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Google Drive Issue...

Anyone know why Google Drive "Document List" displays different documents on the GNex than on the PC? I have both lists sorted the same, "Last Modified".
On my PC, it shows every doc as it should be, in chronological order, everything's there.
On my GNex, the list is quite different, and it is actually missing docs.
Any ideas?

mines listing things just fine. Maybe try disconnecting/reconnecting the Drive app from your account?

I'll try that now.
Thanks!

Swing-and-a-miss.
Reinstall did nothing.

billykxda said:
Swing-and-a-miss.
Reinstall did nothing.
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That's weird. So when you view the files on your computer, or on the website they're all synced, but not on the phone? Even when you force sync?

martonikaj said:
That's weird. So when you view the files on your computer, or on the website they're all synced, but not on the phone? Even when you force sync?
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Yep - on my PC, my Google docs are 100% present, and in the right order - as they've always been for years when it was "Google Docs".
On my GNex, I get a list of docs in a different sort order, with key documents missing from the list. (Sort order is set the same on PC and GNex).

billykxda said:
Yep - on my PC, my Google docs are 100% present, and in the right order - as they've always been for years when it was "Google Docs".
On my GNex, I get a list of docs in a different sort order, with key documents missing from the list. (Sort order is set the same on PC and GNex).
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Google drive sorts the documents according to the last date you modified the documents in Google Drive. Regardless of the modified date from the PC.

Could be, but it doesn't seem to affect my problem.
I have an important doc to which I need ready access. The last time it was edited, it was done in Google Drive - yesterday. The doc (and others) never display on the GNex - regardless of how I sort them. Also, there are no sharing settings for these docs, so that's not it either.
Ideas welcomed!

I would....
1. Check your sync settings in Accounts on your phone maybe something is screwy.
2. Uninstall/Reinstall the Google Drive App. See what happens

Thanks!
I checked sync settings. All is fine there.
I uninstalled and reinstalled yesterday. Did nothing.
I've posted on the GDrive support forum - haven't heard from anyone there.

Here's a twist...
If I go the the doc on my PC in GDrive that I can't find on my GNex, and give it a "Star", then I can see it under "Starred" on the GNex. Nice.
Take the star off the doc, and it disappears from the GNex - nowhere to be found.

Anyone getting mobile life contacts check status notification

Keep getting a notification that says mobile life contacts check status. I click on it and it doesnt do anything. I clear it... Comes back again within like 4-5 hours. How do i get this to go away?
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Don't know how to get rid of it, but just wanted you to know you weren't the only one that has it.
Also, you can't remove the mobile life contacts from the Accounts settings page either. I tried and it said it is required for some applications to work.

Strange. I guess when we start getting ics based off of the update we will be able to move it.
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I just got the same notification. Not sure how to get rid of it completely. Maybe titanium backup?

Possible Solution
I can't post a link yet since I am new but if you google "check status mobilelife contacts on htc" I found the support.tmoble one has a solution. I am about to try the google account one because I don't want to do a reset for something simple like this. Hope this helps everyone

I froze it using titanium backup.
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dave2metz said:
I froze it using titanium backup.
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Did the same, here.

Fix:
1.) Settings > Applications > All tab
2.) Find Mobile Life Contacts
3.) Force Stop and Clear Data
Reboot phone to ensure it doesn't pop back up.
Cancel that, starts again on reboot.
I thought i was finally helpful.
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Got that as well. Backed it up and uninstalled using Titanium.

It won't mess up anything if you freeze it. Use Titanium Pro to freeze, and you will never see it again.

There's definitely tons of garbage to freeze with the official tmo release that's for sure.. TI pwnage

This worked for me
Resolution steps
To fix the MobileLife contacts not syncing, follow these steps:
If you wish to continue using MobileLife contact backup you must perform a master reset of your device. To perform a master reset of the device, follow the steps below:
From home screen press Menu.
Tap Settings.
Tap Storage.
Tap Factory data reset.
After the factory reset is complete, re-sync MobileLife back to your device through accounts and sync.
For an alternate work around and to back up contacts via a Google account, complete the following steps:
From home screen tap Applications.
Tap Contacts or People.
Press Menu.
Tap Import/Export.
Tap Export to SD card.
Tap MobileLife Contacts.
Tap OK on confirm export.
You will now be returned to Contacts or People.
Press Menu.
Tap Import/Export.
Tap Import from SD card.
Tap Google Account.
Tap OK to continue.
Your contacts are now synced with your Google account. Please navigate to Accounts and sync and verify that automatic synchronization is setup.

