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Cannot choose contacts for favorites

Alright so here's my problem. I have searched for contacts and for favorites and found nothing useful.
My contacts works first of all. I go to "all people" and all my contacts show up just fine.
The problem is when I try to add a favorite, I have no contacts to select from. Its like they disappeared or something. You smart people have any ideas why this is happening. All contacts are saved to my sim card. I am coming from a Samsung C417.
On that note would it be possible to have all my contacts show up instead of a favorites tab?

chicubs said:
Alright so here's my problem. I have searched for contacts and for favorites and found nothing useful.
My contacts works first of all. I go to "all people" and all my contacts show up just fine.
The problem is when I try to add a favorite, I have no contacts to select from. Its like they disappeared or something. You smart people have any ideas why this is happening. All contacts are saved to my sim card. I am coming from a Samsung C417.
On that note would it be possible to have all my contacts show up instead of a favorites tab?
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Have you tried copying your contacts off the sim and onto the phone first?

[Q] Removing Google System Groups??

So,
I've searched and read and have found no solution to this. I did a complete system wipe, and restore to factory defaults on my phone so that I could get some better syncing between my phone contacts and Google contacts.
I set my Infuse to save contacts to Google. I created a contact, and it put it in the default Google System Group(GSG) "My Contacts" No problem there, figured I'd just move the contact with the phone interface to the proper group.
Nope... not allowed. Problem 1.
So next I noticed 3 more GSG titled "Co Workers" "Family" "Friends" Thinking these were good starter groups I logged in to Contacts on PC, only to discover that these groups aren't even on the online Gmail Contacts interface anymore. So now I can't even move them that way. Problem 2.
So I create a new Contact Group in Gmail, "Family" (Non GSG), thinking it would sync it with the "GSG Family" group.... nope. Which leaves me now with 2 groups in phone called "GSG Family" and "Family." Problem 3.
How do I get these ghost GSG groups to go away? I've tried several different "fixes" that I've found but nothing has worked.

God this is annoying... I've even done this and no change.
Contacts>Menu>More>Display Options> Choose contacts to display>Google> have everything unchecked> Done.
Go into Groups, and low and behold NOTHING has changed, all these stupid default GSG are still showing up.

Buehler?.... Buehler?.... Buehler?

Every Samsung Infuse has these default groups when you enter your google account information.
How do we get these ghost groups to go away on our phone since they aren't actually in the GMAIL online interface anymore.

Had the same problem. I gave up. Then I forgot about it. Thanks for reminding me. LOl

bump, Surely someone has a fix for this.

I would be interested in this too.. sadly though there is no fix that I have found ...

larue05 said:
So,
I've searched and read and have found no solution to this. I did a complete system wipe, and restore to factory defaults on my phone so that I could get some better syncing between my phone contacts and Google contacts.
I set my Infuse to save contacts to Google. I created a contact, and it put it in the default Google System Group(GSG) "My Contacts" No problem there, figured I'd just move the contact with the phone interface to the proper group.
Nope... not allowed. Problem 1.
So next I noticed 3 more GSG titled "Co Workers" "Family" "Friends" Thinking these were good starter groups I logged in to Contacts on PC, only to discover that these groups aren't even on the online Gmail Contacts interface anymore. So now I can't even move them that way. Problem 2.
So I create a new Contact Group in Gmail, "Family" (Non GSG), thinking it would sync it with the "GSG Family" group.... nope. Which leaves me now with 2 groups in phone called "GSG Family" and "Family." Problem 3.
How do I get these ghost GSG groups to go away? I've tried several different "fixes" that I've found but nothing has worked.
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I found a solution .. on your PC open these groups using links
_https://mail.google.com/mail/#contacts/group/d/Friends
_https://mail.google.com/mail/#contacts/group/e/Family
_https://mail.google.com/mail/#contacts/group/f/Coworkers
and then you can add an contact there .. When is any contact is once inserted group is visible on each places.

thank U sir
tony026 said:
I found a solution .. on your PC open these groups using links
_https://mail.google.com/mail/#contacts/group/d/Friends
_https://mail.google.com/mail/#contacts/group/e/Family
_https://mail.google.com/mail/#contacts/group/f/Coworkers
and then you can add an contact there .. When is any contact is once inserted group is visible on each places.
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Salute U sir

[Q] Assitance with contact issue

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

Contacts issue

My contacts are in such a mess! I have them synced from google as well as the odd few from Exchange.
Google stopped syncing my contacts so I deleted the data from contacts storage which fixed that but now they are all merged or not existing.
I have removed google account and exchange but there are still contacts showing. I think these have been created internally from whatsapp which is annoying. Is there a way to delete all of these in bulk?
Or any other solutions to fix this?

First write correctly the title, seriously how people will know what is it about...
Then you have to solutions:
1st: sync all accounts you have then go to contacts > contacts to show > custom > select the one you want.
2nd: (this is what i do usually)
export all contacts on the phone
Backup the export
Delete all google contacts, everything on phone etc
Import them back in google contacts (https://www.google.com/contacts/)
search for duplicate in google contacts
rename them correctly
do the same with Exchange
Sync
clean the mess
delete useless contacts (like the pizza you ordered 4 years ago)
set up groups (like "i never phone them but i keep them in memory", "work", "favorite"
and then do the first solution to select the categories you want to show
The first 4 points are optionnal and if you do them PLEASE take care and be sure you have a BACKUP if you mess up everything
This will get your contacts clean and they will merge with all the differents accounts (like exchange+google+google plus+whatsapp etc)

Nikueltrasgu said:
First write correctly the title, seriously how people will know what is it about...
Then you have to solutions:
1st: sync all accounts you have then go to contacts > contacts to show > custom > select the one you want.
2nd: (this is what i do usually)
export all contacts on the phone
Backup the export
Delete all google contacts, everything on phone etc
Import them back in google contacts (https://www.google.com/contacts/)
search for duplicate in google contacts
rename them correctly
do the same with Exchange
Sync
clean the mess
delete useless contacts (like the pizza you ordered 4 years ago)
set up groups (like "i never phone them but i keep them in memory", "work", "favorite"
and then do the first solution to select the categories you want to show
The first 4 points are optionnal and if you do them PLEASE take care and be sure you have a BACKUP if you mess up everything
This will get your contacts clean and they will merge with all the differents accounts (like exchange+google+google plus+whatsapp etc)
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Thanks - that makes sense. The dialler still shows 2 contacts even though in people and google website it shows 1!
As for the title I've no idea what happened! I must have typed in a special character or something that removed my title! Apologies!

[Q] Att Edge makes duplicate contacts when synced with Google contacts

Help, my att Note Edge creates multiple duplicate contacts when it syncs with my Google Contact account (my phone's contacts list shows 2,500 contacts
where as my google contacts shows only 280 contacts - which is the correct number of contacts). Also I get a notification message saying that Sync was
unsuccessful because "Too many Contacts deleted. There are 1019 deleted items for Contacts, account ....... @gmail.com. What do you want to do?" Do any
of you have a fix for this problem? thanks

I only know how to manually link them. Open one and look for the chain link you're icon, it will suggest similar name's you check them and click done and they're then all grouped. Kind of a pain you have to do each one but it's effective for multiple contracts.