My contacts are no longer syncing with my gmail account. I didnt notice it at first but it looks like my contacts have not been syncing for a while across different roms but GB and ICS.
Any ideas what might be happening or how to fix the issue?
have you went into accounts&sync and checked if there are errors (and made sure sync contacts is checked)?
yes its checked and I have tried manually syncing by pressing "sync now"
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Hi.
Ive been trying to sync my contacts from my phone to my gmail for a few days now.
It syncs without any errors. but when i check my gmail i only have the 64 email contacs i had b4 imade the sync.
also if i check the people tab in the phone the 64 email contacts are also shown there but none of my phone contacts..
I think i should have everything setup right, in the gmail sync the contacts thing is checked and everything..
Anyone know what could be wrong? been syncing few times a day to see if it got any better...
Sorry for my bad english.
Can it go both ways? I thought it was from Gmail to phone, but not back?
hmm i tought both ways? :S
See here for reason
http://android.modaco.com/content/h...com/306922/sync-contacts-from-phone-to-gmail/
Hmmm, mine has just started having this issue. I could sync from the phone to google contacts a couple of days ago however now even when creating a google contact on the phone its not appearing in the gmail website contacts list
Edit:
Seems to be syncing now >_<
Ok i exported all my contacts to windows contacts, then exported them from there and then imported them to Gmail.
Thanks for helping me understand what was going on here
I added a contact to my contact list on Thursday and it didn't show up until Friday. I made heavy changes yesterday (clearing out the useless ones) and it still has not shown up. So maybe it doesn't update every minute, I get that. What I don't get is how I have....
removed and replaced "Corporate" from the displayed lists on my contacts menu
removed and replaced "Corporate" from the Accounts and Sync > Sync Contacts option
turned off and on Auto-Sync on Accounts and Sync
....and the changes STILL haven't shown up! Do I really have to remove the account and replace it in order for changes to show up? How much of a "sync" is this if I make a change and nothing happens for days? When I turned off and on Auto-Sync, the grey sync icon appeared on the notification bar and ALL the accounts under Accounts and Sync showed they were currently syncing. I waited until the process was done, then went to my contacts list and saw no changes.
Any suggestions? How do you get changes to appear immediately or is that not how SYNC works with contacts in Exchange on this phone? My email syncs immediately, new mail and read mail will display almost simultaneously on both the phone and PC, so how come contacts won't do the same???
i did this the other night. went in and cleaned up my gmail contacts, because i had old versions of contacts that i have updated versions of in exchange. by the time i was done with editing my contacts, they were already synced with my phone...
Gmail sync is flaky sometimes. I have had many branded Android phones, and sometimes you find a change that just won't sync.
My final solution when i am really frustrated is to just delete the account from the phone, reboot and add it back.
I have not had any problems in a while though.
I have no idea if this application supports the Google Exchange Contact List (no idea what that is) but I've found MailDroid to be much much faster than either the stock mail app or the GMail app, and have lots of nice features.
Hi all,
Today I ran into a problem with my phone, regarding synchronization of my contacts with Gmail. I wanted to share the problem and solution, since it is bound to happen to others.
NOTE: I have a Dutch phone, so when mentioning menu options and such I am bound to use the wrong terms.
What I did:
I came from a WM6 phone and migrated my Outlook contacts to my new Andriod phone. All went well, I had my contacts securely in my phone memory. Handy thing, it links all contacts with similar contacts from Gmail.
Since I do not use Outlook anymore (it now seems redundant) I worried about losing all my contacts when something happens to the phone, and wanted to migrate them all to Gmail.
I did this; downloaded an App (IuA Contact Backup I think), backed up the contacts and imported them into Gmail. After cleaning up the contactlist in Gmail it seemed to synchronize fine but it also made my contactlist slow. This is because it needs to link all contacts from different sources, which takes up a lot of processor speed. The phone contacts were now useless though, since they are all in Gmail.
So I decided to delete all Phone contacts. When I did this, I lost most phonenumbers (although they were still in my Gmail contacts). Then I noticed that synchronizing with Gmail had started failing, resulting in some drops of sweat and no clue how to restore it.
The error message was: "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." Apparently when I thought the contacts from Gmail had synchronized correctly, they had not.
What I did to solve this:
I started with a backup of all my contacts! If something goes wrong, I am not responsible for the loss of your contacts!
In Settings -> Applications -> 'Manage applications (?)' -> 'All applications' I went to something called 'Contact storage (?)'. Here I deleted all data.
After that, I restarted my phone (soft reboot, just use the on/off button with long-press and select 'Turn off'). When the phone starts again, it will start synchronizing with Gmail and all will be fine.
