What file holds all your contacts? Can it be deleted? Mine is corrupt.
i have a question about my contacts too. figured i'd ask here instead of starting a new thread. How do i delete or edit my Google contacts because every time i load a new android rom google adds 3 of the same contact so i have 156 contacts instead of just 52. I always edit it on my phone by maunally deleting all the extra contacts and everything is fine untill i load another rom.
log on to your google acount from the computer.
jaypeg123 said:
log on to your google acount from the computer.
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ok that worked it took some clicking arround but i figured it out thank you very much
So no way to delete the actual Phone Contact file? I've tried the apps from the Market Place, like Delete Contacts, but it still doesn't allow me to re-sync my Outlook contacts.
On Gmail & Google Voice, I can't get the "to" field to bring up contact suggestions when typing in a name. Google Voice matches contact names with the phone numbers...so it appears it has a contacts list...it just isn't using it for composing messages.
to get around the contact loading issue i set up the native email app with my gmail info and it ported over my contacts. So now when i use the gmail app it populates the "to" box
Interestingly enough, the contacts app on the kindle still uses the same storage as the standard google contacts app, so if you're rooted and copy googlecontactssyncadapter.apk over from another device, you'll actually see contacts show up in the sync settings, and then be able to pull down all of your google contacts and keep them in sync with the kindle.
EDIT: worth noting - if you've already setup the native email app and imported your google contacts that way, you'll want to clear the contacts storage before doing this, or it will sync as though all the contacts currently in the kindle are new contacts, and youll end up with doubles of everything in your google account.
Outstanding! That did the trick.
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Interestingly enough, the contacts app on the kindle still uses the same storage as the standard google contacts app, so if you're rooted and copy googlecontactssyncadapter.apk over from another device, you'll actually see contacts show up in the sync settings, and then be able to pull down all of your google contacts and keep them in sync with the kindle.
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got the sync to work via googlecontactssyncadapter, but it looks like it's syncing all contacts rather than just "My Contacts". any way to sync just certain groups or does that require replacing the amazon contacts app with googles.
I noticed that as well, haven't found a fix as of yet - ill let ya know if I come up with anything.
abremel what sync settings are you referring too. Would you please be more specific.
Thank you.
Glasairmell said:
abremel what sync settings are you referring too. Would you please be more specific.
Thank you.
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You have to install this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=19461785&postcount=2
Super that did the trick and it works perfectly. Thank you!
Thanks, abremel! Nice to have my Google contacts pictures showing up in Google Voice!
Not sure if this was necessary, but I'll add it so that someone else with a similar question knows what worked for me.
After rooting, I copied the googlecontactssyncadapter.apk file I got from my EVO 4G (via Dropbox) to the System/apps folder on my KF. Didn't "install" the .apk file. And, I changed the permissions to RW/R/R, as seems to be necessary in other Google apps installs on our KFs.
Will keep checking thread to see if you figure out how to only sync "My Contacts."
xdalaw said:
Thanks, abremel! Nice to have my Google contacts pictures showing up in Google Voice!
Not sure if this was necessary, but I'll add it so that someone else with a similar question knows what worked for me.
After rooting, I copied the googlecontactssyncadapter.apk file I got from my EVO 4G (via Dropbox) to the System/apps folder on my KF. Didn't "install" the .apk file. And, I changed the permissions to RW/R/R, as seems to be necessary in other Google apps installs on our KFs.
Will keep checking thread to see if you figure out how to only sync "My Contacts."
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i have the same issue. i cant install googlecontactssyncadapter.apk in /system/apps with rw/r/r
calendar works
what are we doing wrong
also kindle contacts not syncing
please help
I'm having a related hallenge.
Am rooted (JCase method) with GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk , GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk in system/app with matching permissions along with the framework file and market, even have the maps files so Market, Calendar, Books, Reader and even Currents and other location based apps work but I can't get contacts to show up in Sync settings. All I can manage is to import contacts by (re-)setting up my gmail account in the native email app, and it doesn't bring in the physical (I.e.home,office,etc) addresses.
abremel said:
Interestingly enough, the contacts app on the kindle still uses the same storage as the standard google contacts app, so if you're rooted and copy googlecontactssyncadapter.apk over from another device, you'll actually see contacts show up in the sync settings, and then be able to pull down all of your google contacts and keep them in sync with the kindle.
