Tip: Google Contacts' comment field support

[Guest PeterPandroid]

I have discovered that an apparent sync problem I was having with Google Contacts was because I was overloading the 'comments' field as my test for an update propagating through to the phone, which was truncating the displayed field and so hiding my changes and making it seem like sync was not working.

I discovered that support for Google Contacts' 'comments field' on SanFrancisco / Android is limited to displaying only show 11 lines of text. However, a 2900 character string I sent to the SF appears truncated to 10 lines of 33 chars, suggesting a 330 character cap.

Any size of data in the comments field seems to be stored in Google Contacts server for pcwebside users, this is an Android / SF 'feature'

Edited February 16, 2011 by PeterPandroid