When I am starting a text, I start typing the person name in the "To" field. As I start typing the person's name, the phone gives you names of contacts that match as you start typing that person's name. But here's the thing, it shows the same name 5 times in the list of suggested names, when I have each contact listed only once in my contacts. So for instance, If I'm texting Jim, it will show Jim as a suggestion as I type J and then I, but it will suggest Jim 5 different times for his same email, and mobile number. I only have him in my contacts just once with one email and one mobile number. Why does this happen and can it be fixed?
Are you using stock sms?
You may try a bit of troubleshooting by downloading GoSms Pro and/ or GoContacts from the app market to see if you have the same problem. This way you will have a better idea whether it is your stock sms, stock contacts or something else.
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This has happened since having this phone. I used to use go launcher and go sms, and it did happen with go sms as well. I just recently flashed Valhalla Final. But it still happens. I always say no to syncing with gmail, as I always just import my contacts from my SD card. How do I see if my contacts are indeed synced with gmail or not?
Go in gmail on your computer and look at your contacts. I actually use gmail to clean up my contacts. Maybe try syncing with gmail, delete them off ur sd card and phone and only use gmail sync for your contacts.
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lumin30 said:
Go in gmail on your computer and look at your contacts. I actually use gmail to clean up my contacts. Maybe try syncing with gmail, delete them off ur sd card and phone and only use gmail sync for your contacts.
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+1 for only using google contacts. Easier to keep track of phone numbers while you're flashing a bunch of roms.
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I have sync enabled with my google account. I can get my gmail contacts on my phone. However, I do not see my phone contacts when I go to my gmail account.
What am I doing wrong? My contacts from my phone should show up in my gmail contacts right?
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I have sync enabled with my google account. I can get my gmail contacts on my phone. However, I do not see my phone contacts when I go to my gmail account.
What am I doing wrong? My contacts from my phone should show up in my gmail contacts right?
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Hmmmm... I just checked my gmail and it does display my contacts... an obvious question but do you see the google "g" next to all of your contacts??
bp787 said:
I have sync enabled with my google account. I can get my gmail contacts on my phone. However, I do not see my phone contacts when I go to my gmail account.
What am I doing wrong? My contacts from my phone should show up in my gmail contacts right?
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See if this helps. When in Contacts, tap the (hardware key) Menu and tap Display options. See if Phone and/or Sim is checked. That toggles the display of additional contacts saved in the Phone and SIM memory.
Scratch that. I think you want your phone and/or SIM contacts to show up in your Google Account on your PC right? I don't know how to do that... Sorry, I'm not so helpful after all.
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Hmmmm... I just checked my gmail and it does display my contacts... an obvious question but do you see the google "g" next to all of your contacts??
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in my contacts, on the phone, I see some contacts that have a "g" next to them. These equate to the ones on my gmail account's contact list. Most of them do not display the "g" though.
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See if this helps. When in Contacts, tap the (hardware key) Menu and tap Display options. See if Phone and/or Sim is checked. That toggles the display of additional contacts saved in the Phone and SIM memory.
Scratch that. I think you want your phone and/or SIM contacts to show up in your Google Account on your PC right? I don't know how to do that... Sorry, I'm not so helpful after all.
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You're right, I want all of my On-Phone contacts to be sync'd into my Gmail.com contacts list on my pc. and any help is helpful
Your phone\sim contacts will not automatically move to google's contacts online. You have to move them manually. Here is what I did to move my contacts up there:
1. In contacts, under settings, go to Display Options and uncheck the option to show your google contacts. You will turn this back on later. For now, you just need to see the contacts that you want to move to Google.
2. Under settings, go to More and then Import\Export. Then choose to export to SD card. This will create a file on your SD card with your contacts in it. Make note of the location of the file. It will likely be the sd folder and a file called 00001.vcf
3. Exit the contacts app and go to the my files application. Find the file from step #2 and long press it. In the menu that comes up, select Share and then email it to yourself.
4. Now you should be able to get to the file on your computer by downloading it from your email.
(Alternatively if your phone is hooked up to your computer you could just find the file on it and copy it to your computer)
5. Go to google.com/contacts and import the vcf file. They will now be on Google and if you have contact sync on they will get pushed to your phone. I had some duplication between names on my phone and names I had in google so I had to spend some time merging and cleaning them up.
6. In the contacts app on your phone, undo what you did in step #1 by going to display options and checking Google. You will now see all of those contacts with a "g" beside them.
Note - this does mean that your contacts will show multiple times on your phone if your display options have it showing Phone, SIM, and google contacts. I ended up going in and removing all contacts from my phone and SIM card to resolve this. The captivate does try to link similar contacts together it may not bother you. I just decided I wanted all of my contacts in one place and nowhere else.
d'oh you beat me to it. I was doing a test myself to see if it works. It sure does and when I was about to post the instructions, there it was, yours. I couldn't have done a better job.
