Hi
Whenever I flash a firmware (wipe) google syncs the contacts from my gmail account
I really don't maintain any contact list in Gmail. So what is being synced automatically for the first time is the list of all contacts form Gmail (who ever had sent me email / or to whom i had sent mails)
Is it possible to stop this sync? because I have some 1000's of contacts info which are not relevant for my phone
On the contrary are there any good suggestions to maintain / sync contacts between Gmail and Phone?
Every time after sync I have to go and delete all the contacts then restore from KIES
Any help would be appreciated
thank you
Hi there. When you first open your phone after a wipe, you are required to fill in some information (gmail, wifi keys, etc.). There is something you can do.
Start it without sim card, do not enter any wifi keys and enter all your info normally. then go to settings, under accounts and synch options, and deselect auto synch for your gmail account. Then you can place your sim card.
Edit: the reason i mentioned to remove the sim card is that it can still synch under a 3g network.
I hope i helped, can't tell you the exact names of the options as my gs2 is being repaired.
OK thanks. Will try. BTW is there any simple way to manage gmail contacts with android contacts? h
galaxyII said:
OK thanks. Will try. BTW is there any simple way to manage gmail contacts with android contacts? h
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By "manage" you mean edit or merge them?
Edit / add new / etc
Should be easy: create a subfolder in Google contacs (e.g. "phone-contacts" as I did), store all phone contacts there and synch only this subfolder ................
troed said:
Should be easy: create a subfolder in Google contacs (e.g. "phone-contacts" as I did), store all phone contacts there and synch only this subfolder ................
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thats a nice idea! bTW i searched and not possible to create sub folders in Gmail contacts?
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The title is the question. Please forgive me, if my searching overlooked the answer.
Just to be clear, my aim is to get "phone" contacts up to google.
I've deleted and removed the "phone" and "sim" contacts. I thought the "phone" contacts were just the stock numbers to check balances and stuff?
Why not just open your gmail and add them manually on your PC so they sync with google.... then go to display options and only show "google"
Thanks, but I'm looking for a non-manual solution.
Manually, I imagine, on the phone I could link all instances of a contact; edit or create a google contact containing the contact details; unlink the google contact; and delete what's left.
With more than a few contacts, that's more work than I'd prefer.
If you want to copy contacts that are saved to the "phone" and get them into your gmail contacts list you can....
open contacts..
press menu..
choose more..
select import/export..
export to sd card...
send that file to your computer or gmail.
in gmail click on contacts..
more actions..
import...
choose file.... the .vcf you created earlier
and gmail will bring them in and if you have sync enabled on your phone everything will be exactly the same on phone and in gmail and the phone..
probably an easier way to do this but this is what i found since i had 80+ numbers from my old blackberry sim
I am having trouble syncing my contacts that I inputed on my Atrix to Gmail. Even if the contact is Linked to both Phone and Google, none of the contacts show up on Gmail from my computer, but if I add a contact from my computer, it shows up on my phone. How can I sync from my phone to Gmail? btw, this is my first Android device.
Thanks.
I have exactly the same issue and it's driving me nuts! Creating a new contact on the phone adds it to the "Contacts" group but there doesn't seem to be a way to get that to sync with google/gmail. Have you found a way around this?
Ok, my phone auto syncs it with contacts and gmail, but I think I know why yours isn't.
Open the contact and verify that it has a linked profile to your google account. If it does not, then link it.
If it does, go to settings > accounts > gmail account
Hit the menu button and sync. Log into your gmail account on the desktop version, not mobile version, hit contacts, click all contacts and verify.
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DarrellRaines said:
Ok, my phone auto syncs it with contacts and gmail, but I think I know why yours isn't.
Open the contact and verify that it has a linked profile to your google account. If it does not, then link it.
If it does, go to settings > accounts > gmail account
Hit the menu button and sync. Log into your gmail account on the desktop version, not mobile version, hit contacts, click all contacts and verify.
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If I create a brand new contact I can't link it to gmail because the contact does not exist in gmail. Your method only works if I have the contact in gmail/google also.
Anyone solve this yet? I'm dealing with 150 contacts or so that were imported from a sim card and trying to figure out how to get them into gmail.
I think I might be able to do export all contacts to a file, then email it to myself, then import all contacts to gmail but I'm trying to avoid CSV errors.
thunderbolt
I am having the same issue in my thunderbolt. I just rooted it and when I went to look for a contact that I added when I got the phone I realized it never was sent to my gmail account and now it is not synced.
Thunderbolt
Through some searching I found that the thunderbolt defaults to a "phone" contact when you enter one on the phone. You have to select it as a Google contact before you even put it in the phone. You can't change this after putting in the contact. I'm glad I found this out early enough so that I only lost one contact.
