OK, now that I have ICS running on both my T-Mobile G2 and my Acer Iconia tablet, I've notice two common problems and was wondering what, if any, solution exists...
1) Even though I have Photos not selected to be synced with my Google Accounts, when I go into Gallery, it still shows Picasa albums. Is this because I have Google+ syncing, and therefore have no control on those syncing?
2) Browser Sync has not worked since going to ICS. On Honeycomb, I always noticed my bookmarks were there from ROM to ROM, even after wiping. I am not sure if this is because it synced with online data, or if it was because Android was doing the auto-restore of stuff. But now with both devices running ICS, Browser is selected to sync on my Google Account, but it always fails. Chrome syncs fine between my two PCs (bookmarks at least anyways). Is there a solution for this?
Resolved following this: http://blog.abrah.am/2011/12/sync-is-currently-experiencing-problems.html
Long story short, it has to do with the encryption in Chrome. The guide above will first stop syncing with Google, delete synced data (from the cloud only), and then re-setting up syncing.
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Has anyone got the stock browser to sync with Chrome bookmarks? I have it setup but it's not working. I tried clearing everything out and setting up again, still didn't work. Are there any good apps that can sync or import my bookmarks (and other browser data too, preferably) I tried ChromeMarks Lite, it worked but they only show up in the app, not in the actual browser.
Anyone? Bueller?
Spaded21 said:
Has anyone got the stock browser to sync with Chrome bookmarks? I have it setup but it's not working. I tried clearing everything out and setting up again, still didn't work. Are there any good apps that can sync or import my bookmarks (and other browser data too, preferably) I tried ChromeMarks Lite, it worked but they only show up in the app, not in the actual browser.
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I can't get the bookmarks syncing to work either. I tried both the delete-and-sync from chrome, and the keep-device-bookmarks-and-then-sync. No actual syncing happens. Does this actually work for anyone, if so- how?
I think this might be a general problem, not just limited to the Prime...
No joy. I was going to post this issue as well.
When I go into Accounts in settings & select to sync Browser the sync icon spins then stops & never updates the date & bookmarks are never sync'd from Chrome/Google account
its a known honeycomb bug.
Mine used to fully sync, now only a few folders sync, seems random.
bookmarks to sd works well in syncing google bookmarks to stock browser or dolphin.
Same problem here. Bookmarks gets stuck on syncing, but everything else syncs fine. If it's a known Honeycomb bug, I guess I'll just wait for ICS.
So it use to work fine. I can see in the Google Dashboard the last sync date is up to date and changes daily BUT when you go into Settings / Accounts & Sync / Sync Browser is 3 days out of date (everything else is current). Turning sync on and off does nothing as the sync icon just spins. Deleting the Chrome data from Google Dashboard just results in new data syncing to the dashboard BUT not to the tablet.
I just get a spinning icon if I try to restart Browser Sync and it never syncs but I know the info from Chrome is syncing with Google but just not from Google to the tablet.
Anyone else? It worked fine, until days ago.
Same here... nothing since the 9th.
Mine has stopped syncing on the 9th as well. I've tried all I could think off, but no luck.
I got a last sync of the 13th... now nothing
Now i have triple repeats of some items while some folders are full others are empty & the time still shows a last sync of 3 days ago & just spins. Wtf?
ICS Bookmark sync failure
I have the same problem. Stopped syncing on the 3/15/12. Some folders and most bookmarks are missing. I wish they would not erase all bookmarks before they overwrite with half the correct data. All 4 of my PC's sync just fine. How do you contact Google to get support for this operating system? This makes the browser unusable!
As of about a week ago the browser sync on my device has been failing. I am running ICS via the latest CM9 nightly on my Samsung Galaxy S II (i9100T).
Chrome Beta bookmarks sync fine, it's only the builtin browser that is failing to sync. I would use Chrome Beta if I could but it's so damn crash-happy that it's unusable (I assume it's a CM compatibility problem that isn't resolved yet).
Anyway... Here is the relevant log entries from a failed browser sync attempt:
I/BookmarksSync( 5112): Sync failed due to soft error: Reader: Protocol (soft) error: Truncating server changelist after 260 items, as the changelist contains more than one entry with a given remote id: Z:ADqtAZy+M2N65xx6fxN82TxDitLVtIkXCgmtSFp8W2tkH0CkJn0/Jcg8vDEWpzXibMIJcCZ0FdLOu2YpKahtQz5TqasLlCiDZDhnESZ7grZisodhrY++D+I=
D/SyncManager( 1840): failed sync operation [email protected] (com.google), com.android.browser, PERIODIC, earliestRunTime 698024, SyncResult: stats [ numIoExceptions: 1 numEntries: 260]
Basically it's just that over and over again. I've tried clearing the data in the browser app settings then resyncing, and I have also confirmed that on my PC my settings are set to encrypt passwords only (as a google search revealed some people had issues when encrypting everything).
So, I'm out of ideas. Does anyone know how to fix this? Help would be much appreciated as I'm a heavy user of my device and being unable to access my bookmarks is quite frustrating.
Thanks in advance.
Sorry I can't help you but I am getting the same error myself. Hopefully someone can help us out. My browser hasn't had a successful sync since the 12th, 6 days ago...
And like you, Chrome works just fine. I'm on a transformer prime fwiw.
Having the same issue on Galaxy Nexus running AOKP M4. For me it seemed to start around the same time that I changed one of my Chrome browsers to the beta channel, but I didn't notice it for a few days. Once I did notice it, I immediately removed the beta channel version and replaced it with a stable, then deleted all my chrome sync info from the Google dashboard, re-synced from a different copy of Chrome (which was always the stable version), then erased browser app data on my phone and re-tried the sync. Still fails.
