Ive saved all my contacts to Google (shouldnt make a difference I guess) and I can sync photo's etc no problem but on the contacts the rond circle that should be black is greyed out...so nothing contacts wise will sync. I have a HTC Sensation.

Think it will only sync contacts stored in the phone rather than in the Google cloud. All your contacts are saved via your Google account online.

Aaaahh I see...thanks for your help.

that is the only reason I got a Gmail account is to store the contacts, I don't use Gmail for anything else.

you also need a app to back up text as well, I use SMS backup+ It back up your SMS to a folder on Gmail.