Hi all,
I'm having trouble syncing my Chrome browser to my Nexus's bookmarks.
I have "Browser" ticked in the sync options of my Google account (which is also associated with Chrome, and bookmark syncing turned on).
However, the sync-refresh icon (two arrows in a circle) permently displays next to it, and the last-sync date is the date I added the account. Pressing sync now or unchecking/rechecking does not seem to make it want to sync.
Am I doing something wrong, or anyone else solved this?
Thanks!
Let me know if you figure this out.
I dont have a Nexus yet (sadly), but i do have the Xoom running Honeycomb. To turn on bookmark syncing on the HC browser, you have to also go into Browser settings (on the device) and check 'Sync with Chrome'. Not sure if ICS works the the same way, and possibly you've already done this. Just a shot in the dark.
I have it kind of working. i have both set to sync but it appear not to sync bookmarks in folders in desktop chrome. If I bookmark on the nexus it appears in the desktop chrome bookmark bar, not in the bookmarks folder. Same if I bookmark into the bar on the desktop it will sync to the phone.
So looks like it only syncs links you have in the bookmarks bar not in the actual bookmarks folder - weird don't want a massive bar full of bookmarks in my browser
These are the steps, let me know if you have done the same things as it should work:
On your desktop/laptop
1. Click on the spanner then goto options
2. Goto the 'Personal Stuff' tab, then under the Sync section click 'Set up sync...'
3. Sign in with your gmail account that you use for your phone and click 'Sign in'
4. Either click 'Advanced', then choose what you want to sync (make sure Bookmarks is checked, or click on OK, sync everything
On Your Phone
1. Goto Settings and press on 'Accounts & sync'
2. Press on your gmail address and tick 'Sync Browser'
3. The sync icon should appear while it syncs and then disappear
4. Press your Home Button to get back to the Home Screen
Now open your stock browser, long press on the Back (soft) Button at the bottom and press on the BOOKMARKS Tab at the top. All your synced bookmarks should appear under your gmail address, including all your folders. All my favourite (Bookmark Bar) bookmarks are displayed first and the rest are in the folder 'Other Bookmarks' but it depends how you organise yours as to how they are displayed.
All the standard bookmarks are in a seperate section 'Local' under your synced section.
Hope this helps.
Mark.
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OK - first of all, I have multiple calendars and they all work. The problem I have is very specific.
My wife has shared her gmail calendar with me. We both use gmail & share calendars. I can see it great on my desktop - turn on, off, color coded, perfect.
However - I CANNOT see her calendar on my phone. All of my calendars show up, but not hers.
Any ideas welcome.
I am going to ask the obvious ...
Did you click on Menu -> More -> Calendars and select it?
Scott
tried that
Attached are two photos / screenshots:
1. From phone, shows all my calendars. My wifes is not shown.
2. From PC, shows my wifes calendar (in green, circled in red).
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Just for grins and giggles, click on "settings" under her calendar in your Gmail calendar and make sure the box is checked under "show in list". Seems like I had a very similar issue and that was the resolution.
checked on "settings" in my gmail calendar, and her calendar was/is/continues to be checked as "show in list".
carlbettag said:
Attached are two photos / screenshots:
1. From phone, shows all my calendars. My wifes is not shown.
2. From PC, shows my wifes calendar (in green, circled in red).
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The biggest clue is that her calendar is showing up under "other calendars" on your PC. You need to change the calendar permission in her Gmail account so that you are allowed to both "see events" AND "make changes". At present, I would guess you are only allowed to "see events". Once the permissions are correct, her calendar will show up under "My Calendars" in Gmail, and then should sync to your phone.
Yes - what he said. I have the identical set up on my calendar as well as my wife's. She needs to set you to "Manage changes" at least, maybe "AND Manage Sharing".
If this is a google apps set up, and you aren't on the same domain, there is a setting in the Google Apps Manage this Domain ...
Outside somedomain.com - set user ability
By default, calendars are not shared outside somedomain.com. Select the highest level of sharing that you want to allow for your users.
I have mine set to "Share all information, and outsiders can change calendars".
it was kind of finicky to set up!
Scott
I think that the issue is what Epicardium and spatton point out. I have an apps account, and my wife is outside my domain. Even with a little tweaking her calendar shows up as 'other calendars' right now.
Seems like I need to fiddle with the Google Apps Manage this Domain privileges to get her calendar onto 'My Calendars'. Once this is done, sounds like it might work.
I agree with spatton - managing the privileges for apps is a little unwieldy. I am sure it's great for larger businesses, but for small businesses it can be a little frustrating.
Thanks for the help guys - never would have figured this out myself. Will update when I can fix it
Being bored - stuck on a conference call - having a gmail, and several google apps accounts - I decided to tinker with this.