I had this issue and found how to solve it:
Open ContactsApp->Menu->More->Settings
Here each phone is a bit different but you will be able to choose how to set your new contacts, whether it will be on your phone contacts, a specific gmail account or all.
In My Motorola Atrix, it automatically saves to contacts (and cannot be removed) and if you have more than 1 gmail account it all gets mixed up there and you should add/select the right one.
Hope it helps.
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I had this issue and found how to solve it:
Open ContactsApp->Menu->More->Settings
Here each phone is a bit different but you will be able to choose how to set your new contacts, whether it will be on your phone contacts, a specific gmail account or all.
In My Motorola Atrix, it automatically saves to contacts (and cannot be removed) and if you have more than 1 gmail account it all gets mixed up there and you should add/select the right one.
Hope it helps.
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This is the correct method and set by default on the Atrix.
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delta530 said:
I am having trouble syncing my contacts that I inputed on my Atrix to Gmail. Even if the contact is Linked to both Phone and Google, none of the contacts show up on Gmail from my computer, but if I add a contact from my computer, it shows up on my phone. How can I sync from my phone to Gmail? btw, this is my first Android device.
Thanks.
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i have the same problem only i want my facebook contacts !
firefox3 said:
i have the same problem only i want my facebook contacts !
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Make sure FACEBOOK is added under MANAGE ACCOUNTS and then look at DISPLAY GROUPS to select ALL CONTACTS.
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Make sure FACEBOOK is added under MANAGE ACCOUNTS and then look at DISPLAY GROUPS to select ALL CONTACTS.
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Didnt work even when i view facebook it says no facebook contacts ! i have 1,394 friends and before i updated i had them all in my contacts
firefox3 said:
Didnt work even when i view facebook it says no facebook contacts ! i have 1,394 friends and before i updated i had them all in my contacts
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Just to be clear, we are talking about viewing contacts on your Atrix and not viewing contacts on GMail on your PC. The point being that Motoblur does not push contacts from the various Social Networking accounts to your Google hosted Gmail contacts. I think you already know that but wanted to be sure. Did you try to delete your FB account on the Atrix and re-add. Also, and this should not make any difference, but I do not have the FB app installed. I find it a bit useless.
While syncing with the google account I lost some of my contacts, dont know why but I am experiencing this everytime I sync. Even importing and exporting loses my contacts. Any ideas?
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While syncing with the google account I lost some of my contacts, dont know why but I am experiencing this everytime I sync. Even importing and exporting loses my contacts. Any ideas?
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Go to Settings -> Privacy -> there will be an option to backup/restore your contacts using your Google account. Next time you flash a ROM, turn on Sync after adding your Google account and it will restore your contacts and favorite contacts as well.
Hope this helps you.
when u first added your contacts, did u create them under ur gmail account or ur sim card/phone-only? the contacts under ur gmail account get synced while the contacts in ur sim card dont
also check the display options (phone>menu button>display options) to see if ur contacts are just hidden
I tried all of your suggestions but if I try to re-sync my contacts then I will lose some random contacts and they are synced via my gmail account
Where are the Google contacts stored?
The only place I can see them is when I am creating a message and tap add contact. There seems to be all the contacts from my Gmail account many of which do not have phone numbers and some of which I wouldn't want certain family members to see.
I have tried every setting in contacts and accounts I can find but no luck. I have cleaned up my Gmail account contacts and did a sync hoping that would over write them but no luck.
Any help is appreciated.
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Where are the Google contacts stored?
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Google Contacts are stored on your phone and Google server if I am not wrong.
Regards.
By default Gmail adds anyone you email to your contacts. This used to be so annoying to most people.
Sign into Gmail on computer, go to settings, general, "create contacts for auto-complete" and check off "I'll add contacts myself".
Now go to your Contacts and start deleting the ones you don't want.
As for where they are stored, they are stored on Google's servers and not necessarily on your phone. Any changes you make either on your phone or via the web are pushed and synced I'm real time.
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LordLugard
Yep cleaned up the contacts on the gmail account. turned of the auto add. Did a sync still have them on the phone.
ithehappy
I know they are stored on the phone and gmail account but where on the phone??
Can you see all the contacts when you hit the contacts tab in the phone menu?
If not then from within contacts Menu, More, Display Options and select the google contacts, under that there is a few options of what to display.
Why not try this last resort, remove your Google account on the phone and add it again.
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vessy
You are the man.
Yep need google contacts on in order to see them in Contacts. Then delete them and turn off google contacts again.
Now I can rest easy.
Thank you very much
No problem, glad to help, found out the hard way too!
