Huawei Honor 6X is one of the most loved phones of 2016. It has everything to be one of the best phones. Also, its price is almost half compared to the top-tier phones of each smartphone manufacturer like Samsung, LG, and Apple. Honor 6X was released in the last quarter of 2016. However, if you are using the Chinese variant, you might have noticed that your Gmail contacts and calendar are not synced with your phone. And same is the case the other way around. This guide will tell you a straightforward method to fix Google contacts sync on Huawei Honor 6x Chinese variant.
Honor 6X has a dual-lens camera. It comes in two versions. One is equipped with 3 GB Ram and an octa-core CPU, and the other has 4 GB Ram. The battery timing of honor 6X is impressive. It is 3340 mAh. The screen size is 5.5-inch. And it has one of the fastest fingerprint unlocking, which takes only 0.3 seconds.
How to Fix Google Contacts Sync on Huawei Honor 6X Chinese Variant:
All the guys who are using the Chinese variant, which includes AL10 and AL20. EMUI (Operating system of Honor 6X) does not come with all the google services. So most phones don’t sync contacts from Gmail to your phone.
Looking into the problem, I figured out many Huawei phones face the same google sync issue. Even in the Huawei Mate 8 and Huawei P9 Google sync does not work. This problem arises in the latest EMUI.
Moving on to the problem and its solution. It just takes a few steps to fix Google contacts sync on Huawei Honor 6X, which are as follows:
The Chinese variant comes with a version of Google Contacts Sync that has had issues. So you have to uninstall it and download the earlier version.
- First of all, on your Huawei Honor 6X.
- Open Huawei App Store (HiApp)
- Search for Google Contact Sync. It would be version 6.0-xxxxx. The other one which comes pre-installed is 7.1.2
- Install it. You might have to uninstall the latest version to install the previous version.
Note: If you can’t find it in the HiApp. Download Google contacts sync APK from here.
Once installed, make sure you turn off auto-update for this app and don’t update it manually.
Also, Check out: Install Android Nougat on Huawei Honor 6X.
A friend of mine had the same issue. So he Installed Google contacts sync from the APK above. It’s been 40 days. There isn’t an issue with Google contact sync on Huawei honor 6x. Once installed, just don’t update it.
That’s all. I hope this guide fixed Google contacts sync on Huawei Honor 6X. Suppose you have any confusion or issue. Feel free to ask me in the comments. If you know some other solution to this problem. Do share with us.