Hmm, so I just tried to delete a contact - (it was actually a contact I added via the barcode scanner - [email protected] in this forum);
Long pressed the contact, chose 'delete contact', answered yes to the question... and hmm... the contact is still there...
Is that a known bug?
Ok, just FYI - yes, there is a bug in the contacts - if your contact doesn't have a first/last name, but has an email - the contact will be named after his email in the contacts list;
When a contact is named after his email, you cannot delete it at all (you'll be able to try, but it just wont be deleted, no matter where you try it from).
To fix that, just give a name, any name, to that contact, and delete it.
I've had strange things like this happen where I delete a person's secondary email or address, and it comes right back.
Same goes for changing a "type" such as Phone (home/work/mobile/other/custom). It doesn't seem to stick and reverts back to the original title.
I think you need to delete the contact from your sim card first, then log on to google and erase it from there, then let the phone sync and goodbye contact.
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You could try deleteing it from Google Contacts instead?
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morning peoples (or afternoon depending on your worldly location)
I received a text message from my mates new number. The number isn't in my contacts so I want to create one. I click on the number and it says
"this number isn't in your contacts etc etc would you like to create a new one"
so I click yes, then the list of contact appear. I click new contact, and it asks me for outlook contact or sim contact.
I don't use outlook to sync my contacts, and SIM contact doesn't give me all the information (SIM is just a name and number).
so how do I select to save the number to my phone, where I can add all the other relevant information (ringtone, phone number type etc etc)?
thanks
You should save as an Outlook contact, as Pocket Outlook is the default adress register on Windows Mobile devices.
It doesn't matter if you use Outlook on your PC or not...
perhaps but the options presented to me are the same...well..almost...firname last name number....why doesn't it give me the option to supply any other details? ?I have to save it, then go back into it to add any other information.
just annoying is all
why don't u just go to contacts, click on the profile u want to update and when they're details come up, click on menu > edit.
this should take you to a full list of details
because I'm talking about adding a new contact, not updating an existing one
I just got Galaxy S, and have one situation that bugs me a lot. I have all my contacts on Exchange account, so I set it up, and it synced it all, without any problems. But, I would like my Exchange contacts to be linked with their facebook pictures.
So, when I add FB account, it works fine with those people for which name matches in Exchange and FB. But for those that I listed with some short names (close friends, family) it didn't auto match (of course, didn't know how) so I manually linked them. When I link them, it changes their name, from Exchange name (nickname) to FB (full name), and it bugs me because I would like to leave the short names I added.
This bugs me even more because only those people that I input with a nickname, or just first name or some short name are those that are close to me. Any solution to this?
I tried both to first select their FB and link with Exchange, and vice versa, and it always displays full name taken from FB
Thanks in advance
Ok, I think I have the answer. I was in the same situation as you up until a few minutes ago when I was messing. Go to the contact that had the short name but now has their full name due to you linking them with their facebook account, open up the contacts details, click menu, click mark as default and there you will be able to set the default name of the contact as well as other defaults. Hope this has helped.
Thanks a lot!
I cant seem to save a new contact, no matter which way i save it either by adding contacts from a new phone call or entering a new contact, when I first save it, all the previous call numbers from that contact change to the contacts name then within a few minutes it reverts back again and if i search for the new contact it has disappeared.
any help would be appreciated.
Im using the generic contact address book
Did you have the right sync groups selected? when creating a contact you can assign the contact to group. If this group is not synced this will not shown as a new contact on your phone. When the contact is not assigned to group you must select "sync all contacts". this will include also your mail-contacts from google.
LG Contacts has "contacts" sync'd that aren't even contacts, just email addresses!?
I have a nice list of contacts in Gmail but when I setup my LG and it syncs contacts..WOW I have a million stupid contacts that are nothing but an email address. Many of whom are generic or spam accounts that emailed me. How do I get it to JUST sync my contacts list??
OK, figured this out. Gmail apparently remembers email addresses from everyone. Thats fine but it also creates a contact for them! You have to go to your contacts and select "Other Contacts" (mine had like 300 in there). Open it up, select All and delete. Done.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/bDUPDHpx4so
OK, figured this out. Gmail apparently remembers email addresses from everyone. Thats fine but it also creates a contact for them! You have to go to your contacts and select "Other Contacts" (mine had like 300 in there). Open it up, select All and delete. Done.
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/bDUPDHpx4so
svinyard said:
I have a nice list of contacts in Gmail but when I setup my LG and it syncs contacts..WOW I have a million stupid contacts that are nothing but an email address. Many of whom are generic or spam accounts that emailed me. How do I get it to JUST sync my contacts list??
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so ? main thing u can make calls to those contacts they are stored on google..
once u had numbers in phone google synced them then u been messing with phone erasing by that time they been stored on google and once u login to your google at the start phone after erasing all everything will be just synced with phone
if u want them in phone u have to add manually one by one
Using the stock contact app;
Any contact I added a week or so ago I can edit & everything is fine. Any contact I try and add today if I don't enter everything at the initial add I can no longer edit the contact.
If I go into a new contact instead of the pencil icon at the top right I only get the head+ icon which does nothing.
Contacts are not synced to google. Contact sync is disabled, Contacts are local to the device only.
If I use a 3rd party app then I can edit new and existing contacts just fine.
Any ideas?
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Using the stock contact app;
Any contact I added a week or so ago I can edit & everything is fine. Any contact I try and add today if I don't enter everything at the initial add I can no longer edit the contact.
If I go into a new contact instead of the pencil icon at the top right I only get the head+ icon which does nothing.
Contacts are not synced to google. Contact sync is disabled, Contacts are local to the device only.
If I use a 3rd party app then I can edit new and existing contacts just fine.
Any ideas?
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Same problem here, have you resolved it?
Yes - I found out what caused it - if you disable the system app 'Google contacts sync' this will cause the default contact app to not recognise where to store a contact - so presumes its not saved and won't let you edit it.
If however you use a 3rd party app to manage contacts (like exDialer) then you can edit contacts quite happily, but if you set the contact group to be 'My Contacts' then the default in-built contact manager will edit the contact as normal.
It's basically google getting upset I won't allow contact sync under any circumstance - rather than allow/work in another mode it just decides you cant edit the contact. - You should also check the contact(s) your trying to edit are actual phone contacts, not Whatsapp or Facebook or something 3rd party (Other people have reported the fact you cant edit those)
If you re-enable the sync app then the default contact editor will work again (for any new contact) for any broken contact update/check the group setting.
I don't need or want my contacts attaching to a google account - why can't the phone just accept that rather than desperately trying to upload everything to the GCloud when it feels like it...