in Contacts, some names don't show up, even in Search.
But if I search from the Phone app, they do.
Any idea why this is or how to fix?
figured it out by accident.
If a contact is grouped in "My Contacts" on the gMail/Contacts page, then it will show up in any search of Contatcs on the phone.
metropical said:
in Contacts, some names don't show up, even in Search.
But if I search from the Phone app, they do.
Any idea why this is or how to fix?
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Hi,
When you first open contacts,it asks where to get contacts from.
Phone,sim,google etc.
Make sure you tick or untick the ones you want.
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So, this is my dilemma.
1. I have a SIM Card. It has contacts on it. Android automatically recognizes them.
2. I have my contacts saved to Google. Android also automatically recognizes them.
If I go to enter in a name to send a text, it brings a pull-down menu, with duplicates of everyone. One is for SIM, and one is for Google Contacts.
The Contact list IS slow with Google instead of it being saved directly to my phone. I want to save them directly to my phone. If I do so, the "send a text to" list triples, so each name appears three times.
The contact list, I can exclude everything but phone contacts. Is this something I can do in Messaging? Should I give up on Messaging and its many issues and move to Handcent and deal with its own issues?
I check before I go to bed and it is bumped off the main page?? Where are the people who can help at XDA anymore? It seems every topic I post gets pushed away
So... anyone?
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Merge Google contacts then uncheck Google backup. Then make sure there's only one of each,then save to ur phone.worked for me!
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Why don't you just go to your contacts page from Gmail on your PC, sort them all out how you want them and then let them automatically sync to your phone?
DirkGently1 said:
Why don't you just go to your contacts page from Gmail on your PC, sort them all out how you want them and then let them automatically sync to your phone?
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this is the easiest method!
Go into your contacts, for every contact that has a duplicate, do this:
1. Press Menu Button and select "Edit Contact"
2. When in the edit contact area, press the menu button again
3. Select "Join" and pick the associated duplicate contact.
This worked great for me with all my duplicate Facebook and Google contacts.
Hope that helps.
When I go to add a shortcut to a person in my contacts, it shows a TON of contacts with every person I ever emailed with, instead of just "my contacts". I chose "my contacts" in the "view" option from within the phone, but it is still showing all.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Legaleye3000 said:
When I go to add a shortcut to a person in my contacts, it shows a TON of contacts with every person I ever emailed with, instead of just "my contacts". I chose "my contacts" in the "view" option from within the phone, but it is still showing all.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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Yeah same here, what it is doing is showing all of your saved contacts on all accounts such as what is saved to the phone, gmail, facebook, and sim card which in most cases are back ups and duplicates. So you cant do anything other then deleting all of the ones you don't want or save the corresponding email under the contact it belongs to.
If I add a new contact, do I need to sync the contact with google contact manually?
As far as I know, yes you do.
sagarsaoji said:
As far as I know, yes you do.
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How to manually sync?
nick_martin said:
How to manually sync?
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I exported my phone contacts to the sd card and imported the .vcf file that generated in http://google.com/contacts.
You can also long press a single contact, choose "send contact as vCard", mail it to yourself, and then select "import to contacts" in gmail if you're on a desktop pc, or alternatively you can open it in the mail app on your phone, select contact type "google" and save.
If there's an easier way to do this, I'd be glad too hear of it.
Edit: when you enter a new contact on your phone there's a dropdown box at the top that lets you select Google, SIM or phone as the contact type (the default being "phone"). Select google and it'll automatically be added to google contacts.
Edit 2: There's also a "send contacts" option in the People app menu that allows you to send multiple contacts at once.
debunk said:
Edit: when you enter a new contact on your phone there's a dropdown box at the top that lets you select Google, SIM or phone as the contact type (the default being "phone"). Select google and it'll automatically be added to google contacts
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I entered a new contact as a google contact, then saved it. After that, I went to google voice and check the contact, I didn't see the contact I just added.
That's why I asked how to sync manually since it doesn't sync automatically after adding a new contact.
nick_martin said:
I entered a new contact as a google contact, then saved it. After that, I went to google voice and check the contact, I didn't see the contact I just added.
