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[Q] Android's Giant Contact Mess - PLEASE HELP ME

So, this is my dilemma.
1. I have a SIM Card. It has contacts on it. Android automatically recognizes them.
2. I have my contacts saved to Google. Android also automatically recognizes them.
If I go to enter in a name to send a text, it brings a pull-down menu, with duplicates of everyone. One is for SIM, and one is for Google Contacts.
The Contact list IS slow with Google instead of it being saved directly to my phone. I want to save them directly to my phone. If I do so, the "send a text to" list triples, so each name appears three times.
The contact list, I can exclude everything but phone contacts. Is this something I can do in Messaging? Should I give up on Messaging and its many issues and move to Handcent and deal with its own issues?

I check before I go to bed and it is bumped off the main page?? Where are the people who can help at XDA anymore? It seems every topic I post gets pushed away

So... anyone?

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Merge Google contacts then uncheck Google backup. Then make sure there's only one of each,then save to ur phone.worked for me!
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Why don't you just go to your contacts page from Gmail on your PC, sort them all out how you want them and then let them automatically sync to your phone?

DirkGently1 said:
Why don't you just go to your contacts page from Gmail on your PC, sort them all out how you want them and then let them automatically sync to your phone?
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this is the easiest method!

Go into your contacts, for every contact that has a duplicate, do this:
1. Press Menu Button and select "Edit Contact"
2. When in the edit contact area, press the menu button again
3. Select "Join" and pick the associated duplicate contact.
This worked great for me with all my duplicate Facebook and Google contacts.
Hope that helps.

HTC chacha won't update contacts to gmail

Hello all.
Just bought a HTC Chacha.
I have transfered my contacts from my old phone to Chacha, but even though I have "Sync Contacts" enabled (Home->Settings->Data Sync->Google->Contacts) on the phone I don't see these contact details when I log into Gmail on my Win PC and click contacts???
I found the similar issue in this thread, and someone gave a explanation.
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-21983.html
iamrahuly
02-04-2011, 07:18 PM
Hi guys...
Actually the problem is with the HTC... when u sync ur contacts 2 ur fone it downloads the contacts 4m gmail but not sync and stores in ur phone... if u wanna do so u need to export all the contacts to ur SD card n import back to the gmail... this syncs all the contacts to gmail including facebook, twitter n flicr links if any... these contacts are stored as other contacts in gmail... so after this if u add a contact in gmail n u want them to show in ur fone that shud be added in the other folder only... my contacts in gmail does not synced to fone...
All this **** kinda thing is entirely due to htc sync... in vanilla android all the contacts are in sync all the time automagically...
Apologies if this is confusing, coz I'm typing this on my fone...
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Are there any way to fix it?
thanks

Go to people tap Menu>Import/ Export, and choose to export the contacts to the SD card.
Go to people again, tap Menu>Import/ Export, and choose to import the contacts from the SD card, when the phone prompts you which type of contact you want to import choose “Google”.
Then sync. Now you have the phone contacts on your GMail account.

Alex C. said:
Go to people tap Menu>Import/ Export, and choose to export the contacts to the SD card.
Go to people again, tap Menu>Import/ Export, and choose to import the contacts from the SD card, when the phone prompts you which type of contact you want to import choose “Google”.
Then sync. Now you have the phone contacts on your GMail account.
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Thank you Alex.
So it does an issue of Chacha, my galaxy does not have this problem.

droople said:
Thank you Alex.
So it does an issue of Chacha, my galaxy does not have this problem.
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Actually it's not an issue of ChaCha, all Android phones work the same. I can confirm Galaxy S does the same (at least on 2.1-update1) which was my previous phone. Maybe you have already performed this on your Galaxy and forgot about it
On every Android phone you need to perform the steps I said above (Export contacts to SD card, Import from SD card as GMail contacts, sync).

