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Problem with Google contacts

Last night i decided to sort out my google contacts because the ones in the phone were well sorted but the ones in my gmail account weren't. So I exported the contacts to the SD card then i transfered them to my PC and replaced the ones on GMail with them. I made some changes and on GMail and then exported the new contacts to the PC then SD card and then deleted and replaced the ones on the phone. Now both the phone and the Gmail account have the same info on them. After awhile i made a few minor changes to the contacts on Gmail and since then it won't sync with my phone contacs anymore.
In theory i could retry the above process but that would be a temporary fix until i need to change or add something on either the Gmail account or the phone. What can i do to make google contacts sync to my phone? (BTW, I have a stock HTC Desire 2.2 Froyo with the latest OTA update and i'm running Windows 7 on my PC)

Were your Gmail contacts syncing with the phone previously? The default behavior is for changes you make in the browser to appear on the phone right away. This can be toggled on/off by going to Menu/Settings/Accounts and sync and touching "Auto-sync". Check that first, and "Background data" above it are both checked. You will see your active accounts below those two things under "Manage Accounts". If the two boxes above are checked and your Gmail account is listed below, then I'm out of ideas.

I have the same problem - but it seems that I have misunderstud the greatnes of google contacts???
Because it works for me to sync my Desire with the changes I make in my google contacts ON MY COMPUTER - however (and this is what I thought was the cool bit with google contacts...) I cannot sync my contacts on my gmail (on the computer) with my Desire when I ex create a new contact ON MY DESIRE...
Any solutions, missing settings...???

Push contact info from phone to Google
foxhunter123,
When I go to save a new contact on my phone, I usually start at the call history. Let's assume you dialed a new number for someone and now you want to save that number you just called as a new contact.
Touch the plus sign next to the number in your call history. You should get prompt to "Save to People" with options to create a new contact or save to an existing one.
Choose the option you want, then the next window asks you what type of contact. Google, SIM, or Phone. Choose Google and then input whatever other info you want, like their name, etc. Note that if you sync the phone with more than one Google account, they will all appear here, and you need to pick the right one.
Once you save it, it should sync that info to your Google contacts you see on your computer. In other words, the phone will push the new contact info to Google, instead of the other way around.
There are probably several different ways of doing this, but this way works just fine for me. I have an unrooted Desire running the latest stock ROM with all the updates current. If you try this and it does not work, you might be better off rooting and trying out a different ROM, or trying a factory reset.
Double check your settings I mention in the second post, and try the above steps. Good luck and post here again if you are not successful.

Hello
And thank you very very much for trying to help me!
I just cannot get it to work... :-(
I have just exported my contacts from my gmail on my computer using the vcard format (the only format I can find on my Desire when importing?) and then I deleted all my contacts on my Desire and then imported the vcard file so that both the gmailcontacts on my computer gmail and the desire is identical.
But I just cannot get new contacts to apear in my pc-gmail when I add them on the Desire!!!
When I go to settings, acounts and syncronization, everything is tjecked and when I press my google acount it's also tjecked in all 3 options.
However - and this is perhaps the problem... - the date of my syncronizecantacts is wrong - it says 21/112010 but both gmail and calender has the current date...
Is there something that can block the sync of contacts?
I have previosly used HTC sync but that was when I tried to sync my contacts to my pc's outlook and since I'm now 100 % google I don't use it anymore...
I really hope you (or somebody else) can help me... ;-)
Oh and Happy New Year

My google contact sync stopped working a few weeks ago. The last time this happened it was down to a facebook issue. However this time I ignored the problem and use MyPhoneExplorer (free) to sync contacts between Android and PC.

Well I'm out of ideas. At this point, you should try doing a factory reset to see if that fixes it. If not, root and try a different ROM. If the phone is still under warranty you could also try returning or exchanging it.

Well... I took the big step and made a factory reset and now everything just works perfect!
And I now can see why the android system is so great!
A thing to remark though is, that it's a know issue that you have to have a google acount BEFORE you start up the Desire the first time, but I think that it's also safe to say that you also have to have your contacts stored as google contacts before you start up the Desire for the first time!(?)
I also thought that I had to import my contacts to my Desire wich isn't the case since they now come automatically from my Gmail (Googlecontacts on my pc/the internet) to my Desire... ;-)
Another very huge advantage with doing the above is that after installing all of my programs again I have still 50 MB free where there previously only was 26 MB left...???
My biggest problem now is that I have to start all over in Angry Birds and seasons... Or is there a way to restore my levels completed in the games?

Foxhunter123 said:
Another very huge advantage with doing the above is that after installing all of my programs again I have still 50 MB free where there previously only was 26 MB left...???
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That sounds like the Contacts memory leak problem.
See:
http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/127440-internal-memory-again.html

Next time, before doing a factory reset, try clearing data for both Contacts and Contacts Storage from the Application Manager. The Google sync should kick in shortly after and put everything back on your phone from your Google account.

