Hello,
Last night all my contacts vanished from my S2.
They are still there when I log into my ymail via PC.
I've tried re-syncing, un-installing, re-installing etc. I just can't get them back.
I don't want to enter them all manually if I can help it.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Welcome to the sh1tty Yahoo Mail for Android bud!
I too am a Yahoo emailer, have been since 2000, and up until yesterday i've been using it to sync my contacts. Mind you, it's always been a bit temperamental. If i updated one of my contacts online and then tried re-syncing, it would never update. NEVER! I always had to uninstall and then reinstall. How stupid is that?! As i undrstand it, Yahoo Mail for Android has always been a bit buggy in this regard, although i will say for the actual emailing side of things i really quite like it.
Well yesterday i tried uninstalling and reinstalling, as i wanted to update a particular contact, and just like yourself could i get my contacts back? Hell no! It frustrated the hell out of me, i tried everything, and in the end some 2 hours later i finally got if fixed (but you may not like the answer!).
I decided, fu<k it, Android is built by Google so let's use Google for my contacts. Even though i have never used G-Mail, i decided to put the hard work in and upload all my contacts to G-Mail. Luckily there's a shortcut to help with this, you can export your Yahoo contacts to a .csv file, and then import them into G-Mail. A lot of the numbers got garbled up in the process and needed to be manually fixed, but it gives you a head start anyway. Plus, in G-Mail you can assign your contact's photos, so now i won't have to manually put these in ever again
As soon as i was done, i tried syncing my Google account contacts and voila, they immediately showed up. And whats more, i even tried editing one straight away online, and one quick sync later it showed up immediately. Yay!
So now i have a G-Mail account (exact same ID & password as my Yahoo mail, so i won't forget! which i will use exclusively as a 'Contacts Management' solution, and my Yahoo Mail as per normal.
Trust me mate, take a couple of hours and do as i did, best move i've made since getting the phone. Yahoo need to seriously sort out the syncing on their android app!
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Hey guys, since a few days I have massive problems with syncing my device with google (contacts, calendar, emails). I used activesync with the snyc settings to m.google.com and suddenly it tries to sync always the entire content from new, every time stating that there are changes done on the server side which requires entire resync. does anybody have the same issues and a solution to that?
I could never get it working right. I use goosync (payservice).
I use this for contacts and calendar but couldn't get the email portion to work reliably. I use IMAP for gmail.
mine syncs fine.
The Jack of Clubs said:
mine syncs fine.
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same, works perfectly for me.
Although i only use google for calender and e-mail, i use dashwire to back up my contacts.
You have probably already tried it, but have you disabled all but one and checked it to see if you still have the same issue?
If it works properly with just e-mail for example, then add in calender and try it again. If it works then add contacts back in or if it breaks remove calender and try contacts instead.
Might help you track down whats causing the issue.
Just an idea.
Mine syncs fine as well. At first I had problems with syncing because I never set up a Calendar or Contacts with Google, so I unchecked everything except Mail. Try that.
Check this out from wmexperts.com:
Has anyone else noticed that they can't sync Google Gmail via Activesync over the past few days? At first I thought it was just me but soon came to find that the "Error Synchronization" message was being displayed on other Windows phones.
The official error code is 0x8600050c (Communications Error) and in looking over at Google Mobile's Help Forum, there are a few solutions available.
The first suggestion is to delete the current Exchange Server relationship and re-create it. Another solution suggests to un-check the email option in Activesync, reboot the phone, re-check the email option and sync. The latter seems to have the most success.
We couldn't find anything official from Google on the cause of these errors or of a "official" solution. If we hear of anything we'll pass it on.
you dont have tasks selected do you?
google sync is not up to snuff as it currently stands.
having tried it, doing this over & over:
The first suggestion is to delete the current Exchange Server relationship and re-create it. Another solution suggests to un-check the email option in Activesync, reboot the phone, re-check the email option and sync. The latter seems to have the most success.
Has been unacceptable.
perveeus said:
google syncis not up to snuff as it currently stands.
having tried it, doing this over & over:
The first suggestion is to delete the current Exchange Server relationship and re-create it. Another solution suggests to un-check the email option in Activesync, reboot the phone, re-check the email option and sync. The latter seems to have the most success.
Has been unacceptable.
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Yes I agree, but to Google's defense, they say this is in Beta, but we are spoiled with great Google products so we are expecting too much. I do wish they would put more effort to it though, it has been like this since November when I tried it and I haven't seen anything improved in 3-4 months.
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Yes I agree, but to Google's defense, they say this is in Beta, but we are spoiled with great Google products so we are expecting too much. I do wish they would put more effort to it though, it has been like this since November when I tried it and I haven't seen anything improved in 3-4 months.
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Oh don't think I am bagging google & all their great products & freebies.
But it just seem they set expectations so high, that they use the excuse of "beta" forever before releasing anything (witness gmail was an invite forever!).
I'm just spoiled!
schoolio said:
Check this out from wmexperts.com:
Has anyone else noticed that they can't sync Google Gmail via Activesync over the past few days? At first I thought it was just me but soon came to find that the "Error Synchronization" message was being displayed on other Windows phones.
The official error code is 0x8600050c (Communications Error) and in looking over at Google Mobile's Help Forum, there are a few solutions available.
The first suggestion is to delete the current Exchange Server relationship and re-create it. Another solution suggests to un-check the email option in Activesync, reboot the phone, re-check the email option and sync. The latter seems to have the most success.
We couldn't find anything official from Google on the cause of these errors or of a "official" solution. If we hear of anything we'll pass it on.
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I had the same problem a few days ago. I deleted the Exchange Server relationship and re-created it, and it's worked fine since. I've had similar problems periodically in the past - I chalk it up to it being a free service.
I got google sync to work, just got my touch pro2 on sunday. works with my main google calendar, saw a user around here recommend ActiveGCSync for additional google calendars, will try that tonight. The only problem I had is i initially synced all my gmail contacts to my phone (most without names or phone numbers), so then I unchecked 'contacts' thinking it would take them out, but instead it removed ALL the contacts from my phone But now all my phone contacts are backed up in my gmail I guess I will have to clean up the mess manually and sync them back up...
I spent a good part of my day so far editing all my gmail contacts and merging duplicates and the last tihng I did was set up a bunch of new 'groups' under the contacts in gmail. I was hoping that after I sync'd back up that I would be able to use the google created contact groups as a means of filtering my contact list, but this seems not to be the case.
From searching around here I ran across a program called 'Seven' and others, which I will explore if there isn't another way. But I was hoping someone could give me some ideas other than individually editing the "Category" of each contact, which seems to be the field which it looks at for "Filter" under the menu soft key.
Thanks
I use Seven Beta to sync all my mail accs. On creation gives me the option for sync of contacts and calendar as well. Everything works great.
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I use Seven Beta to sync all my mail accs. On creation gives me the option for sync of contacts and calendar as well. Everything works great.
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Do you sync google contacts that you have put into groups, and then can you use the TouchFlo contact list to filter them by those groups?
Hi I was wondering if anyone knows if you can merge together google contacts you've linked together using your desire. So the contacts would be merged in gmail and not just on my phone.
I've searched and haven't found anyone even raise the issue, so I was hoping someone knew if you could do this and if so how?
Thanks for any help.
No luck here either, it drives me crazy that I have contacts for people in 5 different places and I'm too lazy to manually merge them. The damn thing should just automerge and sync them all to google.
Thanks for your response,
I'd wrongly assumed there must be an option to sync the merges back to Google, as like you say that's what it should do, at least now I know to give up looking for the option, cheers.
And unfortunately I'm to lazy to do it manually too (took me long enough to do on the phone)
Once you sync contacts so long as you sync with Outlook/Google it should keep the links. Might take a while at first but once done it should be permanent
Yea I understand that, but I would have liked them to be merged if I looked at the contacts through Gmail on a computer, or if I updated to Froyo without Sense.
So rather than just keep the links, actually merge the contacts, for if I using something other than an HTC phone with Sense.
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Yea I understand that, but I would have liked them to be merged if I looked at the contacts through Gmail on a computer, or if I updated to Froyo without Sense.
So rather than just keep the links, actually merge the contacts, for if I using something other than an HTC phone with Sense.
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Exactly, I use multiple devices and I want all my contacts centralized and not duplicated.
Ahhh, got ya! So it'd have the info without linking to Facebook you mean?
Suppose you could just update the contact with all info you want on it and sync this with your devices...
Could try using Thunderbird as your pc email client (it has a duplicate contact add on) and something like Zindus to sync with gmail. This way you use your pc to sort your contacts and then sync to gmail, and then gmail to your phone. I've found this to work as long as you keep all of the contacts on Thunderbird under the default group (I created a group/email list and have spent the last two days working out why everyone in the group had disappeared from my phone:|)
Iain
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Ahhh, got ya! So it'd have the info without linking to Facebook you mean?
Suppose you could just update the contact with all info you want on it and sync this with your devices...
