanks.

A bit update: if you go to settings->accounts & sync->manage accounts, click the up-right corner sync icon, you might notice the same thing as mine: all other sync are updated with the current time except the "sync browser".
The strange thing on mine is that part of the bookmarks are synced, but not all.

looks like it might be fixed, my bookmarks started magically syncing again today

jgaikwad said:
looks like it might be fixed, my bookmarks started magically syncing again today
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No such luck for me. I did get two empty folders to show up, but nothing else. Are you sure you got all of your bookmarks? Can you check HC account settings to see if the browser has really finished syncing?
Thanks.

stock browser won't let me delete gmail emails

I tried searching for this problem on Google, but the only solution I came across was either by browsing gmail in classic or desktop mode on stock browser. I can't seem to delete a gmail email in mobile version. when I press the trash icon to delete an email, the icon turns blue to indicate that it has been pressed, but then it doesnt reload the page or delete anything. it just hangs..
since I am a frequent gmail user, I use dolphin browser instead, which works fine, but I still want to know what's causing the problem with stock browser. btw I don't use gmail app. my issue here is accessing gmail on stock browser.
thanks in advance!
edit: I am on stock btw.

am I the only one with this glitch? plz help

I dont have that issue but then again i use k9 email app. When i have used gmail via a browser on the phone i use chrome and dont have a issue
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The app is far easier, I've found.
Nonetheless, I tested the stock browser and it does not actually delete any gmail items that I select when in mobile browsing mode. Works fine in Opera, though. I use Opera because it acts more in line with my expectations from a UI standpoint and rewraps text on zoom.
So, it's a stock browser bug, I'd think.
- ooofest

ooofest said:
The app is far easier, I've found.
Nonetheless, I tested the stock browser and it does not actually delete any gmail items that I select when in mobile browsing mode. Works fine in Opera, though. I use Opera because it acts more in line with my expectations from a UI standpoint and rewraps text on zoom.
So, it's a stock browser bug, I'd think.
- ooofest
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alright. thanks for clearing that up. I can't believe how Google's android stock browser has such glitch with gmail, which is also Google.
this is practically the main reason why I'm using dolphin instead. hope it gets fixed eventually.

royalcapo said:
alright. thanks for clearing that up. I can't believe how Google's android stock browser has such glitch with gmail, which is also Google.
this is practically the main reason why I'm using dolphin instead. hope it gets fixed eventually.
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I think google doesn't want us to deleted emails. Have you ever tried deleting your
email from the gmail website after not doing it fora few months? OMG! ITS crazy. First you can only do it 10 at a time and there may have hundreds or more, and each 10 take several clicks it can take hundreds of clicks! But if that's not bad enough if you want to completely delete them you have to do it all over again to delete them from the history and again from the trash.

Any reason you choose to use the browser over the app?
Sent from my Galaxy SIII

PaulG1488 said:
Any reason you choose to use the browser over the app?
Sent from my Galaxy SIII
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I like to surf internet and check emails under a single app. that's all lol