[Q] Hiding contacts from the dialer - Moto G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have contacts on my Google account that I will never, ever want to call, but I would like to keep as contacts in order to know that they are calling me (don't ask...)
Is there any way to hide contacts (or preferably a whole group) from the All Contacts list in the dialer? I have already removed them from the My Contacts group via web gmail(which worked on previous phones) and changed the settings for People to only show that group, but that didn't work.

djnw said:
I have contacts on my Google account that I will never, ever want to call, but I would like to keep as contacts in order to know that they are calling me (don't ask...)
Is there any way to hide contacts (or preferably a whole group) from the All Contacts list in the dialer? I have already removed them from the My Contacts group via web gmail(which worked on previous phones) and changed the settings for People to only show that group, but that didn't work.
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simply hide them by copying the contacts you need to phone and turning the visiblity of contact on sim unchecked...

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contacts won't stay in group[s]

hey all~
so i know i'm still a newbie, and hope i'm just missing something here but i have an annoying problem with my contact list.
i'm on a non-rooted samsung captivate galaxy s. i have my contacts copied from my SIM card to my phone and i have contact sync turned OFF for my google account [i have tried with it turned on as well and have the same issue]
no matter what method i use to add a contact to a group, 9 times out of 10 they disappear. [with the exception of the favorite group]
i have tried adding straight from the group management, from the contact card, when creating a contact, when creating a contact group.
initially the contact will show up in the group, but within an hour they disappear.
i have tried using different contact managers, megroups etc and always have the same issue....any ideas or fixes? [i have text msg's i need to send weekly to different groups and it would be much easier to have them actually sorted in groups lol]
thanks
~j

Question on stock messaging app

I am currently using handcent, which I primarily will use, but had a question.
When I was using the stock messaging app, and I composed a message and was going to choose a contact to write to, well it would bring up a whole entire list of like my google contacts and who I have written emails to and etc...
I have it set to only show contacts that are att contacts and also ones that have a telephone number, but all those contacts still show up.
Its the main reason I switched to handcent, but I didnt find anywhere to where it could only show my contacts with telephone numbers and only ones that are in my att contact list.
any ideas?
thanks

[Resolved] [Q] Addressbook/contacts with IM-icons and connectivity

Is there an all-in app which provides the following:
dialer
addressbook with all contacts
Contacts with phone numbers
Contacts with WLM/MSN
Contacts with Skype
Contacts with Google Talk
etc.
All contacts need to be merged so I have only 1 entry per person in the list.
Next to the entry I can see the online-status for the different protocols.
After selecting a contact I can choose how to contact them.
I can see WLM/GTalk/Skype settings in the defauls contactlist, but don't see the status and can't use it to connect. Only GTalk does work.
Is there such app?
Contapps looks a lot like I wanted.

[Q] add avatar to google sms

Hello, frequently I recieved sms from certain companies (google calendar notifications, my home banking, my football club, etc) and these sms came already with name of the sender and they are not in my contact list.
How can I add an image to these contacts?!
I've manually add Google as an contact and put the Google's logo but the avatar doesn't appear in the hangouts.
dinistic said:
Hello, frequently I recieved sms from certain companies (google calendar notifications, my home banking, my football club, etc) and these sms came already with name of the sender and they are not in my contact list.
How can I add an image to these contacts?!
I've manually add Google as an contact and put the Google's logo but the avatar doesn't appear in the hangouts.
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the messages you are getting are different sms... not like others i guess... like we get for promotional ads... they automatically have name in them.. and you can't see there no so you can't save them... and i guess you just can't apply picture to them..
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The way I did it it, for example Google Calendar, added Google Calendar to contacts in gmail using +148368 as the mobile phone number and then changed the photo to one of a calendar (or whatever). Then I followed Google Calendar on G+, I also on the Google Calendar G+ page added that same number (+148368) not sure if you need to do the last step or even if you have to follow on G+ but there was a delay on it changing on hangout so I'm not quite sure if you have to follow. Sometime adding the +1 to the phone number is what works, and sometimes you just need to use the short code, for example US Bank uses a short code of 872265 and I didn't need to add the +1 for that. So for example Twitter, you need to use +140404 and if you already follow Twitter on G+ the avatar will also show up in gmail contacts. The whole think is convoluted but it finally is working for me except Google Voice sent sms.

[Q] Contact Display Picture not showing up in Hangouts

In hangouts, if the user is not part of G+ and is just a regular SMS contact, they get set with the default blue person icon. I have pictures set for those contacts, but everything I do will not show the set profile picture.
Is this the way hangouts is designed? It's annoying seeing the blue person (which I assume is set by google if they dont have a g+ profile). when I had set pictures for all my contacts.
Any work arounds?
JohnyR21 said:
In hangouts, if the user is not part of G+ and is just a regular SMS contact, they get set with the default blue person icon. I have pictures set for those contacts, but everything I do will not show the set profile picture.
Is this the way hangouts is designed? It's annoying seeing the blue person (which I assume is set by google if they dont have a g+ profile). when I had set pictures for all my contacts.
Any work arounds?
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merge google+ contacts with google contacts and pics should show up. It does work right because all of my pics show up
I derped: I disabled read contacts in googles play services privacy settings

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