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SMS messaging displaying duplicate contacts

Hi there,
I'm having a small problem when I come to type text messages. When I add recipient, I have 2 entries for all my names; one sim and one contacts. I had a similar problem in my 'people' folder but there was a menu option to display sim only contacts. However there doesn't appear to be a similar option in the messaging menu. Does anyone know how I can overcome this so I only have one number displayed for each of my contacts?
Thanks in advance

I have the same problem and would like to know if anyone has a fix for this. Most annoying and has led me to delete all my contacts from my SIM card, which is not ideal as I like it as a backup...

Yes I was thinking of deleting all mine from sim card too but as you say, not an ideal solution if phone then ends up having a major crash!

BsB Tweaks and disable "show sim contacts"??

thanks ill give that a try. I'm quite new to all this as you can probably tell

hmmm..... I've installed the bsb tweaks (very useful program), and turned off the option for show sim contacts, but I still have the duplicate entries in messaging. any more ideas?

anyone have any other ideas regarding this issue? the option in bsb tweaks does not appear to make any difference.
thanks

does anyone know why I am still having this issue? I've installed latest version of BsB tweaks but I still get my sim contacts displayed when txting

Did you by any chance do a ROM upgrade and restored data from a back up software?
On the duplicate contacts, do you see a blank face and a sim card or two blank faces?

no not performed any ROM updates, just running the O2 rom (1.43)
when I go to add recipient after typing a txt, there is both the blank face and the sim card symbol for each contact

soft reset?

I had this problem, deleted all contacts from the device and just used SIM contacts. Works a charm. Use 'select all' and then delete...but make sure you are on the device list and not the SIM list, or you'll accidentally delete your SIM contacts (mind you, you could always copy them back if they're still on the device).

l3mm said:
no not performed any ROM updates, just running the O2 rom (1.43)
when I go to add recipient after typing a txt, there is both the blank face and the sim card symbol for each contact
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What I did is, I copied all my sim contacts to phone, then I selected to hide Sim contacts. I don't get any duplicates.

erosennin said:
What I did is, I copied all my sim contacts to phone, then I selected to hide Sim contacts. I don't get any duplicates.
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That works in the contacts list but doesn't seem to in the text messaging app.

Anyone solve this yet?

Karlos G said:
Anyone solve this yet?
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Yes, look at post 12 in this thread. I had this problem but don't anymore after deleting all device contacts and just using SIM.

up. need help on this

Help. Hide Sim contacts for SMS

I tried searching for hours. When you go to write a new sms you click on the avatar icon in top right corner to choose your contacts for the sms. It shows both phone contacts and sim contacts. I just want to view phone contacts to choose from.
I have my phone set to view only contacts from phone. I even tried this registry edit HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone -> ShowSIM=0
I know that BSB tweaks has an option to hide sim but I suspect it doesnt hide sim contacts for sms also. I try and stay away from these tweaking programs as much as possible and do everything with registry or small cab mods.
Is there a way to hide these sim contacts for sms?

I make backup and deleted contacts from sim card.

i'm also facing this problem =.= many of my sms (conversation mode) shows the SIM sign instead of the picture/photo integrated wif my phone contact. And I want to keep my SIM contact as well in case of emergency so i cnt do what deserted did :/

Seems to be a simple issue that just doesnt have a solution other than deleting the contacts on the sim card.
BSB tweaks does not fix this issue either.

Anybody know how to do this? I just can't believe that deleting is the only solution.

SOS
I need the solution too, anybody?=??

try app: XDA SIMShowHide

anhphe076 said:
try app: XDA SIMShowHide
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Not work men, any idea???

I guess there is no solution for the HD2 except to delete.

Contacts -> Menu -> View -> Is for Contacts, but I have acctualy never had contacts on my SIM card, so I have no idea if it works for SMS...

Tunay said:
Contacts -> Menu -> View -> Is for Contacts, but I have acctualy never had contacts on my SIM card, so I have no idea if it works for SMS...
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No it doesnt work. Sim contacts are still shown.

