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Hi Guys,
i got a serious problem, i synced my contacts with google, now i got the problem, that i got every number like 5 times (all the same nr.) @ the contact list.
This is pretty annoying, because of this issue i got around ~4000 contacts saved..
Is there any app or so, that lets me just check/uncheck the contacts i want to delete so i can easily resort my contact list.
All the apps i found so far are only able to delete a single contact per task.
Thats a bit awful with ~4k contacts, thats why i ask you now
thx in Advance
Syther
Hey
really no one?
Bump ^^
thx in advance !
I'm calling shenanigans on the 4000. I just manually deleted my contacts. I found a multiple select contacts app so I could batch delete contacts.
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Simple steps: make sure all your contacts are on Google, wipe data, login to Google, fixed!
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Hello Guys,
thx for the responses.
I already did several wipes (installed different builds) but google automatically syncs all ~4k contacts to my mobile phone.
Maybe someone had this problem too and could solve it easier then delete every single contact alone.
regards
andrew.cambridge said:
I'm calling shenanigans on the 4000. I just manually deleted my contacts. I found a multiple select contacts app so I could batch delete contacts.
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What is the app's Name?
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I had the same issue as you, syther.
I didn't think about looking for an app that would do that.
1) Go online (using GMail) to the Google account your phone is linked to.
2) On the left there should be a button called "contacts."
3) Click it and it should bring you to all your contacts that are synced to it.
4) Click the "more actions" button and go to "find & merge duplicates."
It won't merge all of the duplicates, but it'll merge most of the ones you have hopefully.
An example of a contact not merging would be
Joe-Bob (555-555-5555) and Joe-Bob (+1555-555-5555)
For that scenario I just went and deleted it manually through GMail to ensure it will never sync those contacts again.
Hopefully that will lessen the burden of deleting your contacts manually.
-lilhugo
you will also want to create groups in Google's contacts. What you may have happening is the ton of random one time emial addresses that got saved.
I've created a "main" group that only has legitimate contacts and haven't had any issues since.
You can also export all of the contacts out of Google into a .csv file that you can open in excel and fix to your hearts desire.
Thank you !
I could´ve come on that idea on my on lol - most time, the simplest things you cant find hehe
awesome i solved it through gmail directly really thank you people!
ok since owning the Mez i have noticed one thing/problem that has plagued me that never goes away.
after flashing a new rom, or flashing any ROM, when i go to import my contacts from my sd card that i exported to the sd card (prior to flashing) causes the contacts app to crash.
it does import a few contacts but only a few.
so out of the 127 i have backed up it may only import 20 but the progress bar says it crashes on like the 3rd contact.
it never gives me a force close error, it just flat out crashes.
i have cleared all that can be cleared and tried again and again but it wont work.
any thoughts, suggestions?
is there a place on my phone where i can just paste the .vcf file and the phone will read it and use it and everything just shows up in my contacts list?
p.s.
even deleting contacts, just 1 of them, causes the contacts app to crash
v_lestat said:
ok since owning the Mez i have noticed one thing/problem that has plagued me that never goes away.
after flashing a new rom, or flashing any ROM, when i go to import my contacts from my sd card that i exported to the sd card (prior to flashing) causes the contacts app to crash.
it does import a few contacts but only a few.
so out of the 127 i have backed up it may only import 20 but the progress bar says it crashes on like the 3rd contact.
it never gives me a force close error, it just flat out crashes.
i have cleared all that can be cleared and tried again and again but it wont work.
any thoughts, suggestions?
is there a place on my phone where i can just paste the .vcf file and the phone will read it and use it and everything just shows up in my contacts list?
p.s.
even deleting contacts, just 1 of them, causes the contacts app to crash
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I've not had a problem importing contacts from sd but awhile back I imported them to my google account so once I sign in - I've got them, no need to bother with an import.
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Importing to google instead of the phone does the same thing.
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Try seeing if you can import the vcf into your Google account online (like from a computer).
Ok i just got an FC on android.process.acore when trying to enable sync google conacts.
So now google, phone and now facebook contact sync is totally broken.
I am using the stock ec10 combo rom.
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add144 said:
Try seeing if you can import the vcf into your Google account online (like from a computer).
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Good idea i will try that
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v_lestat said:
Ok i just got an FC on android.process.acore when trying to enable sync google conacts.
So now google, phone and now facebook contact sync is totally broken.
