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I'm a bit dim, it seems - sorry to ask, but I have set up my Outlook to sync with my Gmail account and although it shows on the Gmail page on my laptop browser, ever though I select that calendar on the phone, nothing happens.
I am obviously doing something slightly silly, but I assumed the problems would be in OTA syncing of contacts (Outlook --> Gmail account --> Hero) and I haven't even attempted that yet!
Many thanks for your help, in advance.
Hi Bigbamboo5
I am trying out an application / service called GooSync that allows you to have over the air synchronisation of calendar and contacts with your WM device.
I am unsure if there is a "free way" that you can carry out an over the air sync with google to WM devices (without restrictions) but if there is then I would be interested in finding out.
Best wishes
Kaid
Interesting, although their website doesn't show the Hero as being supported. Can you let us know what you think, if you get it working?
Ta.
Nuevasync
Hi,
You might wanna look into nuevasync.com, it's a free service which I used on my ipod touch before I got my.
Now since I have everything centralized in my google calendar I don't have the need for the service anymore.
Nuevasync was always stable for me and is easy to set up.
Good luck
garnmeister said:
Hi,
You might wanna look into nuevasync.com, it's a free service which I used on my ipod touch before I got my.
Now since I have everything centralized in my google calendar I don't have the need for the service anymore.
Nuevasync was always stable for me and is easy to set up.
Good luck
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Well, I also have everything centralised in my Google calendar but I can't seem to get that to sync with my Hero. I should be able to, right? Thank you for your suggestion, by the way...
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Well, I also have everything centralised in my Google calendar but I can't seem to get that to sync with my Hero. I should be able to, right? Thank you for your suggestion, by the way...
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Yes you should. Mine does - no problem. You should not need to use 3rd party software.
TheBrit said:
Yes you should. Mine does - no problem. You should not need to use 3rd party software.
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Can you please assume that I am an idiot and explain how you set it up? Many thanks...
bigbamboo5 said:
Can you please assume that I am an idiot and explain how you set it up? Many thanks...
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There wasn't really any setup apart from switching the phone on for the first time and giving it my gmail login details. That's all there was to it.
My Hero calendar haven't managed to sync since the 20th august, both mail and contacts have been syncing perfect all alone.....
You can try clearing the data for the calendar on your phone. Go to Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Calendar Storage -> Clear Data. You will obviously lose data but when you open Calendar again, it will re-sync to your Google Calendar. This seems to be the only way to get everything back in order, particularly if you have retroactively added things to your calendar (like anniversaries that originated before the current date that you have just added), or your Google Calendar wasn't active before you set up your phone. It means for the time being, the safest thing is to store all events in your Google Calendar and not in the local "My Calendar" until someone builds a better syncing mechanism with the current application.
B1ny said:
My Hero calendar haven't managed to sync since the 20th august, both mail and contacts have been syncing perfect all alone.....
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is syncing to your calendar in your syncing options activated? to me this looks like the calender option isn't checked.
i had the strage occurance once, that somehow syncing my contacts was deactivated automatically. i just activated it again and it worked.
That seemed to kick everything back into action again. Thanks
BlueHawk said:
You can try clearing the data for the calendar on your phone. Go to Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Calendar Storage -> Clear Data. You will obviously lose data but when you open Calendar again, it will re-sync to your Google Calendar. This seems to be the only way to get everything back in order, particularly if you have retroactively added things to your calendar (like anniversaries that originated before the current date that you have just added), or your Google Calendar wasn't active before you set up your phone. It means for the time being, the safest thing is to store all events in your Google Calendar and not in the local "My Calendar" until someone builds a better syncing mechanism with the current application.
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Ok upgraded to 2.1 and then once finished i sync'ed the phone with my outlook for my contacts. Then i signed into my gmail account when i was going to the android market .
So make a long story short in the contacts it shows the names but when i do a SMS and on TO i type the name and then it shows up the person twice instead of once. So i guess it put double but in contacts it only shows once.
Is there anything i can download to only have 1 contact ( only in the sms or when i edit contacts it shows twice ) or would i have to erase it and then sign into gmail to get the contacts back.
when i go to delete this acount ( gmail ) it give will erase all contacts and etc.
FIXED THE ISSUE, in case others need it.
So you want to remove all the "Phone" entries?
If you do, click the following -
People > Menu > View > Make sure just "Phone" is checked > Press OK > Menu > Delete contacts > Menu > Select All > Done
Then press Menu > View > Select Google and you'll have removed the Outlook details, retaining and using just the Google one.
Then it removed all contacts on the phone so i went into
Setting> Accounts & Sync>Google and clicked Sync Contacts
Sulten said:
FIXED THE ISSUE, in case others need it.
So you want to remove all the "Phone" entries?
If you do, click the following -
People > Menu > View > Make sure just "Phone" is checked > Press OK > Menu > Delete contacts > Menu > Select All > Done
Then press Menu > View > Select Google and you'll have removed the Outlook details, retaining and using just the Google one.
Then it removed all contacts on the phone so i went into
Setting> Accounts & Sync>Google and clicked Sync Contacts
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brand new newb here - what exactly is the difference between phone contacts and google contacts? Do they relate at all?
Thanks,
Phone contacts are only stored on the phone, so if you wipe or it gets stolen, they're gone. Google contacts are backed up and restored when you sign back into your new phone/Rom
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Google means that it is backed up with your gmail account. Phone means it is not.
abcdfv said:
Phone contacts are only stored on the phone, so if you wipe or it gets stolen, they're gone. Google contacts are backed up and restored when you sign back into your new phone/Rom
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thanks! So I sync all my contacts between my computer and gmail contacts, then as I understand it, gmail contacts automatically syncs with my Hero - so I wonder if I really need the phone contacts. I've never entered any new contacts into the phone but there appears to be 5-6 phone contacts anyway.
Given my setup, would I be correct in simply deleting my phone contacts and then unchecking Phone in the view from People settings?
2nd question - how can I just see what those 5-6 phone contacts are?
thanks again
Jack
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Google means that it is backed up with your gmail account. Phone means it is not.
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thanks - next question is way off subject here (I apoligize) but I couldn't find anything helpful when I searched - probably because it's a simple question:
I've downloaded to my computer a .apk program. What steps are there to install this program on my Hero?
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thanks - next question is way off subject here (I apoligize) but I couldn't find anything helpful when I searched - probably because it's a simple question:
I've downloaded to my computer a .apk program. What steps are there to install this program on my Hero?
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Use the HTC Sync program that comes with your phone to push the .apk file. It's very easy to do.
KitsapAndroid said:
Use the HTC Sync program that comes with your phone to push the .apk file. It's very easy to do.
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thanks - works great!
Any thoughts? First time using the device, facebook synced just fine. Since then Ive done a software wipe and now I cant get FB to sync my contacts anymore. It just keeps saying "Sync isnt available at this time"
The_Chrome_Coyote said:
Any thoughts? First time using the device, facebook synced just fine. Since then Ive done a software wipe and now I cant get FB to sync my contacts anymore. It just keeps saying "Sync isnt available at this time"
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I am having the same issue. It syncs the calendar fine, but not the contacts. I would like to have the Facebook profile pics sync to my contacts just like on my HD2. I had the issue before and after root so I know it isn't that.
just something simple to throw out there did yall enable it to show fb contacts? go to contacts menu then display options and see if fb contacts is checked off
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just something simple to throw out there did yall enable it to show fb contacts? go to contacts menu then display options and see if fb contacts is checked off
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Yes I did enable it to show Facebook contacts. Thanks.
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Yes I did enable it to show Facebook contacts. Thanks.
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still doesnt work?
Day two, still wont sync. I have facebook enabled in contacts, it just shows a group with 0 people in it. It syncs my calendar just fine, but wont sync contacts for some reason.
The strangest part is that it used to, but after I reformatted it wouldnt.
Ive tried; Deleting and re-adding FB account at least a dozen times, and Menu -> sync/cancel/sync/cancel brute force approach that worked with other phones.
my facebook widget stopped auto updating even though its set for like every 2 hours the last posts i see are from this morning.
in fact if i click the manual green sync arrows it attempts to sync but nothing happens.
i already have done a battery pull today.
My facebook and twitter contacts both won't sync. And I have two sets of twitter contacts, one from the widget and one from the twitter app.
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My facebook and twitter contacts both won't sync. And I have two sets of twitter contacts, one from the widget and one from the twitter app.
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Got that too, but mine sync at least... sort of. I had to manually link contacts that were first linked automatically when I first set up my phone.
Same problem wont sync. Checked of and everything
I'm having the same issue, i'm curious all of you who are having problems did you experience them after the root?
My contacts synced fine when I first got the phone but have since stopped syncing (if I check under accounts and sync in setting I see an error) This issue existed for me both before and after root.
Synced fine before I rooted but tbh the phone was unrooted for about 10 minutes after initial setup. The second I got home I rooted and wiped.
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guys. read the message on your phone. it says "sync is down right now temporarily" when you try to sync and look at specific status. I'm guessing this is more a samsung or android thing than "your specific phone".
Right beneath manage accounts it says "sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly". Notice the sync icon with the red exclamation mark next to it
I have not rooted yet, and I'm still having sync issues.
I really think they rushed getting the phone out to compete with the droid x, moving the release date up a week. Hopefully this issue, the gps/compass, and 3g get addressed in a OTA update soon. I saw the droid x was already scheduled to have one.
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I had the same problem. It just starting working now. I did not do anything. they must have fixxed something.
Having this issue as well. The weird thing is that when i add Facebook to the accounts list in settings, it updates the feeds widget with facebook statuses, and they are also listed in the contacts app, that last menu that gives you the various social feeds. However it cannot sync the actual contacts, must have tried 15 times today.
I was reading on another forum that someone found a solution that seemed to be working for people, but only if you were able to get it synced before and in some way either removed the account or the contacts and cannot resync. This didn't work for me as I didn't fall under that category, but I hope this can help someone.
1. Turn on background sync in settings.
2. Go into the main contacts window, and instead of hitting accounts to check the sync or whatever, hit menu at the main screen and choose "Find Friends"
3. Tap on Facebook. If you were able to sync before, it should work. If you are like me and was never able to sync, the box will be greyed out.
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1. Turn on background sync in settings.
2. Go into the main contacts window, and instead of hitting accounts to check the sync or whatever, hit menu at the main screen and choose "Find Friends"
3. Tap on Facebook. If you were able to sync before, it should work. If you are like me and was never able to sync, the box will be greyed out.
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This worked wonders...Thanks!
I'm having a similar issue with my twitter contacts. I can manually add a few via the method offered above, but the account doesn't seem to find some of them (including my girlfriend's, which is particularly frustrating).
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I had same issue with contacts sync with facebook images. But i found a work around. When you add facebook accounts and sync. Enable fackbook contacts and facebook contact images. Now it will dump all your facebook contacts to your phone, but it will categorize it. once you do that, it will link your say "gmail contact" and "facebook" contacts together, On the contacts that you have different nicknames, you can click on the contact and select linked contact, select facebook and choose your friends contact info and now my images matches. Looks better now. Hope i only have to do this once.
Good Luck and this is my first post.
Cell Phone (2 years) to Blackberry (9 years) to iPhone (2 Years) to G1 Android (2 months) to iPhone (1 year) to SAMSUNG VIBRANT (love this phone)
Hey all I'm new here...
Just wanted to point out some woes with the new OTA 2.3.4 update with the contacts. Although it seems the views have a few more options the bad part is they took away the option to flip the screen left or right to see social or history... that sucks but the worst part is... it seems that you can't link with social accounts anymore either!!!
Any insight on this... am I doing something wrong?
Use GO Contacts, it's just plain better.
your probably right... though 2.2.2 was fairly decent.
Just wanted to add... as I'm going through account and contact stuff, the ability to sync facebook or twitter pics with contacts is gone as well I know there are other ways (manually) but this was a nice feature... why would the take it out? What reason do we have now to add any of the social/pic stuff with motoblur? Again, Myspace, facebook, LastFm, twitter, Picasa, Photobucket, flicker, Linkedin... its all broken now, none of them sync with contacts now. (or is it fixed... was there issues with this before, did folks not like it?)
Note: If you long press any of these accounts in settings it states.... "To Fully integrate "account" into your mobile experience, click Add Account." What experience are they refering to? All I can see is that your widgets (which suck) will populate their feeds....
Update... I did find some settings for anyone looking.... if you edit a contact and press menu the option to join pops up.... so maybe its not a total loss also not as I used an app to sync FB pics to existing contacts (synced to google) not sure if you "join" if the pic syncs as well....
If they took out linking contacts period, IMO that would be a HUGE step forward.
My contacts got severely f*cked up because of that, and I'm still trying to fix that mess.
If I hadn't bought so many Apps under my current account, I just would have just created a new Google account already...
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If you unlink your accounts, the contacts should go back to the way they were. Linking doesn't actually modify any account info.
i can't seem to find where to set custom ringtones for contacts now
used to be on the edit screen but not now
viper98 said:
i can't seem to find where to set custom ringtones for contacts now
used to be on the edit screen but not now
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Go into your contact, then menu->Options
Altough it is still possible to link the contacts, I prefer the older Contacts.
It was easy to see where did each info came from (small "f" or "t" logo near the contact data).
Will try to get used to the new interface.
Anthony, I agree with you. The option to flip right and left was very useful and I used it all the time to keep track of my communication with a contact. I was hugely disappointed to see that missing. I do not understand why they would remove that. I also liked the contact photo syncing. It was nice that most of my contacts had photos added automatically.
Has anyone else had issues with webtop working after the update? Via HDMI or any of the docks...
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Go into your contact, then menu->Options
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nothin there any more
installed go contacts and it had it though so it's a non issue
I like new Contact App.
Just a small bug: birthday date is showed as an INTEGER (many times negative) and not more as a Date.
Example: "Birthday: -609994887"
I'm not sure if the wrong "import" of newer Contact App is about Facebook's birthday date or Google's Account, however something is wrong...
What the... they just took out the most usedlful feature in blur, contact history. Man thats so bad...
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So how do you link your contacts with facebook now? My facebook contacts don't even show up anymore. It was so easy on froyo...
devize said:
So how do you link your contacts with facebook now? My facebook contacts don't even show up anymore. It was so easy on froyo...
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Settings > Accounts > Motoblur Accounts/Facebook
Remove the facebook account. Reboot the phone.
Then Settings > Accounts > Add Account > Facebook
Reboot the phone.
Phone App > Display Options > Facebook
Make certain All contacts is checked.
Press Save.
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Settings > Accounts > Motoblur Accounts/Facebook
Remove the facebook account. Reboot the phone.
Then Settings > Accounts > Add Account > Facebook
Reboot the phone.
Phone App > Display Options > Facebook
Make certain All contacts is checked.
Press Save.
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Not working for me, when I click on the facebook icon in accounts under 'other accounts' nothing happens.
devize said:
Not working for me, when I click on the facebook icon in accounts under 'other accounts' nothing happens.
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Select the one under motoblur accounts not the one under other accounts (which makes me question the wisdom of Moto for having it listed twice on the same page).
DarrellRaines said:
Select the one under motoblur accounts not the one under other accounts (which makes me question the wisdom of Moto for having it listed twice on the same page).
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I tried that too but I had the same problem as before, no contacts showing up. Why must motorola make things so difficult?
Edit: Read on droid x forums that it can take a couple hours for them to show up, so I'll wait and see.
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I tried that too but I had the same problem as before, no contacts showing up. Why must motorola make things so difficult?
