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Google Contacts newbie

Right, this is my first smartphone, so can someone explain something to me.
I don't have a Gmail account (I use the HTC Mail thing to access my Sky email account when I want to)
What I don't understand is the whole "Google Contacts" thing?
Where do these contacts sync to?
Can I enter the contacts on my phone and then sync them to the Internet (rather than have them stored on my phone?)
Do I need a Gmail account for this?
Any help and tips would be gratefully recieved.
Thanks

Yes you need a google account,
And yes the phone will automatically sync the contacts to your google account.
Fon22

The google contacts will sync to your gmail account, and be stored on the internet.
Creating a gmail account is fast and easy and you get a rediculous amount of storage (mine is at 7447 MB right now, and I am only useing 200 some MBs and I never delete things and have had the service since 2004).

jock23 said:
What I don't understand is the whole "Google Contacts" thing?
Where do these contacts sync to?
Can I enter the contacts on my phone and then sync them to the Internet (rather than have them stored on my phone?)
Do I need a Gmail account for this?
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with google/gmail account you have an access to plenty of google services -- google contacts is one of them.
htc desire has it's own People program that manages contacts for you. it can store your contacts for you in three different places:
- sim card
- phone
- google account
if you choose to store your contact as google contact, your phone will automatically submit your contact to google contacts service. so that you can manage your contacts there, sync with other devices/services that can use google contacts service, etc.
contacts stored on the phone or on sim card are, simply put, local to the phone -- not easily available elsewhere (i guess that you have to use htc sync, to push them somewhere)
how it works for me? i keep all my contacts as google contacts, so that when i add contact on my phone, it's automatically available on google contacts service site. most of the time i add contacts using webpage -- as it's faster -- these contacts are synced to my phone automatically as well.
VERY IMPORTANT: do not add birth date to your google contacts on your phone -- such contacts won't sync properly -- they will just disappear from the phone \-: luckly most of my contacts are linked with their facebook accounts -- and People app gets brith date form there.

I can't sync the contacts in both ways... only from the gmail account to the pda. There is any explanation?

Maybe the contacts on your phone are set to be "Phone" contacts rather than "Google" contacts? If you did sync them from Outlook to your phone, then that's the case. To convert all of them to Google contacts, export them to the SD card, delete all and re-import them. Then it will ask whether they should be Phone- or Google-contacts.

Thanks, I will try.

Facebook contacts don't LINK with my phone book contacts on v2.42!

I've searched the forum and did not come on an answer.
Service guys had upgraded my soft to 2.42 (I love them for that. We all do).
I had to restore my contacts and login to google and facebook again.
The facebook contacts do show up in my phone book.
However, I can't link them to the existing phone book contacts.
I've tried everything:
1. I've created another "Facebook for HTC Sense" account - it has just doubled the contacts. No linking possible.
2. I made the system to propose some linking somehow (ONLY TWO CONTACTS TO LINK FOUND! It's just suddenly proposed them). However strangely the links show:
- two facebook contacts
- and a google contact without a phone number, without a picture I've got in my phone book for that contact and and with not the name I've got in my phone book.
3. I tried to link some contacts manually: linking facebook contacts to phone book ones or the other way - phone book to facebook contacts. It shows that it does some operation but no result appears. The contacts are not linked after that.
So I steel have contacts with phone numbers and contacts with facebook account listed SEPARATELY in my phone book.
Do you know how to help me?
I'm trying hard not to throw this phone out of the window.

I have the same problem, does anybody know what to do?

Problem with Contacts and Google Sync

Greetings guys,
I had to reset my phone to defaults this afternoon, so i lost all apps, data and contacts. When i try to sync with my google contacts, i never got all of contacts back, althought i always selected save to google account when i added a new contact on my phone.
It's like some contacts "stuck " to the google account and where synced back, while others didn't.
What could have gone wrong ?

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!!!

S20+ contacts - sync google contacts - big problem

Hello,have S20+ with the latest Android. Using 2x SIM card (home, work). Every contacts are synchronized to my private google account.
Curently I have 500 contacts in Google Contacts. Device shows me 518 contacts.
Sync doesn't work well. Deleted all contacts from google (500 contacts), in device are 43 contacts now. Deleted them and everything from the trash. Imported 500 contacts to google again, mobile shows me 571 contacts now.
Have this problem for some months. Sometimes I found a lot of contacts are deleted (in trash). Google shows me contacts was deleted by device ie at the night if I sleep.
- tried factory reset, didn't help
- yesterday I removed all contacts again and manually add every contact via google contacts. When 30 contacts was in google contacts, device shows me 42 contacts (a lot of duplicates again).
Any fix for that please? It's really uncomfortable. With iOS I didn't have these problems. I'm thinking about returning to iOS again!
example of duplicates in attachment.. If I go to find duplicates in device (by number, name, email), it still shows me there are no duplicates

I cleaned up some contacts and just found this:
google contacts: 488 contacts
s20 (phone app): 503 contacts
s20 (contacts app): 513 contacts
wtf?

SIM will have some carrier contacts and may have some you saved there in the past?. You may have saved some to the native or other dialler contacts before making Google the default account for contacts
Dont think the device has a problem, just think you havent realised how contacts works or realised theres carrier and dialler contacts.
Stop reimporting them and creating more issues.
Stop manually recreating them because Google will sync and create duplicates - youre creating the problem there...
Google Contacts has an option to merge and fix contacts, both in the Contacts app and in the online web page
Sign in - Google Accounts
Please never mention that locked down abomination of a phone OS again, we like freedom here...though it may be jarring to some

you're not right man..
1. don't have any contacts in SIM cards (tried both SIM in another device)
2. made factory reset (without restore backup) few times, still same problem
3. never had this problem with Android 11. It started with Android 12 I think
4. today tried delete all contacts and reimport again 4x. Everytime device showed me wrong number.
4.1 - first import shows me 28 contacts difference
4.2 - second import - 15 contacts difference
4.3 - third import - 41 contacts difference
4.4 - fourth import - 1 difference
5. if device shows me duplicates, there are no duplicates in google contacts
see attachments..

RenikSK said:
you're not right man..
1. don't have any contacts in SIM cards (tried both SIM in another device)
2. made factory reset (without restore backup) few times, still same problem
3. never had this problem with Android 12. It started with Android 13 I think
4. today tried delete all contacts and reimport again 4x. Everytime device showed me wrong number.
4.1 - first import shows me 28 contacts difference
4.2 - second import - 15 contacts difference
4.3 - third import - 41 contacts difference
4.4 - fourth import - 1 difference
5. if device shows me duplicates, there are no duplicates in google contacts
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Youre seeking support for a beta? Report it to Google....thats what betas are for

sorry, made a mistake in post. It started with Android 12. Using latest official version.

1) What contact app are you using?
2) What is your default account for handling/syncing contacts
Hopefully both Google....or both Samsung

1. default samsung's app
2. my default account for syncing is google account.