I am using the stock ec10 combo rom.
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Did you restore apps using TB from another build? You shouldn't have any FC's on any ROM's in here - they've all been tested - especially the stock builds. FC issues come from permission problems and restoring data from another build, typically.
Although this might not help you now here's the best way I found after reading many posts to keep a good list of your contacts. You'll want them in your google account *not* your phone contacts. The problem when people switch from whatever non-google phone to an Android is the carrier will import the contacts into your phone contacts. So here's the best way to get them into your google contacts.
1. Export your phone contacts to your SD card
2. Move the file to a computer with internet access to http://contacts.google.com
3. Wipe the contacts on your phone (apps in market to do this, don't recall names atm)
4. Import the csv file into your contacts account on google
5. Merge duplicates and sync them to your phone
6. Export your google contacts to your computer (or google docs) so you have a nice backup just in case!
Takes a little leg work but it'll always be worth it!
Like I said, you may know that already or have another reason for keeping them as phone contacts but you can always export your google contacts and import them into a new phone if you decide to move off Android at some point!
Another tip for your google contacts. Every email you get in gmail automatically adds the sender to your contacts. If you search in contacts.google.com for just a single space it will list all your contacts and at the bottom it will have "other contacts" which are all the ones they've automatically added. Occasionally you may want to merge these or delete them to keep your contacts from getting cluttered.
That's exactly what I said. <.<
PLEASE, don't just look at my post, please say something.
Hi, I was previously using Samsung Galaxy SL I9003 which have KIES to sync
Contacts, Music, Videos, etc.
I'm now concerning about : how to sync my KIES contacts to my current Nexus S?
Currently, I'm using MIUI 1.10.28. And for me, the contacts manager is not really as good
as Samsung's contact manager.
In Samsung's contact manager, users can recognize some categories of many phone
numbers OF a person with their own unique tag name.
For example :
I have a contact person number called Lucy. Lucy has 5 number which I distinguish
of the numbers tags as follow :
[home] 2341345
[office] 9838643
[mobile] 5656357
[fax] 3456544
[FuNnY] 8624542
So, the distinguishable tags such as : home , office , mobile , fax , is the common tag
name for a number, but what I want is to recognize one or some numbers in a UNIQUE
tag name such as FuNnY (above).
And Samsung's contact manager is also save a photo of the person, a birthday,
an anniversary date, address, email, etc.
My question is :
- Can I sync the whole unique data in Google?
- Is there any comparable / alternative apps like Samsung's contact manager?
- Can I convert the *.spb file to *.vcf without loosing the unique data?
Please help me.
I need my contacts, I love them. And I'm sure that you love yours too
Anyone...?
I wish I could help.
I came from HTC evo shift and that synced for me too. But stock android as nexus is. Does not. No linking. Would be helpful but alas.
Sorry.
Idk if there's a way to do it or not though.
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Wow... so there's no hope for my old Samsung KIES contact? Alas... poor me...
Or can I export the *.spb file to vcf with all unique data are also saved?
Its been a while but if i remember right there is an option
in kies to backup your contacts to gmail. That's what i did. .then your contacts will appear a soon as you sync with gmail with your nexus
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I even thought you could export your contacts in KIES in .vcf format. That way you can import them in Gmail's contact list and have it sync to your phone. I only used KIES once for a friend so I might be wrong.
Not sure how the special data formats will look though.
Greetz
CraneGuy said:
Its been a while but if i remember right there is an option
in kies to backup your contacts to gmail. That's what i did. .then your contacts will appear a soon as you sync with gmail with your nexus
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I've never tried Stock ROM deeply since I bought Nexus S,
I just flash it immediately to MIUI ROM so I didn't realize that
it can save an unique name tag of a number
But now I'm in love with MIUI. Can MIUI saves the unique name tags too?
Still waiting for answers.....
CASE CLOSED
Using ICS now
KNOWN ISSUE FOR UCLC4 leak ONLY (CONFIRMED):
1- Add a new contact in phone and add it as "Google contact" to your gmail.com account entered in phone.
2- Force a sync now in settings > Accounts & Sync.
3- Login to your gmail. View contacts. Is the new contact in your Gmail contacts list?
METHOD 2 (DOES NOT FIX Sync issue but was my attempt to...):
1- Export contacts displayed in phone to vcf file on SD Card.
