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[Q] Google account sync error - "Sync is currently experiencing problems..."
Hi guys,
I'm having issues with my Google account sync.
Google Play Music is causing my account to have a sync error.
I get the error message:
Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly.
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And there is a sync icon with an exclamation point (!) by Google Play Music, when I press into my Google Account in Settings.
It's been like this for a few days now and I feel it's affecting my battery life, as the failed sync re-tries again and again.
Some forums have suggested disabling 2-step verification, removing the Google account and then adding it back, clearing app cache, etc.
I've done it all with no success.
For what it's worth, if I un-check the Google Play Music sync box and run the "Sync Now," sync all, their are no errors and the UI shows a successful sync icon.
I'm not sure what's going on here.
Thanks,
-Donnie
Moto X
4.4.2
Sprint
Try removing your Google account and then add it back. That sometimes fixes it.
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I just came across your post from a Google search and thought I would post my solution. This literally happened to me today out of nowhere(never had a problem before) and it totally stumped and frustrated me to no end. I tried cache reset, factory reset, all that bulls**t and it didn't work.
This is how I finally got sync to work:
>>login into your Google account from a web browser eg: google.com, play.google.com, wherever
>>in the upper right corner go to where it shows your profile info, click on your picture, and click Account
>>on the next screen click Security
>>where it says Account Permissions click View All
>>you have 2 choices: you can revoke access on everything you see or just extra devices. Personally, I had 4 Droid DNA's and 4 Nexus 7's listed from where I've done factory resets or ROM installs and I had to reauthorize my Google account. All I did was revoke access for the ones that said "no activity in the past 60 days". Within seconds Google Play was already auto-updating apps on my phone, I couldn't believe it.
This may not work for you but it's how I got it to work. Good luck.
Google looks to be having issues today so I would bet that's the problem
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/0...-services-are-experiencing-outages-right-now/
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Hi all...
I can't sync Google contacts on my Huawei Mate S (it's chinese version CRR-UL00 from eBay).
Can't find any setting for Contacts in Settings=>Accounts=>Google
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.
ikazpk said:
Hi all...
I can't sync Google contacts on my Huawei Mate S (it's chinese version CRR-UL00 from eBay).
Can't find any setting for Contacts in Settings=>Accounts=>Google
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks.
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You need to download Google Apps from Huawei App Store, as it is the china model that does not have Google Apps preinstalled.
1. Open App Center
2. Search for "Google"
3. Click the banner in the top
4. Install the apps from there, there is calendar and contact sync add-ins
To add your Google account open play store (it is not available to add from settings). If you have already logged in, go to settings -> Accounts -> Google -> Account (email) and tick of contact and calendar sync after installation.
did as described.... for some reason I only have calendar sync, but not contacts?? Can't find a contacts app in Play store.
What can I do?
thxx,
t.m.
TheMixer said:
did as described.... for some reason I only have calendar sync, but not contacts?? Can't find a contacts app in Play store.
What can I do?
thxx,
t.m.
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You need to find the contact sync app in Huawei App Store ("HiApp"), not Play store.
1. Open Huawei App Center / HiApp
2. Search for "Google"
3. Click the banner in the top
4. Install the apps from there, there is calendar and contact sync add-ins
Oh yeah - it works.
Thanks a lot for this...!!!!
EMF said:
You need to find the contact sync app in Huawei App Store ("HiApp"), not Play store.
1. Open Huawei App Center / HiApp
2. Search for "Google"
3. Click the banner in the top
4. Install the apps from there, there is calendar and contact sync add-ins
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I have a Chinese P9 and I have this problem, where is this banner?
Thanks!
doesn't work for me - the "cannot start the application" message appears and some Chinese hieroglyphs, which I cannot read. Any help?
Hi, same issue for me. I installed all necessary Google APP but there is no Sync contact in the account management. I tried to install it manually, same result.
any help ?
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..
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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Hello Everyone. I bought the orange 512gb X70 Pro+ from TradingShenZhen, and overall I am satisfied (but not 100% happy) with the CN Rom phone (BTW if I have the chance to flash it with Funtouch Global OS, I would do (pay) it without hesitation!).
