strange issue when syncing contacts to gmail - One (M9) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

i am posting this not only for htc one m9, it applies to all htc sense.
and this issue i think it is related to htc android because of sense.
when i want to save a new contact, i write the mob. no. then enter the name, then i choose to save the contact on gmail account.
after that when i want to synchronize my contacts to be saved on the cloud, they disappear when i enter to my contacts and search by name.
but when i dial the mobile no. i can see the name then, and when i press on that contact, it shows it is linked.
i don't want to see the contact as linked, i want to save it directly to gmail

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Change contact location (SIM, Google, Phone) impossible ?

Is there any way to change the contact's "location" (SIM, Google, Phone) ?
I would like to get all my "Phone" contacts synchronized with Google, but i can' find any way how to change the setting from "Phone" to "Google".
I can't find any way to sync all the contacts (SIM+Google+Phone) with Google.
Is it a bug or do I missed somthing ?
Have you tried Contacts > Menu > Import/Export?
that doesn't work, I've tried. There are a few threads here asking exactly the same question.
All we'd like is to be able to put all the contact links we have from google, facebook, phone, phone, phone and phone for one contact to go under one contact, hopefully, the google one, to include all the relevant info from all the places like facebook. I don't believe anyone has said how this can be done yet.
Bandare said:
that doesn't work, I've tried. There are a few threads here asking exactly the same question.
All we'd like is to be able to put all the contact links we have from google, facebook, phone, phone, phone and phone for one contact to go under one contact, hopefully, the google one, to include all the relevant info from all the places like facebook. I don't believe anyone has said how this can be done yet.
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That's really not the same thing as what the OP was asking. Mind me asking why you want to change that, tho? It's only a horrifying mess in the edit contact screen, when viewing the contact I only see one entry (Name, phone, email, address, nickname, facebook profile).
Of course, when I hit edit I have
Google contact with phone, email
Google contact with another email
Google contact with phone, email, address, nickname
Facebook contact
It's all very derp.
I don't want to link all the contact accounts for one person (his twitter, phone, gmail accounts) together.
what i want is to move all the "Phone" contacts to "Google" contacts location.
Example: when I click on People->Menu->View, then i have
SIM 0
Google 41
Phone 123
contacts
I want to have 41+123= 164 Google contacts only.
because i want automatically backup contacts on Gmail (e.g. to be able to restore them after ROM flash)
When i click on individual contact, then i see "Phone" on the right upper corner of the contact screen. i want to see "google" there. But it's not editable. Its only linkable ...
When i restored my contacts using mybackup pro they all restored as google contacts as well as phone contacts, so then i just deleted all of my phone cntcts using a contact deleter app from the market.
Google contacts all the way!
The google contacts have the phone and facebook info combined so photo birthday and all that.
thanks for the tips.
unfortunately my myBackup trial has allready expired.
but i have exported all "Phone" contacts to a *.vcf file, then deleted all contacts and finally imported them from *.vcf into "Google" contacts.
hopefully it will not mess up after synchronization with google (which is running in this moment)
I recently kinda done this, I just exported all contacts, and then imported multiple rather than one or all, and when you import it asked you where you wish to save them, Gmail, phone or sim, This is the ONLY way I can see about doing this
It's probably the only way to do this and it worked for me.
problem solved.

contacts save and sync but dont appear in people

Hi all,
I am running a completely stock HTC Desire and I have a really strange annoying problem.
The problem is if I add a new contact, it adds the person, as when I am on "Phone" and tap the numbers to spell their name they appear.
Also if I go into google mail and contacts, I can see the contact.
What I cant see is the contact in the "People" application.
This is really frustrating and I was wondering if anyone had any idea how I can fix this? Just to note, I am adding contacts setting them to my google group exactly the same as I have always done. Im not sure when this started to happen.
Thanks for your time.
When adding the contact via phone, are you ensuring the contact type at the top is a Google one?
When adding the contact via Gmail, are you ensuring the contact is added to teh 'My Contacts' group?
Try this...
Go into your Contacts.
Hit your Menu key and select Display Options.
Select your GMAIL account.
Make sure there are checkmarks in each of the lines, especially "All Other Contacts.
Click Done.
HTH

[Q] How to move contacts from SIM to google?

