contacts keep missing - myTouch 3G, Magic General

ive noticed a strange problem with my magic.......somehow i lose my contacts.....for example i wanted to dial a friends number and i noticed its no longer there in my contacts......a few numbers have gone missing.....
this is like the 2nd or 3rd time this has happened.......pls help me guys......
thank u

bump?? anyone??

did you pick the right group and sync group?

anheuer,can u please explain that? i didnt understand wat u were saying.....
i have noticed that basically its my starred or fav contacts that have disappeared.......
i mean i have stored the number,but when i wanted to dial that contact,i cudnt find it in my contact list at all!!
Is there some problem with the sync??
Thanks!

Go to your contacts, hit Menu,
Go in the Display group
and Edit sync groups
And check what you have.
Maybe your not allowing them to be on the phone.
If that doesn't work.
I have no clue.
Personally i would try a hard reset.

double post

i did as u said........its says all contacts........ damn...
i think there is a problem when the phone syncs with google contacts.....

celester340 said:
i did as u said........its says all contacts........ damn...
i think there is a problem when the phone syncs with google contacts.....
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Have you checked if you can see the contacts in your gmail account? (on the webmail page, not the phone)

yes i checked on my google contacts account online too.....the contacts were missing from there too....
was just looking around....found this......
http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid/22199-missing-contacts.html
only wish there was an answer to this......
thanks friend....

bump....anyone??

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Facebook Contact Link

Hi, I have searched alot and i cant find if its possible to link contacts to their facebook even if you do not have them as a friend on your FB account!
I ask this because i don't JUST LET ANYONE see my facebook i only let real and true friends see it and I dont add random class mates even though i got the contact details etc.
so my question is
is it possible to link contacts to their facebook even if you do not have them as a friend on your FB account!
mohamedhussain1995 said:
Hi, I have searched alot and i cant find if its possible to link contacts to their facebook even if you do not have them as a friend on your FB account!
I ask this because i don't JUST LET ANYONE see my facebook i only let real and true friends see it and I dont add random class mates even though i got the contact details etc.
so my question is
is it possible to link contacts to their facebook even if you do not have them as a friend on your FB account!
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I doubt it as it would be part of the security that Facebook runs, nothing to do with the device.
rp-x1 said:
I doubt it as it would be part of the security that Facebook runs, nothing to do with the device.
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Facebook also allows people to set the privacy options! If the person allows EVERYONE to see the profile pic then it should download to my phone init!
Not sure if it works, but if you can it would be a manual process.
If you go to the outlook contact of someone you HAVE linked, you'll see something like this:
Code:
<HTCData><!-- Please do not modify -->
<Facebook>id:(numbers)/friendof:(mynum)</Facebook>
</HTCData><sn>id:(numbers)/friendof:(mynum)</sn>
You would copy that, paste it into your other friend's outlook contact, and edit the (numbers) portion to be that person.
AKA, a complete waste of time, but it might work.
mazzarin said:
Not sure if it works, but if you can it would be a manual process.
If you go to the outlook contact of someone you HAVE linked, you'll see something like this:
Code:
<HTCData><!-- Please do not modify -->
<Facebook>id:(numbers)/friendof:(mynum)</Facebook>
</HTCData><sn>id:(numbers)/friendof:(mynum)</sn>
You would copy that, paste it into your other friend's outlook contact, and edit the (numbers) portion to be that person.
AKA, a complete waste of time, but it might work.
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I dont understand a thing Your are trying to say!