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Resolution steps
To fix the MobileLife contacts not syncing, follow these steps:
If you wish to continue using MobileLife contact backup you must perform a master reset of your device.
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Not to be rude, but this just doesnt make any sense. On previous custom ROMs that were debloated, all I had to do was restore that apk using titanium and I was good to go.
This not withstanding, I recently flashed Darkside ICS, and I attempted to restore the APK, but now my contacts will not sync. Are there other processes that are required in order for the Tmo contacts to sync? If so, what are they? I personally like having my contacts synced to MobileLife...

Just to help out. What you are looking for is the "Back Up" and then is will have the version numbers. Freeze it for now. Then Delete it later to make sure you don't mess something up.
This should have the Icon of a rotated white book with T-Mobile color arrows on top and bottom of the icon.
freeze it. I did and it took away the account inside the "Accounts and Sync" area of settings.
Now only my Gmail account is there.
You will need the Pro version of Titanium, but it is worth every penny and more.
I know this is an old thread but I ran across it and wanted to put exactly what needed to be done.
Thanks
GyverX
unique77 said:
Keep getting a notification that says mobile life contacts check status. I click on it and it doesnt do anything. I clear it... Comes back again within like 4-5 hours. How do i get this to go away?
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Just a couple of really cool apps I found

Ok first is Sweet Home WiFi Picture Backup by SweeSoft.
It automatically uploads your pictures and videos to your home
computer when connected to your network and charging. You can
change what it uploads, where it uploads, and when it uploads. The
Free Alfa version works great for me with no limitations, I will
definelty be getting the donate version of this one.
Next is SanDisk Memory Zone by SanDisk Corp.
I found this totally by accident, it tests your sd cards speed,
shows how much space is left on internal and external sd cards,
and links to many online accounts to show how much space you have left.
It has its own file browser that lets you upload/download files between your
sd cards and online services. It also has a backup/restore feature
to the online services. I have found it very useful managing files across
several logins/accounts.
Finally is one I found in an old Titanium folder from my EPIC 4g
It is Called WifiBackup w/ 2-Way Sync by MobileFramework
I was only able to find a reference to it on AppBrain but no file, there
is a WifiBackup Pro for 1.99 but it hasn't been updated in a while. This
app was a favorite because you could set it to run at a certain time or hit it
manually and it would backup your entire sd card over wifi to your pc. Set up
was a breeze and it syncs both ways. I'm not sure yet if it backups both internal
and external. I will update post when first sync finishes.
So what are your best/coolest apps?

jmichaelsk said:
So what are your best/coolest apps?
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For me, I love DiskUsage along with Solid Explorer. It's a great tool combo to see what's eating up your internal and external SD storage.
Oh...and first ))

Tweetings for Twitter - is my favorite twitter client. if anyone has a better one other than tweetcaster, etc let me know.
Twicca - My other twitter client I had used before Tweetings.
Staples - I work there so I need to have it

hotwired34 said:
For me, I love DiskUsage along with Solid Explorer.
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I can't believe I haven't found Solid Explorer before. Time for Astro to go in the backup folder.
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If you like twitter apps, I really like Falcon. It has a great UI and it has a separate widget thats really great also.
Thanks for the other input fellas.

I've been using Tweedle as my everyday twitter client for a while. I see no reason to change yet.

