Hi i been using Mango for some time, recently realise one of my friend in my contact list when he try to message me on messenger it will his email address instead of his name. when i tap the email address it will prompt his name and account, only happen to him, my other friend who message me using live not having this issue, i try resync restart my phone still the same. On my Live account it show his chat name and seem fine. i wonder how can i make his name show on the phone. I notice his messaging option is only Facebook + SMS no messenger anyway to add it in? i link all his account together but still not working, very frustrating...
Hope someone can shed some light
I've got the exact same problem with like 4/5 of my Messenger contacts.
I did make a thread about a week ago but still haven't found a fix for this yet.
After reset to factory and restore the contact all works... FINALLY
What does the factory reset delete?
ChrisOliver said:
What does the factory reset delete?
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Everything...
amuroray said:
Everything...
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except your calendar and contacts are synced to the cloud and music, pictures, videos, and apps can be restored through ZUNE. You do lose game saves
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When you say, restored through Zune, do you mean like downloading the App's manually, or Restoring the device?
It's just download and install some of your previous app (that were installed on your phone before you made restore).
ChrisOliver said:
When you say, restored through Zune, do you mean like downloading the App's manually, or Restoring the device?
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yes, music, pictures & videos have to be re-synced. Apps have to be reinstalled. As I stated, you will lose game saves and any other app specific files and save states
if you have a backup, you lose nothing, restore the backup and everything is exactly as it was when backed up. Apps, game saves, SMS, etc...
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Firstly, sorry if this is posted in the wrong section.
I have gotten the lg optimus 7. I have also played with htc surround 7. Mine phone at first didnt have this one problem, now I notice it more in IE, Emails, Certains Apps.
Issue: when scrolling it seems to jerk at certains spots. you will notice it when scrolling slowly. I am wondering if anyone else has noticed this. Or is this a current known issue?
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I was wondering if I do a hard reset, would I be able to download the same apps I had before, or will it show up automatically with the same Login ID? I am still not sure what I can backup using zune. Does it backup apps,music,videos,games ? For contacts Do I use zune or something else.
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Never noticed such a behavior with my Omnia7. Maybe the CPU is working with downloading something or changing networks aso. ?
Question 2
I was wondering if I do a hard reset, would I be able to download the same apps I had before, or will it show up automatically with the same Login ID? I am still not sure what I can backup using zune. Does it backup apps,music,videos,games ? For contacts Do I use zune or something else.
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All your apps are tied to your WindowsLive account. You can download them again, when you have bought them and hardresetted your phone. Zune should do this automatically when you connect your phone to Zune after a reset.
Music and Videos are being synchronised with your computer, they should be there in the specified folder on your harddrive. Your installed Apps and Games are saved so they will be downloaded again from the marketplace.
For contacts and calendar you should be using your WindowsLive Account(www.hotmail.com). This works as an exchange account and synchronises your appointments and contacts from your phone to your WindowsLive-Account.
I have the facebook app installed on my phone. When i went to upload a photo onto facebook it gave me the option to use the facebook app or facebook for mytouch. i went ahead and tried it through the mytouch option and i signed into my account which seemed to add my facebook account onto my phone as something it automatically syncs. it synced my facebook contacts to my normally contact...a cool feature and all BUT i dont want it...
i deleted the facebook account off my phone but my facebook contacts are still mixed with my normal ones. i cant delete them either, i tried long pressing and also tried going INTO the contact to maybe edit it and it wont let you do a thing.
any advice?
Were the contacts linked with facebook accounts?
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You may want to sort you contacts, from the contacts > Menu> View and uncheck facebook. It won't delete them but you won't have to deal with them.
Also try clearing the data in the Facebook for MT app, not sure if it will do it but it should't hurt.
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Were the contacts linked with facebook accounts?
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They were these were contacts that i've never had in my phone before then they appeared on my actual contacts. Some did/didn't have contact numbers depending if they had them in their actual facebook and what i'm noticing is they all have the little circle by their name greyed out meaning i can video chat with them. I deleted all my video chat programs and cleared all my data for contacts/facebook/video chat and they wont go away.
These people have never been on my phone before it happened right when i tried out the facebook for mytouch.
*i wouldnt mind this but i play a lot of farmville and "those" games and half the people on my friends list are "neighbors" only*
Daguse said:
You may want to sort you contacts, from the contacts > Menu> View and uncheck facebook. It won't delete them but you won't have to deal with them.
Also try clearing the data in the Facebook for MT app, not sure if it will do it but it should't hurt.
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I did as you advised and i dont even have a facebook option. I just have the option to show tmobile, google, google (youtube), video chat, sim, phone.
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They were these were contacts that i've never had in my phone before then they appeared on my actual contacts. Some did/didn't have contact numbers depending if they had them in their actual facebook and what i'm noticing is they all have the little circle by their name greyed out meaning i can video chat with them. I deleted all my video chat programs and cleared all my data for contacts/facebook/video chat and they wont go away.
These people have never been on my phone before it happened right when i tried out the facebook for mytouch.
*i wouldnt mind this but i play a lot of farmville and "those" games and half the people on my friends list are "neighbors" only*
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hmm any way you can post a screen shot.... Also when you go into the contact and click the name..... in the top right what does it say? Google? Linked? Facebook? And one last thing, once in the contact can you click menu and delete? if not what happen?
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hmm any way you can post a screen shot.... Also when you go into the contact and click the name..... in the top right what does it say? Google? Linked? Facebook? And one last thing, once in the contact can you click menu and delete? if not what happen?
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Sadly i'm not rooted and therefore can't post a screen shot...unless theres another route you can advice me on then definitely. Maybe ill just take a photo of it with my camera if there is no other way lol.
After clearing all my info again and uninstalling any qik updates it shows qik in the corner of all these contacts, none of them are linked, and about half have actual content info.
From the contact list - long press - call mobile, send contact as vcard, add a fave now!
From within the contact - clicked on the menu button - all, link, send contact, save to sim, set speed dial
From within the contact - tried pressing every item i could and i can only "Edit" the number to something else...i cant do much else with it.
thanks for the help =)
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Sadly i'm not rooted and therefore can't post a screen shot...unless theres another route you can advice me on then definitely. Maybe ill just take a photo of it with my camera if there is no other way lol.
After clearing all my info again and uninstalling any qik updates it shows qik in the corner of all these contacts, none of them are linked, and about half have actual content info.
From the contact list - long press - call mobile, send contact as vcard, add a fave now!
From within the contact - clicked on the menu button - all, link, send contact, save to sim, set speed dial
From within the contact - tried pressing every item i could and i can only "Edit" the number to something else...i cant do much else with it.
thanks for the help =)
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Sorry man, I tried everything I could to recreate this on my phone with no go.....
Make sure to check your contacts on the gmail site, make sure they are not listed there.
If that does not work it looks like you will need to do a factory reset. Sorry
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Sorry man, I tried everything I could to recreate this on my phone with no go.....
Make sure to check your contacts on the gmail site, make sure they are not listed there.
If that does not work it looks like you will need to do a factory reset. Sorry
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I was afraid of that...
I went ahead and rooted my phone, deleted qik completely off my system. That took care of it. Hope this doesnt happen to anyone else =/
Thanks for your advice though, i'm surprised it didnt work. It was extremely "stuck" and quite stubborn.
Am I the only one with this problem? And is there a fix?
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This happens to me sometimes. I usually just backout of messages, and go back in and it works fine. Hasn't hapened for a few days though.
Happens to me ALL the time...
Yeah from my searching it's been happening to all of us at one point or another. I usually delete my facebook account from the phone and re-add them. Pics come back.
Here is the fix - you probably ran permission fix in CWM. This is one of the results...
Go into Applications - Manage applications
Go to ALL applications tab
Scroll down to Contacts Storage and click it.
Clear its data
Scroll down to Market
Clear data
Open market - accept agreement
Resync your contacts. This only erases the picture cache not your numbers. It gets corrupted when you run permission checks in CWM.
I had this same problem, it wasn't storing the picture right in the SMS app, and other apps like LauncherPro weren't able to pull any of the contact pictures. I also had it not syncing my Facebook picture with my local contact (which I find annoying).
What I did is added the Facebook for HTC Sense account, and let this sync. When I installed the FB app I told it to not sync anything.
Now everything is working great.
Well my problem was due to the cwr and cuz I was saving contact to the phone and not to Google ! How can I have saving to Google default
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Well my problem was due to the cwr and cuz I was saving contact to the phone and not to Google ! How can I have saving to Google default
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Just do yourself a favor and edit your contacts at gmail.com... they push to your phone.
does anyone know of a mod that will defult the contacts to save to ur google account =instead of degfluting to the phone?
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does anyone know of a mod that will defult the contacts to save to ur google account =instead of degfluting to the phone?
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First of all:
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Just do yourself a favor and edit your contacts at gmail.com... they push to your phone.
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Second of all, don't ever save your contacts on your phone, that's what google sync is for. When you start restoring saved contacts and letting google sync run, you're creating a huge mess.
In your case I would clean up the contacts on google, then wipe your phone (not restoring any contacts saved on the phone) so that everything you have on google is what you have on the phone.
I did this a while back, and have been happy ever since.
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Second of all, don't ever save your contacts on your phone, that's what google sync is for. When you start restoring saved contacts and letting google sync run, you're creating a huge mess.
In your case I would clean up the contacts on google, then wipe your phone (not restoring any contacts saved on the phone) so that everything you have on google is what you have on the phone.
I did this a while back, and have been happy ever since.
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Absolutely agree with you. After I rooted, i dont know what I did, but after i rooted, all my facebook contacts ended up on my phone. )And no, I didnt tell the facebook app to sync all) I think i added the google account and facebook accounts too fast and then hosed it up when it brought up suggested linked contacts. I just went to Google contacts, cleaned what i didnt want, made some changes to other contacts, cleared contact storage data, and had them all back how i like less than 2 minutes later. and i still had facebook for htc sense setup and it had everybody synced in about 5 minutes. been perfect ever since.
For those of you who are experimenting with AOSP ROMs on your HTC phone and want to synchronize contacts and calendar items with your desktop, have a look at this application. You can install the Android version via the market, the desktop install is freely available from the developer's website below.
http://global.mobileaction.com/product/product_AM.jsp
Also have a look at MyPhoneExplorer. It is also free from the market and very similiar software. You can view your phone's screen on your monitor and operate your phone with your mouse and keyboard. It is a proven software.
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Also have a look at MyPhoneExplorer. It is also free from the market and very similiar software. You can view your phone's screen on your monitor and operate your phone with your mouse and keyboard. It is a proven software.
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Interesting. I like the less cluttered look of this desktop version, but what worries me is the non-english support forum. I wonder if using both of these tools, in addition to the HTC sync software, might create some sort of incompatibility.
ETA: I also wonder how these utilities will respond when switching between ROMs or versions. I don't know how they track synchronization sessions. It'd be a disaster if contact items were duplicated or triplicated when updating or experimenting.
I dont know if this goes here but i have been searching around for a answer.. on my inspire I had to reinstall my rom and when i did for some reason i cannot find my phone contacts.. how in world would i get them back I did have titanium but even it says theres nothing there.. i also just two days ago did a fresh backup on titanium.. strange huh.. so far everything has been replaced but my dialer contacts..
any help will be deeply appreciated
thanks
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I dont know if this goes here but i have been searching around for a answer.. on my inspire I had to reinstall my rom and when i did for some reason i cannot find my phone contacts.. how in world would i get them back I did have titanium but even it says theres nothing there.. i also just two days ago did a fresh backup on titanium.. strange huh.. so far everything has been replaced but my dialer contacts..
any help will be deeply appreciated
thanks
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Did you have them synced with Google? If you did then just resign into your google account and they will be restore. As for TIBU it doesnt back up contacts by default as they are stored in System Data and restoring any system data, like contacts, sms, emails, wifi settings and things like that can cause huge issues when changing roms.
I had them synced but for some reason i cannot no matter what find them.. and they did not resync on the cell when i set it up again
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I had them synced but for some reason i cannot no matter what find them.. and they did not resync on the cell when i set it up again
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Check the sync and account settings to make sure it is selected.
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I had them synced but for some reason i cannot no matter what find them.. and they did not resync on the cell when i set it up again
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once your sync options are double checked as Zel mentioned, sign in to gmail from the gmail app and get your email, this puts it into a forced sync. Should have all your stuff back.
Thanks for sharing, BillTheCat. I was not familiar with this app. I'l check it out. I've been using Google to sync my stuff.
I use airdroid it syncs contacts pics calender date and file and you can even answer texts on your desktop when your using it
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I use airdroid it syncs contacts pics calender date and file and you can even answer texts on your desktop when your using it
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i never seen this app before, loving it. Thank you!
+1 for Airdroid
Hi.
Recently bought my Pixel 4A and did all the necessary installs etc.
I realised it was long time since I had cleared unwanted/ unnecessary contacts from account.
After doing so I noticed something.
The dialer or Phone app still shows old contacts in the app.
I have tried clearing the apps data.
Removed Google account added back too.
Updated to latest phone app and still no joy.
Anyone else facing this issue and found a solution??
Please share..
I'm on Stock A 11.
It might be possible those contacts are stored in your SIM card.
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It might be possible those contacts are stored in your SIM card.
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Checked it out. No contacts in SIM card.
Noticed that the contacts I deleted were there in bin folder. Deleted them, cleared cache for the app and restarted phone. Still no joy..
If you log into your gmail/google account from a browser, are those contact in there?
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If you log into your gmail/google account from a browser, are those contact in there?
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Nope. It is confirmed these are deleted.
Try doing a "Clear Call History" from within the phone app.
And try clearing the data for the "messages" (SMS) app (caution this will probably delete all your sms messages)
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Try doing a "Clear Call History" from within the phone app.
And try clearing the data for the "messages" (SMS) app (caution this will probably delete all your sms messages)
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Done both still no joy.
Logged off from other phones as well. Still not working.!!
Is there any other app you installed that you gave contacts permission to?
Also, you can have more then one "phone book". So maybe these zombie contacts are in them.
Also, what happens if you go into the contacts app and manually try to delete one of these contacts?
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Also, what happens if you go into the contacts app and manually try to delete one of these contacts?
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I've deleted my contacts using web browser online. When using the contacts app on phone it is showing same data as online i.e 164 contacts.
But however phone app has a contacts section which ia showing all the deleted contacts too.
Don't know why or where is ut fetching them from.
I was of the opinion that phone app gets its data from contact app.
But clearly something else is happening