On various fora I found that Android does not like large amount of changes to the contacts in Gmail. If you delete (or change?) a lot of Gmail contacts before it synchronizes, I guess it cannot keep up with the changes and stops the process. This will not solve itself.
Help: VZW Galaxy Nexus Contacts and Gmail "Sync is currently experiencing problems"
My new nexus will not sync contacts or gmail. I get the error "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." I have tried clearing the cache on both apps and restarting the phone, but the error reoccurs. It has synced some contacts (58 of 141). But the error remains, and the rest of the contacts do not appear, even after choosing to display "all contacts".
Can anyone help?
TheTomas said:
My new nexus will not sync contacts or gmail. I get the error "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." I have tried clearing the cache on both apps and restarting the phone, but the error reoccurs. It has synced some contacts (58 of 141). But the error remains, and the rest of the contacts do not appear, even after choosing to display "all contacts".
Can anyone help?
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I'm seeing the same thing, though it's only affecting my synched bookmarks. If you go into settings > Accounts & Sync, it'll have an exclamation by the problem child/children. Uncheck whatevers not working and your contacts should finish in theory. I was able to get all my contacts.
Last time I restarted after a cache wipe, contacts gave the error, but gmail synced for a long time before giving the error. This time, contacts again errored right away, but gmail is still syncing. I'm hoping it will finish this time, and then I'll work on getting the contacts to sync.
I've checked the syncing on my other android devices and there are no problems there, so I don't think it's a problem with the servers.
I actually had the same problem when I wiped my touchpad last night. unchecked and rechecked and it started working again.
Well I hope it's temporary, but I'd really like to get it fixed. Does anyone know how long it usually takes to sync gmail? It's been going for over 30 minutes now.
Bump for a fast board, I still need help with this. I just formatted the cache in recovery and the problem came back immediately.
Edit: I deleted my google account and readded it and it seems to be working, sorry for the bump. I hope this helps someone else.
Unfortunately mine is still broken and I've tried everything. Adding it back in doesn't help. I'm using "[email protected] and my email will not synch even though others do. I have other gmail accounts that are synching just fine. What's up Google??? Man this is frustrating; the email account I actually need most is not working.
I just got my wife a Nexus, and I have been getting the sync error, along with a pop-up saying "unfortunately contacts have stopped working". Gmail is working fine, it's just contacts. This started happening after unlocking, rooting, and installing Codename ROM. I'm running Codename on my Nexus without problems. I unrooted, and relocked hers, and it seemed to be fine. Went back to unlocked, rooted, and Codename, and the problem came back. I'm going to try the previous versions of Codename, and Nova Launcher to see if it makes a difference, but if anyone has any more info about this, I'd like to hear about it.
Thanks
I sync to hotmail for all my personal contacts and all of a sudden this morning none of my hotmail contacts are showing in my phone. Nothing has changed since last night and when I look in the account settings it is set up to sync contacts. Also when I go online my contacts are still in hotmail. My hotmail account is set up as an exchange active sync account and up until today it worked fine with no issues.
When I go into the contacts app I don't have any contacts for that account and when I go into groups its not even listed there at all as an account. But like I said in the account settings it is listed as syncing contacts.
Has anyone ever seen anything like this and fixed it? Or have any idea what causes it? Is it just some server issue on the hotmail side that will clear itself up randomly like it glitched out randomly? I highly doubt it's related but my phone has been unable to connect to the at&t update servers for a while now and never got the ota update I've heard about. TIA for any help.
EDIT: so I tried deleting the account and re-adding it and now some contacts are showing but not all even though the account sync shows completed. And for a second the account was listed in the contact app groups and then I literally watched it disappear. I am completely at a loss here.
I'm experiencing the same problem and can’t find a solution.
Not only my hotmail contacts keep disappearing from my standard contacts-app, also my hotmail-emails and agenda items keep disappearing. A few minutes later my smartphone tells me I’ve got new emails, but it just downloaded them back to my smartphone. The same with the contacts and agenda-items.
I already did a hard reset with my smartphone, but it keeps deleting everything from hotmail.
When I disable the synch-options for that account, it doesn’t delete my mails, contacts and agenda, but then again I have to manually look for new emails.
EDIT: I just noticed, when de synch-option is disabled for contacts, my smartphone randomly deletes everything from hotmail including the contacts. Only the contacts stay deleted, while emails and agenda-items are downloaded again.
So it probably has to be an issue with Galaxy S3 or Anroid.
I've got: Model GT-I9300 with Android-version: 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Just like "erikk" my Hotmail account is set up as an Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account.