I bought a Samsung Captivate for me and my wife yesterday, and very quickly became frustrated after syncing our Gmail accounts to our respective phones. Upon entering Contacts and clicking on random entries?I later discovered that it wasn't random?to see contact details, we'd get the "Sorry! Process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly." error message. I tried syncing her contacts to my phone and the same thing happened. My contacts came up just fine; no problems at all. Power cycles, battery pulls, hard resets, etc. had no effect.
Finally, this morning, after doing some good ol' Google [re]searching, I found a bit of information about this happening when data was unable to sync. That was the clue I needed, and the pieces all came together when I tried entering a new contact from scratch on the phone. When I got to the birthday field, I noticed my wife didn't have a year for the particular contact, and when entering the information through the phone's interface, it wouldn't let you leave that information blank. Most of my wife's contacts had birthdays with no years, and it turns out that all of those contacts were the ones that crashed the Contacts program. I had her go into Gmail and delete or complete the birthdates, and now all of them work fine.
Hope this helps someone else avoid the frustration we went through!
Finally, this morning, after doing some good ol' Google [re]searching, I found a bit of information about this happening when data was unable to sync. That was the clue I needed, and the pieces all came together when I tried entering a new contact from scratch on the phone. When I got to the birthday field, I noticed my wife didn't have a year for the particular contact, and when entering the information through the phone's interface, it wouldn't let you leave that information blank. Most of my wife's contacts had birthdays with no years, and it turns out that all of those contacts were the ones that crashed the Contacts program. I had her go into Gmail and delete or complete the birthdates, and now all of them work fine.
Hope this helps someone else avoid the frustration we went through!