Contact Sync Issues - Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Has anyone had any issues with syncing their contacts with Google. When my phone connects to sync it just grinds away and nothing happens. I did notice the other day that my name card comes up really slowly like 30 seconds and it won't allow me to delete it. I'm wondering if this is the problem? Does anyone know how to replace a name card?
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J&M said:
Has anyone had any issues with syncing their contacts with Google. When my phone connects to sync it just grinds away and nothing happens. I did notice the other day that my name card comes up really slowly like 30 seconds and it won't allow me to delete it. I'm wondering if this is the problem? Does anyone know how to replace a name card?
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My girlfriends phone is having the same issue. I was able to remedy this before I flashed GSB, but it doesn't work now.
You might try going in your contacts, display options, and disable view of your google contacts. Exit your contacts, then go back in and enable to view them again.
Like I said, this did the trick once; but isn't working this time around for me.
If anyone else has any other ideas of level 2 troubleshooting, It would be appreciated!!
Good Luck!
TK

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Somehow I broke MMS... and Gmail Sync too!

I deleted the stock Text Messaging and using only Handcent. I'm not sure if that did it or my deleting some folders from the SD card did it. I thought all of the ones I removed were from old apps that had since been uninstalled. Maybe not.
Everything is working except the receiving of pictures. I can send them just fine.
This old Milestone is getting long in the tooth so I thought I'd remove some stuff.
Also, it seems my gmail account isn't notifying me either and it is set to auto-sync so perhaps one of the seemingly empty files, now gone, killed that too.
Any ideas of how I can fix both problems?
Thanks
XV&moreXV said:
I deleted the stock Text Messaging and using only Handcent. I'm not sure if that did it or my deleting some folders from the SD card did it. I thought all of the ones I removed were from old apps that had since been uninstalled. Maybe not.
Everything is working except the receiving of pictures. I can send them just fine.
This old Milestone is getting long in the tooth so I thought I'd remove some stuff.
Also, it seems my gmail account isn't notifying me either and it is set to auto-sync so perhaps one of the seemingly empty files, now gone, killed that too.
Any ideas of how I can fix both problems?
Thanks
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Just Adb push your old messaging app to /system/app
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Waddle said:
Just Adb push your old messaging app to /system/app
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I actually have no idea what that means. Is there any way to fix it with just the Handcent only installed? There isn't very much room once two messaging apps are installed and both running.
The gmail is now working, it seems to have been unhappy syncing and maybe my dogs kept un-checking it, but, it's seems to be working now.
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I actually have no idea what that means. Is there any way to fix it with just the Handcent only installed? There isn't very much room once two messaging apps are installed and both running.
The gmail is now working, it seems to have been unhappy syncing and maybe my dogs kept un-checking it, but, it's seems to be working now.
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If you are rooted you should re flash the rom that you are using or you could find the mobile messaging apk that you uninstalled and install it again
It's rooted with the stock ROM.
Whatever I cleaned out also included something that broke email sync.
It will not stay turned on, I have to go manually press "sync", which will not stay turned on, and I'm not sure if I need to add another account to remove that one, in order to re-add it to see if that works.
However, when I tried to remove it, I was prompted that to remove that email account, it only has one, I had to return the machine back to stock settings. Blehk!
I wouldn't mind a non-stock rom, especially if it can be done with two left hands and cross-eyed crazy knowing nothing about it.
Do any of the roms, which work well on the Milestone, tether, usb and/or wifi with no other apps required, or are these two problems, that I've created, perhaps easily fixed?
I'll poke about and see if I can find the stock messaging apk. Somehow, I'm not sure I'd know it if I actually found it.

Amaze Syncing like crazy...

Anyone else having this problem? It's KILLING my battery. Every time I unlock my phone, the sync icon pops up. I have everything set to refresh the least amount of times, and I don't want to turn it off cuz I won't get my emails and it screws my weather up...
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Anyone else having this problem? It's KILLING my battery. Every time I unlock my phone, the sync icon pops up. I have everything set to refresh the least amount of times, and I don't want to turn it off cuz I won't get my emails and it screws my weather up...
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Data issue.
Anything I can do to fix it? I never have bad signal, and data is always fast as can be.
papeshfoo said:
Anything I can do to fix it? I never have bad signal, and data is always fast as can be.
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Try a reboot, if you're rooted, go in to recovery, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache and fix permissions.
I had the same problem. I backed up with titanium, did full wipe, reinstalled, and restored.... Worked like a charm. Hope that helps
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Go to settings, account and sync, and look under facebook. for me it gets stuck while trying to sync my news feed/ other random things within the facebook app.
shiftylock said:
Go to settings, account and sync, and look under facebook. for me it gets stuck while trying to sync my news feed/ other random things within the facebook app.
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Thanks a lot! Ive been getting terrible battery life lately and its been pissing me off lol

[Q] Known Contacts Showing up as (Unknown) in Recent Calls??

