Well, this has some news for me!
On November 12, 2014 at 10:54, fcwilt said...
I just got my phone and am facing the same issue.
My provider is Verizon. My phone is a Samsung Note 4. I have a Google account.
Yes. I have a gmail account, which I state that way just in case that is somehow different from "a Google account."
When adding a contact on my phone I can choose the type of contact. In my case the choices are Phone (meaning it is saved in the Verizon cloud) or Google (meaning it is saved in the Google cloud).
Right. I admit I had not noticed that, just entered. Odd that Saco was eliminated and merged into Saco X!
Contacts added via the Verizon web site sync to the phone and "Phone" type contacts added via the phone sync to the Verizon web site.
Verizon website? I add to the phone's contacts on the phone. That doesn't even require an internet connection. (I LOVE having all the contacts in the phone, while google contacts on the laptop doesn't leave a copy of the contacts actually in the computer.
Contacts added via the Google web site sync to the phone and "Google" type contacts added via the phone sync to the Google web site.
Ok. Makes sense.
There does not appear to be any way to automatically sync from Verizon to Google and vice versa.
Is "sync from Verizon" the contacts that don't have a name? I mean, I can choose Google or not; there's no choice "Verizon." I do have Verizon, however.
I can manually export contacts from the Verizon site and import them into the Google site.
Now that I understand what is going on, my plan is to export all my contacts from Verizion and import them into Google.
I'd do that too.
Then I will delete all of my Verizon contacts.
That too.
I do not yet know if I can have new contacts made on the phone default to Google.
Sounds like they might, but only if somehow "google" always comes up as the checked choice. That is, it would not be a default as such, just the one that always comes up.
Hope this helps.
Gave me something to think about. Thanks!