add or edit contact groups

[cindyrichelle]

Sorry I this has been discussed elsewhere, I searched the forum, but I did not see anything that directly applies to my question.
In gmail I have my contacts sorted by groups, easy enough, on occasion I need to add a new group or move a contact from one group to another, which is easy enough using a pc and my gmail account.
However, I cannot seem to add new groups or edit existing groups on my G1. I can see the groups, I can sort by groups, but I cannot find an option that will allow me to add or edit any groups.
Does anyone know how this is done on the G1? I
suppose I could use the browser to log on to my gmail account an change it from there but isn’t that sort of redundant since I am on my gmail account using the G1?
One other thing, maybe someone knows, when G1 contacts sync with my gmail why don’t the contact photos sync?

Thanks,
C

[DaYuMu6ft7]

Sorry I this has been discussed elsewhere, I searched the forum, but I did not see anything that directly applies to my question.
In gmail I have my contacts sorted by groups, easy enough, on occasion I need to add a new group or move a contact from one group to another, which is easy enough using a pc and my gmail account.
However, I cannot seem to add new groups or edit existing groups on my G1. I can see the groups, I can sort by groups, but I cannot find an option that will allow me to add or edit any groups.
Does anyone know how this is done on the G1? I
suppose I could use the browser to log on to my gmail account an change it from there but isn’t that sort of redundant since I am on my gmail account using the G1?
One other thing, maybe someone knows, when G1 contacts sync with my gmail why don’t the contact photos sync?

Thanks,
C

This thread here might answer your Photo question...

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...real-web-5789/

[cindyrichelle]

Thank you, that is the fix for the photo query.
But are there any ideas about the groups, maybe i am missing something, but I have look through all the contact settings and I can not find anything.
~C

[DaYuMu6ft7]

Thank you, that is the fix for the photo query.
But are there any ideas about the groups, maybe i am missing something, but I have look through all the contact settings and I can not find anything.
~C

It could be that Google (whom aren't perfect) may have not added a group feature for the phone...

It's still so many things they haven't added to the phone that you can access on a PC.

[facelessuser]

Any one else notice the oddity that when you add a new group in gmail it shows up on the G1 but the default groups (Family, Friends, Coworkers) do not show up? Kind of odd.

[cindyrichelle]

Any one else notice the oddity that when you add a new group in gmail it shows up on the G1 but the default groups (Family, Friends, Coworkers) do not show up? Kind of odd.

Yeah. I forgot about that, i noticed it too, I resorted to creating groups like my family, my friends, ect.... I am stumped

[Stryder]

Any one else notice the oddity that when you add a new group in gmail it shows up on the G1 but the default groups (Family, Friends, Coworkers) do not show up? Kind of odd.

I noticed that too. Is there anyway to fix this? Or is this something Google overlooked since I don't see many people talking about this issue?

[vendor.net]

The same problem. Any solution now?

[josevtome]

Same thing here... I noticed that today trying to filter my contacts to call my dad... and for a momento though that I had no Family group created (weird) but gmail has it by default and you can't edit it or delete it... I don't want to create a "My Family" group, I would be really happy if anyone can find a fix for this!

JVT

[robbiekhan]

I have tested Contacts saving from the phone directly and found the following:

When saving a new contact (say from a call list) the contact gets saved (after sync) to the first sync group (if you’ve not chosen a sync group then it gets saved in “My Contacts”). In my case the first sync group is “- Business” so my Test contact got syncd to that group. If you only have a single sync group for Android, like "Phone" and put all contacts you want on the phone in there then there's no need to read on I guess but if you have multiple sync groups then do carry on!

Now since I have a lot of Gmail contacts this can be a bit tedious filing through on Gmail later if you’ve added several new contacts from the phone so what I have done is created a new group called “- Android Holding”*** so now when I save a new contact from the phone they sync to that group and added the holding group on the phone as a sync group (do this first).

This means basically that I can later go into Gmail and move new contacts from the “- Android Holding” group into Family, Business or whatever and since those groups are set to sync anyway the phone won’t know any different.

This is just an extra process to do for new contacts, an easy one too. At least until Google add the option to add new contacts to a group of your choosing from the phone directly anyway.


***I have used a dash before the group names because this quickly sets them apart form the default groups in Gmail as I don’t use them since you cannot select them for sync in Android.