Yes. There is "My Contacts" and "All Contacts", the difference being those that
you replied or sent emails to that aren't part of your My Contacts.
You can move contacts from All to My.
Perhaps this is the problem? The Pre syncs with My Contacts.
Jim
(Via Palm Pre)
ldouglas wrote:
isn't there some setting on Gmail where it only exposes the contacts
you've recently corresponded with or something?
On 1/28/10, John Messeder <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just an update. I wonder if I've a bad Pre. I have removed my google
> account and rebuilt it. I have searched for similar problems (tho
> probably I just have not found the correct combination of search words).
> I cannot get the Pre to download my Google contacts. It downloads 38
> contacts, then claims to be done. There actually are, under Google's
> All Contacts, 1751 cards.
> Store opens at 10, and I'll be in a meeting, but the store is
> between the meeting and my office. I wonder whether he'll swap the phone
> and let me start over.
>
> On 1/27/2010 9:10 PM, John Messeder wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't know what I've messed up but ...
>> The Pre was not downloading POP messages (IMAP not available on my
>> work email). Finally decided to Full Erase to get rid of the apps I'd
>> installed, lest they be the problem. So far, so good.
>> But when I sync contacts, the Profile gives me only 2, and Google
>> another 38 -- I have more than 1600 contacts in Google online. I just
>> looked; they're all still there.
>> I try manually syncing, which takes only a couple of seconds. I
>> thought maybe either the rest would download, or the 38 on the Pre would
>> become 38 on Google. Neither happened. In fact, nothing happens.
>> Anyone got any clues?
>>
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