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Cannot sync contacts with google account.

Hi all,
I have a problem with my G1 phone, I cannot synchronize with Google account. I always receive a message like that: "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly", my ROM is CM 4.2.5 but I don't think that this ROM error.
At first, when I bought my phone is still OK, then I installed My Backup Pro, it backup and erased my contacts, then I cannot sync to my account, event I used ROM Hero, it still got that errors.
I wonder It maybe conflicted with My Backup Pro, I uninstalled it but nothing changed.
Or my contacts are so much, it's approximately 700 contacts.
Can anyone solve this problems? Thanks in advance.

hi.
wats your firmware?

wizme said:
hi.
wats your firmware?
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he already said he is using Cyan 4.2.5......
How long have you been having this problem? Can you get a logcat just as you attempt to sync?
A wipe may fix this, but if you don't want to, just give us a logcat so we can help you out

B-man007 said:
he already said he is using Cyan 4.2.5......
How long have you been having this problem? Can you get a logcat just as you attempt to sync?
A wipe may fix this, but if you don't want to, just give us a logcat so we can help you out
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I had this problem about 3 months ago? A wipe cannot fix this. I've used many ROMs event Hero, when I sync it took a long time, about 15 minutes, I tried it both mobile network and WIFI. When I checked my google account. So I have to use My Backup Pro, It wastes time to Backup and Restore.
No one has the same problem???

I would try clearing data from all google apps (menu->settings->applications->manage applications), also anything that may be remotely related to contacts (such as .... contacts.apk lol) That should fix it. Try toggling all the check boxes in "data sync" submenu.
Good luck.

[Q] Sync problems Facebook & HTC One

Since day one I am not able to open my Friends-list in Facebook on my HTC One phone. When clicking on Friends I will get this message: Cannot retrieve friends list. Please try again later. [1/An unknown error occurred]
When checking Settings/Accounts & Sync in Android I will find an red refresh symbol of Facebook and this message: Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly.
I did completely remove Facebook, People and Contacts on my tablet, phone and PC. But after re-installing everything, the problem remains.
I am not able to see my friends list and can not tag friends in a post. Also my contacts pictures in Android are not synced with the Facebook profile pictures.
What can I do to solve this annoying problem?

460 views and 0 replies, damn. Nobody got a clue? I tried to contact Facebook as well, but no help from them either.

PGLion said:
460 views and 0 replies, damn. Nobody got a clue? I tried to contact Facebook as well, but no help from them either.
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Well, I'm not sure if it is related, but I guess you should give it a try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2218545
Hope this helps!

xineis said:
Well, I'm not sure if it is related, but I guess you should give it a try:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2218545
Hope this helps!
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Thanks for helping xineis!
I tried those steps but that didn't help either.
I removed and/or cleared:
PC>Facebook>Account Settings>Apps>every single app
Phone>Accounts & Sync>Facebook
Phone>Accounts & Sync>Google
Phone>Apps>All>Contacts Storage
Phone>Apps>All>Facebook (also uninstalled updates)
Phone>Apps>All>Facebook for HTC Sense
Phone>Apps>All>Google Contacts Sync
Phone>Apps>All>HTC Sync
Phone>Apps>All>People
I also removed all contacts from Google contacts on my PC.
After these steps I open Facebook, and after filling in my credentials I choose Sync all. After a few minutes, when I check the Phone>Accounts & Sync>Facebook option I will find an exclamation mark right next to the refresh symbol within Facebook Contacts.
I tried all kinds of configuration but never have been able to solve this issue. Facebook will simply not sync the contacts.
More suggestions please!

Just tried a full wipe but that also does not change anything. Than I tried another Facebook account and that worked just fine. But when I tried mine, same problem remains. Must be an error on Facebook server.
How can I contact Facebook directly? The help function sucks and it seems they just ignore my messages

PGLion said:
Just tried a full wipe but that also does not change anything. Than I tried another Facebook account and that worked just fine. But when I tried mine, same problem remains. Must be an error on Facebook server.
How can I contact Facebook directly? The help function sucks and it seems they just ignore my messages
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You even tried the "change password" step?
humm, I don't have the One (yet), but as any Android device it probably has that reset button (is that the "factory reset"?). I know it's a little harsh but it could (maybe) solve your problem...