On *HER* gmail/google apps account, you have to set the sharing of the google calender to *YOUR* google apps account to "Manage events AND manage sharing". As soon as you do that, it will move to the top. You probably then have to do a sync and select that calendar.
Manage events wont do it ... goes to the bottom.
TEAM - WINS!
Thanks everyone. I checked my apps settings, which were correct. She set her calendar to 'Manage events AND manage sharing', and the calendar popped up into 'My calendars'. Then, on my phone, went in to calendar, hit 'Add Calendars', and hers was there.
Yay!! So - how many people does it take to screw in a google calendar?
You should try to get the calendars to sync on an iPad. It makes this seem perfect and simple!
Glad I could be of some assistance.
Hi,
I'm a bit of a custom rom newbie, so please be gentle!
I am currently using stock 2.3 on my unbranded DHD, however it is rooted and has radio and Eng S-off (I hope).
What I am looking for:
I want to be able to tap the 'phone' button on my home screen and view my contacts, and for any contacts that I have linked to a Facebook account I would like to see their profile picture and get updates.
Currently when I sync my Facebook account with my phone, no matter what settings I change, nor whether I use the Facebook app or the Facebook for HTC app, it syncs ALL of my Facebook friends to the phone and adds them to the list under 'phone'. Once this has happened, tapping 'phone will bring up my recent call list at the top, however if I want to find a contact that hasn't recently been called I have to scroll through all of my phone contacts and my Facebook contacts in one long list.
It may seem petty, but I don't want to have to go through the 'People' app to access my contacts - there's a giant 'phone' button taking up real estate on my home screen and I want to use it!
Does anyone know of a Custom Rom with the functionality to either choose which Facebook contacts to sync, or some sort of work around for this?
Any help appreciated,
Grim.
im running stock-ROM too and my phone one shows the facebook status of only my contacts.
Its an option when adding you account to the phone.
Try deleting your account, and adding it again. it'll give you 3 options.
1 - Sync All facebook contacts
2 - Sync facebook contacts that are on the phone (or something like that)
3 - Dont Sync.
Just choose the 2nd.
As for a custom ROM that does this, well im not sure, but i think most of them will be the same since its facebook for HTC Sense that Syncs its.
And to make SURE you have ENG and radio S-OFF, in bootloader, make sure you have
'ACE PVT ENG S-OFF'
at the top.
And your CID is 111111 (not sure how many one's) in the System Info choice.
Most of the custom roms will sync your contacts, when you first flash it. In facebook it will ask you which type of sync you want, choose only contacts you have on the phone. Some still won't show up, either because the name is a bit different then their facebook name.
There is a way to link up the contacts facebook didn't already link, but I'm still trying to remember. Ill get back to you
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im running stock-ROM too and my phone one shows the facebook status of only my contacts.
Its an option when adding you account to the phone.
Try deleting your account, and adding it again. it'll give you 3 options.
1 - Sync All facebook contacts
2 - Sync facebook contacts that are on the phone (or something like that)
3 - Dont Sync.
Just choose the 2nd.
As for a custom ROM that does this, well im not sure, but i think most of them will be the same since its facebook for HTC Sense that Syncs its.
And to make SURE you have ENG and radio S-OFF, in bootloader, make sure you have
'ACE PVT ENG S-OFF'
at the top.
And your CID is 111111 (not sure how many one's) in the System Info choice.
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Hi, thanks for your replies guys.
Ok I just tried exactly what you said - I opened the Facebook app and entered my email and password for the first time since I updated to 2.3. The app gave me the 3 choices just as you said it would, I chose the second option to sync only data for my contacts. I then exited the app and went back to my home screen, tapped the 'phone's button (at the bottom of the screen) and it brought up my recent calls and Lo and behold a few of them with accounts that auto-linked showed their Facebook pics.
However, when I scroll down past my recent calls and into the a-z of my contacts, the list includes most of my Facebook friends - which include people whose numbers are definitely not in my contact list.
For completeness I went into 'accounts and sync' under settings and deleted my Facebook sync account. I then chose to add an account but chose 'facebook for HTC sense' (as opposed to just Facebook), entered my email and password and it did exactly the same thing as the Facebook app.
Can anyone have a play with theirs and see if It's the same, or suggest a work around for this?
Any help appreciated.
Grim
This is happening because your phone has already synced those contacts you.didn't originally want with Google so they will always re download no matter how many times you delete the fb account or which options you choose again.
Press your big phone button that you want to use. Then press log button on bottom right. Move slider at bottom to far left. You should now be in people. From there press menu> view and choose the options you want. You can include the top button which says only those with numbers if you want.
Hope this gives you what your looking for.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
Aust S5 said:
This is happening because your phone has already synced those contacts you.didn't originally want with Google so they will always re download no matter how many times you delete the fb account or which options you choose again.
