Hi,
When I'm flashing new ROMs I'm using the contacts import/export function.
The problem is - after import(after I'm done flashing) the default numbers are gone... i.e if I have a several numbers for my wife(cell,home etc) and I set the default to cell, when I'm using the swipe right on her name in the contact list it calls my house and not her cell phone(when before flashing it would all her cell).
I did a little research in the past and it seems the vcf file do holds what number you set as default(the research was - export the contact list,then change the default for one contact and export again and compare the vcf files - they were different,and the difference wasn't only the time-stamp )
anyone else have this problem??
many thanks
Alon
I used to do the vcf files thing, although I never noticed that problem.
But nowi just use google backup.
Much easier and convenient, in my opinion.
MarkP80nj said:
I used to do the vcf files thing, although I never noticed that problem.
But nowi just use google backup.
Much easier and convenient, in my opinion.
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I don't like this option because when I sync google contacts it brings all the contacts from gmail which basically every email address I ever sent a mail to - and then it ends up in more than 700 contacts...so every time I flash I immediately set sync off for contacts
alon2 said:
I don't like this option because when I sync google contacts it brings all the contacts from gmail which basically every email address I ever sent a mail to - and then it ends up in more than 700 contacts...so every time I flash I immediately set sync off for contacts
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Just set google to only display contacts with phone numbers. Contacts>display options>only contacts with phone numbers. Seriously a much easier way to go.
hechoen said:
Just set google to only display contacts with phone numbers. Contacts>display options>only contacts with phone numbers. Seriously a much easier way to go.
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yeah I know I can do that...I prefer not to...I guess I'm a bit fanatical about my privacy so I prefer to keep my contacts with me and not on the web
10x though...
Any other solutions/thoughts?
alon2 said:
yeah I know I can do that...I prefer not to...I guess I'm a bit fanatical about my privacy so I prefer to keep my contacts with me and not on the web
10x though...
Any other solutions/thoughts?
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you beat the drum, but you do realize you can change who is saved as a contact in the settings right?
s15274n said:
you beat the drum, but you do realize you can change who is saved as a contact in the settings right?
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I'm not sure what "you beat the drum" means, and I'm not sure I understand what you are saying about select who saved as a contact but I guess I do know
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I'm not sure what "you beat the drum" means, and I'm not sure I understand what you are saying about select who saved as a contact but I guess I do know
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haha, read over this.. it will help a lot for part of your problem
http://lifehacker.com/5499575/the-complete-guide-to-fixing-google-contacts
s15274n said:
haha, read over this.. it will help a lot for part of your problem
http://lifehacker.com/5499575/the-complete-guide-to-fixing-google-contacts
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thanks but I think I'll pass using google contacts.
any ideas about the problem I presented in the OP?
^ like I said... it was PART of your problem... you alluded to not liking google saving a random email as a contact....
s15274n said:
^ like I said... it was PART of your problem... you alluded to not liking google saving a random email as a contact....
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thats not what I meant - I meant I don't want google to know(or maybe not to give them an easy way cause I suspect they probably know what they want anyhow ;-) ) about my personal contacts which I have on my phone.
Allllriiiigghhhttttyyyy..... good luck.
Alon... isn't that just an oak tree?
s15274n said:
Allllriiiigghhhttttyyyy..... good luck.
Alon... isn't that just an oak tree?
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Don't get that disappointed , I'm just a privacy fanatical man looking for answers
And as for your question - look at my signature
your signature does not say that Alon is Hebrew for Oak Tree.
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Usually you can go in and edit the contact and chose a ringtone for that contact. Does the Captivate version of Android not do this? I'm not seeing it.
you need to have your contacts on the phone not google then you should be able to add custome ringtone.
lgkahn said:
you need to have your contacts on the phone not google then you should be able to add custome ringtone.
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Even as asinine as the iPhone was it allowed me to do that... WTF?
TexUs said:
Even as asinine as the iPhone was it allowed me to do that... WTF?
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the iPhone ALWAYS has contacts on the phone. always.
madjsp said:
the iPhone ALWAYS has contacts on the phone. always.
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???? No, I used Google Sync contacts on my iPhone.
TexUs said:
???? No, I used Google Sync contacts on my iPhone.
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I think what he's saying is that you're accessing your contacts that are on Google's server and not on your phone. Using Google Sync on the iPhone just pulls the contacts down to your phone rather than looking them up on the server.
