Hey all! I just wanted to see if there is some way to correct this problem I seem to be having with google contacts and the hero rom.
First, in non Hero roms you can go into contacts and tell it to only sync "My Contacts". What this does is only syncs your actual contacts instead of pulling in "All Contacts" from google. The reason you want this is because your All Contacts on google is probably junked up big time with tons of email addresses.
Now on the Hero rom I see no way to do this. It pulled down all bazillion email addresses and junked up my contact list big time.
Thanks for any tips!
I'm having the same problem and this is the second thread I have found on it. Both unanswered. Doesn't look promising...
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If you do a lot of emailing and you have a hero rom on your phone then you have certainly eperienced this issue. Send an email to someone from your pc's web browser that isn't in your contact list and gmail adds it to your All Contacts. On your next sync you just got a bogus contact added to your phone. I have to delete at least 2-3 of these a day!
If you have a non-Hero rom, all of your regular contacts are stored under "My Contacts". When you sync with a non-Hero rom ONLY "My Contacts" are synced.
In a Hero rom it syncs everything! Has anyone figured out a work around for this?
I also installed a Hero ROM and this is driving me nuts. For some reason it selects "All Contacts" like the default i Android does, but offers no way to hide them and just show "My Contacts". Incredibly annoying for an otherwise INCREDIBLE rom.
If you guys are talking about what i'm thinking then goto your applications menu then select people..hit menu then view and you can select to show gmail,sim or phone contacts..thats how i got rid of seeing my gmail nonsense
I think this is the answer many of us are looking for to only have My Contacts Sync not all contacts.
Go to People->Menu->View->uncheck "Show auto Gmail Contacts" and "Google"
So you should only have Only contacts with phone #'s and Phones if you want.
Also here is a link to the Google Gmail Contact help section discussing this problem with 1.5 so a few things you will notice are different.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=3836f88898c31b01&hl=en
Hope this helps.
This solved the problem of syncing just My Contacts. This will not sync all contacts!
when i do it, it doesn't do anything.
with "Google" unchecked, the accounts sync doesn't do anything because the People app isn't even searching through my Google account for the contacts (but it is checked in the Data & Synchronization setting screen)
If Google is selected then it will pull All Contacts, The only downside to syncing Only contacts with #'s is if you only email someone they wont show.
See, Google expects you to keep your contact list clean and in good order. They figure that if you have a contact in all contact then you probably want them on all synced devices. So if you want it to work a different way you have to be tricky. This is an amazing phone and Android does have some limitations but we can't have everything. I also think that people would start complaining that this contact or that contact is on their phone if Android had to many options and one got switched on accident. So this is my work around and anyone that i know that I contact that doesn't have a # I put in a bogus one and then they show up.
i have a more shoddy way of working around it, though i'm experience problems with contact sync in general right now
what you could do is just use another Google account and use that one to solely sync your contacts. just export from your main account and import to the contact only one, and sync from there
however, my problem right now is that the phone won't do any sort of contact sync at all with contacts. anyone know why this might be?
Did you flash the 2.1 file? If so try to reinstall it.
Hi,
i use goglemail and own a Tattoo. When i sync my Tattoo with the Google contacts, there will be also all "mail only" contacts synced. So i have all the mail adresses under the contacts section on my Tattoo - not really clear. Is there the possibility to deactivate the auto-sync function in Googlemail or apply a filter on the contacts on the Tattoo?
It is not fine to see every Ebay or Company upport contact on the Tattoo.
I support all my contacts in Outlook - but one place to support is more than comfortable.
The Milestone ought to have a function to show only the Google contacts that where created by the user - is there something like that for the Tattoo? How does you manage the contacts?
kind regards
srkonus
I have the same problem as you my friend :-/ but no solution yet.
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My solution:
if i think i wiil need the email address in the future, i save the contact by the name, like everyone else. if i think i will never use the email address again, i delete it. I don't want kaos in my PC google contacts just as i don't want kaos in my phone. I save all my important emails (money transactions info and similar), so i can still find the email addresses in the archives should there be need for that.
I see how that could not be the perfect solution for everyone, but I assure you, it is working very well.
