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 ?
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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.
Sent from my HTC Evo 4g 2.2 (Rooted)
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.
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.
The contact list includes contacts from several accounts, such as Gmail, whatsapp, Skype,Telegram and LinkedIn.
Previous phones i used used to show only one contact which on expanding showed the other accounts its associated with
Anyone who can help.......
mtk_xda said:
The contact list includes contacts from several accounts, such as Gmail, whatsapp, Skype,Telegram and LinkedIn.
Previous phones i used used to show only one contact which on expanding showed the other accounts its associated with
Anyone who can help.......
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Check your contacts app settings
multiple/duplicate contact
I have checked and know all the settings ....... the thing is in earlier versions even though we select setting . contacts display to all we used to see only single entry in contact list expanding which showed all the accounts that particular contact existed in like in whatsapp,telegram,skype etc . and selecting the asociated account we could directly communicate through that medium
now we have join all the duplicate entries manually to be able to see the contact in a single entry showing the other accounts it exists in
Somebody..... help
mtk_xda said:
I have checked and know all the settings ....... the thing is in earlier versions even though we select setting . contacts display to all we used to see only single entry in contact list expanding which showed all the accounts that particular contact existed in like in whatsapp,telegram,skype etc . and selecting the asociated account we could directly communicate through that medium
now we have join all the duplicate entries manually to be able to see the contact in a single entry showing the other accounts it exists in
Somebody..... help
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Happened to me too.Theres this app called duplicate conatcts in play store. Just download and use it.:good:
No need of anything
The lenovo app is already installed on your device
Just open the app, select merge contacts and all your contacts will be merged in seconds
Regards milkyway3
Hi,
I use Nine app (9Folders) for my emails with Exchange. With Nine contact's syncing enabled (Nine settings/My account/Contacts/Contacts sync/Enable), I only see 1 contact (always the same) of my Nine contacts on my phone's native contacts app. The others don't show up.
I'm using Samsung Galaxy S7. In my phone's native contacts app, the settings are to show all my contacts (from all accounts). What do I need to do?
Thanks,
Blaccko
Verizon Galaxy s10e
One of the recent software updates changed how the Samsung contacts app displayed the alphabetical list index. It no longer has that narrow right side A-Z pop out.
I found one on google play, fittingly call "Contacts", but he link to it's website takes me to some sort of error page, which makes me a bit leery of it.
Can anyone recommend a reliable app that has this feature?
For issue #2, I use to be able to separate my phone contacts from my gmail contacts. Currently, I don't see a method to separate snd sync only my phone contacts, and ignore the extra several 100 gmail contacts.
thanks