Backing Up Contacts... Sim Card?

I've been looking around for a long time in searching this site and other forum sites and no one really had the answer i was looking for, so im only wondering about this. Since we've all been rooted, i decided to install a ROM, and when i finally had it booted and everything, i was prompted to put my google account in to sync my contacts. But they didnt show up? Now mind you, i only have 1 google account, and that is the one i created at verizon when i asked for the DI2. Im currently on the Stock right now with all my data. in Settings >Account & Sync, i have the backup assistant, facebook, the google account, mail news and twitter. In the muiu ROM, i put that google account in but never got my contacts back. So my question is, are there other ways of backing up your contacts without erasing them to your SD card, OR SIM CARD? when i go to export contacts, it wants to save it as a file in my SD card, and then when i import them on another rom, it asks for a Vcard, but it doesnt work? Can anyone explain this to me?

Sync the contacts to your google account. I believe it asks you when adding a contact if you want them as a google contact or phone only. Make sure you select google contact. Then check the "sync contacts" box under your google account sync settings (its checked by default, but I uncheck it once its done to save battery life. Don't know if you do the same). Then force a resync of contacts before you change roms to make sure no new contacts or info are left out. From there change to any rom, or any other android phone and your contacts will be restored on the initial sign in.
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yeah i see what your saying. In the people app, when i click menu, and then view contacts, it says with Facebook fot HTC Sense, i have 538 contacts, my Google account has 4, and the Phone has 179. How to save all the phone contacts to my google account?

Not sure myself. Never tried it and I dont know if you can change a phone contact to a google contact once the info has already been put in. Try GO contacts from the market? Lets you back up all your contacts. Haven't tried it but I've backed up and restored texts with GO SMS from the same developer, and it worked great. Im assuming it would work just as well.
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tried it, and it worked just as i expected. Huge thanks, you saved me a LOT of time! and big ups on that SMS backup app, it did wonders. much appreciation

Glad I could help
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Note 4 not syncing contacts to Google?

It looks like my new contacts that I add on my note sync's with google sometimes. I'm not sure why but it seems like some contacts will sync with no issues and be on my google account with no issues then some of them only syncs to my phone. Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

for whatever reason, new contacts get stored on the phone, I had made a post a while back about this.
added new contacts to the phone, and expected them to go to exchange, found out they were stored on the phone, on my old S2 I had the option to change where the contact was stored, directly from the phone.
that is not an option on this phone currently.
my workaround was to create the contact in outlook, so it would go to exchange, then it will sync to phone. in your case, probably just create the contact at the google website, then let it sync to you phone.

Yeah, that's what I started to do but it's just annoying because I grab a friends number on the fly and not remember to do that. I just find it weird that it only works sometimes.
xlr8shun said:
for whatever reason, new contacts get stored on the phone, I had made a post a while back about this.
added new contacts to the phone, and expected them to go to exchange, found out they were stored on the phone, on my old S2 I had the option to change where the contact was stored, directly from the phone.
that is not an option on this phone currently.
my workaround was to create the contact in outlook, so it would go to exchange, then it will sync to phone. in your case, probably just create the contact at the google website, then let it sync to you phone.
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Are you selecting Google contact as your option as it seems to default to device if you do not specify.

When I add a contact, it always gives me a choice where to store it. I always choose Google.

You know sometimes it's the simple things that get overlooked.. I totally missed that option when creating a new contact. I was trying to find a way to change where it was stored after it was created.
Thanks for the helpful info.
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G4 deleting my contacts after I add them - WTF

Hey guys,
For the last month, since I changed sim cards with a different network, every time I add a new contact to my phone it saves it in and then 15 minutes later it is deleted.
Contacts are being saved to my Google account (not to my sim card or to the phone) and contacts are being displayed from my google account as well.
If I lookup the contacts on gmail they also don't appear.
I used to be able to view the contacts on my google contacts list and edit and delete contacts over there which would sync directly to my phone.
In short - no settings have been changed on my phone at all and it appears that there is a sync issue.
I also tried deleting the system cache and nothing has changed.
I have deleted my google account on my phone more than once and tried it again but it STILL doesn't work...
What the hell is going on and how do I fix this?? I cannot continue like this anymore as I am losing contacts when I think they are being saved
I just added a girls number to my phone. It was on for like 5 minutes. Showed up with her name on whatsapp etc. and then it just erased itself and the contact dissapeared and the name on whatsapp.
I might also like to add that I have the same issue with Gmail - e-mails are not pushing on my phone anymore and only manual checking works... it's terrible I am just so angry at the moment with anything google and this stupid G4 !!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!

Can't create / sync Google contacts?