That's why I asked how to sync manually since it doesn't sync automatically after adding a new contact.
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Settings> accounts and sync> push the sync key at the bottom.
smoochiezz24 said:
Settings> accounts and sync> push the sync key at the bottom.
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It worked. Thanks. I don't understand why it doesn't sync automatically since I set it as auto-sync? It may take some time?
got the same problem,,,, but thanks it worked for me too
Hello,
New android user here after 4 years with an iPhone. I am extremely happy with my skyrocket and have no plans on going anywhere
Slight problem I could use some help with. I am a gmail user and keep 'my contacts' pretty organized and updated since this was the contact list that i synced with my iPhone. I would have thought moving to an android would be even easier, however I have a slight problem that I cannot seem to figure out.
I synced my main google account and chose 'contacts' as one of the items to sync. My contact list was imported just fine, however, upon composing of a new message, when I type a few characters, rather than attempting to match those characters with one of 'my contacts', the system seems to pull suggestions from every single email address i've ever used in my gmail account (over 1400). Obviously I would only rather the system pull from 'my contacts', but I have no idea how to fix this. I've deleted the contact syncing and restarted the phone, verified that there were no contacts in my contact list, but still got the same results when attempting to compose a text message.
Is there a way to delete those contact suggestions for good?
Much appreciation
under groups in the contacts app select your account and arrow down. I believe u can then select exactly ehat syncs. You will have to delete all, and I mean. ALL the contacts on your phone, becuz all 1400 emails on there. Then resync with mew settings. That's should work.
icenight89 said:
under groups in the contacts app select your account and arrow down. I believe u can then select exactly ehat syncs. You will have to delete all, and I mean. ALL the contacts on your phone, becuz all 1400 emails on there. Then resync with mew settings. That's should work.
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Thanks, I will try that. Do you know of a way to bulk delete contacts?
icenight89 said:
under groups in the contacts app select your account and arrow down. I believe u can then select exactly ehat syncs. You will have to delete all, and I mean. ALL the contacts on your phone, becuz all 1400 emails on there. Then resync with mew settings. That's should work.
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I couldn't seen to find anything called 'groups' in my contacts settings
Can someone show me how to only display contacts with numbers? It was really easy to do it on the M7 that I came from, but I don't see the option on the opo. I tried looking at all the menus on the phone and tried searching on the forums but could not find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.
quiet_kisho said:
Can someone show me how to only display contacts with numbers? It was really easy to do it on the M7 that I came from, but I don't see the option on the opo. I tried looking at all the menus on the phone and tried searching on the forums but could not find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.
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Free up! Cuz i'm looking for a solution aswell. I have like 400 contacts from gmail without a numbre. It's kinda messy
l3viz said:
Free up! Cuz i'm looking for a solution aswell. I have like 400 contacts from gmail without a numbre. It's kinda messy
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For now, what i do is select edit for a contact with a phone number. Scroll down to the "group" field. Add a new field and name it "my phone", for example. Select that group for your contact.
Then go back out to your list of contacts, in settings select "Contacts to display", select customize, select the drop down menu from your gmail acc, then only check the group named "my phone" box. If you go back to your contacts list, you will see only that contact. Now, the tedious part is to go into all your contacts that has a number and putting them into that "my phone" group.
Dispaly only phone contacts in one plus one
Hi,
Go to contacts, then go to "Contacts on Display" then go to customize ..... click the drop down of gmail account where you can deselect the contacts .
with this you can only see phone contacts when you open the the contacts app.
Hope this helps you guys.
tulipdulip said:
Hi,
Go to contacts, then go to "Contacts on Display" then go to customize ..... click the drop down of gmail account where you can deselect the contacts .
with this you can only see phone contacts when you open the the contacts app.
Hope this helps you guys.
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It kinda did. But for some reason I need some of those contacts. It is weird that Android doesn't have a natural way of joining same contacts together. I used an App for it once, but that made a mess.