[Q] No contacts after deleting gmail account??? - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Could anybody say what is happening with the GMail account. I have my contacts in Outlook and synced them with my phone, then added the gmail account. After deleting gmail account from accounts in settings all my contacts are gone. What the ...???
A also noticed that when I have an existing gmail account I cannot set individual ringtone to a contact. When it's gone everything works. Anyway I don't want this gmail to sync everything, especially my contacts. Does anybody know why the hell on earth this crap is going on? Why can't I just use my contacts without gmail sync and other strange effects.

SonicMZ said:
Could anybody say what is happening with the GMail account. I have my contacts in Outlook and synced them with my phone, then added the gmail account. After deleting gmail account from accounts in settings all my contacts are gone. What the ...???
A also noticed that when I have an existing gmail account I cannot set individual ringtone to a contact. When it's gone everything works. Anyway I don't want this gmail to sync everything, especially my contacts. Does anybody know why the hell on earth this crap is going on? Why can't I just use my contacts without gmail sync and other strange effects.
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Yes happened with me too.
Totally idiotic.
And the worst part?
When I synced back the Google account... The contacts didn't come back properly.
All messed up and duplicates.
Idiotic.
Luckily I had taken a backup few days back and deleted all contacts and restored the backup.
I have totally disabled my contacts sync up with Google.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3

The only way that helped me is to sync my contacts with my outlook without creating gmail account, then set up all personal contact ringtones and only after that create gmail account in the phone without sync options.

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I cannot get my gmail acct to add the new contacts I put in my phone. Say I add 10 new numbers and contacts then sync with my gmail acct. Flash a new Rom after clearing all data then resign into my gmail acct. none of the contacts are there. This has happened to me several times and have lost some very important numbers in the process.
Anybody else having issues with google sync, or know another method to keeping all my contacts without having to write them all down and install them manually?
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http://www.thunderboltforums.com/fo...695-t-bolt-contacts-what-you-should-know.html
Sounds like you are adding them to the phone account instead of your google account.

[Q] Lost Contacts while syncing

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?
djdhruv said:
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

[Q] Remove contacts from one sync account only

Hi All,
I have multiple gmail accounts that I use on my Atrix. Only one of the accounts, however, is my "primary" account where I have all my contacts set up properly, the others I really just use for email. For some reason, one of my additional gmail accounts had contacts sync activated and I want to remove JUST the contacts from that sync account. Would removing the sync account delete all the contacts (and other PIM data associated with that sync account) from my phone? I can always re-add the gmail account and make sure that only the email syncs.
Thanks!
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Try tapping the the accounts icon in the main app screen....it'll list all your accounts....then tap on the account you want to modify...then uncheck everything you don't want it to sync.
I did that already as soon as I discovered those contacts, but they're still there...which is why i'm wondering if removing the account altogether will remove it's PIM data...
I think you have to manually delete them. I wanted to do this but having two accounts just kind of borks it and you have to live with it. It really isn't that big a deal. I mean you do have a backup account in case somebody hacks it or the server is down for one email account.
I voided my warranty and your mum.
quordandis said:
Hi All,
I have multiple gmail accounts that I use on my Atrix. Only one of the accounts, however, is my "primary" account where I have all my contacts set up properly, the others I really just use for email. For some reason, one of my additional gmail accounts had contacts sync activated and I want to remove JUST the contacts from that sync account. Would removing the sync account delete all the contacts (and other PIM data associated with that sync account) from my phone? I can always re-add the gmail account and make sure that only the email syncs.
Thanks!
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There is an app in the market called "Contact Remover Plus" that will do just what you need. It's not free, but it works great. I had the same issue. It will allow you to remove contacts from only one account and also allows you to transfer them from one account to another.

[Q] Contacts not in sync

Certain contacts in my phone don't get synced with GMail. Those contacts happen to be the ones which were transferred from GMail to my phone. I had transferred all my contacts from iPhone to GMail and then to my phone. Suppose I edit one of those contacts, the changes aren't reflected in Gmail. But, the contacts which were created on my phone remain perfectly in sync. Also, adding those contacts to a new group also doesn't sync. What might be the problem here?
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In my contacts I only have my Google account synced. I did a search for my uncle's name and all of my work contacts with the same name popped up. Is there any way to get rid of that? Or is it because I have my work Exchange email on Gmail? I definitely chose not to add contacts when I added the work email to the Gmail app.
Even if I go to accounts in settings and tap Exchange, contacts isn't synced.

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