Hello,
I have two google accounts in my device (because I want to see 2 Gmail mails but only that) and when I serach for contact I see it from two accounts (it's written in two accounts) also how to set that the whatsapp will see only contacts from one account and from the second one?
Thank you
In Settings/Google choose the relevant account and you can turn on and off sync for any feature (calendar, contacts...). Don't know what will happen with the already synced contacts though, you may have to remove and re-add that second account.
I7210I said:
Hello,
I have two google accounts in my device (because I want to see 2 Gmail mails but only that) and when I serach for contact I see it from two accounts (it's written in two accounts) also how to set that the whatsapp will see only contacts from one account and from the second one?
Thank you
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At least in the "Contacts" app, clicking on the 3 lines at the top left seems to separate the contacts between "all accounts" and the various accounts you may have on the device.
I does not seem that there is the same capability in the Phone app -- so, if anything, you'd have to go through the Contacts app particularly to accomplish what you seek (if you go by this method).
Can't say anything on whatsapp as I've never used it...sorry...
Thank you both, yes that what I did, add the first account and sync it all, and than add the second one and not sync all, just the GMAIL, but the thing is that in whats app I see all the contacts and in the contacts app itself, when I search for someone, the result is from both of the accounts, but when I look only at the contacts app itself I see only from one account
I7210I said:
Thank you both, yes that what I did, add the first account and sync it all, and than add the second one and not sync all, just the GMAIL, but the thing is that in whats app I see all the contacts and in the contacts app itself, when I search for someone, the result is from both of the accounts, but when I look only at the contacts app itself I see only from one account
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mmmm if you are looking more for whatsapp specific condition/circumstance, it would probably serve you better to change the title of your thread to reflect that; vs. the generic "i want to see only one set of account contacts (in general)"....
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mmmm if you are looking more for whatsapp specific condition/circumstance, it would probably serve you better to change the title of your thread to reflect that; vs. the generic "i want to see only one set of account contacts (in general)"....
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It's whatsapp and the contacts app...both of them actually
I7210I said:
It's whatsapp and the contacts app...both of them actually
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Oh, okay...it was a bit hard to follow in your Post #4...
Well, at least it was figured out with the contacts app....
If anything, it would seem that it would be on the developers of WhatsApp to implement that protocol/feature. You may want to look into trying to contact them with a "feature request" or whatever similar/comparable they might have to such a thing...
and for the contacts app, there is solution for the search and to see only results from one account?
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OK, so the standard contacts manager on android sucks.
Is there a separate Contact manager app for android with ability to add/edit additional fields (birthdays,anniversary etc)? I also want those fields to sync normally with gmail and show up on the calendar (Contact's birthdays and events).
Sorry if this been asked before. I have searched but, couldn't finds what I'm looking for.
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OK, so the standard contacts manager on android sucks.
Is there a separate Contact manager app for android with ability to add/edit additional fields (birthdays,anniversary etc)? I also want those fields to sync normally with gmail and show up on the calendar (Contact's birthdays and events).
Sorry if this been asked before. I have searched but, couldn't finds what I'm looking for.
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What phone do you use? On my Captivate we have that function built into the TouchWiz Contacts app.
This would actually be a very nice addition for me as well. I have a Moto Droid and the standard Android Contacts manager does stink for not allowing you to edit these fields.
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What phone do you use? On my Captivate we have that function built into the TouchWiz Contacts app.
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Yeah, I don't have touchwiz and not very sure how it works there.
I'm very surprised that with so many apps out there nobody has done a simple app (I don't really know how simple is it) that can do contacts->calendar events sync with google. I would think all that needs to be done is ability to add 2 date fields to the contact record. Is there something (google/os?) blocking this?
What I simply want to do is enter a birthday and anniversary for the contact on the phone, and want those dates show up on that "Contacts' birthdays and events" calendar. Can do it using Gmail on PC (sadly only 1 anniversary shows up ), but phone contacts app has no such functionality. Been waiting for this thing forever.