Mmhh,
not the badest option. At this time i save the contacts in outlook and deleted the unused contacts in google. But now i missed importend mail adresses - this will be filled up in the near future.
I hope that the adresses will not trash my phone contacts.
Why on my G1 could I select to only see those Google contact who are in "My Contacts" but on the MTS I can only select all of my Google contacts which is like over 900 people.
I only have my Google contacts selected. I have no other contacts checked. I tried the whole facebook thing, but it was just too much with the contacts!
I think the whole linking thing is ridiculous. Just give me my Goolge My Contacts and we can call it good!
Anyone know how to deal with this or if this feature will be added back in the update?
hit menu in the contacts app, view, put it to show only contacts with numbers
it's not the same as being able to use My Contacts because that way you get phone contacts and email contacts, but I can live with it cuz the MTS is so much better than the G1
We're running into the same problem here. My wife just got the Slide yesterday, and I put her contacts from her old Blackberry into a Contact Group on her Gmail account. In the standard Contacts app, you can choose which Google contacts groups to display...hopefully can figure out something similar here.
Google didn't automatically sync when I first started my phone. I had to log into gmail first from the phone. once i did that, then google contacts were there but they still didn't show. Like turboyo said, just go into contacts and hit menu. It will show a bunch of different options on which contacts to display such as phone, sim, google, facebook, and tmobile. For me, I only have it set to display google and facebook contacts.
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Google didn't automatically sync when I first started my phone. I had to log into gmail first from the phone. once i did that, then google contacts were there but they still didn't show. Like turboyo said, just go into contacts and hit menu. It will show a bunch of different options on which contacts to display such as phone, sim, google, facebook, and tmobile. For me, I only have it set to display google and facebook contacts.
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goodjob - yep, see that too. I'm looking for the ability to select individual Google contact groups to display (like on the G1 and N1, for example).
Does anyone else's Contacts icon keep changing? When I first got the phone, it was Contacts. Then sometime earlier in the week, it was People at one point. Now it says Contacts again...
For people who keep saying to just select Google in the contacts section... this is not what this post is about. On my G1, I could go into Google contacts and select specific contact groups such as My Contacts so it didn't show ALL of my Google contacts. I don't want to just select people who have phone numbers because I email a lot on my phone and it's nice to have the contacts I want to see!
Anyway... I can live with it, but I think it's a step backward in terms of the contacts interface.
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For people who keep saying to just select Google in the contacts section... this is not what this post is about. On my G1, I could go into Google contacts and select specific contact groups such as My Contacts so it didn't show ALL of my Google contacts. I don't want to just select people who have phone numbers because I email a lot on my phone and it's nice to have the contacts I want to see!
Anyway... I can live with it, but I think it's a step backward in terms of the contacts interface.
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We do understand that. And I guess to answer your question, it isn't an option anymore. However, this just seems to be because of the Sense UI having a different contacts interface. Hopefully either 2.2 changes that, or rooting will give us this option back because I also liked selecting the groups.
I can not figure out how to just sync the 'My Contacts' group instead of ALL the gmail contacts. I have 3000 contacts and I don't want them all. I also can't figure out how to sync groups at all.
Anyone solve this problem yet?
the best I have seen is to check "only show contacts with phone numbers".
that's just not going to get it done....
I can't believe I am the only person who has this problem?
Nope, you're not the only one. I, too, have this issue and would love to get the original contacts app back (the one where I can select which group of contacts should be used from the list of contact groups defined on google)
I hate the new Contacts app..
I don't have a SGS, but if your rooted couldn't you remove the current contact.apk and grab the original one from a stock build an install it via ADB or such?
Just throwing out ideas to help.
You are not alone in missing this! I find this very annoying after creating a trim my contacts list in gmail and syncing that with the g1. Samsung better fix this oversight because I haaate scrolling through my hundreds of contacts!
Did you guys overlook, that you also cannot assign a ringtone to your contacts that were synced from G1 to Gmail to Vibrant? Cannot put your gmail contacts as groups. Also, the checkbock for send directly to voicemail is gone.
for now..
.. I installed aContacts from the market. It isn't great, but it makes life a bit easier.