I'm curious about how accessing Google's contacts works myself since I'll probably be switching from my iPhone to the Captivate tomorrow.
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I think what he's saying is that you're accessing your contacts that are on Google's server and not on your phone. Using Google Sync on the iPhone just pulls the contacts down to your phone rather than looking them up on the server.
I'm curious about how accessing Google's contacts works myself since I'll probably be switching from my iPhone to the Captivate tomorrow.
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if that were true,i wouldn't be able to access them while in flight mode, which I can.
Funny thing is that I was running Android 2.2 on my Fuze, and I was able to assign separate ring-tones to the contacts that were synced. Can't do that on this version. I did download Ringo-Lite from the marketplace and can now assign rings and sms tones to all my contacts.
I can't even figure out how to do a custom ringtone in general...
I guess it's easy to tell i'm a first time user with android here.
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Funny thing is that I was running Android 2.2 on my Fuze, and I was able to assign separate ring-tones to the contacts that were synced. Can't do that on this version. I did download Ringo-Lite from the marketplace and can now assign rings and sms tones to all my contacts.
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I tried to use Ringtones but it only shows the local contacts (The ATT stuff).
Which all of this makes no sense to why you can't assign one to a Google Contact when I could on the iPhone... They're stored locally as well, so I don't see why this is impossible to do.
@TexUs
The iPhone saved your google contacts to the phone. Your new android phone looks them up and displays them. if you hit the menu button while looking at people, it will give you import/export options. Try importing all those contacts to the Captivate memory.
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I can't even figure out how to do a custom ringtone in general...
I guess it's easy to tell i'm a first time user with android here.
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Yeah me too, but I figured it out. Plug your device in and mount your storage card, the create a folder called "ringtones" on the root, and place your MP3s in there. Worked for me.
You can create a new contact on the phone using the same name and add the ringtone ther and it will link to the other and only show one listing and the ringtone will work.
lionheartck said:
@TexUs
The iPhone saved your google contacts to the phone. Your new android phone looks them up and displays them. if you hit the menu button while looking at people, it will give you import/export options. Try importing all those contacts to the Captivate memory.
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I'd believe this again if it weren't for the fact the contacts are still accessible even without an internet connection. Which means Android is saving them to the phone as well, so why the hell can't I assign custom ringtones to them... Just makes no sense.
What's also insanely stupid about that is anytime a new contact on Google gets added you also have to save it down to the phone, as well.
jetski said:
You can create a new contact on the phone using the same name and add the ringtone ther and it will link to the other and only show one listing and the ringtone will work.
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i like this
I just switched from the HTC Aria to the Captivate today, and the TouchWiz interface is taking some getting used to. On the Aria, I could just go into a contact and click "edit" then choose a ringtone for each contact, I am guessing that was an HTC "Sense" feature. Thanks for the tip about creating a local contact and linking them. I am sure that is what "Sense" was doing, but I couldn't figure it out on this device. BTW, the Captivate ROCKS!
So I installed aContacts and it lets me set a ringtone for each contact but it still plays the default. Is it just me or is this a HUGE assinine mistake? Is this a bug in the dialer? I find the idea of creating 1000 contacts on the phone to be repugnant.
Dont get me wrong all in all this is an awesome phone, but come on guys this is a fundamental flaw.
Peter
howudodat said:
So I installed aContacts and it lets me set a ringtone for each contact but it still plays the default. Is it just me or is this a HUGE assinine mistake? Is this a bug in the dialer? I find the idea of creating 1000 contacts on the phone to be repugnant.
Dont get me wrong all in all this is an awesome phone, but come on guys this is a fundamental flaw.
Peter
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I created all my contacts locally do get mine working, it'll match them up. Only way I've found to do that. Major PITA, and yes, this is a FLAW and there's no way around it.
I went to my contacts and pressed the menu button, the more button, and then exported my contacts to SD card, and then imported those same contacts back. Viola! I now have contacts that I can assign ringtones to.
and are those contacts still synched with google?
ATT sync is OFF.
Google Sync is ON.
I sign into Google, go to Google Contacts... nothing.
I flash a new rom, I sign into my account on my phone - all my contacts are there. With their painstakingly-manually assigned photos.
Are my contacts being saved in some dark sector of my phone? Are they hidden on some Google Sever? Where can I find them?!