A question, is there some quick and/or easy to move all contacts to google account, so i can use later facebook pictures etc? Thank you.
Hmm.. I've accomplished that by exporting the numbers to a .CSV file from my old phone and then importing them via the webbased GMail.
My Desire doesn't seem to want to export it's contacts anywhere, though...
I remember when I first inserted my sim into a Magic I imported to Google from it. Haven't looked back since
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
i think i'll do everything manually....
Go to HTC People
Press Menu
Select Import / Export
Select Export to SD Card
Select SIM
Select OK
Whilst still in HTC People
Press Menu
Select Import/Export
Select Import From SD Card
Select Google
Select Import All vCard Files
Should be done.
wow will try
possibile that will make double contacts maybe?
nope still many contacts "sim" only....ok manually it's
I have done this now, how to import facebook pics to contacts?
go into setting-> accounts and sync
over there you should have a facebook if you set it up on initial set up.make sure sync contacts is selected.
it will try match up facebook contacts with your own contacts.
the ones that do not show up, go into the menu, select people. go onto the person's name.
on the bottom scroll onto the sync looking symbol. it should be between a mail and photo option.
you will then get an option to "link facebook profile" to the user. once this link has been set it will not lose it when you upgrade your OS's
yep noticed now pics
Ok now that i fixed everything....
When someone calls me, and if he's linked to FB account, will his or her pic be shown in dialer?

[Q] Desire Z - The linked contacts don't show up when trying to add to groups

I think the title says it all.
I have all my Outlook contacts synced with the phone (so they are phone contacts). Some of the phone contacts are also linked with Facebook for HTC Sense, some with Peep, and some with both. I only chose to show the Phone contacts in the People app, so the contacts from Peep or Facebook that are not also in Phone/Outlook won't show up. This is ok and I have all the contacts I need in People/All Contacts.
The trouble starts when I want to add contacts to groups. I can only choose from contacts that are not linked with Facebook/Peep. Those "Phone" contacts that have Facebook accounts won't show up. Of course, I can manually go to each contact, edit them and add them to groups. But it'll take a long time and I'm too lazy to do that.
Any idea why they don't show up when I try to add them from groups? Is it a bug?
This has been fixed in the last system update.

CM7 help with some issues?

Looking to see if I can solve some issues with my phone without havign to do a fatcory reset,
1. At first the phone wasn't showing contacts from the sim card. So I imported them, but now it appears the phone is reading them as I have duplicates for a lot of the contacts. How do I delete the ones off my phone.
2. I have FB on my phone, but contacts unsynced. When ever I get a txt it comes through with their facebook account name and sometimes their picture. It even happens when they call me. How can I stop this from happening?
Basically how can I use only the contacts on my sim card? Don't want the phone using any others!
Thanks,
First install "go contacts" from market. In its menu options, you can batch delete all contacts. Do it. Then go to settings in your phone( before Google or Facebook sync the contacts again), then go to accounts and sync. You may see you online accounts there like gmail,facebook etc. Click on every account you have and untick sync contacts( if you want to avoid any others like sync Calender/ mail etc, you can untick it too) . Done fb or gmail will never sync contacts till you tick it again and do a sync.
Now go to contacts in your phone( if you are done with removing contacts, you can uninstall " go contacts". I do the same with it on my cm7 rom, as the stock contact application does not have a batch delete option . If you can find any other application which can do the same batch delete , u may use it insted of " go contacts ") now in contacts click menu and it have an import/ export option. Use it to copy contacts from sim to phone.
Remember to take a backup of all you contacts to SD card using the import/ export option. In case you may delete phone/ sim contacts. Pls note that phone contacts load much faster than sim contacts. So just copy it to phone memory. And use it.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App
simple.....!!
see first of all keep the facebook for android" app on internal memory...its important othewise you will have to sync every time after the boot...to sync all your fb contact with phone.or to have all your FB contact on your phone you just have to go to settings of the Facebook app...press menu on the primary facebook page..and then select settings and their you'll find an option to sync your contacts...just select "sync all"... an their you go....DONE!!
and yes dont forget to join your existing phone contacts or gmail contacts to your FB contacts it can be done by open the contact you want to join/link > select editing contacts from menu > now again go to menu and their you will see option to join. and in the edit menu u'll also find NICK NAME bar just fill your friends nick name their and it'll be shown in every call/msg to you...
anmol, thats how to sync FB contacts. I wanted to do the opposit.
So I deleted all contacts. Including sim card ones =[
How can I add a conact to sim card for the phone to view them? I can only see the option of my google account of phone only, unsynced.
I prefer to keep all my conacts on my sim card, if something happens to my phone atleast I have the sim card!
CM just seems one big pain after an other!
Remb you have an sd too, back up contacts to sd. I think default contact manager on cm7 have no option to copy contacts to sim.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App
Cm7 does have import/export contacts to SD, I had to do the wifes the other day.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using xda premium
Aye thanks guys, noticed that it didn't actually delete the contacts off my sim card. Sure I tried to import off sim, either phone was having a hissy fit or I was being an idiot.
Got it all sorted now though!

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