Thought to up the topic and ask again before giving up.
There is really no android app with such functionality?
Well your phone gets all of that info from Facebook (if I'm understanding you correctly), and facebook is different then google contacts. It shows up the same on the phone, but you'll notice that on your google account, you don't have those contacts.
It's impossible, currently, to get your facebook information to gmail. They are feuding intensely about this. If you've got a yahoo or windows live account, you can import into windows live, then export to google using vcf files.
This will make all of your contacts GOOGLE contacts, and then they will be fully editable.
I personally am opting to wait a few months for this to happen on its own. Google and Facebook are battling right now, but they'll come to a truse and facebook will allow google to get contact information, rather then excluding them and letting other providers do it.
There a few facebook apps, however, that will get the names and birthdays to your google account. From there, you can edit them. But none of them will include email addresses.
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Well your phone gets all of that info from Facebook (if I'm understanding you correctly), and facebook is different then google contacts. It shows up the same on the phone, but you'll notice that on your google account, you don't have those contacts.
It's impossible, currently, to get your facebook information to gmail. They are feuding intensely about this. If you've got a yahoo or windows live account, you can import into windows live, then export to google using vcf files.
This will make all of your contacts GOOGLE contacts, and then they will be fully editable.
I personally am opting to wait a few months for this to happen on its own. Google and Facebook are battling right now, but they'll come to a truse and facebook will allow google to get contact information, rather then excluding them and letting other providers do it.
There a few facebook apps, however, that will get the names and birthdays to your google account. From there, you can edit them. But none of them will include email addresses.
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You didn't get me. I don't care about Facebook. All I want is an app that I can use to edit a contact to add a birthday or anniversary on a phone. Standard contact manager on the phone only allows me to add an extra field (like a note). I can put something like this "birthday: 01/01/2001" in that field, and it will sync this info with my google account. The problem is that somehow that custom note field is not formated correctly and that birthday date does not show up automatically in Google's "Contact's birthdays and anniversaries" calendar.
If I enter the birthday date through Gmail on my PC, then date does show up automatically in that calendar.
So what I want has nothing to do with facebook.
Droff said:
All I want is an app that I can use to edit a contact to add a birthday or anniversary on a phone.
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So try "Birthday Reminder GL". It works with gmail contacts in that way.
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So try "Birthday Reminder GL". It works with gmail contacts in that way.
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It does what I want in paid version, but it's a bit too much money for such simple function.
Couple of other apps that I have tried before got updated and now do offer what I need (and they are free).
I'm set! Thanks
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It does what I want in paid version, but it's a bit too much money for such simple function.
I think couple of other apps that I have tried before got updated and now do offer what I need (and they are free).
I'm set! Thanks
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Do you mind sharing what apps you're referring to? I'd like to have this functionality as well.
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Do you mind sharing what apps you're referring to? I'd like to have this functionality as well.
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There is a Birthday Manager app, EboBirthday and some other one (forgot the name). Both of those sync the dates with google contacts once you put it in the app. You can also do Anniversary. And those dates do show up in the google calendar "contacts birthdays and anniversaries". That's all that I needed.
This functionality really need to be in the OS itself.
I'm with the OP - This really needs to be part of the stock Google contacts and be editable from your device. We also need higher clarity contact pictures too!
I know WP7 is all about connecting people and stuff, but why is "formally known as contacts" now merged with "people"?
I have tons of contacts associated with my email address and scrolling through hundreds of contacts just to find my home number is ridiculous.
So my question is:
Is there a way to only display SIM contacts? Not facebook and email contacts..
EDIT.. I gave up, reseted my phone and made my primary email address my google (which i have no contacts on)
Then later added my windows live account..
Microsoft really needs to step their game up
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I know WP7 is all about connecting people and stuff, but why is "formally known as contacts" now merged with "people"?