You might not looking goot at Google contacts look carefuly
Yuna said:
You might not looking goot at Google contacts look carefuly
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I type "Google Contacts" into Google, and click on the first link. Where should I be looking?
go to Gmail, and on left check Contacts...
Maybe your error is that you search for something not being logged in into gmail, or another account?
If you are using any 2.1 rom then any contact appears on your phone when you sign into google... not Just 'my contacts' or any other group, so check the all contacts tab or whatever it's called. Every contact in your gmail account will appear, even your Craigslist adult services email addresses that you love to send to (the local police know about you). I would venture to say that 99% this is a Google issue and not a phone issue as there is no way your phone pulls these out of the blue. Also if its that much of a problem, hit the menu button in the contacts list and then go to display or settings (can't remember what) and unselect Google contacts.
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COuld be on the SIM card.
Well my phone's OS is totally busted, so I guess we'll find out the hard way
Use titanium backup and backup something called "contacts storage" (not the contacts app) and take a backup of it. This is the place where phone contacts are copied to, no matter where else they might be backed up the system. This has been a life saver for me many times, even today.
diablo009 said:
Use titanium backup and backup something called "contacts storage" (not the contacts app) and take a backup of it. This is the place where phone contacts are copied to, no matter where else they might be backed up the system. This has been a life saver for me many times, even today.
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Looks like I'll have to get Titanium Backup when I get my rom flashed, as Google didn't save my contacts anywhere. Time to redownload all my pictures... *sigh*
thehyecircus said:
Looks like I'll have to get Titanium Backup when I get my rom flashed, as Google didn't save my contacts anywhere. Time to redownload all my pictures... *sigh*
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Did you go to mail.google.com and sign in?
imeraz said:
Did you go to mail.google.com and sign in?
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Yes I did. They weren't saved on there before, and now that my phone had some issue and I reflashed it back to stock and logged back into my account, there are no contacts either.
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Yes I did. They weren't saved on there before, and now that my phone had some issue and I reflashed it back to stock and logged back into my account, there are no contacts either.
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When you add a new contact does it ask you where you want to save the contact to? choices would be phone, SIM or google.
imeraz said:
When you add a new contact does it ask you where you want to save the contact to? choices would be phone, SIM or google.
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I copied all my contacts over from SIM. I figured it would then put then onto my Google Contacts, but I guess I was wrong. It's not a big deal.
thehyecircus said:
I copied all my contacts over from SIM. I figured it would then put then onto my Google Contacts, but I guess I was wrong. It's not a big deal.
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Hmmm...strange, would think it would have too. Sorry I couldn't help out.
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Hmmm...strange, would think it would have too. Sorry I couldn't help out.
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It's too late for anyone to help anyway. It's not a problem. It could have been a Perception issue?
turn google sync on
yes, that one, the one under sync thingy setting somewhere on your phone, that you have turned off I bet. Let it sync like a crazy wild ass Then check in Gmail contacts on the left and voila. Wizard Magic of the totally not evil google.
Basically, never turn the google sync off, or your'e f-d on contacts and it seems a few other things too.
bwolmarans said:
yes, that one, the one under sync thingy setting somewhere on your phone, that you have turned off I bet. Let it sync like a crazy wild ass Then check in Gmail contacts on the left and voila. Wizard Magic of the totally not evil google.
Basically, never turn the google sync off, or your'e f-d on contacts and it seems a few other things too.
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I had Google Sync on since day one and it never did anything. I even turned it on and off to force the issue.
I have my new flash, and all my contact photos deleted. I have reupped a few of them, and nothing in my Google Contacts yet either. Do I need to "star" them in Android?
Going forward, when you create a new contact and it asks where you want it saved, choose Google. This will automatically save the contact to your Gmail account. When you flash your again and sign in after flashing, your contacts will be there
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wretchedlocket said:
Going forward, when you create a new contact and it asks where you want it saved, choose Google. This will automatically save the contact to your Gmail account. When you flash your again and sign in after flashing, your contacts will be there
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I like my accounts saved to my SIM card in case anything happens. I would also like them saved to Google as a redundant backup. Why is this not possible?
How can i change the displayed username on googletalk? I want it to look like "Chad Petree" right now is displayed as "[email protected]"
anyone?
Chad_Petree said:
anyone?
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I'm pretty sure you can't change that. People who are in your contact list can change how you show up (and you can change your buddy's display names), but you can't change you look in your client.
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cttttt said:
I'm pretty sure you can't change that. People who are in your contact list can change how you show up (and you can change your buddy's display names), but you can't change you look in your client.
