Syncing Contacts in Gmail

[spoilingpets]

I called into VZW tech support to find out about syncing my contacts in gmail to my Droid X. He kind of shrugged me off and said you don't do anything it just happens automatically.

I want to know if the contact list in gmail and the DX can communicate. The calendar syncs fine but if i put a new contact on teh phone while I am out I want it to be also in the contacts in my gmail and vice versa if I type a new customer in my laptop I want it to sync to the DX.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wroing. I can use the backup assistant but that is only for the phone, I want the gmail contacts and phone to communicate.

Thank you in advance

S

[Kooshie]

The gmail syncs automatically unless you have turned off syncing.  If you add a new contact to your phone it will show almost simultaneously in your Google contacts, you can verify this by simply opening up your contact and looking all the way at the bottom to see if it is linked with your Google contact

[spoilingpets]

Kooshie,

Thank you but I still don't get it sorry LOL, you mean at the linked profiles on every single contact I have to link it, I wondered why there are 316 contacts on the phone but only 244 contacts in my gmail contacts!!!

In the email settings i have it check to sync contacts I guess I am being a little thick here I still am not sure how to fix the problem

S

[Ann154]

When you are creating a new contact are you selecting the contact type as gmail so that the phone knows it is supposed to sync with gmail? Otherwise they might just be saved as a phone contact and therefore only on the phone. Once they are saved that way you can't change them after the fact.