Just a weird one never had a problem on other android phones. It happens when i go to make a call and go through my phonebook. Even happens in messages. That my sim contacts and google contacts show up. Now i have tried and looked everywhere on the phone just to show my sim contacts but still to no luck.
Any body else have this glitch
The first time you opened contacts, it asked where you wanted to pull contacts from (sim, google, etc.). By default, I think they are all checked off. Try going into the contacts settings and disabling Google.
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i put it so in the contacts it only shows contacts from my phone and not the sim card or google account, but if im txting, and try to add a contact, it always shows 2 of everybody...how can i stop this from happening?
Mine does this too, I know that contacts are both on my phone and sim card, though my contacts list is set to only display contacts on my phone.
It hasn't really bothered my so far, but if I can get rid of the duplicate showing up, might as well
I noticed this to when I go to text and start typing the person name it shows 2 of them hasn't really bothered me.
oh ok, just wondering if i was the only person with the problem lol...i think imma test it out by removing all the contacts from my phone and leaving them just on the sim and seeing what happens...
I only have my phone contacts showing on my phone. I do not have double contacts in my "phone contacts" section. I only get double contacts when I and going to type a text message. Very strange glitch.
when I first got my phone it imported contacts from all over the place, including many places that I didn't want it to. It's a nice feature but I only want to use the contacts in my google account. Initially the phone found contacts on my sim, and t-mobile account. I understand in the contacts app you can go in to view and turn off the other sources, but my problem is on the phone app. When you open the phone app the first screen lists your contacts with your recent calls at the top. In that list my sim contacts are still showing. When I use the "Smart dial" feature it searches all the previous contact sources. Is there a way I can wipe all contact from my phone and just start over with my google contacts?
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when I first got my phone it imported contacts from all over the place, including many places that I didn't want it to. It's a nice feature but I only want to use the contacts in my google account. Initially the phone found contacts on my sim, and t-mobile account. I understand in the contacts app you can go in to view and turn off the other sources, but my problem is on the phone app. When you open the phone app the first screen lists your contacts with your recent calls at the top. In that list my sim contacts are still showing. When I use the "Smart dial" feature it searches all the previous contact sources. Is there a way I can wipe all contact from my phone and just start over with my google contacts?
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So you've tried People > View > Then only have your google account ticked?
Because when i do that none of the contacts from my other accounts show up anywhere else...
I did do that. And on the people screen (which I believe is just the contacts application) those settings are honored. Even with those settings set properly when I go to the main phone screen I see sim contacts mixed in with my google contacts
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I did do that. And on the people screen (which I believe is just the contacts application) those settings are honored. Even with those settings set properly when I go to the main phone screen I see sim contacts mixed in with my google contacts
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The only other thing i'd suggest is moving your sim contacts over to the phone, so they will show up as phone contacts, then hide everything else and see if that makes a difference.
Other than that you might have to delete/unsync all the other accounts with your contacts.
Ya, it's interesting. The people screen definitely pulls a different list than the main phone screen. I removed all contact sources from the people screen so that I see no contacts at all, then on the main phone screen nothing changed. I still see google and sim contacts.
Is there a way to delete all contacts and just start over without wiping my phone?
Well, for the love of god, don't put skype on your phone then. Skype totally raped my contacts list. I have all these random weird contact names in there now that I have no idea who they belong to. It seems that Skype doesn't like to fill out the contact info very well on the mobile device.
Who the hell is bootmomma? LOL! I would really like to get this issue sorted as well. If I find a way without sorting it by hand, I will let you know. The only other way I have found is to sync everything to google and then use the merge duplicates, then sync everything back. Also, there is an app that I use called "Contacts Cleanup" that formats all the numbers on the device to a uniform ###-###-####, which I like. Becareful when linking contacts between types, because sometimes it confuses different things. It has caused me to get numbers interchanged and stupid things to happen, especially when allowing <ahem> Skype access to the address book.
That's the best I have. Hope maybe it helps you a bit.
To wipe all of your contacts go to settings> applications & find contracts storage & wipe that.
A for skype just choose not to sync your contacts in the actual application. They'll still show in the app but won't import to the phone's contact list
Got the same problem as well! thanks for xnifex's idea I am doing it now
I have 4.1.1-based ROM and using the default people app to view contacts. It seems skype/whatsapp decided to display their ugly head into my google contacts thus when trying to call people, some numbers are displayed twice.
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like I have an entry for a friend's mobile on google contacts and they also decided to put in their mobile number in skype. Thus the numbers appears twice on the stock contact app and stock phone dialer.. and I don't want this. How do I restrict Android (I suppose this is system-wide?) to retrict contact info to only those coming from google contacts.
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I have set "contacts to display" to just my personal gmail account but whatsapp/skype info is still displayed. :/
thanks
ps. tried searching the net but not really sure what keywords to use and came back blank
Im running CM10 on 4.1.1, I like to just sync my contacts to Google, you can manage it from your PC very easily should you happen to have double ups you can easily delete them all with a few mouse clicks
Press your settings key in contacts, contacts to display, choose Google and sync them from home screen->settings->accounts, never loose them again. I found I lost a few contacts here and there with Titanium over time so I just use Google.
You might want to click import/export from contacts-settings to get any numbers you might be missing from your SIM card.
I don't leave sync on permanently just remember to do it once a week as I'm quite a jew when it comes to battery life.
Im using Sensation XE, stock ICS.
i have synced to google, facebook, ubersync and whatsapp. but in People app, i've set to view only the google contacts. i have a few contacts in SIM as well as in Google. so the problem is.. every once in a while, the Messages app mixes up with name spelling between the Google and SIM contacts, and the pictures wont show. and then some times, it works just fine. some times it goes away if i restart my phone, sometimes restarting doesnt make any difference.
i want to see the pictures of the people in SIM, because frankly speaking these are the people with whom i communicate most with thru messages.
and no, i wont delete my SIM contacts, because sometimes i need to change my phone, so i need some important contacts with me in SIM
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Before I wipe my contacts clean and try syncing again, has anyone seen this happen?
I was talking to someone on WhatsApp (WhatsApp uses your phone contacts) when suddenly the name of the person I was talking to changed to someone elses name in my contacts, who I have never spoken to on WhatsApp
Then I realise all of my contacts have other peoples numbers added to them as primary and secondary numbers, it has basically taken numbers from random contacts and added them to random wrong contacts
They are all still 100% correct on contacts.google.com, but totally screwed up on my phone
Any ideas?
Well it's fixed, luckily I exported my Gmail contacts yesterday, because as soon as I deleted my phone contacts, it decided to sync and delete them from gmail too, even though I'd been trying to get gmail to sync them numerous times prior to the deletion and it refused
Imported them back into gmail and it synced to my phone again
PITA
Do clear the contact data
You can clear the contact data from the phone and restore it using your email. check out the TechRounder blog for any doubt.