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[Q] Contact view issue

My contact list under "Phone" shows duplicate contacts from google account and from SIM card. I only want only the SIM card contacts to show when I hit "Phone".
I've tried everything to only show from one source but nothing is working. I've tried merging the contacts, going to the "View" option and clicking to show SIM contacts only. I've searched the forums and have read the manual, can't find anything.
Please help.
Thanks.

Go to sync options and turn off sync contacts under [email protected]. Then go to view contacts only from google. delete them all. Then switch back to view contacts from phone.
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Thanks for the help, BonesRed. Can you elaborate on this part?
"Then go to view contacts only from google. delete them all. Then switch back to view contacts from phone."
I tried this but it doesn't seem to work.

You don't need to do all that. Just go to your contacts and hit menu key + view+SIM only contact.

jrwingate6 said:
You don't need to do all that. Just go to your contacts and hit menu key + view+SIM only contact.
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Yes, that's true, but that only does it under the contact list, but doesn't apply to the phone list from the home screen.
Thanks.

why would you want to use Sim card contacts?
with google you can store more then just the name and 1 phone number(multiple number/emails/ect) plus it updates live.
and if you ever loose your phone, you never have to worry about loosing your contacts as it's stored in your gmail account...

BonesRed said:
Go to sync options and turn off sync contacts under [email protected]. Then go to view contacts only from google. delete them all. Then switch back to view contacts from phone.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA Premium App
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Won't that delete all of his Google contacts if for some reason that syncing gets turned back on?
jrwingate6 said:
You don't need to do all that. Just go to your contacts and hit menu key + view+SIM only contact.
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the contacts are still there if you do this & still would show up when trying to dial.
My only way to get out of this was to quickly shut off contact syncing right after I put in my google credentials.
Another thing you can do is to shut off google contact sync. then go to Settings>Applications & delete the data for Contact Storage. Once that's done resync with whatever you did for your normal contacts.

xnifex said:
Won't that delete all of his Google contacts if for some reason that syncing gets turned back on?
the contacts are still there if you do this & still would show up when trying to dial.
My only way to get out of this was to quickly shut off contact syncing right after I put in my google credentials.
Another thing you can do is to shut off google contact sync. then go to Settings>Applications & delete the data for Contact Storage. Once that's done resync with whatever you did for your normal contacts.
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+1 I totally forgot you could just clear the cache. That's the best way to do it.
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This worked! Thanks so much.

Manage Phone List

What is up the the list of contacts when using the phone or messaging? I can manage under Contacts|settings|view exactly what contacts I want to see; however, when using the phone or messaging, the Sensation presents EVERY contact without a way to adjust. In my situation I use Exchange Activesync to gather my work emails, and despite unchecking sync contacts, they all show up in my phone list.......who the heck wants to sort through a thousand contacts to make a phone call. Thoughts or ideas?

I have some similar problem. I sync with both Exchange Activesync and Google/Gmail and some of my contacts have an entry in both. In my lists of contacts they're perfectly coupled and reduced to one entry, but in the messaging app the contacts show up double again.
I already had contact with HTC Benelux, but their first 'solution' was to remove one of the entries manually. But that's no option for me. I replied to them, but they have not reacted yet.
Strange thing is with the mail app everything is ok.

Ozam said:
What is up the the list of contacts when using the phone or messaging? I can manage under Contacts|settings|view exactly what contacts I want to see; however, when using the phone or messaging, the Sensation presents EVERY contact without a way to adjust. In my situation I use Exchange Activesync to gather my work emails, and despite unchecking sync contacts, they all show up in my phone list.......who the heck wants to sort through a thousand contacts to make a phone call. Thoughts or ideas?
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To get rid of this in messaging, there are 3 options you need to turn off.
Go to messaging.... settings... general... and turn off "Show sent message history", "Show call history" and "show email address". Or a combination of the three if you'd like.
In contacts, you should check the option in settings that says "Only with phone number". As long as your email contacts don't have phone numbers, they won't show up in the contacts list.
I hope I'm understanding your issues and that this information helps.

[Q] Contact list(s) please help!!

Hey guys, so i have a problem. I know that in the contacts I can hide all the repeated contacts, meaning the duplicates that show up from google, and t-mobile, and the ones on the SIM card. I have all my contacts linked thro HTC facebook. But when I go to the dialer or to send message it shows all my contacts, so some people show up 4 times!
Is there anyway to hide all the duplicate contacts in dialer and MMS, and secondly, when I receive a message from someone it shows their SIM contact which has no picture and their name as I put it in, and not as it has been "linked"
Thanks in advance!

I am on the same boat. Its annoying cause I only want the Google contacts. Mines has both synced T-Mobile backup and Google. Gonna reset the phone and remove the T-Mobile app before I sync anything and get back to u
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I had this problem and it was unbelievably frustrating when I first got this and after a few days of searching and banging my head against the wall, I found something that worked.
This is how you solve it (or how I solved mine).
1: Sync everything to Google. Edit the contact list in google (use the automatic duplicate deletion), delete useless contacts etc.
2. Remove contacts from EVERYWHERE. Sim card, phone, uncheck google sync. Your phone should then be completely empty for contacts.
3. Re-sync with google contacts. if you want you can copy it back to the SIM and you shouldn't get doubles. I think I just left it with google only but the end result is I don't have 9 different "danny's" show up when I go to compose new message because I know three of them.

Ok great, I'll try that out.. When they gave me my phone, I told the employee at the store that I didn't want the tmobile contacts, and yet, she still set it up. I hope they fix these silly thongs with the update

Try this
I had the same problem, shows same contact more then 1 time. i resolved it this way
1) Go to Contacts (App)
2) Press Menu button (2nd touch button from left)
3) Select View
4) Now select (Check Mark) the contact you want to see. in my case i unchecked all option but Google and Facebook for HTC
5) Select done.
now it will only shows single entry for each contact
Thanks

only google contacts info on my contacts

I have 4.1.1-based ROM and using the default people app to view contacts. It seems skype/whatsapp decided to display their ugly head into my google contacts thus when trying to call people, some numbers are displayed twice.
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like I have an entry for a friend's mobile on google contacts and they also decided to put in their mobile number in skype. Thus the numbers appears twice on the stock contact app and stock phone dialer.. and I don't want this. How do I restrict Android (I suppose this is system-wide?) to retrict contact info to only those coming from google contacts.
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I have set "contacts to display" to just my personal gmail account but whatsapp/skype info is still displayed. :/
thanks
ps. tried searching the net but not really sure what keywords to use and came back blank

Im running CM10 on 4.1.1, I like to just sync my contacts to Google, you can manage it from your PC very easily should you happen to have double ups you can easily delete them all with a few mouse clicks
Press your settings key in contacts, contacts to display, choose Google and sync them from home screen->settings->accounts, never loose them again. I found I lost a few contacts here and there with Titanium over time so I just use Google.
You might want to click import/export from contacts-settings to get any numbers you might be missing from your SIM card.
I don't leave sync on permanently just remember to do it once a week as I'm quite a jew when it comes to battery life.

[Q] HTC EVO 4G LTE contacts not syncing with Gmail...

I have been noticing that new contacts that I have added recently, are not syncing with my gmail account, even though I am selecting my gmail account and not the phone option when adding the contact. When I go back into the contact and try to "Link" it, there is not option for gmail. Does anyone know what the issue is or how to resolve this?

:laugh: did' you check the singal status befor you ask:laugh::laugh: