I have searched and searched for this answer and I cannot find one that will work. I am new to android and this is causing me issues!!
I setup my google account and do not want my google contacts syncing. Other threads I have found say go into setting and uncheck syc contacts box and it will no longer sync. but I dont have a box to uncheck? Is there a way to just sync gmail mail and not the contacts? If there is please please please tell me how.
settings - accounts and settings - select the google account - THEN you will see checkboxes
mine does not give me that option. the only options it gives me is touch contacts to sync now. there are no boxes even visible to check or uncheck
It is in phone settings (or Settings app), not gmail settings.
Thats what I am saying, I go into settings, accounts and sync, choose my gmail account. it gives me the following options
sync books
sync contacts
sync gmail
sync calendar
below each of them it says touch to sync now. There are no boxes, i dont see where it give me the options to change the settings for any of them
khart214 said:
Thats what I am saying, I go into settings, accounts and sync, choose my gmail account. it gives me the following options
sync books
sync contacts
sync gmail
sync calendar
below each of them it says touch to sync now. There are no boxes, i dont see where it give me the options to change the settings for any of them
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settings button on bottom next to home screen- accounts and sync- uncheck auto sync.
You will see your account under manage accounts.
So then why don't you just click 'sync gmail'?
im trying to get it to stop syncing contacts. Its like its set up by default and I cannot get it to quit syncing the contacts
khart214 said:
Thats what I am saying, I go into settings, accounts and sync, choose my gmail account. it gives me the following options
sync books
sync contacts
sync gmail
sync calendar
below each of them it says touch to sync now. There are no boxes, i dont see where it give me the options to change the settings for any of them
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You have Auto-sync turned off. That's why you don't see the check boxes because you are not automatically sync anything.
Go back to account and sync screen and check the box 'Auto-sync'. Now you will see check boxes on all the items under your Gmail account.
ugh!!! your a genius!! Thank you, Im sorry for the ingorance. Coming from an Iphone, this is all very new to me.
foxbat121 said:
You have Auto-sync turned off. That's why you don't see the check boxes because you are not automatically sync anything.
Go back to account and sync screen and check the box 'Auto-sync'. Now you will see check boxes on all the items under your Gmail account.
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Superb! I had the same issue and this worked! Thanks so much.
Good searching and reading, isn't it.
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This has been a bit frustrating.
When you go through set-up, it gives you the option of adding a Google account which is necessary for using Market. But it also syncs your e-mail into the Gmail app and syncs your contacts. I don't want either of those because my Exchange has both contacts and I want to use the HTC mail widget for my Gmail.
I have tried various ways to prevent this from happening, but all have failed.
1. I went through set-up connecting to wifi and adding my Gmail. Then I went to options and removed syncing. But my e-mail and contacts are still in the Gmail app.
2. I did not connect to wifi so that I can first go to options and removing syncing, but that didn't help.
3. I created another generic gmail account just so I can use it for market. However, now that account is connected to my GTalk app instead of my normal account.
So here is my goal:
Use my everyday Gmail with GoogleTalk app, but without it syncing my Gmail contacts or my e-mail with the Gmail app.
Is there any way to do this? Am I missing something? Can you go to the syncing options without actually setuping the Google account first?
Thanks for the help.
Also, while we are on the topic:
What is the main difference between the two? I keep reading online that the Gmail app is supposed to be Push e-mail, but I have also read just as many posts saying it doesn't work or it doesn't do that.
I figured out a solution:
1. Go through set-up and connect to Wi-Fi, but do not set-up a Google account. Skip it.
2. Go to Settings>Syncing>Checking Auto-Sync and Sync in Background
3. Settings>Add Account>Google Account
And here is where you need some fast fingers...
4. Settings>Check Sync in Background and Auto-Sync and quickly click on Google Account you just set-up and uncheck Sync Contacts, Calendars, and E-mail.
I was able to uncheck e-mail sync, but it had synced some of my contacts already. That wasn't a problem b/c I haven't set up my Outlook account so I just deleted all the Google contacts it had synced. But I was fast enough where I didn't let it sync Gmail account.
Now no e-mails in Gmail app and I can use Google Talk.
I cannot seem to get new contacts and calendar entries to sync to Google. It will only download new contacts and will not upload new entries.
I have tried the usual, checking and unchecking Auto-sync, contacts, calendar. Tried "Sync Now." Nothing. Email works both directions tho.
This is a huge pain, because I already lost new contacts I entered after a hard-reset.
My Rezound sinks the google calendar better than my computer does.
Sent from my HTC
LTE 4G Rezound
jbh00jh said:
My Rezound sinks the google calendar better than my computer does.
Sent from my HTC
LTE 4G Rezound
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Sadly, I just added a new calendar entry and contact, manually hit "Sync Now" and there is no sign of them on my Google Account.
Can you try adding a new contact and see if it shows up on your G account?
I have verified both contacts and calendar entries I've created on my phone are displayed correctly when I access my Google Contacts and Calendar from a desktop.
Do you save new contacts to "Phone" or "Google" when you enter them on the phone? Do you have "All Calendars" selected, or just the Google calendar, in your Calendar app?
Added new contact to hotmail and it went to hotmail and gmail on computer and phone.
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punman said:
I have verified both contacts and calendar entries I've created on my phone are displayed correctly when I access my Google Contacts and Calendar from a desktop.
Do you save new contacts to "Phone" or "Google" when you enter them on the phone? Do you have "All Calendars" selected, or just the Google calendar, in your Calendar app?
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I have all calendars selected. How do I change to just the Google calendar?
Also, where is the option on where to save contacts? I didn't change anything from the way it came and would assume that it automatically saved to google.
Thanks to everyone helping me figure this out.
