I have 10 contacts that won't go away.
When I open each contact they don't have any information, phone number, email, etc.
When I export my contact list, all my contacts except these 10 contacts show up.
If I delete all my contacts they all go away except for these 10 contacts!
I have cleared data. I have cleared cache. I have force-stopped Contacts. I have uninstalled Contacts with adb powershell. I have reinstalled Contacts with adb powershell.
I cannot get these 10 empty, useless, uninformative contacts to go away.
Help?
If you have a Google account, log in thru a different device (e.g. desktop) and check if those 10 are in your Google contacts. Another possibility is they are due to your carrier. Can you get any clue(s) from looking at and researching their names?
SOLVED!!!
In the Samsung Contacts app I tapped on the hamburger menu and emptied the Trash. Presto! Stubborn contacts gone! It makes ABSOLUTELY no sense why, but the solution was so simple it was almost stupid.
Thanks @MrGoodtunes for the advice and for hitting me back on this issue. You didn't solve it but I appreciate you looking at it!
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I find that there are SIM Contacts, Phone Contacts, and Google Contacts.My plan is that my official contacts are Google Contacts.
Do I need to have a data connection to see them? I don't want to count on a data connection being always there.Not quite sure how to proceed on this.
I find that not all of my Google contacts are on the phone if I select "Google contacts" only for contacts. I don't see a 'Sync' opton either.
Any thoughts?
on my current android device all of my google contacts sync and stay on my device. Mine is set up differently as I only have one set of contacts, but you shouldnt need a data connection once they've all synced unless you make changes.
Thanks.
So what are the thoughts about the fact that I have (maybe only 1) contact/s that are in my Google contacts, but not on the phone.
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I clicked the search, and found the contact. But the contact is no in my list. Only contacts I have displaying are Google Contacts. Maybe one thing I might need to do to be sure I don't get it all confused, is delete them from SIM and phone. But not sure how to do that, and be sure I don't delete from Google Contacts.
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Well not having any luck. I tried adding another account (my wife's), but that won't work. Because there is no selection to synch calendar only. You must sync email. Don't want her email.
Looks like I need to hard reset the phone So, my next order of business is to figure out how to backup everything, so I don't have to do all the config again. Of course, what I don't know is if the restore will just bring the problem back, assumint the hard rest fixes my isse. I'll create a new post on backup topic.
Android/Sensation noob here.
Picked up my sensation two days ago. Under Settings/Accounts & Sync, I entered my information and synced by contacts, gmail, calendar, etc.
However, I noticed a problem with the sms not being identified, even though the sender was in my People. I thought maybe deleting the contact and resyncing would help. However, after I deleted it.... I can no longer get it back.
How do I redownload all the contacts? I've gone to the Accounts & Sync and tried syncing again, to no avail. Am I missing something? How do I get the People back?
Thanks!
EDIT - Nevermind. My Gmail/Google account was apparently very slow to update. It was showing all my contacts there. However, upon reloading the page today, I noticed that they are all *POOF* gone. So... back to square one.
If you deleted all of your gmail contacts you can still restore them. log in on your pc, go to contacts, & under more actions there should be a restore contacts option.
it's fairly new
A huge annoyance really.. whenever I go to compose a new SMS, I type in a letter and expect to just get suggestions from my contact list. But a ton of email contacts that I know longer even use show up.
Any way to clear all of that? I recently went into my gmail and deleted a TON of email contacts out of the account, so that is nice and clean now.. except, I still see the ones I deleted showing up on my phone auto suggestions.
I've force stopped both the gmail app and the stock email app, cleared settings and cache. I double checked and still see all of the emails still being auto suggested.
I've also force stopped, cleared cache and removed facebook.
Help
Hello everyone,
Here is something weird to me. Got this ZTE Axon 7 mini just the other day. It was running Android 6, so I tried to sync all my 360 google contacts, and each time it only syncs up to 250 contacts. I removed the google account, tried again a few times but still the same issue. I have tried a different contacts application, bu it didn't help.
So I did the update to Android 7, and same issue, it would only sync up to 250 contacts. Please help.
Forgot to mention, the contacts are clearly labeled as belonging to that gmail address. Also, inside the phone I can create more contacts that would belong to the google account. Seems to be a sync issue. I also tried turning sync off and on a few times and there is no error showing for the contacts sync option.
Other things I tried: disabled the contacts stock application and used a different one, erased cache, used a contacts sync fix application, nothing helped so far.
This one blew my mind: Exported all my contacts to vfc, they got imported to my google email on my phone, the phone ended up deleting some of my 360 contacts until I was down to 277. There are no contacts saved to the phone memory or sim card.
The other thing I am considering to try is to use a hammer...
Today after so many days finally i got miui 12.0.3 and i updated. Everything was good except when I thought to call my gf. Dafuq. The entire call log was filled with plain numbers instead of Names and that was really distressing. I checked the contacts, the numbers were there but the same would not be reflected in call logs. I tried every trick in the book but before clearing data of Phone (contacts and dialer) app I thought to take a backup of my contacts but when i went to settings and pressed export Dafuq again, the app showed that no memory card found. Now this is really strange because earlier it didnt ask for it. I tried using another f1 at home (unupdated) and it didn't have this problem. So now i started thinking out of the box. I downloaded mi contacts and dialer 12.2.2.1 from apkmirror and installed it. Now the sdcard error was gone but yet it didnt show my call logs. Now i exported all contacts to device. Cleared the data of Phone (contacts and dialer) app and then imported the backup. The importing took around 20 mins and then everything was back to normal. Hope this helps somebody.
Thank u
Simple and 1000000% working way(i talked to a MI executive for this)
1. If you have already cleared data and cannot see anything on the dialer app(just black screen) then restart your device. Then you would be able to see everything.
2. Then go to contacts and tap on 3 dots on top right and open settings.
3. Go to 'more' option and select Rebuild Index Data
Note- Rebuilding will take a lot of time depending on how much contacts you have. Mine took 15-20minutes for 2000 contacts soo have patience.
Done