So I really like the ability to link contacts and after playing with a few custom roms, I noticed the phone does not seem to save an information used to join the contacts. Is there a program or someway to preserve these joins in the case I flash my phone or something.
Also, with facebook contacts, I chose to only add certain contact and not the all option. What If I want to go back through my facebook contacts and add another one. I don't know how without removing the account, adding it back and choosing all the contacts over again (and losing their respective joins). Any tips?
We are developing our own SIP phone application in WP7. We planned to use Native Contacts of WP7, but instead use our own screen design for the added features like Presence etc. We can access the data using Microsoft.Phone.UserData.Contacts but we are not able to Save, Edit or Delete. Are theres API's to perform those tasks?
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I have had it just about enough of this Facebook virus and the contact importing in Android in general. What is the point of importing something if we have absolutely no control over deleting any of it?
The basic question is: How can I delete -some- contacts out of the imported Facebook contacts? Not how to delete all of them, not how to only show the ones with phone numbers, not how to merge them with other contacts.
Furthermore, please don't just answer "You can't.". At least not without explaining why exactly it is not humanly possible.
I have a rooted (xperia mini pro) phone, and I would like to reasearch just where and how are these uneditable contacts stored, and how to strike down on them with great vengeance and furious anger.
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What I suspect happens is, for instance, Skype downloads its own contacts and stores them for itself (because it needs them), and then Andorid reads these contacts and just displays them in the phonebook. So if we would want extra filtering functionality for skype contacts in the phonebook, we'd have to write our own phonebook app.
However, in Facebook's case, it does not need those stored contacts for anything other than this syncing functionality. Which means, what we could do is, access wherever this offline fb contact database is, and manually delete what we don't want to have. Right? then, when the phonebook app reads the fb contacts, it will just find the ones we care about.
Is that right?
+1 for any educated answers.
Can anyone recommend an App that will allow me to take two contacts and manually merge them, after reviewing the available data fields, into a single contact?
I can find a lot of apps that will do it for me automatically... But they all seem to suffer from the same set of problems.
If they can automatically identify dupes they don't really look at the data. For example, I keep ending up with contacts that have two addresses that are really the same (Like "123 Main St, Somewhere PA 12345 USA" and "123 Main St, Somewhere PA 12345"). The main Google contacts merge does this...
Or they aren't smart about identifying duplicates (I have a lot of "sparsely" populated contacts that have the name "Info" but are [email protected] and [email protected] and so on). A lot of apps do this for companies because I don't have a person's name in the First and Last fields.
Or lastly there are plenty of apps that will link contacts but not actually merge them (why bother?)
I'm willing to put in the work I just want to select one or more contacts, pick the data I want to keep and merge away.
Thanks!
Matt
On all my previous devices, from an Android 4 tablet to a Samsung Galaxy S6, the Contacts app had a neat feature that allowed you to choose which contacts to display (in Contacts, Phone, and make accessible to any other app with access to contacts list).
You could choose between:
all contacts
contacts from a specific account (choose from Phone, SIM, gmail account, etc)
custom list (checklist from multiple accounts and groups defined within each account)
S9/S9+ Contacts app simply shows you all contacts from all accounts, with no option to narrow down the selection.
In the Contacts app (only) you can have it display contacts from one account, or one group from an account.
However all apps that have access to contacts see and use all contacts from all accounts, regardless. That includes Phone app, ofcourse (the only option in Phone is to display all or contacts with phone nr. only).
I had great use of that feature because I had it use only contacts from specific groups.
Now I have a lot of clutter.
Samsung official response was: that feature was intentionally removed from Contacts app.
I couldn't find many viable alternatives on Play store, I tried a few, mostly bloatware, apparently. Also, Google Contacts, while still having some sort of filtering builtin, can't seem to integrate it properly.
I am looking for a way to regain that level of filtering what contacts to use, without rooting the phone (I got it from work and could get into a lot of trouble if I root it).
Thank you.
Its still there if this what you mean
mjrshark said:
Its still there if this what you mean
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No, that is not it.
That is only a display selection in Contacts app only. You can choose to display one account or one group, but no multiple selection of accounts/groups.
Furthermore, this has no effect on the contacts exported to all apps, including Phone. Phone will still show you the entire list of contacts, regardless of what you are looking at in Contacts app.
The following were taken from a Huawei P7 I still have, they illustrate what I also had in older and newer (at least S6):
Open contacts app (or via Phone->contacts).
Open menu
Choose "Contacts to display".
S9 contacts only allow you to limit displayed contacts to those with phone number.
What is missing is the selection of a single account and customize (bottom)
In this screen I selected one entire account (phone) and only one group from the gmail account:
Only these contacts will be visible (on Huawei P7, Samsung S6 and others) in Phone app, SMS app, etc.
Samsunt S9 shows all contacts from all accounts in Phone app, SMS app, etc.
So how to re add this option on new S9 10 ? someone found a solution ?