Bill, Those contacts are probably being saved locally to your phone and not to Google Contacts. I haven't had an Android phone in a little while, but maybe in the settings there is a way to tell it to always create Google Contacts and not local phone contacts. Once that is done, then all of your contacts will be in Google Contacts and will make it much easier if you ever have to wipe your phone or get a new phone again.
Jeff On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:34 PM, billhansen <[email protected]> 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. > -- 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.
