Hi I have just gotten a Pixel for my daughter. I am used to using HTC's and love the HTC sense but I cant find my way around the Pixel. I am having a problem getting the google contacts to display on the phone. and it doesn't show the contact name in Whatsapp only the number even though the contact is saved in google.
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the Samsung contacts app can not use groups defined in google contacts.
Is there a way to replace the app with the standard android contacts app?
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Did you sync your contacts with Google online? I have the Samsung Captivate and I did that at first since I could not get phone to sync with my computer and was in a hurry. I found that if you do it through Google you can't do some things like ring tones and maybe Groups (not sure about the groups tho). If you did sync through Google I would make sure they are in your Outlook, wipe the contacts from the phone and then sync to Outlook. I hope this helps.
I never sync my phone with my computer as I don't use Outlook or other PIMs.
There Vibrant and Captivate forums (here and elsewhere) are full people in the that describe the same problem, I hope that Samsung will fix this ASAP...
Bump on this question.
What might happen if I flashed the Google Addon EPE54B from CyanogenMOD's site which is intended for the Droid though possibly would work on other phones?
http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/files/file/42-google-addon-epe54b/
I would love to be able to do this as I text message a group of people from work quite often. I have found that using handcent and clicking the "+" button in the send to field will allow me to pull up my "google groups".
Bump.
I'm running the SRE v1.3.1c ROM on my Captivate, and the only thing that's keeping me from loving this phone is how they managed to f up the contacts application.
Groupy has made things slightly more bearable, but I long for the stock Contacts that I gave up on my Nexus One.
try Contacts GroupU from the Market
Best alternative so far! Thanks for pointing me to that app. Not perfect, but pretty [email protected] good.
Is there a way to get the contact photos not to blurry? Every time I call someone or receive a call the photo is really blurry or grainy.
I have tried the method where you go into your people, and change the photo of your contacts to an actual picture of them that you have on your phone. But it never works. The photos always change back to the photo they have on Facebook and it looks horrible.
Crap!!! work area of the forums can you please move this to General.. I thought I was in that area when I posted the reply.
If you have a HTC Sense account on your phone you should sync your FB contacts through it. It will make the pictures much more clear. For some reason they look terrible when synced through the FB app.
This post really helped me however when I tried to sign up for Sense I couldn't get past the part that says I have logged in on my device. Any advice?
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milleirish said:
Is there a way to get the contact photos not to blurry? Every time I call someone or receive a call the photo is really blurry or grainy.
I have tried the method where you go into your people, and change the photo of your contacts to an actual picture of them that you have on your phone. But it never works. The photos always change back to the photo they have on Facebook and it looks horrible.
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I know that if you sync your phone contacts with Google, then Google automatically resizes the photos, thus making them blurry. What I do is make sure all my contacts reside on my phone. No Facebook, no Google, just phone, and my contact photos are crystal clear.
So maybe I shouldn't sync with fb. However I love having bdays and events on by calendar.
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This is an Android/Gmail bug. For some reason Google refuses to fix this even though there are several bug reports submitted on their support forums. Whenever syncing contacts using the Gmail service, your contact photos are resized to what is used by gtalk. I was never able to find a work around for this. I not syncing with Gmail contacts defeats the whole purpose. I've basically learned to live with it. It's pretty ridiculous how such an easy thing could be fixed though.
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This is an Android/Gmail bug. For some reason Google refuses to fix this even though there are several bug reports submitted on their support forums. Whenever syncing contacts using the Gmail service, your contact photos are resized to what is used by gtalk. I was never able to find a work around for this. I not syncing with Gmail contacts defeats the whole purpose. I've basically learned to live with it. It's pretty ridiculous how such an easy thing could be fixed though.
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I agree. If Google is smart, they would keep the actual size of the photo selected and allow each program to resize it as needed. Not on the contacts page. Especially since all of the newer phones now are HD devices.
Hi All,
I tried to find something similar but to the best of my searching abilities, nobody seems to be having the same issue.
I've been using an HTC One (a GNex before that) for the last few months. When I got it, like my other previous Android phones, at the initial setup it pulled down all of my contacts.
When I set up my N5, however, the contact list was the last one from my GNex! The hundreds of new contacts since then are not on the new phone. It's enough to make me want to just sell the phone instead of going through each contact individually.
On my HTC one in the People app it shows 494 contacts under my gmail address, and last sync was a few minutes ago. On the N5 I don't get the same screen, but I have a total of 123 people in the app, and it shows that it has synced with my gmail.
Does anyone know what's going on here, and how to get my contacts onto the N5?
Thanks!
You probably saved your new contacts on the htc on the phone not on google...
Change them to google or export them all and import into google.
ALSO, make sure you had the htc one set to sync contacts...settings..accounts...google...click on your email..
