SMS messaging displaying duplicate contacts - HD2 General

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

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Sim Contacts

Hi All!!
I have a little problem.
I don´t want my sim contact showing in phonebook.
( I get double post of contacts in phonebook becuse I allready have phonecontacts showing).
How do I disable sim contacts from showing in phonebook??
Have tryed Advanced config to disable sim contacts, but after it resets the phone the task have not been saved. I dont know why.
There must be a way to disable them throu windows.
Thanks for all your help
foxman01 said:
Hi All!!
I have a little problem.
I don´t want my sim contact showing in phonebook.
( I get double post of contacts in phonebook becuse I allready have phonecontacts showing).
How do I disable sim contacts from showing in phonebook??
Have tryed Advanced config to disable sim contacts, but after it resets the phone the task have not been saved. I dont know why.
There must be a way to disable them throu windows.
Thanks for all your help
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welcome to this forum
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398265
and yeah next time use search botton
i'm using DiamondTweak and there is an option 16.1 sim contacts, where you can choose to hide them. that works for me.
edit: i just noticed this option will be reset after you do a soft reset
I use mortscript for that. It's a tiny script that executes after each soft reset and disables the sim contacts in my contact list. I already posted that somewhere here on the forum how to do that. Please do a search on mortscript + hidesim.mscr and you will find it.
EDIT: read this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2486985&postcount=2
or use the cab file in the last post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2486985#post2486985
Exactly NikiSimFix.CAB works great!
Thanks for helping me
Installed NikiSimFix.CAB and everything is great.
That simply doesn´t work for me puting the "showsim" option.
I´ve only made it with sktools, but after a softreset it´s there again.
sktools doesn´t insert the showsim either. I´m clueless where it is disabling this
Edit: forget it! my bad. Was checking on HLM.

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???

phonebook filter problem..

my contacts are in my sim and I copied them to phone memory to get extra fields to edit. now there are duplicated contacts in phonebook. it's showing both sim and phone memory in contact list. I used filter and choose only phone memory in contact listing but after closing phonebook, filter is turning back to list all option automaticly. is there any way to set and save filter "only phonebook" option?
i knew someone would pop up with this. no i didn't find any solution.
(other than) thanks to my service provider, i have 64k sim. phonebook1 and phonebook2. both store 250 contacts. only step i have to do is goto sim manger, switch to other phonebook and restart. there my problem was solved. but still any one with a fix?
Gothik said:
i knew someone would pop up with this. no i didn't find any solution.
(other than) thanks to my service provider, i have 64k sim. phonebook1 and phonebook2. both store 250 contacts. only step i have to do is goto sim manger, switch to other phonebook and restart. there my problem was solved. but still any one with a fix?
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Search in this forum for "kaiser_sim_fix" this will fix your problem. In case you can't find it, just let me know and I will send it to you.
Regards
cimber
You can also use "Advanced Configuration Tool".. Besides many usefull Settings you also can change, which Contacts to Display
Sry, I'm not allowed to Post links...
You can find this Tool in the Forum, just replace the End of the Webadress of this Post with the following:
showthread.php?t=418151

problem with sms apps in froyo

Hi since i flashed froyo i have the following bug in all the sms apps
when i receive an sms from an unknown number , orwith no number the app it putted in a thrread as one of my contancts any idea how to fix this ?
i have the gti5800
angarato_surion said:
Hi since i flashed froyo i have the following bug in all the sms apps
when i receive an sms from an unknown number , orwith no number the app it putted in a thrread as one of my contancts any idea how to fix this ?
i have the gti5800
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Do you use the contact list from your simcard or from the phone memory or both?
i had this problem once and i just import all my contacts from my sim to my phone and use only the phone memory for my contact list and everything was back to normal
Phone Memeory they will nto fit in sim card ijust have it set to ask me when i add a new one nad in display options i have it set to show all the contacts from every google accoubnt sim and phone
i think sim card is completely black
i wish this stupid bug to be fixed in mms.apk
it shows thw erong contact when i go to see the contact details of the message shows correctly the sender but when i go in 1st page it shows some random contact

[Q] Getting rid of SIM messages in Messaging

I put Windows Phone 7 on my HD2 last week, and I swear while I was setting it all up there was an option to show or not show SIM messages when looking in Messaging.
However now I am using the phone regularly I can't find it any more! Every time I reboot the phone, the SIM messages are loaded higher up the list than my actual text messages which is really frustrating because it makes it hard to see my current conversations.
Does anyone know where the setting to stop it showing SIM messages is?
Thanks!
pagz99 said:
I put Windows Phone 7 on my HD2 last week, and I swear while I was setting it all up there was an option to show or not show SIM messages when looking in Messaging.
However now I am using the phone regularly I can't find it any more! Every time I reboot the phone, the SIM messages are loaded higher up the list than my actual text messages which is really frustrating because it makes it hard to see my current conversations.
Does anyone know where the setting to stop it showing SIM messages is?
Thanks!
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Try deleting one of them, and if it is not deleted from the sim, the check box might appear again on next reboot. Else delete what you don't need
Interesting that you can import messages from sim but not save to sim, how many messages are there?
i think what you've seen whilst setting up the phone was the message "import sim contacts now" and not sim sms... there's no setting about that in wp7 afaik
I think there are about 20 or so SIM messages. I deleted one and it went away, but didn't give me any more options to delete any others and the rest of the SIM messages are still there.
Obviously I could just delete them all but I find it annoying there is not the option to just hide them from the messaging view or something.
malsehn said:
i think what you've seen whilst setting up the phone was the message "import sim contacts now" and not sim sms... there's no setting about that in wp7 afaik
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So do I... did you solve it anyway?

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