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[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] Backup linked contacts

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?

ben_pyett said:
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?

kyogoku said:
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

Contacts in MESSAGING not in 'Official' Contact list - how to clean up?

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....

FMinMI said:
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.

prdog1 said:
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

[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.

Contacts app missing features on S9/S9+ compared to older phones

On all my previous devices, from an Android 4 tablet to a Samsung Galaxy S6, the Contacts app had a neat feature that allowed you to choose which contacts to display (in Contacts, Phone, and make accessible to any other app with access to contacts list).
You could choose between:
all contacts
contacts from a specific account (choose from Phone, SIM, gmail account, etc)
custom list (checklist from multiple accounts and groups defined within each account)
S9/S9+ Contacts app simply shows you all contacts from all accounts, with no option to narrow down the selection.
In the Contacts app (only) you can have it display contacts from one account, or one group from an account.
However all apps that have access to contacts see and use all contacts from all accounts, regardless. That includes Phone app, ofcourse (the only option in Phone is to display all or contacts with phone nr. only).
I had great use of that feature because I had it use only contacts from specific groups.
Now I have a lot of clutter.
Samsung official response was: that feature was intentionally removed from Contacts app.
I couldn't find many viable alternatives on Play store, I tried a few, mostly bloatware, apparently. Also, Google Contacts, while still having some sort of filtering builtin, can't seem to integrate it properly.
I am looking for a way to regain that level of filtering what contacts to use, without rooting the phone (I got it from work and could get into a lot of trouble if I root it).
Thank you.

Its still there if this what you mean

mjrshark said:
Its still there if this what you mean
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No, that is not it.
That is only a display selection in Contacts app only. You can choose to display one account or one group, but no multiple selection of accounts/groups.
Furthermore, this has no effect on the contacts exported to all apps, including Phone. Phone will still show you the entire list of contacts, regardless of what you are looking at in Contacts app.

The following were taken from a Huawei P7 I still have, they illustrate what I also had in older and newer (at least S6):
Open contacts app (or via Phone->contacts).
Open menu
Choose "Contacts to display".
S9 contacts only allow you to limit displayed contacts to those with phone number.
What is missing is the selection of a single account and customize (bottom)
In this screen I selected one entire account (phone) and only one group from the gmail account:
Only these contacts will be visible (on Huawei P7, Samsung S6 and others) in Phone app, SMS app, etc.
Samsunt S9 shows all contacts from all accounts in Phone app, SMS app, etc.

So how to re add this option on new S9 10 ? someone found a solution ?