This has been bugging me for awhile. On my Evo 3D I have the sync icon at the top of the screen. It is basically there all the time. I have checked to see if anything is syncing and nothing is. I have set to sync FB, FB for HTC Sense, Twitter, 4 email accounts, HTC Sense, Weather, and that's it. I even went to far as to uncheck the sync option for each item and the icon is still there.
I'm on a rooted phone, no custom ROM though, just stock rooted and most up to date (with last week's update).
Saw a few posts online about the sync icon, but nothing like this. Those were legitimate issues where sync would hang on an account. That's not happening here.
Reset makes it go away for a day, but then the problem comes back.
i have the same exact problem here. and i am too on a stock rooted evo 3d gsm phone. when it's annoying i just go to settings/sync and torn off than on again the autosync option and then it stops.. in few hours, days the problem is back.
Try remove the HTC Watch sync in Settings-Accounts and Sync, this happens a lot with the stock rom.
It might be google news that's synching in the background. Check to make sure its on manual check. Also make sure weather is on "once a day check for updates" .
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I don't have HTC Watch set up at all, so it's not that. I will try the Google News or weather options and see if that clears it up.
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I have these double circular arrows up top next to the H+. They are not spinning, just setting there. They don't seem to ever go away. Is this using data or what. Not sure what is causing. My phone is rooted with a few things frozen but nothing that has anything to do with syncing.
thanks for any help
It sure seems something is still syncing... You can test what it is by going into Settings » Accounts and disabling individual sync services for any accounts that have them.
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No, I only have the Moto Blur default account and there are no setting for that. It has a little lock by it. I don't use it, I use K9 mail program for all my email including google but in my System account there is my Yahoo account that is the default, locked account and a google account, neither of which have any setting at all.
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No, I only have the Moto Blur default account and there are no setting for that. It has a little lock by it. I don't use it, I use K9 mail program for all my email including google but in my System account there is my Yahoo account that is the default, locked account and a google account, neither of which have any setting at all.
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MotoBlur has sync settings in Settings > Data Manager > Data Delivery
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MotoBlur has sync settings in Settings > Data Manager > Data Delivery
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Nope, I tried that and the arrows remain. Also, something strange I think. The arrows stay there even if I turn Airplane Mode on!
Sounds like a silly question, did you reboot?
I rebooted many times. I started removing apps so hopefully I could find it but each time I restarted those sync arrows came back. I also tried freezing every thing I could but no luck so today I unfroze everything and still couldn't get rid of them. Something was always trying to sync. I noticed that my battery life was shorter today so I did a factory data reset and now I am in the process of rooting it again and installing my apps again.
Thanks for all your help and I will be more careful and systematic this time but what I learned is that one needs to be careful about installing apps. Read the reviews first because some programs are memory hogs, some take over your system, etc.
I've only seen that when I started up this new phone.
I shall look for it. I really like my phone. Look at it often.
(Wow, that was nerdy.)
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I rebooted many times. I started removing apps so hopefully I could find it but each time I restarted those sync arrows came back. I also tried freezing every thing I could but no luck so today I unfroze everything and still couldn't get rid of them. Something was always trying to sync. I noticed that my battery life was shorter today so I did a factory data reset and now I am in the process of rooting it again and installing my apps again.
Thanks for all your help and I will be more careful and systematic this time but what I learned is that one needs to be careful about installing apps. Read the reviews first because some programs are memory hogs, some take over your system, etc.
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Yeah, the Atrix is still relatively new to the dev scene so most mods are going to have side effects. Basically, just be prepared to do some resets and such until something has been labeled "stable". I'm already on my second Atrix because I messed up the lights for the capacitive buttons and something went wrong with charging, it would always say it was charging even when unplugged. The problems even persisted after a factory restore. Luckily I was able to unroot it and bring it in for a new one before my 30 days was up.
When you see the "sync" icon there, you can go to:
Settings > Accounts > tap on an account, say Gmail.
If something is sync-ing, you'll see the sync-ing icon beside the checkbox for contacts/emails/calendar.
I know on mine, when it syncs with my google calendar, it takes a good 2 mins...odd considering i have less than 10 entries. lol.
I got curious why the sync icon was there for a while, so this was where I looked to figure out what was sync-ing.
