Contact Names Appearing Twice?!?!?! - Touch HD General

Good Morning Gents,
Synced up my Touch HD this morning and lol and behold, all my contacts started doubling up. Any one else experienced this issue? Or am I doing something really really stupid? This happened with my omnia too..
would really appreciate your help guys!
Sam

One from your SIM card and another from your device? Or both from the device?
Or both from SIM card, one is for mobile phone nuimber and another for say the home or office number?

samuelc said:
Good Morning Gents,
Synced up my Touch HD this morning and lol and behold, all my contacts started doubling up. Any one else experienced this issue? Or am I doing something really really stupid? This happened with my omnia too..
would really appreciate your help guys!
Sam
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You sholud use the SKtools to erradicate the doubles.

eaglesteve said:
One from your SIM card and another from your device? Or both from the device?
Or both from SIM card, one is for mobile phone nuimber and another for say the home or office number?
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Both from the same device.
I believe it is currently displaying the Outlook and MSN contacts.
Any way to make it ONLY show the Outlook contacts?

It's a known bug with activesync i know from old Hermes times. If you have this problem the fu..k will double the contacts each synchronizing.
Recommend new sync installation and new start-up synchro.

Yes, one list is from your Outlook contacts, and the other appears from your MSN list when you sync.
Go into the Windows Live sync options and de-select the Store WL Contacts.
I'm not sure if this will delete the doubledup contacts, but will prevent further download of MSN contacts in the future (so you might need to tidy up yoiur contacts list just once).

Cheers guys!
I will try it out tonight. Will let you know of any developments i have.!
Cheers!
Sam

Anyone know why both tick boxes are un-untickable for me?

If you delete your hotmail/live/msn ID in Windows Live options. When you recreate your ID the checkboxes shouldn't be greyed out. It seems to be a one time only choice.

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i have this, but i think its phone contacts, andcontacts saved to the sim card.
as i deleted all contacts in sim card and now only have one set of numbers.

wizzzard said:
If you delete your hotmail/live/msn ID in Windows Live options. When you recreate your ID the checkboxes shouldn't be greyed out. It seems to be a one time only choice.
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I have this problem too, however I can't seem to find the option to delete the my hotmail/live/msn ID. May i know how do I go about deleting them?

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Outlook Contacts Synchronization Problems

I have 368 contacts in Outlook and I use the ActiveSync to synchronize those contacts with Trinity.
Well, believe it or not only the 320 contacts are copied into my device, an some of them are missing elements (phone numbers, notes etc...).
Has anyone faced this problem before?
This should be the most straight forward process, but for some reason for me it is not!
Any help would be much appreciated as at the moment I can not use the device as my primary telephone...
Thank you!
...and I am answering to myself saying that,
any contact in Outlook 2003 with a Note is not copied to the PDA.
Additionally, any contact that has a number that is categorized as Primary is copied to the device but the telephone number is not!
Please, if there is a Thread with similar content, transfer this topic there as I think that it may be of interest of other people.
I suggest you send your findings to microsoft. It looks like a bug either in Outlook or WindowsMobile.
You are right!
But if I am the only one who notices it, then I am not sure if there is something wrong with the configuration of wither my PDA or my PC.
Although, in general, these problems should not appear...
If a device can be synchronized Outlook, it synchronizes! Period.
Well, if anyone is interested, the problem that I am describing, has to do with my PC. I connected the PDA with my work's PC and Laptop, and it could synchronize contacts with Notes.
I also downloaded and installed SP2 for Office 2003 in my Home PC, but still there was a problem with the synchronization.
At the moment I can not find the reason why the two machines can not cooperate for these kind of contacts.
Any ideas by anyone?
did you try outlook self repair? Did you try Office Update?
I also have a similar problem. But I did not go into details to find exactly why some contacts are syncd and other not. Also some contacts are occasionally duplicated.
saminegm said:
did you try outlook self repair? Did you try Office Update?
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I tried both of them.
I also tried to uninstall all Office apps, and reinstall them and still didn't work.
I am so desperate that I am starting to think a complete rebuild of my PC.
I checked anywhere I knew. Outlook Options, Forums, Microsoft, Google. I do not know how to fix this...
Any help from anyone?
yanastas said:
I tried both of them.
I also tried to uninstall all Office apps, and reinstall them and still didn't work.
I am so desperate that I am starting to think a complete rebuild of my PC.
I checked anywhere I knew. Outlook Options, Forums, Microsoft, Google. I do not know how to fix this...
Any help from anyone?
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Hmm... Do you have Outlook Categories in use? Do you use subfolders?
Do the "non-synced contacts" have special characters e.g. a street named "Löwenstr."?
It is a very strange problem you have.
I had the same problem....
The only thing that helped me was to install a newer version of activesync...
After the Upgrade to 4.5 all was OK...
hi
anybody knows how to set in contacts to see just the contacts from the phone not mixed with sim contats
thanks
You couldfind it in the forum if you search "hide Sim", I think. But anyway you edit the Registry:
Registry
HKCU
ControlPanel
Phone
ShowSim = 0
pe747 said:
You couldfind it in the forum if you search "hide Sim", I think. But anyway you edit the Registry:
Registry
HKCU
ControlPanel
Phone
ShowSim = 0
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thanks for the info
Ive had exactly the same problem on my Hermes and previous models with AS4.5.
Only resolve is to create a new contact without anything in the notes field. weird.

