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double contacts showing up

i put it so in the contacts it only shows contacts from my phone and not the sim card or google account, but if im txting, and try to add a contact, it always shows 2 of everybody...how can i stop this from happening?

Mine does this too, I know that contacts are both on my phone and sim card, though my contacts list is set to only display contacts on my phone.
It hasn't really bothered my so far, but if I can get rid of the duplicate showing up, might as well

I noticed this to when I go to text and start typing the person name it shows 2 of them hasn't really bothered me.

oh ok, just wondering if i was the only person with the problem lol...i think imma test it out by removing all the contacts from my phone and leaving them just on the sim and seeing what happens...

I only have my phone contacts showing on my phone. I do not have double contacts in my "phone contacts" section. I only get double contacts when I and going to type a text message. Very strange glitch.

(Q) How do we FIX default for contacts to Google and not to phone?

LG EVE?GW620 with LG 2.2 Froyo Official.
This is NOT just an LG problem as I read others have the same issue with different brands of phones.
I noticed that when I add a new contact if I do not drop down the tiny part at the top and pick Phone/SIM/Google it will default to phone. That means it does NOT sync with Google. I also can NOT go back and change the contact on the phone to be SIM or Google. Part of the purpose of having this phone is for it's ability to sync with Google.
Is there a setting to set it to default save your contact with Google and NOT phone?
*This is important because if you load up new contacts they will NOT sync with Google, so if you lose your phone then you lose your data. Part of what makes Android cool is your data is sync to your Google account so you are always up to date even if your phone is lost or broken.
I do NOT have this option to set.
I found this BUT that option is NOT there for 2.2 LG Official---see bold item
right now i have Google contacts syncing to my phone. weird thing is, when i log into gmail and look under contacts, there isnt any listed. where does google get list from? I thought logging into gmail and clicking contacts would show me a list of names, but it doesnt. I dont get it.
First:
You need to make sure you enter a new contact by saving to Google.
Contacts that are on your "phone" will not transfer to Google automatically.
You can change your default save location by:
Open contacts
Press menu touch key (key on left side of your phone)
Press MORE
Press SETTINGS
Change: Save new Contacts from: Always Ask to GOOGLE
In Google it saves your contacts under the "My Contacts" tag.
Let me know if you need any other help with this.
p.s.:
If you want your contacts on Google and your phone, the easiest way is to enter them through gmail then let sync push them to your phone. Your phone (should) join the duplicates since they will have the same names and telephone #.

anyone??? hellooooo

anyone here??

[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
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

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

[Q] Strange Contacts behavior

So my contacts list is behaving strangely on my S3, I'm curious if you guys have run into this problem before.
Basically I'm looking for a person, for instance the name "Jean". This contact is stored on my google account (not on the phone.)
When I scroll through my contacts list, I don't see the contact at all. But when I use "Find Contacts" up above, I find "Jean" just fine.
I have a phone number filled out for this contact, and other contacts that are stored on my google account comes up just fine. It's just this one contact doesn't show up in the overall list.
Any ideas??

I figured it out.
Looks like I had to go into google.com/contacts and actually select the missing contact, then label them with the "My Contacts" label. Really strange that the phone doesn't just automatically pick up everyone up, and only people labeled as "My Contacts".
I hope this helps someone else out!

I would try going to the contacts app the hit menu then "contacts to display" and see if some of the options are disabled.
Sent from my Verizon Galaxy S III

dtdmdrums said:
I would try going to the contacts app the hit menu then "contacts to display" and see if some of the options are disabled.
Sent from my Verizon Galaxy S III
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I tired that, I made sure to select "All Contacts" under the "Contacts to Display" menu. What the phone does is display only the google contacts labeled as "My Contacts". It still stores all of the other google contacts, but just doesn't display them until you actually go searching for them.

Gmail "Other Contacts" suggestions not available on phone

Hey guys, I'm not able to find suggested contacts from where I have written prior emails, whether on the contacts or phone app. Any ideas? Thanks,

update
I've done a little troubleshooting and it seems that only the label "Other Contacts" in Gmail does not show up, as those are suggested contacts from every email message I've ever typed out. I still have not found a way to copy those suggestions over so that they will appear when I type emails on my phone, but I can select some of those and transfer them to normal contacts, in which case they will show up even without a phone number.