HuaweiP20 Pro Google contacts sync problem - Huawei P20 Pro Questions & Answers

Hi everyone,
I notice that my phone contacts do not sync with my Google contacts. If adding a contact from the PC it appears to my phone`s contacts. But adding it from the phone, even week later I can`t find it in my Google contacts.
I reinstall my google account, sync manually few times, checked the "Display Preferences", checked Google account settings (Sync Contacts option is checked) - zilch, nada.
Android Version: 9
EMUI Ver: 9.0.0 by Vodaphone
Would you give me a hand with this problem, please

Did you verify than when you add a contact on the phone you choose your Google account and not local/Huawei ID?

arty_a said:
Did you verify than when you add a contact on the phone you choose your Google account and not local/Huawei ID?
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Ups, no That`s it! Thank you!

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[Q] Contacts sync is not working properly

I have contacts on my phone most of them don't have email accounts they are just phone numbers. When I try to sync my contacts to the gmail account on my phone none of the numbers show up in my gmail account contacts listing. However, if I have contact phone numbers in my gmail account and do a sync, the phone numbers come to my phone. Basically, it is like the sync is only working in one direction. How can I fix this?
I'm fairly confident the sync does only work in that one direction...someone else correct me if I'm wrong?
bird333 said:
I have contacts on my phone most of them don't have email accounts they are just phone numbers. When I try to sync my contacts to the gmail account on my phone none of the numbers show up in my gmail account contacts listing. However, if I have contact phone numbers in my gmail account and do a sync, the phone numbers come to my phone. Basically, it is like the sync is only working in one direction. How can I fix this?
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when you add a contact on your phone, you have to choose "google" as where it's saved or else it won't sync to google
Kaik541 said:
when you add a contact on your phone, you have to choose "google" as where it's saved or else it won't sync to google
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Ok, so how do you add the google 'g' to contacts you already have on your phone without just recreating them all?
bird333 said:
Ok, so how do you add the google 'g' to contacts you already have on your phone without just recreating them all?
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I am not in front of my phone, but there is an option to export all contacts to a file and then an option to import them. I imported all my mine and added them to "phone" so i could add custom ringtones.
You may be able to add them all to google on the phone the same way.
There is also a market app for exporting contacts to csv - you may be able to do this then import through google on the desktop. YOu can use the linking feature to link phone contacts to google contacts.

[Q] Disable syncing contacts from google acct

Hi,
Previously I was using a Dell Streak and I was able to disable contact syncing with my Google accounts.
Actually I have 2 google accounts and I wanna sync only contacts with one of them.
On Galaxy Note , I couldn't find the setting to disable contact syncing with one account.
How can I do that ?
thx.
Hi,
I really need a solution for this because I've duplicate contacts now.
Any idea on how to delete contacts from one Google account on the phone ?
mrmrmrmr said:
Hi,
I really need a solution for this because I've duplicate contacts now.
Any idea on how to delete contacts from one Google account on the phone ?
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Go to contacts--Options--More--Accounts
Select the account you dont want your contacts to be merged from. Uncheck "Sync Contacts"
Hope that helped.
Cheers
thanks. that option disables further sync of contacts from that account but it didn't delete the contacts coming from that account.
How can I delete existing contacts of that account ?
Also, I need the similar for calendar. Is there similar option ?
mrmrmrmr said:
thanks. that option disables further sync of contacts from that account but it didn't delete the contacts coming from that account.
How can I delete existing contacts of that account ?
Also, I need the similar for calendar. Is there similar option ?
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All'ite. Why don't you do this?
At this step you have disabled syncing your contacts to an account;lets call that account GAcc2. Lets call the account that you would like the contacts to be synced/Displayed from as GAcc1
Now you want to delete the contacts that have been synced from GAcc2.
So Go to Contacts--More--Display Options--Accounts and select contacts to be displayed only from GAcc2(i.e. uncheck the contact boxes for GAcc1). After this step the contacts that are displayed are only from GAcc2(the one you don't want). Simply select all the contacts and delete them. So this means we deleted "ONLY" GAcc2 contacts.
After this step again go to "Display Options" and under accounts select GAcc1.
and voila you will have only GAcc1 contacts left.
Do the same with calendar.
Hope that helped.
Cheers.
thank you. that's a good idea.
But when I delete from my Note, is there a risk of deleting them from Google acct GAcc2 ?
Also, some contacts are coming from both Google accounts. When I delete them, will I lose them from both accounts ?
And, how can I do that for calendar ? I can't find the correct app...
thx
Keep Auto Sync off, that will niether sync mail/contact/calender, when you need to sync it manually, just press on desire item n it will sync for that time only.
Further Now you can get Gmail with setup of Email application separately.
mrmrmrmr said:
thank you. that's a good idea.
But when I delete from my Note, is there a risk of deleting them from Google acct GAcc2 ?
Also, some contacts are coming from both Google accounts. When I delete them, will I lose them from both accounts ?
And, how can I do that for calendar ? I can't find the correct app...
thx
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No that would be not an issue. Remember at that step you would have switched syncing to GAcc2 as "off". Just make sure you don't click "Merge with google".
If you are really scared and want to be backup proof i would suggest this;
I'm sure you would be having windows installed with Microsoft office. Microsoft office would have an app called microsoft exchange. Create a dummy account in exchange with a local Dat. Then go to google and search for tools to copy google contacts to exchange. There are plenty. Once you are done with that you would have a backup of your contacts. Similarly there are plenty of tools to do the reverse as well i.e. Microsoft Exchange -->Google server; this way you can restore it too.
Regarding the calendar its the same thing bro.
Browse to Settings-->Account and Sync--> select the account that you dont want calendar to be synced from-->Uncheck 'Sync Calendar'
Hope that helped.
Cheers.
Using Exchange Server with Android, without Google Contacts but with Market
THis post intended for people who use Exchange
Using Exchange Server with Android, without Google Contacts but with Market
To prevent your Google Accounts showing up in an Exchange Server minded device, uncheck autosync.
Create your Exchange account first, sync
Uncheck autosync
disable Wifi (your device must have slow connection)
Then add your google account.
Press Sync, but be DAMN fast to go to the account settings and quickly
uncheck the Contact,Calendar.
This way, you can have a fully Exchange server minded device, without
any junk from Google Downloaded, with Market access.

