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I'm I'm a new G2/Hero user, great forum here.
I really like the fact google contacts sync up with the phone & are phone independent, is there any way of making your normal contacts become google ones or an app to do it?
many thanks
If you set your phone up with a Google account then by default all your contacts will be synced with Google. Most mobile phones offer a facility to export the address book, often via MS Outlook which can then be further exported to Google and from there propagate to your phone.
I set it up with a google login first time I used it. The google contacts sync up fine but the rest of the contacts listed as 'phone' dont sync to google.
So what I was hoping is I can change the type from phone to google in the contacts listing then edit them on my computer & sync them back to the phone?
One other question does the google sync work both directions? Facebook images don't seem to appear in gmail?
Yes and yes. Make sure that the contacts are set as 'Google' and it should all work
Unfortunately after setting up some "Phone" contacts you cannot edit them and save as "Google" - or am I missing something?
And BTW, I'd like to ask people who are actually syncing their contacts and using Google Contacts as their primary source whether they suffer from the fact that Gmail adds all the email addresses that they had a conversation with as a new contact. Is that actually an issue?
dkodr said:
Unfortunately after setting up some "Phone" contacts you cannot edit them and save as "Google" - or am I missing something?
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that's exactly what I'm trying to do with no luck. New contacts I will set to google but I imported a load from my sim (150) which are all set to 'phone'
Another problem I had with the calendars, if you set them to only be google it doesn't change the new entry type from 'phone' so I put load of appointments in & couldn't see them which totally threw me. Luckily it does remember the type you set but it should change the default type when you set the view!
no, you cant change the contact type once it has been set. you'll need to delete them and create/import them as google contacts.
when in people and you press menu import, select google to import to the google list. that way they sync up automatically.
If you can't be bothered deleting all the ones in phone, just hide them...on the people list, press menu and select view, only tick google and voila, all the others are hidden.
to stop google from synching all the email addresses as well, go into people, go to the groups tab, press menu and select sync groups.
tick only 'My contacts'
problem solved.
thanks for the reply rhedgehog
rhedgehog said:
to stop google from synching all the email addresses as well, go into people, go to the groups tab, press menu and select sync groups.
tick only 'My contacts'
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I can only select "Sync all contacts" and a couple of groups I created - no option for "My contacts".
strange, i get it, and it should be there as it is a standard google contacts group....
There is an app on the market called ContactSync can help you with this. It's free.
tsekh501>> Worked like a charm, cheers mate
I wonder if anyone can help me. My contacts were stored as 14 on Google and 76 on 'phone'. I used the contactsync app and it said all contacts successfully synced to google. On my contacts list they all have 'Google' next to them.
The problem is, when i log into my google account on my pc I only have 14 contacts listed? Am i missing something here or is there something wrong?
PS - just to add, when i go to menu- settings - data sync - google - sync settings on my Hero, when i tick/untick contacts to try and force it to update i get a 'Sorry The process android.process.acore has stopped......Force close.
Bump! Anyone?
Getting the same problem... Running MCR 2.0...
Odd one this, and I only get the error message when I set the phone to sync my contacts.
Anyone wanna bid in on this one?
Bad idea?
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There is an app on the market called ContactSync can help you with this. It's free.
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Tried this advice, and even threw in a reboot after running the ContactSync app. Got the same error-message. Has anyone completed this successfully?
I've been having the same problems- first the change only showing on the hero- and now the random crashes?
I since backed up my contacts to sd with exportcontacts (free on the market) as .csv and then uploaded them to my gmail via my pc.
Strangely,when I did, both copies of the contacts showed up online and I had to manually delete the second copy of each. I know it was both copies as i'd sorted them all into groups after using contact sync and the groups showed only on one of each contact.
Slight feature missing with the new Modaco rom. Did anybody use the feature where you could sync only certain groups in your contacts? This feature was present in the old firmware but is now missing.
Before you could go to People > Groups > Menu > Sync groups and the select the groups you only wanted to sync. This is not present with the new version. Also I can't seperate Google contacts as well. Annoying change for those who sync their contacts with Google.
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I've been having the same problems- first the change only showing on the hero- and now the random crashes?
I since backed up my contacts to sd with exportcontacts (free on the market) as .csv and then uploaded them to my gmail via my pc.