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That sounds strange, but plausible - Is there any way for me to view / change this synced account? I've logged into my gmail account and I don't have any contacts listed there?
Aust S5 said:
Press your big phone button that you want to use. Then press log button on bottom right. Move slider at bottom to far left. You should now be in people. From there press menu> view and choose the options you want. You can include the top button which says only those with numbers if you want.
Hope this gives you what your looking for.
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Unfortunately it doesnt by changing these options it will only show either all of my facebook contacts plus my phone contacts or just my phone contacts.
It seems to me like the option in the facebook app to sync only the info for my phone contacts is broken.
I wish that I could find out where the actual data was being held on the phone so that maybe I could copy all the facebook contacts over and then edit the list to only include the ones that I want to link to my phone contacts.
If I understood correctly, what You are trying to achieve is to have only Your phone contacts displayed, but with images from facebook? If so, all You have to do (as stated before) is turn off facebook accounts in contacts, menu view, but link your phone and facebook contacts (if the names are the same, sense should have offered You to link those already). By default, contacts that are linked and have pictures both in the phone and facebook account should use facebook pictures. You can change this by opening a contact, pressing shain links icon in the right top corner of the phone, then pressing the image in the top left corner, and making a selection You want. By unchecking facebook accounts in Your View option in contacts manu, You will have all the pictures from facebook for linked contacts, but won´t see any contacts what are not in Your phone or gmail account whichever You use.
Google Calendar will not sync,first noticed the problem with shared calendars not showing,deleted data and cache and now no calendar will show up on the widget,first time problems with this,any ideas?
Now will only show facebook calendar
No one ? Factory reset it is then.
open the calendar, hit Menu > more > calendars and make sure that the boxes for 'sync' and 'view' (the little eye icon) are both checked on the calendars you wanna see.
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open the calendar, hit Menu > more > calendars and make sure that the boxes for 'sync' and 'view' (the little eye icon) are both checked on the calendars you wanna see.
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Thanks for the response but Im using Unity and I think the Calendar app is different as I cannot navigate your suggestion,done a factory reset and have got my calendar back but no joy with shared g calendars,still dont know why stopped working,going to try resharing and see if that fixes it.
so i downloaded the chrome beta that was released to market a few days ago on my prime and galaxy nexus..
i also use the chrome browser on my pc..
my question is that i use the sign in to chrome to sync the data i want (bookmarks and auto fill, etc)...but when i go to "other devices" on my prime, i only see the galaxy nexus..and vice versa. i don't see my chrome browser on other devices, nor are the bookmarks sent from the chrome pc browser to the g nexus or the prime...
am i doing something wrong? is syncing possible natively? (yes, i am logged in on my pc chrome as well..)
thanks!
I had a similar issue. I went into the sync settings in chrome on my pc and clicked "use default settings" Everything synced immediately.
It took a bit for the bookmarks to sync and a restart for the open tabs to sync for me. Make sure what you want synced is checked in the options as well.
thanks for the suggestion..i'll try checking the "sync everything" to see if it makes a difference...and then use the second suggestion and give it time..hehe
but yes, i have "sync everything" on my tablet and phone..and bookmarks and persona data on my pc...
i guess i should try to clear the data and restart the app...it's just odd that the pc browser is the only one that doesn't show up while the others do, no matter the order..hmm..
Also check try androidcentral.com/how-sync-tabs-chrome-desktop-and-android and androidcentral.com/chrome-android-walkthrough
Sorry can't post links yet...
Hi guys. I am having trouble editing or adding info to my contacts.
I have google contacts synced and am only viewing those in my contacts. When I go to edit a contact, like adding a phone number or changing an existing number, I press the save button and it's like nothing happens. I can't press the back button or menu button. If I hit the home button, it takes me to the home screen but if I go back into contacts, it's like its stuck on the contact I was trying to edit. The only thing that functions is the Cancel button, which maddeningly asks if I'd like to discard my changes. If I do that, it simply discards my changes and the info I attempted to add vanishes.
If I go to gmail and edit the contact there, no problem. It syncs to my phone and all is well.
Why can't I edit contacts via the phone itself?
NVM, problem appears to be haxsync related but I still can't edit contacts that are linked to haxsync.
I don't use haxsync but here's an idea: Make sure that when you are viewing your contacts from your phone-that you are actually viewing the entry of the "google account", (and not your haxsync account, or other)
To test this, open Contacts, click on the bottom left Options button, scroll down and select "Contacts to Display". Click on your google account name, and then your will be viewing your google account records only, and you should be able to edit those from your phone...
Let me know what happens.
Some related background: You can't edit a facebook account entry from your phone - even if it is joined with a google account entry of the same name. When you display a contact who is both a google account and facebook contact- (depending what your settings are for "accounts to display") the same contact might have multiple sub-screens: eg. the google one which is editable, and facebook one- which is not.