i added my google contacts on the first time phone setup
does that stay in constant sync and how do you make it sync again if not?
i added a contact online using thunderbird and google plugin but doesnt appear on phone
so i guess if i add a new contact on phone it wont add it to google is that correct
or id there a way i can make it re-sync ?
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Where are the Google contacts stored?
The only place I can see them is when I am creating a message and tap add contact. There seems to be all the contacts from my Gmail account many of which do not have phone numbers and some of which I wouldn't want certain family members to see.
I have tried every setting in contacts and accounts I can find but no luck. I have cleaned up my Gmail account contacts and did a sync hoping that would over write them but no luck.
Any help is appreciated.
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Where are the Google contacts stored?
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Google Contacts are stored on your phone and Google server if I am not wrong.
Regards.
By default Gmail adds anyone you email to your contacts. This used to be so annoying to most people.
Sign into Gmail on computer, go to settings, general, "create contacts for auto-complete" and check off "I'll add contacts myself".
Now go to your Contacts and start deleting the ones you don't want.
As for where they are stored, they are stored on Google's servers and not necessarily on your phone. Any changes you make either on your phone or via the web are pushed and synced I'm real time.
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LordLugard
Yep cleaned up the contacts on the gmail account. turned of the auto add. Did a sync still have them on the phone.
ithehappy
I know they are stored on the phone and gmail account but where on the phone??
Can you see all the contacts when you hit the contacts tab in the phone menu?
If not then from within contacts Menu, More, Display Options and select the google contacts, under that there is a few options of what to display.
Why not try this last resort, remove your Google account on the phone and add it again.
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vessy
You are the man.
Yep need google contacts on in order to see them in Contacts. Then delete them and turn off google contacts again.
Now I can rest easy.
Thank you very much
No problem, glad to help, found out the hard way too!
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How to get contacts autofill in gmail
Hi,
I use viewsonic tablet with android 2.2 running. I have a gmail application installed . Whenever I try to send a new email or take a picture and want to send through gmail instantaneously, I get up to emal "To " field. In there it expects me to type the whole email address again. This is even true if I want to send it to my own gmail id. I mean to say that autofill of email addresses doesn't work. All my contacts is synched with gmail account and that show all the contacts which is available through my email account.
Is there a way to get around and get this autofill option enabled?
Thanks
Ravi
We inserted SIM in my wife's new Nokia Lumia 800 and copied the contacts from SIM into the phone memory.
Now how do we set it up so that these contacts gets uploaded to her Google account and stays in (2-way) sync (i.e., between phone memory and Google)?
Your current contacts must be stored under a Live account then since you moved them to your phone with only a Live account added?
I think you will need to add your google account and move the contacts to that account. When you later add a new contact you can choose which account to add it to. In this case Windows live or Google. It will auto sync once setup.
i dont think wp7 lets you sync contacts with google
Add your google/gmail account and contacts should sync over automatically. You can sync gmail, google contacts and google calendar with WP7.
A couple of caveats. WL only supports one mobile number per person and if you have HTC garbage in your Notes field in google contacts you will receive an error and will have to clean up your google address book to remove the rubbish from the notes field, else it should work just fine.
It will sync them to your Live account. What you need to do is export them from your live account, then delete them from your live account.
Import them into your google account and re-sync your google account and Live account on your phone. This will remove the live account contacts from your phone and sync your new google contacts to your phone.
Thats it, now your synced to your google account.
I have a work phone and a personal phone. The work phone is registered with my work gmail email address and my personal phone with my personal gmail address. I would like to share my personal Google Contacts with both work and personal phone. Can someone advise me how to configure my Android phone v 4.0.4 to accomplish it.
Once I set up, can I edit the existing contacts and add any new contact on my any phone and automatically update the Google Contacts. I want to make Google Contacts as a central address book. Thanks!
I haven't tried this myself, but I believe you can add your personal Google account to your work phone (so two google accounts in your work phone). On your work phone, go to Settings -> Accounts & sync -> Add Account -> Google -> Existing -> put your personal gmail account.
If that works, then you should be able to access both personal and work contacts on your work phone. If you modify contacts on your personal account from work phone, the change will automatically sync with your personal phone as well.
Give that a go, and I hope that helps :fingers-crossed:
When I try to add a contact on my Moto E 2nd Generation 2015, it always says "Your new contact will be synchronised with . I either get the option to create a google account, or click ok. I do not get an option to not synchronise the contact anywhere. My goal is to save my contacts to my SIM only.
I have, in the mean time, disabled the synchronisation for Google contacts so that they do not get uploaded to Google servers. So even though this annoying feature still pops up telling me it will synch them to my email, the synchronisation should not be happening. But I want a way to save my contacts to my SIM. If this means coming off Andriod 5.0.2, then so be it!
Dont know if anybody paid attention to this but there is no option for linking a contact to google account. The newly created contact is added only to as local phone contact and not as google contact. This creates a big problem for people with multiple devices as information does not sync across.
I had installed google contacts app but still this is just a workaround and not a right way. This is big deal breaker for me.
How is it working for you ??
As I know currently if you save contact at Dial Pad, it will automatically go to LeEco Account contact, and you cannot choose where it goes to. if you want, you need to open Contacts, choose gmail account, then add contact there, then it will be synced to Gmail account. A bit troublesome but no choice for the moment.
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As I know currently if you save contact at Dial Pad, it will automatically go to LeEco Account contact, and you cannot choose where it goes to. if you want, you need to open Contacts, choose gmail account, then add contact there, then it will be synced to Gmail account. A bit troublesome but no choice for the moment.
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With the released cm13 Port with included gapps it works as it should.
Actually just find out that you can just change the Account to google when add contact, and all are fine. Just that you cannot change the default to Gmail contact only.
With me it was the "Google contacts sync" that was missing. You have to install this one, either by the "google installer" app, or by searching the correct apk version, since not all versions wil work with your OS