Download os monitor and look sort by load. See what is taking up the load and that is your rogue syncing app. Likely it is stuck on a google contact that is corrupted (if acore is your issue in os monitor)
i had the same icon on my notification and i froze account sync and calendar sync, it was killing my battery around 10% per hour. the icon went away after a reset and i have no idea what caused it. looking in titanium i saw an app called SyncML 2.2.1 that has a similar icon but i have no idea if its the app thats responsible, still froze it.
Is anyone running a custom ROM and noticed that Facebook for HTC app always leaves the SYNC icon on?
When you go into ACCOUNTS & SYNC, it doesn't show that it's actually syncing anything, but at the same time, my phone won't go into DEEP SLEEP anymore.
I verified it with this app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy&feature=search_result
Even if I disable syncing and leave the account there, it still shows the sync icon, even after a reboot.
However, if I remove the Facebook for HTC account, everything is back to normal again.
I heard that we can just install the Facebook app from the market but I like having it integrated into my contacts as well.
I have noticed this issue with the following two ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192869
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194118
I'm still on the STEEL ROM because it has working battery % and have removed FB for HTC for now.
Just wondering if you guys have encountered the same issue with other ROMs?
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Is anyone running a custom ROM and noticed that Facebook for HTC app always leaves the SYNC icon on?
When you go into ACCOUNTS & SYNC, it doesn't show that it's actually syncing anything, but at the same time, my phone won't go into DEEP SLEEP anymore.
I verified it with this app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bvalosek.cpuspy&feature=search_result
Even if I disable syncing and leave the account there, it still shows the sync icon, even after a reboot.
However, if I remove the Facebook for HTC account, everything is back to normal again.
I heard that we can just install the Facebook app from the market but I like having it integrated into my contacts as well.
I have noticed this issue with the following two ROMs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192869
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194118
I'm still on the STEEL ROM because it has working battery % and have removed FB for HTC for now.
Just wondering if you guys have encountered the same issue with other ROMs?
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IDK if you are restoring the app or not, but my thoughts are this: go into settings/apps/manage/all and find the app, clear cache and data, reboot recovery wipe cache, reboot, re sign in to the app. ??? You can try without the recovery part, just clear the app stuff re sign, maybe that would work.
Having a problem with my calendar. If I create an event, it will show up on my phone just fine but if I check my calendar on the computer the events aren't showing up. Now the calendar was working just fine while I was still stock rooted. The problem didn't start until I flashed a custom rom last week. Now it doesn't matter which rom I flash the problem is still there. I'm getting real pissed.
Has anyone else experienced this and/or know of a solution?
The HTC calendar can sync with our computers? Damn, I'm finding more and more stuff to do with this phone.
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The HTC calendar can sync with our computers? Damn, I'm finding more and more stuff to do with this phone.
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Well, I used to. Somethings not right now though. me and my wife share a calendar so we both can see the schedule. Mine was working fine when I was stock & stock rooted but ever since I flashed the first custom rom last week it stopped working. None of the events I create will show up on my wife's phone or in google calendar on the computer. It's weird though because I can see the events she creates just fine. I've tried 3 different roms now and all the same results.
I know you have probably already tried this but make sure "calendar" is set up to sync in the respective google account. Do this from settings/accounts/then the account. If that is checked go to the calander app (htc sense one in the app drawer) then at the top you will see a little drop down carrot. tap the top bar and make sure your calander is listed there. if it isn't then you can try to clear data on "calendar" "calendar storage" and "google calendar sync" Hopefully one of the above works for you. I have had a similar problem when I used Titanium backup to restore system data. Good luck hope this helps.
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I know you have probably already tried this but make sure "calendar" is set up to sync in the respective google account. Do this from settings/accounts/then the account. If that is checked go to the calander app (htc sense one in the app drawer) then at the top you will see a little drop down carrot. tap the top bar and make sure your calander is listed there. if it isn't then you can try to clear data on "calendar" "calendar storage" and "google calendar sync" Hopefully one of the above works for you. I have had a similar problem when I used Titanium backup to restore system data. Good luck hope this helps.
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I tried all of those and nothing. Also, I never use TB to restore system data just to avoid any issues. The weirdest thing is that I can see the events that my wife creates but my events won't write to the google account. I've never had this problem while I was stock or stock rooted or on my og evo. Now I've tried 3 different roms and all the same.
You've got to be kidding me, lol. I've never had this happen before. I figured out the calendar issue. I was messing around with it some more today and what happened was, it was stuck on pc sync. When you open up the calendar up it tells you at the top which calendar will be synced. I have never noticed that before. I've never had to change it. All I had to do was add the gmail account that I wanted to use and set it to sync just the calendar and I was good to go. I feel like an idiot, lmfao.
