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Sync with google account

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but it's not a dev or an app thing.
So...
I use google account to sync with Contacts, Calendar. Everything working fine. Spent a few minutes to transfer my contacts from my X1 to Gmail and then sync them to my Magic. When I add a new calendar event or a new contact through web to my Google Account it get nothing but a few seconds to come up to my Magic.
When I add a calendar event using my phone, same thing. From phone to Google Calendar in seconds. Well, that doesn't happen with contacts tho.
I've tried it a few times, leaving a fulll 24 hour period to see if my contact gets from phone to google contacts. Of course, I store a contact as "google" type.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
PS : I use CM with bcrook's kernel patch for 32A devices. I'm not sure if that helps somehow but I just want to be sure.

Same here. changes to my contact list on my phone aren't getting back to my contact list in gmail.

Hi, they are but you have to go into contacts in your gmail account and they should be in All Contacts not the tab which says "All Contacts"

your_helpfull_hand said:
Hi, they are but you have to go into contacts in your gmail account and they should be in All Contacts not the tab which says "All Contacts"
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nope. they're not there either

Sync Googlemail Contacts - Autosave of Google Contacts

Hi,
i use goglemail and own a Tattoo. When i sync my Tattoo with the Google contacts, there will be also all "mail only" contacts synced. So i have all the mail adresses under the contacts section on my Tattoo - not really clear. Is there the possibility to deactivate the auto-sync function in Googlemail or apply a filter on the contacts on the Tattoo?
It is not fine to see every Ebay or Company upport contact on the Tattoo.
I support all my contacts in Outlook - but one place to support is more than comfortable.
The Milestone ought to have a function to show only the Google contacts that where created by the user - is there something like that for the Tattoo? How does you manage the contacts?
kind regards
srkonus

I have the same problem as you my friend :-/ but no solution yet.
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My solution:
if i think i wiil need the email address in the future, i save the contact by the name, like everyone else. if i think i will never use the email address again, i delete it. I don't want kaos in my PC google contacts just as i don't want kaos in my phone. I save all my important emails (money transactions info and similar), so i can still find the email addresses in the archives should there be need for that.
I see how that could not be the perfect solution for everyone, but I assure you, it is working very well.

Mmhh,
not the badest option. At this time i save the contacts in outlook and deleted the unused contacts in google. But now i missed importend mail adresses - this will be filled up in the near future.
I hope that the adresses will not trash my phone contacts.

[Q] Contacts annoyances (with GMail)

Hi,
I'm a bit annoyed by the way the Galaxy S works with Contacts:
All contacts are synced to Gmail instead of My Contacts
Gmail Groups are not synced, all Gmail contacts are in one group
No easy way to convert phone contacts to Google contacts or to merge contacts into a google contact
Essentially, I want to use GMail exclusively to manage contacts and have all of them synced between GMail and the phone.
I would appreciate any suggestions on how to achieve this, or maybe there is a better Contacts app out there?

This is not SGS issue, but the Android platform has been designed in the way that it's cloud computing centralised, in this case, Android phone is just the "client", you still need to maintain your contact in Gmail (web).
I tried delete a GMail contact in the phone, but that action will not delete the Gmail contact in Gmail server, sadly.

I've searched for solutions and found that the first two issues are solved on some phones, but that the Samsung Galaxy does not have the option to change the sync behaviour.
I want to maintain my contacts in GMail, but the problem is that the phone does not respect the GMail groups and it syncs "All contact", which means everyone I ever sent a mail. It should sync "My contacts", which only contains Contacts I created in GMail.
I hoped that there is maybe an alternative contacts app that does what I want.

_Fabian_ said:
I want to maintain my contacts in GMail, but the problem is that the phone does not respect the GMail groups and it syncs "All contact", which means everyone I ever sent a mail. It should sync "My contacts", which only contains Contacts I created in GMail.
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I was also annoyed by that fact. But fortunately you can select to display only contacts with phone numbers associated in the contacts
application.
Just hit menu button while showing the list of contacts -> Display options -> only contacts with phones.
This at least solved my major issue with the google synching. Nice: typeahead in the gmail app still works for all people you ever sent a mail.
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Try this , it did the trick for me

_Fabian_ said:
I hoped that there is maybe an alternative contacts app that does what I want.
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I have tried Contacts Evolved in the Market. It is a littly buggy, not even sure if it is actively supported. But it does display Gmail contact groups, segregated in tabs.
The actual syncing is still being done by the brain dead Samsung Contacts app, which cannot be uninstalled. It apparently does download the groups data element from Gmail contacts, but fails to do anything with it.

When I tried jp3 2.2 firmware the google groups showed, looks like it will be fixed in the 2.2 update.

Thanks for the answers. Displaying only contacts with phone numbers helps, and if the group thing is fixed in Froyo, thats alright for me.
Now I only need to convert my phone contacts to Google contacts, there should be an easy options like Phone to SIM and vice versa, but I could not find it. Looks like I may have to do it by hand.

This is like the only bad thing for me. Do more people confirm that it is fixed in Froyo?

[Q] Upload contacts to Gmail contacts

Hello,
I would like to upload ( & eventually sync. ) the contacts to GMail contacts.
I´m afraid to add GMail to automatic synchro, cause as far as I understand, it will double my contacts ?!
What do you think ?
Cheers

Ok after uploading do this:
Go to gmail and view your contacts. pres the "more actions" button above your contacts and choose "find & merge duplicates" this will merge the duplicates. i think this is what you mean.

Well, not completely. ( but your tip is interesting )
Main question is, how to upload to GMail ?