EDIT: worth noting - if you've already setup the native email app and imported your google contacts that way, you'll want to clear the contacts storage before doing this, or it will sync as though all the contacts currently in the kindle are new contacts, and youll end up with doubles of everything in your google account.
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Is there an easy way to clear out the contact storage?
abremel said:
Interestingly enough, the contacts app on the kindle still uses the same storage as the standard google contacts app, so if you're rooted and copy googlecontactssyncadapter.apk over from another device, you'll actually see contacts show up in the sync settings, and then be able to pull down all of your google contacts and keep them in sync with the kindle.
EDIT: worth noting - if you've already setup the native email app and imported your google contacts that way, you'll want to clear the contacts storage before doing this, or it will sync as though all the contacts currently in the kindle are new contacts, and youll end up with doubles of everything in your google account.
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What I did for the doubles: My contacts on the KF had all ready imported when I setup the mail app with my gmail account. When I moved the sync adapter and set the permissions I indeed got the duplicate contacts in both the KF and my GC. Through the web, you can access your GC and do a restore to an hour ago. This got rid of all the duplicates in Google Contacts, then when the KF synched.....Bob's your uncle the duplicates got removed from the Fire.
Hello, as everyone know it's not possible to have google contacts sync on Wp7-7,8. Does anyone know a way to avoid it? Who comes from Android has saved all his contacts on google account. Please..we need your help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39215749&postcount=7002
Helly guys, a friend of mine had the note 4. Aftwr some accident he wanted to backup the contacts to his gmail account. We navigated into phone contacts and tap move contacts to google..after the contacts moved (this what it said) we delete from the phone the gmail account..but then then contacts losr !! From phone, from phone gmail app, and from computer gmail site !! What happened ?? Can we restore the contacts ? I tried gmail restore method but didnt work !! Maybe contacts didnt move to gmail ? But thsn, why dissappeared from phone if not moved to gmail ? Someone help ? These contacts were very important for the guy's job !!
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Helly guys, a friend of mine had the note 4. Aftwr some accident he wanted to backup the contacts to his gmail account. We navigated into phone contacts and tap move contacts to google..after the contacts moved (this what it said) we delete from the phone the gmail account..but then then contacts losr !! From phone, from phone gmail app, and from computer gmail site !! What happened ?? Can we restore the contacts ? I tried gmail restore method but didnt work !! Maybe contacts didnt move to gmail ? But thsn, why dissappeared from phone if not moved to gmail ? Someone help ? These contacts were very important for the guy's job !!
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What you are saying is confusing to understand. Maybe you should try and do a better effort in explaining your problem ?
Sorry for that. He had some contacts on his phone and he wanted to format his phone. Phone contacts have an option "move device contacts to google" so we did that, supposed that they moved into his gmail account. After formatting phone contacts dissapeared not just from phone but also from his google gmail account on computer !! Can we recover them ?
Ok now I understand. I had the same issue on my fathers phone and I couldn't recover them. I think its a bug. After reflashing the phone we had to type each contact into phone on his Gmail account.
So unless they where stored on Gmail account to start with you are screwed as that stupid copy from phone memory to Gmail account bug hasn't been sorted out yet.
Bad news, ok mate thanks. If anyone else have some solution on this please help, all his work was on that phone contacts.
hi . i have a problem with google and i hope that you can help me,
when i ADD an gmail Account in my Galaxyphone, it ask me that what i want to sync? i UNCHECK anything . but after few hours i see my contacts synced :| not just google, ANY THING THAT I ADD TO THIS DAMN PLACE start syncing my contacts, even Samsung Account :|
so is there any way to Block Any network connection to my contact? or is there any way to stop apps specially google to dont sync my contacts ? i search XDA froums and any related thread said uncheck contacts in account setting, but i do that already , so what shoud i do ?