Have you tried alternative facebook apps like Fast for Facebook and Haxsync? See if they have are having sync issues as well. Also, is your phone 'authorised' by Facebook? Long shot but worth trying
Sent from my M7 using xda premium

Dont mean to sound simple but...
PGLion said:
Just tried a full wipe but that also does not change anything. Than I tried another Facebook account and that worked just fine. But when I tried mine, same problem remains. Must be an error on Facebook server.
How can I contact Facebook directly? The help function sucks and it seems they just ignore my messages
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PGLion said:
Just tried a full wipe but that also does not change anything. Than I tried another Facebook account and that worked just fine. But when I tried mine, same problem remains. Must be an error on Facebook server.
How can I contact Facebook directly? The help function sucks and it seems they just ignore my messages
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Ok I had the same problem for ages and one day realised that not all syncs were on - under phone settings yes but apps have individual settings that cannot be overridden by your phone... I'm sure you wouldve tried something so simple but just in case - go into your Facebook app on your phone, under the menu tab select 'app settings' and at the very very bottom of the list there is an option for how to sync contacts i.e. none, all or existing only ...
This is probably something that you've already tried but hey, I was silly enough to not realise!!
I'm sorry if this was not much help, aside from blissful simplicity I am unable to assist.

very useful info
Thanks so much for the useful info ^^^....had this same problem and thought it was the recent kitkat 4.4.2 update. Thanks...am sorted

Partially lost contacts after 5.1 OTA update (XT1058 AT&T)

Any ideas how to recover my contacts lost after updating my locked bootloader Moto X (AT&T)? It was not even rooted. I did nothing special within the update, but some contacts were lost fully. Some still have just WhatUp accounts (not phones). All rest is working like needed exept "system/applications update" within every reboot. I can't even return to 4.4.4 back or reflash 5.1 in order to check system without the bug. Can I recover and copy contacts on another Android phone? (my Google Autosync is switched on)

If your Sync is ON, you're safe!
Vivjen said:
Any ideas how to recover my contacts lost after updating my locked bootloader Moto X (AT&T)? It was not even rooted. I did nothing special within the update, but some contacts were lost fully. Some still have just WhatUp accounts (not phones). All rest is working like needed exept "system/applications update" within every reboot. I can't even return to 4.4.4 back or reflash 5.1 in order to check system without the bug. Can I recover and copy contacts on another Android phone? (my Google Autosync is switched on)
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If your Sync is On, your contacts should have been saved in your google account right?
You can log into your google account in any phone and get then there by Synching

nijom said:
If your Sync is On, your contacts should have been saved in your google account right?
You can log into your google account in any phone and get then there by Synching
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No, nothing happen on another phone. How OTA could corrupt my userdata?

Vivjen said:
Any ideas how to recover my contacts lost after updating my locked bootloader Moto X (AT&T)? It was not even rooted. I did nothing special within the update, but some contacts were lost fully. Some still have just WhatUp accounts (not phones). All rest is working like needed exept "system/applications update" within every reboot. I can't even return to 4.4.4 back or reflash 5.1 in order to check system without the bug. Can I recover and copy contacts on another Android phone? (my Google Autosync is switched on)
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Try my troubleshooting steps posted here if you use AT&T Address Book. Be sure to check online to see what contacts are saved on your account via your PC.
If you use Google Contacts then I would check on your PC and then go to Settings > Accounts > Google > Email > Contacts > UnCheck and then check the sync option. If you have over 1K contacts it may take a while to sync.
Mark
Motorola Support

MarkAtMoto said:
Try my troubleshooting steps posted here if you use AT&T Address Book. Be sure to check online to see what contacts are saved on your account via your PC.
If you use Google Contacts then I would check on your PC and then go to Settings > Accounts > Google > Email > Contacts > UnCheck and then check the sync option. If you have over 1K contacts it may take a while to sync.
Mark
Motorola Support
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Thank you. I will try. David Schuster confirmed the issue with 5.1 for AT&T phones only https://plus.google.com/+DavidSchuster/posts/5qMzkiFGQQg

Vivjen said:
Thank you. I will try. David Schuster confirmed the issue with 5.1 for AT&T phones only https://plus.google.com/+DavidSchuster/posts/5qMzkiFGQQg
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No problem. Any info you can give with your specific use case will be helpful. Certainly if you have any contacts on phone memory you should move to the cloud (Google Contacts) if you decide to reset or Clear Contact Storage App.
Mark
Motorola Support

MarkAtMoto said:
No problem. Any info you can give with your specific use case will be helpful. Certainly if you have any contacts on phone memory you should move to the cloud (Google Contacts) if you decide to reset or Clear Contact Storage App.
Mark
Motorola Support
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Dear Mark,
The issue was not solved. As I have found that I have never used AT&T Address book on this phone. Google sync was switched off as well (It's too late to switch it on now).
Any another ideas how to find lost contacts? Which application keeps contacts in case of non-registering into AT&T Address book app?

