Hey guys,
Just got my mate 7 , amazing phone
I love the privacy feature where you can create a guest profile in which some apps are invisible, and where you can add private contacts.
But whenever I try to add a private contact it displays a message "no contacts".
Has anyone been able to do this?
Thanks guys
EDIT:SOLVED AFTER FACTORY RESET
Also not working for me very strange...
It works
Hi,
save the contact in phone memory, the contact will be listed.
nonetheless I tried it with a fake contact, not sure that it will fully work as intended.
solved
This issue has been solved after factory reset.
Hi,
Just got myself a mate 7, just need to reconfirm again that private contact will only works if the contact is in phone memory and not from other sources like gmail etc etc ?
Also, is there a way to create more than two guest mode ?
Thanks.
LEO
mkivtt said:
Hi,
Just got myself a mate 7, just need to reconfirm again that private contact will only works if the contact is in phone memory and not from other sources like gmail etc etc ?
Also, is there a way to create more than two guest mode ?
Thanks.
LEO
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Yep you just have to copy your contacts to the phone memory then hide your gmail contacts and voila
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I can't find the answer to this questions anywhere, so I thought the good old xda community could help.
I have two exchange accounts set up in my phone and no Gmail accounts. Before I was able to add contacts as "phone only, unsynced". Now that I have the exchange accounts whenever I want to add a contact I have to choose one of those two accounts but there is no option to save "phone-only".
Question: How can I add phone-only, unsynced contacts?
Thanks in advance for any insights!
Try turning off sync temporarily on both email account under Setting-->Accounts then add a contact and see if that gives you the unsync option back when adding contacts. Let me know how it goes
Sync is off in both accounts. I only receive email through push. Thanks for suggestion though! Any other ideas?
Any ideas on this? Appreciate any help!
Possible answer
Sorry for reviving such an old thread but I had this problem and while I was searching for a solution this came up so for the sake of completeness here is a possible answer.
There is an app that allows you to import appointments from iCal files now while that is not you issue to do this the app creates a dummy account on the phone that is unsynced and from my experience you are able to add contacts under that account.
So hopefully this works for you.
Also just to mention this app is not mine nor have I had any input into it.
The app page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905213
Solution
Hi, I'm looking into upgrading my Motorola Atrixand in the meantime decided to update android. Immediately following the update (to 2.3), I realized that my old SIM contacts were missing. However, I noticed the missing contacts, although deleted from my SIM were somewhere on my phone. Ex. in my text history, the names were still there. I could click on a contact and when in edit mode, it read: unsynced contacts from att address book. I found no solution on android forums, etc. So I logged in to att.com and performed a search. It lead me to instructions on how to migrate contacts from 1 phone to another. I know I'm only referring to the same phone, but I tried it anyway. It worked!!
All you need to do is go to contacts, menu, export to sd card (hopefully your phone supports external storage). Then import from sd card. All my contacts are back. I first tried to export to SIM card, but It didn't work (however, this is where I could visually see my missing contacts as it allows you to select - I have over 800 contacts so I dont have time to go through the list) - I'm guessing this issue occurred to people whose complete contact list would not fit on the SIM. Probably if your contact list did fit on the SIM you did not experience this issue. If it happened to you and you do not have external storage I guess you could still use the SIM option by selecting a few contacts at a time - if you maxxed out the SIM storage you would need to delete them from SIM before copying more.
Anyway, once you do this it adds all contacts to the Google address book so you're now good to switch phones and get them just by adding your Google acount.
Hope this helps some folks - I was feeling desperate without about 150 of my oldest contacts.
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
I dont know what i'm doing wrong but hoping someone can tell me. Whenever i save a contact I save it as a google contact. I store the number but if i flash a new rom I lose that contact I saved. I tried going into settings>accounts&sync and syncing all the accounts to see if it saved it but when I go on my pc and check my google contacts it doesnt appear. What am I doing wrong? Ive lost many numbers I needed....
Saving contacts
bx10r said:
I dont know what i'm doing wrong but hoping someone can tell me. Whenever i save a contact I save it as a google contact. I store the number but if i flash a new rom I lose that contact I saved. I tried going into settings>accounts&sync and syncing all the accounts to see if it saved it but when I go on my pc and check my google contacts it doesnt appear. What am I doing wrong? Ive lost many numbers I needed....