2- Wipe all contacts on phone, push sync. THIS WILL PUSH a delete sync to google contacts on server. Continue to confirm mass delete until it is completely sync'd and contacts are gone from servers.
3- Import VCF contacts to PHONE but NOT as GOOGLE contacts.
4- Perform Merge to google. Force a sync.
Does contacts appear in Gmail Contacts or Google contacts on server?
THIS IS A CONFIRMED ISSUE with ICS 4.0 UCLC4 leak!! FIXED IN UCLD2 leak!!
wow.... no one is getting new numbers to add to their phone huh?? interestingly small.....closed world.... lol
I can confirm the sync issue
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mitch4113 said:
I can confirm the sync issue
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Thank you for responding. Anyone else? Just create a random number in your phone, force the sync on contacts.
Login to gmail . View contacts. Does that contact come up?
I don't talk to strangers why do I want their number in my phone?
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jamesd86 said:
I don't talk to strangers why do I want their number in my phone?
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Must not be a lady's man; or you're too young, or you're married and too old.
if you're old, but not too old; you must not do well with your coworkers outside of your job?
lol jk jk
confirmed issue on my end. ended up losing a friends contact info cause of it.
There is an option in the settings to merge contacts with google. Only i am not sure if that will merge everything with my google address book or not. Don't want to do that.
Confirmed the issue
I have saved contacts to a VCF file on external SD; imported as PHONE CONTACTS ONLY. Then cleared all my google contacts in gmail.
Then go back to my phone and perform a "MERGE WITH GOOGLE". Then force a sync. It does not push those contacts back to google servers. !!!
Any word on a fix or work around for this yet?
hypnero said:
Any word on a fix or work around for this yet?
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The only fix is to add contacts to phone, export phone-only contacts to VCard. Import to google contacts in web browser. Force sync. Google server will push it out back to phone and keep it in gmail servers.
This is truly kind of annoying.. Lost a girl's number cause of this. Lucky she stalked me otherwise I could have been SOL.
Is anyone working on a solution not workaround to this?
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I wish I would have read this before. I lost like 80 contacts!!!
Oh mama...
And i was about to install one of the new ROMS.
I am shocked nobody notice this till now. I add one of two contacts a day.
Hit the THANKS if this helped ya, then maybe a MOD will see this and make it a sticky? cuz this is probably the #1 biggest bug in ICS for our phones LOL
I deleted a number for one of my contacts and added a new number for them through google voice on the web....and my phone updated with the change with in 5min running the ICS leak
StolenVW said:
I deleted a number for one of my contacts and added a new number for them through google voice on the web....and my phone updated with the change with in 5min running the ICS leak
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If you take a look at my ICS 4.0 bugs & quirks thread; you will see that ANY change on google WEB... WILL push back to phone. But new contact / number in PHONE will NOT push back to google web / servers.
This is what i found so far. Okay well hope this helps someone to find a fix...
1. create new contact in phone, wont sync with google account.
2. create new contact on line (google account), syncs with phone
3. Edit existing contacts in phone, all edits to contact made in the phone will sync with google account.
So if you have an existing contact and and you edit any fields from the phone, the changes will sync up with your google account. Only new contacts created in the phone will not sync.
Does saving to the contact to phone then doing a merge work? This is a shame.
there is a contacks.apk that works. unfortunately I can't do any manual dialing after. in the themes and apps section there is a thread on inverted apps. I am going to look to see if I can get the corresponding phone.apk to see if that works. but I did save a contact and the addition was pushed to google.
Dear all,
I use google account to input my contacts. Now, when I input a contact to my android phone. The contact does not show in whatsapp. I am sure the user is having whatsapp installed. How can I make my contacts visible in whatsapp.
Thanks.
peterhon said:
Dear all,
I use google account to input my contacts. Now, when I input a contact to my android phone. The contact does not show in whatsapp. I am sure the user is having whatsapp installed. How can I make my contacts visible in whatsapp.
Thanks.
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in whats app setting, contacts, check the show all contacts...(maybe its hidden contact with this check its ok)
if not worked, maybe the one you think had whats app, registered with another phone number,
peterhon said:
Dear all,
I use google account to input my contacts. Now, when I input a contact to my android phone. The contact does not show in whatsapp. I am sure the user is having whatsapp installed. How can I make my contacts visible in whatsapp.
Thanks.