Vivjen said:
Dear Mark,
The issue was not solved. As I have found that I have never used AT&T Address book on this phone. Google sync was switched off as well (It's too late to switch it on now).
Any another ideas how to find lost contacts? Which application keeps contacts in case of non-registering into AT&T Address book app?
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But if you log into Google Contacts and check, are your contacts in there? If they are then they should sync back down to the phone.
If not there, then they were 1 either never syncing before KitKat, were in AT&T Contacts or were only in phone's memory. If in AT&T Contacts then you should be able to log on to AT&T Addressbook and find the contacts and then disable and reenable app to resync to the phone. That would only work if you are an AT&T user and not if you were using AT&T phone on another network.
If contacts were in phone's memory then they should have been there after the upgrade to Lollipop. If you have reset the phone then the contacts wouldn't be restored after the reset as they were local and never in the cloud.
Any contacts on the SIM card?
Mark
Motorola Support

Google Contacts Import / Sync

Hi All
i'm on ZUI 2.1.140
Google Play works normal
i wonder how to import / sync google contact since on account & sync there is no Google Contacts options
Thanks

You just have to install this 3 apks in this order, Google Contacts Sync, Google Contacts and Google Play Store. Don't forget to install Google Play Services if you need it.
Here's what you need. https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=93727

Calendar also does not work on my ZUI 2.5, how to fix it?

talski said:
Calendar also does not work on my ZUI 2.5, how to fix it?
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Looks like the sync adapter does take care of the syncing for the calendar, works for me after the sync status has completed. But you could always choose to install Google calendar from the playstore. Then open Zui calendar > settings > then change the default calendar to Google calendar.

I managed to sync the contacts, my only problem is, profile pics are not synced. I had one Rom installed from Franco, the Sync Adapter was preinstalled in this rom, sync was with Pics.
Now on zui 2.5, no chance to get the pics.

hello,
my problem is, since i´ve installed nougat on my z2 pro, my google contacts doesnt sync anymore. with marshmallow was it ok.
i have already install google contacts apk and googel contacts sync apk again and again, clear the contacts apk cache, clear dalvik cache, nothing works for me
has anyone the same problem on android nougat?

lucaam said:
You just have to install this 3 apks in this order, Google Contacts Sync, Google Contacts and Google Play Store. Don't forget to install Google Play Services if you need it.
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tnx this info made me charge my phone again after weeks of being dead used sync.me to get pics from facebook and asus dialer. now i just need to learn how to live with the bad launcher and get a simcard for it.

zwat said:
tnx this info made me charge my phone again after weeks of being dead used sync.me to get pics from facebook and asus dialer. now i just need to learn how to live with the bad launcher and get a simcard for it.
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Mine stopped working after a couple weeks but I got it going again. Definitely a hassle, though.
A little background: After a lot of playing with Mokee 7.1.2 (CONSTANT hard freezes with blue LED making me miss my alarm the next morning), RR, AICP, etc. I decided to just try and make ZUI work for me between Magisk for root and Nova Launcher. I had brought up a clean install from QFIL flash of ZUI 2.5.335, flashed TWRP 3.1.0 (LR.Team version) to recovery, flashed 2.5.415 update zip, installed Google Play Store, Play Services, Contacts, and Contacts Storage from apkmirror.com and set about making it mine and disabling Chinese system apps and so on. Spent some time screwing with Safe Center (which thinks AdAway is a virus, but oh well), it was pretty livable. Only hard freezes if I use bluetooth with my car too long, which IS pretty annoying. But I've never had it freeze overnight and make me late for work, and hey, the camera Just Works, and U-Health is pretty cool.
Anyway, after about 3 weeks it was working pretty well for me, I miss some of the CAF/AOSP kind of things, but at least they're deploying security updates even if it's still Nougat 7.0 based. But then I noticed a week ago contacts stopped syncing. I could switch sync off & back on for Contacts but it wouldn't update. I tried wiping data for all the Google things and even deleting and re-adding Google accounts, but that just resulted in no more switch to tell it to sync Contacts. Dammit.
I DID get it working again today: I removed all the Google accounts from Settings, then uninstalled Google Play Store (com.android.vending), Google Contacts (com.google.android.contacts), and Google Contact Storage (com.google.android.syncadapters.contacts - I used Titanium Backup to uninstall the package since I bought that long ago), and deleted the updated Google Play Services apk from /data/apps (com.google.android.gms - use whatever file explorer with root access you like, I'm a fan of Mixplorer from XDA Labs but I'm sure ES File Explorer will work great). Rebooted. Gmail app doesn't know what to do with itself now.
I then reinstalled with Contacts 2.0.8, Contacts Storage 7.0 (API 24 target, woo; maybe this will work better than the newer 7.1+/API 25 target one that I tried before), Play Store 7.9.30, and Play Services 11.0.55 (240 version - Android 5.0+, ARM/ARM64 v8 abi, nodpi) from apkmirror.com and specifically made sure to give them all full permissions access instead of leaving it at the more paranoid "prompt" settings. I then was able to re-add my Google accounts and get Play store and Gmail and all the other Google apps to see them again with a little effort (basically had to re-do all the Google apps; Play Books, Play Music, Drive, Gmail, Calendar, etc.).
But contact sync seems to be working again, both for new contacts created through a computer web browser and created on the phone. I'm a little worried it's only temporary, I guess we'll see. But deleting Google accounts, full deleting 4 packages, and reinstalling with full permission access seemed to work.

aliensmille said:
I managed to sync the contacts, my only problem is, profile pics are not synced. I had one Rom installed from Franco, the Sync Adapter was preinstalled in this rom, sync was with Pics.
Now on zui 2.5, no chance to get the pics.
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How did you manage to sync contacts? And does anyone else have "ok google" greyed out?