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I dont get it :/ , could it be because i created my gmail account a long while ago and the displayed name was the whole email address instead of my name?
Chad_Petree said:
I dont get it :/ , could it be because i created my gmail account a long while ago and the displayed name was the whole email address instead of my name?
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Its just not something you can customize. You can change how people on your list look but you can't change how you look, besides setting your profile picture.
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Of course you can change it.
http://tiny.cc/21trr
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Of course you can change it.
http://tiny.cc/21trr
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i checked google before posting here seems a lot of people has this issue, check it out:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=5776faba563952fd&hl=en
"I have tried everything and nothing works. And of course no one from google is able to answer this question...that sucks!!"
I did it to my account. From memory I had to do it inside my Gmail settings or Google+ or something?
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This just happened and I don't know how. all my contacts, all of them, in my G2X are duplicated.
A web search pulls up the only suggestion of "delete the duplicate contact". Duh. I've got 100+ contacts and I can't set aside one day to do that.
Oh, I've had the phone since October and the first thing I did was turn OFF sync with Google.
The only difference between the duplicates is that while I don't have birthdays in my contact list, now all contacts have a duplicate with a birthday of 00000000.
Any suggestions?
Export in csv and remove the bday column. Re-import.
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Dups
I spent an hour going through all my contacts and deleting. I'd still like to know how everything got duplicated.
EEngineer said:
I spent an hour going through all my contacts and deleting. I'd still like to know how everything got duplicated.
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Wow, you just wasted a ton of your time. Let's use a little deductive reasoning: gee my phone contacts are linked to my Gmail contacts, maybe if I go to my Gmail I can do something about all these duplicates. Oh, look a there, it has an option to detect duplicate contacts, and oh, it works perfectly.
Now, sarcasm aside, that's pretty much how it went when I had all my contacts get duplicated.
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Someone Needs a Lesson in Deductive Reasoning
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Wow, you just wasted a ton of your time. Let's use a little deductive reasoning: gee my phone contacts are linked to my Gmail contacts, maybe if I go to my Gmail I can do something about all these duplicates. Oh, look a there, it has an option to detect duplicate contacts, and oh, it works perfectly.
Now, sarcasm aside, that's pretty much how it went when I had all my contacts get duplicated.
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I like deductive reasoning. Hey, let's read my first post in this thread:
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Oh, I've had the phone since October and the first thing I did was turn OFF sync with Google.
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Gee, I wrote that my phone contacts aren't linked with Google. Oh, look, if I go to my GMail I'll see my contact list is empty. Oh, look a here, it means that my GMail account has nothing to do with this.
I like this deductive reasoning. Let's try another one! I deduce that you only read the last post in a thread.
Good answer's. Now I can fix my duplicate contacts.
THANKS
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Hi guys I've tried doing a search and couldn't find anything so apologies in advance for my incompetence.
I'm new to the Android community and recently got my S3. I'm feeling very frustrated with the contacts syncing because the phone is syncing all of my contacts from gmail including the "other contacts" folder. However doing a basic search in google says that once you setup your android phone the contacts that sync are those in the "my contacts" folder. Is there any solution to this? There doesn't seem to be any place where I can restrict which contact folder from gmail it should be syncing with.
Thanks.
you would need to go to setting accounts and turn off contact sync.
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you would need to go to setting accounts and turn off contact sync.
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Hey thanks for the reply, but clicking on the google account and disabling sync contacts? If so this didn't work I still have 244 contacts that are not assigned, and they happen to be the ones that are from the my other contacs folder, also if i disable the contact sync would that also disable the contacts that I'm interested in backing up with google?
Thanks.
g2sai said:
Hey thanks for the reply, but clicking on the google account and disabling sync contacts? If so this didn't work I still have 244 contacts that are not assigned, and they happen to be the ones that are from the my other contacs folder, also if i disable the contact sync would that also disable the contacts that I'm interested in backing up with google?
Thanks.
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Oh sorry I misunderstood what you meant. You could go into system accounts hit menu key and sync now?
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Oh sorry I misunderstood what you meant. You could go into system accounts hit menu key and sync now?
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Yeah I think I'm not saying things right let me try this,
so gmail saves contacts automatically everytime you send an reply, fwd,etc.. and those contacts are saved in the Other contacts group, this group shouldn't sync itself to the android contacts from My Contacts group in gmail (at least from what I've read) however for some reason it keeps syncing and I end up with 244 unassigned contacts which basically are people whom I'm really not interested in having as a contact in the phone?
