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funksplutter

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I've got a Galaxy S and am really pleased with the phone generally except...the contact management is really frustrating.

In particular I can't seem to sync my Google contacts groups. The contacts themselves sync ok but they are all grouped under Google in the groups dialogue. There doesn't seem to be any way for me to add them to groups I create on the device or to get the groups that are in my Google contacts to display. Annoyingly if I try to create a group on the device with the same name as a group in my Google contacts it tells me that a group of that name already exists even though it won't display that group on the phone.

Am I missing something obvious?
 
Nope. There doesn't seem to be a way to make groups using gmail contacts. Perhaps if you make an identical contact in phone mode and connect the two together, you will be able to add them to groups.
 
That's a pretty poor implementation by Samsung. I got my wife an HTC Desire and groups synchronise fine on that. Coupled with the on-going GPS problems this has slightly soured my experience with what is otherwise a great phone.
 
I'm having this exact same problem on the Captivate...
The entire reason I switched to Android was because of the Google cloud feature. And now it seems as if Samsung has crippled one of the best features Android has going for it???

Please tell me someone out there can write an app or figure out a fix for this..
 
funksplutter said:
I've got a Galaxy S and am really pleased with the phone generally except...the contact management is really frustrating.

In particular I can't seem to sync my Google contacts groups. The contacts themselves sync ok but they are all grouped under Google in the groups dialogue. There doesn't seem to be any way for me to add them to groups I create on the device or to get the groups that are in my Google contacts to display. Annoyingly if I try to create a group on the device with the same name as a group in my Google contacts it tells me that a group of that name already exists even though it won't display that group on the phone.

Am I missing something obvious?
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I also have problem with groups in Contacts App. I downloaded Contacts GroupU from Android Market, seems to work fine. Just a temporary solution, hope Samsung can correct the problem.
 
I have a new Samsung Galaxy S and have the exact same problem. But even more serious is that my calendar will not sync back to google calendar. Google calendar sends new entries to my phone almost instantly, perfect! but any entries I make to my calendar in my phone DO NOT sync back to google calendar. I've discovered many people with the same problem.

No wonder the iPhone sells so well...

I'm quite annoyed that I've wasted a day trying to sort out the simplest of issues like syncing with google.

crannaford
 
Just ran into that Group issue while configuring my NEW phone. Now I see my calendar doesn't update if I place an appointment on my phone? Come on Samsung my old G1 did this flawlessly. My phone is my business so the groups and calendar are used daily. Plz fix this. Almost feel like sending the damn thing back. Great phone otherwise!!
 
My GF has an Eris on Verizon - A2.1 and has groups.
I have a NexusOne on Telus - A2.2 and do not have groups.
As far as I am aware, the lack of groups is related to A2.2 not a particular phone.

I use Oulook and Gmail. Exported from Outlook .csv for Windows and imported to Gmail Contacts without a hitch.

I would expect the next Android upgrade to rectify the lack of groupies...
 
Same here on Galaxy S, Android 2.1. First thing I found about the phone that I don't like. And the fact that I can't view gmail messages by "All messages". It's just the Inbox but I often label something and have it skip the inbox although it's still important.

C'mon guys!
 
Very frustrating. Doesn't work on my Vibrant either. (Also didn't work on the HTC T-Mobile Slide). Not sure these phones were intended to be business phones, but they should be.

I need to be able to keep my contacts in groups, or categories, or something, so I can separate them out. Has anyone come up with a viable work-around?
 
shideon said:
Anyone, anywhere know if this is something to be fixed in 2.2?
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I can confirm that while groups does show in 2.2 and it shows the correct contacts within the groups, when you actually select a contact it loads a completely different contact. NO JOKE. Can you believe this? Been confirmed multiple times through a number of sources...So its still useless in 2.2

How can something as critical as contacts on a phone be so screwed up????
 
crannaford said:
I have a new Samsung Galaxy S and have the exact same problem. But even more serious is that my calendar will not sync back to google calendar. Google calendar sends new entries to my phone almost instantly, perfect! but any entries I make to my calendar in my phone DO NOT sync back to google calendar. I've discovered many people with the same problem.

No wonder the iPhone sells so well...

I'm quite annoyed that I've wasted a day trying to sort out the simplest of issues like syncing with google.

crannaford
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iphone dont sync to the cloud at all... and they have been on their 4th generation already... give samsung sometime, nothing is perfect... in fact they have done so amazingly well on this first time already...
 
On my Captivate I have the same no groups issue in the stock android contacts app. But when i installed these three apps (i installed 3 to evaluate them):
Groupy
GangBook
Contact Group Manager
It became apparent that the group data is sync'd from google to my android phone because on first launch of each app the group info appeared with correct contacts in each group as I had set up on google. Each app has its pros and cons.

One biggie for GangBook (in the lead for me in general too) is that when tapping save after using the stock android new contact form to create a new contact, focus is returned to GangBook which pops-up a list of groups with radio buttons so that the new contact can be assigned to a group. The other two do not do this. In fact Groupy didn't even have an obvious way to create a contact. Contact Group Manager would allow me to create a new contact, but i'm not sure where it went and there is no search function in CGM.
 
contumeliousness said:
I have just seen on a Galaxy S Fascinate running 2.1 you can sync individual google groups. The problem is not specifically due to 2.1.
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In the stock Android calendar app you can see groups? Groups sync'd from google contacts, not groups created in your phone memory?

By installing other contact apps I can see that the groups were actually sync'd to the phone but I can't get them to appear in the stock calendar app.
 
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