Hi all,
I was planning to reset my hero, but before I do that I wanted to know whether syncing the contacts with google contacts after the reset, would wipe out all my contacts from the google server or would it consider it to be a "fresh sync" and add all the contacts from the server to my phone. Currently my contacts are synced with google contacts. Waiting for you reply. Thanks in advance.. Cheers !!
no, it will sync them.
So whatevers on the server will be copied to the phone. You wont lose whats on the server, dont worry.
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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?
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
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
Trying to resolve the Market issue, I removed my Google Account and reinstalled it, but this deleted all my synced contacts in the process.
Is there any way to recover them?
Sorry for not helping - because I can't - but am curious as to which "market issue" you're referring to?
Login to your gmail account on a PC and select contacts. If they are there you should be fine.
They should re sync when the account is added again. If not go on a computer and check the contacts in gmail, if they are gone which means they are deleted from the server. Gmail allows you to restore you contact list back to any point in the last 30 days. So it is really hard to accidently lose anything permanently.
Thanks for the help. Solved.
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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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.
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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.
Hi I have a big problem with the contacts sync of WP7.
I log-in with a seccundary account in WP7, obviously i don't know what i must do to change my account. When I know that I have to hardreset my phone to get in another account I want to backup my files or sync it with GMAIL or Hotmail.
I was trying to sync it with GMAIL but it doesn't work, the another option is to get a CSV file of the contacts but i don't know how to do it.
Sorry If i have a bad english, that's all I can do.
Thx