Anyone else having this problem? In my Recent Calls list there are only 4 out of 75 that shows my contact's name & image. The rest just say (unknown) and have the number listed. I looked at these 4 contacts to see what makes them different and I see no obvious differences that would make them somehow poll differently. I've had this issue since I got this phone and am finally fed up with it.
Another problem I'm having that may or may not be related is that when I type on the number pad to search for contacts via number or name... it doesn't work. When I start typing characters of someone's name the results just dwindle down w/o rhyme or reason. For instance, if I type my wife's name... nothing. If I type Chis I end up with three contacts with the name of Chris. That's nice but I have 8 contacts with the name of Chris. When I type any other name there is no results. Coincidentally if I type one of the 4 contacts from the problem above they will show up.
It appears as though there is some sort of disconnect between HTC's phone stuffs and my actual contacts and what not. Is there a cache I can clear or something to get this to work? Some sort of setting to get this to function properly?
Thanks for the help.
what rom and such? tried clearing cache or dalvik? are your contacts linked to google or facebook?
il Duce said:
what rom and such? tried clearing cache or dalvik? are your contacts linked to google or facebook?
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Stock ROM, rooted and unlocked bootloader. Contacts are linked to Google, not Facebook. As for cache & davlik... I have had this phone for a while now and this problem has existed since day 1. I have cleared them both for other issues and the problem remains so I don't think that is going to solve it as it hasn't yet. I appreciate the tip though.
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Stock ROM, rooted and unlocked bootloader. Contacts are linked to Google, not Facebook. As for cache & davlik... I have had this phone for a while now and this problem has existed since day 1. I have cleared them both for other issues and the problem remains so I don't think that is going to solve it as it hasn't yet. I appreciate the tip though.
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Have you tried unlinking your google account and relinking it? Are you on the latest update from sprint (2.13 RUU)? have you fixed permissions?
This happened in 1.22 as well, its a problem with their contact linking. As soon as I linked Google plus and Facebook sense merged the info and disregarded the Google contact info, I had to reset and the numbers came back with out the actual info unless I opened their contact info. When I re linked Google plus and Facebook they came back
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Have you tried unlinking your google account and relinking it? Are you on the latest update from sprint (2.13 RUU)? have you fixed permissions?
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Yeah, I also had to do that for another problem so I know it's been done in the past yet this problem remains. I think most of the 'usual' stuff has been tried prior to starting this thread.
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This happened in 1.22 as well, its a problem with their contact linking. As soon as I linked Google plus and Facebook sense merged the info and disregarded the Google contact info, I had to reset and the numbers came back with out the actual info unless I opened their contact info. When I re linked Google plus and Facebook they came back
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I'm on 1.13 still. I don't have Google+ or Facebook linked though as I didn't want to deal with all that mess and the people I actually wanted in my contacts I enter manually into my Google contacts. I don't think this is the cause of my issues.
It sounds like the exact same issue except you haven't linked any info. Maybe it'll be addressed whenever the next update comes. I didn't have this problem until after the second update
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It sounds like the exact same issue except you haven't linked any info. Maybe it'll be addressed whenever the next update comes. I swear they seem to break something whenever an update gets released. I didn't have the problem on the original base
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Any thoughts on how to resolve this?
Nope I jumped ship to cm10, I'm thinking about flashing back to see if anything else I might have done fixed it or if it was just because I re linked the contact info
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Nope I jumped ship to cm10, I'm thinking about flashing back to see if anything else I might have done fixed it or if it was just because I re linked the contact info
