[Q] importing bookmarks from Chrome - Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a new Tab and cannot seem to get my Google bookmarks to sync. They display fine in Chrome but when I try to sync, nothing happens. I tried all the apps that supposedly import bookmarks from Chrome but none would work for me.
In reading some of the hundreds of posts on this subject, it appears that Google will eventually sync my bookmarks but sometimes it takes days. I can wait for this but it just does not seem reasonable that syncing should take so long.
I cannot find a current post that discusses this subject for users of the latest Galaxy Tab firmware release, (3.2). I have also not found any recent posts complaining about the problem with tells me that I may be doing something wrong.
If anyone has some advice for me, I would really appreciate it.
Bob

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It takes a long time. Several days to sync everything. I imported my bookmarks last week and still it has not synced everything.. Hope to get a quick fix in 4.0!

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dsafety said:
I have a new Tab and cannot seem to get my Google bookmarks to sync. They display fine in Chrome but when I try to sync, nothing happens. I tried all the apps that supposedly import bookmarks from Chrome but none would work for me.
In reading some of the hundreds of posts on this subject, it appears that Google will eventually sync my bookmarks but sometimes it takes days. I can wait for this but it just does not seem reasonable that syncing should take so long.
I cannot find a current post that discusses this subject for users of the latest Galaxy Tab firmware release, (3.2). I have also not found any recent posts complaining about the problem with tells me that I may be doing something wrong.
If anyone has some advice for me, I would really appreciate it.
Bob
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I am on a rooted Galaxy Tab 10.1 running 3.2, if you are rooted I can help you. This probably works for other devices but I couldn't confirm.
You need:
Root explorer and to download this file
After you have done this navigate to system/app/ using root explorer and find 'ChromeBookmarksSyncAdapter.apk' and rename it to ChromeBookmarksSyncAdapter.apk.BAK then paste the downloaded version in there then change the permissions to rw-r-r

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I spent hours fiddling with this and couldn't get it to show up. Went to bed and they were synced in the morning

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Well, the bookmarks that I had imported to Chrome finally synced, sort of. Only the links that were not in folders showed up. All the folders and their contents remain missing.
The stock browser and its inability to sync properly has wasted too much of my time so I have gone another direction. I installed the Dolphin browser and was able to import my bookmarks using the MyBookmarks app. This app is a pain to use but it gets the job done.
My bookmarks were all imported but as individual links. No folders came over however the import order appears to be as if each folder was transferred. In other words, all the links that were in a particular folder display in the order that they were stored in that folder. This becomes helpful down the road.
Dolphin does not offer much in the way of a user's manual but searching the web I discovered that this app offers the ability to create folders and move bookmarks into them. It is a manual operation but in the end, I was able to recreate the well organized folder and file structure that I have on my Windows PC. If you want the same, here is what you do.
First, import the bookmarks to the Dolphin browser. I will not cover that here but if someone needs to know how to do it, PM me.
Next, slide the screen to the right displaying the bookmark area. At the bottom of the column is a link that says "Quick Access". Open that link and you will see six new links. One of them is "Bookmarks". Open the Bookmarks link.
Open the menu link at the bottom of the new page. You will see four new links including add folder and batch mode. You will be using these links to finish this project.
First, add as many new folders as you want. As they are added, they will display in your bookmarks column. Do this any time you want to add a new folder.
When you have all of your folders created you have two ways of moving individual bookmarks into the folders. At the far right of the page you will see a three line icon that lines up with each bookmark. press and hold that icon and you can drag the bookmark anywhere you want. If you just want to change the display order, drag the link to where you want it and release. If you want to move the bookmark to a folder, drag to the folder and release there.
Using "Batch Mode", you can move multiple bookmarks at the same time. This can save a lot of time if you are trying to repopulate a bookmark folder that contains a lot of links. Tap the batch mode link and you will notice that all the displayed links have a check box on the left edge. Check all the bookmarks that you want to move at once and then click on the "move" link. This will open a dialogue that displays all your newly created folders. Click on the one where you want to bookmarks to go and you are done.
If you have a lot of bookmarks and/or folders, this manual reorganization will take a long time. In the end, however, it will be worth the effort.
There is a minor glitch in Dolphin that you will probably run into. After moving a batch of bookmarks to a folder, you may not be able to open the dialogue which displays all the folders making it impossible to move any more bookmarks. The work-around is to exit Dolphin and reopen everything.
I spent hours researching the web in order to figure all of this out. Hopefully, this post will save others from having to go through the same efforts.
Bob

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with the browser in the Overcome Rom 2.1.1 (p7510.teamovercome.net) sync with Chrome works perfect....