Where are they now? on the phone? on the SIM card? exported on a CSV file?

commodoor said:
Ok after uploading do this:
Go to gmail and view your contacts. pres the "more actions" button above your contacts and choose "find & merge duplicates" this will merge the duplicates. i think this is what you mean.
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Thanks for your response. I have the similar question. So can you please explain it clearly to us:
* the contact sync will simply add the contact of my phone to Gmail contact list? or the 2 contact lists will emerge, then we can get a complete contact list on the phone and gmail?
* if I have the duplicated contacts on my phone, how to merge them?
Thanks.

im_iceman said:
Where are they now? on the phone? on the SIM card? exported on a CSV file?
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Kind of have the same question. My contacts are now on the phone and the SIM card. After using "sync now" in the settings, I got my gmail contacts onto my phone, but not the phone contacts into gmail.
Is there some trick to do this?

I finally updated GMail using a .csv backup made by "Backup Contacts" found on market.
But I still wonder how to also synch. them ?

Hi,
What I did in your case, was:
First to backup all my phone contacts to outlook in my computer.
There I exported the contacts to a .csv file (like ChefChaudart said). With that file I imported the contacts to my gmail account. Meaning I have all my contacts (the ones I had in the phone and the ones I already had in gmail) all together in the email account.
Last I deleted the contacts in my phone, and syncronised with my gmail account. Now having all the contacts both in the phone and in gmail account.
It's not a fast way to do it, but I didn't found another way.
Cheers

You mean that if you do not delete the contacts on your phone at last step, everything will be duplicated ?

Yes - Once you have all your contacts on Gmail you don't need them on your phone.. it will sync to your phone from Gmail..
in the phone go to accounts and sync tick background data, and auto sync... job done.

Hi,
Yes, is as im_iceman says.
And maybe some of your contacts could merge. Meaning that if you had two contacts with the same name, one in the phone and the other in the email account, they could merge under the same name.
As im_iceman says, one you have them in your gmail account you don't need them on the phone, just sync and you'll have them all back in the phone, well organized, not duplicated nor merged.
Cheers

Bad, I would like to synchronize between all !
That means ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List <==> Google Contacts
But if I understand you clearly ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List 1
-----------------------Phone Contact List 2 <==> Google Contacts
Correct ?

Narud12 said:
Hi,
Yes, is as im_iceman says.
And maybe some of your contacts could merge. Meaning that if you had two contacts with the same name, one in the phone and the other in the email account, they could merge under the same name.
As im_iceman says, one you have them in your gmail account you don't need them on the phone, just sync and you'll have them all back in the phone, well organized, not duplicated nor merged.
Cheers
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So I have to clear the contact list in my phone before sync with gmail?

ChefChaudart said:
Bad, I would like to synchronize between all !
That means ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List <==> Google Contacts
But if I understand you clearly ;
Thunderbird <==> Phone Contact List 1
-----------------------Phone Contact List 2 <==> Google Contacts
Correct ?
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What I would do, and I actually did:
All contacts in Phone list ====> to Outlook (in your case Thunderbird) =====> now to gmail account *====> and now synchronize from gmail to the phone.
* When I had all contacts gathered in one place (gmail account) I deleted them from the phone.
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So I have to clear the contact list in my phone before sync with gmail?
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Once you make sure you have all of your contacts in gmail, I would recomend you to delete them from the phone so after you synchronize with gmail you won't get your contacts duplicated, meaning that in your phone you would have every contact two times.
For obvious reasons, just in case both my phone AND gmail account fail at the same time or any other problem, I keep a backup of all my contacts in outlook.
Cheers

How to import facebook contacts to gmail ??
I m interested in birthdays... On my widget only birthdays from gmail account is shown so is there a way to import birthdays from facebook along with the contacts ???

doesn't work.. will be incorporated into the next update later this month..
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doesn't work.. will be incorporated into the next update later this month..
Sent from The Arc!
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Thanks... Will wait...!!!

Actually I wasn't quite right... you can sync contacts.. you just can't sync their birthday info and such like..

I'm not familiar with Thunderbird but.. can't you use Google as your primary source.. which syncs to your phone.. and the sync Thunderbird with either the live google account, or with the phone? Then you'll have everything you need..

LG Contacts has "contacts" sync'd that aren't even contacts, just email addresses!?

LG Contacts has "contacts" sync'd that aren't even contacts, just email addresses!?
I have a nice list of contacts in Gmail but when I setup my LG and it syncs contacts..WOW I have a million stupid contacts that are nothing but an email address. Many of whom are generic or spam accounts that emailed me. How do I get it to JUST sync my contacts list??

OK, figured this out. Gmail apparently remembers email addresses from everyone. Thats fine but it also creates a contact for them! You have to go to your contacts and select "Other Contacts" (mine had like 300 in there). Open it up, select All and delete. Done.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/bDUPDHpx4so

OK, figured this out. Gmail apparently remembers email addresses from everyone. Thats fine but it also creates a contact for them! You have to go to your contacts and select "Other Contacts" (mine had like 300 in there). Open it up, select All and delete. Done.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/bDUPDHpx4so

svinyard said:
I have a nice list of contacts in Gmail but when I setup my LG and it syncs contacts..WOW I have a million stupid contacts that are nothing but an email address. Many of whom are generic or spam accounts that emailed me. How do I get it to JUST sync my contacts list??
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so ? main thing u can make calls to those contacts they are stored on google..
once u had numbers in phone google synced them then u been messing with phone erasing by that time they been stored on google and once u login to your google at the start phone after erasing all everything will be just synced with phone
if u want them in phone u have to add manually one by one