Contacts: Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly. Going on for days!!

[adiva45]

hello:

Suddenly a few days ago my contacts disappeared from my phone. I found several forum posts which I followed and I disabled and reenabled the contact apps,
cleared the data are cleared the cache, nothing worked. There was no contact listed in the phone's regular orange Contacts icon app.

I then downloaded an app called Go Contacts EX. I could see my contacts there, but I found this very difficult to operate, so this is not a solution for me .

I also backed up all of my contacts from my Gmail account, deleted all of them from my Gmail account, then re-imported all of my data again to my Gmail account, then tried to resync the contacts but nothing is working. Now I have all of my contacts again in my Gmail account. But still nothing on my phone.

When on my phone,I click on the Accounts and my Gmail account, even though the "Sync contacts" box is ticked, there is an error message next to it saying "sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly."

Yesterday night, I had managed to make it work, but it only synchronized a small part of my 2600 contacts.
Then the contacts on the disappeared mysteriously 10 minutes later.
And it says again: "sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly."

And no, the "sync only with contacts who have phone numbers" is not enabled
The rest of the Calendar and Gmail is synchronizing just fine.

What could be the deal with the "Sync Contacts" that it is not working????

i am open to any suggestions. Thank you so very much in advance!!

 

[DEK Row]

Have had the same problem since 25th any body out their who can help

 

[William Candelario]

I am also having this problem. I tried deleting my Google account and then adding it back again. The contacts appeared while they were initially syncing but then the error returned and my contacts are gone. Was there some kind of update that could have had a bug?

 

[Kerry Walker1]

I'm having the same problem. Can't sync. Also can't choose friends on fb to share on friends wall. Please help!!

 

[Machinist60]

Having the same problem with gmail on n7 (2012). Toggled auto-sync data and gmail sync numerous times, no go. Frustrating, Google are too smart for their own good. When did computers speed things up? (mini rant)

Help please, John.

 

[rbrowne2012]

Same issue here also!

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[evo666]

Move all your contacts to the phone instead of syncing it to your email. I had problems where numbers disappeared along with favorite contacts widget. No problem ever since.

Sent from my Samsung Note II on Tapatalk

 

[adibob2005]

Nothing works Except this little app
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ru.ivary.ContactsSyncFix&hl=en&token=d91Wm04F
regards
bob

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[adiva45]

Move all your contacts to the phone instead of syncing it to your email. I had problems where numbers disappeared along with favorite contacts widget. No problem ever since.

Sent from my Samsung Note II on Tapatalk

Moved all my contacts to my phone, but they still disappear once in a while, it doesn't solve my problem. it doesn't make sense!

 

[adiva45]

Nothing works Except this little app
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ru.ivary.ContactsSyncFix&hl=en&token=cKlRRO8m
regards
bob

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Hi Bib, thanks for your post. I tried this, downloaded the app, ran it, it didn't fix my problem. Contacts disappear and reappear on their own and using this app doesn't make them reappear :-(

 

[linda gillilland]

Same error message started on my mobile on 2-17-14. How do I fix this? Thanks, Linda

 

[Jason Ladouceur]

I keep getting sync errors on my phone. im using a nexus 4 android its preventing my access to google play and to my gmail. Ive tried removing and re adding the account, adding a second account, turning sync off and on repeatedly, forcing a re sync repeatedly, and clearing app caches just in case. Nothing so far has worked. If this keeps up, im returning the damn phone and getting something else!

 

[dashky]

Nothing works Except this little app
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e...ru.ivary.ContactsSyncFix&hl=en&token=yiv3odXL
regards
bob

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This fixed it for me on my S3.

 

[Mark Prucnal]

I had sync problems with maps and later Google Play. Maps had sync error and Google Play had authentication failure. This seems to be a problem with the mobile connection access. Both worked normally using wifi on tablet, so I used wifi to sync on the my note 2 phone then turned wifi off and all worked normally on mobile after that. This may work for contacts also so just try using wifi and see if it works.

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[meeester]

I've heard that Go Contacts doesn't sync well. It isn't working for me ...yet.

 

[Ruth Johnson2]

still no correction to this problem? Who do we contact?

 

[sharifyy]

I had the same problem. just use a VPN service to connect to internet then sync manually. (I used hotspot shield VPN)
it works great

 

[prepaidguy9081]

Titanium backup user apps with data
Reflash rom
Restore apps with data.

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[sarahragan2014]

I've heard that Go Contacts doesn't sync

 

[Ringahding]

This is the only thing that has worked for my Lg Flex d959-->>Perform a master reset.<<-- After reading & reading