[Q] Contacts copied when autosync with Google is turned on - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was on Darky's 10.1 rom when this first started and just updated to 10.2 and it looks like the glitch is still there. Usually I leave autosync off to conserve battery life but now I've left it on so Gmail and my contacts stay synced with my Google account. The weird thing that started occurring is that each of my contacts get copied multiple times after autosync happens. So I get about 6 entries for each contact. What I've been doing is signing on to my Gmail account and then going to "action" and merging duplicate contacts and then manually syncing the contacts on my phone, which corrects the problem. However! When auto sync kicks in again, the same thing happens. Has anyone else came across this problem?

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[Q] Syncing calendar with facebook events, but times of events are wrong

The dates from facebook that go into my calender are showing up in my calender a few hours off. Ive tried other calendars, and it doesnt seem to help. Right now im using Pure Calender. An event on facebook that starts at 4pm is showing up on my device as 9am. Anyone know whats going on? Ive already tried messing with the timezone on my computer and facebook.
It's a timezone problem with Facebook. The only solution I've found is directly importing my FB events to google calender and just getting them from there.
How do you import the facebook events into google? I think I need to mention that the times only show up incorrect when they are on a widget calender that I have placed on my home screen. The actual calender itself shows them correctly, just the widgets ive used show them hours off.
I have this issue when syncing the TouchWiz calendar with Google calendar. My times is off by one hour, so I checked the timezone settings on both the phone and google's, but none of them were the issue. I still haven't found a solution.
I also replaced the Touchwiz calendar with the stock android calendar, but I still have the same issue.
Any other ideas?
I have same issue on my HTC Desire (2.2). Would be cool if Facebook added time-zone functionality for their events, or if someone made it possible to chose an off-set on your device for Facebook events before importing them into calendar.
You can export Facebook events and/or birthdays and import them into Google calendar with FB application called Fdcal (it has time-zone option). Application is not working flawlessly, I got my events to show into Google calendar, but couldn't export birthdays for some reason.
But this will not solve your issues, because there was no way I could get those events to show on my phone. In Gemini calendar you get an option to check on those additional calendar subscribed on your Google one, but they don't show in my phone either for some reason.
The only workaround I found so far is that once those event show in Google calendar, you can easily duplicate them (save them as Google calendar entries), and those will show once the sync kicks in.
I'm waiting for someone to come up with easier solution
itsLYNDZ said:
The dates from facebook that go into my calender are showing up in my calender a few hours off. Ive tried other calendars, and it doesnt seem to help. Right now im using Pure Calender. An event on facebook that starts at 4pm is showing up on my device as 9am. Anyone know whats going on? Ive already tried messing with the timezone on my computer and facebook.
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i'm having the same issue, the event is 8 hrs late when it appear in my SGS calendar
Has anyone already solved this problem?
I'm having the same issue with my SGS and the XXJPO firmware.
Well I haven't done anything, but problem IS solved on my HTC Desire for quite some time now. Can't say exactly when it was fixed (or if it was fixed by HTC or Facebook), but event times in my stock calendar that is synced with Facebook are now ok.
On my Touchwiz-Calendar it's working fine, too.
Just in every calendar widget I tried so far, the facebook events are shifted by one hour.
So I am in the time zone GMT+1 but the event gets displayed like I would be in GMT+0.
As a workaround I switched the time zone in my phone to GMT+0, so now the times for the fb-events are correct, but this is causing other problems now.

[Q] Facebook contacts won't sync.

I have tried syncing my facebook contacts many times to no avail, the external facebook for android has no option to sync, and the built in facebook sync seems to sync but it does nothing where it worked before... I am using cognition 3.4. Any solution?
I think it's something with the new facebook app update. The same thing happened to me last night and I'm running Perception 8. But I got it to sync eventually.
I removed my facebook account from the accounts & sync menu, deleted the facebook app, reinstalled the app, and rebooted. Made sure my wifi was off and set up my sync settings and it worked like a charm. For some reason, it wouldn't sync with wifi running.
i had the exact same problem on Cog, i tried for 3 days. nothing. I flash Serendipity and they started to sync right away. It seems to be a common problem in Cog.

Gmail Sync Unchecked

Using CM7 and every so often Gmail mail sync gets unchecked. When I go back in to accounts and recheck it, it syncs successfully. Calendar and contacts never unchecks. Anyway to resolve this?
Thanks.
glassr said:
Using CM7 and every so often Gmail mail sync gets unchecked. When I go back in to accounts and recheck it, it syncs successfully. Calendar and contacts never unchecks. Anyway to resolve this?
Thanks.
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I have run into this form time to time also. Someone on the cm forums also reported this for the heroc. No confirmation if it's a heroc issues, cm7 issue or a gmail issue. The cause is thought to be some issue related to not being able to sync for a certain time, i.e. loss of signal, or possible airplane mode, and then gmail decides to stop trying to automatically sync.
I also have the issue with google+
I can confirm that I have exactly the same problem. I use a zte blade with CM 7.1 stable release. I use the gmail app.
Any solutions?
i have this issue too htc legend
Try updating your gmail apk or roll back one.
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Contacts linked unwanted and incorrectly

Hi!
I'm on Stock 5.0.2 Android (23.1.A.1.28) and have troubles with the Contact APP! I use my Google Account to sync my Contacts. And I only have this account. The problem is, that the Contact-App randomly links some Contacs which have absolutely nothing in common. I can dislink the automatic linked contacts, but it is frustrating to check thousands of contacts.
Is there a way to switch this behavior off?
Thanks
MadMax
Got it to work again.
Stopped syncing of my google account!
Removed all contacts
Syncted it with whatsapp so these contacts will also get removed (do it with every messenger/app that creates contacts...
Switch on syncing of my google account again
Syncted it with whatsapp,...
Now it seems to work again...
Still don't know how this messup could start
sorry to revive this old thread but how exactly did you fix it? Unfortunately my messed up and randomly linked contacts have been synced back to Google already

Samsung Calendar not syncing with google calendar

Hey guys,
I have a samsung note 9 unlocked that i purchased from bestbuy. I noticed that the default samsung calendar does not sync automatically with my google calendar. I have to manually sync it to make it updated. If i leave it for more than 24 hours it still doesnt auto sync. I have auto sync turned on in my settings so my emails and everything come automatically from gmail but it seems to an issue specifically with the default samsung calendar. I even reset the calendar app but clearing all the data but the issue persists. I did see a message randomly saying,"you're calender is not set to auto sync or something'' but i never saw it again. On my google account all the settings are set to auto sync. Any help or advice on this?
Sreenadh said:
Hey guys,
I have a samsung note 9 unlocked that i purchased from bestbuy. I noticed that the default samsung calendar does not sync automatically with my google calendar. I have to manually sync it to make it updated. If i leave it for more than 24 hours it still doesnt auto sync. I have auto sync turned on in my settings so my emails and everything come automatically from gmail but it seems to an issue specifically with the default samsung calendar. I even reset the calendar app but clearing all the data but the issue persists. I did see a message randomly saying,"you're calender is not set to auto sync or something'' but i never saw it again. On my google account all the settings are set to auto sync. Any help or advice on this?
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Did you find a solution to this problem I just started to experience the same issue.
I thought that I can bypass this issue by installing and using Google Calendar but the same thing is happening to Google Calendar syncing would stop.
Hey,i have not other than installing google calander

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