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You probably saved your new contacts on the htc on the phone not on google...
Change them to google or export them all and import into google.
ALSO, make sure you had the htc one set to sync contacts...settings..accounts...google...click on your email..
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My contacts are saved to Google. In my People app on the HTC, When I click to choose source, "Google (my email)" is selected, with 495 contacts.
As I said in the original post, everything is synced, and the last sync was a few minutes before the post.
I tried the export and import but all that did was double the number of contacts under my Google account (gmail address).
Is there anything else I can try?
I am currently using an iPhone 4 and the idiots at Apple have removed the option to export contacts to Google in their iTunes program... SO now I have installed a little app called Bump, that should help me transfer all my contacts to the new Nexus 5 when i get it. You can try it with your two phones if you like. Seems pretty simple, however i have never used it yet...
Here is a link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bumptech.bumpga&hl=en
well if what you said is true, you should be in the htc one forum, not the nexus 5. Apparently your htc is what messed up.
I really have to go with user error here, its pretty basic stuff. I highly doubt your htc one failed to sync contacts even though it was set to sync google contacts...if so..you are the "one."
I know that sounds rude, but, really.....its basic stuff here.
GOOGLE how to backup contacts and restore them on an android phone, unless you want your hand held here.
Hey whatever happened to the OP's problem ? Did he/she fix it ? I have recently transferred all my contact from my iPhone to my new N5 with absolutely no problems with this app. I can confirm it works like a charm and totally recommend it. It takes less then 10 seconds to complete everything. The actual transfer took like 1 second !!!
I have a similar issue.
I too am coming from an HTC One, but I don't think that's the problem in my case. I've logged into my Nexus 5 using my Google credentials, but none of my Google contacts are appearing. I checked my contacts list in Gmail from my laptop to be sure, and all my contacts are there. I went back to my Nexus 5 and manually synced contacts in the settings, but nothing changed; my contacts are still not showing up.
I would love to know if anyone has found a resolution to this issue.
Have you made sure that "Auto-sync app data" is checked off,
"All contacts" is selected in Contacts to display,
and "Contacts" is checked off in your Gmail sync account.
Are you using a corporate Google account? You may need to ask your administrator for help.
Did you log into http://contacts.google.com and see if they are shown there? If so they must also be in My Contacts which the HTC might not be setting. Also on your phone, check settings and then check if they are in another folder just not being displayed.
Hey Guys,
First time on a Samsung device and I was wondering if there is a way to only load your Google contacts in the Samsung contact app?
I know I can just display my Google contacts, but when I hook up my phone to my car and the contacts are transferred over, everything from people's emails to old contacts I have are transferred over to my vehicles address book. It is kind of annoying. This does not happen when I use a Moto or Nexus device.
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Hey Guys,
First time on a Samsung device and I was wondering if there is a way to only load your Google contacts in the Samsung contact app?
I know I can just display my Google contacts, but when I hook up my phone to my car and the contacts are transferred over, everything from people's emails to old contacts I have are transferred over to my vehicles address book. It is kind of annoying. This does not happen when I use a Moto or Nexus device.
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I'm getting a similar issue, first Samsung for me too. The stock Contacts App seems to be buggy and pretty terrible. I synced contacts from Google, FB, etc and even after selecting Customized List and only choosing Google i STILL get all of my Facebook contacts displaying. Really irritating. Never had this happen with other phones
Hi All,
Just migrated from iPhone to OnePlus 7 Pro, and am enjoying my return to Android very much.
However, I'm really puzzled by how the inbuilt contacts app is working.
I've always kept my contacts synced with my Google account, so when I moved across I simply added my Google account and there were all my contacts.
So far, so simple. My expectation was that the Contacts app on the phone would simply display my Google contacts and that any edits would be reflected in the Google account.
I've recently tried to edit a contact, and I find that it's not so simple. For the particular contact, I appear to have 3 linked contacts. One from Google, one from WhatsApp and one from the phone itself.
To make matters worse, there appear to be more phone contacts than there are contacts in the Google account. How the hell did that happen? I've not added any new contacts, or told the phone to maintain any contacts locally.
I've now told the Contacts app to only show contacts that are in the Google account, and to use the Google account as the default for new contacts.
My questions are this:
1) Why does the phone appear to be maintaining a separate sets of contacts?
2) How do I know which field to edit in a contact. Attached screenshot shows show there are three identical sets of phone numbers. Which one is for the Google account?
3) Can I stop the phone from maintaining it's own local contacts database?
4) Can I make the phone only show the Google contacts when editing?
5) Can I get a view that shows which contacts are on the phone, but not in Google? I want to work out where the extra ones have come from.
Perhaps, I'm missing the point of how Android does this. If anyone could explain, that would be great.
Thanks,
Andy.