I am on zui 2.5.435 st installed via QFIL, BL unocked, rooted Super SU. The sync initially worked but after a few days stopped working as well.
New setup works again. But if I click on "Refresh" in google calendar the Syncing does not stop. Do you have the same issue? There is something broken.
Why can't we just use openGAPPS?
Terminator.J said:
Mine stopped working after a couple weeks but I got it going again. Definitely a hassle, though.
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But contact sync seems to be working again, both for new contacts created through a computer web browser and created on the phone. I'm a little worried it's only temporary, I guess we'll see. But deleting Google accounts, full deleting 4 packages, and reinstalling with full permission access seemed to work.
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I have the same problem with latest version 4.0.247
yoshi323m said:
hello,
my problem is, since i´ve installed nougat on my z2 pro, my google contacts doesnt sync anymore. with marshmallow was it ok.
i have already install google contacts apk and googel contacts sync apk again and again, clear the contacts apk cache, clear dalvik cache, nothing works for me
has anyone the same problem on android nougat?
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What ever I try. The Sync will not work. I reinstalled the google accound many times. Deleted all google apps. Started with Contact app but whatever i try. It always says: This account already exists on your device. Somehow after installing Google Contacts Sync it downloaded 47 of the 1250 contacts to the phone. Its not visible in Google contacts. those contacts are the contacts I recently added in the last year. Online I see all my contacts. Why cant I find all other contacts on my phone? I even changed data restrictions. Set it on "no restriction" and cleared cash and all after deleting google account end tried all possible varieties of this.. Still no success in the Contact app.. Weird thing is that when I ask Google app verbally to call some of my contactst it works. So all the contacts are clearly still in my google acount and even linked to my voice command for dialing. Only the contact apps dont show them.. What is wrong here? Spend all night trying everythng. Nothing seems to work..

Can't get New Contacts to sync from Phone to Google

I've tried clearing cache, wiping, reinstalling a new Rom, new Gapps. No matter I try I can't seem to get new contacts which I create on my device to then get synced to my Google account.
*Yes, I'm saving my new contact to my Google account (not to my phone's SIM card)
*Yes I've made sure that Contacts is syncing, and have tried forcing a manual sync numerous times. It says that has synced, and will even download new contacts I create on my Google account (on a computer)
Any ideas?
Running CrDroid 7.1.2
Nexus 6

Which contacts app are you using? Not familiar with that ROM so I don't know if it might come with an AOSP contacts app?
In the google app, in the edit contact screen, right at the top (under the picture) is where it'll tell you where it is saving the contact. Just to double check that account is correct on the contacts that aren't syncing?
In settings -> apps -> contacts app, are the permissions all enabled? Is there more than one contacts app listed? If so, disable the one you're not using.
I think you said you checked this, but in settings -> apps -> accounts -> Google is contacts enabled? And settings -> apps -> accounts -> the 3-dot menu is auto-sync checked?
There's always the age-old; turn sync on/off multiple times thing ☺
The last thing I would try is to remove the account from my phone then add it back. There was a day when that process felt like part of the ROM flashing procedure. ?

jon.s.nelson said:
... I create on my Google account (on a computer)
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First try https://mail.google.com to check if you logged in with the same account on your phone.

NLBeev said:
First try https://mail.google.com to check if you logged in with the same account on your phone.
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I am. Is that a problem?
*edit: I signed out from the browser, and still have the issue.

jon.s.nelson said:
...I signed out from the browser, and still have the issue.
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That was only to check the internet connection and access to your Gmail account.
The post of @ktmom doesn't solve the sync issue. In that case you could try to install the Google contacts app from the play store.

@NLBeev
@jon.s.nelson
I assumed that there was internet available since in the OP it was stated that contacts which had been updated online via a PC were being downloaded to the phone.
The choke point seems to be getting the contacts created on the phone to sync up to google. That's why I focused on app related issues, with the end point being a hiccup in the actual account on the phone.

ktmom said:
... I focused on app related issues, with the end point being a hiccup in the actual account on the phone.
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Yes. The security update of September contains a new Google contacts app.

Good to know. I'm using PN and we don't have an update yet.