Google Calendar and Contacts
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I have setup my google email accout on my new droid x and it is working in a two way "sync". The contacts do not appear to be "sync" ing back to google. I think that this is normal but is there anyway to make it a two way sync? Maybe an app or google account upgrade?
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I have solved my own question with a reply that HappyJackDaddy posted back in November.
Seems to me that there are "Phone Contacts" and "Google" contacts. If you open up a contact on your phone, tap on Linked Profiles and you'll see whether the contact is a Google contact, a Phone Contact, or both. The contacts that you enter on your phone itself are both. The contacts that you enter online while in your Gmail account are Google contacts only. If you want all your contacts to be backed up to both Google and Backup Assistant, they have to either all be entered manually on your phone or they have to have gotten to your phone in the first place from Backup Assistant. That's because Backup Assistant only backs up Phone contacts, and Google only backs up Google contacts. If a contact is both, it'll be backed up in both places. Sounds like your contacts are backed up at Google because that's where you entered them (or imported them to) in the first place. My advice, if you want them to also be in Backup Assistant, would be to export a CSV file from Gmail and then import that file into Backup Assistant. At least I think you should be able to do that. Hopefully that won't double your contacts! I had the opposite problem. When I got the Droid X I had all contacts from my old phone on BA and they were pulled down to my Droid X, and I wondered why they wouldn't sync and show up on their own in Gmail. I finally exported a CSV from BA and imported it to Google. I was worried it would double my contacts, but it didn't. Worked great, so I'm thinking it should work fine in the opposite direction too.
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I have solved my own question with a reply that HappyJackDaddy posted back in November.
Seems to me that there are "Phone Contacts" and "Google" contacts. If you open up a contact on your phone, tap on Linked Profiles and you'll see whether the contact is a Google contact, a Phone Contact, or both. The contacts that you enter on your phone itself are both. The contacts that you enter online while in your Gmail account are Google contacts only. If you want all your contacts to be backed up to both Google and Backup Assistant, they have to either all be entered manually on your phone or they have to have gotten to your phone in the first place from Backup Assistant. That's because Backup Assistant only backs up Phone contacts, and Google only backs up Google contacts. If a contact is both, it'll be backed up in both places. Sounds like your contacts are backed up at Google because that's where you entered them (or imported them to) in the first place. My advice, if you want them to also be in Backup Assistant, would be to export a CSV file from Gmail and then import that file into Backup Assistant. At least I think you should be able to do that. Hopefully that won't double your contacts! I had the opposite problem. When I got the Droid X I had all contacts from my old phone on BA and they were pulled down to my Droid X, and I wondered why they wouldn't sync and show up on their own in Gmail. I finally exported a CSV from BA and imported it to Google. I was worried it would double my contacts, but it didn't. Worked great, so I'm thinking it should work fine in the opposite direction too.
