so ive done some digging and cant find the answer. the phone on froyo would save contacts to the phone AND all accounts. we have multiple accounts for these phones and would like them to be synced with only the outlook account. what i want to do is delete all phone numbers saved on to phone memory at once. then re sync with outlook so all is good. we have hundreds of numbers so i dont want to do it one by one. any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
btw i cannot do a factory reset. ive seen in the past you go to manage apps-and clear data from contacts storage, but that option is greyed out....
I would think the first thing to do is go to menu>settings>accounts and uncheck the sync contacts option for each account. Then go to settings>apps>manage apps>all and find contacts. On my phone (apex gb) I can select clear data.
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Hi,
Im new to this and installed Android on my HD2 for the first time yesterday, I have to say I am really liking it and thank you to MDJ and all others for there hard work and who have put up all the info needed to do this.
I have searched on here but cannot find an answer. When i come to change the ROM how do i back up all my contacts so that I dont have to spend ages re-entering them.
Please help.......
Contacts are stored in your google account that you registered on the phone when you first ran Android. Next time you run a new build it automatically gets your contacts when you add your google account again.
If you're not sure if you're storing your contacts on your google account, open the menu and go settings, accounts & sync, select your google account and make sure contacts is ticked.
I didn't like the idea of associating an email account with a phone at first, but after trying lots of different builds I think it's a brilliant idea!
Thank you for the reply. Checked it and its ticked. Wasnt sure whether it would work though as when i log into my google account on the PC there are no contacts there.
That sounds wrong then, as I see my contacts in Google mail on my PC.
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Make sure, that when your contact are on the phone, you actually go to settings --> accounts and sync, and tap the 'sync contacts' option once for Google Accounts.
If you do not do that, no way your contacts will be synced to your gmail account on the PC
I found that out the hard way when i started to use Android and had to manually add all contacts again
The non-googlemail method!
I personally don't like to use googlemail to keep my contacts safe.
So what I do is simply go into my phone book in abndroid, 'export' the 'PHONE' contacts to SD card. It will save the file 'pcsc_pcsc_00001' which can be copied to your PC whilst you conduct a reinstall. Once reinstalled copy over the pcsc_pcsc_00001 file back onto your SD card (root folder) and go to your phone book where you can 'IMPORT from SD Card'.
This way you can keep it away from the annoying googlemail which will dramatically reduce the quality of your avatars for your contacts.
My nexus s put 3 of each of my contacts on it and I was just wondering is there any way of deleting more than one contact at a time?
Do it from your gmail account.
google.com/contacts
You can clear data on contacts or search market for delete contacts
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Contact Remover from the Market. Free. Easy.
you can go to contacts then menu and hit delete then select all.
bcl0328 said:
you can go to contacts then menu and hit delete then select all.
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Hm, I don't see a delete button after hitting Menu in the Contact list.
Sounds like you pulled the contacts from your sim card. If they have already synced what I recommend is logging into your gmail account. Then go to contacts, you can merge contacts. So if you have 3 contacts for each person merge them and edit them to be nice and pretty.
While doing this I would recommend having auto sync turned off on the phone. My preference is then to just do a factory reset on the phone. It will then pull the contacts from your google account.
There are other ways to do it, but this worked well for me. The bonehead at the Best Buy mobile store decided to import my contacts from my sim. I told her not to and instead of clearing it out she left it.
I was furious and explained to her I just came in here with a G1, why on earth would you import from my sim when you know it will just sync from my google account?
Factory reset is retarded. Just clear data under contacts or use one of the many alloys apps mentioned here. You don't need to even do that though because the sync will fix it.
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Sounds like you pulled the contacts from your sim card. If they have already synced what I recommend is logging into your gmail account. Then go to contacts, you can merge contacts. So if you have 3 contacts for each person merge them and edit them to be nice and pretty.
While doing this I would recommend having auto sync turned off on the phone. My preference is then to just do a factory reset on the phone. It will then pull the contacts from your google account.
There are other ways to do it, but this worked well for me. The bonehead at the Best Buy mobile store decided to import my contacts from my sim. I told her not to and instead of clearing it out she left it.
I was furious and explained to her I just came in here with a G1, why on earth would you import from my sim when you know it will just sync from my google account?