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I may jump to CM10 once it's final as there's still a few minor bugs that I don't want to live with. In the meantime I just want to get this stupid call history bug fixed. Is there something specific I can clear the cache of or detach and reattach that might resolve this? I did plenty of Google searches and I see some people talking about factory resets but then half of those say that doesn't even work. The last thing I want to do is a factory reset and that is if it was even a know fix for this issue.
It's a bug in sense as far as I could tell, perhaps installing a different dialer from the market that integrates history and contacts will help
Something else I noticed today since I uninstalled GoSMS and went back to the stock SMS app... my contacts aren't showing up in my conversation list or the main screen. Only a couple of them show a picture and name and the rest are all the phone number only. This is especially annoying when I want to find someone in my conversation list to send a text message to because I have no idea who is who. This bug is driving me nuts.
Well, today I found a work around... sorta. If you go into each contact and then set default action under individual settings for each contact (yes... each one) so that the default method is a text message (calling may work too... haven't checked). Once I did this my contacts had images and names in the call log and the messages. I did notice that while I was doing this the first two I did had to be done again for some reason so I don't really know what is going on, what this fixes or ho long it may or may not last but if anyone else finds this... here's a possible fix.
Nope... still doesn't work. I thought I found this band-aid fix to make it work but after a few days it went back to not being linked. No contacts photos and no names. Just a bunch of phone numbers in my SMS list and my call log. This is very frustrating. Is there a cache I can clear or something other than the phone's main cache and dalvik? Is there an app in my app list or two that I can clear the cache of to get this to reload properly? I don't want to go back to GoSMS (too much spam and too much fluff) and it doesn't fix my call log anyway.
You could try clearing data from contacts storage in app settings or the 3 people apks then resync and see if that helps
Did you fix permission? This happens to me after I do it
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You could try clearing data from contacts storage in app settings or the 3 people apks then resync and see if that helps
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I'll try that first part but I'm not sure what you said in that second part.
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Did you fix permission? This happens to me after I do it
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Why would I need to fix permissions if I'm on the stock ROM? I thought that was only something you needed to do if you changed ROMs, no?
Not necessarily, if you do something as simple as restore a backup with titanium you might have to fix permissions, if you format internal and restore apps, you might have to fix permissions. If you change something in the Rom like remove bloat, it might affect other apps and you might have to fix permissions.
There's contact storage, then you have people, its broken down into 3 seperate pieces. Each one is responsible for different features like contact linking and contact sync from other accounts
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Not necessarily, if you do something as simple as restore a backup with titanium you might have to fix permissions, if you format internal and restore apps, you might have to fix permissions. If you change something in the Rom like remove bloat, it might affect other apps and you might have to fix permissions.
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I've rooted an unlocked... that's about it. If this could be my problem then I need to know how to fix it. Also, I get an error message whenever I open Titanium Backup saying that my device ID has changed and it asks if I wanted to change it back. I keep putting that off because I had hacked DropBox to get like 77gb of storage using the LTE Evo and then the SGS3 hack. After an update it lost the SGS3 storage space so I was going to look into this again and how my device ID applied before I did anything. I'm to the point now where I don't even care about the DropBox thing anymore and should probably figure out how to proceed with this whole device ID thing that TiBackup keeps warning about. Not sure if that could have any relation to this problem but seems like it could so that's why I just mentioned it.
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There's contact storage, then you have people, its broken down into 3 seperate pieces. Each one is responsible for different features like contact linking and contact sync from other accounts
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So there are 3 different APKs for this? So I need to find each one in my installed list and clear data/cache? Any idea what they're called if that's the case so I clear the right ones?
All 3 are named people, the device id problem sounds like build.prop but Im not sure because I'm not entirely sure what you did

