I think this should be a simple fix, but I don't fully understand what I am seeing.
- When I look at my contact list, I see a single google icon on most. When I open those, they show as a joined contact with phone and google icons.
- Others show two or three google icons. When I open those, they show as a joined contact and a google icon.
Goal: I want to clean up my contacts list so I have a single copy of each entry that is synced to my google account. My google contacts are de-dupped and merged, so this is not a reflection of dups there AFAIK.
History: Initially I had most of my contacts in the phone. I went to the sprint store figuring this would be a simple queston for one of the Elves. 20 min later, I had 2-3 copies of every contact in my google account. In response to "where is the vcf file you just saved?" The elf told me, "There where no files on your phone and that there is nothing stored on my SD card." Anyway, the mess on google was corrected quickly from my computer. However I missed the oportunity to fix this mess when I recently flashed CleanGB and restored too much...
I have 2 questions:
1) What is the meaning of the multiple icons?
2) How do I just wipe the contacts on the phone and resync to google w/o wiping the google contacts?
Samsung Epic 4G, CleanGB 1.0
I had the same problem a while ago. I think I used the "contacts" section in gmail. That's where your phone syncs with. I found something in there that could delete duplicates or something. Or merge them? Sorry I'm not around a computer right now but that's the key. Hope it helps
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Login to your google account had the same problem a while back. Just go to google.com/voice and you can manage your contacts better
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in contacts hit menu>settings> check display only contacts with phones?
Thanks to all who replied.
I ended up doing the following:
1) backed up google contacts (as csv from gmail.com)
2) broke syncing of phone contacts.
3) wiped all contacts
4) re-enabled syncing
Joy.
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Or I don't know how to use it properly. I go into my contact list and hit the groups tab. I create a new group and hit save. It doesn't show up. I then try to create it again and it says it already exists, but still doesn't show up.
Even the default groups that show up (google and something else) I can't figure out how to add someone to that group. Does anyone know how to get this function to work properly?
I haven't got it to work either.
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To add member on the default group, all your contacts must be stored in the phone memory. If its not there, then you need to export your contacts first then import them back but make sure you import them to the phone memory.
But be aware that you will have multiple entries on your phone book especially when it was originally synced to gmail.
It's a vexing issue and a bit complex to fix manually. But...there's an app for that..
search the Market for "Groupy"
I have to say that sucks. when an android with google doesnt grap your contacts the way you have them on your google account.. that just sucks.
this is the first time I have ever complained about this phone. or maybe its samsung that I should be complaining about. but one of the reasons I started using android was the easy way to manage contact information. that is just something that should not be messed with.
k.. done *****in
What I found after doing a factory reset was that *if* you manually made a few contacts on the phone and placed them in categories and *then* sync'd google contacts they would import correctly.
But still it's an annoyance easily fixed by "Groupy" in about a minute.
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I have to say that sucks. when an android with google doesnt grap your contacts the way you have them on your google account.. that just sucks.
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Absolutely! The Contacts app that Samsung installed in place of the regular Android Contacts app totally hoses the Google-based contacts. I am swamped by unwanted download of a "contact" item for anyone who ever mailed my GMail address, and Google contact groups are not supported. The stock Android Contacts app handled this gracefully, allowing configuration of which groups of Google contacts get downloaded and synced. But Samsung tried to de-Google Contacts, and screwed everything up.
Is there any hope of reinstalling or renabling the original Android Contacts app instead (hopefully without rooting the phone)? Perhaps a third-party solution?
Try third-party app called Contacts Evolved
I have been exploring third-party contact apps in Market.
At first blush, the free app called Contacts Evolved seems to help here. It does segregate the contacts downloaded from Google according to the Google/GMail groups (including starred contacts) into handy tabs. The spurious contacts such as those who just happened to send you mail will still be there, but if you keep your real Google contacts organized into groups, the groups will be respected and displayed separately in the app.
I don't know of any way to disable or uninstall the brain-dead Samsung Contacts app, which I believe handles the syncing. But AFAIK, I never have to use it and can use Contacts Evolved instead.
EDIT: On the downside, Contacts Evolved seems a little buggy. There are force-close issues.
I transfered all of my contacts from my iphone at a sprint store, but when i try searching for a contact when composing a new message, the phone cannot seem to recognize the contact name. This happens to the majority of my contacts, only a few actually work. Anyone know a fix or why this is happening?
thanks in advanced
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sounds like something got borked when transferring contacts. I would try linking the contacts with numbers in the Contacts app and then try it again and see if it works. Try a few, to see if its working. I manually enterred all of my contacts a while back when I switched from Pre to Hero to my google account (I know, there is an easier way, now). So I haven't had any contact issues.
