Hello,
I used the "link acounts" facility for the first time on my Leo last night, after having it working on my Touch Pro for a long time, rather than linking the accounts, it has created duplicate contacts in my phone...very, very annoying.
Is there any way of turning these leo/facebook-created contacts off or deleting them before I sync the phone with Outlook and have to go through and delete them all there?
Thanks,
Max.
Not sure how you managed to get it to create duplicates? All it does is link the contact on your phone with there face book. Worked fine on mine.
Edit: Just a thought are you showing your Sim Contacts as well? I found that enabled by default i think. So when i copied my contacts to the phone i had double. Maybe you are just using the contacts from the SIM but then linking them to facebook caused it to copy them over.
Nope, not using any contacts on the SIM, and I have no idea it either, but it didn't link accounts, it just created new contacts for the Facebook contacts, alongside my old contacts. The new Facebook versions have a small "F" (facebook) logo in the bottom left of their contact picture to indicate they are linked. The old contact doesn't.
Max.
Just in case anyone else has this problem, I sync'd my phone, ordered all the contacts in Outlook by "Created" date and then deleted the ones created by the Facebook link. Weirdly, the links were instantly transferred to the correct contacts and life can once again go on as we know it.
Thanks to bzdemes for the reply.
it happened for me too. not all the fb contact where duplicated but just some.. random... well i don't know why but i've deleted one (the one not linked).
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I am having trouble trying to get rid of double listings in my contacts when writing SMS, when I go to all people on the main screen all my contacts are fine just one of each but when I go to sms and go to add recipient I get 2 of all my contacts, my normal ones with pics then all my sim ones as well , I have gone to menu in all people then view and highlighted contacts but still have double listings when doing sms, I just can't figure it out any advice please, thanks.
anyone ??????
I had a similar problem after a hard reset. I re-synced with MyPhone and ended up with duplicate contacts. I deleted them via the MyPhone webpage and no further problems.
i had the same problem with myphone sync once before. just removed the duplicate from the myphone webpage as well.
Use the attached cab, it is a small program that i downloaded from somewhere and cannot remember where exactly.
It removes any exact duplicates from your contact list.
Very useful program.
Guys
Does anybody else have a problem when composing a sms that when typing a recipient some contacts are duplicated (two of each) in the scroll list that appears and also contacts that I have deleted keep appearing (although they are no longer in the people app or synced with google.
In the people app I have unchecked Google and Sim contacts so I am not sure why this is happening?
any clues?
Yes. It is. In the appointment too I got 5,6 repeated duplicates. May be... I think it is because Tattoo sync with Google Calendar besides Outlook calendar, and even Google calendar & Outlook Calendar (2007) they maintained a no. of different calendars like My Calendar and outlook ... and... So, these things created duplicate entries at some points of conflict or something.
This is really annoying.
I wonder if this happens on the hero as well - it runs the same htc sense and htc messaging app - it could be worth posting this in the hero forum as well
ok the plot thickens on this one - I just used HTC sync with outlook for the 2nd time since getting the phone to see if that would get rid of the duplicate contacts in the messaging app.
Guess what - after the sync ive now got three of evry contact showing on the drop down list. Ive got a feeling that syncing with outlook is causing this.
The only way I can think of getting around this is to master reset the phone then only sync with gmail. Ireally dont want to have to do this - anyone got any better suggestions?
I saved all my contacts on the phone and deleted everything on the sim to get rid of the duplicates.
emeed said:
I saved all my contacts on the phone and deleted everything on the sim to get rid of the duplicates.
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But actually it is not the question of duplicate from sim and phone.. I never save anything on sim... actually it happened while sync with MS Outlook 2007. But never complain before because I always sync with two PCs, one at home and another at my workplace.. and now it also sync with Google.. may be conflict from that...just guessing...
Anybody have some good explanation is welcome.
Just to let you know, this also happens on my HD2, the contacts from SIM and phone are displayed in messaging. This seems to be happening right across the board with sense. There must be a registry tweak or something to correct this? Anyone?
I know how to fix this
jporch316 said:
Guys
Does anybody else have a problem when composing a sms that when typing a recipient some contacts are duplicated (two of each) in the scroll list that appears and also contacts that I have deleted keep appearing (although they are no longer in the people app or synced with google.
In the people app I have unchecked Google and Sim contacts so I am not sure why this is happening?
any clues?
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You copy all your sim, phone, twitter, facebook contacts to Google first...
Then delete contacts from all other accounts except Google.
Now if your syncd with google, you can open the contacts within gmail ( would be good if you do on PC ) and use the 'find duplicates & merge' button.
i had around 700 contacts which duplicated many a times to some 3000....
this saved me alot of effort...
refer to ScreenShots... Hit Thanks
after everything is merged in google, do you just leave everything not saved on the phone and sim, or can you import them back to the phone and eliminate the duplicates?
Hi.
I tried to link one of my contacts to his facebook account but instead it linked him to ALL my facebook friends so all their details showed up under his contact info dozens of emails, phones numbers etc. Going into his contact profile and "unlinking" these others had no effect, all I could do was delete my face book info from the Accounts and sync settings and this removed the extra contact info. However his contact is still linked to two other contacts (google contacts) on my phone and I cannot remove the links for these no matter what I try. Any suggestions.? I'm using Villain 5.2 ROM.
Edit:. Also contacts I create on the phone don't appear, but appear on Google contacts. Contacts I create on Google don't appear on the phone.
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All of my Facebook contacts get imported & properly linked with my phone but one. I logged out of the Facebook app and even went as far manually deleting the contact from my telephone (I thought it may be a linking issue). Still, for some odd reason, the Facebook contact will not get imported into the telephone. I removed the Facebook account multiple times and have not had any luck. Any ideas?
Add that contact manually and link it to facebook
How would I go about doing that. I remember trying to edit the contact and linking them to Facebook (and I did not see any corresponding field that would let me do that).
Also, the individual sent me a PM on Facebook. I got the alert in the notification bar. When I tried reading the messages we had sent to each other back and fourth, the individual appeared as 'Facebook User.' I can see all my Facebook contacts through the Facebook app, including them. I deleted the contact. Will try adding them again. In hopes that the issue will be resolved... Keep in mind I have over 100+ Facebook friends and this is the ONLY person I am having issues with.
I have deleted them from all of my Google Contacts etc. So far, their name is just added as a contact in my phone. That's all...
Anyone? Ideas?
lsxrx7 said:
Add that contact manually and link it to facebook
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I can't do that because they don't even appear in the Facebook subgroup of contacts although I SEE them as a contact through the Facebook app.
Same problem here with a couple of contacts.
Hi i use Microsoft exchange so my contacts stay synced with outlook (cause kies is a pos)
anyways every once in awhile i get duplicate contacts (only shows one contact but when i click on there contact i see "1" Facebook icon and "2" squares icons indicating exchange contacts meaning my achange contact duplicated and if i leave it long enough i sometime get 3 exchange contacts)
from what i read when the conact app on your s4 crashes it screws up and make doubles of all ur exchange contacts
has anybody found a solution
only solution iv been using is removed my exchange account from my phone then readd it BUT then all my facebook links with different names dont link up and i need to manually link again which is a hugee pain espically when u have to do this every few week
so anybody have any solution thanks!!