jmichaelsk said:
Ok first is Sweet Home WiFi Picture Backup by SweeSoft.
It automatically uploads your pictures and videos to your home
computer when connected to your network and charging. You can
change what it uploads, where it uploads, and when it uploads. The
Free Alfa version works great for me with no limitations, I will
definelty be getting the donate version of this one.
How the hell you set this up?? I'm having the hardest time! Please help me...
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ImEVO said:
jmichaelsk said:
Ok first is Sweet Home WiFi Picture Backup by SweeSoft.
It automatically uploads your pictures and videos to your home
computer when connected to your network and charging. You can
change what it uploads, where it uploads, and when it uploads. The
Free Alfa version works great for me with no limitations, I will
definelty be getting the donate version of this one.
How the hell you set this up?? I'm having the hardest time! Please help me...
Sent from my Wicked Anthrax Sensations GS3...
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Heres how i did it.
In win7 set up another user account with admin rights.
Go to root directory on your PC and create a folder to save the pics in.
Right click on folder and choose share with, in blank box click arrow then the new user name then add.
In the bottom box to the right of the new user name click read and then change it to read/write.
It will then give you the share name. You'll need this and the new user/password.
In Sweet Home App Use full settings
Automatic Upload chooses when the app uploads your pictures
Select Collections chooses which folders on your phone to upload
Next
if your connected to your WIFI at home just choose next. You have to be connected to your home network for the set up.
Next
enter your user name and password in to the user information boxes.
under Network Share Press button to browse.
Press IP/Name and enter your computers name or internal ip address. Then your back button. Choose your share folder. Then your back button.
Next
in Organize folders I chose '-' and Seperate Collections
The first one decides how it groups your photos i chose none. '2013' would group them in folders by year taken '2013/01' would group them in folders by years and month. The Seperate Collections keeps the folder names you have set up on your phone. So pictures in Camera\vacation on the phone would be saved as Camera\Vacation. if you grouped by '2013' you would get Camera\vacation\2012 Camera\Vacation\2013 .....
That should get you going. The biggest pain is making windows share the folder. I have noticed it hangs up on large videos sometimes but i think it might be my router as the only thing that fixes it is to unplug and replug the router. Rebooting the PC, rebooting phone, Cycling WIFI on/off, or clearing app cache wouldn't let it start back up, but unpluging and repluging the router has fixed it everytime.
Hope that helps
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jmichaelsk said:
ImEVO said:
Heres how i did it.
In win7 set up another user account with admin rights.
Go to root directory on your PC and create a folder to save the pics in.
Right click on folder and choose share with, in blank box click arrow then the new user name then add.
In the bottom box to the right of the new user name click read and then change it to read/write.
It will then give you the share name. You'll need this and the new user/password.
In Sweet Home App Use full settings
Automatic Upload chooses when the app uploads your pictures
Select Collections chooses which folders on your phone to upload
Next
if your connected to your WIFI at home just choose next. You have to be connected to your home network for the set up.
Next
enter your user name and password in to the user information boxes.
under Network Share Press button to browse.
Press IP/Name and enter your computers name or internal ip address. Then your back button. Choose your share folder. Then your back button.
Next
in Organize folders I chose '-' and Seperate Collections
The first one decides how it groups your photos i chose none. '2013' would group them in folders by year taken '2013/01' would group them in folders by years and month. The Seperate Collections keeps the folder names you have set up on your phone. So pictures in Camera\vacation on the phone would be saved as Camera\Vacation. if you grouped by '2013' you would get Camera\vacation\2012 Camera\Vacation\2013 .....
That should get you going. The biggest pain is making windows share the folder. I have noticed it hangs up on large videos sometimes but i think it might be my router as the only thing that fixes it is to unplug and replug the router. Rebooting the PC, rebooting phone, Cycling WIFI on/off, or clearing app cache wouldn't let it start back up, but unpluging and repluging the router has fixed it everytime.
Hope that helps
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Wow.....:beer:
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Dropbox
Galaxy S 3 32gb ...Sprint
jelly bean LJ7 rooted....yahhhyuhhh

Dropbox and other cloud services are great if you have the extra space. I usually take lots of pics and videos that would use up the initial 5gb pretty quick, plus having to upload and then download back to computer. Once you get the windows part done you are pretty well set. File managers like astro and solid explorer can then be setup so you can access your PC shares from your phone for easy file transfers without plugging in.
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I bought a Pogoplug and attached a 500GB drive to it. Everything backs up to it. Its been a solid little device and the phone app works quite well.

MadFlava said:
I bought a Pogoplug and attached a 500GB drive to it. Everything backs up to it. Its been a solid little device and the phone app works quite well.
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Do you still have the monthly charge this way?
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Stock Email Folder Sync

Can anyone help me with this? I want to give the stock email app (as opposed to Gmail app) a try again but can I get the folders I've created to sync back further then 1 month? Like I save things I need for work into folders that I access later when I need them. In the Gmail app I can see all emails in a folder...even from like a year ago, but don't seem to be able to on the stock app. Can I? Thanks.