Horrible battery caused by facebook

I have no idea what's going on, and its extremely aggravating. I never use Facebook other than for when notifications show up, each of then pictures are taken of stats on a brand new s3 with a brand new AOKP ROM, and I have not even opened Facebook after a full battery charge and a reboot, and it still demolishes my battery.
I need help here, its driving me up the wall
Nillanic said:
I have no idea what's going on, and its extremely aggravating. I never use Facebook other than for when notifications show up, each of then pictures are taken of stats on a brand new s3 with a brand new AOKP ROM, and I have not even opened Facebook after a full battery charge and a reboot, and it still demolishes my battery.
I need help here, its driving me up the wall
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seems to me like it's a wakelock bug which means that the application is preventing your phone from going into idle mode.uncheck all synch options and come back to report
Anaptiras said:
seems to me like it's a wakelock bug which means that the application is preventing your phone from going into idle mode.uncheck all synch options and come back to report
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Won't I loose the only thing I wanted facebook installed for, the push notifications?
Am I the only person who has this issue? there's gotta be someone else :S
Nillanic said:
Won't I loose the only thing I wanted facebook installed for, the push notifications?
Am I the only person who has this issue? there's gotta be someone else :S
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Try it the old fashioned way
Delete Facebook and reinstall it. I had the same problem with Google Maps once and it worked that way.
Reinstalled and same behavior.
I even force stopped the app out of curiosity, and its still draining, even tho its still stopped
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Try using greenify app
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Try using greenify app
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If he uses Greenifiy he won't receive any notifications from Facebook because the App will be hibernated.
That's right, Facebook will only sync when you open it, this is what fast Facebook does (which is very popular as it's a lightweight ver different version). Facebook is a big hogger but if you want instant updates, guess you'll have to put up with it. You could try clearing data, running sdmaid on a regular basis and clearing Facebook files, that might help.
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[Q] Dialer Battery Drain

I have an HTC Droid DNA on Verizon running Android 4.4.2 (for a while now) and it's been pretty solid until about two weeks ago. All of a sudden it has started eating battery like mad, and the battery info says that the dialer or android system are the largest users of battery. I'm talking like full charge in the morning to dead by mid afternoon PLUGGED IN TO MY COMPUTER. I'm down 10% battery in the last 1.5 hours with the phone charging. The phone is in global mode, the location is set to "battery saving," I have good signal here (East Sacramento, Ca). I found some old threads on similar battery issues and read through them, tried what they recommended. I reset the cache partition first, no dice. I did a factory reset, and that seemed to work for a few days, but now the problem is back. I can't reset every few freaking days or my life will be a constant loop of reentering passwords. Could this be some sort of virus with a really good rootkit? I'm at my wit's end. Anybody know what this might be? I'd appreciate any help y'all can offer. Thanks.
Disable any sync in settings, it sounds like an app is trying to sync your contacts and is having issues making dialer and system keep on trying to sync those for you. That is my only thoughts other than some rogue app doing something to call dialer and system as factory reset fixes it, so it has to be something in settings or an app that gets installed on your end.
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Here goes . . .
Thanks for the quick reply. I live by sync, but I'll certainly try it and see what happens. Any idea of how I might figure out which app it is if that's the issue?
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Disable any sync in settings, it sounds like an app is trying to sync your contacts and is having issues making dialer and system keep on trying to sync those for you. That is my only thoughts other than some rogue app doing something to call dialer and system as factory reset fixes it, so it has to be something in settings or an app that gets installed on your end.
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Seems not to Help.
So I've disabled sync, and I'm still losing about 1% battery every 1-3minutes. so I get roughly 2-3 hrs. battery from full charge at that rate, and plugging in while running only slows the bleeding. Under battery usage, Dialer is 45%, Android system is 33%, and Internet is 10%, followed by play services, linkedin and mediaserver for a combined 5%. Hmmm . . .
Uzephi said:
Disable any sync in settings, it sounds like an app is trying to sync your contacts and is having issues making dialer and system keep on trying to sync those for you. That is my only thoughts other than some rogue app doing something to call dialer and system as factory reset fixes it, so it has to be something in settings or an app that gets installed on your end.
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Hmm. Have you tried disabling location and WiFi location consent? It might be gplay services keeping GPS or WiFi scan on. I haven't had this issue in awhile as I just use greenify to sleep pretty much every app I have and important ones have gcm so they can wake for a quick email/text/etc check once in awhile.
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Is this thread dead?
Having the same issue on my girlfriend's DNA; Dialer seems to account on the most battery drain.
Have you tried the suggested solution already? I never personally ran into this issue. Then again only my SIM syncs contacts and nothing else does as I am a privacy nut and don't want other services to know my contact list.
Uzephi said:
Have you tried the suggested solution already? I never personally ran into this issue. Then again only my SIM syncs contacts and nothing else does as I am a privacy nut and don't want other services to know my contact list.
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Yeah, tried unsynching everything.
Seems that the issue resolved itself when I cleared cache from recovery...
Then, instead of the dialer being the culprit; Android system was...
Planning on doing full factory reset this weekend.

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