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Yea so for example, because some of my contacts are quite old, they were set up when you could only have one number with a contact so for some i have:
x mobile
x home
x work
so as HTC made it relatively easy I decided to merge these all into one contact.
Likewise for a lot of them I had email addresses stored on my gmail account, and HTC made it relatively easy to link these the email to a contact.
So I now have a set of nicely constructed contacts on my phone, but multiple entries for them in my google account, so would have liked an option to just make the links a permanent merge.
And yea I know I can do this manually, but it took long enough to do this on my phone in the first place, and as I've already said I'm too lazy to do it again. This thread wasn't meant to me moaning, just checking to see if there was a merger option or trick I was missing.
Edit: Thanks Iain I'll have a look at that when I have some spare time
Lol, I know it wasn't a moaning thread - don't think there is the option at the moment. TBH I bite the bullet and have a good prune session every now and then and get Outlook fully up to date and sync off that. I don't sync with Google
Damn, I loved the contact merging on my HTC Diamond, gmail was always up-to-date. Why the hell is HTC not doing the same on Android but just linking.... It looks good on the phone but is a mess in gmail...
If you have multiple Google contacts it's pretty easy to merge them online:
http://mail.google.com/mail/contacts/ui/ContactManager
(have to be logged into gmail to access it )
THX for that hint. But what I loved in TouchFlo was that my gmail conacts got automatically updated with info from Facebook, like the birthdays for example which then also showed up in the Google Calendar. Or when somebody changed mail adress or phonenumber, via TouchFlo these were automatically propagated to the Gogle Contacts.
Think this a FB issue, know they recently changed API access to prevent apps pulling down Birthdays automatically and saving of phone numbers has always been a no no for any apps.
Droid gets around this by preventing saving the number permanently or amending on the device.
Old thread I know, but I was looking to do this and solved it.
-Export your address book on the phone to vcard.
-Email yourself this file. (You may need astro to find it. I used k9 mail and astro)
-Save this file on your PC.
-Goto your google contacts list on your PC.
-Import a vcard. Direct it to this file.
-Google automagically merges the contacts for you.
The unfortunate part is that you still have to manually delete the contacts that were on your phone, but at least everything is in the cloud now. You could just blow away your contacts entirely and resync.
Geekybiker said:
Old thread I know, but I was looking to do this and solved it.
-Export your address book on the phone to vcard.
-Email yourself this file. (You may need astro to find it. I used k9 mail and astro)
-Save this file on your PC.
-Goto your google contacts list on your PC.
-Import a vcard. Direct it to this file.
-Google automagically merges the contacts for you.
The unfortunate part is that you still have to manually delete the contacts that were on your phone, but at least everything is in the cloud now. You could just blow away your contacts entirely and resync.
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Thanks, I'll try this later. It's still a problem that's bugging me to death. I keep getting returned 5 or 6 of the same number for a contact. Hopefully this will help.
Geekybiker said:
Old thread I know, but I was looking to do this and solved it.
-Export your address book on the phone to vcard.
-Email yourself this file. (You may need astro to find it. I used k9 mail and astro)
-Save this file on your PC.
-Goto your google contacts list on your PC.
-Import a vcard. Direct it to this file.
-Google automagically merges the contacts for you.
The unfortunate part is that you still have to manually delete the contacts that were on your phone, but at least everything is in the cloud now. You could just blow away your contacts entirely and resync.
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Bit of a necromance but ran into this issue with my Desire HD.
Thanks for the solution, can't believe there's not a better way....
I have all my contacts in Gmail. All their numbers and email addresses are in there.
So whenever I edit a contact, it's edited in Gmail. It's pretty much all 'in the cloud'.
I use Outlook categories to keep my contacts clean and manageable. For syncing I am currently using MyPhoneExplorer after coming to grief with HTC Sync.
I've done some research now.
I found the app in the market called: GO contacts
this app can export ALL your contacts, also the ones that your HTC or android found with syncing with facebook, hyves, twitter, whatsapp, linkedin etc.
exported and imported in my gmail, so I have all the contacts in my gmail.
If they now remove their phone number (from facebook in example)
I still have it
I don't know how I managed it, but recently I somehow accidentally synchronised all my contacts with my gmail contacts - to which there are HUNDREDS. Literally every person I have ever sent an email to or received an email from, all sorts, all jumbled together. It's even mixed in with all the people I follow on twitter and I can't get rid of them (I tried deleting the twitter account off the phone completely and even though it says it'll remove all twitter contacts, it doesn't).
