Well, I can save contacts to my phone itself, but if I try to save to my Outlook (prefered) or Google accounts, they dont save. After hitting save, it just goes back to the number as if the phone doesnt know who they are, and the contact is not in my contact list.
Tried removing and readding my Outlook account - same behaviour.
This is pretty damn bad for me - I need to be able to add clients to my phone then be able to access them from my Outlook account elsewhere. Can anyone help? It seems to be an issue other people have had over the years under different configurations from googling about, but I never see a solution.
Can anyone help?
Jezston said:
Well, I can save contacts to my phone itself, but if I try to save to my Outlook (prefered) or Google accounts, they dont save. After hitting save, it just goes back to the number as if the phone doesnt know who they are, and the contact is not in my contact list.
Tried removing and readding my Outlook account - same behaviour.
This is pretty damn bad for me - I need to be able to add clients to my phone then be able to access them from my Outlook account elsewhere. Can anyone help? It seems to be an issue other people have had over the years under different configurations from googling about, but I never see a solution.
Can anyone help?
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Anyone have a solution for this? I have the same problem on my s7. I have a custom rom on it and did NOT install the stock email app. I'm running a Microsoft outlook exchange account on this gmail app (it was setup through it). My contacts, calender, and email sync fine but I can not edit my exchange contacts on my phone. Also I can not save new contacts to my exchange account from my phone. This is a big problem.
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I have to activesync through work, but miss my google contacts/calendar updating- Is there a solution? Free would be great! Thanks in advance.
might wanna play around with seven beta
www.community.seven.com
they have some software you can run on your desktop system that will let you get your email im not sure if it will let you sync multiple calendars and contacts
but it does let you do a global search on contacts from all the email accounts you plugin
i'm a big fan of google contacts/calendar and use it with this software along with two other gmail accounts and exchange account from work
should check it out only thing is they charge you international text message everytime you set up the software
but after reading around i was able to figure out how to get around it setup all the accounts that you want and then if you are a heavy flasher like myself back up the sever directory in /application data on your phone (i use pim backup)
then when you flash restore the folder with pim backup or whatever you use and then reinstall the cab give it a few minutes after you reinstall should see your email accounts and you might have to refresh the data to get everything to sync back up it takes a while but it's better then payin for an international text message in my book
Honestly, I had my work calendar and tasks syncing with my Gmail email and Contacts for the longest time. Accidentally, I merged my work calendar into Gmail, and it RESENT EVERY SINGLE APPOINTMENT ON MY CALENDAR WITH ME AS THE ORGANIZER AND EFFED A TON OF MEETINGS UP. I havent done it in a while. let me get the process down and Ill let you know how i did it.
If there is a solution out there I would like to try it or at least know.
Its driving me crazy trying to keep up with my Google contacts ever since I stopped syncing them. My ideal situation is:
Sync Google contacts only
Sync work calendar and Google calendar
Access work email and Google( able to do this)
Thanks in advance
Hello,
I recently obtained a Samsung Captivate and synced my contacts (through the stock "sync" feature in Android) from my phone to Gmail. This worked very well, however after this initial sync, new contacts that I have added to my phone have not synced with Gmail. Help? Also, I don't know if this matters, but I use k-9 mail instead of the default Gmail app. However I have tried also having the default gmail account on and it doesn't seem to have helped
Anyone? It's getting to be a bit of a problem
I'm having a similar problem
I just got the Samsun Fascinate yesterday and I'm having the same problem. My contacts synced fine from google/gmail but when I added a new phone number into the phone yesterday it never synced up. I was able to add new accounts in the google/gmail and have those sync up on my phone.
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I just got the Samsun Fascinate yesterday and I'm having the same problem. My contacts synced fine from google/gmail but when I added a new phone number into the phone yesterday it never synced up. I was able to add new accounts in the google/gmail and have those sync up on my phone.
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When you create new contact are you ticking Google on the "save contact to" pop up?
good day.
Nope. I got that figured out now though. Thanks for the tip!
I think google broke something somewhere, since yesterday automatic sync in gmail got broken, not only for me but I've seen others having the same problem.
I am on the international version of the Galaxy S
I realize this is an old thread, but my problem is almost identical, so I don't want to clutter the board with a new thread...
Captivate. Stock. US.
My contacts have NEVER sync'ed upbound to Google account.
In Contacts>Menu>more>Accounts, sync IS turned on.
By the way, the Google account has NO contacts in it. And I don't need the arrangement to move contacts from google to phone, only from phone to google (as a back-up).
Am I missing some step to make it start syncing?
Here is another thought...all my contacts are in SIM; do they have to be in phone memory for sync to work?
Apologize for the bump here, but this problem remains...no sync from phone up to google--only the other way.
I enter new contacts (generally phone numbers and name only) on the phone--not 1st in gmail. So, I need for PHONE-ENTERED contacts to sync upbound to goggle, but it does not do it.
Is there an app that makes this work, or is it just a Samsung/ATT/google fail with no fix?
If the contact is not flagged as a google contact then there is no way to get it to sync to google. So to remedy that you need to delete all phone based contacts and reneter them as google contacts. Use the below steps.
From the main contact screen hit the menu key then select more then settings then save new contact and select google and all contacts will now be saved as google contacts and thus sync both ways.
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If the contact is not flagged as a google contact then there is no way to get it to sync to google. So to remedy that you need to delete all phone based contacts and reneter them as google contacts. Use the below steps. From the main contact screen hit the menu key then select more then settings then save new contact and select google and all contacts will now be saved as google contacts and thus sync both ways.
