Various Google apps, such as maps, places, and so on have the option to save something found in a search as a contact. That would be great if only it worked.
For example, search for a local restaurant in Places. The result shows all sorts of properly-formatted data, such as name, address, phone number, and web page. When one selects Save as Contact, it does save it after a fashion. The name is all crammed into the First Name field and the address is all in the Street address field (with nothing for City, State, or postal code). The web URL isn't saved to the contact at all.
This makes no sense to me. This is a Google app passing data to another Google app. The data starts out properly-formatted. My Windows phone certainly has no trouble saving a fully-detailed, properly-formatted contact from Google Maps. The same thing, incidentally, happens with other Android apps that offer to save something as a contact, such as Bing (which also saved contacts perfectly on Windows Phone).
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
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Is there an APP that will search out a business, store, service, ect. that can accurrately save it to your contacts. I have tried White Pages, Yellow Pages, Tel Nav, Google, and others. I search for the contact, it gives me the correct result, and the option to save the information to my CONTACTS. But when I choose to save it, the information does not go into my contacts correctly, specifically the address. Live Search on my Vogue never gave me a problem.
You say you've tried "Google"--whatever that means. Have your tried the native Google Maps app. It supposed to be able to do this.
Search > Type business Name > Touch the one you want on the map > Add as a contact > Press Save
EDIT: I just tried this and it does exactly what you want. Any/all info aboiut a company gets saved to the correct field, properly formatted into your contacts. just click Save
NOPE .. Tried Google Maps, Google Maps Contacts also. Everytime I choose save as contact, the entire address including city, state, and zip goes into the first line of the address, leaving the city, state, and zip fields blank.
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I have noticed that on some of my contacts, the name appears incorrectly.
For example, instead of John Smith, they appear as John Smith Smith.
The surname appears twice.
This seems to only relate to LinkedIn contacts (which are Synced with my phone contacts). And specifically - stand-alone LinkedIn contacts that do not also have contact records in Google, Facebook, etc.
I cannot edit the name on my phone, as the name fields are not editable (I assume as it reads them as read-only from LinkedIn)
But, when I log in to LinkedIn, the names appear correctly there (and name cannot be edited in LinkedIn, in any case).
So it seems to me this is some issue with Android interfacing with LinkedIn and mis-reading or duplicating a field.
The only workaround I can seem to find, is to add the person as a seperate Google contact, and then link/merge the two contact records. But I dont really want to do this, i dont really want to have Google contacts for all my LinkedIn contacts - that defeats the point of being able to import/sync my LinkedIn contacts.
I have tried unsyncing LinkedIn contacts, then re-syncing - no fix.
I thought before I try LinkedIn forums I would check the Android side of things first.
Has anyone else here had the same problem, or know a fix??
By they way, I had this issue pre-ICS, but I thought I would wait for ICS to see if it fixed.
However, now I have ICS, but still the same problem.
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
What is the best way for me to go through and organize my contacts for my Google account?
My list is so sloppy and looks bad with duplicates, some several duplicates. I know sometimes in the past I would attempt it just with manually deleting and checking all names/numbers and I would often get some sort of message saying I couldn't delete this contact for some reason(I forgot what the reason it said was).
I would prefer to edit this list on my PC, but if this easier done with some sort of app then I'm down. I also want my new organized list to sync across all my devices that sync contacts from my google account.
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On the website (https://contacts.google.com) you can identify duplicates.
You can also export your contacts on your PC (CSV or vCard format).
And you can pretty simply merge duplicates so that if, for example, one has a landline number, a second has a mobile, a third has an address, etc., you can put them all in a single entry with a mouse click.
I was in your position a few months ago and it took me about half an hour to whip my contacts list into shape.
I exclusively use contacts from my gmail/Google account. I never ever have them on the phone or the sim. In case I lose or break or change the phone, I never lose a contact and never have to re-enter them. I'm very OCD about things like that and being able to sit at my PC and standardize all contacts is worth a ton to me. Using the above cited Google contacts link is my preferred method.
With Android 11, Google seems to have taken yet another step in the "making Android increasingly painful to use" direction by disabling the ability for device-only contacts to be available via the standard Contacts Provider. Because of this, I have to use Google-stored contacts on my Android 11 device in order for these contacts to be available to my apps. Otherwise, my apps don't see any contacts.
I have a rooted Android 11 device, and I'm hoping that there is some way that I could disable the standard Contacts Provider service and that I could then install an alternate, custom Contacts Provider service which knows how to access device-only contacts, and which knows how to make these contacts available to all apps that need contacts ... and which never will try to store my contacts on any of Google's servers nor anywhere else in the cloud.
Is it possible to disable Android's standard Contacts Provider service? And does such a 3rd-party Contacts Provider service exist?
Thank you in advance for any thoughts and suggestions.
Well, I think I found a solution to the issue that I'm trying to solve. And it doesn't require any new Contacts Provider service to be installed, after all.
First of all, I made sure that contacts syncing is turned off.
Next, I installed the "True Phone" contacts and phone manager app from the play store and made it my default phone app.
Then, I used that program to make a local backup of my contacts, which is one of its capabilities.
Following that, I froze the Contacts app, but I kept the Contacts Storage app active. I checked the permissions for the Contacts Storage app, and I see now that it has no network-related permssions. So apparently, it just looks at the local contacts database, and some other piece of software is what actually syncs Google's cloud-based contacts data with the local database. And by turning off contacts sync-ing, it seems like I have indeed disabled that process.
Then, I went from my desktop computer to http://contacts.google.com with the same login credentials that are associated with my Android device. I then permanently deleted all of the contacts there.
(I rebooted my Android device between each of these steps and also after the final step.)
Now, my SMS and phone apps still see the contacts info in my local database. And I can manage the local contacts backup and restore via that True Phone app.
There are probably other phone/contacts apps which also could be used for this. But True Phone works well enough for me.
So ... it turns out that no OS surgery is needed to mess with the contacts nor to install an alternate Contacts Provider service.
PS: And I now have learned something. I was asking about a "Contacts Provider service", but I now realize that the standard Contacts Storage app itself seems to be the "Contacts Provider".
And because I found out that this app does not even have network permissions, it seems clear that this app simply gets contacts from the locally stored sqlite contacts database, and therefore, I don't need to replace this app with anything else.
And so all I needed to do was disable contacts sync-ing, because that is what would sync contacts between Google's cloud and the local contacts database.
How long were you playing with it to get to this point? Fun times...
Cloud apps can be little terrors, the only one I use is Gmail. It's never been breached by malware in over 15 years. Lol, Outlook not so much so.
blackhawk said:
How long were you playing with it to get to this point? Fun times...
Cloud apps can be little terrors, the only one I use is Gmail. It's never been breached by malware in over 15 years. Lol, Outlook not so much so.
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It took me around a day of on-and-off playing around sessions to figure this all out ... with some input from a few other helpful souls.
I agree about cloud-based services. I don't even use gmail. I run my own email server, so I use that to manage all my email accounts. I manage my own web servers and my own DNS servers, as well.
It's more work for me to manage those things, but I don't mind, and I actually enjoy that work, most of the time.