I had to reset my gmail password as a co worker must have observed me logging in. It seems that I've sent some peculiar emails to my contacts. My issue is that my phone will no longer sync contacts etc because my password has changed. Do I have to do a factory reset now or what??
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Nah, all you should have to do is go to Settings - Applications - All - Contacts - and clear the cache. Then go to Accounts and Sync and set up your new email info. It won't let you remove the Gmail account, you add a new one and then delete the old one and you should be on your way to resyncing all your gmail stuff
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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.
aussiemax said:
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
Hello,
I ONCE set up the hotmail account in the rezound using the built in mail app and choose hotmail. Needless to say i regret that. Verizonwireless sent me an email telling me that my account was set up successfully... WTF
That email account cannot be deleted without doing a factory reset.
Since i updated my ROM and when I go to set up new email accounts, it still finds this account again WTF
it says:
" we found existing email accounts Restore them by tapping on any account or tap add new "
I have looked high and lo to find out how this account is being memorized, but cannot.
Anyone know hot to delete this from re-appearing
thank you in advance
Firstly, Hi everyone and thank you for your time in helping me out.
I love my Xperia S and have set up gmail accounts on my handset. However, I like the look and feel of the Sony Email app more than the gmail app but I am getting duplicate email notifications.
I have been able to remove accounts from the Email app and have just gmail but I would prefer it the other way around.
When I try to remove accounts from the gmail app, it asks to remove the accounts completely, including sync with contacts etc.
I know I can just turn off notifications in the gmail app, but I would rather turn off mail sync from the gmail app so I am not wasting bandwidth/battery.
Any help would be apreciated
You cannot remove the default gmail account only by factory reset.
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Issue: When pulling up a contact and clicking on the email address (to send the contact an email), I get a message that says there is no account configured.
I have gmail configured, and I get and send from it all day long. So I don't understand why it doesn't recognize gmail as a valid account.
I set up my gmail account using "email" and it was fine. Am I forced to not use the gmail app, or is there something I'm missing?
Change the action so it's set to go to your Gmail account by default. I believe it's set to use the mail app in sense by default.
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I can't find that setting. It isn't in contacts setting or gmail settings. I cleared the default settings in "mail"... but there isn't anything in gmail to make it default.
Yehudah said:
I can't find that setting. It isn't in contacts setting or gmail settings. I cleared the default settings in "mail"... but there isn't anything in gmail to make it default.
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In settings go to "App Associations-> mail
Thanks so much, now I've learned something new and very valuable.
You
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The
Man!!
Was trying to sync the device directly to my system in order to transfer pictures from the handset to desktop. However when I failed to do so, I decided to directly mail the images through gmail and synced my account through the gmail app. Now i find that the app directly opens my email account every time without any confirmation/password etc. and this can be seen by anybody (my friends handle my phone a lot). I am struggling to remove the account completely (when I go through settings/accounts and sync/manage accounts and press remove account I am asked to restore to factory settings) Is there any other way to unsync it?
rustingore said:
Was trying to sync the device directly to my system in order to transfer pictures from the handset to desktop. However when I failed to do so, I decided to directly mail the images through gmail and synced my account through the gmail app. Now i find that the app directly opens my email account every time without any confirmation/password etc. and this can be seen by anybody (my friends handle my phone a lot). I am struggling to remove the account completely (when I go through settings/accounts and sync/manage accounts and press remove account I am asked to restore to factory settings) Is there any other way to unsync it?
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You can use this one https://market.android.com/details?id=com.sp.protector.free
This way you will be able to protect each app you want.
rustingore said:
Was trying to sync the device directly to my system in order to transfer pictures from the handset to desktop. However when I failed to do so, I decided to directly mail the images through gmail and synced my account through the gmail app. Now i find that the app directly opens my email account every time without any confirmation/password etc. and this can be seen by anybody (my friends handle my phone a lot). I am struggling to remove the account completely (when I go through settings/accounts and sync/manage accounts and press remove account I am asked to restore to factory settings) Is there any other way to unsync it?
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Just download app lock software from Google play n lock the apps with password or patterns which you don't want anyone to open...
But you can't remove your gmail account without Factory restore...
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If you're rooted just uninstall gmail app
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@DaRk-L0rD and Nakulkhanna: Thanks..just what I needed:good: