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(Q)Contacts Syncing Problem

Last night I updated my wife's Epic to DK28. The problem is her contacts are gone and syncing doesn't bring them back. Why wouldn't they have saved to her gmail am I overlooking something. I have flashed my phones a lot and never had this issue.
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check google/contacts online and see if her contacts are listed there. My wife had a similar problem and turns out when she added a contact she added them to her phone address book and not google.
http://www.google.com/contacts

They are not there is there a way to add them to Google after they are back in the phone?
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can you get them back on the phone? Are there a lot of them?

I had a similar problem on the syndicate rom a while ago. It would say it was syncing for a second then stop. I also noticed when i went to facebook.com and tried to install the app from there it thought my phone was something other than the epic. I resolved the issue by using a different ROM. I don't know if these things are related, but that might be a start...

Yeah luckily we found her old phone and transferred thru bluetooth but I am tryin to figure out how to get them to google in case this happens again. As far as the rom she was totally stock di18 not even rooted for 5 weeks and I updated her to unrooted dk28.
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rgregg504 said:
They are not there is there a way to add them to Google after they are back in the phone?
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You should be able to export them from contacts via the import/export menu option. This will create a file named something like 00001.vcf(vCard file) in sdcard/external_sd/. Then go to the google contacts and import it. Hope that helps!

Ok I will try that. Thanks alot guys.
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burneystarke said:
You should be able to export them from contacts via the import/export menu option. This will create a file named something like 00001.vcf(vCard file) in sdcard/external_sd/. Then go to the google contacts and import it. Hope that helps!
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that is what I did.
rgregg504 said:
Ok I will try that. Thanks alot guys.
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Just make sure when she adds any new contacts that she adds them to google.

Stupid question but she does have syncing turned on in her contacts right? After they're restored try to force sync, then check her google account from a desktop/laptop to see if it worked.
I've not had much luck with the import export v card feature. I recently had to delete all contacts on my phone, then go to my google account via desktop, export all contacts to google.csv, delete all contacts online, then reinstall online from the google.csv file in order to fix a syncing problem.
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I think google may be having an issue at the moment. My phone is saying that Sync is currently offline and will be back shortly.

Yeah her sync is on I just don't get what happened. I have reflashed my epic about 10 times without issue. And my moment ugh probably 75-100. Never lost contacts it has been automatic since I got my first android.
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rgregg504 said:
Yeah her sync is on I just don't get what happened. I have reflashed my epic about 10 times without issue. And my moment ugh probably 75-100. Never lost contacts it has been automatic since I got my first android.
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After my last rom flash I had a situation where any time I added a contact on the phone it got deleted after syncing. No idea why but a google search lead me to others that had the same issue.
I think this OS still has a lot to be ironed out. I wish they'd stop adding features and just make a decent contacts app. I can't for the life of me figure out why I have to select which of the same four phone numbers I want to dial when I try to call a contact that is synced to multiple accounts, for example.
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sometimes when i have synching issues, i fix it by going into 'manage applications' and clearing the data for that app. i've had to do that with gmail.... it erases and re-synchs the app, and afterwards it works like normal. of course, only do it if she does indeed have her contacts backed up on Google... otherwise they will be gone. not sure if this will fix hers, but just saying it did fix my synching issues a few times.

'Me' icon in Messaging

Maybe it's just my vanity but is there a way to add a picture to the 'Me' icon in the stock messaging app on CM7?
I've tried adding myself within my contacts (which uses my Google account photo) but nothing seems to sync up.
I can live without it but I'm just curious to see if there's a way to set it up :-D
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weird...i did the exact same thing and now i can see my icon. maybe you need to delete the icon on your gmail account and then sync?

Success!
I had to go into Settings > Call Settings > Additional Settings > My Phone Number
Once your number is added into here it does the rest (I'm not sure if you still need to put yourself within the contacts).
I can now breath a sigh of relief and bask in my own narcissism...

Haha glad you figured it out
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Facebook contact not showing

For some reason only one of my Facebook friends is not showing up in my contact list, i have, in settings, set it to show all Facebook contacts. It shows all except one. I go into my Facebook app and it shows him as a friend...i don't get it... I've cleared out my log in through accounts and then set it back up, waited for all the contacts to be linked up again, but he's still not there... really frustrating... any ideas?
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Same issue here. I've been searching for solution for months...without success

Go into the people app hit menu view. There you go !
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No.... that's not it at all.... I got all my facebook contacts showing... except the one..... I've even added new facebook friends and they show up, I've even unfriended him and then refriended him, and he still doesn't show up!
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cmckee.cna said:
No.... that's not it at all.... I got all my facebook contacts showing... except the one..... I've even added new facebook friends and they show up, I've even unfriended him and then refriended him, and he still doesn't show up!
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Yes! This is just the issue I've experienced too. One of my contacts doesn't show up no matter what I do. I've spent a lot of time playing with this. It's quite annoying. I think this is a problem on FB's side.

Well I don't know what exactly I did to fix it, but its working now... I went into my facebook albums to check out some pics and he was on the lost so I checked my contact list and he was linked again
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I think sometimes if the names don't match up perfectly it doesn't find it...I'm sure you verified this already though.

Facebook Sync/Contacts/Messaging
I am having a problem getting my contact picture to appear in messaging as well as caller ID.
I have synced my Facebook account with my contact list, joined all of the contacts, and have the Caller ID default set to the Facebook picture.
However, all of the pictures in my messaging and when someone calls me comes up as the blank default picture as if they do not have one set.
The pictures appear in the contact list fine, and are all marked as default for caller ID. How can I get their pictures to appear in my messaging and my caller ID?

Everyone here needs to say what ROM they are using. HTC Sense does things different then cm7. sense 3.0 may do thing different then 2.1 or 1.0. Also are you using the "Sync" in the facebook application or are you using the accounts sync in htc sense?
I dont think anyone here has enough information to answer your questions at this point.
One thing you may want to do is add that one contact as a contact in gmail (if that is what you sync contact with) and see if that contact gets linked with the facebook person.
Hope that helps, and good luck
SoBBie

i am having the same problem with only one fb contact not showing in my android samsung epic touch galaxy 2 stock OS not showing. THE NAME MATCHES PERFECTLEY.(even when names dont match perfectly... there is one contact for the fb name and one phone contact spelled differently and not linked.) i have done everything you have tried also with no results... im pissed. ive unfriended him and refriended him twice. PLEASE HELP

[Q] SMS Contact

A lot of times my contact changes from a name to their number instead. idk why this happens :/ can someone show me how to reverse it?
ie:i type in my friends name in the smart finer or w/e. John Smith, but when i click enter instead of John Smith it says 999-999-9999. And now its staying like that!

You have tried rebooting your phone, right?
Is this how John Smith is displayed in "people" app in the drawer as well as in the dialer and your messaging app? What if anything other than stock are you using?
Are your contacts synced through a gmail account, facebook, etc? Or are they stored strictly on your phone?

Not exactly sure what the problem you're having but perhaps your settings might do this. Is your view "Only with phone number" checked when you go into view in the peoples app?

I did restart my phone but it didn't stop. It went away 3 hours ago then came back. The people are linked to Facebook and gmail if view have one. It is not view phone number only and The display is based on the name I put in my phone and not Facebook or gmail. I'm using standard sms and running rmk gingersense.
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Check in your contacts and make sure you have area codes put in. I had a " John Smith " put in as 111-1111 when he called back it did not read it as him because Verizon always tacks on the area code.
Hopefully it is that simple.
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You could try a no-wipe flash of the rom to correct a possible rom software issue.
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After reboot. Contacts appear in messege and phone as unknown.

I rebooted my phone and after reboot I saw that in the phone app the numbers I dialed before appear as unknown and in inbox the name of the contact doesn't show. Only number. But in people I have all the contacts. I need to "save as existing contacts" from the inbox and then the name shows up in the inbox. Hope o could make myself clear because it's an unusual problem to explain. I never had this problem and it happens after every reboot. I am on viper and ncx
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muid02 said:
I rebooted my phone and after reboot I saw that in the phone app the numbers I dialed before appear as unknown and in inbox the name of the contact doesn't show. Only number. But in people I have all the contacts. I need to "save as existing contacts" from the inbox and then the name shows up in the inbox. Hope o could make myself clear because it's an unusual problem to explain. I never had this problem and it happens after every reboot. I am on viper and ncx
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Oh man, you have so many problems. Didn't you say that you were gonna leave and stay on stock? Please do that, its better for everybody.
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Go into "people", on the top left corner tap "Phonebook". This dropdown list shows you which accounts on your phone are enabled to show contacts.
If your Main Google account to which you have synced your contacts is not checked, check it. If it is, uncheck it then check it again.
This happened to me once, and this solved it. Hopefully it'll do for your too.