Thanks again.
g2sai said:
Yeah I think I'm not saying things right let me try this,
so gmail saves contacts automatically everytime you send an reply, fwd,etc.. and those contacts are saved in the Other contacts group, this group shouldn't sync itself to the android contacts from My Contacts group in gmail (at least from what I've read) however for some reason it keeps syncing and I end up with 244 unassigned contacts which basically are people whom I'm really not interested in having as a contact in the phone?
Thanks again.
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Hmmm i think the only way to fix this is to turn off contact syncing unless there is a option in the gmail app?
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Hmmm i think the only way to fix this is to turn off contact syncing unless there is a option in the gmail app?
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This wouldn't make sense, if I turn off contact syncing then I lose the ability to have google manage my contacts for backup purposes, there should be way to restrict what group in gmail the contacts are being synced from...hm...
g2sai said:
This wouldn't make sense, if I turn off contact syncing then I lose the ability to have google manage my contacts for backup purposes, there should be way to restrict what group in gmail the contacts are being synced from...hm...
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try going to groups in your contacts app and deleting un-necessary ones (try doing this with a group which has only 1-2 unimportant contact names - so that if it gets deleted from gmail contacts as well - you don't lose many, also always backup )
I got the fix for ya. Go to contacts hit the menu / contacts to display / customize list / then click on Ur gmail . U should c it then choose the groups u want to be synced ....
Hope that works for ya
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try going to groups in your contacts app and deleting un-necessary ones (try doing this with a group which has only 1-2 unimportant contact names - so that if it gets deleted from gmail contacts as well - you don't lose many, also always backup )
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this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
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I got the fix for ya. Go to contacts hit the menu / contacts to display / customize list / then click on Ur gmail . U should c it then choose the groups u want to be synced ....
Hope that works for ya
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Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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It's the option b4 the last when u hit menu
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It's the option b4 the last when u hit menu
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Which ROM are you on? Stock? I am on synergy and I don't see that option.
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Which ROM are you on? Stock? I am on synergy and I don't see that option.
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I'm in stock ROM or wahtever it is I ahvent played around with anything just rooted and unlocked but nothing else.
@OP I don't see the" other contacts" displayed in my contacts app, though they are synced they can only be seen
when I start searching for a particular contact - not helpful in solving the issue - jus an observation
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Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
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g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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Derp--didn't see that there was a second page
mdt73 said:
Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
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nice.. scrolling down worked (oops , silly me).. thanks for that
--- as regards suggestion of cleaning house... thank you /s
chiaroscuro7 said:
@OP I don't see the" other contacts" displayed in my contacts app, though they are synced they can only be seen
when I start searching for a particular contact - not helpful in solving the issue - jus an observation
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Yes you are right thanks.
mdt73 said:
Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks that's what I was looking for and thank you for noting my lazyness, I didn't know this was going to be an issue (since I'm a noob in all this),however there are contacs that I'm simply no interested to have in my phone, again thanks that solves the problem :cyclops:
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nice.. scrolling down worked (oops , silly me).. thanks for that
--- as regards suggestion of cleaning house... thank you /s
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Yup thanks!
GingerBread
g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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I do understand you, I have many old and JIC contacts in my gmail that I don't want to delete, over 2700, but I only want 100 or 200 tops sync to my phone. If I play with the display settings when I enter the conects, only the contacts I want are displayed, but when I search for an specific contact, it searches over all the 2700 contacts and makes my Galaxy S3 verry slow, my old galaxy s2 as well,
If my memory does not fail, when I had the galaxy Ace with gingerbread, the contacts navigation and search was much faster because only the contacts in "My Contacts" where Sync into my phone, i am allmost positive of that. thanx for any responses.
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did not notice that there was a second page, i am new in the forum.
it is not lazy in my case, i have purged over 2000 contacts when i merged the information from my Facebook Contacts, Linked In, Yahoo, MSN, manualy merging some becuse the automerge process did not work for some cases (inverted names with diferent emails (old and new) or phone numbers, etc), but if i delete one and i review and old email, i won't know who was that from, oe maybe where i knew them from (have them in groups or notes) to organize a reunion :good:. anyway deleting information goes agains Gmal Policy (Never have to delete an email or contact again) LOL any help is welcome