Problem with facebook contacts sync

I have synced my account a while I ago when I got my SGS.
Now, I have gotten a couple new friends (total says 103 or so). So I go about and press Sync now on my facebook menu page and it sync. I then check if the new friends have synced in, and no - I can't see them. Under groups, it still says 97 under Facebook, which was the number of friends when I initially set up the sync.
Now, the weird thing is, statuses on existing friends are getting updated, pictures are getting updated, I can even see my friends activities (the ones not added) under Contacts -> Activities..
I've tried sync both with Wifi and 3G.
Any ideas? I would like to get the new additions in
have you manually added those other facebook friends?
using the "Get Friends" menu?
while in Phone book, press the Menu key (is that the correct name) -> Get Friends -> Facebook
wow, there they were
Didn't know I had to "go fetch 'em"...
Thanks alot, mate!
glad to help...
It's a good thing Samsung designed it that way, I don't want my SGS syncing all my 1000+ Facebook friends.. heheh
Hey thanks for the info ... I was looking for this!
facebook's name in contact?
talking of which, I get used to sync my google phone's contact with gmail contact, now I changed to i9000, I found that I need to manually link the friends in my contact to fackbook contact even they have the same name in 2 side, and if the name is not the same, i9000 will use the facebook's name which mostly some nick name that I dun know which friend is it indeed
any suggest?
ariclung said:
talking of which, I get used to sync my google phone's contact with gmail contact, now I changed to i9000, I found that I need to manually link the friends in my contact to fackbook contact even they have the same name in 2 side, and if the name is not the same, i9000 will use the facebook's name which mostly some nick name that I dun know which friend is it indeed
any suggest?
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hmm... It happens to my SGS to.. sometimes it automatically links my phone contact to my selected facebook contacts, sometimes it doesn't..
both names should be exactly the same...