Nice! This will work.
However, I am quite disappointed that I can't just sync my phone contacts to my google account. It's one of the things I miss coming from WinMo using Microsoft MyPhone.
... you would figure with everything this phone does a simple task such as synching with your gmail account would be a no-brainer in the droid world.
Well.. nothing is perfect.
Thanks for this! I was looking for a way to do it and couldn't figure it out but never got around to asking
Yeah I agree, its kinda bs that they won't just sync. I use "uia back contacts" from the market. Works great with dropbox.
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I know this is old topic, but I have a question about the procedure described previously for getting contacts into google...
What about in the future...if I add a new contact on the phone, will it then automatically sync up to google, or do I have to do this whole process again?
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I know this is old topic, but I have a question about the procedure described previously for getting contacts into google...
What about in the future...if I add a new contact on the phone, will it then automatically sync up to google, or do I have to do this whole process again?
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When you save the contact make sure you select google contact and it should sync automatically
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So every time you add a contact to your phone, google will sync all my contacts to my google account?
if i reformat everything, then connect google to my phone, all my contacts will be there on my phone?
yupppppppp
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So every time you add a contact to your phone, google will sync all my contacts to my google account?
if i reformat everything, then connect google to my phone, all my contacts will be there on my phone?
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Yes as long as you sign into the same Google account that have your contacts.
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but we cant format every time we update a contact. why is the sync not working in mobile. Its showing error"sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly"
i have been seeing this message for the past one week.Is there any solution for this without formatting?
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Yes as long as you sign into the same Google account that have your contacts.
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I dont recommend using Google Sync. Its most most inbredly retarded system ever. Every time you sync it duplicates everything (which is not technically a sync). Right now I have anywhere from 4-7 copies of the same contact number, it creates a new copy if you change the name, or add an email address etc. Then you have to "link" them to not see the duplicates, then when you want to call or text it asks which of the 7 numbers you want to use (even through they are all the same exect effing number). Google needs to take the kid with the waterwings, helmet, and droolcup out of that position.
I also have yet to see where you can delete or edit the "database" where it syncs from. Because under my contacts in google, it only shows 1 number, 1 email address etc. Yet as soon as I "sync", bam, 7 copies of everything.
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I dont recommend using Google Sync. Its most most inbredly retarded system ever. Every time you sync it duplicates everything (which is not technically a sync). Right now I have anywhere from 4-7 copies of the same contact number, it creates a new copy if you change the name, or add an email address etc. Then you have to "link" them to not see the duplicates, then when you want to call or text it asks which of the 7 numbers you want to use (even through they are all the same exect effing number). Google needs to take the kid with the waterwings, helmet, and droolcup out of that position.
I also have yet to see where you can delete or edit the "database" where it syncs from. Because under my contacts in google, it only shows 1 number, 1 email address etc. Yet as soon as I "sync", bam, 7 copies of everything.
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I wish I could tell you what you're doing wrong. I added my contacts through GMail - Contacts about a year ago. I've deleted then synced dozens of times and I still have the exact same 300ish contacts and they never double up. I used to have issues with contacts doubling up and creating more than necessary when I was on my iPhone - but since I've gone Android I've had no issues whatsoever.
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but we cant format every time we update a contact. why is the sync not working in mobile. Its showing error"sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly"
i have been seeing this message for the past one week.Is there any solution for this without formatting?
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sounds like you restored your contacts through MyBackup or something similar?
Google contact sync works great. Been using it for the last 3 year since I had an iPhone 3G. It definitely works much better on Android though.
I don't restore using backups, I restore using sync. Just for S&G's I wiped and synced again. It re-duplicated. I now have up to 8 entries for majority of my contacts.
I've read that if you go to Gmail (browser) and set up the contacts for your phone in a "My Contacts" folder, then wipe your contacts and load only "My Contacts" when syncing, that it will work. To me the dumb part is that you have to go in and set up every one of your contacts from scratch.
Instead of only giving the option to "link" all those duplicates it should give the option to merge, or delete select contacts.
Even though the contacts are "linked" when I go to People or whatever (the contacts app) so there is only 1 "entry" or listing, I feel that to be fixed by Sense. However, when I compose a new message, right off the bat in A's, it starts off with 5 entries for the same contact. An e-mail address, a 10 digit phone number, a + and then 10 digit number, and there two more for the 11 digit number (1 then number, and +1 then number)
It's really, really retarded.
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I don't restore using backups, I restore using sync. Just for S&G's I wiped and synced again. It re-duplicated. I now have up to 8 entries for majority of my contacts.
