Google Contacts shows non-address book account

[mbiebl]

Hi,

I noticed that recent versions of Google Contacts show the non-addressbook account.
See attached screenshot of Google Contacts_v3.30.2.327885095

This is confusing.

The AOSP contacts app doesn’t show this problem

Older versions of Google Contacts don’t show this problem either.
Google Contacts_v3.29.1.324588640:

Is this a bug in Google Contacts or something that can be addressed in DAVx5?

[mbiebl]

Google Contacts being https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.contacts

[rfc2822]

Hi,

Is this the inverse problem of https://forums.bitfire.at/post/13115?

[rfc2822]

Well but we must not release updates anyway… so no reason to make a workaround for their fix in time…

[mbiebl]

@rfc2822 seems you ran into this issue yourself. Quoting from https://forums.bitfire.at/topic/2333/can-t-save-contacts-with-google-contacts/15?_=1603457968087

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It might be related to another problem: Google Contacts does not only show the address book accounts, but also the main account, which is not used for storing contacts
"

[rfc2822]

@mbiebl Ah I remember. I don’t know a solution for that as it seems a problem in the Contacts app (because there is no sync adapter for the contacts provider for the main account type).

[mbiebl]

Hm, too bad. Unfortunately I found no way to report this issue to the maintainers of the Google Contacts app.

[mbiebl]

@rfc2822 As said, this behavior started with v3.30, v3.29 still works fine. So there is a regression in the contacts app.

[rfc2822]

@mbiebl said in Google Contacts shows non-address book account:

Hm, too bad. Unfortunately I found no way to report this issue to the maintainers of the Google Contacts app.

Me neither. I guess they don’t care whether DAVx⁵ accounts are processed correctly or not…

[rfc2822]

Note: This is still a problem and I still didn’t find a way to report this bug.

Maybe I’ll add an FAQ entry.

[Patrick Lang]

@rfc2822 said in Google Contacts shows non-address book account:

Note: This is still a problem and I still didn’t find a way to report this bug.

I have tried to reproduce this problem, but I couldn’t recreate this issue.
@mbiebl you have given your version above, but there’s a newer version in the Google Play Store:

Can you try again if the problem is still there with this updated version?

[mbiebl]

@Patrick-Lang Problem is still reproducible with the latest version of Google Contacts, i.e. 3.35.2.339480415

[Patrick Lang]

@mbiebl
Alright, now I see the problem. Actually I checked in the wrong view. But it’s interesting, if you’re opening Settings -> Accounts, then all accounts would be displayed correctly. Only in the view to change the address book the additional one is shown. I guess this would make it even harder to find a workaround fix for this problem…

[mbiebl]

The more important problem is, that you can select this account when creating new contacts.

[mbiebl]

@rfc2822 said in Google Contacts shows non-address book account:

Hi,

Is this the inverse problem of https://forums.bitfire.at/post/13115?

I don’t think it is. Reverting this particular commit, did not solve the problem.

[devvv4ever]

Because people are more often complaining about this in the last weeks we’ve created a new FAQ entry describing the problem:

[Google Contacts] Why are there “DAVx⁵ Address book” and “DAVx⁵” accounts?
https://www.davx5.com/faq/contacts/android-11-google-contacts

[mbiebl]

Good news.
Apparently this has been fixed in the latest version of Google Contacts, i.e. 3.39.1.356372497

If you can confirm this, maybe you can drop the above website again.

[rfc2822]

@mbiebl Yes, this has been fixed with Google Contacts 3.39. We’ll keep the page a bit for users who don’t update often, and then remove it.