Edit: Read on droid x forums that it can take a couple hours for them to show up, so I'll wait and see.
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Be sure to be on a wifi network and ensure you can sync social apps. I would reboot the phone once all of that is checked and then see if it all comes down or not.
I am having an issue with my new LG Urbane. When I swipe over to contacts on the watch and select a contact with multiple phone numbers, the phone number type is wrong. On the phone a number is listed as Mobile but shows up as Work. Work shows up as home. Etc.
Has anyone else seen this? How do I fix this??
I also see missing photos.
What am I doing wrong?
I'm having only 20 of my 78 contacts on LG Urbane, strange.
Wow, I'm seeing the same thing, every number is labeled wrong! I only see 34 of my 560 contacts, but I do see photos for the ones I have set photos for. (I don't use Google+ or Facebook photos.) It looks like the ones I see are the ones in my call log that are in my contacts list. This is definitely a bug that needs to get zapped!
JimSmith94 said:
Wow, I'm seeing the same thing, every number is labeled wrong! I only see 34 of my 560 contacts, but I do see photos for the ones I have set photos for. (I don't use Google+ or Facebook photos.) It looks like the ones I see are the ones in my call log that are in my contacts list. This is definitely a bug that needs to get zapped!
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hey - i had some problems and did this
- make sure you have contacts backed-up to google
- settings -> accounts -> google -> touch your account to show all the sync settings
- unclick contacts
- settings -> apps -> all -> contacts : wipe cache and data and force stop the apps
- do the same as above with contacts storage
- settings -> accounts -> google -> touch your account to show all the sync settings
- click contacts
- wait until sync completes and it should work
this worked for me when I was getting no contacts available when using "ok google"
I hope it helps you too
caolfin said:
hey - i had some problems and did this
- make sure you have contacts backed-up to google
- settings -> accounts -> google -> touch your account to show all the sync settings
- unclick contacts
- settings -> apps -> all -> contacts : wipe cache and data and force stop the apps
- do the same as above with contacts storage
- settings -> accounts -> google -> touch your account to show all the sync settings
- click contacts
- wait until sync completes and it should work
this worked for me when I was getting no contacts available when using "ok google"
I hope it helps you too
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We're talking about contacts on the watch showing the wrong number, mobile for work, etc. I don't have any trouble with contacts and "OK Google" on the watch. Were you having the same problem and your method fixed it, or are you talking about no contacts available?
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We're talking about contacts on the watch showing the wrong number, mobile for work, etc. I don't have any trouble with contacts and "OK Google" on the watch. Were you having the same problem and your method fixed it, or are you talking about no contacts available?
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Hi Jim
you are right - my issue is different but if you assume the operations I went through is a clean resync of the contacts data it may help you to try it
Just wanted to suggest something that might help
Good luck and let me know if you try it and it works
I'm having the same issues with my LG G Watch.... not all my contacts are showing and the phone types are incorrect. Really annoying since i don't have my contacts numbers memorized.
I don't think your issue is specific to your device. I'm having the same experience with my Moto 360. All numbers are there, but whether it is work/mobile/home/etc is all out of whack.
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I don't think your issue is specific to your device. I'm having the same experience with my Moto 360. All numbers are there, but whether it is work/mobile/home/etc is all out of whack.
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I hope you're right, and if so, the rumored update for next month fixes it.
The problem i am having is that there are contacts on my watch's "frequently contacted" page that are no longer on my contact list in my phone or google contacts. I've done everything i can think of to get rid of them but nothing is working... thoughts?
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I am having an issue with my new LG Urbane. When I swipe over to contacts on the watch and select a contact with multiple phone numbers, the phone number type is wrong. On the phone a number is listed as Mobile but shows up as Work. Work shows up as home. Etc.
Has anyone else seen this? How do I fix this??
I also see missing photos.
What am I doing wrong?
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I don't know if this was ever fixed on the Urbane, but I switched to the Huawei Watch and of the ones I checked, they all show the correct type for each phone number.