| Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Hansen4b | 12/20/09 1:25 PM | Unable to Sync Contacts on Droid. Get the following error "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly." That was 10 days ago. Have tried the "soft" (battery out) boot as well as the *228 thing. Still get error message. Alw |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | m.giornesto | 1/13/10 9:30 AM | Same issue here...saw rumors posted this was an issue with contact's pics syncing. But, was not the case for me. I removed all of my conts's pics and sync issue remained |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Johninho | 2/20/10 10:09 AM | Hi, Had a search around and found a solution that worked for me (p.s. posted by someone else in another forum) Go to "Settings". Select "Applications". Select "Manage Applications". Scroll down to "Contacts Storage" Click on "Clear Data" Go ba |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | m.giornesto | 2/22/10 5:59 AM | I found Johninho's solution worked for me |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | deniseastokes | 3/19/10 5:11 AM | I tried this but you failed to say that if you do this ALL YOUR CONTACTS WILL BE LOST. Most new contacts I had were in my phone NOT on gmail contacts - so I lost valuable data. Thanks for trying to help - but a range of uers look for answers online. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Johninho | 3/23/10 3:06 AM | deniseastokes Really sorry my post caused you to lose your contacts. You're right I should have pointed out that this solution deletes the contacts on the phone and forces "sync" to download the contacts from the web app onto the phone. Anyone |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Dan Metcalf | 4/19/10 9:35 AM | Thanks for the info Johninho. I made sure all my contacts were on Google first, through manual entry, then wiped out my contacts and sync is now working great. It hadn't been working in nearly a month, so good to have things back in working order. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | susieq29 | 5/14/10 8:49 PM | I tried this and it worked. Then i tried changing something on my phone and it did not work again? I am getting real tired of this it. I have defaulted my droid incredible 3 times then I found this solution and I thought OK. I have also been saving m |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | flash157 | 6/14/10 8:14 PM | I found this site, which appears very helpful and goes over known issues within the Google contacts application (many facets) . http://m.lifehacker.com/5499575/the-complete-guide-to-fixing-google-contacts |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | heatherdemarest | 7/31/10 6:59 PM | I was having the same problem. Mine only started syncing after I signed up for "Market". Don't know if this will help anyone else, but it was easy to do, so might be worth a try. If this is really the fix, it seems a bit sneaky on their part.... |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | jefkei92 | 8/25/10 12:14 PM | If you want to use this approach, you can use the free verizon backup assistant to backup everything first that you may have added to your phone, then once you re-sync the google account, then resync the backup assistant. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | BoredJenn | 8/25/10 12:24 PM | I am trying to get my phone contacts to sync to my gmail account. They are not in gmail and the Gmail will not sync. What can I do? |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | harryhar | 8/31/10 4:21 AM | I had the same problem. "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly". I found out that on the Web interface of Gmail that the contacts had a group named : System group : Family. Since I didn't used this group, and the group was |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | johnalan2 | 10/8/10 6:31 AM | I'm having this with my Google Apps login. Suddenly seems to not recognize the un/pw combo (which work fine elsewhere.) |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | al.m | 10/16/10 11:09 AM | This is an absolutely ridiculous problem to be having with no help from google evident anywhere. You never no and can have no confidence that contacts are being synced to the google account associated. It works and stops working depending on the ph |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | jtune | 10/18/10 2:00 PM | im having this message when i try to sync my calendar on my LG Ally with my gmail calendar. can anyone offer any help? this has been going on for about 2 months now. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | scooby-doo | 10/30/10 11:51 AM | Hi All, Hope my experience may help some of you... I recently got a HTC Desire HD. I'd sync'd successfully but then decided to delete both the gmail versions and the contacts in my phone (google contacts)... I won't go into why as it's embarrassing |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | johnalan2 | 11/4/10 9:00 AM | I ended up having to change my password on my default Gmail account assigned to the phone. Reset phone, entered new pw and everything is back to normal. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Ville_Fin | 11/6/10 1:33 AM | Hi all, I have the same problem with HTC Desire 2.2 Stock Rom. I recently got it back from repairs and now try to sync contacts back from gmail. I manage to sync contacts that do not have a picture set in gmail. All the contacts with pictures in gmai |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | austinjewel | 11/12/10 11:41 AM | I have this problem with the calendar only - the contacts and gmail sync jsut fine. I tried Johninho's approach and looked in that menu but saw nothing about either Contacts OR Calendar there. (I am SO frustrated, as I've already found out that Goo |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | austinjewel | 11/12/10 12:06 PM | my phone is pretty new (got it yesterday), so i resolved it by setting hte phone back to factory settings. however, this will not be an effective solution going forward. i had already done work on setting it up that i will need to re-do. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Zielun | 11/13/10 5:49 AM | I also had the same problem in HTC Desire HD with Android 2.2. Solution suggested by Johninho worked for me too. I cleared all contacts and resync them again with google contacts and since then I've had no problems. However it`s always worth to backu |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | nottosavy | 11/13/10 8:34 AM | Wishing I would have read all the way through this forum before I proceeded with Johninho's suggestion!!!! lost many contacts; even if the sync works... I will never get back what I lost... big lesson learned! |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | JHightower | 11/16/10 1:32 PM | My local computer tech came in and looked this problem over....where my calendar, contact, and gmail were NOT syncing anymore. I had recently change my gmail password. I knew this. I had already updated my gmail account setup on my phone to know |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | tnek | 12/16/10 6:13 AM | interesting discovery. originally contacts storage was 64 megabytes. after clearing contacts storage and re synchronizing it was 16 megabytes I believe that google mobile contacts needs a reindexing or a pack and rebuild feature |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | flybee | 12/22/10 11:30 AM | used on HTC Desire HD when showing stopped syncing icon. ***try before clearing/deleting anything!!!****** **where possible have an alternative backup of your Contacts ie export to SIM first: 1) BACKUP >>Settings>>People>> select 'menu' >>Import/Exp |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | RDKrueger | 1/5/11 10:51 AM | I am also having this issue. I have Sprint service and The Samsung Transform phone. I don't have the option to clear the data from my contacts, only to remove the entire widget, and I don't think I want to do that without more info first. Any Ideas? |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Wager | 1/12/11 10:48 AM | RDKrueger: I also have a Samsung Transform, and also have this problem. You can clear your data by going to Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Menu -> Filter -> All -> Contacts Storage -> Clear Data ... But it doesn't help (at least n |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | kneedalz | 1/14/11 3:31 PM | @ Johninho: Thanks, Fixed the prob right away!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | UniqueDave | 1/17/11 7:04 PM | Had the error occur in the OPs subject title. Problem for me was that I was using a field in my gmail contacts which Android 2.1 clearly didn't like when trying to sync contacts. The field was "custom", as soon as I removed the field (and used "note |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | UniqueDave | 1/17/11 7:05 PM | Oh yeah also, the error message is clearly wrong, its not a connection or server-side issue as it implies. Poor exception handling. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | sunster | 2/2/11 10:34 AM | thanks Johninho..your solution worked perfectly |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | agenttuttle | 3/2/11 1:18 PM | Hi there. I had the same problem myself recently on a HTC Wildfire. the phone had been syncing fine, then stopped mid January. I checked out the various forums, and tried many of the above fix's, but to no avail. So I decided to contact HTC's cust |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | theatre maven | 3/9/11 8:42 PM | Thank you to AgentTuttle. Doing a hard reset solved my syncing calender problems(pun intended). The My Touch 4G (I don't know the HTC name for it) is new and this is the initial setup so doing a hard reset wasn't a huge issue. I'd like to know why |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | reddylax | 3/10/11 4:35 AM | Johnino - where is "data synchronization" in settings? i cleared my data and then can't find the data sync menu |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | steve nurse | 4/3/11 12:09 AM | I HAVE FIGURED IT OUT> AT LEAST FOR MY VIRGIN MOBILE ANDROD LG OPTIMUS V. it's got to be the same for all Androids though is my guess. The thing to understand is Android looks at the gmail account as being two separate accounts. one is the one yo |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Harry J. | 4/3/11 2:34 PM | Tried the "clear storage"....Didn't work! I have had this problem since March 24th, and have tried everything I can. Even the guy at the store where I bought this phone/service is having this problem. Thank you Goggle, for having an applicatio |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | ulaoulao | 4/21/11 7:05 AM | Does anyone with a galaxy indulge have or fixed this issue? Seems all the info on the net is for other phones and I can not fix it with the indulge. I feel the resetting of phone data will do the job but syncing does not out weight resetting all sett |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | ulaoulao | 4/21/11 7:28 AM | Ok turns out the syc is actually working. If I make a change on google the phone picks it up. Would be nice to remove the sync nag errors. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | maungzatha | 4/21/11 7:49 AM | Dear....loveli |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | ejet | 5/1/11 2:33 PM | I have posted a detailed solution to this at http://gday-mate.com/?p=52 |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Stemadsen | 5/3/11 2:39 PM | @ulaoulao So what did you change on Google? |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | parshtr | 5/3/11 3:25 PM | Verizon Thunderbolt same issue. Pulled the battery waited 10 seconds and it fixed the problem for now. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | bigday | 5/4/11 9:21 PM | If I do the following on my phone (HTC Desire HD): Go to "Settings". Select "Applications". Select "Manage Applications". Scroll down to "Contacts Storage" Click on "Clear Data" Does it clear my SIM card too? Cheers |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | dbrock69 | 5/9/11 11:15 AM | I tried every suggest that I could find here and elsewhere when I found that my Eris couldn't sync anything after changing my password. However, nothing seemed to make a difference. After reading an article about a new iPhone app, I decided to try |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | funkyant | 5/10/11 12:01 AM | WARNING!!! My HTC Desire HD would not Sync with Facebook for HTC Sense - and still won't. I sync'd with gmail before I tried Johninho's suggestion, but now my contacts are REALLY messed up. It really is a stupid, STUPID idea to suggest clear your m |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | SyedHasan | 5/10/11 2:17 AM | I also get the same issue, my facebook contacts got synced but it dnt show the pic. After trying again n again also cleared the cache cudnt find a solution for that......can anyone help me out. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | insx | 6/14/11 5:25 AM | A slightly different approach worked for me when my phone had the up to date list: Back up the gmail contacts Delete all gmail contacts Synchronise |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | insx | 6/14/11 5:32 AM | Another thing to check - make sure you don't have a contact named "Unknown". |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Bluebeard140 | 6/29/11 7:02 AM | My HTC Desire wouldn't sync contacts after I deleted all of my phone contacts in an effort to only display 1 set of numbers when messaging. (Unfortunately both my phone and google contacts disappeared.) Sync then started to come back with the "Sync i |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Stemadsen | 6/29/11 3:45 PM | Okay, first I deleted all my Google contacts from my Desire S so that I only had the phone contacts left (unlinking all contacts, copying missing data from Google contacts to phone contacts and deleting the Google contacts takes A LOT of time). Then |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Jandroid_4 | 7/21/11 3:33 PM | Just had this problem and found a way to do it without losing all your contacts. If you go to settings>acounts and sync>facebook for htc sense then tap remove account. After you have removed the account just go back to accounts and sync and sign in |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | NoSloppy | 7/23/11 10:23 AM | The following is a detailed, longwinded way of saying BACKUP, DELETE, RESYNC. First, understand that you have 2 sets of contacts, Google contacts, and phone contacts.Phone contacts are your old school phonebook on the device itself and is what Verizo |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | littlereview | 7/23/11 4:48 PM | My contacts are syncing fine *knock wood* on my Droid Incredible 2 but my calendar has the perpetual "Sync is currently experiencing..." message and none of my calendars are working in the default calendar program. I am not sure whether HTC or Google |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | jetdoc | 9/10/11 4:00 PM | It worked. Thanks |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | thatoneguyaz | 9/29/11 6:00 AM | Just so you all know, there is an even easier way to fix the duplicate contacts. Just go into your gmail account on a computer, click contacts, and at the top right you can click the box that says more - under it will be an option to Find & Merge Dup |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | vnssalopez | 10/6/11 7:04 AM | You have to do all 3 of these in order for it to work |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | polemic | 10/12/11 1:09 PM | vnssalopez. that last suggestion was just fantastic. I signed up to here just to say thank you. I actually have multiple gmail accounts and one had jammed up freezing the others. Your method has cleared the jam. thanks again. I was worried that it wo |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Realalist | 11/12/11 3:42 PM | I just tried to sync my contacts after applying a backup and syncing those backed up contacts. I started getting the error and I went to Settings>Manage Applications>All>Contacts Storage and delete data. MAKE SURE YOUR CONTACTS ARE BAKED UP THROUGH Y |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | daivdac | 11/18/11 6:44 PM | ejet's posted link to a solution worked for me on my dinc. Thanks ejet. |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Rapidideas | 12/27/11 5:47 AM | Hey guys! I was experiencing the same problem with gmail on my S2 after I bought my Note. My S2 gmail stopped working after that. What I did was go into the Market and it asked me to log in. After logging into Market, gmail sync worked again! :) |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | iParadiz | 12/28/11 12:08 PM | Thanks a lot !! |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | M.Amin | 1/10/12 12:25 PM | I tried lots of solutions, none of them were helpful. Finally I found out the problem was because of Market! So this solution fixed it: Setting>>Applications>>Manage Apps>> All Apps>> I "cleared data" on market, Market feedback and market updater" (c |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | kyloooh | 1/17/12 8:21 AM | THANK YOU. MY HERO " Johninho" !!! |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | AngelDesign | 1/21/12 3:25 PM | Have 2 accounts in gmail, one primary, both were working properly on a Samsung Galaxy GT-S5570, and then suddenly neither could sync properly and I couldn't access e-mail or Market. Turned off and on the sync settings in Settings>Accounts and Sync>[A |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | fbcyborg | 1/26/12 1:26 AM | Tried the Johninho's method but it doesn't work.Only time lost to resync my contacts and make links again for contacts aggregation :( |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | awinesberry12 | 1/29/12 3:52 PM | Yeah clearing storage contacts was not best idea. But, I went to settings, accounts sync and clicked on add account. Click on Facebook for HTC. Log out and back in. If you recently changed your password then this will work. My contacts and photos wer |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | arjaycee | 4/16/12 6:44 PM | two years later your solution still worked. Thanks very much. rjc |
| Re: Sync is currently experiencing problems. it will be back shortly. | Smudgeboss | 9/4/12 10:15 AM | I ran into this problem first time this morning. went through the forum and considered. I use a Galaxy S. Someone said about downloading an app. I went to android market and had to sign in oddly enough. When I signed in. All syncing started up |