Okay. I finally deleted all the people I don't talk to anymore from my contacts and SIM, and cleaned up by putting e-mail addresses in the contact info etc, and now want to sync that with my Gmail. Why doesn't these changes reflect on my Gmail account? I still have no contacts according to gmail, it just has an area that it has every e-mail address I have had an e-mail from or too.
The part that's frustrating is on my phone, when I go to compose a new text msg, and click contacts, I have to go through hundreds of useless e-mail addresses etc, still have 5 different names for some people that use multiple e-mail address and numbers, and a ton of "unknown" entries. I can't find a way to delete all of this other crap.
Has anybody successfully and cleanly synced all of their contacts?
Or is there a way to make it so when I hit the "contacts" button while composing a text msg, it only shows the phone numbers I have saved to the phone under contacts?
Theres too many areas called "contacts" that are completely unrelated to eachother. I wish google would wise up.
Thanks for any help!
When you make a new contact you get options to save to your phone, Google account, or sim card. You have to have them saved to Google or else they won't sync. I'd suggest opening Gmail on a computer and inputting them there.
So ALL of the work I did on the was a complete waste of time, and I have to go and indivudually put each and every name/number/email address into my Gmail contacts? Okay thats just retarded.
Next question, how do I get all of those "contacts" deleted from my phone. I really dont want to look at 500+ email address of companies/spam/notifications when I just want to look through my contacts to add to a text message.
GTIVRon said:
So ALL of the work I did on the was a complete waste of time, and I have to go and indivudually put each and every name/number/email address into my Gmail contacts? Okay thats just retarded.
Next question, how do I get all of those "contacts" deleted from my phone. I really dont want to look at 500+ email address of companies/spam/notifications when I just want to look through my contacts to add to a text message.
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In contacts, go into display options and check the box that says only contacts with phone numbers
Yea that helps when I go into contacts. My problem is that when you go into compose new text msg, then want to add a list of people and you click contacts, it lists the 500+ e-mail address I may have emailed out before, as well as up to 5 seperate entries for people with the same name, and doesn't show if it is for one of their e-mail addresses or one of their phone numbers.
This contacts sync thing is just outright stupid.
Solution I found for this do a factory wipe. Then when phone reboots add an exchange account. Use your google login info. Choose manual setup. Under server put m.google.com tell it to sync contacts. You must first make sure to configure google contacts to only sync groups you want. Do this within gmail on your computer. When you then add your google account uncheck sync contacts.
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GTIVRon said:
Yea that helps when I go into contacts. My problem is that when you go into compose new text msg, then want to add a list of people and you click contacts, it lists the 500+ e-mail address I may have emailed out before, as well as up to 5 seperate entries for people with the same name, and doesn't show if it is for one of their e-mail addresses or one of their phone numbers.
This contacts sync thing is just outright stupid.
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You don't have to delete anything! You can export your contacts on your phone to a vcf file.
contacts > import/export > export to sd card
Once you have the vcf file, you can e-mail it to your gmail account, then download the file to your pc. Next, import it to your gmail account. Let me know if that works.
GTIVRon said:
So ALL of the work I did on the was a complete waste of time, and I have to go and indivudually put each and every name/number/email address into my Gmail contacts? Okay thats just retarded.
Next question, how do I get all of those "contacts" deleted from my phone. I really dont want to look at 500+ email address of companies/spam/notifications when I just want to look through my contacts to add to a text message.
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go into your gmail contacts on a computer...create a new group called "My Contacts". copy all of the contacts to there that you actually want to see. within your phone contacts setting, set it to only sync that contacts group from gmail.
drwx said:
go into your gmail contacts on a computer...create a new group called "My Contacts". copy all of the contacts to there that you actually want to see. within your phone contacts setting, set it to only sync that contacts group from gmail.
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except Samsung left that option out of the SGS firmwares
gunnyman said:
except Samsung left that option out of the SGS firmwares
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on eclair, yes... on froyo, no.
the workaround in eclair is to set up a second gmail account, then use a service like soocial.com. in your real gmail account, set up the my contacts list. set up soocial to sync the "my contacts" list with the entire list on the 2nd account. then, on your android phone, don't sync contacts from the primary gmail.. only sync contacts from the 2nd gmail account.
