First up: I do not want to sync my contacts with Google.
For an unknown reason my mobile keeps synchronizing my personal address book with Google. Even worse: Somehow I get a lot of crap contacts, even empty or just with an email. Most of my contacts are 2-3 times in my address book and I have no idea where to look for the problem.
I changed /Settings/Accounts/Google Account #1 & #2/ > untick "Contacts", when I first set up my system (SlimROM 9.0).
Usually I sync my address book manually using MyPhoneExplorer. I have Xposed/Xprivacy installed to block many apps from reading my contacts. Hangouts is installed but since its a Google app I presume, that it accepts my setting to not sync contacts plus I didn't find any settings in the app.
I checked Gmail-Accounts online and unticked the "Automatically add contacts to address book when answering an email", after I first saw that something went wrong. All my contacts where online but only in one account. I deleted all contacts from Gmail online and from my phone, checked all settings again and copied over my contacts with MyPhoneExplorer.
After a while all crap contacs where back and synced with Gmail online.
What should I do to prevend this from happening, ignoring the fact that now it wouldn't REALLY matter anymore since Google got what I didn't want them to get: Personal information about my friends and colleagues who didn't agree to that?
Related
Over the last few days I have completely lost all of my contacts twice. I would really appreciate some advise or a point in the right direction to solving my frustration.
I am running the official HTC ROM version 2.73 and everything was running fine up until two days ago. I originally had all of my contacts stored under 'Phone' as I had a fresh sim card and the rest of my contacts were spread over several accounts (gmail, hotmail, exchange server) and none of my phone numbers were stored electronically.
The first time there was some error message that I did not pay attention to (as they do tend to pop up every now and again) followed by a phone reset and loss of all my contacts and some associated data (call logs but not email or SMS). After attempting and failing to find these numbers I decided to re-enter my contacts but this time save them under 'Google' contacts so they would be backed up to my gmail.
I had just finished re-entering all of my contacts and then all but 30-odd were gone again. This happened following a forced close and reset of the sense UI (as has been happening with increased frequency of late). All of my favourites had also been deleted - leaving me very frustrated! The lost contacts are also not saved in my gmail and many that remain have been duplicated four or five times.
If anyone could advise me on my problem I would be very appreciative
Thanks
David
Do you utilize HTC Sync ?
As I understand, contacts stored in the "Google" Group are automatically synced with contacts in you Google Account ; contacts stored in the "Phone" Group are synced by HTC Sync with contacts in Outlook or Outlook Express on your PC running HTC Sync.
I had installed HTC sync but was yet to untalise it as I did not realise that 'Phone' contacts had anything to do with it. I do not have any contacts stored on my home laptop and therefore whenever a sync was done, zero contacts were synced.
I have changed the setting of my sync from MS Outlook to Windows address book and all of my contacts seem to have reapeared - both phone and google contacts. All of my phone contacts seem to have lost the link with Facebook but I think that may be a recuring problem with Hero users.
Thanks for the suggestion - hopefully now I can sort all of my contacts out!
Weird???
I have never had a problem with Sense UI having to 'force close'
That's very unfortunate, especially as it happened just as you'd input all your contacts again.
I never use HTC Sync personally but if you have all your contact's details - try inputting them into your Google account using a pc. This way they should just sync with your phone automatically, and it's much easier than entering them on your phone!
If the 'force close' issue keeps happening - I would send it back and get a repair done, or a replacement!
Hope this helps,
Dan
I've not used Google Calendar up until now, and have synced my HTC phone with Outlook directly via USB on both my PC and laptop. However, now I've got a Galaxy Tab too, it'll be a bit unwieldly to manually sync all these devices so I think I need to sync via the cloud with Google (much as I may dislike the concept).
I've set my HTC Desize-Z to sync with Google Calendar, and created a test entry on the phone and on the online calendar, and they have both synced with each other fine. Great so far.
However even though I'm using the exact same settings and account name on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 (stock, rooted, wi-fi) it won't sync with the online calendar at all, and none of the test events that I created appear on the Tab.
Whenever I create a new event using Calendar on the Tab, I get a pop-up saying "Local calendar cannot sync with Google calendar. You need a Google account". There is an option inside the error popup to "Go to account and sync", which I select and it just takes me to my standard Accounts & Sync settings page, where my Google account is already listed correctly, with the little 'sync' icon shown in green. The details subpage has both "Sync Calendar" and "Sync Contacts" ticked, and they each show very recent sync times and will resync without errors when I click on the Refresh icon.
But still Calendar does not think I'm connected to a Google account (error popup appears as above when I add a new event) and nothing gets synced.
Anyone got any ideas? As I said, it all works fine on my phone, and Marketplace works fine on the Tab with the same account details so my Google account seems to be valid.
Andre
I've never tried to sync any kind of calendar so I can't be sure.
Some things to try are..
First of all, make sure you're connected to the internet on your tab...
Find any calendar app in the Settings>Applications>ManageApplications menu and clear Cache for them.