Yes you can. It's what I do all the time. Look in the email settings. You can sync ALL emails to your phone.
However, after you change the respective setting, you have to actually click on each individual folder to have the download commence. This is the important part. Just tap one folder, back out, tap another, back out, tap another, back out, etc. And just let your phone download in the background. Make sure you're either plugged in if you have lots of emails, as it'll drain as when it's downloading in the background. After everything is done, you can search any email you want with the built in device search function.

ekjl said:
Yes you can. It's what I do all the time. Look in the email settings. You can sync ALL emails to your phone.
However, after you change the respective setting, you have to actually click on each individual folder to have the download commence. This is the important part. Just tap one folder, back out, tap another, back out, tap another, back out, etc. And just let your phone download in the background. Make sure you're either plugged in if you have lots of emails, as it'll drain as when it's downloading in the background. After everything is done, you can search any email you want with the built in device search function.
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I'm just not seeing the option to sync all. Mind providing a screen shot so i can see if I'm missing something?

contacts disappeared

I got a text from my mom but it only showed her number. I checked a few of my other contacts and found that my dad and one of my brothers was also missing. What the hell happened and is there some way to recover these and any others that have gone missing. Those contacts are not new, they've been saved to my Google account since the G1.

Try re-syncing your google account: go to settings -> Users & Accounts -> Click on your google account -> Click on account sync -> toggle contacts back and forth

nivlac978 said:
I got a text from my mom but it only showed her number. I checked a few of my other contacts and found that my dad and one of my brothers was also missing. What the hell happened and is there some way to recover these and any others that have gone missing. Those contacts are not new, they've been saved to my Google account since the G1.
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Seems like you are not the only one having these issues. http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/12/07/contacts-sync-breaking-devices-running-android-oreo/
POTENTIAL FIX: https://productforums.google.com/fo...pHswBNJUQ;context-place=forum/phone-by-google
Go to system settings>apps. Show all then click three dots to show system apps
Then find contacts storage and tap that. Then storage and clear app data.
Then everything will update

remove the URL in the contacts profile if you tied that contact to a google+ account. That's how I was able to get them all synced.

mademan420 said:
Seems like you are not the only one having these issues. http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/12/07/contacts-sync-breaking-devices-running-android-oreo/
POTENTIAL FIX: https://productforums.google.com/fo...pHswBNJUQ;context-place=forum/phone-by-google
Go to system settings>apps. Show all then click three dots to show system apps
Then find contacts storage and tap that. Then storage and clear app data.
Then everything will update
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Thank you sir. Got them back for now.

nivlac978 said:
Thank you sir. Got them back for now.
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glad it worked:good:

mademan420 said:
Seems like you are not the only one having these issues. http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/12/07/contacts-sync-breaking-devices-running-android-oreo/
POTENTIAL FIX: https://productforums.google.com/fo...pHswBNJUQ;context-place=forum/phone-by-google
Go to system settings>apps. Show all then click three dots to show system apps
Then find contacts storage and tap that. Then storage and clear app data.
Then everything will update
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I just logged in to say THAAAAANKS. That was the easiest fix in Android history lol.

Exactly the same, logged in to say thank you

So, I tried this, and the issue isn't resolved. I have to go in to settings and restore contacts more or less every day. Any idea why that might be happening?

When I was logged into Gmail earlier today there was a red banner up at the very top saying there was an issue with contacts. Maybe it's related to that?

This is the steps to transfer contacts from Gmail to cellphone:
Step 1. Unlock your Android phone and enter the "Settings" on the device.
Step 2. Choose "Accounts & Sync" under the "Settings" section and elect the "Add account" option.
Step 3. Tap "Google" from the list and click the "Next" button to go to the next interface.
Step 4. Hit the "Sign in" button if you already have a Google account and then enter your username and password. If not, you need to create a Google account at first.
Step 5. After entering your Google account, you can see there are many file types under the "Sync" setting. Just mark the "Contacts"

mango9 said:
This is the steps to transfer contacts from Gmail to cellphone:
Step 1. Unlock your Android phone and enter the "Settings" on the device.
Step 2. Choose "Accounts & Sync" under the "Settings" section and elect the "Add account" option.
Step 3. Tap "Google" from the list and click the "Next" button to go to the next interface.
Step 4. Hit the "Sign in" button if you already have a Google account and then enter your username and password. If not, you need to create a Google account at first.
Step 5. After entering your Google account, you can see there are many file types under the "Sync" setting. Just mark the "Contacts"
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First, welcome to the forums. Second, this is a dead thread that the issue was already resolved for the OP.
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EeZeEpEe said:
First, welcome to the forums. Second, this is a dead thread that the issue was already resolved for the OP.
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Hey, at least his post was more informative than many of the noobs we see. I'll give him an A for effort, and a C+ for realizing what he did :laugh:

this happened to me when i removed an account from my phone, i just had to reinstate that account on my phone export the contacts from that google account and import them into the other, and then remove that first account again. and set the new account for automatic saving.