I have a (probably) related problem. When I entered a new contact in 2.1 I was given the option to choose saving to phone, google, or sim card. Now that I have updated to the official Froyo version, I never get this option. It just saves to my phone. This is a serious problem. Is this just my phone or are others having this problem?
thanks.
I NEVER save to the sim card because it does not use the same format I use in Outlook and it will split a contact with more than 1 phone number into several contacts.
The AOSP Mms.apk has the option to hide non-mobile phone numbers and emails.
So i synced my MSN and facebook accounts and now i have 300 contacts in my people hub, but just only 70 that have phone numbers.
It's really annoying, and i dont like it, i just wanna see my SIM contacts, when i filtered the list, and uncheck Facebook and MSN, the SIM Contacts dont appear.
My old Nokia 1110, from ten years ago can put the SIM contacts without problem, how this amazing phone cant?
I dont wanna see my contacts filtered with social accounts...that's it's not useful for me. Really.
Can I sync only those with phone numbers?
vanstygma said:
So i synced my MSN and facebook accounts and now i have 300 contacts in my people hub, but just only 70 that have phone numbers.
It's really annoying, and i dont like it, i just wanna see my SIM contacts, when i filtered the list, and uncheck Facebook and MSN, the SIM Contacts dont appear.
My old Nokia 1110, from ten years ago can put the SIM contacts without problem, how this amazing phone cant?
I dont wanna see my contacts filtered with social accounts...that's it's not useful for me. Really.
Can I sync only those with phone numbers?
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When you open your people hub and pull up the bottom bar, there's "settings". After tapping it, the very first button on the top says "import SIM contacts". Doesn't that work for you? If the SIM contacts show up then, just link them to their appropriate MSN / Facebook / whatever accounts.
In my Google account I have a few email addresses as contacts, the problem is that when I joined my phone to my Google account I got those email addresses on my phone and I don't want them. Note that the the email addresses contacts are separate from my phone contacts, meaning they're different people.
So how can I still sync phone numbers but not email addresses?
Thanks.
I would recommend the My Phone Explorer if you want hust to sync contacts from one phone to another, it can also save the contacts on your pc. I am using this one and I am pretty happy with it. http://download.chip.eu/de/My-Phone-Explorer_1366395.html
trey77 said:
In my Google account I have a few email addresses as contacts, the problem is that when I joined my phone to my Google account I got those email addresses on my phone and I don't want them. Note that the the email addresses contacts are separate from my phone contacts, meaning they're different people.
So how can I still sync phone numbers but not email addresses?
Thanks.
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You don't have to delete them, do you? If not, try GO Contacts (look for it in Google Play) where you can connect similar contacts with option "Merge contacts" (with the same name, so you can connect emails with phone numbers). Or try just disabling some types of contacts in "Contacts Account" where you can tick what to show even an option "Show only contacts with phone numbers".
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Or try just disabling some types of contacts in "Contacts Account" where you can tick what to show even an option "Show only contacts with phone numbers".
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Thanks guys, I had forgotten about this option, it's perfect!
I am having an issue where for certain of my contacts their mobile number will not show up in the stock address book or text messaging apps.
I use Touchdown to synch with my corporate exchange.
Everything works fine and the contact shows a mobile number in Touchdown. And almost all of my other contacts also show all the correct info when accessed through the Contacts stock app (which can display all the touchdown contacts) and through the SMS app.
Bu for some reason for a very small number of my contacts, when I try to text them or when I open them through the Contacts app, I just cannot get the mobile number to appear.
Any ideas?
I bought Samsung Note II to replace my iPhone mobile. I synced all contacts to MS Outlook then to Android. I had 2 issues after doing that:
1- phone numbers that were under "iPhone" phone number field were change to "other" phone number field in MS Outlook. So when I synced them to my Android, this phone number "other" was not synced!
2- some contacts has more than 3 phone numbers. when I open them from the contacts, all numbers are shown, but when I open them in the phone dialer, only the first 3 phone numbers are shown!
By the way, if I add new number in the Android contact editor, it will be shown in the contacts and phone dialer even if it have more than 3 phone number!!
I really stocked in that I have lots of contacts in my phone