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Hmmmm...if you do this (make all contacts be "google" contacts, do they reside on your phone or only "up" at google. IOW what if you have no data net connection at all (phone or wifi), are your contacts still on your phone?
Have you tried logging in @ http://www.google.com/contacts? Export My Contacts to a local file in Outlook CSV format. Then use iCSV Address Book in Android market to import them from the local csv file.
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Have you tried logging in @ http://www.google.com/contacts? Export My Contacts to a local file in Outlook CSV format. Then use iCSV Address Book in Android market to import them from the local csv file.
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I have no contacts at google--they are all on the phone...actually on the SIM; I want them to go up to google, thus your suggestion will not work (nothing at google TO export).
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I have no contacts at google--they are all on the phone...actually on the SIM; I want them to go up to google, thus your suggestion will not work (nothing at google TO export).
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then try it the other way around. Export your contacts in your phone to a csv file then upload them from within google/contacts... did I say that right?
Hello all, just picked up my shiney new HTC HD7, very impressed with it so far. Only thing is I cant seem to get my contacts sync'd. All my contacts are saved in my google account, so I it set up, even have the contacts options checked on the mail setting, no joy, will retrieve email find, but no contacts. I then allowed my hotmail account to access my google contacts, so they have all appeared in my hotmail account (when I log in using my PC). Now I have added my hotmail account to the phone, contacts now sync, but the numbers do no, just the names, any ideas?
Got it sorted, looks like it just took a while for the contacts to merge.
Sync with PC
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Got it sorted, looks like it just took a while for the contacts to merge.
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every thing is clearly explained on Microsoft site so please read ir before claiming
Iam facing a strange problem with my HD7 since yesterday. I have made some addition and deletion in my windows live contacts. Now my HD7 is no longer reflecting/updating these changes. ( Previously HD7 was updating the contacts immidiatly).
Although I have kept my mobile phone's wifit on for several hours. Beside this I have access the hotmail account through HD7's internet explorer and have done a lot of surfing on my HD7 but still it has not updated the contacts. Am I missing some thing ?
Thanks.
is it getting your emails fine still? i know it's a bit risky and will mean your changes will disappear but worst case scenario would be to remove your live account from windows phone and readd it again.
Same problem here
It happened to me just after I edited and merged some contacts on my Windows Live account.
Now I'm not able to get all my contacts there to my device and I lost all avatars but the ones of facebook.
I think I tried anything but stills not working
wp7 doesn't let you to remove ur main windows live account
I found a strange & stupid kind of solution. I tired it 3 times and it worked.
Turn on the wifi. surf the market place and recomendedly install any free software. The problem will be fixed. All contacts will be updated.
I've got similar issue. Contacts will be synced, but none of the contact pictures... Tried syncing over WiFi and 3G, no affect. Even tried to remove and add pictures to contacts on computer see what happens then... Nothing, contact pics wont be synced...
Make sure your facebook account and windows live account are sync'd.
was having the same problem until i went to settings - email & accounts and sync'd facebook!
is there a manual way to force Facebook to sync with your contacts?
I have had a number of new Facebook friends added so I can link them with my phone contacts and get the pictures etc. It done this the first time but hasnt since.
May try logging out of the Facebook contacts bit and then reenter my credentials to try again
i think a long press on the setting for the FB ...i'm pretty sure this is in the tip n tricks.
or at least on the list of tips on pocket-lint.com
awesome thanks mate!
taking about contacts I have dude , New contacts added to the cellphone how those contact get to the contacts in the email contacts because I made sync twice but the new contact that I added they are not in the account, any body knows how i can sync those new contacts thanks.
my wife got a new d2g and the contacts wont sync to Google. this is the second phone she got in less than a week do to other problems, and the phone before this would not sync either. and it is just the contacts, the calender and the gmail sync fine. under the google account on the phone all the options are checked to sync and it shows the arrows that its trying to sync but when i look online there are no contacts. any ideas?
I'm pretty sure that it's considered normal behaviour. If the contacts weren't added manually after setting up a Google account on the phone, they won't sync, or at least that's what I have here.
My dx sync just fine and I set it up the same way. Not sure what the deal is.
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Ok gonna take a wild guess here and say that you had the carrier transfer contacts from the old phone to the D2G and that would explian why they do not sync.
Look at the contacts (might have to go into edit mode) and see what "PROFILE" it says for each contact.
My guess is it says Phone Only.
What you need to do (and I'm going off memory since I am not running stock myself)
Edit each contact and in the menu there should be something that says NEW contact that will take the info from the one you are editing but ask you which account to make the new contact for. Select your GMail acct when asked and save it.
Then fine the gmail version of the contact you just made and select join or link and link it to the Phone only version.
This will give you one contact that has two profiles, phone only and Gmail.
What I suggest for anyone moving to Android for the first time is to get all your contacts into GMail (using above method) Import all your facebook contacts as well (You can do that through Yahoo Mail wizard and exporting to CSV then i8mporting into Gmail) and once your GMail has a complete and accurate contact list wipe the data on the phone and sync with Gmail to get all your contacts back. Be sure to make a backup of all your contacts on GMail once you are done to guard against future corruption issues and to be safe.
Cloud Contacts is not one of the best features of the phone but once you have integrated all your current contacts into GMail and joined them and Facebook into a proper list it is not a problem anymore.