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ALR
Lv 5
ALR asked in Computers & InternetInternetGoogle · 8 years ago

How do I transfer my gmail contacts to my Android phone?

I have a new Android phone. You are required to have Gmail address so I created an Gmail address and imported all my contacts from my Yahoo email address to Gmail. It was suppose to be easy from there since the phone would sync with my existing Gmail account but My contacts aren't on the phone. I have read multiple articles and re-checked the setting on the phone. I know this is a weird place to answer a question about Google but the answers I received from the Google Forum were useless so I figure I would give Yahoo Answers a try. Thanks.

Update:

I went to Settings > Google and clicked on Sync. It showed that the last sync was just a few hours ago but this time it added My Contacts from Gmail. Who knows why the sync I performed a couple of hours ago didn't work. I did add some email address to My Contacts on the phone so I hope that isn't where it pulled the information because I don't want to manually add each email address. Will do more research.

Update 2:

Tried info listed first Additional details and it only picked up the emails I had added to the phone's Contact List.

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Open Contacts.

Press the Menu/ Settings button.> WHEN I SELECT MENU BUTTON THERE IS NO OPTION TO MERGE WITH GOOGLE

Select ‘Merge with Google’ and then confirm the action. In case you have more than one Gmail accounts then select the one you wish to use as default to host your contacts.

When everything has been successfully merged, a pop-up message will notify you.

Here’s how to sync your contacts with the Gmail account:

Make sure that you have Gmail installed on your device.

Open the App Drawer and go to Settings, then go to ‘Accounts and Sync’. HOW DO I OPEN THE APP DRAWER?

Enable the Accounts and syncing service.

Select your Gmail account from the e-mail accounts setup .

Make sure that you’ve enabled ‘Sync Contacts’ option.

Press ‘Sync now’ button and wait until all the pho

Update 3:

Tried info listed first Additional details and it only picked up the emails I had added to the phone's Contact List.

A Top Contributor is someone who is knowledgeable in a particular category.

Open Contacts.

Press the Menu/ Settings button.> WHEN I SELECT MENU BUTTON THERE IS NO OPTION TO MERGE WITH GOOGLE

Select ‘Merge with Google’ and then confirm the action. In case you have more than one Gmail accounts then select the one you wish to use as default to host your contacts.

When everything has been successfully merged, a pop-up message will notify you.

Here’s how to sync your contacts with the Gmail account:

Make sure that you have Gmail installed on your device.

Open the App Drawer and go to Settings, then go to ‘Accounts and Sync’. HOW DO I OPEN THE APP DRAWER?

Enable the Accounts and syncing service.

Select your Gmail account from the e-mail accounts setup .

Make sure that you’ve enabled ‘Sync Contacts’ option.

Press ‘Sync now’ button and wait until all the pho

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  • 8 years ago
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    Do you have all you sync settings in 'Accounts' turned on for your Google account? Btw, which Android version are you using?

  • penn
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Sync Android Contacts To Gmail

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    7 years ago

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  • 8 years ago

    Might have done this already..

    Open Contacts.

    Press the Menu/ Settings button.

    Select ‘Merge with Google’ and then confirm the action. In case you have more than one Gmail accounts then select the one you wish to use as default to host your contacts.

    When everything has been successfully merged, a pop-up message will notify you.

    Here’s how to sync your contacts with the Gmail account:

    Make sure that you have Gmail installed on your device.

    Open the App Drawer and go to Settings, then go to ‘Accounts and Sync’.

    Enable the Accounts and syncing service.

    Select your Gmail account from the e-mail accounts setup .

    Make sure that you’ve enabled ‘Sync Contacts’ option.

    Press ‘Sync now’ button and wait until all the phone contacts have been successfully synchronized with your gmail account.

    Now open Gmail in your computer’s web browser and click the Gmail text link that is listed on the upper left side of the Gmail profile.

    Select Contacts and then you should see a page where all the contacts from your Android smartphone have been stored.

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