Backup assistant Issue... Be Aware!!!!!

I've had the Droid X for about a month now.. I was able to sync my contacts for the first week with backup assistant. I tried to back up my contacts again with B.U.A. but it wouldnt do anything. I called verizon and told them the situation.
Apparently you have to UPDATE your contacts on GMAIL or any synced email account to your phone. Verizons still to this day having issues with B.u.a.
I have to use GMAIL for my contacts. It'll still attempt to connect to backup, but it fails everytime. It only says 14 are synced out of 200.
HOPE THIS HELPS FOR EVERYONE WITH A DROID HAVING ISSUES!!!!

HappyJackDaddy wrote:
Here.  I posted the information below on a similar thread, but I think it will help you:
Seems to me that there are "Phone Contacts" and "Google" contacts.  If you open up a contact on your phone, tap on Linked Profiles and you'll see whether the contact is a Google contact, a Phone Contact, or both.   The contacts that you enter on your phone itself are both.  The contacts that you enter online while in your Gmail account are Google contacts only.  If you want all your contacts to be backed up to both Google and Backup Assistant, they have to either all be entered manually on your phone or they have to have gotten to your phone in the first place from Backup Assistant.    That's because Backup Assistant only backs up Phone contacts, and Google only backs up Google contacts.  If a contact is both, it'll be backed up in both places.   Sounds like your contacts are backed up at Google because that's where you entered them (or imported them to)  in the first place.  My advice, if you want them to also be in Backup Assistant, would be to export a CSV file from Gmail and then import that file into Backup Assistant.  At least I think you should be able to do that.  Hopefully that won't double your contacts!  I had the opposite problem.  When I got the Droid X I had all contacts from my old phone on BA and they were pulled down to my Droid X, and I wondered why they wouldn't sync and show up on their own in Gmail.  I finally exported a CSV from BA and imported it to Google.  I was worried it would double my contacts, but it didn't.  Worked great, so I'm thinking it should work fine in the opposite direction too.
Very nice info posted here.  Thank you.

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    Yes,Yes,Yes
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    On this option the () and -'s are programmed to be set into the phone numbers of your contacts. The way to get around this when you choose to add a speed dial choose to do it by contact. When you do it this way it will not matter if you have the () and -'s in it. The speed dial will still work correctly.
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