i9000 Facebook contact Sync Error

Hi all,
I am having a big headache with my phone now, please help if you have any idea to solve this, or if you have any idea to track the root cause! Thanks!
This morning when I woke up, I found that most of the profile pictures of my friends lost in the contact list. After a while investigation, I found that only 16 out of 4xx persons in my facebook left in my contact list.
To fix the issue, I tried a re-sync and this can't help. Except the contacts in gmail, only 16 persons in facebook appears in my contact list. I then tried to delete the facebook account in the contact, reboot my device, and add the facebook account again, but same issue happened again. If I choose not to automatically add all friends in my contact, the wizard will pop up exactly 16 friends to let me choose who should i import, but other 4xx friends disappeared.
I have double checked that I did not click "show friends with contact number only". And the strange things is, if i go to "activites" in the contact app, the update of friends that did not show up appeared in activites, and I can provide comment as well.
I am sure there is something wrong in the import process that skipped many of my friends from import. Anyone did try this and have a fix? Or how can I investigate the "log" or something else to pinpoint out the problem? I am afraid that even I hard reset my phone the same issue will exist!
HKcow said:
Hi all,
I am having a big headache with my phone now, please help if you have any idea to solve this, or if you have any idea to track the root cause! Thanks!
This morning when I woke up, I found that most of the profile pictures of my friends lost in the contact list. After a while investigation, I found that only 16 out of 4xx persons in my facebook left in my contact list.
To fix the issue, I tried a re-sync and this can't help. Except the contacts in gmail, only 16 persons in facebook appears in my contact list. I then tried to delete the facebook account in the contact, reboot my device, and add the facebook account again, but same issue happened again. If I choose not to automatically add all friends in my contact, the wizard will pop up exactly 16 friends to let me choose who should i import, but other 4xx friends disappeared.
I have double checked that I did not click "show friends with contact number only". And the strange things is, if i go to "activites" in the contact app, the update of friends that did not show up appeared in activites, and I can provide comment as well.
I am sure there is something wrong in the import process that skipped many of my friends from import. Anyone did try this and have a fix? Or how can I investigate the "log" or something else to pinpoint out the problem? I am afraid that even I hard reset my phone the same issue will exist!
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Some "update":
I have tried to clear all cache / data in the application setting for "contacts" and "contacts location" and this can't help the situation...
HKcow said:
Some "update":
I have tried to clear all cache / data in the application setting for "contacts" and "contacts location" and this can't help the situation...
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Please give a hand.. anyone meet this issue?
Same thing with me.. The funny thing is, I can no longer add some of my facebook friends, they are no longer listed on the "Get Friends" menu. The phone thinks that they've already been added.
This happens when facebook sync have errors...
I still can't find a way to get back my missing Facebook friends...
DaRkMyk said:
Same thing with me.. The funny thing is, I can no longer add some of my facebook friends, they are no longer listed on the "Get Friends" menu. The phone thinks that they've already been added.
This happens when facebook sync have errors...
I still can't find a way to get back my missing Facebook friends...
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I have searched all over the web and seems only you and me have reported this error.
Can we confirm that this issue is caused by "i9000 database has the corrupted friend" rather than "i9000 not able to interpret the facebook list"? To eliminate the issue, I have tried to clear the SNS / Contact / Contact Location cache / data but they still can't help. If this is the case, resetting the phone (but this is my last step) should help.
Could someone specialized in the i9000 data structure to suggest a way to fully clean up the contact database? Maybe this can cater the case if the db is corrupted by sync error!
Thanks!
I have a new friend in facebook today and as expected, the new friend not appear in the list after data-sync, no matter I want to add it later or add it during sync...
Furthermore, com.sec.android.app.sns/snsDB.db contains only the 16 friends in the database, which I suspect the server did not return the remaining contacts?
HKcow said:
I have a new friend in facebook today and as expected, the new friend not appear in the list after data-sync, no matter I want to add it later or add it during sync...
Furthermore, com.sec.android.app.sns/snsDB.db contains only the 16 friends in the database, which I suspect the server did not return the remaining contacts?
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I have just tried a hard reset and the problem still cannot be solved... I think I need to call samsung support... This seems to be something wrong in the samsung sync server...
Same here, many contacts that sync from facebook are missing.
I don't use fb, so I don't think I can help, but I just wonder if something dumb in the software is going on. So, if you have 16 friends or however many syncing, these friends don't happen to show up elsewhere in your phone or in the cloud. Right? Maybe it has something to do with trying to match up with names you have in your phone book that have a phone number?
Again, just throwing an idea out there, but similar to how you can import all your google contacts or just the ones with a number.
Your friend counts seem awfully low, so if I'm wrong, try to think if there is anything common link between these friends that do get synced. Perhaps they have something in common that can help the sync...
alovell83 said:
I don't use fb, so I don't think I can help, but I just wonder if something dumb in the software is going on. So, if you have 16 friends or however many syncing, these friends don't happen to show up elsewhere in your phone or in the cloud. Right? Maybe it has something to do with trying to match up with names you have in your phone book that have a phone number?
Again, just throwing an idea out there, but similar to how you can import all your google contacts or just the ones with a number.
Your friend counts seem awfully low, so if I'm wrong, try to think if there is anything common link between these friends that do get synced. Perhaps they have something in common that can help the sync...
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Thank you very much for your suggestion... to answer your suggestion:
- I did nto click "show contacts with phone number only"
- I tried to dump the database from SNS, inside the database only the 16 friends exist, other 4xx friends no appeared in the database
- I have phoned samsung and they just request me to send them the phone. Their reply is quite inprofessional as they said if other facebook account is ok, that should be your account issue and saume generally can't help with facebook issue. But I am sure the phone is syncing with a samsung proxy instead of syncing to facebook directly.
I tried many things but nothing can fix this issue.
Ditto, I've tried many different things. Hard reset a few times as well and nothing. Reseated battery and put in a new sim. Perhaps maybe the order of things done is what works. I even tried to sync it before I created my google account. Anybody who has gotten this to work and remember what some of the first steps they did when they got their phone, input would be helpful to try and repeat your process.
if anyone can fix it please let me know how.
What firmware are you'll on? I had this problem with JG1. Flashed to JG5 and the problem's gone. But now my twitter contacts don't update. just two of them appear on my phone
I'm guessing there's a problem with the sync in our phones. I'm just learning to live with it
I have got a solution for this.
The problem is originated from the export error of facebook contact. Here is how I treat the problem:
1. Export your facebook contact using the facebook apps "Export Friends To CSV" (Google it and find the link, I cannot post the link)
2. After you have got the CSV, open it using Excel and check whether there are rows containing more than one contact. Apparently, there is error in the first friend contact info of these rows.
3. Remove those friends from your facebook contact (or ask your friends to fix their info).
4. Resync your Android contact with facebook.
This works for me. Hope this help.
Cheers.
jordenyt said:
I have got a solution for this.
The problem is originated from the export error of facebook contact. Here is how I treat the problem:
1. Export your facebook contact using the facebook apps "Export Friends To CSV" (Google it and find the link, I cannot post the link)
2. After you have got the CSV, open it using Excel and check whether there are rows containing more than one contact. Apparently, there is error in the first friend contact info of these rows.
3. Remove those friends from your facebook contact (or ask your friends to fix their info).
4. Resync your Android contact with facebook.
This works for me. Hope this help.
Cheers.
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I can't find the row that contains more than one contact
edit: oh now i found, the problem is from the last contact that shown in my phone sort by UID from facebook.

Creating Contact in x10 does not synch with gmail?

