Comments on: Palm Pre: Only Sync Google “My Contacts”

By: jay

jay — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:44:18 +0000

will this work for yahoo contacts?

By: acterry

acterry — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:49:41 +0000

pACE,

This process in my blog entry that you read is no longer necessary. As of Web OS 1.3.1 (released mid-November 2009), WebOS devices automatically limit Google contact syncing to records in “My Contacts”. I removed the NuevaSync workaround from my phone back in November.

I remember in November that Pre owners had to remove and readd the Google Contacts account to their phone in order to get the contacts that were not in “My Contacts” to disappear from the phone.

If you remove the NuevaSync account and readd the Google account, it should work just fine for you too.

By: pACE

pACE — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:43:05 +0000

Wow! Finally I like my Pre after following this tutorial. I was nearly ready to trade it in for a Droid. Nope…Not yet!

By: WebOS 1.3.1 Update Fixes Google "My Contacts" syncing issue | AaronTerry.com

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:29:50 +0000

[...] Palm Pre: Only Sync Google My Contacts As most early adopters of the Palm Pre know, Synergy with GMail pulls in records from "All Contacts" instead of "My Contacts." The result for heavy GMail users is a contact… [...]

By: Aaron Terry

Aaron Terry — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:30:47 +0000

@Hallie You probably need to set your default contact account to your NuevaSync profile. You can do this under Preferences in the Contacts app on your Pre. Once you do that, newly created contacts on your Pre will be added to your Google Account.

If you have preexisting contacts on your Pre that are tied to another contacts account (like your Palm Profile), the Pre won't sync those back to Google. I'm not sure if you can reassign a contact from one Synergy profile to another.

By: Aaron Terry

Aaron Terry — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:26:28 +0000

@Aaron I'm glad it worked well for you!

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:52:02 +0000

frickin' sweet! this was a fairly straightforward setup for me and it works. I tried several different ways of reconciling this crap between my Pre and Gmail-. highly annoying feature of Gmail, the auto-add behavior is extremely user unfriendly, esp with syncing on smart phones. If you google it a little this particular issue of spammed contacts has been a bug from "the launch of gmail" so it is unlikely that google overlords will fix it, and we must hope the palm people are more sympathetic. i am really about an inch from returning the stupid thing.

By: Hallie

Hallie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:31:11 +0000

Aaron, the sync was supposedly successful (nuevasync says sync status ok, data last transfered 8 minutes ago), but my contacts from my Pre do not show up in Gmail. (I'll try testing the other way around by putting new info in gmail contacts & seeing if it shows up on phone.) Strange!

By: Hallie

Hallie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:26:20 +0000

Hi, I personally wouldn't do that because I like to have one google account for contacts, email, and calendar, for two main reasons:

-So I can stay logged into the same account on the same browser all day.
-So that I can send email to my contacts instead of cutting and pasting them from a second account–what a hassle that would be.

By: Deep

Deep — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:54:40 +0000

Why do you do this through Nuevasync? Why not just create a second Google account and export your contacts into that account, then use the new account for contacts, and the old account for email/calendar?

I don't see the difference but maybe I'm missing something?