lockitup wrote:
I spent 2 hours putting my contacts into my G1 today now they have all disappeared it says I have no contacts he;p please.
Did you check online, in the gmail contacts? Your contacts are probably there.Let me know if they are not, cause I am trying to piece this together.
I agree it is totally stupid for it to delete them from your phone, after syncing to your gmail account.
I have figure out a workaround I think. (atleast, this works, if you have your contacts sync with online, but only sync specific groups sync from your gmail, instead of specifying "all contact")
bdb4269 wrote:
I think I got it figured out. And it is really bad design if you ask me.
I had/have this problem with contacts added to my phone disappearing.
I only have like 2 groups synced with gmail contacts, because I have a stupidly large ammout of gmail contacts, and I dont want them all synced with my phone.
So when I make a new contact, it has no group. When it syncs, it does add the said contact to gmail account, but then removes it from the phone, because its not in a group of contacts I have chosen to sync.
There is a "Starred in Android" group that is automatically created both places. (which does not automatically always sync**)
Seems like there should automatically be a "Android Contacts" group, so that any contact made on the phone, is automatically put in that group, and that group is ALWAYS synced (as long as you are syncing with online). That would be super simple, and would prevent this annoying behavior.
As it is, I guess I am going to manually add "Starred in Android" group to my sync, and I'll just have to remeber that if I do not star new contacts, they will disappear from my phone.
**(very non-intuitive -- in what situation exactly, is someone NOT going to want "Starred in Android" contacts, synced on their phone, and thus dropped from their phones contacts?!)