I have tons of contacts associated with my email address and scrolling through hundreds of contacts just to find my home number is ridiculous.
So my question is:
Is there a way to only display SIM contacts? Not facebook and email contacts..
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Apparently SIM contacts can be imported but have no idea what about seeing them.
As for scrolling, you have Search button in People so no need to scroll.
You can also select by letter.
doministry said:
Apparently SIM contacts can be imported but have no idea what about seeing them.
As for scrolling, you have Search button in People so no need to scroll.
You can also select by letter.
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Yeah i know what you mean but in almost every letter category there are at least 20-39 contacts, since im using my business email for my phone...
I have imported my contacts and they are right in the mix in the overkill of contacts. Searching for them is meh, but if its the last resort i dont think Windows Phone 7 is for me. I just wanted the ability to slide straight to my contacts on the go without the hassle. Theres no reason my boss should be even there lol
If I understand correctly, you want only the contacts on your SIM to appear, but not contacts from your email accounts and facebook?
Not exactly sure how to show the SIM contacts, or if they show up by default. You could try going to Settings-->Email & Accounts, and clicking on the listed email accounts and unchecking "Contacts" under "Content to Sync". Also, going to Settings--> swype right to applications --> people, you can select to "Only add Facebook info to existing contacts" under "Include Facebook friends as contacts", assuming you haven't tried these steps already. That should prevent the contacts on your email account from being seen on your phone.
As for the SIM contacts, i would assume they show up once they are detected? Maybe someone else could verify, since I don't have any way of checking.
Yeah I know about those settings, I even removed my Facebook account from the phone. But with my windows live account under content to sync it only has "email" as an option. Nothing else.. I also heard that since its the primary email It does everything by default and cannot be removed without a factory reset.. Which i just cannot do :[
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Hi, Just got my charge today and synced up my contacts from my gmail (primary contacts list), facebook and twitter. But my contacts seem to be a mess. Many of them were automagically linked together but many others just show repeats of each other and when I link them manually, it seems as if I am loosing some information. Also, many of my google contacts show up multiple times with repeated info, when I link them it just ends up doubling up on everything. Moving from an old HTC windows mobile phone, I am stuck with these ridiculous notes in contacts that HTC used for its sync.
An example, My friend Becky has two contact entries, both from google (despite only one entry in my google contacts). One contains most of the info and the other just an email address, when I join them I loose the number and name and just end up with her email address as the contact. What gives? My question:
Is there a decent contact manager recommended that will join contacts as one contact (not multiple) and remove redundant information?
Is there any logic to joining contacts that will prevent me from loosing information like that or am I doing something wrong?
How do I add my google contacts "into my phone" so that I can use it to create groups and the such? I believe I can just export a contacts file and import it but I am afraid I would run into the same problem of multiple contacts with the same information in them.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
ok heres what i would do, remove all the accounts with contacts from the phone and then reboot. now add your google account back and check it. if every thing is good. move on with Facebook and such.. i dont let Facebook sync with my phone after what happened to me. anyways check it again.
this fixed my problem with google and hotmail, and other accounts. hopefully it will work for you.
Or you can open up contacts, hit menu and set the privcey filters..like don't show Facebook contacts etc
I dont think so
If you download the Facebook app from the market it gives you different options to sync. I sync only with exsiting contacts that are in my phonebook. That way I don't have a million people in my contacts list.
I followed your advice and got it the way I like. I had to sync twitter and facebook through the phone and manually combine contacts. At least now when I user the message app, I don't have four or five of the same people. Out was word when I first noticed the facebook and twitter apps both have an additional sync option. This is my first android smartphone too. Thanks for the advice.
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I flash a lot of ROMs and every time I lose a couple of contacts because they aren't synced to my account. Is there any way to change a setting so that every contact created on my HOX is a Google contact?
bigeee said:
I flash a lot of ROMs and every time I lose a couple of contacts because they aren't synced to my account. Is there any way to change a setting so that every contact created on my HOX is a Google contact?
