How to backup to gmail - HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity

Only 8 of about 400 of my contacts are backing up and restoring from my gmail account. These are 8 of the newest contacts. It appears that somehow when I created them they were created with the gmail attributes.
How do I ensure that all of my contacts get backed up to my gmail account?

The way I did was go to accounts, click on my gmail account, then sync the items that I want saved. For instance, I have contacts, docs, and mail synced.

megatronisabeast said:
The way I did was go to accounts, click on my gmail account, then sync the items that I want saved. For instance, I have contacts, docs, and mail synced.
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I tried that but it only syncs those 8 contacts and none of the others??

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[Q] How sort google contacts?

How does one sort google contacts? situation is: i have all of my phone contacts backed up via gmail. though when i add them to my phone i also get a ton of random email addresses in my contacts on my phone, so therefore i have to go through everytime and delete all of them.
how do i create just a folder on gmail so it will only sync those contacts and not email addresses?
chasesavestheday said:
How does one sort google contacts? situation is: i have all of my phone contacts backed up via gmail. though when i add them to my phone i also get a ton of random email addresses in my contacts on my phone, so therefore i have to go through everytime and delete all of them.
how do i create just a folder on gmail so it will only sync those contacts and not email addresses?
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Going off memory (phone upstairs and to lazy to go get it) but
you can't control what syncs, but there is an option in the Captivate contacts to only show contacts with phone numbers.
chasesavestheday said:
How does one sort google contacts? situation is: i have all of my phone contacts backed up via gmail. though when i add them to my phone i also get a ton of random email addresses in my contacts on my phone, so therefore i have to go through everytime and delete all of them.
how do i create just a folder on gmail so it will only sync those contacts and not email addresses?
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Go to your contacts on gmail and move anyone you don't synced to your phone out of the "My Contacts" group.
this will still allow me to sync them to the phone?
i did realize "my contacts" does include many email addy's.
Gmail used to add all contacts to the My Contacts group including those that you just email without you specifically adding them, it no longer does that but you do need to go through the My Contacts group in Gmail and uncheck all the ones you don't want synced from the My Contacts group. They will just then be available under Other Contacts I believe in Gmail and not synced.
Stock the Captivate won't currently sync just My Contacts. Cognition gives you the option to hide the others. (In contacts>menu>more>display options>google then select which groups to display

duplicate contacts?

I have approx 300 contacts, and out of the sudden, it's now 500 because of duplicated contacts. Weird thing is the "extra" contacts are ONLY numbers. How can I remove those duplicated ones?
I did factory reset, synced, but still get those extra numbers. Help?
Are you syncing your contacts to your gmail? If so are there duplicate in gmail as well?
Yes, they are duplicate numbers without names in gmail.
duplicate contacts
Go to your gmail acct and look under contacts, select all the contacts and look for an option called "merge contacts". That should do the trick.
The phone restores the contact from your Gmail, so no matter how many times you wipe your phone, it'll still be there if you set up syncing with your Google account. You need to delete the contact you don't want from Gmail or in the phone manually.
Go on your computer, gmail, my contacts, and fix them up. The phone syncs exactly whatever you have in the my contacts sub group.
You only need to do this once, and forever on any android phone you usb will be perfect with your contacts.