It's looking as though I'm going to have to manually go through them all and delete every contact I don't want, then manually link all the contacts together that should be linked (facebook-google-sim-etc.).
What's the best way to do this? I have over 900 contacts now, whereas before I had maybe 40 or 50. Is there an app or a piece of sync software that'll let me do it from a computer? Doing from the phone is extremely slow and tedious =\
neoKushan said:
I don't know how I managed it, but recently I somehow accidentally synchronised all my contacts with my gmail contacts - to which there are HUNDREDS. Literally every person I have ever sent an email to or received an email from, all sorts, all jumbled together. It's even mixed in with all the people I follow on twitter and I can't get rid of them (I tried deleting the twitter account off the phone completely and even though it says it'll remove all twitter contacts, it doesn't).
It's looking as though I'm going to have to manually go through them all and delete every contact I don't want, then manually link all the contacts together that should be linked (facebook-google-sim-etc.).
What's the best way to do this? I have over 900 contacts now, whereas before I had maybe 40 or 50. Is there an app or a piece of sync software that'll let me do it from a computer? Doing from the phone is extremely slow and tedious =\
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delete all the unnecessary contacts out of gmail?
when I synced gmail contacts to my phone and latter my FB account, it automagically linked the contacts that it found numbers in common with, I didnt have to do anything there!
are all the contacts on gmail now or between the different services?
I've had my phone with me for awhile now, and so far so good and I've been regularly syncing with Gmail.
A couple of days back, when I wanted to send an e-mail from my computer, the list of contact suggestions that would automatically pop out as you type your contact's name wouldn't come out.
I found this strange, so I checked my contact book (from inside gmail on the computer). To my horror, the contact(s) were gone!
I've also noticed weird folders in my gmail, most that begin with "[IMAP]/" followed by drafts, inbox, etc
I checked my android, under the people app, and the contact's phone number, along with their email was still listed in my phone.
I've been searching around, and I understand that some people are having this problem in reverse, whereby contacts are disappearing from their android. Not much help there, I suppose.
So my question is; is this an android sync problem, or is gmail getting iffy?
I've now taken a precaution and have exported a back up of my gmail contacts in csv. ... but.. you can never know when this will happen again.
Pardon me if I sound noob-ish. The android is my first smartphone
Edit: Today it happened again. I seem to be losing contacts everyday. Even now my gmail chat client on the left seems to be missing contacts.
the imap folders etc you can turn off in the gmail settings server side not mobile side
Thank you
Any idea about the missing contacts?
OK so here is my problem. I got my phone and was very excited. I started it up and set up my google account (not actually knowing that it was not the sense delivered one). Ok all is fine there... but I wanted to use the HTC Sense email client with m.google.com exchange service.
So I went and stopped the syncing from google. I then went and created a m.google.com exchange account and am getting my mail just fine... but now when I go into the people tab everything appears fine, but when I click on a contact I see 2 of almost everything. I unchecked see google contacts. But when you open it apparently already "linked" the google contact with the excahgne contact.
So, my question after all this is how do I clear all the google contacts and leave the exchange server contacts? will it take a reset? I would prefer not to have to do that.
Thanks in advance for any help.
SoBBie
Well from the response I guess I will have to go with a reset.
Oh well. If someone does know a way please let me know.
Thanks,
SoBBiE
Sent from my HTC Incredible.
Log into your gmail account, click on contacts. You should be able to delete them from there and it should remove them from your phone for you.
OK thanks for that. but the problem there is my Exchange is with Google.... and my google is with google.
So I exported all my contact both the google and the exchange (even though they are the same) to my SD card. I also exported them from google to a CVS file.
So I went into google contacts and deleted all of my contacts. I then went to my phone and did a "Sync" for my exchange and my google account. This removed all my contacts except facebook... GREAT. half way there.
Know I imported only my exchange contact back to my exchange account. Even better if linked my facebook and I see all my contacts (With Pictures) in people.
BUT here is the bad part. when I do a sync with Exchange all my contacts disappear again. What is going on? can I not update my contact from my phone to my exchange (remeber this is google exchange m.google.com).
Please give me some direction. I know that I can import the CVS file in google and only sync with exchange but I will loose all the pictures (250 contacts and almost everyone has a image even BW3's gets a food image ).
I dont want ot have to manually add all those pictures back. and the import on the phone seemed to work great. but it is not pushing the contacts out to google. Any advice would be great.
Kind Regards,
SoBBie
OK so I did the entire process again and it seem to take. I know see my contacts out on google.
Thanks for you help.
SoBBie