Missing multiple fields for contacts, synced to google

The contacts on my ipad3 show some phone numbers only for some of them. I sync with google contacts via my android phone. I can not add additional fields for some contacts and unable to customize the fields either.

Step 1.) Synchronize your Gmail contacts to your Mac by enabling the “Synchronize with Google” option within your Mac Address Book using the ‘On My Mac’ database. This will create a local copy on your Mac of all of your Gmail contacts.
Step 2.) Set up iCloud on your Mac. Synchronizing Contacts should then synchronize your local ‘On My Mac’ database into the iCloud Contacts database.
Step 3.) Set up your Gmail contacts via Exchange on your iPhone. http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740 . This is the only way I know of to actually synchronize your Gmail Contacts to your iPhone directly from Gmail’s servers over the Internet via Push.
Step 4.) Set up iCloud on your iPhone and have it synchronize your contacts as well.

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I'm trying to sync my Google contacts with my 5gen Nano using iTunes 9.0.0.70 on Windows XP (2005 tablet edition, SP3). I'm following the instructions on http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1245 and http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138744&cbid=-4q5r0l4gj gdw&src=cb&lev=answer
iTunes doesn't show an option for syncing with Google. When I go to My iPod > Contacts, and enable to "Sync contacts from" checkbox, I just see an option for "Windows address book" and "Microsoft Outlook" but nothing else.
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I've poked around on the intertubes a bit and seen mention of gconsync.exe. It's present under "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin" and executes when I run it (generating a wad of help info).
TIA

I guess you missed the part in the instructions where it says "if you have an iPhone or iPod touch". Those instructions won't work with an iPod nano, unless someone here knows a trick or workaround I've not heard of.
Regards.

How to force a "push" for contacts sync?

In Settings, I use my MobileMe account ONLY for contacts, calendars, and bookmarks, not for e-mail.
I have Fetch New Data set to Push, then Push set to Manually, then in Advanced, my e-mail accounts are set to Fetch (i.e. it'll update my mail only when I launch the Mail app) and my MobileMe account set to Push (i.e. I'd like them to be pushed to the phone).
However, no contacts seem to get pushed to the phone. It's confusing as to how I'm supposed to initiate a manual push. Launching Contacts doesn't update the contacts.
I don't particularly want to set Push to every 15 or 30 minutes, because I don't want to drain battery life. I'd be happy if it sync'ed once a day, but right now it's not syncing at all.
Can someone help me understand how "push" and "manually" work (since there is no "force push right now" button anywhere) and how I can keep my contacts on my iPhone updated regularly automatically?
Should I set MobileMe to Fetch? So that, as in when I launch Mail it updates the mail, when I launch Contacts it will update the Contacts? That would be good enough for me.
(Also, this entire post is about downloading contacts from MobileMe, but I'd also like to make sure the reverse works too -- that if I add a contact or calendar date to my iPhone, it gets synced with MobileMe and later appears on my desktop machine.)

Huh. Mine it does happen automatically, both ways.
On the phone, Settings, Mail, Mobile Me account--do you have to set to sync contacts, calendar and bookmarks? Those can be turned off individually (this is in the account detail itself, not under the Fetch/Push setting screen.)
On the computer, System Preferences, Mobile Me, do you have it set to sync automatically?
When I see things not syncing, I generally force a sync from the computer, figuring that triggers the server and so on down the line to the phone.

Contacts sync from Google to Mac but not from Mac to Google... only one direction!

I initially synced google to my mac and it worked fine. I set up the sync in the mail app. Under contacts preferences, I picked the "on My Mac" and clicked sync with google.
Everything In google continues to sync to my mac. But if I add something to my contact book on the Imac, it doesn't go in the other direction.
I tried adding an exchange account... no better.
I tried adding a new CalDav google account in contacts... no better.
I am at my wits end. Can someone please suggest a solution?
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I am going to give followup.
The problem was corruption of my brand new Imac 27. I went around and around with applecare and they finally figured out that my preferences were corrupted. Usuallly that can be fixed but they were unable. Basically, everytime I set the right connection to gmail up, it changed it...
Finally, I set up a new user account on my mac. I logged into that user and started all over again. Now everything works.
I spent hours and hours on this... I bought a mac because "It just works" No more fooling with the registry and spending forever in dread with tech support. OK, so Mac doesn't have a registry. It has libraries. I spent forever fixing it.. Felt just like my Windows experience. Hope this isn't a harbinger of things to come.

Contact Sync with Google and/or iCloud?

