Hi !
After syncing (with 2 computers), the birthdays and anniversaries are duplicated : the same day I have :
'Anniversaire de X'
and also
'X de anniversaire'.
It seems it does happend when I hard reset my device and re-sync databases/contacts/calender.
Any suggestion to avoid this problem .
Same problem for me...What I do?...everytime I have to delte all duplicates manually... ...
Regards,
Primoz
Duplicate Anniversaries
This is a problem with Microsoft Activesync, and you use two computers. Unfortunately the initial fix involves having to manually delete the duplicates. I have several hundred contacts. Do this quickly through Outlook on your PC. In Calendar, go to View/Arrange by/Current View and select recurrent events. Add a "Modified" column (right click the header, select Field Chooser and drag "Modified" to the header row). Click "Modified" and this will separate the latest updates from the originals. You can then delete all the duplicates in record time. Do this with your PDA in the cradle so changes are made real time.
Once you have one PC and a PDA with no duplicates, go to your second PC and, before cradling your PDA, remove all Recurrent Events. Set the Activesync options on the second PC to "Combine items" or else you'll wipe of all records in the next step in your PDA instead.
When you then sync with the second PC, only one copy will appear, transferred from your PDA. You should only have to do this once as the PC's will now be in sync.
Good luck.
Thank you.
I'll have to do that each hard reset
Regards.
The first time I used live messenger (as an experiment by the way), it synchronized all my messenger contacts to my jade's contact list. So now, i have about 250 messenger contacts, 90% without telephone numbers, which kinda... sucks .
Is there a way to delete these contacts with one handling, so i don't have do delete all of them one by one, also without deleting my outlook contacts?
if i'm not mistaken it's even more limited than the regular messenger, where you can't delete multiple contacts anyways.
Deleting is not one by one..
It think the deleting process is much simpler just go to contacts / Menu / Select Contacts / several and then mark every conact you want to delete and after that delete them using one click on deleting option...
but the harder one is how to unselect the option that syncronize the conacts without uninstalling the WLMessenger ????
lol. that's new to me.
wouldnt going into the settings of windows live messenger and de selecting the merge contacts tab automatically delete them? if not it would then be easier to manually delette them.......... or am i missing something......
Okay. I finally deleted all the people I don't talk to anymore from my contacts and SIM, and cleaned up by putting e-mail addresses in the contact info etc, and now want to sync that with my Gmail. Why doesn't these changes reflect on my Gmail account? I still have no contacts according to gmail, it just has an area that it has every e-mail address I have had an e-mail from or too.
The part that's frustrating is on my phone, when I go to compose a new text msg, and click contacts, I have to go through hundreds of useless e-mail addresses etc, still have 5 different names for some people that use multiple e-mail address and numbers, and a ton of "unknown" entries. I can't find a way to delete all of this other crap.
Has anybody successfully and cleanly synced all of their contacts?
Or is there a way to make it so when I hit the "contacts" button while composing a text msg, it only shows the phone numbers I have saved to the phone under contacts?
Theres too many areas called "contacts" that are completely unrelated to eachother. I wish google would wise up.
Thanks for any help!
When you make a new contact you get options to save to your phone, Google account, or sim card. You have to have them saved to Google or else they won't sync. I'd suggest opening Gmail on a computer and inputting them there.
So ALL of the work I did on the was a complete waste of time, and I have to go and indivudually put each and every name/number/email address into my Gmail contacts? Okay thats just retarded.
Next question, how do I get all of those "contacts" deleted from my phone. I really dont want to look at 500+ email address of companies/spam/notifications when I just want to look through my contacts to add to a text message.
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So ALL of the work I did on the was a complete waste of time, and I have to go and indivudually put each and every name/number/email address into my Gmail contacts? Okay thats just retarded.
Next question, how do I get all of those "contacts" deleted from my phone. I really dont want to look at 500+ email address of companies/spam/notifications when I just want to look through my contacts to add to a text message.
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In contacts, go into display options and check the box that says only contacts with phone numbers
Yea that helps when I go into contacts. My problem is that when you go into compose new text msg, then want to add a list of people and you click contacts, it lists the 500+ e-mail address I may have emailed out before, as well as up to 5 seperate entries for people with the same name, and doesn't show if it is for one of their e-mail addresses or one of their phone numbers.