Exporting/Editing Contacs

Hello everyone,
is there a possibility to export all my contacs from my sim-card to my pc so i can edit them? Is there any program available for this?
4varic3 said:
is there a possibility to export all my contacs from my sim-card to my pc so i can edit them? Is there any program available for this?
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Outlook sync with your phone
zozz said:
Outlook sync with your phone
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As far as I know, that only syncs the phone contacts. I think you need third-party SIM manager software.
For example this. Do google search to find more programs. I've never dealt with this, and maybe there is some registry hack or setting on the HD that will allow it. Maybe someone else knows for sure.
EDIT: What you could do is transfer the sim contact to your phone. Then it will sync along with all the other contacts. To do that, just go to your contacts and tap on a sim contact to select it. Press Menu--Save Contact
You can edit information and when your done, it will create a copy and save it as a phone contact. The sim contact will still be there.
Through Dashwire which is a free online back up programme which does work with HTC HD you can sync the contacts onto a webpage, delete, edit do whatever you like with them and sync them back plus you have a permanent back up of them online - may be of some use?

How to bulk remove contacts?

Hey just got the phone today. Ive got my phone synced to the pc fine. Although i cant see how in outlook etc to manage my contacts. I knowi t copyed them over but i dont know how to choose what goes over.
But thats not the problem. The problem is taht i set up msn on it and i stupidly synced my contacts with the emails and now i have around 400 email adresses in my contact list that i want to remove and am unsure how. Ive been looking for the folder its self on the phone also with no luck, but i shall keep probing away.
Thanks, newby error i know
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the option in windows live to "store windows live contacts in your mobile phone cvontact list" is ticked and greyed out so im not sure what to do bout this.
8igdave said:
Hey just got the phone today. Ive got my phone synced to the pc fine. Although i cant see how in outlook etc to manage my contacts. I knowi t copyed them over but i dont know how to choose what goes over.
But thats not the problem. The problem is taht i set up msn on it and i stupidly synced my contacts with the emails and now i have around 400 email adresses in my contact list that i want to remove and am unsure how. Ive been looking for the folder its self on the phone also with no luck, but i shall keep probing away.
Thanks, newby error i know
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the option in windows live to "store windows live contacts in your mobile phone cvontact list" is ticked and greyed out so im not sure what to do bout this.
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this fine little tool might help you out
http://www.sugata.eu/products/pocketoutlook-eraser/
There's no way to select contacts for sync AFAIK, but you can create multiple contact lists in outlook, and only the primary one will be synced.
6Fg8 said:
this fine little tool might help you out
http://www.sugata.eu/products/pocketoutlook-eraser/
There's no way to select contacts for sync AFAIK, but you can create multiple contact lists in outlook, and only the primary one will be synced.
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Cheers mate! Did the job perfectly, erased all the emails and not the numbers
Now all i gota do is get orange to finaly activate my phone, sigh. Why cant things ever just work eh? Wait 24 hours for a text suposidly... never came lol.

Contacts appear last/first??

