alright my phone has been acting crazy stupid it won't let me sync my facebook contacts. Also I noticed google didn't sync all my contacts. So I went and deleted all of them by going to clear contacts under applications after that I went back and sync my gmail up noticed I needed to add some more so I decided to input them my self. Now when I press the+ button it gives me the message can't add contact no active account. If I do a factory reset will it mess with my webtop mod or brick my phone any help will be greatly appreciated
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Occasionally when syncing i get a notification telling me that a full re sync needs to be performed and once it is done i find that my favorite contacts have all dissapeared.
can anyone tell me if there is a way to prevent this happening, or make a backup of the favorites that can be restored easily?
Have a similar problem but after a soft reset, my favorite contacts have all dissapeared
Apprecaite any advice
Thanks
Ever since I got my Magic, and because I didn't like the feature very much, I had the "sync contacts" option to off. I manually entered all the phone numbers & email I had, and was fine with it.
Then, today, I thought "oh, wth, i'll turn contact sync so that my gmail will also have my phone numbers and they'll be safe". little did I know.
For some inexplicable reasons, when synchronizing ended, my phone had downloaded all my google contacts BUT it had completely wiped out my existing phone contacts. At the "view" option in contacts, under the "phone" contacts it shows 0, and it does not recognise my call log or my sms list as sent by known numbers. Oh, and my phone contacts (neither the ones I had before sync, nor the couple I just entered after all this) do NOT show up in my google contacts AT ALL.
Is there any way at all to undo this? I want my phone contacts back!
Also, is this some sort of bug or error or does sync reallly wipe out all your phone contacts? if so, WHY THE HELL does it do that? I thought synch would be upload phone contacts to gmail, download gmail contacts to phone, keep all of htem in both places. isn't that the point?
In sort, why did this happen? I'm pretty sure it never asked me if I wanted to keep my phone contacts or anything...
It is strange that the contacts are removed from the phone.
My coincidence, yesterday just to check what was going to happen, I added a contact to my phone and I select the source as Google. Then I sync and went to the Gmail but no contact was present.
I closed google and open again the web page and now it appears. So it was a refresh/cache issue.
Only the contacts I've sync via HTC were set to Phone mode and I couldn't change them to Google so they were untouch on the phone and never went to google contacts.
contacts are wiped
surfmadpig said:
Ever since I got my Magic, and because I didn't like the feature very much, I had the "sync contacts" option to off. I manually entered all the phone numbers & email I had, and was fine with it.
Then, today, I thought "oh, wth, i'll turn contact sync so that my gmail will also have my phone numbers and they'll be safe". little did I know.
For some inexplicable reasons, when synchronizing ended, my phone had downloaded all my google contacts BUT it had completely wiped out my existing phone contacts. At the "view" option in contacts, under the "phone" contacts it shows 0, and it does not recognise my call log or my sms list as sent by known numbers. Oh, and my phone contacts (neither the ones I had before sync, nor the couple I just entered after all this) do NOT show up in my google contacts AT ALL.
Is there any way at all to undo this? I want my phone contacts back!
Also, is this some sort of bug or error or does sync reallly wipe out all your phone contacts? if so, WHY THE HELL does it do that? I thought synch would be upload phone contacts to gmail, download gmail contacts to phone, keep all of htem in both places. isn't that the point?
In sort, why did this happen? I'm pretty sure it never asked me if I wanted to keep my phone contacts or anything...
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I have the same problem on my Google Nexus 5 device. I connect to Internet through a VPN and while connecting save a contact, surprisingly the contact was not deleted. I think it might be a serious bug. And I totally agree with the process of saving contact that you mentioned in your comment. The correct saving should save contact on phone and after synchronizing, contacts on the phone shall be uploaded on google contact. There should be a good harmony. But the present relationship between phone and google is damaging the contacts which are not saved before on your google account.
Hi all.. Don't know if I've done something wrong (!).. but the contacts on my wife's Legend aren't syncing with Googlemail.... The phone is set up with the account, and the sync looks like it works on the phone, but when I log on to google there are no contacts..!! Help!
Her contacts are probably set as 'Phone Contacts' not as 'Google Contacts'. If you go into the People Application and look to the right of the contact name, it should say 'Google'.
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Try and log out of facebook in settings/account and sync/facebook for HTC Sense, and then reboot and then log in again.
worked for me
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Her contacts are probably set as 'Phone Contacts' not as 'Google Contacts'. If you go into the People Application and look to the right of the contact name, it should say 'Google'.
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I have the same problem. In fact i has have some "google" contact Sync with Google and other "phone" linked with but not sync.
Is there a way to change the phone contacts in google contacts without re-insert them?
I searched for a tool a while back to do just that but didn't find one. As I had only half a dozen 'phone contacts' in over 450 'google contacts', I ended up erasing and putting them back manually via google.com/contacts
Ended up backing them up to the SD card, factory reset the phone and then re-imported them back into google, instead of the phone. PITA.. but had to be done..
So, I started with a clean slate last night after finally getting my EVO rooted and since my Exchange server was down, I decided to sync my contacts and calendar via HTC Sync. However, today, the Exchange server is back online. Now I have duplicate calendar events and Contacts on my phone. How can I delete all my HTC Sync contacts and calendar events? I know I can Hide those items via VIEW, but I'd rather remove them completely from the phone.
Thanks in advance...
home screen, settings, applications, manage applications contact storage, clear data, this will clear ALL contacts, then just resync the exchange ones.
Saved me, thanks!
At first I wasn't able to re-sync my Exchange (unchecked and checked the boxes). However, removing the account and re-adding it did the trick.
Appreciate it!
Damn. Only if I knew this earlier. Thanks.
I have just signed out and cleared the data for FB for myTouch and also cleared my contacts and contacts data in an attempt to fix the contact photo's not showing up on SMS. (found this fix in a thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=844594&page=182)
Anyway my question is, now that all my contacts have been deleted, if I press the "sync now" under Tmobile account on my phone is this going to d/l all my contacts from the online phonebook at my.tmobile.com or is this going to transfer the non existent contacts from my phone to my online phone book essentially deleting what's already stored?
Hope that question wasn't too complicated.
Short version: Will syncing from my phone delete or download the contacts saved at my.tmobile.com?
It should just commit the first sync and pull down everything, much like it would do for a new handset.