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
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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...
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.
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.
In previous version of Android the email app would sync ONLY your contacts from exchange. In 4.4 it also syncs your history or "autocomplete" entries. So now I have like 1200 contacts when previoulsy I had maybe 75. Its incredibly annoying when trying to find someone in the list. I know that I can customize which contacts show but I need my exchange contacts to show and they are lumped in with the other ones so there really isnt an option.
Anyone know of a way to not sync the history entries?
EDIT: I figured out that what it is doing is syncing the "Suggested Contacts" folder. I do want and need this folder when using my actual Outlook but dont want it syncing to my phone
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In previous version of Android the email app would sync ONLY your contacts from exchange. In 4.4 it also syncs your history or "autocomplete" entries. So now I have like 1200 contacts when previoulsy I had maybe 75. Its incredibly annoying when trying to find someone in the list. I know that I can customize which contacts show but I need my exchange contacts to show and they are lumped in with the other ones so there really isnt an option.
Anyone know of a way to not sync the history entries?
EDIT: I figured out that what it is doing is syncing the "Suggested Contacts" folder. I do want and need this folder when using my actual Outlook but dont want it syncing to my phone
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In "Customize" uncheck "Suggested Contacts" folder and you might want to create folders (e.g., friends, family, mistresses) and classify them into each folder and then check the boxes that you want to appear.
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In "Customize" uncheck "Suggested Contacts" folder and you might want to create folders (e.g., friends, family, mistresses) and classify them into each folder and then check the boxes that you want to appear.
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As I mentioned in the original post there is no "Suggested Contacts" under customize. The only option for my exchange account is "All Contacts" which includes the Suggested Contacts.