Short for "synchronize", this tag is for questions about synchronizing an Android device with "the Cloud" or simply with other devices. Please use the more specific tags if your issue is with e.g. 'active-sync' (MSExchange) or 'rsync' (see full tag wiki for details).
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Android and iTunes
Is it possible to sync an Android phone with iTunes? If so, are there any limitations?
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Sharing Browser Links between PC and Phone
I'm starting a wiki to compile a short list of browsers, apps, extensions, etc. that allow users to easily link or bookmark webpages between their PC and phone. This is ultimately just a "best apps" ...
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Sync only on screen on
I just bought a Nexus 4 (4.2.2), the problem is thta whatsapp/gmail/facebook (all apps) only show notifications when the screen is turned off (so I'm not notified if a message arrives with a led, ...
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How can I specify a default contact for merged contacts?
I have some contacts on my phone that appear in all or some of:
my phone
my google contacts
skype
facebook
Thankfully, Android allows me to link that contacts, so that I have only one entry in my ...
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Unknown email address showing in a contact card
I have a contacts issue. My wife, lets call her Jane Doe for example, is showing an unknown email address in her contact card on my Android phone. It shows her actual address then a second bogus one.
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How to sync photos from Aperture on Mac to Android?
My photos are stored in Aperture on my Mac. I would like to sync them so they show in Gallery on my Nexus 7.
Restrictions:
I want to sync over USB or, preferably, WiFi. Uploading to a cloud server ...
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How to sync ONLY some specific Picasa albums in Gallery app?
I have plenty of Picasa albums and I really don't want all of them to be downloaded into my Android phone.
So my question is how can we select to sync only some selected albums only?
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How to sync non-picasa folder displayed in Gallery app?
I often use Instagram to add effect and frame to my photos.
Then, there is a folder named instagram appearing in Gallery; but that folder won't be synced with my Google account i.e. on another ...
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Synchronize the contact's default phone number
I've upgraded my HTC Desire to a Galaxy S. In the HTC, I had a default phone number for each contact (typically, the mobile number).
After linking the new device with my Google accounts, the default ...
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Syncing tasks with exchange server
I've recently upgraded from a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone to a desire, and there is one feature that I miss and that's the ability to sync tasks with my exchange server. What are other people's, low ...
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Any way to synchronize calendar app across Android and iOS?
Me and my partner have been searching for ages for a calendar application that will sync across both Android and iOS devices (as she has an iPhone). We would love to be able to see each others ...
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Any way to sync Bookmarks between Android and Blackberry?
Is there any way to sync my Bookmarks between my BlackBerry Torch and My Samsung Tablet?
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How to avoid duplicate generated calendar entries?
I'm using Google Calendar on my desktop computer. It seems to auto-generate birthday entries for my contacts in Google Mail. Unfortunately these entries show up twice in "My calendar" in the generic ...
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Problem syncing Gmail contacts on Android tablet
I have a Teac tablet (classic101) with Android 4.0.
After signing in on Gmail and Drive and everything, my contacts won't show up anywhere. It doesn't show when I start writing an address in Gmail. ...
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Sync contacts on android device with G+ information
I have a contact on my phone that doesn't show anything but a phone number. When I review that contact on my Gmail Contacts on the G+ section it shows their address, work address, phone, work phone, ...
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Sync MP3 Ratings on Android, with MediaMonkey / MusicBee on Windows
Both MediaMonkey and MusicBee, as music players let you 'rate' songs from 1 to 5 stars. I would like to have this functionality as well in an Android app. The main problem is syncing these ratings. ...
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Sync arbitrary files with a server
I'm looking for a way to keep a file (keepass .kdb) on my Droid2 in sync with one on a server.
This is just a file on the filesystem - not contacts, calendar, etc.
I need bidirectional, not just ...
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Synchronisation of contacts and calendar suddenly stopped working
While working fine for almost a year now (since I've installed CyanogenMod on my device), a couple of days ago synchronisation stopped all of a sudden: Network indicators turned white (no longer green ...
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Copying applications between phones?
Is it possible to easy copy applications between phones (eg. two HTCs via bluetooth) and get them running fine? Or apps just need to be downloaded from AM each time because of some installation ...
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How do I transfer contacts from my PC to my phone, without putting it in Gmail?
I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo. I want to copy my outlook contacts to my phone without gmail. This is my first time I bought a Android. It seems great, but one thing I do not like is that I have to ...
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How can I sync photos to a network drive over wifi?
My current workflow is to snap pics on my Droid, plug it in via USB, and sync the pics. I'd like to just run a script to sync the DCIM folder with a shared network drive, if anyone knows of a way that ...
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Email sync on roaming
I use Samsung Galaxy Note with Android 4.0.3. When I am outside the home network i.e. On roaming, the phone is not able to sync with Microsoft Exchange. When I am back in Home network they get ...
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Make Automate Task to manually sync Google Voice
Some network I connect to during my daily life, do not allow for push notifications. So I want to make a task that syncs all my accounts. This was easily done with Llama for Gmail. I just told it when ...
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How to separate contact for Whats app only
I've synchronized my contacts of Gmail, Phonebook and Whats app. I do have 2 contacts with the same name. While I was joining the detail of first account with his gmail and whats app details by ...
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How can I sync my Contacts with Gmail if the stock firmware of my phone doesn't provide this feature?