After I set it up for first time (english language, wifi connection, etc) I downloaded all google apps I think are necessary for me (drive, photos, play store, etc) and I logged in with my Google account in all of them, downloaded WhatsApp, banking apps, and others. Everything seemed to work well. Then I saw that the phone was not receiving some notificactions like WhatsApp automatically, so I found a Set Up "Guide" from a website that was in German (I google translated it) and follow the instructions to remove CN apps from the Phone, and after that the phone started to receive WhatsApp notifications even if the app is not open.
Not having the Hey Google feature, Android Auto, the Google search bar in the main screen, not having the ability to clone apps (android default feature). Or setting Google as default (phone, messages, gmail, calendar, calculator, chrome). Manually setting up permissions, notifications, removing CN apps, or changing settings in general... I still can live with it, taking in mind those should be done once per each factory reset only.
My only "problem" so far: going Back to Google (mainly Google Drive Backup), the phone is backing up WhatsApp chats, media files, contacts; BUT the phone is not backing up: Apps, SMS messages, and Device Settings. When I launch Google Drive app, and click on "back up now" it says "couldn´t backup data. Try again later", I have tried the disable screen locks, logging out, loggin back in, force stop, clear cache, rebooting, uninstall and reinstall Google Drive, backup from Google One (it is stuck at "Starting first backup..."), and the problem persists. Fortunately for me, most important data is backing up, because in a worst case scenario (if my phone is completely dead) I could restore Google Backed up data and then download all the apps from Play Store, log in, and set the device settings manually.
I hope this information helps in someway and also if you know another step I could try for the Google Drive backup issue, or if there is a reliable app that can create backup for Apps, SMS, and device settings; I would really appreciate You to let me know.
Have a nice day!
enb007 said:
Hello Everyone. I bought the orange 512gb X70 Pro+ from TradingShenZhen, and overall I am satisfied (but not 100% happy) with the CN Rom phone (BTW if I have the chance to flash it with Funtouch Global OS, I would do (pay) it without hesitation!).
After I set it up for first time (english language, wifi connection, etc) I downloaded all google apps I think are necessary for me (drive, photos, play store, etc) and I logged in with my Google account in all of them, downloaded WhatsApp, banking apps, and others. Everything seemed to work well. Then I saw that the phone was not receiving some notificactions like WhatsApp automatically, so I found a Set Up "Guide" from a website that was in German (I google translated it) and follow the instructions to remove CN apps from the Phone, and after that the phone started to receive WhatsApp notifications even if the app is not open.
Not having the Hey Google feature, Android Auto, the Google search bar in the main screen, not having the ability to clone apps (android default feature). Or setting Google as default (phone, messages, gmail, calendar, calculator, chrome). Manually setting up permissions, notifications, removing CN apps, or changing settings in general... I still can live with it, taking in mind those should be done once per each factory reset only.
My only "problem" so far: going Back to Google (mainly Google Drive Backup), the phone is backing up WhatsApp chats, media files, contacts; BUT the phone is not backing up: Apps, SMS messages, and Device Settings. When I launch Google Drive app, and click on "back up now" it says "couldn´t backup data. Try again later", I have tried the disable screen locks, logging out, loggin back in, force stop, clear cache, rebooting, uninstall and reinstall Google Drive, backup from Google One (it is stuck at "Starting first backup..."), and the problem persists. Fortunately for me, most important data is backing up, because in a worst case scenario (if my phone is completely dead) I could restore Google Backed up data and then download all the apps from Play Store, log in, and set the device settings manually.
I hope this information helps in someway and also if you know another step I could try for the Google Drive backup issue, or if there is a reliable app that can create backup for Apps, SMS, and device settings; I would really appreciate You to let me know.
Have a nice day!
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You cannot have "G" futures (Hey Google feature, Android Auto, the Google search bar in the main screen..) as all these apps are not system apps. In Chinese model only Google Play Services are system app, all other apps are installed on request.
maxant69 said:
You cannot have "G" futures (Hey Google feature, Android Auto, the Google search bar in the main screen..) as all these apps are not system apps. In Chinese model only Google Play Services are system app, all other apps are installed on request.
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You can't have Hey Google, Android Auto and complete backup on the Chinese model. Everything else, including search bar, calendar, contacts, Google phone, Messages...goes, as you can see on attached pictures.