I have one friend from Facebook that just won't sync with my phone. I have removed her, added her back, resynced and nothing. I have restored my device twice, and still nothing. I have removed Facebook from my phone, I have done everything that I can think of. I have used two programs (SyncMyPix + HeartofAngel), but her profile just won't show up in either program to sync to my phone.
All of my fb friends are linked according to their Google contacts in my address book. The contact in question is linked. HTC suggested I sign out of fb, clear everything under Facebook in applications, reboot the phone, then sign back in. However, HTC sense doesn't always sync. So I use a program from heartofangel.com and an app on my phone called SyncMyPics. When I launch and sync using that latter on my phone, everyone syncs, except for this particular fb friend. When I look at the results, she's not even listed in those results. When I use the Google contacts program from heartofangel.com, every fb friend populates. When I scroll down to hers, she's there, when given the option to re-link her Google contact to facebook contact, it doesn't appear she's a friend of mine on Facebook. I've removed the Google contacts and syncmypics apps on Facebook, then relaunched the apps, then allowed permission again. Nothing works. Does this make any sense?
She is definitely a friend of mine on fb. She has not unfriended me. She shares her email on fb, but not her phone #. She's showing up as Google and Facebook (linked together) in my address book. It's just with other syncing apps/programs, she's not showing up with those. It's the weirdest thing.
What on earth could this be? Any ideas?
I think its a Facebook problem, I've been having this problem with my cousins Facebook page since i had a samsung vibrant, i've since then gave up, i never found a resolution
supraman89 said:
I think its a Facebook problem, I've been having this problem with my cousins Facebook page since i had a samsung vibrant, i've since then gave up, i never found a resolution
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I am beginning to wonder that myself. I have 391 friends on FB, but only 388 are syncing with my phone. I guess I am a little anal about that. LOL! I want them all to sync over. I am posting my problem on here to the "google contacts sync" forum and see if the owner has a suggestion.
I had similar problems when I first set up my Amaze with my wife's profile. Don't remember exactly what fixed it, but I think it was after the third or fourth time I cleared data and caches in both the Facebook app, and the Facebook for HTC Sense app, and sense then everyone is syncing fine. Maybe it had to do with the order I cleared them, I'm afraid I just don't remember.
I have found a solution but you won't like it...it took me a while to figure this out...so basically if you set up your google account before your facebook, facebook will not sync correctly....since android 2.x won't let us delete the current google account (ICS will allow this), you have to reset to factory settings, then setup your facebook account DO NOT SETUP google when prompted in the start wizard. wait an hour or so until all pics and things are downloaded and everything is synced up...then go ahead and setup google account so you can use the market, but make sure you are not syncing google contacts yet, update the facebook app through the market, (this way you will get high quality pics from facebook, if you have an older facebook app on your rom, you will get lower quality pics until you update to the new facebook app), finally you can sync your google contacts etc after about an hour or so (if you have sense) you will get a bunch of matched or linked contacts showing up ....this should help...
any questions let me know
WOW! Now THAT was some good advice. I am going to do that here now and see what happens. I have installed Friendster, and this one FB friend STILL doesn't show up in that app either. I am wondering if this has something to do with the FB API. I have 391 friends on FB, but only 388 are syncing to my phone. It won't hurt to do a factory reset.
Thank you for that info.
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I have found a solution but you won't like it...it took me a while to figure this out...so basically if you set up your google account before your facebook, facebook will not sync correctly....since android 2.x won't let us delete the current google account (ICS will allow this), you have to reset to factory settings, then setup your facebook account DO NOT SETUP google when prompted in the start wizard. wait an hour or so until all pics and things are downloaded and everything is synced up...then go ahead and setup google account so you can use the market, but make sure you are not syncing google contacts yet, update the facebook app through the market, (this way you will get high quality pics from facebook, if you have an older facebook app on your rom, you will get lower quality pics until you update to the new facebook app), finally you can sync your google contacts etc after about an hour or so (if you have sense) you will get a bunch of matched or linked contacts showing up ....this should help...
any questions let me know
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I did exactly what you suggested. I actually have 389 FB friends and all 389 FB friends are now downloaded to my phone. However, I am getting some with their profile picture and some without. See attachment. I have cleared the data from both FB and FB for HTC SENSE now 3 times. But not all of the profile pictures are downloading. Perhaps I need to go ahead and sign in to my gmail account and download the newest FB app, then resync? Any suggestions would be awesome!