Am using a Grandstream GXP2200 Android deskphone that has a customized version of 2.3.5 on it. They have replaced the native contacts app with a custom one that doesn't sync with Gmail. I have ...
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How can I sync to my yahoo calendar on my Samsung Galaxy II? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I sync Yahoo Calendar on my phone?
I want to do a one time sync of my calendar events and contacts on my Samsung Galaxy II to my Yahoo calendar and contacts.
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Gmail gives no option to sync “All Label” label
HTC Hero, Android 2.1(!)
I have 3 Gmail accounts on my phone — none of them allow me to Synchronize the "All Mail" label. How can I do this?
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How can I sync Google Calendar to my tablet with Android 4.0.3?
I have tablet (Android 4.0.3) with "Android ICS calendar" and I want to synchronize it with my google account.
In "Accounts and synchronization" menu I have my google account, but in details i can ...
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Selective syncing with Google?
By default if you sync with Google, contacts, calendar, app data and wifi keys are synchronized. Is it possible to synchronize only some of these things, e.g. only calendar and contacts? Thanks :-)
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How does Android sync the WiFi Profiles?
I'm using Jelly Bean on a tablet and a phone on the same account. After logging into a particular wifi network on one device, I noticed that sometime later (weeks) the other device had some acquired ...
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How can I resume cancelled app dowloads after attaching a Google account?
I got a new phone and I signed in with my existing google gmail account. To my surprise, the phone started redownloading all of the apps I had on my other phone over my cellular data connection. ...
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Why were some of my contacts automatically merged without notice?
I found several questions here where people want to merge several of their contacts into one.
I'm having exactly the opposite problem:
On both my Android devices (Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 7), two of ...
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Has anyone been able to setup a home server as a replacement for Google Sync? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Suggestions for syncing data to someone besides Google? Funambol?
Sync to my own server for contacts, sms and notes?
Has anyone been able to setup a home server as a ...
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How Google Contacts sync works?
I want to know the process of syncing contacts between Android Contacts and Google Contacts.
The direction of sync, effect of updating contacts etc.
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Contacts Sync problems: phone contacts not syncing to Google
I had some problems syncing my GMail contacts onto my phone, so I:
did "Clear Data" for the Contacts app
re-imported all my Google contacts from a CSV file into the "Google" account on the phone.
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How can I sync Chrome's bookmarks to Dolphin?
I have Android and iOS devices so I use Dolphin's browser for the bookmark sync. Is there any way I can get my Chrome bookmarks to sync into my Dolphin bookmarks at least once?
I'm aware of Chrome to ...
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Change existing contacts from 'phone' to 'gmail' [duplicate]
When the contact items (or several) are set to 'phone', how can they be changed to 'gmail' in order to sync?
In the post Contacts Sync problems: phone contacts not syncing to Google,
it says that ...
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Problem syncing contacts: HTTP error 500 in logs
I'm trying to find if there's a way to see which HTTP requests are being done on a server. The reason is I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem with contact synchronization.
I've been having a problem ...
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Contacts on Android: Delete limit exceeded
A few days ago I deleted all of my Android contacts (using the "Delete Contacts" app). Not a mistake, I really want to delete them.
From that day, Android always shows a notification "Sync: Too many ...
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How to delete synchronized pictures?
I've chosen allow Google to synchronize information from my email to my phone, but the result is not as interesting as it sounds! I see some pictures in the Gallery that I wouldn't have in my phone, ...
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sync htc / android phone with macbook / mac os x
I use MacBook (which have Mac OS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard). How can I sync data between my HTC phone and my MacBook.
I have HTC Wildfire, and HTC Sync software only supports Windows.
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Android and Google contacts not syncing
For some reason I have 10 contacts in my Google Contacts account, but I have 50 contacts on my Android phone. I have signed into my Google Account from my Android phone and I have enabled
settings ...
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When I delete contact item (phone, email, etc), the item deletes but reappears
In the People app, if I delete a portion of a contacts information (like their address or phone number) the information will disappear for a time, but the next time I view my contacts, the information ...
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How do I keep my contacts separate?
How do I keep my Gmail contacts off my phone (Samsung Galaxy S if it matters) and at the same time keep my phone's contacts off Gmail? I don't normally do email from my phone, and when I have had to ...
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Trading clipboard contents between phone and computer
Is there a way to send information on my phone (for example, an SMS that I started to type, that got way too long, and that I decided I want on my computer to send as an email instead) through the ...
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Adding a Contacts Group on Android doesn't sync to Google Contacts
I've created a contacts group on my Android phone, but this hasn't appeared on Google Contacts.
I was under the impression my phone and my Google account would sync each way.
How can I get my ...
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Can't sync info from phone to computer's google calendar
I have an Android 4.0.4. When I enter info into the computer on google calendar, my phone receives the info. When I enter it directly into the phone calendar, the computer calendar never receives ...
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Do DropBox favorites sync?
Do files I mark as favorites in Dropbox sync across iPad and android phone? I have marked some photos as favorite on iPad and they do not show up in the favorites folder on my android phone.
Can I ...
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Cleaning the mess in the contacts
I am trying to put some order in my contact list. The situation is as follows: I have first imported my contacts from Gmail and enabled sync, but I have set the phone as the default contact repository ...
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Duplicate message thread for same contact
I have a strange problem, occurred after I added a new number to my contacts (google).
In the message lists I have a duplicated thread for this contact (only for this one)
As you can see below the ...
