I had the same problem too, when I bought a new phone in april. I still haven't sorted it completely out, and it's quite weird. Some of my friends and family doesn't show up in my contacts list, but when I manually type their number into the dialer, they show up with name. But then I get teh option to add them to contacts. And after that, they show up normally.
I suspect it's some bug with what contacts were linked with your google account and which were not on the OLD phone. I did NOT do any form of contact transferring, as I assumed it all went automatically with google. I have ended up just giving up, Med vennlig hilsen Aksel Verne Vestby 2015-07-19 19:48 GMT+02:00 bill hansen <[email protected]>: > Thanks Zack - You're right - my phone is Android, a Samsung S5. Your > thought that he just copied contacts from my old Droid phone sounds correct > too. It doesn't explain the dozens of contacts which were never on the > older phone, but that's a side issue. I guess I'll have to return the phone > to Verizon to see if they can fix the synch'ing problem. > > Bill > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Zack (Doc) <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Bill, >> >> It sounds like your phones are Android based since you said it happened >> automatically, but there are possibilities with Apple phones as well. The >> solution depends on what type of phone you have and how you sync your >> contacts. >> >> I suspect, your Verizon rep didn't *need* to do anything, but by doing >> something, he broke an otherwise working system. I'm betting he copied >> your contacts from the old phone, including any carrier created ones, into >> the phone's memory, rather than linking it to your Google account, as I >> suspect it was before. >> >> >> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 11:47 AM, billhansen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> My Gmail Contacts have always automatically synch'd among the two >>> computers and two cell phones which are used in my household, but synch'ing >>> is not working recently. I'm wondering if there's something I can do to get >>> synch'ing to work on all my devices, as it used to do. >>> >>> This probably started when I got an upgraded cell phone several days >>> ago. The Verizon suggested that he should put my Contacts into the new >>> phone as he activated the phone, and I foolishly agreed to let him do that. >>> He managed to put in over 500 unknown "Contacts" and contacts onto the new >>> phone (maybe contacts from the Verizon store - who knows?). Just as bad, >>> many of my own personal contacts did not make it to the new cell phone. It >>> took several hours to straighten all this out on the cell phone, but those >>> personal contacts which didn't make it onto the new cell phone do not synch >>> to my computers after I brought the cell phone up to date. >>> >>> I hope that makes some sense. The main thing is, that if I could synch >>> the contacts which are now on the cell phone so that they appear on the >>> computers, that would save me an awful lot of time and annoyance. I know it >>> sould be done automatically, but that hasn't happened. >>> >>> Thanks - Bill Hansen >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Gmail-Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
