Is this a setting somewhere? Fiancee swears she used to get newest messages at the bottom of the list (her preference) and suddenly it has changed so that newest messages are at the top of the list.
I've never seen a sort order setting and we looked high and low and cannot find one.
I'm tempted to go to her last full backup and restore to see...
I've never seen that option (I've checked again and found nothing).
Maybe she wasn't using Gmail application at the beginning? In the HTC stock mail application you can sort order of messages.
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Now I have three joined contacts for each contact. One is Google, the others are two phones. Each phone number has two numbers (from importing my contacts, apparently), one with dashes and one without. When I send a text message manually, it displays everyone's name three times - annoying since the text message display window is 3 panes long, so it is absolutely ruined.
I have NO IDEA how to do this anymore. How do I clear my contacts? How do I restart this whole nonsense? All I want is one contact. It always pulls my SIM contacts, as one. It pulls my Google contacts, as another. When I import/export them to my phone, that's a third. Why is Android so backwards!? Is there ANY solution to this? Does ANYONE know anything? Can someone PLEASE help!
Seriously, is this a section of XDA I should even be bothering with? No one seems to have any advice for this. Or even reply with a "this bothers me too" post!
Had same problem. 8of the same contacts linked. Goto Google account -contacts and select merge.
It should merge duplicates
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Edit: you can either use card to back up.ie manually.or use Google for all.for card i suggest unchecking Google backup or same problem will occur. I'd just do Google for contacts
Any luck?
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On top of my issue with swype I now have another issue & a question.
I used HTC Sync to sync my Outlook contacts to my phone. It seems that my phone has duplicated a bunch of them since then. I started out with 117 contacts & it's now at 285. The phone will just pop up with new contact link suggestions out of nowhere & it'll have 1-5 copies of the same contact trying to link together. It did this even after a hard reset. Any ideas on what is causing this & how to stop it?
Solution: seems to be an issue with HTC Sync & contacts with Notes. See second post for MyPhoneExplorer for better sync.
Also, in my calendar app I've set it to not have a default reminder, yet it automatically puts it at 10 minutes no matter what. WTF?
Lastly, is there an app that'll toggle the Auto-brightness for the phone? I now there are widgets that'll change the intensity, but I'm looking for one that'll toggle just the auto-brightness on/off. Comes in handy when I'm at home or at night & don't want a bright screen.
Solution: Found a fix for the auto-brightness through reddit! Use Brightness Widget
thanks for any/all help
Did some more research & found out that HTC Sync doesn't play well with contacts that have notes attached to them. Switched over to MyPhoneExplorer & it's much better: wifi syncing!
Market:
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.fjsoft.myphoneexplorer.client
Developers site for PC client:
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/
Still can't figure out Calendar or Swype issue though
Regarding your reminder question, that is the default reminder if no reminder is set or for a new event. There are still reminders server-side.
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Regarding your reminder question, that is the default reminder if no reminder is set or for a new event. There are still reminders server-side.
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thanks for the info. Guess I'll just have to remember to always deselect that since I don't like reminders.
my contacts are being duplicated also. When I open a new sms and type the first letter of the name I want to txt that name is listed multiple times
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my contacts are being duplicated also. When I open a new sms and type the first letter of the name I want to txt that name is listed multiple times
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Are they people that you have called? Under SMS settings there is an option to show entries from the call history. I consider it a bug that it shows a contact entry that you have called while it fetches from contacts and call history.
those were annoying so I disabled call & sent history & just have email addresses show up.
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Are they people that you have called? Under SMS settings there is an option to show entries from the call history. I consider it a bug that it shows a contact entry that you have called while it fetches from contacts and call history.
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Yea I tried that, same thing.
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It split up 6 or 7 contacts by breaking off one email address then askedme to link them.
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It split up 6 or 7 contacts by breaking off one email address then askedme to link them.
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when I did it through HTC Sync it duplicated everything, some more than others
Ya know I had a huge issue with that when I picked up the myTouch 4g. I ended up returning the thing, but the duplicate contacts almost made me throw it at the wall. I was getting 3 - 5 instances. I know the myTouch has tmobile flavor of sense, but it's probably the same issue. I recall being able to fix it by merging all the contacts, but even after doing that I still had to do some manual adjustments. Very frustrating.
I won't have the Sensation in my hands until next week thanks to the retards the T-Mobile store messing up my g2x return, but i'll post on this thread when I get it if this issue occurs for me.
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Ya know I had a huge issue with that when I picked up the myTouch 4g. I ended up returning the thing, but the duplicate contacts almost made me throw it at the wall. I was getting 3 - 5 instances. I know the myTouch has tmobile flavor of sense, but it's probably the same issue. I recall being able to fix it by merging all the contacts, but even after doing that I still had to do some manual adjustments. Very frustrating.
I won't have the Sensation in my hands until next week thanks to the retards the T-Mobile store messing up my g2x return, but i'll post on this thread when I get it if this issue occurs for me.
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just save yourself the hassle & sync with the MyPhoneExplorer app. with the HTC Sync I'd have duplicate contacts within an hour. It's been about 8-10 now with MPE & no issues.
I had problem with hundreds of duplicate groups and contacts outside of Android and used this to fix it http://scrappydog.com/GoogleGroupCleanup/publish.htm
Maybe it can help someone else
Ok my phone has a very strange bug. It seems to seriously dislike one of my girl friends, it only affects her number.
Here's what happens, I send a text to her and when she replies my phone refuses to let me send a reply unless I delete the thread and start again.
This happens because it changes 0 or +44 to just 44 meaning the number is wrong.
I have tried deleting her and adding her again but this does not solve the issue.
I am unrooted and using the stock rom. No other contact has this issue.
Any ideas why it hates my friend? I know she's a stroppy git sometimes but my phones picking on her lol.
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So no one has any clue?
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Sounds like some issue with the country-prefix. Could it be that she is the only one in your phone with a different prefix?
What happens if she sends you a text when you have no thread opened and you try to reply?
Is the phone number in your contacts correct and uses it the country-prefix the same as other contacts?
I assume that you are registered with a google account (@gmail.com or @googlemail.com) which you use to log on to yours phone's Google account?
If so then it may be worth using a PC to web-browse to google.com, 'Sign In' to your account, then go to the gmail link and check your contacts in there. It is possible that you have this one contact set to "44..." in the details there and the phone is overwriting the details each time it resyncs to Google?
Hmm after reading your reply I checked but no. Her number on gmail is 07. It didn't happen when I first got this phone.
I don't know what i've installed or changed but it's odd how it's JUST her number.
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Hi, first of all, i'm using the Android Revolution HD rom.
My problem is that though my contact picture does sync and show up both in contact and stock messaging apps, they don't show up in Handcent sms... Though if I click the empty picture, contact details (with the options like "call, mail, etc") show up, including the pictures (can upload a screenshot if this is not clear)
I've tried rebooting, reinstalling handcent, i've also tried this fix as well as fixing permissions from recovery. Nothing seems to work.
I've been googling like crazy for the last hour looking at least for people having the same problem as me, but all the posts i've found are from january-february, which makes me wonder if it is supposed to be a fixed issue. I've also read a few of the thread on these forums referencing ICS bugs, and haven't found this particular issue.
I've also tried flashing the stock HTC rom, though to be honest i didn't spend as much time trying to fix it there, since it wasn't the rom i wanted to use.
Thanks to anyone who will be able to help, even if only to confirm that i'm not the only one having this issue...
[EDIT] Fix found, please read this thread.
Thanks to Chronic404 for providing us with the link.
I'm having the same problem, don't show in whatsapp or go sms pro
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I was having the same problem with go sms pro and it was driving me nuts.
Found that if I went into the stock 'people' app and re-chose the contact pics for people they then showed up in go sms.
Not ideal and quite time-consuming but couldn't live without the contact pics showing up!
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I was having the same problem with go sms pro and it was driving me nuts.
Found that if I went into the stock 'people' app and re-chose the contact pics for people they then showed up in go sms.
Not ideal and quite time-consuming but couldn't live without the contact pics showing up!
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Thanks for the tip, though i don't seem to have the stock people app on my rom, is it also the case for the HTC stock rom, or is it just because i'm using ARHD ?
May i ask what rom you are using ?
Hello. Download terminal emulator and do the following to get contact pictures.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21648094&postcount=47332
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Hello. Download terminal emulator and do the following to get contact pictures.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=21648094&postcount=47332
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As I said in my first post, I did try this fix, but it's still not working...
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Oh sorry I don't read much, can you tell? but I had the same problem and that fixed it for me. Must be handcent.
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Oh sorry I don't read much, can you tell? but I had the same problem and that fixed it for me. Must be handcent.
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First of all, I want to apologize, my previous post was coming off as a bit rude, didn't realise it as I was typing on my phone
It might be Handcent, i actually have no idea how to check that since i don't know any app with uses contact pictures, save for the two mentioned in this post: go sms pro, which seems to require to install quite a lot of things, and whatsapps which, as far as i understand it, would require someone to chat with, but i don't think i know anyone who uses it...
So if you have an idea for an app that would use my contact pic tu check whether or not it's a handcent bug, i'd gladly take it.
It's okay I'm not easily offended!
Have you ever tried kik messenger? Once you install it and make an account it'll ask you if you want to add the people from your contacts list that also have it.
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It's okay I'm not easily offended!
Have you ever tried kik messenger? Once you install it and make an account it'll ask you if you want to add the people from your contacts list that also have it.
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I tried it, but apparently none of my contacts use anything else than sms, so still not sure of anything.
I've tried the terminal message also but to no avail.
I've just flashed the MIUI rom so I'll be sticking to that for the time being but if you solve the problem please post the method!
Same problem here i'm afraid.... No contact pictures in handcent app...
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I am UK Orange Sensation XE User running ARHD and also have contact images everywhere except in Handcent, despite trying the Root Explorer and Terminal Permissions fixes.
I have a small number of contacts where the contact image is a photo rather than from Facebook, and these DO show in Handcent.
Perhaps one of the techy types can use this info to diagnose the problem?
I've also tried uninstalling and reinstalling Facebook and Handcent, have cleared the Data caches from both and reinstalled, still no joy.
Please post the method if you find a solution!
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Hi There, I had the exact same problem with Gosms and Cabbage which I use constantly. I tried Android Revolution HD and Elegancia (which i love). the only way I could fix the problem was the following.
Downloaded syncmypix and ran it, then deleted the Facebook account. The contact photos now appeared in Gosms and cabbage (even unticking facebook avatars in Gosms didn't work). I then re input Facebook account details but chose not to sync any details at all. This worked perfectly for me and somehow or another the photos and FB details still appear and update in contact details.. Weird but great.
I hope this helps as I am totally anally retentive about photos for contacts which is why I loved the Sensation to start with.
Cheers
Johnner2
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Hi There, I had the exact same problem with Gosms and Cabbage which I use constantly. I tried Android Revolution HD and Elegancia (which i love). the only way I could fix the problem was the following.
Downloaded syncmypix and ran it, then deleted the Facebook account. The contact photos now appeared in Gosms and cabbage (even unticking facebook avatars in Gosms didn't work). I then re input Facebook account details but chose not to sync any details at all. This worked perfectly for me and somehow or another the photos and FB details still appear and update in contact details.. Weird but great.
I hope this helps as I am totally anally retentive about photos for contacts which is why I loved the Sensation to start with.
Cheers
Johnner2
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That's an interesting method but honestly, I would rather a cleaner solution. Sounds very suspicious that although the FB update is off, the pix continue to update... VERY weird... Seems we have to wait
I have tried Johnner's fix, and it has fixed some of the contact images in Handcent
What i will say though is that SyncPix confuses some of my contacts so i have the wrong images for some contacts, and not all contacts can be "found" by SyncPix for whatever reason...
Johnner2 said:
Hi There, I had the exact same problem with Gosms and Cabbage which I use constantly. I tried Android Revolution HD and Elegancia (which i love). the only way I could fix the problem was the following.
Downloaded syncmypix and ran it, then deleted the Facebook account. The contact photos now appeared in Gosms and cabbage (even unticking facebook avatars in Gosms didn't work). I then re input Facebook account details but chose not to sync any details at all. This worked perfectly for me and somehow or another the photos and FB details still appear and update in contact details.. Weird but great.
I hope this helps as I am totally anally retentive about photos for contacts which is why I loved the Sensation to start with.
Cheers
Johnner2
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Thanks a lot for the tip, though i kind of agree with GorgiGR that I was looking for a somewhat "cleaner" fix, i'm especially afraid that it would just confuses things for when the issue will receive an "official" fix.
About the facebook update still working while Facebook sync is off, I'm no specialist, but it might be because although you deleted your facebook account, the Facebook for HTC Sense app is still working.
I am using Haxsync from the Play Store to sync all my facebook photos to my contacts. It works great. The only downside is that it is a paid app. But it was money well spent!
I have just used this fix, and it works!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620878
Chronic404 said:
I have just used this fix, and it works!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1620878
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Thank you, i had kinda lost hope that it would be done without using a paying app
Problem fixed for me too then, i'll change the title of the thread.
[EDIT] Well apparently you can't change the title of the thread after creating it... So i'll edit my first post to point to the solution.