Phone contact list overriding Gmail

[MrsJennyK]

Well this is completely annoying.

Droid 2 Global, Gingerbread, Verizon
Have been using backup assistant for new contacts. Never worked, never got it to sync right, never could access it on the Verizon website.

So nevermind to them. I'm switching to Page Plus anyway. Ha on you Verizon!

When I first got the phone I must have told it to add all of my FB friends because I had a ridiculous contact list with hundreds of people I haven't talked to since elementary school.

Anyhow - I exported all contacts to the SD card

Imported them to the Gmail account my phone is attached to

Cleaned up the whole list in Gmail

Exported that list to a Vcf

Replaced the existing vcf on the SD card with my new, cleaned up one

Deleted all contacts on my phone using Contact Remover

imported contacts from SD card (my new, improved vcf file)

All is good!

I make a few more changes to the contacts list in Gmail

I wait for it to update.... I can't wait... I'm impatient...

I go to settings>My Accounts>yaddayaddaatgmail>toggle the "sync Gmail" box to make it update

Well it updated, but not the way I expected it to. It used my phone's contact list to overwrite the Gmail contact list. IOW, the contacts I deleted in Gmail showed up again in Gmail and were not deleted in the contacts list on my phone.

I don't see a setting to set one to have preference over the other or anything like that.

??

 

[argedion]

Personally I would go through Gmail and clean all my contacts up and have only the ones I want in there. Then I would do a factory reset of the phone. I would then sign in to my gmail account and let it take over from there. After my contacts showed up the way I wanted I would then reinstall my apps or allow Google to reinstall them for me.

 

[MrsJennyK]

Doesn't seem like I should have to do that every time I want to add or change a contact while I'm in Gmail though...

 

[argedion]

No I think once it gets setup you should be ok with sync then. I had a similar issue with contacts and thats what I did and now its all good. I think not cleaning out all data left residue of the old contacts. Atleast that is what I am hoping. Clearing it all and starting fresh should give you a better foundation hopefully. That is my theory anyways. Hopefully it will be a one shot process.