Issue with Android and Gmail Contacts

[tiki]

Here's a weird thing..

I created a new group in my gmail.

i called it "android" and set the G1 to only display that group.

so i move over all my contacts from "my contacts" into the "android" group

i sync up with gmail, and theres the "android" contacts on my phone.


however, i see one i dont need on the phone, so i delete it and resync.

guess what?

not only did it delete that contact from the "android" group..

but IT DELETED IT FROM ALL MY CONTACT GROUPS including "my contacts"

thats dumb. it should just delete it from the group you were viewing.


we need a "delete from group" option

or at least the ability to move a contact in/out of groups

otherwise we are stuck managing our contacts from a real computer :/

[shookyang]

I've deleted several of my groups after I learned I can't assign ringtones to them.

None of my contacts were deleted as a result. Not sure what happened in your case.

I do know that, when you make any updates to a particular contact, it disappears from your phone while it gets updated. This happens when you make changes on the phone itself, or if you do it from Gmail.

Also, is your Contact list set to auto-sync?

[Keith]

Here's a weird thing..
however, i see one i dont need on the phone, so i delete it and resync.

guess what?

not only did it delete that contact from the "android" group..

but IT DELETED IT FROM ALL MY CONTACT GROUPS including "my contacts"


I have over 400 contacts in my phone and spent hours fixing them, mapping them to multiple groups, deleting them, etc., and did not have the experience you had.

As far as I can determine, deleting a contact on the phone does not delete it from gmail, it ONLY unmaps it's syn'd tag groups. If you had your phone syncing to "all my contacts", then it likely just removed that tag (which would be a bad thing in your case). I mapped all mine to "ANDROID" and all a delete did was remove that mappin in gmail.

There is a chance that if you did a google search in your contact list for that address or phone number it might have been found under "suggested contacts" (a tag that caused several false "there is already a contact with that email address" errors until I discover it).

My problem with the contacts is that gmail did not map my CSV import correctly and lost postal address data and many of the notes. I had to re-enter those. On an import it also defaults the first phone number to "home", and most of mine were "work" so I had to correct that. Gmail also has no dedicated entry for "web address" - imagine that!

Still; most gmail accounts only have contacts centered about the email addresses, so I successfully imported a lot of data that wasn't previously there and this was much better than enterting it. I am nervous about anyone, including google, having access to all my contact phone numbers and postal addresses. Before this all they had were names and email addresses.


Keith