From the homescreen, go to Phone>people>"+" sign to add a new contact. Then the first box is "contact type" change that from default (Phone) to your google account.
I found this out the hard way when i lost all phone numbers after a hard reset. It's strange that they're not set to "google" by default.
Hope this helps.
nlitend1
under phone/people, you can also click on view and choose just google contacts. From there on, it will only add them to your gmail contacts.
nrfitchett4 said:
under phone/people, you can also click on view and choose just google contacts. From there on, it will only add them to your gmail contacts.
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This is what I needed! Verizon is trying to teach some hard lessons. Google should definitely be the default.
Same was true for the calender. It defaults to "PC Sync" for new entries, not gmail.
Thanks!
nlitend1 said:
From the homescreen, go to Phone>people>"+" sign to add a new contact. Then the first box is "contact type" change that from default (Phone) to your google account.
I found this out the hard way when i lost all phone numbers after a hard reset. It's strange that they're not set to "google" by default.
Hope this helps.
nlitend1
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HA! I think Verizon is hoping Android newbs won't know that it syncs contacts nd saves them between phones/resets in the hope to push their sync option.
There is still the problem/issue of when you edit a google contact on your phone in the people app, it will NOT sync the change back to the google servers. For example, if a contact's phone number is (123)-456-7890, and I go to the people app and edit the contact and change the number to (111)-456-7890 and save it. It only stays changed on the phone for a few mins. When it re-syncs with google's gmail server it goes back to the way it was (123)-456-7890. Or if you edit a contact's email address or home address, or group name, etc. The changes on the phone only last 30 seconds to a few mins until it re-syncs with google's servers and then the changes get wiped out. Its like its only a one way sync. I've never had this issue on any other android phone or ROM.
I believe this is a bug in the People app on the Rezound. I've emailed HTC several times and they tell me I'm making a mistake. But [email protected] how hard is it to edit contact info?
Even though I created my Google account from the phone, I only see the option to sync Books, Contact and Gmail from Accounts and Sync. Even if I go into the calendar's settings it throws me back to the same selections - with no way to sync the calendar. Sure enough, none of the items on the web version of the calendar show up on the phone.
You might want to recreating your Google account. I sync calendars just fine and all I did was add my account to the phone.
That worked, deleted my account and re-added it, now the calendar shows up as an option to sync. And everything shows up on the calendar.
I have a Tab 10.1 WiFi running Task 14 with Pershoot's Kernal (not overclocking).
I find that Gmail won't sync in the background. I have to manually load the Gmail app for it to sync and show me new/changed messages. I have Wifi sleep policy set to never and background sync enabled in the settings.
How do I get Gmail to automatically sync?
Thanks
I've had that happen before. Just clear data for gmail app and it should be good to go then.
tallgrasshawk said:
I've had that happen before. Just clear data for gmail app and it should be good to go then.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I tried this and at first thought it worked but it hasn't. Gmail has gone back to not autoupdating until I manually launch the app...
Have you checked your sync settings?
Go to settings > accounts & sync > your gmail account > check sync gmail is checked.
It's normally pretty good at indicating on one of the latter screens whether there are sync issues or not.
You need to do it manually in sync as he said ^
Might want to change to alert per email.
I have a new LG G3 and the contacts will not sync. Sync contacts is checked under the gmail account settings.. the correct account is checked off under 'select which contacts to display' in the contacts menu.. they just aren't syncing. I have tried removing the account, unchecking/rechecking sync contacts. I even imported my contacts from one gmail account to the other. It ranges from not syncing at all to displaying a few contacts only. Emails and calendar are syncing fine.
Any ideas?
guyrelax said:
I have a new LG G3 and the contacts will not sync. Sync contacts is checked under the gmail account settings.. the correct account is checked off under 'select which contacts to display' in the contacts menu.. they just aren't syncing. I have tried removing the account, unchecking/rechecking sync contacts. I even imported my contacts from one gmail account to the other. It ranges from not syncing at all to displaying a few contacts only. Emails and calendar are syncing fine.
Any ideas?
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This may sound weird, but bear with me.
Do you have Wi-Fi calling, and/or the Sprint boot animation?
engine95 said:
This may sound weird, but bear with me.
Do you have Wi-Fi calling, and/or the Sprint boot animation?
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I mean.. I have them on the phone, yes. But haven't touched the wifi calling feature.
guyrelax said:
I mean.. I have them on the phone, yes. But haven't touched the wifi calling feature.
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Just making sure your phone is setup right. Those will be missing sometimes and you have to do a dialer code to fix it.
Not really sure what to tell you. I guess you could try some dialer codes but that may or may not help.
##UPDATE#
##SCRTN#
Or, and this WILL RESET your phone
##RTN# and you'll need your MSL for that. You can find that info stickied in the General section for Flashtool.
Like I said though, I'm not sure what else can help you.
guyrelax said:
I have a new LG G3 and the contacts will not sync. Sync contacts is checked under the gmail account settings.. the correct account is checked off under 'select which contacts to display' in the contacts menu.. they just aren't syncing. I have tried removing the account, unchecking/rechecking sync contacts. I even imported my contacts from one gmail account to the other. It ranges from not syncing at all to displaying a few contacts only. Emails and calendar are syncing fine.
Any ideas?
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Under Contacts -> Settings -> Contacts to dispaly - Do you have 'All contacts' selected, or just your Google account? Also, if you select 'Customize' does changing any of the options there have an impact on which contacts are displayed?
wosiek said:
Under Contacts -> Settings -> Contacts to dispaly - Do you have 'All contacts' selected, or just your Google account? Also, if you select 'Customize' does changing any of the options there have an impact on which contacts are displayed?
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I have "All Contacts" selected. As far as "Customize" I only have gmail contacts.
Had a Windows phone years ago and it messed up gmail, so that made me just have one set of contacts.