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It should be as simple as when you flash your rom, and then when you add your Google account to your phone, simply say yes to syncing your Contacts along with any other settings you want to sync.
If you want to check to see if the rom you are currently running has that already set or not just go to Settings, Accounts and Sync, then select your Google account in the list.
I think the original question was misunderstood.
The original question is: How do you change the default New Contact creation from being a local Phone contact and instead make it so that the default is a Google contact.
I just looked and I had two contacts that were local Phone contacts which I missed when creating them to be a new Google contact.
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I'd like to know, also. I've had the same thing happen to me the last couple of times.
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I think the original question was misunderstood.
The original question is: How do you change the default New Contact creation from being a local Phone contact and instead make it so that the default is a Google contact.
I just looked and I had two contacts that were local Phone contacts which I missed when creating them to be a new Google contact.
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Good luck. I searched for a week for an answer to this question, and it doesn't exist. You just have to be vigilant and every once in a while inventory / audit your contacts to make sure they're set up correctly, and if not, do a one-way copy. I just always make sure my "phone" contacts is ZERO.
I had to go to manage contacts and then copy all new contacts to my Google account
Somehow the contacts are stored in separate accounts ae Google and phone
I just copied all phone contacts to the Google contacts
Hi guys I've tried doing a search and couldn't find anything so apologies in advance for my incompetence.
I'm new to the Android community and recently got my S3. I'm feeling very frustrated with the contacts syncing because the phone is syncing all of my contacts from gmail including the "other contacts" folder. However doing a basic search in google says that once you setup your android phone the contacts that sync are those in the "my contacts" folder. Is there any solution to this? There doesn't seem to be any place where I can restrict which contact folder from gmail it should be syncing with.
Thanks.
you would need to go to setting accounts and turn off contact sync.
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you would need to go to setting accounts and turn off contact sync.
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Hey thanks for the reply, but clicking on the google account and disabling sync contacts? If so this didn't work I still have 244 contacts that are not assigned, and they happen to be the ones that are from the my other contacs folder, also if i disable the contact sync would that also disable the contacts that I'm interested in backing up with google?
Thanks.
g2sai said:
Hey thanks for the reply, but clicking on the google account and disabling sync contacts? If so this didn't work I still have 244 contacts that are not assigned, and they happen to be the ones that are from the my other contacs folder, also if i disable the contact sync would that also disable the contacts that I'm interested in backing up with google?
Thanks.
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Oh sorry I misunderstood what you meant. You could go into system accounts hit menu key and sync now?
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fr8cture said:
Oh sorry I misunderstood what you meant. You could go into system accounts hit menu key and sync now?
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Yeah I think I'm not saying things right let me try this,
so gmail saves contacts automatically everytime you send an reply, fwd,etc.. and those contacts are saved in the Other contacts group, this group shouldn't sync itself to the android contacts from My Contacts group in gmail (at least from what I've read) however for some reason it keeps syncing and I end up with 244 unassigned contacts which basically are people whom I'm really not interested in having as a contact in the phone?
Thanks again.
g2sai said:
Yeah I think I'm not saying things right let me try this,
so gmail saves contacts automatically everytime you send an reply, fwd,etc.. and those contacts are saved in the Other contacts group, this group shouldn't sync itself to the android contacts from My Contacts group in gmail (at least from what I've read) however for some reason it keeps syncing and I end up with 244 unassigned contacts which basically are people whom I'm really not interested in having as a contact in the phone?
Thanks again.
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Hmmm i think the only way to fix this is to turn off contact syncing unless there is a option in the gmail app?
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Hmmm i think the only way to fix this is to turn off contact syncing unless there is a option in the gmail app?
