Help Maxx Contacts Not In Google Contacts

[thisisnascar]

I just noticed that none of my phone contacts are showing in Google Contacts.

https://www.google.com/contacts/#contacts

I'm not sure if they've ever been there or not. I have 150-contacts on my phone, but not one of them on Google Contacts. I'm running Android version 2.3.6

 

[Sharondippity]

Wow I clicked on that link and saw all your contacts!



(j/k)

How is your data sync set up?

 

[thisisnascar]

Wow I clicked on that link and saw all your contacts!



(j/k)

How is your data sync set up?

Where would I find that, in Accounts or somewhere else?

 

[Sharondippity]

settings>Personal- Accounts & Sync>

 

[thisisnascar]

I have no Personal under Settings.

 

[Sharondippity]

Sorry, I don't know how it was in Gingerbread, I have ICS.

Should be in the same area.

 

[shelland]

I believe there's an option within Contacts that tells whether to save it to the phone or to Gmail (Google). You probably have them all saved as phone contacts.

 

[Kwayit]

You can go to www.verizonwireless.com/backupassistant and export and then to gmail and import. It will mean a lot of merging and deleting but it's the only way that I've found.

 

[thisisnascar]

I believe there's an option within Contacts that tells whether to save it to the phone or to Gmail (Google). You probably have them all saved as phone contacts.

If that's the case will enabling that sync all contacts to Google Contacts or just whatever new contacts I create?

 

[OfTheDamned]

If that's the case will enabling that sync all contacts to Google Contacts or just whatever new contacts I create?

Just the new contacts. When you purchased the phone, they moved your contacts over from your old phone, didn't they? That is the common source of this. Just like you have it now, it places your contacts on the phone and doesn't link them to Google. I've always thought this was a dumb way to do it.

As Kwayit mentioned you can get a file of all your contacts and import them to Google. As far as the duplicates, I'd suggest deleting all your contacts on the phone before you start any sort of sync. Just make sure all your contacts are listed in the file before you start deleting.

Getting everything setup can be a real pain in the beginning, but once it is done you don't have to worry about you contacts going anywhere anymore. The other great thing is that they will auto load after a reset or with any other Android device you ever use.

 

[thisisnascar]

Thanks. I think I found what I need to change. It's currently set for contacts to be on the Phone+Verizon Backup Plus. I need to change that to Google, but it says it for new contacts. I'm going to try the export from VBP to Google and see what happens.

 

[thisisnascar]

I'm not having luck online with the Backup Assistant Plus website. It's telling me to wait while it retrieves my data, but never gets past that. I see on my Maxx, that I have being having successful backups to BA+, so I don't know why managing this online would be a problem.

It would appear I need to get this BA+ issue resolved on the website, so I can import/export those contacts to Google. Any suggestions as to what might be wrong?