Maybe I'm an idiot, and forgive me if I'm asking a dumb question, but this feels like something that should be easy but I can't figure it out.
This is my first HTC. On every other phone dating all the way back to my Galaxy S2, when I created a contact, it would ask if I wanted to save it on my phone or as a Google contact (or automatically save it to whichever of those two I had told it to do by default.) Saving it as a Google contact automatically synced it to my Google account.
When I set up my HTC 10, it downloaded all of my Google contacts. Easy!
Tonight, when somebody texted me they got a new number, I went to change it on a contact that already exists; it asked which contact I wanted to edit: their phone contact or their Google contact. Changing their Google contact didn't update the phone contact.
So then I just deleted his contact, and created it anew; it only asks if I want to create it on the phone or on the SIM card, with no Google contact option. Furthermore, creating it on the phone doesn't sync it to Google, nor does creating it on Google sync it to the phone.
Is there something I'm missing here? Is this some HTC specific thing where it just doesn't do Google contacts? Any help on this would be much, much appreciated; I'd really only rather maintain the Google contacts and not have to micromanage contact lists or use a third party syncing app (but I guess I will if it comes to it).

NEVER MIND!
You can ignore me.
For whatever reason, "contacts" wasn't available to check in my sync settings. But I fixed it:
Removed my Google account
Deleted all local phone contacts (to avoid possible duplicates later)
Added my Google account again
"Contacts" is in the Sync settings again, re-synced all my contacts without problems.
No idea what caused it but there you go. I thought I was going crazy because I had no option to sync contacts. If anybody knows what may have caused it I'd be interested to hear, but otherwise just ignore this post :-/

Thank you! I had the same problem and couldn't add contacts to my Google list. I did the same (logged out of account and logged back in) and the sync contacts came back along with the ability to add contacts again. I wonder why that happened.

I'm having similar issues with my HTC 10, majority of my contacts are synced on my Gmail account but I'm missing about 4 numbers, the contact details are there like name but no phone number. I've checked my phone and the contact has a phone number and linked to other accounts like whatsapp but no info on Gmail contacts.
I did manually input the number onto my phone because the numbers was missing so I believe maybe it's the format on the HTC 10, I'll do more testing...

sync google accounts
It's been a while since I've been through this, but unfortunately I have a similar problem. My problem is "Google account" in accounts and sync. But I can only select google photos when I click on the sync mark. No selection box for contacts. How can I fix that?
The device has clone s3 and ics 4.0.4 on it. The gapps packages available for this release also do not work. It does not synchronize people in any case. I cleaned the data from the applications, I deleted Accounts.db and reinstalled it.
Finally, I found the following lines for Accounts.xml and added it, but still there is no positive situation. What else can I do? Thank you.
Syncable = "true"> <authority id = "3" account = ".." type = "com.google" authority = "com.android.contacts"
<PeriodicSync period = "86400" />
</ Authority>

Let me add this here, please:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/google-account-syncing-t3561756

Xenorin said:
Maybe I'm an idiot, and forgive me if I'm asking a dumb question, but this feels like something that should be easy but I can't figure it out.
This is my first HTC. On every other phone dating all the way back to my Galaxy S2, when I created a contact, it would ask if I wanted to save it on my phone or as a Google contact (or automatically save it to whichever of those two I had told it to do by default.) Saving it as a Google contact automatically synced it to my Google account.
When I set up my HTC 10, it downloaded all of my Google contacts. Easy!
Tonight, when somebody texted me they got a new number, I went to change it on a contact that already exists; it asked which contact I wanted to edit: their phone contact or their Google contact. Changing their Google contact didn't update the phone contact.
So then I just deleted his contact, and created it anew; it only asks if I want to create it on the phone or on the SIM card, with no Google contact option. Furthermore, creating it on the phone doesn't sync it to Google, nor does creating it on Google sync it to the phone.
Is there something I'm missing here? Is this some HTC specific thing where it just doesn't do Google contacts? Any help on this would be much, much appreciated; I'd really only rather maintain the Google contacts and not have to micromanage contact lists or use a third party syncing app (but I guess I will if it comes to it).
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Halo !!!
I have same trouble with sync on my htc 10, but I think the problem is not only in the phone, because I have the same google account on another phone, ( alcatel idol 3) and also the same problems with contacts. For example, a sudden disappearance, a certain number of contacts, from my contacts list in both phone ???? On htc 10, a special problem is synchronization is not always possible, I have auto sync on, but the contacts cant be synced when I want to do, but in follow a few days thay are.
That,s whot i do not understand, I tried cleaning cash, and re-installing Google Account, but the problem comes back after a while, so..thats it. If anyone knows something more, would like to here. Thanks !!!

If Power Saver mode is enabled, Contacts Sync is disabled. Sounds crazy but just disable Power Saver (on HTC it's under Settings->Power->Power saver) and the contact sync will start right up. No need to remove and recreate your google account, restart the phone, or any of that - just flip the one switch.