You could possibly try deleting your google account from the device (after stuff is backed up on it of course), then re-adding it to see if it syncs correctly.
When in doubt, reboot.
FWIW, I had a problem not seeing updates to my calendar till I realized that there were two calendars. A "local" and a "[email protected]".
In settings, you need to check off which calendar you want to see.
Thanks dannyboy, that was indeed my problem. I finally tracked it down over the weekend and was just about to post my wondrous discovery here, only to find you'd beaten me to it.
Same applies with Contacts by the way. My PC-synced ones had all gone into a section which does not sync with Google, so I exported them all to a file and then re-imported them into my google-synced contacts list and bingo, my phone and my tab synced themselves via the cloud. One word of caution though: to remove all the duplicates that I then had on my phone, I selected 'phone only' view and deleted just those entries visible in that mode - only to find that the phone deleted the Google ones too (which were not selected to be viewed) and immediately propagated the deletion of everything to my other devices!!! Thankfully I'd still got the export file, so I just imported them again and they all flowed back. I could always have grabbed a backup off the laptop, but even so it highlights the dangers of automatic cloud syncing!
Andre
I have trouble getting new contacts that I add to my phone to sync with my Google account. I've lost quite a few new numbers that I've put into my phone, not knowing that it hasn't synced to my Google account, I flash a new ROM and restore contacts from my account only to find out that I'm missing that person's number . I have "Sync Contacts" checked in my Google account settings and I make sure the contact is assigned to a group. Even with a force sync within the contacts app and my google account settings doesn't bring the newly entered contact over. Anybody else experience this or have a work around?
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Entropy's Daily Driver (10202011)
Do you have your phone set to save new contacts to google?
Contacts > Menu > Settings > Save new contacts to
edit:
post above mine is the way to go....
It worked! Thank you so much. Now do you have to do this every single time? Seems counter productive to having auto sync features with your google account if you have to do this every time you add somebody.
edit: settings was set to "Save to phone" Why did I not even think of this! Thanks again
Nope, that is the default setting for all contacts. Set it once and you should be good. However, I would double check it after re-flashing ROMs and such, just in case.
I would set that setting to 'Always ask'. This setting will be applied whenever you add a new contact. The default is 'Phone' which does not sync with Google. If you have Exchange server account, you will see exchange contact as well.
So, each contacts belongs to a specific contact provider: Phone, SIM card, Google, Exchange account or any other account types you installed. Only the contacts that belongs to a that contact provider will be synced with that provider. Phone and SIM card contacts stays on the phone or SIM card, never synced with any cloud services.
Hi,
I have never had a problem with synching until recently . Now I can see many contacts sitting in my gmail contact list that simply will not move to the phone when i do a synch. It used to be as easy as adding a new contact and then over it would go.
I have tagged all my contacts in SYSTEM GROUP ; MY CONTACTS and also MY CONTACTS in gmail
I have the android set to showing these groups in display options under gmail and then I have also checked everything else under PHONE and SIM too iun an effort to get contacts to appear !! .
No matter what I do I cannot for the life of me do a total / clean synch so that all 300+ contacts show in my phone .
What am I now missing that I never missed before ?
I have tried deleting all the contact data on the phone and when i resynched same thing - i get some of the contacts but not all.
I am rooted and have remove some bloatware but I am pretty sure I have not removed any system apps etc.
Can anyone help ? I have googled extensively but found nothing. thanks
Calender does not seem to be syncing either if i put events in gmail ?????
MAil not synching either. Is it google ????
Is auto sync on?
Hey,
I'm pretty sure your internal memory is full. Just delete any unwanted apps.
JD
Make sure in accounts that your auto sync is on and go into the acct and see of the boxes are checked.
Also go on your gmail acount and check how many contacts you have.
I set up my Galaxy S II Skyrocket to sync with both my personal and work Gmail accounts. Trouble is, it synced about 4,000 contacts from the work Gmail.
Now, I understand that I can hide those in the display options, but I want them gone completely. I deselected "Contacts" from syncing with my office Gmail, but the huge number of contacts remains.
How can I remove the contacts that are attached with specifically the work Gmail, and leave behind my own personal contacts?
Thank you for the help.
Edit: Well, it figures I'd spend a week figuring this problem out, only to solve it the moment I ask for help. For those who may have a similar problem and stumble across this thread in the future, here's how I solved it:
I downloaded Samsung Kies to sync my phone with my PC.
I then performed a full backup of my phone (especially the contacts).
On the left hand side of Kies, under the section labeled "Connected devices," I selected "Contacts" from under my phone. I then selected the tab with my synced emails, and from there could easily select all the contacts associated with the offending account, and deleted them.
Click "Save to device" and you're done. Huzzah.
I could be wrong, but if you go into:
Settings->Accounts and Sync-> [the account for your work email]
And uncheck Contacts, I think they'll be gone again. Looks like you tried that. If you did, and they're still there, check the sync settings. You can choose the priority (i.e. keep the contacts from the phone, delete those from the gMail server etc).
When all else fails, delete all of your contacts, uncheck Contacts from the work account and resync properly.