This contacts sync thing is just outright stupid.
Solution I found for this do a factory wipe. Then when phone reboots add an exchange account. Use your google login info. Choose manual setup. Under server put m.google.com tell it to sync contacts. You must first make sure to configure google contacts to only sync groups you want. Do this within gmail on your computer. When you then add your google account uncheck sync contacts.
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GTIVRon said:
Yea that helps when I go into contacts. My problem is that when you go into compose new text msg, then want to add a list of people and you click contacts, it lists the 500+ e-mail address I may have emailed out before, as well as up to 5 seperate entries for people with the same name, and doesn't show if it is for one of their e-mail addresses or one of their phone numbers.
This contacts sync thing is just outright stupid.
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You don't have to delete anything! You can export your contacts on your phone to a vcf file.
contacts > import/export > export to sd card
Once you have the vcf file, you can e-mail it to your gmail account, then download the file to your pc. Next, import it to your gmail account. Let me know if that works.
GTIVRon said:
So ALL of the work I did on the was a complete waste of time, and I have to go and indivudually put each and every name/number/email address into my Gmail contacts? Okay thats just retarded.
Next question, how do I get all of those "contacts" deleted from my phone. I really dont want to look at 500+ email address of companies/spam/notifications when I just want to look through my contacts to add to a text message.
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go into your gmail contacts on a computer...create a new group called "My Contacts". copy all of the contacts to there that you actually want to see. within your phone contacts setting, set it to only sync that contacts group from gmail.
drwx said:
go into your gmail contacts on a computer...create a new group called "My Contacts". copy all of the contacts to there that you actually want to see. within your phone contacts setting, set it to only sync that contacts group from gmail.
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except Samsung left that option out of the SGS firmwares
gunnyman said:
except Samsung left that option out of the SGS firmwares
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on eclair, yes... on froyo, no.
the workaround in eclair is to set up a second gmail account, then use a service like soocial.com. in your real gmail account, set up the my contacts list. set up soocial to sync the "my contacts" list with the entire list on the 2nd account. then, on your android phone, don't sync contacts from the primary gmail.. only sync contacts from the 2nd gmail account.
I have a (probably) related problem. When I entered a new contact in 2.1 I was given the option to choose saving to phone, google, or sim card. Now that I have updated to the official Froyo version, I never get this option. It just saves to my phone. This is a serious problem. Is this just my phone or are others having this problem?
thanks.
I NEVER save to the sim card because it does not use the same format I use in Outlook and it will split a contact with more than 1 phone number into several contacts.
The AOSP Mms.apk has the option to hide non-mobile phone numbers and emails.
I've got hundreds of "phone only, unsynced" contacts. Many of these are duplicates. I suspect they were created by Funambol Sync in one of my many failed attempts to sync my desktop Outlook with my Google account.
Is there some reasonably simple way to delete these hundreds of "phone only" contacts without screwing up my Google contacts?
Theoretically , you could try unsyncing contacts from your Accounts options. This ought to leave you with only the unsynced phone contacts which you can then delete, one by one, unfortunately.
How come when I set facebook to sync only data for contacts I have it does under contacts. But if you tap the phone icon in contacts it brings up all of the facebook contacts. I have even tried unselecting sync data in the settings and in the pull down menu. It is starting to piss me off. The only way to get rid of it is to remove account from settings, then the ones I wanted to sync are.gone with the rest of my 300 facebook contacts I did not want on my phone. Now they are still there under "contacts'
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I believe if you disable the full sync in facebook, and uninstall it-it should bring your sync'ed data off of it. Otherwise you could manually delete it within the system. I'd think its not that big of a deal though. Just my opinion.
Cant you just go into Contacts, click the phonebook button and deselect your Facebook account from the list. This would make it so it only shows your phones contacts in the contact list, but everything will still be synced with your facebook account.
You can go into sync under settings and click facbook and uncheck contacts I believe. This will remove facebook contacts from your contacts list. You can also filter the contacts list itself and tell it to only show contacts with phone numbers.