*Problem Solved* - Marko, Zack, Aksel, Kenneth, and others - Many thanks for all your help. I did the factory reset, and now everything is synch'd up just as it should be. Of course I have to reinstall all my apps, but that won't be much of a burden. - Bill
On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 4:12:50 PM UTC-4, billhansen wrote: > I did confirm that they are not in the Google Contacts list. Today I took > the phone to the Verizon store where I bought it. The sales rep took me > through the procedure of synch'ing the phone > (Settings/Accounts/Google/[myaccountname]/Gmail) and the phone did appear > to synch - but nothing changed in the Google Conacts list, or on the > computers. The phone did not synch with anything other than itself. > > Bill > > On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 3:12:23 AM UTC-4, Marko V wrote: > >> Did you confirm, as per Kenneth, that all your contacts are in Google >> Contacts <https://contacts.google.com/>? >> >> If all looks OK there then I would just do a factory reset on your new >> phone and start from scratch. When you then add your Google account, the >> contacts will again sync. >> >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 9:44 PM, bill hansen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> The only other phone I've had was a Trakfone, about 6-7 years ago. The >>> phone I had immediately prior to buying the present one was a Motorola >>> Droid. Both the Droid and the Samsung are Android phones. If all the >>> contacts from my Droid would transfer to my Samsung, I'd be happy. But am I >>> correct that there's nothing I can do to get synch'ing to work again? It's >>> going to be a serioius annoyance if I need to manually put in each contact >>> on all four devices - two computers and my one phone (plus, I guess my >>> Google/Android contacts won't transfer to my wife's phone, which is also a >>> Samsung) - so that's four devices to peck away at, every time I add a new >>> contact. Seems like there should be some way around that, but I sure >>> haven't found it. >>> >>> Bill >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Marko Vukovic <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Bill >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 7:48 PM, bill hansen <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> As Zack says, there is nothing to do if they are both Android. When >>>> you sign into any device with your Google account, the contacts will sync. >>>> >>>> What phone did you have before the 1st Android? Perhaps there were some >>>> contacts on the sim card from a previous phone, which were now copied on >>>> to >>>> the new one. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Marko >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Marko >> > -- 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.