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Almost as retarded as installing an app to clear contacts? My assumption is that the poster just got the phone and imported form the sim so there is really no harm. It takes only a couple minutes to get everything back in place. It's pretty painless.
Just go on your computer to gmail, clean up all your contacts under my contacts, and let the auto sync work its magic.
I know there is a ton of threads on this, but I can't seem to find an answer. I am using imilka's Glacier Sense v1.3 and I have all my contacts doubled. How can I fix this?
Thank you in advance.
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I know there is a ton of threads on this, but I can't seem to find an answer. I am using imilka's Glacier Sense v1.3 and I have all my contacts doubled. How can I fix this?
Thank you in advance.
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Check by pressing the windows key when in the people/contacts which accounts you have selected to show, if you have phone and google choose just one. if you only have google, sign into gmail on your pc, select contacts on the left and then you can merge duplicates. on your phone resync google contacts under settings, accounts and sync, google account, and it should do it for you.
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Check by pressing the windows key when in the people/contacts which accounts you have selected to show, if you have phone and google choose just one. if you only have google, sign into gmail on your pc, select contacts on the left and then you can merge duplicates. on your phone resync google contacts under settings, accounts and sync, google account, and it should do it for you.
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I have gmail and facebook both on there. I went into gmail and unchecked the option to sync with contacts. Should I leave this one checked and not facebook? I want to have my friends profile pics auto sync to my contacts. I did try to uncheck gmail but everything is still doubled. Will signing into gmail and doing what you said, have any effect if I want facebook to sync?
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I have gmail and facebook both on there. I went into gmail and unchecked the option to sync with contacts. Should I leave this one checked and not facebook? I want to have my friends profile pics auto sync to my contacts. I did try to uncheck gmail but everything is still doubled. Will signing into gmail and doing what you said, have any effect if I want facebook to sync?
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depends how you originally imported your contacts and where you saved them.
If on first boot you enabled them through a previous android build keep google contacts sync on.
The facebook side of things will sync your contacts, but not right away, it will try and match existing ones and give you a notification that contacts can be linked and let you check the right facebook profile is being synced with the correct contact.
Check you have nothing under sim card and phone accounts showing also.
Well I deleted everything data/cache with CWM. So I thought that would of cleared everything. I also did a full wipe of my SD card. I then flashed the glacier rom with CWR. I did however find a very easy fix to the contact problem. I was able to click view inside the contacts tab and uncheck any accounts that were set to sync contacts. So now my contacts only show up one entry. Now my problem is when I send a text, the contacts are still doubled. I am not sure how to fix that one..
When I first signed into my google account from my nexus 7, it automatically syncs my contacts/gmail/calendar. But I don't want to have my contacts on the tablet. I've already disabled sync for google contacts. Now how do I delete the contacts from the tablets all at once? In the people app I can only delete one at a time...
Thanks!
Go to Settings> Apps > All and clear data and cache from Contacts and Contacts Storage.
Wow the reply was quick, and it worked! Thanks!
Whenever i flash a new rom Google automatically restores my contacts. Over time i have noticed that there are duplicate contacts. In fact each contact keeps adding more and more duplicate. I want to know how i can go and edit all those contacts so in the future i don't see all those duplicate and only see what i want. The other option would be to have Google not restore them. I have tried to go into settings and disable auto sinc when i flash a new rom but somehow after a few hours or a few days all the duplicate come back. I always export my contacts to my sd card and i would really just like to use that to restore. But again somehow when i restore the contacts from the sd card Google also restores them and i have tons of duplicate. I don't mind using Google to restore just in case one day my phone dies and i don't have a back up in my sd card. But i really have to find a way to go into Google and fix the back up they have.
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You need to log into your google account from a computer and edit your contacts from there...also, when you go into your phone settings>accounts & sync, click on the email account that has all your contacts and it will give you a list of options of what you want synced, like contacts, mail, calender, etc. Uncheck contacts. This way you can still have auto sync on. Also when you are in your contacts app, there is a way to manage where your contact info is pulled from i.e. sim card, google account, phone, etc... again, select just the one place you want them imported from or merge the contacts if they are coming from multiple places.
In the end, though, the best thing for me was to spend the time to clean up my google account contacts so I could access the information from anywhere, on any phone, computer, etc. Then you don't have to worry about your sim or sd card crapping out, or losing/accidentally deleting a backup, etc.