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This wouldn't make sense, if I turn off contact syncing then I lose the ability to have google manage my contacts for backup purposes, there should be way to restrict what group in gmail the contacts are being synced from...hm...
g2sai said:
This wouldn't make sense, if I turn off contact syncing then I lose the ability to have google manage my contacts for backup purposes, there should be way to restrict what group in gmail the contacts are being synced from...hm...
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try going to groups in your contacts app and deleting un-necessary ones (try doing this with a group which has only 1-2 unimportant contact names - so that if it gets deleted from gmail contacts as well - you don't lose many, also always backup )
I got the fix for ya. Go to contacts hit the menu / contacts to display / customize list / then click on Ur gmail . U should c it then choose the groups u want to be synced ....
Hope that works for ya
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chiaroscuro7 said:
try going to groups in your contacts app and deleting un-necessary ones (try doing this with a group which has only 1-2 unimportant contact names - so that if it gets deleted from gmail contacts as well - you don't lose many, also always backup )
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this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
SMR-DINO313 said:
I got the fix for ya. Go to contacts hit the menu / contacts to display / customize list / then click on Ur gmail . U should c it then choose the groups u want to be synced ....
Hope that works for ya
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Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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It's the option b4 the last when u hit menu
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It's the option b4 the last when u hit menu
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Which ROM are you on? Stock? I am on synergy and I don't see that option.
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Which ROM are you on? Stock? I am on synergy and I don't see that option.
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I'm in stock ROM or wahtever it is I ahvent played around with anything just rooted and unlocked but nothing else.
@OP I don't see the" other contacts" displayed in my contacts app, though they are synced they can only be seen
when I start searching for a particular contact - not helpful in solving the issue - jus an observation
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Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
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g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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Derp--didn't see that there was a second page
mdt73 said:
Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
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nice.. scrolling down worked (oops , silly me).. thanks for that
--- as regards suggestion of cleaning house... thank you /s
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@OP I don't see the" other contacts" displayed in my contacts app, though they are synced they can only be seen
when I start searching for a particular contact - not helpful in solving the issue - jus an observation
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Yes you are right thanks.
mdt73 said:
Ok. First try scrolling down when you are looking for contacts to display. Second it sounds like you are lazy and don't want to manage your contacts very well. If they are not contacts you need why are you keeping them? I simply take a few min once in a while and clean house... Deleting contacts that were randomly saved.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks that's what I was looking for and thank you for noting my lazyness, I didn't know this was going to be an issue (since I'm a noob in all this),however there are contacs that I'm simply no interested to have in my phone, again thanks that solves the problem :cyclops:
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nice.. scrolling down worked (oops , silly me).. thanks for that
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g2sai said:
this wouldn't do anything, if i delete those contacts they get deleted from gmail as well...
Uhm, stupid question but I hit contacts and then hit on menu and the only options I have are Backup, delete, Import/export, merge with samsung account, merge with google, accounts, speed dial setting, and send email, don't have the contacts to display option...???
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I do understand you, I have many old and JIC contacts in my gmail that I don't want to delete, over 2700, but I only want 100 or 200 tops sync to my phone. If I play with the display settings when I enter the conects, only the contacts I want are displayed, but when I search for an specific contact, it searches over all the 2700 contacts and makes my Galaxy S3 verry slow, my old galaxy s2 as well,
If my memory does not fail, when I had the galaxy Ace with gingerbread, the contacts navigation and search was much faster because only the contacts in "My Contacts" where Sync into my phone, i am allmost positive of that. thanx for any responses.
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did not notice that there was a second page, i am new in the forum.
it is not lazy in my case, i have purged over 2000 contacts when i merged the information from my Facebook Contacts, Linked In, Yahoo, MSN, manualy merging some becuse the automerge process did not work for some cases (inverted names with diferent emails (old and new) or phone numbers, etc), but if i delete one and i review and old email, i won't know who was that from, oe maybe where i knew them from (have them in groups or notes) to organize a reunion :good:. anyway deleting information goes agains Gmal Policy (Never have to delete an email or contact again) LOL any help is welcome