[4.0.1.48] "Contacts saved on the device are no longer synced to all accounts, only the account you have chosen"

[nephros]

Just linking this here, as its relevant to understand what is happening, and what is as-designed, what is planned:

[4.0.1.48] Syncing contacts not working as expected

Yes, this is implemented and working from the GUI in 4.0.x When you create a contact, you can choose the addressbook it will get stored into. If that addressbook is managed by a sync plugin, any contact you add to that addressbook will be upsynced to the remote sync provider, etc. There is also a read-only “aggregates” addressbook, for display/selection use cases. Contacts which are either manually linked together by the user, or heuristically determined to be the same, are “aggregated” toge…