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.
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I've decided to go "All Google" after having had two different Android phones and getting Gmail, but finding it horribly fustrating trying to follow Googles way of doing things.
1. All my phone contacts are stored on the phone, not as Google Contacts.
- In the "People" view on my Legend I only show "Phone" contacts.
- There is no way to move phone contacts to Google Contacts
2. I exported all phone contacts to a file and imported these into Google/Gmail contacts
- Viewing both Phone contacts and Google Contacts doubles up a lot of my contacts.
- A solution is linking these, but this only helps with the view on the phone, not the whole Google contact eco-system
- All info stored on the Phone contact, doesn't get imported into Google Contacts.
- All contacts imported are stored in "My Contacts"
- I only sync "My Contacts" with my Android phone, as the others contain people I will never ever call (example: Ebay seller)
- Now choosing only to show Google Contacts on my Legend looses picture information I have stored on my Phone Contact
3. I also use Picasa (and this is where it gets tricky)
- I have created People in Picasa and tagged thousands of pictures.
- I now have "Person A" created in Picasa and I have "Person A" in Gmail Contacts and on my Adroid phone.
- When logged into Web Albums, I select "Sync with contacts....." on "Person A" in Picasa.
- I then get "Person A" in "My Contacts" and two "Person A" in my "All Contacts".
- When I merge these two contacts, it removes it from "My contacts" and keeps one in "All contacts".
- This means "Person A" is removed from my Android phone since this is the folder I sync with it.
I think this is a mess..............it's holy fustrating!
Basically, I'm inquiring how you people use or have set up your Contacts and whats the best way to get a unison Contacts information?
I ran to a similar problem when I switch to a Google phone. I had to export my phone contacts, upload them to Google contacts and then one by one sort and organized them. It took me a week but once done its nice I can switch from one Android to another and my contacts will be safe.
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What i think its contact is messy is it shows only one big group- Google contact
I sort them well in the Google contact but i can't see any groups in my phone
I have so many groups of people it is so hard to find them...
I deleted all contacts from my phone. Imported them in Google and manage them in Google.
For extra keepsake, every once in a while, I backup all my contacts to a vCard file that I keep on my PC and in my email.
Hi,
I love trying out all the different ROM's for my desire S, but I am getting slightly frustrated with having to re-link all of my contacts after flashing to a new ROM!
Is there a way I can backup linked cantacts so when I again register my ActiveSync, Facebook, Gmail and phone accounts and contacts they are linked together nicely again!
Many Thanks
Campbs
campbs said:
Hi,
I love trying out all the different ROM's for my desire S, but I am getting slightly frustrated with having to re-link all of my contacts after flashing to a new ROM!
Is there a way I can backup linked cantacts so when I again register my ActiveSync, Facebook, Gmail and phone accounts and contacts they are linked together nicely again!
Many Thanks
Campbs
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Where is you're primary contact source, for example, mine is google contacts and I find that the contacts linkage data is stored within the google contact info field within <HTCData><Facebook>id:999999999/friendof:8888888</Facebook></HTCData>. This then means whenever I then add additional accounts, eg FB etc only the contacts links that I've said NO to in the past are re-prompted for? as the linkage data in the google.contact.info field is automatically applied
So possible add the Google Account and get google contacts first when setting up your device. Does that make sense?
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Where is you're primary contact source, for example, mine is google contacts and I find that the contacts linkage data is stored within the google contact info field within <HTCData><Facebook>id:999999999/friendof:8888888</Facebook></HTCData>. This then means whenever I then add additional accounts, eg FB etc only the contacts links that I've said NO to in the past are re-prompted for? as the linkage data in the google.contact.info field is automatically applied
So possible add the Google Account and get google contacts first when setting up your device. Does that make sense?
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how do I know which one is the primary?
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how do I know which one is the primary?
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Sorry I made that term up, what I meant is which source do you keep the most contacts in and keep up to date, Google contacts, Outlook or FB?
That source I called primary as it is ultimately where your contacts reside, the others are simply places that the same contacts are in...and can add value to your initial records....
I add my google account first so that I get all my real contact (my friends) and then only sync the other accounts to where I have an existing user, so that my contact list is not filled with 100's of unnecessary people, just my friends contact records have extra data added to them.