Dear all,
Did a search and could not find anything that related to my specific problem. So apologies if I did not look hard enough.. BUT...
I finally cleaned up all my contacts on google and synched my phone with googlesynch rather than sony synch. Great all fine, except.. if I create a contact in my x10, so someone calls me, I add their number as a new contact. When I next synch the contacts, the new contact has been deleted!
I can not for the life of me find any setting on the x10 which chooses how it synchs and why it keeps deleting the contacts!?
Any help advice would be appreciated...
What happens if u go to settings, data synchronization, google sync, n check the auto sync option n then add the new contact?
perhaps mayb try mess with the option at the bottom, group synchronization?
hope its of any use!!
Sent from my rooted x10i using swype via xda!!
Tried autosynch, and manual synch, and unselected all the group options. Stilll no joy. I presume this works fine for everyone else?
pratishk said:
I presume this works fine for everyone else?
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Yep, works fine for me.
i had this prob...
since then stopped using sync services..
whenever u need a backup of ur contacts, jus go to contacts tab and select backup to mem card.
a .vcf file is created in the storage card\system\pim folder which has all ur contacts..
pratishk said:
Tried autosynch, and manual synch, and unselected all the group options. Stilll no joy. I presume this works fine for everyone else?
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Don't have my X10 with me at the moment but isn't there an option on which direction to sync? Directly on the X10 or on Gmail website settings?
Unless I'm thinking of Windows Mobile Device Center
Izzy_Deadyet said:
Don't have my X10 with me at the moment but isn't there an option on which direction to sync?
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I can't see that option on my Xperia, but not checked gmail settings as it either updates my phone if I create a contact in gmail or in gmail if created on my phone.
Hi all,
Could not find any settings to decide which way to synch. Hard Reset the phone and all works fine now! Thanks for all the suggestions though.
I had a slight suspicion it might have been to do with the googlemail.co.uk changing to gmail.com? But then why would the original synch work with the other contacts? maybe it would not allow googlemail account to add into gmail account?
Anyhow, after a full reset (and registering gmail on the phone) it seems to be fine now, touch wood(!)
Thanks again

[Q] Windows Phone 7 Google Contacts Problem

When I import my google contacts to wp7, all contacts appear but I notice that some of them have numbers and some don't. What's wrong?
Your OS is wrong.
peacekeeper05 said:
Your OS is wrong.
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i'm asuming u r editing contacts in google. my experience is that, u just need to give it some time (in most of the cases it shows up immediately though).
but if u r importing contacts (syncing for the first time), it should show all contacts with number. i'm just sharing my experience.
HD2-WP7 said:
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i'm asuming u r editing contacts in google. my experience is that, u just need to give it some time (in most of the cases it shows up immediately though).
but if u r importing contacts (syncing for the first time), it should show all contacts with number. i'm just sharing my experience.
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actually, I think I've solved it. I noticed that when I looked at the one's with the numbers, they were under the category "mobile" in google contacts while those that didn't where "main". I'm changing everything now to mobile then I'll just factory reset everything then import the contacts again. Hope that works..
did your google contacts sync for you if not ill tell you what to do next
mikeyb1216 said:
did your google contacts sync for you if not ill tell you what to do next
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I'm having the same problem could you tell me please as all my contacts are there but with no numbers apart from facebook contacts!! Any advice would be good.
Thanks.
My girlfriends phone has an problem with google right now. Last night I got her HD2 working on mango. She imported her contacts from google just fine.
The phone froze I did a hard reset and it was working with in 20mins. Now google won't sync contacts from google. It will do email but not contacts.
Even if she logs into live and tries to import from her Gmail account it won't import the contacts.
Been like this for 12 hours now.
ERROR CODE: 80070057
Google contacts sync problem - SOLVED
Guys, I've just picked up a Nokia Lumia recently and was having problems synching my google contacts phone numbers. I noticed because some mobile numbers were there from my outlook account but the google ones were not.
I remember the opposite of this happening with my Android phone as I wanted to stop all new contacts I added showing up so moved them all out of the "my contacts" group in google.
If you have done this, then select all the contacts you want to see in WP7 and add them to the "my contacts" group in google then re-sync the account on your phone and it will then work perfectly. At least it did for me.
Enjoy
yuhenyo said:
actually, I think I've solved it. I noticed that when I looked at the one's with the numbers, they were under the category "mobile" in google contacts while those that didn't where "main". I'm changing everything now to mobile then I'll just factory reset everything then import the contacts again. Hope that works..
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same problem here bro, i am checking all my 500+ contacts right now, and its frustrating

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