Is it possible to have Google Contacts app working on this device.

The phone is great, but the only thing stopping me to use it as main phone (over my Nexus 5) is that I can 't install Google Contacts so I can have all my contacts synced and edit them from Gmail on the computer.
Any idea or solution?
Thanks
Alex
AlexFonewn said:
The phone is great, but the only thing stopping me to use it as main phone (over my Nexus 5) is that I can 't install Google Contacts so I can have all my contacts synced and edit them from Gmail on the computer.
Any idea or solution?
Thanks
Alex
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I haven't installed google contacts yet but the built in contact app will sync to your google contacts. In fact, if you add a new contact it gives you the option to only add the contact to your phone and not sync it or sync to your google account.

Google Contacts Sync

Anyone else having trouble syncing contacts through google? I am on MIUI 9.6 China ROM, and I have installed the Google Contacts app and Google Contacts Sync from APKMirror (August 7th Version). Currently, when I try to restore contacts, it says that "No contacts are backed up to this account." However, when I go to Google.contacts.com, I can see all my contacts. Is the restore within the Google Contacts app searching a different location for the contacts? Thank you.
delete the gapps you installed manually and try the GoogleInstaller_V3.apk, for me contact sync and everything google related is working fine.
gagp2p said:
delete the gapps you installed manually and try the GoogleInstaller_V3.apk, for me contact sync and everything google related is working fine.
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Is that the one that comes from the Mi Store when you search "Google"? I tried that one, but it didn't have contact sync.
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=818070582850489460
i used this and it included google contacts sync app (and its working fine)
install everything (except playstore), playstore just download, decline install - reboot - install missing playstore.
Are you already install Google contacts too from play store? If not try to install it then turn on the sync
Had this problem as well, but fixed it. Make sure to set permissions for both the Google Contacts app as well as the Google Contacts Sync app.
This is the step to sync contacts from Google account to phone.
1.Open your device's Settings app .
2.Tap Cloud and Accounts.
3.Tap Accounts.
4.Select Google (If you have more than one account on your device, tap the one you want.
5.See if the option to sync contacts is enabled.
key here is to go to the App settings, and make sure all the permissions for Google Contacts Sync are checked, also change Battery to No Restrictions
What finally worked for me was to follow the instructions to download Googleinstallerv03.apk mentioned above... but when going into Account -> Google Account there was no "Contacts" setting...
BUT I went into Xiaomi's Contacts app and in there I chose to sync contacts from a mail account. Gmail was one of the options. I had to sign in again and now I have The Google account and a IMAP/POP3 account pointing to the same mail but it was able to sync all the contacts AND in Settings -> Account -> Google Account now it says "Contacts" and it syncs correctly..
So that worked for me on a Xiaomi Mi CC9 bought in China with the Chinese stable ROM
I couldn't get this working on my Redmi K20 Pro...
I used the Contacts app's bluetooth import feature instead.
I faced to that before, I think you need to make sure you installed a right google service. I found some time the google installer install a wrong google service, you may try to fix the problem by re-install the google service. hope it help!
You can also restore contacts from device directly.
Step 1: Enter the "Settings" on the device.
Step 2. Choose "Accounts & Sync" under the "Settings" section and elect the "Add account" option.
Step 3. Tap "Google" from the list and then follow the prompts to proceed to the next step.