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I have the same problem and have solved it by backing up my contacts on both my phone and my google account and then restoring them after booting the new ROM. I also use the backup with the contact program and I use GO launcher as my "menu manager". I use the GO Backup tool as a third level of backup. Any other method from anyone else would be useful as it is bit of a messy solution. BUT it does stop me losing contacts. I have also used the Microsoft Outlook tool as yet another backup when I sync. Can't have too many backups when the gremlins are out get your contact list.
Anyone?
after hard reset to my phone i encountered a unique problem, my contacts are synced an visible in contact list, but they dont show up in incoming messages or call, i tried following solutions already,
1. re sync google,
2. change google account and imported contacts,
2. contacts to display changed to all contacts,
3. deleted facebook account
4. saved contacts as vcf and again uploaded them.
4. downloaded the csv file and then replaced all number with country code with normal numbers and again uploaded them on google
5. saved all contacts on phone memory.
6. downloaded different messaging and dialer and contact apps from play store.
incoming messages show my contact number along with country code but the contact name is not shown , same is the case with incoming calls
help needed. i am using android version 4.2.2 , and google as my contacts sync, facebook app is still deleted. looking fwd for advices please
blizzardwq said:
after hard reset to my phone i encountered a unique problem, my contacts are synced an visible in contact list, but they dont show up in incoming messages or call, i tried following solutions already,
1. re sync google,
2. change google account and imported contacts,
2. contacts to display changed to all contacts,
3. deleted facebook account
4. saved contacts as vcf and again uploaded them.
4. downloaded the csv file and then replaced all number with country code with normal numbers and again uploaded them on google
5. saved all contacts on phone memory.
6. downloaded different messaging and dialer and contact apps from play store.
incoming messages show my contact number along with country code but the contact name is not shown , same is the case with incoming calls
help needed. i am using android version 4.2.2 , and google as my contacts sync, facebook app is still deleted. looking fwd for advices please
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I read Few Forums to find answer for you
what i managed to extract is:
you might be on caller 4.2.2 on s4 -- SOLUTION= update android version
Error might be at your carrier. ever tried it on different phone? does it work fine? i read few people suffering on Verizion network
still not solved, how can it be a carrier problem it seems some problem wth contacts
pushkardua said:
I read Few Forums to find answer for you
what i managed to extract is:
you might be on caller 4.2.2 on s4 -- SOLUTION= update android version
Error might be at your carrier. ever tried it on different phone? does it work fine? i read few people suffering on Verizion network
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sir i tried it but no luck
Update ... BUT NOT TO ANDROID 4.4.2, just to Android 4.3.
Android 4.4.2 will cause more'n'more horrible bugs...
See this.
My Galaxy S6 will only boot to TWRP BUT it is locked up and unresponsive in TWRP. However, Windows still sees the internal drive on the phone. I can copy anything from the phone to the computer but I have no idea where the contacts are. Can I get my contacts off the phone from Windows like this somehow? Please be my new hero.
Thanks
I can't believe there not a way to do this.
You won't be able to pull anything that will help. It's all encrypted by default. If you don't have an encrypted device then you will have to pull the contacts db file.
They should be backed up to Google.
Tiribulus said:
My Galaxy S6 will only boot to TWRP BUT it is locked up and unresponsive in TWRP. However, Windows still sees the internal drive on the phone. I can copy anything from the phone to the computer but I have no idea where the contacts are. Can I get my contacts off the phone from Windows like this somehow? Please be my new hero.
Thanks
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Not sure if you have only saved your contacts locally on your handset however when you put in a new contact you have the option to save it to Google contact at your email address i believe new contacts are saved to your Google account as default so you should check if this is the case ,
You would have had to changed the setting to local save only for them not to be saved online / hope this help's
Hi7m3up said:
Not sure if you have only saved your contacts locally on your handset however when you put in a new contact you have the option to save it to Google contact at your email address i believe new contacts are saved to your Google account as default so you should check if this is the case ,
You would have had to changed the setting to local save only for them not to be saved online / hope this help's
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zelendel said:
You won't be able to pull anything that will help. It's all encrypted by default. If you don't have an encrypted device then you will have to pull the contacts db file.
They should be backed up to Google.
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Thanks guys. Does that mean that they should show up in gmail?
Tiribulus said:
Thanks guys. Does that mean that they should show up in gmail?
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Go to Google. Com and under contacts. Your contacts should all be there as long as you kept syncing on.
zelendel said:
Go to Google. Com and under contacts. Your contacts should all be there as long as you kept syncing on.
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There are 17 contacts there and I had like 400
Have you tried putting your sim to another phone to see if any contacts are saved on it ?
I know your sim only hold's around 100 contacts but it would be a little better than 17
( i know i am stating the obvious )