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Configuring Account Sync and Display Options

You can configure background data use and synchronization options for all of the applications on your phone. You can also configure what kinds of data you synchronize for each account. Some applications, such as Gmail and Calendar, have their own synchronization settings.

Some applications, such as Contacts, Gmail, and Calendar, can sync data from multiple applications. Others sync data only from the first

Google Account you sign into on your phone, or from an account associated specifically with that application.

For some accounts, syncing is two-directional; changes that you make to the information on your phone are made to the copy of that information on the web. Your Google Account works this way. Other accounts support only one-way sync; the information on your phone is read-only.

To configure general sync settings

1. Open the Accounts & Sync settings screen.

You can do this from the Contacts application. Press the

Menu Key , then touch More > Accounts . You can also access it from the Settings application.

The screen displays your current sync settings and a list of your current accounts.

indicates that some or all of an account’s information is configured to sync automatically with your phone.

indicates that none of an account’s information is configured to sync automatically with your phone.

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2. Touch Background data to place a checkmark to control application and services data transmission when you are not working with them directly, but they are running in the background.

If you remove the checkmark, Gmail stops receiving new mail, Calendar stops syncing events, and so on, until you manually refresh the application or send an email.

3. Touch Auto-sync to place a checkmark to control whether changes you make to information on the phone or on the web are automatically synced with each other.

For example, when checkmarked, changes that you make in

Contacts on the phone are automatically made in Google

Contacts on the web.

If you remove the checkmark, you may be able to use an application’s tools to sync data manually.

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To sync information manually

1. Open the Accounts & Sync settings screen. From the

Contacts

More application, press the Menu Key , then touch

> Accounts . You can also access it from the Settings application.

2. Touch the account whose data you want to sync.

3. Press the Menu Key , then touch Sync now .

To change an account’s sync settings

1. Open the Accounts & Sync settings screen. From the

Contacts application, press the Menu Key

More > Accounts

, then touch

. You can also access it from the Settings application.

2. Touch the account whose sync settings you want to change.

The Data and Synchronization screen opens, displaying a list of the kinds of information the account can sync.

Checked items are configured to sync to your phone.

3. Checkmark (or uncheck) the types of information you want to sync to the phone.

Removing a checkmark does not remove the information from your phone; it simply stops it from being kept in sync with the version on the web. To remove the information previously synced for the account, you must remove the account.