I've read that if you go to Gmail (browser) and set up the contacts for your phone in a "My Contacts" folder, then wipe your contacts and load only "My Contacts" when syncing, that it will work. To me the dumb part is that you have to go in and set up every one of your contacts from scratch.
Instead of only giving the option to "link" all those duplicates it should give the option to merge, or delete select contacts.
Even though the contacts are "linked" when I go to People or whatever (the contacts app) so there is only 1 "entry" or listing, I feel that to be fixed by Sense. However, when I compose a new message, right off the bat in A's, it starts off with 5 entries for the same contact. An e-mail address, a 10 digit phone number, a + and then 10 digit number, and there two more for the 11 digit number (1 then number, and +1 then number)
It's really, really retarded.
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I'm guessing this is not what the majority of people using Google contact sync experience. Like I said, I've been using this for awhile and this has not happened to me on my Inspire, and I've flashed several ROMs and had to resync my contacts over and over. I've never had to "start from scratch". Maybe you need to go to the google help forums.
Maybe this isn't my first android phone, maybe its happened since i had my captivate, maybe it also happens on a coworkers droid x, maybe it also happens on another coworkers nexus, may it does the same thing on everybody else I know's phones.
I never said i have to start from scratch, I said that seems to be the only way to set it up to work right, is to do it from GMail on a computer. Creating those contacts in a folder you create called My Contacts.
Do me a favor. Use a stock mms app. Go to create new text, then add recipients. Unless you set all your contacts up in the My Contacts tab of google before ever syncing from a fresh phone/flash, you will see duplicates there.
It is possible to merge your contacts thru Gmail online. It does a fair job of removing duplicates but not a perfect job.
You're not the only one who can't stand the way Google handles contacts. It's a major problem coming from WM6 and Outlook to Google. I'm hoping that HTC's tool to import contacts will work and I'll be able to clear out a ton of stuff from my Google contacts that's bogus.
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Maybe this isn't my first android phone, maybe its happened since i had my captivate, maybe it also happens on a coworkers droid x, maybe it also happens on another coworkers nexus, may it does the same thing on everybody else I know's phones.
I never said i have to start from scratch, I said that seems to be the only way to set it up to work right, is to do it from GMail on a computer. Creating those contacts in a folder you create called My Contacts.
Do me a favor. Use a stock mms app. Go to create new text, then add recipients. Unless you set all your contacts up in the My Contacts tab of google before ever syncing from a fresh phone/flash, you will see duplicates there.
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Looking in my gmail contacts, they are indeed in a My Contacts group.
during sync I am facing following problems:
1. My android contact nos automatically converted from xxxxxxxxxxx to xx xxx xxxxxxxxx on google.
2. Added pictures not uploaed on google.
Is there any solutions.
All right so heres the deal:
With my Fascinate and Droid 1, I was able to sync up the contacts I WANTED to (manually) with Facebook, and the rest wouldn't show up in my address book. Well, HTC Sense has the account you link up, and it matched people automatically, cool, I'm fine with that. However, it dumped EVERYONE that was on my fb into my address book, not cool. So I went in, hid the fb people, no biggie, thought it was done with.
Not so. When I go to compose a text or email, it still shows me EVERYONE on fb who has a # on there, which I DON'T want. Is there any way to manually link the people I DO want, but not have it link EVERYONE ???? I've unchecked link people from the account settings, but as soon as I link one person manually, it dumps all the #'s on there. Its rather frustrating....any help or ideas would be appreciated, thanks.
when you first install fb it asks you if you wants contact sync for all contacts our only ones on your phone.. mightve picked the wrong one.
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That's for Facebook app syncing, which is different.
I'm talking about Facebook for Sense syncing.
But that option does the same thing to my contact list, dumps my #s in there
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All right so heres the deal:
With my Fascinate and Droid 1, I was able to sync up the contacts I WANTED to (manually) with Facebook, and the rest wouldn't show up in my address book. Well, HTC Sense has the account you link up, and it matched people automatically, cool, I'm fine with that. However, it dumped EVERYONE that was on my fb into my address book, not cool. So I went in, hid the fb people, no biggie, thought it was done with.
Not so. When I go to compose a text or email, it still shows me EVERYONE on fb who has a # on there, which I DON'T want. Is there any way to manually link the people I DO want, but not have it link EVERYONE ???? I've unchecked link people from the account settings, but as soon as I link one person manually, it dumps all the #'s on there. Its rather frustrating....any help or ideas would be appreciated, thanks.
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Try going into people/view/ and un-check facebook for sense.
Did that. Removes them from People view, but composing a new text displays all my fb contacts who have their numbers on there. It's really annoying.....
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What all has the green swirliest under accounts & sync?
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go into people-menu-view and pick the contacts you want to view or just manually sync the people you want by clicking the contact and picking them on facebook. thats what i did.