Google contacts not syncing and contacts not showing up

Im on chinese K20 Pro
Updated to Miui 12 a few days ago.
Since the miui 12 update, whatsapp loses contacts. And i had to go to "new chat" and "refresh" in order to have it show contact names and not just their numers.
In order to fix that, i fiddled with some settings and broken something. Contacts are not showing up and google contacts are not syncing.
In "settings" "accounts and sync" i have "basic google services" which is checked and "google" which has a message "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." And i have an exclamation mark at contacts, where it says last synced june 29. If i press "sync now", contacts still dont sync.
In "phone", all recents dont have contact names. Same in messages app and whatsapp.
In "phone", "contacts" shows 0 contacts, "All contacts" shows "google 0 people".
Permissions
contacts, google account manager and google contacts sync are set to autostart and to modify and delete contacts.
Any help is welcomed. Please dont suggest factory reset.
ba1atu said:
Im on chinese K20 Pro
Updated to Miui 12 a few days ago.
Since the miui 12 update, whatsapp loses contacts. And i had to go to "new chat" and "refresh" in order to have it show contact names and not just their numers.
In order to fix that, i fiddled with some settings and broken something. Contacts are not showing up and google contacts are not syncing.
In "settings" "accounts and sync" i have "basic google services" which is checked and "google" which has a message "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." And i have an exclamation mark at contacts, where it says last synced june 29. If i press "sync now", contacts still dont sync.
In "phone", all recents dont have contact names. Same in messages app and whatsapp.
In "phone", "contacts" shows 0 contacts, "All contacts" shows "google 0 people".
Any help is welcomed. Please dont suggest factory reset.
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Have you tried removing your Google account and re-adding it?
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Maybe you are up to something. I removed my account, basic google services left checked, and when i sign in i get the message> "Couldnt sing in. There was a problem communicating with google servers. Try again later."
I deleted data of google framework, play store, play services and managed to add my account. Still have the same message about sync problems. Contacts has exclamation mark and last sync date has changed to today, but it still dont have the contacts.
ba1atu said:
Maybe zou are up to something. I removed my account, basic google services left checked, and when i sign in i get the message> "Couldnt sing in. There was a problem communicating with google servers. Try again later."
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Not sure what you messed around with in regards to contacts but it's broken play services, only thing I can think is to update play services, you can get it on apk mirror and see if that makes a difference
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-services/
I have a Chinese k20 pro my version is 20.21.17 upto you if you try that version or a newer version
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I have downloaded google play services 20.21.75 from apkmirror. I tried to install it but it says app not installed.
ba1atu said:
I have downloaded google play services 20.21.75 from apkmirror. I tried to install it but it says app not installed.
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Check what version you have, go to settings, apps, top right hand side click 3 dots and select show all apps, search for google play services, 1st clear cache and data, if that doesn't work, uninstall play services and then install the one you downloaded or use the version you had already installed
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Ok. So i deleted data from play services and managed to install the version i downloaded.
Syncing still has problems and contacts still has exclamation mark. My contacts still arent showing up.
ba1atu said:
Ok. So i deleted data from play services and managed to install the version i downloaded.
Syncing still has problems and contacts still has exclamation mark. My contacts still arent showing up.
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What exactly did you change originally? Only thing I can think of is that Google contacts app settings may not be pointing to your Gmail account, go to your Google contacts app, top right hand corner click on the icon next to 3 dots and make sure it is signed in with your Gmail account
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Im confused which contacts app? I have "contacts" and dialer and contacts. In "contacts" contacts are shown, in dialer and contacts they arent.
ba1atu said:
(i noticed with each restart keyboard canges from gboard to sogou and gboard gets deactivated. Whats up with that?)
I was changing permissions to phone and contacts for whatsapp and then for google.
In "contacts" app i can see the image from my google account in the top. i can search there for my contacts, but down it says no contacts. when i swipe down i get this message> https://imgur.com/a/gBQyrz2
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Hmm not sure what's going on with your keyboard tbh, I've never seen that behaviour before..
Within the contacts app, click on top left hand icon and see if it gives you contacts and suggestions, it should give you the number of contacts, tap on that if it gives the correct amount, of it doesn't in the same place click on settings, and then contact sync settings and select your Gmail account, it should give you 2 bits, click in manage settings for automatically sync Google contacts and make sure sync is enabled
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So i uploaded 2 screenshots. One from contacts and one from dialer and contacts.
ba1atu said:
So i uploaded 2 screenshots. One from contacts and one from dialer and contacts.
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In the 1st pic in Google contacts, where is your Google account? the account connected is your mi account, and your other account is a yahoo one, go to add account from the 1st screenshot and add your Gmail account, I'm assuming your contacts are syncing with that right?
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ba1atu said:
So i uploaded 2 screenshots. One from contacts and one from dialer and contacts.
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It should look like this, once you've added your Gmail account from where it says add another account in Google contacts
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the yahoo email adress is my google account.
ba1atu said:
the yahoo email adress is my google account.
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Ah okay, select that instead if the mi account, the top account should be your yahoo account and not mi account
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