Hi is there an app where i can choose which contacts my phone displays.
Basically i want to hide certain contacts (about 30) and then have the option to show the hidden contacts when i choose.
Thanks
if you open contacts and go to 'filter' you'll see some settings. It's not ideal but in theory you can set the category of all of your contacts to business except for the ones you don't want to see...then filter to 'business' and the others will be excluded...
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When I categorize my Outlook contacts on my phone, either via business or some other category I have one problem.
I can filter by category, but after I close down "contacts" all the filtering goes away, because when I open up contacts again, ALL my contacts are shown. I just want one specific category to be shown as default.
Is there a solution to this?
I've started using Hero [T-Mobile G2 Touch] just today and I really liked it...apart from one thing. The contacts in Peoples app are a big mess. It has so many contacts from gmail, mail, facebook, and sim [basically everything it could get its hands on]. Same contact is appearing multiple times due to that. Though I didn't like it, and would only have preferred the contacts with phone nums to appear in it, but I guess that'll just be me. So for the first step I'd like to know if there's a way I'm able to hide the sim contacts from appearing in the list?
I wasn't able to find anything via google. I could only find ways to import contacts from sim, and copy a contact to sim, but not to hide it
I obviously won't like to delete all the contacts from my sim.
faisaliqbal said:
I've started using Hero [T-Mobile G2 Touch] just today and I really liked it...apart from one thing. The contacts in Peoples app are a big mess. It has so many contacts from gmail, mail, facebook, and sim [basically everything it could get its hands on]. Same contact is appearing multiple times due to that. Though I didn't like it, and would only have preferred the contacts with phone nums to appear in it, but I guess that'll just be me. So for the first step I'd like to know if there's a way I'm able to hide the sim contacts from appearing in the list?
I wasn't able to find anything via google. I could only find ways to import contacts from sim, and copy a contact to sim, but not to hide it
I obviously won't like to delete all the contacts from my sim.
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Hi faisaliqbal,
There is a way to filter the contacts so that you don't see all of the duplicates.
To do it, go to your contact list, select the 'Menu' button then choose the view option.
You'll see the list of contact sources i.e. google, exchange, phone, sim etc. Simply deselect the ones you don't want to see in your contacts list.
I use Exchange Activesync for my contacts so I've disabled google etc and no longer see any duplicates when viewing my contact list.
There is also an option to display contacts from say the phone, sim etc only if duplicates are found.
Hope this helps
In the People app, from the "All" screen, press "Menu" and select "View".
From there you can choose with sources you can see contacts from (Google, Phone, SIM), and you can even decide which source to use for duplicates.
In addition, if you don't want to see all the people you've ever had email correspondence with in Gmail, go to "Groups" and press "Menu" and select "Sync groups". You should deselect "Sync all contacts".
Regards,
Dave
EDIT: I'm not trying to duplicate what thecastleford kid said - when I started writing my response, he hadn't posted his!
thecastlefordkid said:
Hi faisaliqbal,
There is a way to filter the contacts so that you don't see all of the duplicates.
To do it, go to your contact list, select the 'Menu' button then choose the view option.
You'll see the list of contact sources i.e. google, exchange, phone, sim etc. Simply deselect the ones you don't want to see in your contacts list.
I use Exchange Activesync for my contacts so I've disabled google etc and no longer see any duplicates when viewing my contact list.
There is also an option to display contacts from say the phone, sim etc only if duplicates are found.
Hope this helps
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It works, thanks a lot
Is there anyway to prevent all the contacts with whom I've ever contacted from showing up as contacts that are synced?
hit the menu key and you should be able to pick the groups that are displayed.
The menu key shows I have 3 display options - phone, SIM, and Google.
In Gmail, I have 'My Contacts' (160 contacts) and All Contacts has 1300 contacts. All 1300 are being synced. How can I limit to the My Contacts that show up just as they should online within Gmail??
I even have smaller subgroups such as family and co-workers, which also do not show up on the phone. ??
Thanks...
Try the checkbox "Only display contacts with phones"
Otherwise the stock contacts app isn't very good at sorting.
exoplasm said:
Try the checkbox "Only display contacts with phones"
Otherwise the stock contacts app isn't very good at sorting.
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That DOES limit to those with only phones. However, the list still does not match up to the list of 'My Contacts' in Gmail.