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Go to Whatsapp settings>contacts>tick show all contacts.. if the problem persists then try syncing your contacts again with whatsapp servers by going to phone settings>accounts& syn>tap whatsapp account then sync contacts... it will solve your problem...Click Thanks if i helped you.
Hi all , for days now im trying to fix this problem , i tried almost everything but nothing works.
Can't see my contact list on whatsapp , viber , line etc , it just doesn't want to sync. The apps are working fine but i can't see any contacts , i only see the number if someone msges or calls me , and even if i add it manually to my contact list nothing happens.
I imported my contacts from my SIM , synced it with the google account , whatsapp account , everything is up to date.
It might be a ROM problem (can't ask in the development sections need 10 posts )
Im on cm-10.2-20140104-Sultan-pyramid.zip (with ION) (HTC sensation XE)
Last ROM that worked: cm-10.2-20131117-Sultan-pyramid.zip (no ION)
It seems no one has the problem cause no one is complaining about it.
Is there a possible fix? Or it's just the ROM that is not compatible , but why is no one reporting the problem?
(Google couldn't help me, i hope XDA can! )
Thank you very much
Suggestions are welcomed, thanks
I guess i gonna have to try my luck elsewhere , thank you anyways
You can only share your contacts in whatsapp!
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It's not about sharing contacts its about having a visible contact list on whatsapp/viber and co
[email protected] said:
You can only share your contacts in whatsapp!
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No whatsapp contacts on CM 11
I do not have contacts, only telephone numbers in whatsapp chat, but nothing in contact list. Any idea ?
I think we have the same problem, im using CM 10.2 with ION
When someone messages me i do see the phone numbers without names , but yes my whatsapp/viber contact list is empty as well :/
jonnybcn said:
I do not have contacts, only telephone numbers in whatsapp chat, but nothing in contact list. Any idea ?
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BliZzArD_420 said:
I think we have the same problem, im using CM 10.2 with ION
When someone messages me i do see the phone numbers without names , but yes my whatsapp/viber contact list is empty as well :/
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Indeed! I have checked Viber and the same issue. Also my voip phone (Zoiper) does not keep call log. I have moved to CM 11 M2 Snapshot but in vain.
jonnybcn said:
Indeed! I have checked Viber and the same issue. Also my voip phone (Zoiper) does not keep call log. I have moved to CM 11 M2 Snapshot but in vain.
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SOLVED!!!!
Check your Privacy Guard setting per App under security or turn it off completely.
Solved here as well privacy guard kept turning on, so turned it off completely, thank you for the reminder
jonnybcn said:
SOLVED!!!!
Check your Privacy Guard setting per App under security or turn it off completely.
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BliZzArD_420 said:
Solved here as well privacy guard kept turning on, so turned it off completely, thank you for the reminder
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I've different problem, Suddenly all but few of my contacts disappeared. I ticked "show all contacts" and they are back again. But the problem now is, I can see their status updates, online time but cant see their photo.. Few contacts photos are still visible and updates also when they change it. But 90% contacts photos are gone now.
btw I'm using slim ROM on nexus-s
hiya all i have this prob only a couple contacts showing and i am using phoenix rom on galaxy note 2
anyone have any ideas?
thanks flobz
I just imported my contacts from my SD card on the last ROM flash and every one appeared
same problem is happening wid me i am a htc 626g+ user
BliZzArD_420 said:
Hi all , for days now im trying to fix this problem , i tried almost everything but nothing works.
Can't see my contact list on whatsapp , viber , line etc , it just doesn't want to sync. The apps are working fine but i can't see any contacts , i only see the number if someone msges or calls me , and even if i add it manually to my contact list nothing happens.
I imported my contacts from my SIM , synced it with the google account , whatsapp account , everything is up to date.
It might be a ROM problem (can't ask in the development sections need 10 posts )
Im on cm-10.2-20140104-Sultan-pyramid.zip (with ION) (HTC sensation XE)
Last ROM that worked: cm-10.2-20131117-Sultan-pyramid.zip (no ION)
It seems no one has the problem cause no one is complaining about it.
Is there a possible fix? Or it's just the ROM that is not compatible , but why is no one reporting the problem?
(Google couldn't help me, i hope XDA can! )
Thank you very much
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I too have the same problem, i have updated whatsapp and now i can see the phone numbers and msg but no name, and my contacts in whatsup also show empty.