i am trying to finalize a sync of my contacts so that i have PHONE NUMBERS sorted in groups on my iPhone but i /also/ have email addresses to use in the autocomplete function in Mail on my phone.
if i don't have the Phone Numbers sorted into groups i will not be able to find anything and if i don't have emails in the autocomplete then i have to literally run a search in (what i have found to be a weak search function on the iPhone in Mail) then i have to find an email sent from this person, then i have to COPY the address than i have to paste it into an email.
i /currently/ have a sync using iCloud of my MOST IMPORTANT phone numbers and the "Previous Recipients" email data that i have run a applescript to get into AB/Contacts. So now the phone numbers and this Previous Recipients data is available to all devices.
i won't bore you with the details but i am finally uploading everything else (business cards etc, etc) to Google Contacts.
does anyone have any suggestions at this point as to whether i can ADD a sync with Google presumably by checking something in iTunes OR whether there is a way to add a GMail as a Microsoft Exchange Account?
http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740
http://www.maciverse.com/add-gmail-contacts-to-ios-5.html
SHOULD I JUST EXPORT MY CONTACTS/ADDRESS BOOK DATA and import it to Google and just do a Google sync?
CAN I DO BOTH SYNCS AT THE SAME TIME?
WILL THE GOOGLE DATA SHOW UP in autocomplete in MAIL on all my devices?
anyone done this in a way that works?!
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Or, at the very least, view a single records Date Created/Modified?
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I use Google contacts as my master contacts
My iPhone 7 (iOS 7) Contacts are synched with Google Contacts.
The Messages app in the iPhone shows the names of the people I'm messaging with - however
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How can I synch ALL my iPhone Contacts to my iMac? (including the ones that are in the iPhone because they were synched from Google Contacts).
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Hello desert_dweller5,
It sounds like you art trying to access a Shared Photo Stream, but you do not have one of the devices to enable your Apple ID as an iCloud account. The following article provides information on how Shared Photo Streams work:
iCloud: Photo Stream FAQ
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
The article states that for privately Shared Photo Streams to work, the recipient will not only have to have an Apple ID, but it will have to be an iCloud account:
Friends and family with iCloud accounts can view your photos in the Photos app on any device using iOS 6 or later; on a Mac in iPhoto 9.4 or Aperture 3.4 or later; on a Windows PC with Windows Vista or later and iCloud Control Panel 2.0 or later installed; or on a second generation or later Apple TV with software version 5.1 or later installed. They can also view your photos on the web if you enable Public Website in the settings or options for your Shared Photo Stream.
Since you do not have an iCloud account and just and Apple ID, your friend can share the photo stream as a public website so that you can view it, as stated in the same article:
Can I share with people who don't have an iCloud account?
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To be able to change an Apple ID to an iCloud account, you would need an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5 or later or a Mac with OS X Lion v10.7.4 or later as stated in the following article:
Creating an iCloud account: Frequently Asked Questions
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4436
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hello,
I am trying to sync my outlook contacts to my iphone. It seems itunes for some reason does not detect outlook, since I do not have an option to select outlook on the info tab in itunes.
I run outlook 2010 32 bit version on win 7 home 64 bit. I run the samen sw on my laptop, to my surprise, after installing itunes as well on my laptop, I do have the outlook option to sync contacts.
Obviuosly there must be some difference between my pc and my laptop, but what? I have disabled all com options in outlook (except apple of course), did uninstall/reinstall of itunes. Through msconfig, I also disabled all start up stuff that might interfere, did this based on a topic I found on Apple support. I suspected the Nokia OVI suite (since that too tries to sync with outlook) and uninstalled it. After that, reinstall itunes etc.
Alas, all this to no avail.....sp any help/suggestions will be highly appreciated.
PS I am new to Apple and new to these forums, of course I tried to search the forum. Did find similar problems, but no solution...

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I'm using Google Sync, used NuevaSync before that. Synching both calendars (three) and contacts.
Read everything before making a decision. Activating the mobile, turning on synching, choosing default notifications. I did, have no gripes, didn't lose any data.
I also use MobileMe. Google Sync shows the contacts in the My Contacts list on my account; I use Calaborator to sync my contacts into my Address Book - all of my Google Contacts show up in my Address Book on my Mac and Contacts in my iPhone, so I have access to all of them. I can also use the Address Book app to edit my Google Contacts.
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When syncing with Google Contacts, I just noticed a bug:
When importing "Title" and "Company" fields, webOS is incorrectly converting the first letters of EVERY word to capitals in both fields. While this may SEEM correct, it is not and can have undesired effects:
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Company: "Bellevue Supports and Services Center" (as entered into Google Contacts on their web site)
becomes: "Bellevue Supports And Services Center" (in webOS after syncing)
Title: "Food and Nutrition Services Manager" (as entered into Google Contacts on their web site)
becomes: "Food And Nutrition Services Manager" (in webOS after syncing)
Separately, many fields supported on both Google Contacts and webOS ("Spouse," for example) are not being synced. This is a separate issue from above and should be corrected as well. I would guess that the same thing needs to be investigated on Yahoo and other services synced with webOS. Someone at Palm should go through each field on supported sync services (Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc) and verify that all are properly linked to the corresponding webOS fields.
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I have not noticed the first issue, but I agree that the second issue is a big problem and should be addressed. I raised this in an earlier thread and someone responded that Palm was aware of it but does not know when/ if it will be addressed:
http://forums.palm.com/palm/board/message?board.id=Synergy&message.id=6910#M6910
I'd also like to be able to move/transfer contacts from one account to another in the same way we can in the Calendar application (i.e., but moving an entry from Palm Profile to Google, for example), but currently we cannot do that -- the only option is to re-enter it under the new account. Very annoying.

Sync with google

i am using a mac book pro with the latest softwear updates, i am trying to sync my mac address book with google but keep getting the incorrect password/user name message.
i have ensured that my password and user name are correct and copy pasted them from my google account with no luck, i have even opened a new gmail account with also no luck. tried to repair my key chain but no faults come up!
What am i doing wrong? i have followed all the instructions correctly i am sure of it.
There must be a solution to this problem? can anyone help?

You most likely need to log into your Google account, under the Account Settings option and select "Edit" next to "Authorizing applications & sites" in the Security section. Once in this module, you will be able to give the password generated a name, i.e. Google contacts sync. Google will then generate an arbitrary password for this one application that you can copy and paste into the password field in the Apple Address Book preferences - Accounts section for the Syncronize to Google application. Hope this helps!

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