Tunay said:
Contacts -> Menu -> View -> Is for Contacts, but I have acctualy never had contacts on my SIM card, so I have no idea if it works for SMS...
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Works for me.

Then you are the only one. Sim contacts are still shown on mine. For the contacts page it does work. But go to messages and the sim contacts are still showing there.

we most definietly need a small cab or tweak for this...
i mean.. compared to all the other amazing stuff you developers end up doing.. this should be a walk in the park..... do we have any takers... i also can't imagine it taking that long either...
before you say it...
if i was talented enough or knowledgable in that depoartment.. i would be making crazy cabs for this community left and right.. but unfortunately.. i can't.. my talents lie elsewhere... so please.. can someone just resolve this issue???

SMS saved to sim, can't delete?

for whatever reason, the first four text messages i received upon using my tmo HD2 for the first time were saved to the sim. i can delete them and not see them while my phone is on, but upon rebooting, they come back! how do i delete them? i've searched and can't find much of anything.
thanks!

I have the same problem. Can't find a fix anywere.

simeezee said:
I have the same problem. Can't find a fix anywere.
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i wonder why it stopped at four, though. after the fourth, all messages stopped being saved to the sim and it hasn't happened since. i haven't changed anything so i'm terribly confused!

So far, what I can suggest is for you guys to load the SIM card into any 3G/HSDPA modem client. This client will show the SMS contents in the SIM card. You can then delete them from this client.

what is 3G/HSDPA modem client?

bump this up, still need help!

anyone? anyone at all?

happened to me on AT&T when we went to DST a few months back. I don't even have a clue on how to save SMS with the HTC messaging client let alone how to delete it. After a few days the messages would disappear complete and all order has been restored.

lude219 said:
happened to me on AT&T when we went to DST a few months back. I don't even have a clue on how to save SMS with the HTC messaging client let alone how to delete it. After a few days the messages would disappear complete and all order has been restored.
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interesting, the few sms saved on my sim card still there. i gave up on it already lol.

simeezee said:
interesting, the few sms saved on my sim card still there. i gave up on it already lol.
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I'm having the same problem man..I even called t-mobile "htc hd2 experts", but all they did is the same thing as what everyone else on this topic is doing lol...

I have the same problem here :-(

I have a message saved on my sim card that I can't delete either. It's annoying. Anyone found a solution to this? Is there a way to browse the sim from the file explorer?

bump. also have this problem

I try to found a solution, but I just has been reading about delete them from a SIM Card USB reader :-(

you gotta transfer your sim card to a different phone and delete the msgs there. thats what i did and it worked. I used a sony ericcson k800 phone to do it. Im not sure if theres a certain phone to transfer to but im guessing a non HD2 phone? haha

retardo said:
you gotta transfer your sim card to a different phone and delete the msgs there. thats what i did and it worked. I used a sony ericcson k800 phone to do it. Im not sure if theres a certain phone to transfer to but im guessing a non HD2 phone? haha
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Finally I can delete the messages. I put my SIM Card in other phone (BlackBerry) and delete the SMS from there and put back the SIM Card on my HTC HD2 and the messages was deleted!

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Same problem here. I can 'get around' it by putting the SIM card into another phone, but that is unacceptable as a long-term workaround. Some messages are delivered straight to the SIM, and having to swap the card once a week or more is not making me happy with the device.
Is there a 3rd parry software package that allows one to delete sms messages from the SIM?

Disable SMS copy to SIM
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Can we work on a patch to disable SMS copy to SIM?
That way when its accidentally copied we don't have to pull out the SIM to delete it on another device.

hey everyone, I've been lurking for quite some time now. Finally have something noteworthy to share. I had the same problem with SMS saved to my SIM...just go to your SIM manager...copy your SIM contacts onto your device...then delete the contacts left on your SIM. I then used PIM backup to store my contacts onto my SD card...just in case my phone goes to sh!t.