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How to get contacts autofill in gmail
Hi,
I use viewsonic tablet with android 2.2 running. I have a gmail application installed . Whenever I try to send a new email or take a picture and want to send through gmail instantaneously, I get up to emal "To " field. In there it expects me to type the whole email address again. This is even true if I want to send it to my own gmail id. I mean to say that autofill of email addresses doesn't work. All my contacts is synched with gmail account and that show all the contacts which is available through my email account.
Is there a way to get around and get this autofill option enabled?
Thanks
Ravi
How to delete the email registered during setup because I want to change to another account. Will the original email contacts be erased if I change to another email address?
Many thanks.
I don't know if you can delete it via the menu, but anyway, a wipe is required. If you have it rooted, use Titanium Backup just in case.
And if your contacts are synced with your Google Account, you will lose those, so be sure to put them on your SIM/other service.
And yes, email contact swill be also deleted.
I think you can delete a file with root explorer
@kadji: How you would do this ...?
@Kermit33
What kind of email app do you mean? Original GMail or Email or K9 mail?
The contacts on a android phone are synchronized with your Gmail (google) account.
Your phone is bound to one google account. If you want to change this account, it will have a massive impact on your phone (mail, calendar, contacts, market).
If you mean only a mail account on email app, you can delete a account in the settings of this app or add one. This will have no impact on your contacts.
Man if he want to remove Google account he have to delete a specify file with root explorer, i dont remember the name but i can google later
kadji9 said:
Man if he want to remove Google account he have to delete a specify file with root explorer, i dont remember the name but i can google later
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accounts.db should do it. The telephone will create a new accounts.db. or he can rename framework-res.apk to framework-res.apk.bak and then rename it back again to framework-res.apk. That should also do the trick.
At least these to worked on my Xperia Arc. Havn't tried them on my Arc S nor Tablet S
I have a guide for it here on my computer.
Is it not much easier to delete the account via
'settings -> Accounts & Sync ->'
than open the account and choose 'Delete Account' in the upper right corner?
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@kadji: How you would do this ...?
@Kermit33
What kind of email app do you mean? Original GMail or Email or K9 mail?
The contacts on a android phone are synchronized with your Gmail (google) account.
Your phone is bound to one google account. If you want to change this account, it will have a massive impact on your phone (mail, calendar, contacts, market).
If you mean only a mail account on email app, you can delete a account in the settings of this app or add one. This will have no impact on your contacts.
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It's the email built-in of the tablet, I think I can delete it in the Setting - Account and Sync.
Thanks to all for your advices.
Yeah, settings -> Accounts & Sync -> Select account and click Remove Account should clear out the account and all the sync settings. Then you can choose Add Account and add your new one.
The reason I want to delete the original email, a gmail, is that the pictures in my Picasa are all uploaded to the tablet automatically! Is there a way to bypass this or there is some setting I need to do with the tablet/gmail account?
P.s. I can't delete those picasa album in the tablet.
@kermit33
I know this problem ... I have had the same in the past ...
I was confused wherefrom my smartphone 'knows' same very old pictures ...
The reason was ... from Picasa sync ...
(I have a German tablet, so I hope my translation of the needed steps are correct)
Go to ....
Settings -> Accounts & sync
choose your google account withe a "touch"
than you will find a list with checkbox and all google services
one of them should be 'Picasa Web-album'
Disable the checkbox .. and is done.
Thanks obicom.
I have tried that already but the Pisaca pictures are still in the tablet and can't be deleted. I think the pictures are synced to my device when I first set up my email account.
Hmm ... you should be able to delete the pictures
Do you have root access an a tool like Root Explorer?
The pictures are physical files on your sd card and must be deletable.
Maybe not from the gallery but with file explorer?
Could you try again and post the error message?
Keep me informed please.
obicom said:
Hmm ... you should be able to delete the pictures
Do you have root access an a tool like Root Explorer?
The pictures are physical files on your sd card and must be deletable.
Maybe not from the gallery but with file explorer?
Could you try again and post the error message?
Keep me informed please.
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I am a new owner and don't root my device and there is no sd card inserted.
Kermit33 said:
The reason I want to delete the original email, a gmail, is that the pictures in my Picasa are all uploaded to the tablet automatically! Is there a way to bypass this or there is some setting I need to do with the tablet/gmail account?
P.s. I can't delete those picasa album in the tablet.
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In Settings -> Accounts and Sync -> Gmail Account, you can just uncheck the Picasa Web Albums options and they should stop syncing automatically.
agc93 said:
In Settings -> Accounts and Sync -> Gmail Account, you can just uncheck the Picasa Web Albums options and they should stop syncing automatically.
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Please see post #12.