Im having a real issue with my contacts on my new hd2.
Outlook displays them perfectly but my hd2 for some reason lists them last/first which i find very annoying.
Anyone any ideas or solutions?
Cheers
knightrider66 said:
Im having a real issue with my contacts on my new hd2.
Outlook displays them perfectly but my hd2 for some reason lists them last/first which i find very annoying.
Anyone any ideas or solutions?
Cheers
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I found out hat the HTC interface sorts contacts using the outlook field DISPLAY AS, which bt default is LAST, FIRST.
I had to go thru all my contacts in outlook an dchange the DISPLAY AS field into FIRST LAST
knightrider66 said:
Im having a real issue with my contacts on my new hd2.
Outlook displays them perfectly but my hd2 for some reason lists them last/first which i find very annoying.
Anyone any ideas or solutions?
Cheers
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Try the attached file
hbahaie said:
Try the attached file
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Hi thanks for posting the cab, but for some reason its not working for me.
I've installed > restarted the phone > went into contacts, but still the same e.g. Lasr, First.
Please could give a brief explanation on how to get it to rearrange the contacts?
Many thanks.
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After you install the .cab file you have to go in to the program folder and start the app that was installed. But if you sync ur contacts with a google account they will go back to last,first name after each sync.
Thanks!
I didn't realise it installed an accessible application, I thought it was just a fix, doh! lol
Thanks again.

3 sim card questions

1. Has anyone noticed a really long delay when adding a contact to the sim card? Infact i think you have to soft reset for it to show!
2. How do you copy a contact made in the phone memory to the sim card?
3. Contacts can be selected in 'contacts' to show: all, sim or phone but in text messaging you don't have that option, all contacts are shown, is there a way round that?
Real basic stuff that seems to have been overlooked???
jonbaker76 said:
1. Has anyone noticed a really long delay when adding a contact to the sim card? Infact i think you have to soft reset for it to show!
2. How do you copy a contact made in the phone memory to the sim card?
3. Contacts can be selected in 'contacts' to show: all, sim or phone but in text messaging you don't have that option, all contacts are shown, is there a way round that?
Real basic stuff that seems to have been overlooked???
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lol... get with the times mate... using a SIM card to store your contacts is OOOOOLLLLLDD skool. Most people use some sort of synchronisation nowadays to store their PIM data. Especially if you have a windows mobile device.
In answer to your questions:
1. Not noticed this myself... i actually copied all of my contacts (190 odd in one hit) from phone contacts to SIM and it took about 3 seconds. They showed up immediately.
2. Open the contact under "all people"... click on menu->save contact to sim
3. Only way round that i can think of would be to maybe use groups? Create two groups... one called "SIM" and the other "PHONE"... assign contacts to each group accordingly. I do agree that you shouldnt have to do this though, which is why i have deleted my contacts from the SIM card again. (I was only testing the function out anyway)
Audio Oblivion said:
lol... get with the times mate... using a SIM card to store your contacts is OOOOOLLLLLDD skool. Most people use some sort of synchronisation nowadays to store their PIM data. Especially if you have a windows mobile device.
In answer to your questions:
1. Not noticed this myself... i actually copied all of my contacts (190 odd in one hit) from phone contacts to SIM and it took about 3 seconds. They showed up immediately.
2. Open the contact under "all people"... click on menu->save contact to sim
3. Only way round that i can think of would be to maybe use groups? Create two groups... one called "SIM" and the other "PHONE"... assign contacts to each group accordingly. I do agree that you shouldnt have to do this though, which is why i have deleted my contacts from the SIM card again. (I was only testing the function out anyway)
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LOL yeah, well, i tell you mate, coming from Nokia to this thing is like going into a time machine, this thing is light years ahead of what i've been used to (N95 & N96)
I know man, i should just back them up on my pc and delete them from the sim, but my pc is 8 years old and keeps switching itself off!! i think i'll wait until my new pc arrives soon hahah!
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oh, and thanks by the way, top man
jonbaker76 said:
LOL yeah, well, i tell you mate, coming from Nokia to this thing is like going into a time machine, this thing is light years ahead of what i've been used to (N95 & N96)
I know man, i should just back them up on my pc and delete them from the sim, but my pc is 8 years old and keeps switching itself off!! i think i'll wait until my new pc arrives soon hahah!
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You could try using the Microsoft My Phone app that comes pre-installed on the HD2... that will sync your contacts, texts, pictures etc with your online Live ID.
Audio Oblivion said:
You could try using the Microsoft My Phone app that comes pre-installed on the HD2... that will sync your contacts, texts, pictures etc with your online Live ID.
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Cheers, i'll give that a shot

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