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I did exactly what you suggested. I actually have 389 FB friends and all 389 FB friends are now downloaded to my phone. However, I am getting some with their profile picture and some without. See attachment. I have cleared the data from both FB and FB for HTC SENSE now 3 times. But not all of the profile pictures are downloading. Perhaps I need to go ahead and sign in to my gmail account and download the newest FB app, then resync? Any suggestions would be awesome!
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wait for all the pictures to download give it some time a couple of hours...then if not all are downloaded sign into the market and get the latest facebook app...when you're signing into market, MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE NOT SYNCING CONTACTS ITS GOING TO START TO SYNC RIGHT AWAY, STOP IT IMMEDIATELY. AND MAKE SURE AUTO SYNC IS OFF. once you downloaded the new facebook app, simply sync again. and if this doesn't work, delete the facebook account under sync (not the app itself) and add the facbook for htc sync again...this should do it.
And the picture quality is also.very very low..
When I call some1 is see only pixels.
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And the picture quality is also.very very low..
When I call some1 is see only pixels.
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thats because facbeooks native app uses 96 x 96 pics, don't even download facebook app, use the facbook for sense app, under sync section to sync the contacts and pics first, it'll give you much higher quality...unless you're running NRGZ rom, he has replaced the original Facebook for Sense app with the stock facebook, in which case you have to push an apk from another rom to your phone and resync. check out nrgz threads, someone just told me to do this recently.
Ever since I got the DNA at launch, all services that rely on communicating/syncing with Google will randomly cease until reboot, but I've only recently started digging into it. I'm currently S-OFF on Viper 1.2.0 with its included 2.04 OTA kernel from Verizon, butI've noticed this across multiple ROMs and 1.15 based kernels since stock. Like many others, I always had the "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly" error for my Google account. I had a thread up here, but with no response.
So far, all my thorough testing has been done only on Viper 1.2.0, and as a baseline, my initial flash of the ROM started with a full desense, and removing nearly all preloaded apps through aroma (including most of HTC's).
Basically, I ended up noticing that upon successful receipt of a calendar notification, my connection to Google would immediately drop, which seemed odd. Many fresh installs of Viper later, I noticed that keeping HTC Browser, Mail, Tasks, and Google Talk installed in aroma got rid of the sync error message (which was the first time since I bought the phone that I did NOT see it), while still able to do a full desense and remove most apps. With the error message gone, I have been unable to reproduce my issue anymore, but it hasn't been up and running long enough like this for me to call it solved.
I have been unable to find a fix while on pure stock or using any other 1.15 based kernel/ROM combo, even with all HTC and Google apps installed. It seems that the 2.04 OTA did something that helped this issue. I wanted to know if anyone else has noticed these or similar issues, and if so, hopefully we can figure it out, as I'd like to be able to get rid of these apps I don't use.
If you have a DNA with a Google account, please vote whether or not you have issues!
i've been having sync issues as well. any contact i add on the phone doesn't sync up to my google account. if i add it from the pc, it'll sync. also, the sync icon just stays there next to Contacts in the accounts & sync section.
i was trying to research it as well, and somebody else mentioned sync issues with their htc device. maybe its an htc issue? i don't know. definitely an annoyance though
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i've been having sync issues as well. any contact i add on the phone doesn't sync up to my google account. if i add it from the pc, it'll sync. also, the sync icon just stays there next to Contacts in the accounts & sync section.
i was trying to research it as well, and somebody else mentioned sync issues with their htc device. maybe its an htc issue? i don't know. definitely an annoyance though
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I'm looking for a complete drop in communication to Google. However, from my research, I saw a few others with similar issues (only with contacts) who had a high success rate simply by going to Settings>Apps>All>Contacts Storage and press Clear Data. Once it resyncs, it should be fine. Worth a try if you haven't already.
I've tried that, but to no avail. Funny how Google sync has an issue on ANDROID! Lol
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andyroidna said:
I've tried that, but to no avail. Funny how Google sync has an issue on ANDROID! Lol
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When you added those apps back in, did you try only keeping Google Talk? I have had sync issues before when I try uninstaling Talk, as well as being unable to use the Play Store. I was getting a message about "you must be able to connect to Google Talk in order to complete" Just a thought.