My best guess is that the beta version of Chrome did something to the data that is unsupported by the ICS sync service. By the time I caught it, that "something" had been synced out to my other browsers, meaning my data is now permanently "corrupt" or something. Which is awesome and, short of starting from scratch, probably unfixable. However, the Android version of Chrome still seems to sync fine, so this is mostly just really, really annoying, and I can hold out hope for an official fix. In the meantime, I've disabled the browser sync because it seems to use a lot of battery power when it fails (that's actually how I noticed... looking into strangely high battery draw).
But has anyone else who has seen this error done anything similar?
Well, I managed to fix my problem. The issue was that somewhere in all of my Chrome syncs I managed to create a bunch of duplicate bookmarks. Specifically, I reorganized my bookmarks at some point into folders, and somehow they all reappeared in their original locations in addition to the new location. After re-removing all of the old links, deleting everything from the dashboard, re-syncing, and clearing my Android browser data, sync is working fine.
You can find the duplicate items by taking the id in the logcat message and putting it in the search box available in desktop Chrome under about:sync. Takes awhile to fix that way though, because the sync will only give you one id per failure. I was lucky that most of my dups were easy to find.
I purchased a "Sumvision Cyclone Astr+" (ICSv4.0.3) 7 inch Tablet the other week. I love it. I can sit on the couch and surf the web, play games and watch youtube to my hearts content.
However, a couple of little things are bugging me that I would like to fix.
GMail works perfectly, but Google Calendar simply doesn't work. I did some searching and replaced my GoogleCalendarSync.apk as initially I didn't even have the Sync Calendar option in the Accounts. Now I can see the sync option for Calendar, and it does sync (it shows a last sync time) BUT the Calendar simply refuses to find my Google Calendars (I have 3, my personal one, birthdays and UK Holidays)
I have downloaded Jorte and that also fails to find my Google Calendars.
I'm totally stuck, as all info I read said that replacing that apk fixed it for others. I'd like to fix it, just to add that extra little functionality. (Anyone know why the A10 Tablets suffer from this?)
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Hello,
I ran into the same problem with Google Calender not syncing (I also bought the same tablet from eBuyer), the workaround to getting your calenders to display on the tablet is listed here.
"Add gmail account in calendar as exchange account. Take note
domain\username: gmail\[email protected]
server: m.google.com
on next screen, check only 'sync calendar from this account'"
One other thing that you will also come across is you cannot move apps to the SD card as the tablet splits the internal memory and uses the SDcard mount for internal memory. This is a real pain but I am not sure if this is unique to our tablet or ICS related. Also, the tablet is supposed to come with 1GB of RAM, yet you can also only see 306MB when you go into the system settings.
Oh well. I hope the Calender fix works.
Hello,
I have a strange problem after my update to 4.1 in my browser. After the update the freeze problem in my browser was gone, unfortunatelly I saw, that it had some problems while loading pictures. Therefore I cleared the cache and all data - as told in this forum to solve the freeze problem (in combination with a cold boot).
After that, all bookmars were deleted (as expected), unfortunately now I have no possibility to get acces to my bookmarks on google. It shows only the section - Local -. Even Saving new bookmarks I can only choose to save them -Local-.
Next step was looking at the Settings for sync - strangely there was no option for syncing the bookmarks. I have the usual contact, calendar, Pisca, mail and so on... but no possibility to sync the bookmarks.
On my Galaxy everything works fine.
When I delete the cahce and all data again, the browser shows a short messsage that it connects to the bookmarks on google (with my account) for about 3-5 seconds- but it does not work.
Does anyone has any idea what to to?
Thank you very much in advance. If there is already a topic regarding this problem, I am sorry, I could not find it.
Regards, Sebastian
TeklAR said:
Hello,
I have a strange problem after my update to 4.1 in my browser. After the update the freeze problem in my browser was gone, unfortunatelly I saw, that it had some problems while loading pictures. Therefore I cleared the cache and all data - as told in this forum to solve the freeze problem (in combination with a cold boot).
After that, all bookmars were deleted (as expected), unfortunately now I have no possibility to get acces to my bookmarks on google. It shows only the section - Local -. Even Saving new bookmarks I can only choose to save them -Local-.
Next step was looking at the Settings for sync - strangely there was no option for syncing the bookmarks. I have the usual contact, calendar, Pisca, mail and so on... but no possibility to sync the bookmarks.
On my Galaxy everything works fine.
When I delete the cahce and all data again, the browser shows a short messsage that it connects to the bookmarks on google (with my account) for about 3-5 seconds- but it does not work.
Does anyone has any idea what to to?
Thank you very much in advance. If there is already a topic regarding this problem, I am sorry, I could not find it.
Regards, Sebastian
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Doesn't work on my Galaxy Nexus too. I believe Google drop that feature, since the JB official browser is Chrome, and Chrome sync is working fine.
I also have a Prime and a Gnex. I'm running Bamf JB rom on Gnex and the stock browser has my bookmarks. But the prime does not, same with no option in the sync settings. Why is this gone?
CMarks from the market will restore this functionality :good:.
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Doesn't work on my Galaxy Nexus too. I believe Google drop that feature, since the JB official browser is Chrome, and Chrome sync is working fine.
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When you say JB official browser is chrome, do i have to download it from the play store? I find chrome from Google play slower than the stock browser