Help syncing contacts from galaxy to gmail?

[bword]

I already have a bunch of phone numbers saved via my gmail contacts and once I sync my phone they appear with no issues. However im wondering if I add a new phone number to my phone will it automatically add itself to my gmail contacts or do I need to manually add each one?

 

[snapper.fishes]

When you create a new contact, it should ask you where you want to save the contact - phone or gmail. If you picked gmail, it will be added to your gmail account.

 

[LateNiteMike]

When you create a new contact, it should ask you where you want to save the contact - phone or gmail. If you picked gmail, it will be added to your gmail account.

Ok, that works. I had a n existing contact and saved it as a new contact and selected my Gmail acct.
Now, how can I have ALL previous contacts sync'ed with Gmail? Will I have to go back and re-enter each of them as new contacts...like I did with that first one?...or is there a way to do all of them at one time?

Thx.

 

[beer-in-box]

I think when you set your google account on accounts tab in your phone and set it to auto sync, it synchronises contacts too.
I wasn't aware that Google keeps my contacts, couple of days ago, I accidentally erased them all, I was thinking how I can bring them back, but they all were in my google account.

So, actually you might try this. Save a fake contact to your phone, called "beer-in-box" Then wait the phone to sync. Then go to contacts.google.com and see if beer-in-box contact exist in there.

 

[rynlpin]

Now, how can I have ALL previous contacts sync'ed with Gmail? Will I have to go back and re-enter each of them as new contacts...like I did with that first one?...or is there a way to do all of them at one time?

If there isn't an easier way, you could export all your non-gmail contacts as a .vcf file and then import to contacts.google.com?

 

[beer-in-box]

If there isn't an easier way, you could export all your non-gmail contacts as a .vcf file and then import to contacts.google.com?

I don't know if this is a question but I'll take it as a question

All of my contacts were imported to google without me knowing it. Normally it is not a good thing, but since I thought I had lost all my contacts, I love google

Just log in your google account and go to contacts.google.com. If your phone was synching, you will see your contacts there.

 

[LateNiteMike]

I think when you set your google account on accounts tab in your phone and set it to auto sync, it synchronises contacts too.
I wasn't aware that Google keeps my contacts, couple of days ago, I accidentally erased them all, I was thinking how I can bring them back, but they all were in my google account.

So, actually you might try this. Save a fake contact to your phone, called "beer-in-box" Then wait the phone to sync. Then go to contacts.google.com and see if beer-in-box contact exist in there.

Well, I hear what you're saying and I decided to give it a try...so here's what happened during my 'experiment'.

I had my SGS settings on 'Auto sync'.
I also had my computer logged into Gmail 'Contacts'.
1.) I created a contact called 'Beer In Box Test' and did 'Save contact to'...Google.
2.) I checked my Gmail Contacts list and 'Beer In Box Test' showed up. (This is to be expected...since I told it to sync to my Gmail account.)
3.) I then created another new contact called 'Beer In Box Test 2' and saved it to 'Phone'.
4.) I checked my Gmail Contacts list and 'Beer In Box Test 2' never showed up.
5.) I then did a manual sync to Contacts AND sync to Gmail....and it still never showed up.
6.) I then created another new contact called 'Beer In Box 3' and saved it to 'SIM'.
7.) I then checked my Gmail Contacts list and 'Beer In Box 3' never showed up either.
Each time I even did a browser refresh of my Gmail Contacts !

Now as an interesting side note...in my SGS Contacts....the 'Beer In Box Test' contact name has been changed to 'Beer In Box Test 2'...and shows a LINK to 'Beer In Box Test' in Google.
Also, 'Beer In Box 3' shows up in my SGS Contacts as being in/on my SIM card. (This is also to be expected since that's where I told it to save it).

So, from what I'm seeing from this test....is that Gmail only syncs and shows new contacts that were saved to your Google Gmail account.
It does NOT sync...nor show any new contacts that are saved as either to 'Phone' or to 'SIM'.
....and that's the name of that tune.

I hope others will find this report useful and I look forward to feedback from others. I will try to report any new findings I may come across.

I am considering doing an Import of the '.vcf' file into my Gmail account as has been suggested by another helpful poster.

 

[LateNiteMike]

If there isn't an easier way, you could export all your non-gmail contacts as a .vcf file and then import to contacts.google.com?

Thanks for the suggestion. I want to give it a try....but not quite sure as to the best way to go about it.
Let me explain;
I've already saved my contacts to my SD card as a .vcf file. So I do have that file. The problem is that I at a loss as to how to get my Gmail account to Import it. Can anyone tell me just how to go about that? I looked all through Gmail settings and I can't find anything regarding uploading a .vcf file.
Also, I have Astro (File Manager) on my SGS...and I went through it pretty well and could not find a way to Export/Upload that .vcf file to my Gmail account. Is there a way to do that in Astro? If so, how?

So, bottom line is; How do I get that .vcf file into Gmail?

Thanks in advance for any future feedback on this.

 

[beer-in-box]

Hey, I am glad you have some beer-in-box in your phone But I can't see why it didn't sycnhed. Because all of my contacts are synched. Maybe you have wrong sync settings.

About google, I took a look for you. You go to contacts.google.com and it takes you to http://www.google.com/contacts After that, I took a look at the right top of the page and saw Import/Export/Print. When you click Import, a new page opens and wants you to choose a file to import.
There, you can do that, I think.

Edit: Yeah, you can do that. After I clicked Import, a new page opened and wanted me to choose a file. Since I don't have any file, I just wanted to know what type of file you might need. I clicked more info, and it helped me about that, you need a csv file for that.