See this post related to contacts that might be of use
I have a weird problem - when I go to Messaging and select 'Contacts' to pick a recipient, I see duplicate, triplicate and even 4 contact selections for the same person, and even 'odd' contacts, like for email addresses. But when I go to APPS / CONTACTS, or if I go to Gmail/Contacts, I only see one (and none of the odd ones).
Does anyone know how to 1) clean up the SMS contact list or 2) only have it refer to the 'real' CONTACT list when selected or 3) how to merge them into one contact? I never know if I picked the correct one.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Frank
Michigan
UPDATE: I figured out that these contacts are stored in Gmail as "OTHER CONTACTS". Not sure how they got there but after deleting them while in Gmail on the PC and SYNCing my S3, they disappeared. Apparently they only appear in Messaging, not in the CONTACTS under APPS or when searching for contacts while making a phone call....
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UPDATE: I figured out that these contacts are stored in Gmail as "OTHER CONTACTS". Not sure how they got there but after deleting them while in Gmail on the PC and SYNCing my S3, they disappeared. Apparently they only appear in Messaging, not in the CONTACTS under APPS or when searching for contacts while making a phone call....
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A lot of times those are the other contact emails and stuff you never linked and now will have to find those addresses that you have deleted. This is what link contacts is for. You link them together and then save as one in google. Hopefully you merged them together in Gmail instead of deleting them.
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A lot of times those are the other contact emails and stuff you never linked and now will have to find those addresses that you have deleted. This is what link contacts is for. You link them together and then save as one in google. Hopefully you merged them together in Gmail instead of deleting them.
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I never saw any option to link them and in a lot of cases I already had the email address in the 'regular' CONTACT list. That is what was most confusing. If I selected that one, then they would not get the SMS. And a bunch of these were totally unwanted since they were only email addresses send to ???? (some started with sale, or customerservice, or....).
Bottom line, I no longer have crap in my 'Messaging Contact List' and don't have to worry if I selected the correct one (which, in the case of Messaging, would be the one with their mobile number).
Thanks for the reply, and Happy New Year.
Frank
Michigan
I'm trying to figure out how I can reliably merge all the duplicate contacts I have to a single contact on the phone. What I'm trying to achieve is to be able to have:
1) 1 Single contact per person (not "linked" or "joined" but one single contact)
2) combine replace the older pictures with newer ones
3) Pull Facebook ID for use with Contacts-sync (so I can get 720x720 contact pictures instead of whatever the facebook app pulls)
Example: If i have 4 Joe Smith contacts (1 on the phone, one from facebook [i know, it's not editable], one from google, and one from contacts sync), I want to be able merge them all so that there is only 1 Joe Smith contact that has all the information from all 4 contacts so I can unsync facebook and google out of it.
I want to be able to pull the facebook ID number for the contacts so it can resync the picture as needed as well as reduce the clutter that I have.
Why? Facebook's current concept in syncing "existing contacts" seem to be the same thing as sync ALL contacts. It downloads ALL my friends info from Facebook and puts it in there but hides it. I'd prefer to be able to just get info for those people who is on my phone contacts and no one else.
I also want less syncing happening on my phone. As of this posting, Facebook still downloads low res pictures and ignores its own sync rules.
Does anyone here have any suggestions as what I can do to merge the info I need so I can unlink Facebook and just have contacts-sync pull the photos instead?
Thanks!
P.S: for those who are using the XDA app and can't see my signature, this is on the Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 (International) phone.
Ok, this has been driving me nuts. I have my contacts set to use my "Phone" list which only has 13 contacts. When I go to make a new text message and add a contact, it shows every contact for both my google accounts. 99.9% of these are from gmail for people/companies I don't care about.
How do I get rid of all of these contacs so that the messaging app only searches my "Phone" contacts?
Thanks
On the stock ROM open your contacts and click Phonebook in the upper left corner and make sure Phone is the only checked source.
It is, but it still shows every contact for the two google accounts when I go to add a recipient for text messages.
I have it sorted out now. I just deleted every contact for both google accounts. I didn't unlink my "phone" contacts first though so those got deleted as well. Good thing I only had 13 contacts to manually re-enter.
Strange. Glad you got it sorted out.