Alex C. said:
Actually it's not an issue of ChaCha, all Android phones work the same. I can confirm Galaxy S does the same (at least on 2.1-update1) which was my previous phone. Maybe you have already performed this on your Galaxy and forgot about it
On every Android phone you need to perform the steps I said above (Export contacts to SD card, Import from SD card as GMail contacts, sync).
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Thank you Alex, I remind that I didn't import contacts from my old phone to Galaxy S.
Another guy transfer from Galaxy S to Chacha

I never had to do this ever, Google contacts always sync'd fine scores all my phones...
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Yes, once you have them on the GMail server. But if you never had contacts there and only on your phone then you need to perform the steps above. (These steps are provided by Samsung and HTC).

Ah... Got you now, explains why! Thanks
Sent from my HTC ChaCha A810e using Tapatalk

SIM or Phone?
Thanks for the info above - I'm having the same problem. I am confused tho -
If I go in to 'People - All', this offers a relatively small list of contact names but if I go into 'People - Groups' then I can see all my labels from one of my gmail accounts which is a much larger number of contact names. Where is this 'People-All'? Is it on my SIM or the Phone or...?
ie if I want to export ONLY the contacts in 'People - All' onto my SD card, then do I need to choose to export from my 'Phone' or from my 'SIM'???
I am desperate to get this done as I want to print all these contacts off from my PC's gmail account. I'm going to be out of internet/Wifi contact for a while and I may need some of the telephone numbers urgently.
What I don't understand is how come all of the group labels I've created in 'People' now appear in my Gmail account but with only a few of the contacts.
If I've added contacts to People manually - have I added them to my SIM or my Phone or my SD...??
Thanks!!!

[Q] Database full! cannot save contact!

Please help!
I got this message when i create a contact in my phone Database full! cannot save contact.I have only 17 contact in my contacts list.Please help me if you know about it.Thank!.By the way My phone is Huawei c8810.

chanmyaechan said:
Please help!
I got this message when i create a contact in my phone Database full! cannot save contact.I have only 17 contact in my contacts list.Please help me if you know about it.Thank!.By the way My phone is Huawei c8810.
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Try clean your device with some apps like: 1 tap cleaner pro, SD Maid pro...in Play Store. It's solved your problem.

Database full, cannot save contacts.
Even I faced the same problem in Huawei Ascend Y200. Frequently it used to show memory full for messages and no new incoming messages.
Also the database full and Contacts cannot be saved when i had only 17 contacts in my phone memory. So browsed several sites and found a temporary solution. It goes like this :
Go to settings => Applications => manage applications => google playstore => uninstall updates.
I got a bit releived by this. You wont get full solution but a temporary relief.

Only display contacts with numbers

Can someone show me how to only display contacts with numbers? It was really easy to do it on the M7 that I came from, but I don't see the option on the opo. I tried looking at all the menus on the phone and tried searching on the forums but could not find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.

quiet_kisho said:
Can someone show me how to only display contacts with numbers? It was really easy to do it on the M7 that I came from, but I don't see the option on the opo. I tried looking at all the menus on the phone and tried searching on the forums but could not find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.
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Free up! Cuz i'm looking for a solution aswell. I have like 400 contacts from gmail without a numbre. It's kinda messy

l3viz said:
Free up! Cuz i'm looking for a solution aswell. I have like 400 contacts from gmail without a numbre. It's kinda messy
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For now, what i do is select edit for a contact with a phone number. Scroll down to the "group" field. Add a new field and name it "my phone", for example. Select that group for your contact.
Then go back out to your list of contacts, in settings select "Contacts to display", select customize, select the drop down menu from your gmail acc, then only check the group named "my phone" box. If you go back to your contacts list, you will see only that contact. Now, the tedious part is to go into all your contacts that has a number and putting them into that "my phone" group.

Dispaly only phone contacts in one plus one
Hi,
Go to contacts, then go to "Contacts on Display" then go to customize ..... click the drop down of gmail account where you can deselect the contacts .
with this you can only see phone contacts when you open the the contacts app.
Hope this helps you guys.

tulipdulip said:
Hi,
Go to contacts, then go to "Contacts on Display" then go to customize ..... click the drop down of gmail account where you can deselect the contacts .
with this you can only see phone contacts when you open the the contacts app.
Hope this helps you guys.
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It kinda did. But for some reason I need some of those contacts. It is weird that Android doesn't have a natural way of joining same contacts together. I used an App for it once, but that made a mess.

[Q] how to add private contacts

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