I'm feel he has it set to sync with ALL contacts, not sync with existing contacts.
@leoingle: ????
@albotz: I just tried deleting the HTC fb account. I readded it. It automagically started syncing ALL the contacts to the phone book. If you uncheck the sync contacts button, it just goes and resyncs them anyway.
If they aren't in your address book, try composing a message, and then you will see ALL your contacts, yours + the people with a phone number listed on fb, from the available contacts you can choose to send a text to.
@g00s3y: I'm not an idiot, I assure you its set to sync with existing, but after I try to manually sync a contact, it just syncs EVERYONE. I go back to check the app, and its mysteriously changed itself to "sync all contacts"
Don't use Facebook for HTC then, use the Facebook app, which is available off market. The apps do virtually the same thing
I have Rooted my phone but now every time i sync contacts through google it adds more and more to it. I have one contact that is on my phone like 40 times now others are 20. I just want to be able to se the list my phone is gettting my contacts from and edit it all. I went to gmail but the only thing that was there were emails no phone numbers....
Ok my contacts just jumped by 250 and i havent added anyone. Where do i go to manually fix this because i dont have 1400 contacts....
Try this link, the page doesn't seem to be mobile friendly so you might want to try it from a PC.
https://www.google.com/accounts/Ser...d/&followup=https://www.google.com/dashboard/
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im having the same problem. When i log into the computer it only show 322 contacts but the phone shows 782.
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im having a problem with my contacts as well. its a little different though. if i add contacts to my phone, it will not back them up to google contacts. i lost every contact i made in the past 4 weeks when i rooted and installed a BAMF. i did the manual sync before i started, but didnt get any thing to my google account
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im having a problem with my contacts as well. its a little different though. if i add contacts to my phone, it will not back them up to google contacts. i lost every contact i made in the past 4 weeks when i rooted and installed a BAMF. i did the manual sync before i started, but didnt get any thing to my google account
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When adding contacts to your phone you need to make sure you change the first option to sync with your Google account. For some reason it defaults to phone and if you don't switch it, it won't sync. It would be sweet if any of the devs could make a mod so it defaults to your Google account.
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When adding contacts to your phone you need to make sure you change the first option to sync with your Google account. For some reason it defaults to phone and if you don't switch it, it won't sync. It would be sweet if any of the devs could make a mod so it defaults to your Google account.
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thanks. ill make sure i do when if i ever go back to stock. the new bamf asks me whenever i select to create a new contact. cool stuff.
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im having the same problem. When i log into the computer it only show 322 contacts but the phone shows 782.
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I'm guessing you have 460 phone contacts and 322 Google contacts on your phone.
Are you also syncing with your PC?
I would export your contacts to your sdcard (just in case) then delete all of your contacts and re-sync with Google.
I personally don't sync my contacts with Google.
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Its syncing anyone who has sent you an email basically, there is a setting in gmail to change it but have to be logged in to full site via pc or mac or the phone's browser
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duplicate contacts
i had duplicates upon duplicates for every number in my phone. for anyone else with this problem, and a google account, just sync all your contacts to your google account. go on your gmail from a computer. on the top left of the screen under "gmail by google" click on contacts. from there, click on "more actions" (right above the phone numbers) then click on "find and merge duplicates". then sync your contacts again and there you go, one phone number per contact! i hope this info is useful to someone else. i just wish i knew about this back in the good 'ol G1 days lol. but i guess thats what happens when cell phones replace computers ha!
I just noticed something odd. So yesterday, I imported all my contacts from google, and use SMS Back up Restore and Call Log backup and restore. all my texts/calls are back in my new phone, which is nice. I noticed something odd with contacts though.
Not everybody is showing up. I had my old phone synced to google. The weird thing is, I think the contacts ARE in the phone, but not showing up. Today, my friend Eric texted me. His name showed up and everything, so I assumed the contact was in the phone. I went to my contacts app and looked at the list of contacts, and he wasn't showing up! When I go to the text message he gave me and clicked on his picture, I could see his contact details! But the contact isn't showing up in the app. Anyone know what to do about this?
Under contacts, Filter > Display Contacts. I had to select my gmail accounts and make sure all the checkboxes for the groups were selected. By default it seems they were not so as with you some of my contacts were missing.
Hope this helps.
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Under contacts, Filter > Display Contacts. I had to select my gmail accounts and make sure all the checkboxes for the groups were selected. By default it seems they were not so as with you some of my contacts were missing.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks, but it looks like certain contacts on my old phone weren't saved as Google contacts. I thought that having google sync on would make it so all of my device contacts would sync to my google account. Apparently, that didn't work. Oh well. At least this phone defaults new contacts to google. Whenever I would add a contact on my S4, I'd have to change it from device to Google. Frustrating as hell