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Help Google contacts will not sync with Gmail contacts

Nate1974

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Mar 23, 2011
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All of my contacts are listed on my phone as google contacts, but when I try to sync my contacts with gmail (using Settings>Accounts & sync >Google), I get an error message regarding contacts sync that reads:

"Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly"

It's been seeing this for over a week now, any ideas why it's doing it and what I can do to try and fix it?

Thanks for any advice!
 
All of my contacts are listed on my phone as google contacts, but when I try to sync my contacts with gmail (using Settings>Accounts & sync >Google), I get an error message regarding contacts sync that reads:

"Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly"

It's been seeing this for over a week now, any ideas why it's doing it and what I can do to try and fix it?

Thanks for any advice!

Bump! Same issue syncing contacts, I've tried deleting and resyncing but receive that error as well
 
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I had the same issue. Go to Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Running select Contacts Storage and Clear Data. Then try syncing.

Thank you thank you thank you!

I had previously tried clearing data from the people app with no luck, it looks like my google contacts are loading now after clearing 92mb from the Contacts Storage cache!
 
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