Restoring contacts after Cognition 4 flash

I used Titanium Backup to do a full backup, should this include contacts?
From stock 2.1 I I did the Titanium Backup. I used ROM Manager to do a backup and then flashed Cognition 4 then used Titanium Backup to restore all apps and data but this did not include my contacts.
Can I recover the contacts with what I have or do I need to flash back to the backup stock ROM and export the contacts?
If I have to restore and export then from where do I do the export?
Thanks in advance.
Contacts are saved as part of system data and you should NEVER restore any system data with TiBu unless it was backed up using the exact same ROM, and even then there have been issues with restoring system data. Did you not have your contacts synced with your Google account beforehand?
Miami_Son said:
Contacts are saved as part of system data and you should NEVER restore any system data with TiBu unless it was backed up using the exact same ROM, and even then there have been issues with restoring system data. Did you not have your contacts synced with your Google account beforehand?
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I am not sure how to sync to the Google account. I only setup the basics so I could pay for apps. I assume it would not happen automatically and I am out of luck there?
Miami_Son said:
Contacts are saved as part of system data and you should NEVER restore any system data with TiBu unless it was backed up using the exact same ROM, and even then there have been issues with restoring system data. Did you not have your contacts synced with your Google account beforehand?
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Never mind, I went into settings\Accounts and Sync and in the settings for the gmail account I turned on sync contacts. It was not checked but after I checked it, it did indeed pull my contacts from my gmail account. I have to wonder how they got there in the first place if I never set them to sync in the first place but....
Question on the gmail account though. How do you access the account directly on the phone? Should I configure the email app with the account? I receive the occasional email on the account (say when I purchase an app from the market and get a receipt) and get the notice and access it that way but I am not sure how to get into those emails on my own.
Gmail and eMail are different. Gmail should setup just by entering your Google login info. The email app is for POP3, IMAP and other mail server accounts. You shouldn't steup Gmail as an eMail account.
Miami_Son said:
Gmail and eMail are different. Gmail should setup just by entering your Google login info. The email app is for POP3, IMAP and other mail server accounts. You shouldn't steup Gmail as an eMail account.
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How do you get into the account to read messages that are sent? Right now I can only get to it if a new message is sent to me and I get a notification. I do not know how to go back to those messages at will.
You mean Gmail? Just click on the Gmail icon in the app drawer. Same with eMail.
Miami_Son said:
You mean Gmail? Just click on the Gmail icon in the app drawer. Same with eMail.
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I did not have an icon for GMail on the stock rom but I do now with Cognition. Must have deleted it accidentally.
Thanks.

Backup HD7 contacts to HOTMAIL

hi i have a problem here
I use to save new contacts in the HD7, assuming it will update the HOTMAIL contacts database when i sync the account
but now I look that it doesnt sync the contacs to my HOTMAIL account and also it erase the contacts (from HD7) that i dont have in the HOTMAIL account
how do i can solve this?
i mean, i dont want to be updating HOTMAIL contact list one by one....
WP7 is starting tu upset me
Is hotmail the only email account you have it set up for? Exchange, Gmail, anything like that?
Either way, go to Setting --> Email and Accounts -->Windows Live and see what is set up to sync.
I have 2 hotmail accounts one for the contacts that i dont use for email
and one for the email...
but in no one update the contacts...
in the "primary" (Contacts) one... it only have the option to sync email
el_ben2 said:
I have 2 hotmail accounts one for the contacts that i dont use for email
and one for the email...
but in no one update the contacts...
in the "primary" (Contacts) one... it only have the option to sync email
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When you Edit a contact, it should give you an option to choose which account the contact you want to edit is from, provided that you have multiple contacts linked up and sync'd to multiple accounts.
If you only have 1 account that sync contacts, your phone should automatically be editing that contact on that 1 account, and it should update to the server almost immediately.
If you have no accounts that are syncing contacts (including no initial Windows Live ID tied to the phone), then your contacts will save to your device.
At least thats how it is supposed to be working.
I've never had any issues syncing to my Hotmail Contacts account. It has worked flawlessly since day 1.
I've never had a any luck syncing contacts to my hotmail account. I even lost 75% of them cos i got frustrated and decided to flash my phone regardless.
My friend uses hotmail to sync his contacts and he was saying yesterday something about him having to log on to his hotmail account on a desktop pc before his contacts would sync. I'll try and find out more about what he meant cos it didn't make much sense to me.
I use my gmail account to sync contacts now and I must admit it's been flawless. ever contact I create on my phone gets synced to my gmail account. Who'd have thought that would work better than MS's own hotmail?

Contacts not syncing with Office 365

Hello,
I just migrated from Exchange to 365. I removed my account on my phone and added it back. The first time I selected Microsoft Exchange - it was set to sync mail, calendar & contacts. Since The contacts weren't syncing even though I clicked on the account and sync, I removed the account and added it back in. The contacts still won't sync. Email syncs fine. I can see the contacts in OWA and in my outlook profile. Any guess on what I'm doing wrong? Is there a way like on iphones to select your default contacts or view different contacts e.g. phone contacts vs. email account contacts?

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