Google contacts syncing question

[omnius]

I have my contacts synced to Google and recently synced them all to my new phone. I noticed that the photos I was using on my contacts also synced over even though I didn't transfer them from my old phone's SD card. So where are they residing now on my new phone's storage? If the answer is that they aren't, does this mean that my contacts list is constantly drawing from Google servers in order to display the pictures associated with them?

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[chanchan05]

The pictures you use for your contacts were synced up to Google servers for use in your contacts list. So a copy resides on Google's servers. Now when the contacts were synced to your new phone, the pictures from the servers were taken with it. However you can't see them in your storage because they are now embedded into the same files as the contacts. Basically, the contact file contains all the info+pictures. Like the way how an embedded album art and music exist as one mp3 file.

 

[ocnbrze]

I have my contacts synced to Google and recently synced them all to my new phone. I noticed that the photos I was using on my contacts also synced over even though I didn't transfer them from my old phone's SD card. So where are they residing now on my new phone's storage? If the answer is that they aren't, does this mean that my contacts list is constantly drawing from Google servers in order to display the pictures associated with them?

Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

when you sync with google, all the data associated gets downloaded to the phone and stored in the data partition of your phone and not on your sd card. so no it is not constantly connected to google's server.

edit:did you see that ninja go by?