Strangely,when I did, both copies of the contacts showed up online and I had to manually delete the second copy of each. I know it was both copies as i'd sorted them all into groups after using contact sync and the groups showed only on one of each contact.
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Similar experience. However, I experienced an additional difficulty when importing the .csv file to gmail. When it imported the fields was all messed up. I tried to edit it in excel, but didn't get it to work. Quite a hassle, this. Wish they could have streamlined it just a tad more
So far with the 2.1 roms I have tried to sync my contacts that are not part of google contacts without success.
There seems to be no way of getting the option to make a contact a google contact if it is not already so.
I tried the ap loaded kindly on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5879272&postcount=6763 - which call contactsync (as above post)
but it doesn't work - saying something about the database being wrong.
Is this something that the chef's can make available in their roms (a hidden menu - or a menu option that could be put into contacts/people app) ? I think it's something HTC just overlooked when they created the app.
I was wondering how do you sync your contacts with facebook
just like to check their statuses on the phonebook like we used to see on 1.6
thanks a lot
Open your phone book, open a contact, press edit at the top, press the menu button (silver one at x10 bottom), select "join", select the facebook account you want to add, done!!
Some notes
1. Login and setup the facebook app, the sony phone book requires this
2. I also recommened setting up facebook on timescape
3. This last one annoyed me. On 1.6 you could add any facebook contact to any contact name on the phone, but not anymore. ex. My friends name in the phone book is "John", but his facebook profile name is "Alex". If I try to add "Alex" to "John", it won't even show up in the list of facebook profiles to choose from, I had to rename "John" in my phone book to "Alex", then I could see "Alex" in the selection list. This is really annoying as I have most of my friends set up with nicknames, but they use their real names on facebook, thus forcing me to rename a few on my phone book. Anyone have a solution for this?
thanks for that help
and it sucks i'm like you, always having diff names for ppl not fair we have to rename them
omfg it is auto naming my contacts after joining them wtf
clozecall said:
Open your phone book, open a contact, press edit at the top, press the menu button (silver one at x10 bottom), select "join", select the facebook account you want to add, done!!
Some notes
1. Login and setup the facebook app, the sony phone book requires this
2. I also recommened setting up facebook on timescape
3. This last one annoyed me. On 1.6 you could add any facebook contact to any contact name on the phone, but not anymore. ex. My friends name in the phone book is "John", but his facebook profile name is "Alex". If I try to add "Alex" to "John", it won't even show up in the list of facebook profiles to choose from, I had to rename "John" in my phone book to "Alex", then I could see "Alex" in the selection list. This is really annoying as I have most of my friends set up with nicknames, but they use their real names on facebook, thus forcing me to rename a few on my phone book. Anyone have a solution for this?
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There is show all contacts menu item.
this is really painfull. i cannot add the contact because i using nickname in phonebook. is there some application which it does?
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sweet 1.6 DD
In the top left corner of the phone book there's a filter button, click it and have it display facebook contacts as well. Then start merging contacts. If the names are off ie. alex and john, it seems to keep the name of the contact that you started with.
*Facebook app needs to be installed.
*Also as akila87 mentioned if the names are not the same there is show all contacts bar when merging them.
Edit- Actually naming appears to be completely random.... =/
I've seen this question asked on other phone forums, but never answered...and not Atrix specific.
Is it possible to force phone to sync 'ALL' calendar events. Right now I'm only getting future events, plus around past 30 days or so. I really need them all as I'm constantly needing to access info from them, and I need to try and navigate calendar from Atrix browser which is ridiculous as you can imagine.
Hope somebody has this one figured out, as I have tried everything I can think of over the past 24 hours and tap-out.
I would love to know the answer to this as well... iv been trying to get my faceboook or gmail calendars to sync but just can't get them to...!!!
I totally understand hoe frustrated you are...
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If anyone is still looking for the answer to this I just found it. It's a known Google bug. What you need to do is export you calendar and then import it and sync. I went into my calendar on Google to get the steps and couldn't figure out how to do it even though I did it last night! You need to go into Calendar settings, but not the regular calendar settings. - real intuitive.
Exporting content from a specific calendar
Follow these steps to export one of your calendars:
1.In the calendar list on the left side of the page, move your mouse over the calendar you'd like to export from.