Same problem. Reported it to Tmo
They dont know balls.
I tried everything. Put Sim in another phone tried deleting the message but wouldnt work.
Even ordered a new sim card. Lasted about two weeks before the phantom voicemail/129 text started popping up again.
Text from 129 its part of the HD2 on TMO, accept it.

Question related to sim contacts that all of a sudden disappeared

hi guys i need your help with my noob problem...
in some weird way my SGS isn't able to find my sim contacts even though they are there.. i can see all of them when i want to write an sms for example or when i punch in a phone number.. but the contact list is empty..
Ive tried to look in the settings to see if i aciddently unticked something.. but it seems that the phone/andriod doesnt have an option to switch between phone and sim card..IE im not able to point the phone to my sim contacts
This is my first android.. old htc diamond/nokia user
Anyone know how to solve this crazy problem
Thanks in advance
-TB-

Open up your contact list and press the menu button > display options > tick SIM. It should show your sim contacts now.

Hi
Thanks for the reply
but i dont have the option to choose SIM, just phone, facebook and Gmail
-TB-

Thats wierd. I don't know why that would be.

I also have this problem

hmm maybe its a bug

maybe its a euro rom problem? flash to new rom maybe?

Sorry to bump this.. But am i really the one with this issue?
-TB-

Mine let's me have that option. No problem wither showing or hiding contacts from SIM cards.

[Q] sim works but no contacts??!

Might be a very nooby question however i have searched and have found little threads on the topic.
Recently upgraded from win mob 6.5 to MDJ's CyanogenMod v.2.6 and have a bit of a problem.. when i try to access the contacts tab it says "you don't have any contacts to display" yet when i put my sim in my old c902 all my contacts come up, bearing in mind that 99% of my contacts were saved to sim.
I'm not too sure what has happend... my contacts don't seem to have been erased so how would i go about getting them back?? tried import etc... says no files are found.
help would be appreciated!!

brinks08 said:
Might be a very nooby question however i have searched and have found little threads on the topic.
Recently upgraded from win mob 6.5 to MDJ's CyanogenMod v.2.6 and have a bit of a problem.. when i try to access the contacts tab it says "you don't have any contacts to display" yet when i put my sim in my old c902 all my contacts come up, bearing in mind that 99% of my contacts were saved to sim.
I'm not too sure what has happend... my contacts don't seem to have been erased so how would i go about getting them back?? tried import etc... says no files are found.
help would be appreciated!!
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It not display contact in your simcard you have go to contact then press menu button then chose import/export => import from simcard to copy contacts from sim to phone memory. hope this info can help you.

mylove299 said:
It not display contact in your simcard you have go to contact then press menu button then chose import/export => import from simcard to copy contacts from sim to phone memory. hope this info can help you.
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thanks for your reply but i already tried importing from simcard however it says there are no contacts on my simcard

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brinks08 said:
Might be a very nooby question however i have searched and have found little threads on the topic.
Recently upgraded from win mob 6.5 to MDJ's CyanogenMod v.2.6 and have a bit of a problem.. when i try to access the contacts tab it says "you don't have any contacts to display" yet when i put my sim in my old c902 all my contacts come up, bearing in mind that 99% of my contacts were saved to sim.
I'm not too sure what has happend... my contacts don't seem to have been erased so how would i go about getting them back?? tried import etc... says no files are found.
help would be appreciated!!
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Hi
1 - Type in your dialer *#*#4636#*#*
2 - Go on Phone information
3 - Disable radio Signal
4 - Wait until it is completely disabled
5 - Enable it
6 - Wait until it completely enable
that's it

aL-op said:
Hi
1 - Type in your dialer *#*#4636#*#*
2 - Go on Phone information
3 - Disable radio Signal
4 - Wait until it is completely disabled
5 - Enable it
6 - Wait until it completely enable
that's it
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It worked!!! thanks for your help!