Google Sync question?

[Gunflight]

I have synced all of my contacts with HTC sync and outlook and they are on my phone. How do I sync the contacts and calendar on my phone with Google?

Thanks for your help.

[carlitos]

the way i do it is when i save a number i save it to google instead of phone thats how it gets syncrinize with google

[mac901]

Originally Posted by carlitos

the way i do it is when i save a number i save it to google instead of phone thats how it gets syncrinize with google

i think he wants to know how to sync all his contacts to google sounds like he came from a wm phone??

[ACHlLLES]

I wouldn't try to sync from multiple sources
I always end up with duplicates when I try it

[sanmanc]

I guess we should start by asking if you have an @gmail.com account and if you do are you using it on this device?

[chas123]

Originally Posted by ACHlLLES

I wouldn't try to sync from multiple sources
I always end up with duplicates when I try it

It's totally screwed up the way this phone handles contacts. There are basically two address books. One called phone and the other for Google contacts. So if you sync with HTC sync the contacts go into the phone address book and will not sync with google. If you do then have google contacts and you and have both address books checked under contacts>menu>view you end up with duplicates. I have been using this to sync outlook contacts with google. I can then sync the phone with google and end up with one address book without duplicates.

Edit: I should say the linked program seems to have issues with the automated sync feature. If you use it I recommend sync'ing manually every so often.

[chas123]

As an update to my previous post:

This program works much better than the one posted above. You will also need this if you want to automate the whole thing (contary to what the documentation say the free version of this software does work with Outlook 2007).

What I did:
1) deleted all phone contacts ( phone and Google).
2) synced outlook and gmail contacts
3) synced the phone to gmail.

I now have one contact list on the phone that syncs with gmail, which in turn I have set to sync every 100 minutes to Outlook. I am also using Google's proprietary calendar sync to sync my google and outlook calendars every 100 minutes. HTC sync continues to have issues IMO. Duplicate contacts, missed contacts, won't sync google contacts, etc.

[twilk]

First if you have a gmail account you can just go to settings, sync and select calander and it will now sync your calander. Anytime you make a change to your contacts or to your calander it will auto sync to save that to your gmail.

I had big multipule contacts issues but its been solved. I know just use google to sync my contacts and then I select only show contacts with numbers. If you sync your contacts and then import contacts from SD you will not only have duplicate contacts but now if you google syncs you will have duplicates in google. The best thing to do is just sync google contacts go into your gmail account and make the corrections to the contacts with multipule copies. Next export your contacts to your SD card as a back up only. You should never need to import them as long as your gmail account is syncing and not having issues. The whole google sync thing is actually pretty awesome if you use gmail. However, it definantly took some trial and error for me as I got pretty frusturated until I finaly understood what was going on.

Edit: Also the easiest way to check and see if you have multi contacts and if so who are the contacts that have multiplied is to go into settings, call settings, voicemail settings, click voicemail number and click the tab that allows you to set the voicemail. All your contacts will now show up in a list view and if there is more then one for a certain contact it will be listed under that contact so its a very easy way to check for multiple contacts.

[chas123]

Originally Posted by twilk

First if you have a gmail account you can just go to settings, sync and select calander and it will now sync your calander. Anytime you make a change to your contacts or to your calander it will auto sync to save that to your gmail.

I had big multipule contacts issues but its been solved. I know just use google to sync my contacts and then I select only show contacts with numbers. If you sync your contacts and then import contacts from SD you will not only have duplicate contacts but now if you google syncs you will have duplicates in google. The best thing to do is just sync google contacts go into your gmail account and make the corrections to the contacts with multipule copies. Next export your contacts to your SD card as a back up only. You should never need to import them as long as your gmail account is syncing and not having issues. The whole google sync thing is actually pretty awesome if you use gmail. However, it definantly took some trial and error for me as I got pretty frusturated until I finaly understood what was going on.

Edit: Also the easiest way to check and see if you have multi contacts and if so who are the contacts that have multiplied is to go into settings, call settings, voicemail settings, click voicemail number and click the tab that allows you to set the voicemail. All your contacts will now show up in a list view and if there is more then one for a certain contact it will be listed under that contact so its a very easy way to check for multiple contacts.

You also have to make sure that when you add a contact to the phone you save it as a google contact. Regular phone contacts will not sync with google.