2.You'll see a drop-down arrow appear next to the calendar name. Click the drop-down arrow and select Calendar settings. (Alternatively, click the drop-down arrow next to My calendars and select Settings, then click the appropriate calendar from the list.)
3.Click the ICAL button in the 'Private Address' section at the bottom of the page, and click the displayed URL.
4.Save the exported file to the desired folder on your computer
To import events from iCalendar or CSV files, just follow these steps:
1.Click the down-arrow next to Other calendars
2.Select Import calendar
3.Click Choose file and find the file that contains your events, then click Open.
4.Select the Google Calendar where you'd like to import events, then click Import.
...and then all events synced to your phone? I did this and actually lost entries. On my next phone sync it deleted everything older than 30 days?
I must have missed something simple?
Any ideas?
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I've done this a few times since I posted and it worked every time, but I did it after flashing Alien and then again after I went back to Gingerbread and then again after I went back to Alien again. Since I do a wipe data/factory reset maybe that's the difference.
I did see somewhere that someone had to delete their Google calendar after exporting and then sync to empty the calendar on their phone. Then they re-imported the calendar and the sync worked. I tried this first because I was getting force closes everytime I tried to sync, but it didn't work for me. As soon as I tried to sync to empty my phone calendar I got a force close again, so I just did a wipe and flashed Gingerbread again and all my entries came back. I was afraid I would lose everything when I deleted so I created another Google ID and imported my calendar there just in case. But that's probably just me being paranoid.
my contact pics are still the same pics that my FB friends have had since before I even had this phone...is there a way to force update?
i know there are apps, best one?
djcyph said:
my contact pics are still the same pics that my FB friends have had since before I even had this phone...is there a way to force update?
i know there are apps, best one?
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I haven't actually tried any of these ideas, but I think one might help, and they're pretty low risk:
Method 1: Toggle Facebook Sync
In Facebook app, settings, Other Settings, Contacts Sync, change setting from 'Sync all' or 'Sync with Existing Contacts' to 'Remove Facebook Data'
Hit the 'Sync/Done' button at top-right
Check your contacts and verify that photos/links have been removed
Return to FB app, same place, change setting back to 'Sync All' or 'Sync with Existing Contacts'
Method 2: Delete Contacts and Re-sync
If Method 1 doesn't work, try this. This method assumes that your contacts exist only in the cloud (e.g., on gmail, exchange server, etc.) and not locally, and thus can be re-synched easily. IF YOU HAVE ANY LOCAL CONTACTS THIS WILL DELETE THEM.
- Follow steps 1 and 2 above
- Exit the Facebook app
- Go to System Settings-> More -> Application Manager, swipe right until you see 'All'
- Scroll down to Contacts Storage and click on it
- Click on <Clear Data> and <Clear Cache>
- At this point, I'd reboot the device
- After re-boot, your contacts should re-sync from outside sources, (if they don't, go to System Settings-> Accounts and click on the account where your contacts are (e.g., Google) and the account name and it should sync)
- Follow Step 4 in Method 1 above
I found that you have to edit the contacts. If you have them attached to a gmail or outlook account then they default to that picture. I've had to edit a lot of my contacts bc of this.
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I use the Sync.ME app. It downloads hi-res Facebook pictures and you can set it to run automatically on a regular basis.
Ubersync in app store works awesomely
Haxsync can solve this as well.
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Woow Brilliant post... Thanks for sharing
vanberge said:
Ubersync in app store works awesomely
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+1 for Ubersync. Works great, except I wish it didn't create an "Ubersync" account in my phone, but other than that, works great.
I've just purchased a Pixel 3 XL. It's been factory reset twice trying to solve this issue.
I log into the device with my personal (primary) account and all works fine.
I've also got a work account which I create on the device - just by going into Accounts and selecting Google Account. It logs in fine.
Contacts seem to sync as does the calendar - so there are no sync issues from what I can see.
Unfortunately, when I open Drive, Keep or Maps etc, I'm unable to quickly switch between the accounts like I have in the past. Normally I would just tap menu, it would slide out and in the very top left, there would be a icon/picture related to the work account. This doesn't appear anymore.
If I use Nova Launcher (for example) I can create a shortcut on the home screen to the Work drive account. So everything appears to be syncing fine. It's just all Google apps don't have the quick switching ability.
Has anyone come across this issue??
Thank you!