Hell, even the iphone synced perfectly with Gmail's contacts. What in the world is going on here?? Surely others are experiencing this weirdness too? I just don't see the option to sync to subgroups the way others see this.
There is no option to do this. Big oversight on Samsung's part. Coming from a G1 where I could sync a specific list this is a step back. Hoping they add this to their update.
See that's what I don't understand coming from the iphone. Isn't there a stand-alone contacts app that can properly sync with Gmail's 'My Contacts'?
I'm as flabbergasted as the rest of you all. This is the one aspect of TouchWiz that so far feels like a huge step backward from G1. Maybe some don't like the auto-sync to the cloud aspect, but for me it was a huge selling point of Android as I didn't have to hook it up to any computer and it was always in sync with my online address book. This is just lame.
Do any of you with more Android experience see this to be corrected in an impending update, possibly before 2.2?
I was able to change mine throug display options, listing google and phone, and selecting only contacts w/ #'s and mine works great!!!
You might try a third-party app in the Market called Contacts Evolved. It does not replace the brain-dead Samsung/T-Mobile Contacts app, which cannot be uninstalled. But Contacts Evolved can be used as an alternate user interface.
The advantage is that the Groups from Google's Gmail contacts are displayed, and the contacts are segregated by group into handy tabs. (The syncing done by the native app seems to pulls down the Groups data element, but that app ignores it.)
One downside is that Contacts Evolved seems a little buggy. There are some force-close issues.
Is it possible? Its pretty annoying having a phone number list of well over 500 people... I just want my PHONE contacts to be there, not facebook. Anyone know?
I think all you have to do is remove it from "Accounts". It will still allow you to login to the app, but wont pull all yoru contact info. I had this issue with my Hotmaill account and that is how i stopped it.
If you want it to keep syncing but only see your google or sim contacts, you can change who is viewed in the contacts app by clicking the top where it says "Contacts: All contacts" and picking a different menu option. (this will not effect the contacts part of the dialer)
Alternatively you could add some contacts as favorites. And those could be more easily found in the Dialer since there is a contacts menu.
Contacts > Menu > More > Settings
Uncheck facebook account
At least I think.
There you can check Phone numbers only as well to remove all contacts that do not have a phone number associated with them.
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Contacts > Menu > More > Settings
Uncheck facebook account
At least I think.
There you can check Phone numbers only as well to remove all contacts that do not have a phone number associated with them.
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Also if you set up linked accounts in the blur accounts section you have to delete all of them except the actual blur account.
The Social networking/messaging and a few other widgets won't function though.
I guess the work around right now is to remove accounts, create a list with everyone on it, then add back on facebook. Whenever you view contacts, use the new list you made.
I was just using it to sync pictures. I removed the account and downloaded syncmypix from the market. Free and easy.
Also, another "fix" would be to go into contacts-> menu-> settings-> then selecting "phone numbers only". This wouldn't necessarily get rid of every Facebook friend from your contacts list, but since most (at least of my friends) don't seem to list their phone numbers, this should cut down your list dramatically.
I tried the above tricks but in the end the only way I could find to get rid of them from the Dialer contacts (which has no options at all) was to remove the account.
Thanks for tip on pics sync, that's all I wanted too. The actual Facebook app and Facebook widget do the rest.
Is there a way I can have just my phone contacts showing when I add recipient to an sms rather than all my facebook contacts too? Ive already tried to disable facebook account in the phonebook but it doesnt make a difference. I have to remove the facebook account altogether for it to show my normal contacts.
johnbhoy89 said:
Is there a way I can have just my phone contacts showing when I add recipient to an sms rather than all my facebook contacts too? Ive already tried to disable facebook account in the phonebook but it doesnt make a difference. I have to remove the facebook account altogether for it to show my normal contacts.
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contacts
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select which to display
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contacts
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Tried that already, still includes everything when trying to send an sms, does that work on your s4?
Did you check the "Only show contacts with phone numbers" option? Path = Open contacts app, select contacts tab at the top, main menu button, select options, check Only show contacts with phone numbers box.
krabman said:
Did you check the "Only show contacts with phone numbers" option? Path = Open contacts app, select contacts tab at the top, main menu button, select options, check Only show contacts with phone numbers box.
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Tried that too but some of the facebook contacts had numbers too lol, ive just disabled facebook contacts altogether now.
lol Did the same a long time ago, having them merged wasn't worth the hassle for me.