It was happeneing to me too, but no port from iphone. Also when contacts would call it would only display there number even though the were already contacts with pictures.
I Just played with the contact settings and not sure how I fixeed it sorry.
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menu>more>import/export export all your contacts to sd card. delete all contacts and menu>more>import/export and import all your contacts using google instead of phone. i had the sam problem going from the samsung rant to my evo
Just wanted to know which was better and why. I have a samsung I9000
Thanks
well if you save to google, and then you get a new android phone your contacts are always there when you login to your google account from your phone. i always save to google
save it on google. If anything happens to your phone, you will not need to worry about losing your contacts. It'll always be there and it's easier to edit contact on Google anyways. This is also helpful if you switch roms a lot. You wont have to copy out your contact and copy it back in everytime.
With applications like Google Sync, I was able to take my contacts and import them into my old Blackberry. When switching to my Android phone the import of contacts was automagical.
Save it to Google, and then export from there into a csv file an additonal backup.
My only issue with saving to Google is you can't assign custom ringtones to non-phone based contacts =/
Anyone know if this is fixed in 2.2?
I've lost my iPhone couple weeks ago and thanks gods all my contacts were in clouds!
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RadAway said:
My only issue with saving to Google is you can't assign custom ringtones to non-phone based contacts =/
Anyone know if this is fixed in 2.2?
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What do you want the ringtone for if it's not from a phone?
Another reason to like google vs phone ... It's damn convenient to add a contact on the web page as needed, especially if someone emails you the information and you can just copy&paste it.
I've used Google for mine ever since I bought the G1 when it came out. Come to think of it if I wouldn't have I'd probably not have all of my numbers.
Good stuff.
One question
I synced my contact to my Google account, and since it is syncing, if I accidentally deleted all my contact in the phone, it will probably delete the contact in my Google account too, right?
Or it can restore the backup?
tjhart85 said:
What do you want the ringtone for if it's not from a phone?
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Uh...I think the OP was referring to the difference between the Google contacts and the phone contacts. Meaning that you cannot set ringtones for Google (non-phone) contacts, not contacts without phone numbers.
Although, if there is one thing I really miss from when I initially switched from a Blackberry to the G1, two years ago, was being able to basically setup "filters" for incoming calls, emails and SMS, a customize how each filter was handled.
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One question
I synced my contact to my Google account, and since it is syncing, if I accidentally deleted all my contact in the phone, it will probably delete the contact in my Google account too, right?
Or it can restore the backup?
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Depends on the definition of "deleted"...
I don't think it is even possible to accidentally delete all of your contacts. They could be erased by some external means or memory failure, but the sync algorithm does not see that as a delete. A delete is selecting a contact and selecting "delete contact" from the context menu.
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Depends on the definition of "deleted"...
I don't think it is even possible to accidentally delete all of your contacts. They could be erased by some external means or memory failure, but the sync algorithm does not see that as a delete. A delete is selecting a contact and selecting "delete contact" from the context menu.
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Accidentally Delete means someone press delete all on the phone..
The sync will not remove contact from google if you delete from phone. As for ring tone, we'll just need some dev to port stock android contact over. In stock android contact you can set ring tone for individual contact without having the contact on the phone.
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Sounds like google is the way to go but how do I get my numbers in "groups" if its linked to google, such as doctors, freinds, family, work? I see that the google ones are a group themselves
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One question
I synced my contact to my Google account, and since it is syncing, if I accidentally deleted all my contact in the phone, it will probably delete the contact in my Google account too, right?
Or it can restore the backup?
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You can use backupify,com to backup your google contacts at certain intervals.
That's a nice option to have if you ever accidentally delete your contacts.
If you delete a google contact from your phone it WILL be deleted off of your account. It is a two way sync.
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Does anybody know how to sync contacts that are saved on the phone to google?
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Does anybody know how to sync contacts that are saved on the phone to google?
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Not directly.
There is no way to sync a phone contact to your Google contacts. You will have to create a separate Google contact.
I think a previous commenter gave the best advice to just use a ROM that has the vanilla android contact app. I think the TWIZ hybrid ROM has the vanilla contacts app.
I have the same complaint. I trying to hold off until there is a vanilla FroYo before using a custom ROM.
Does this mean that none of you are saving your contacts to your sim card?
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Does this mean that none of you are saving your contacts to your sim card?
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That's the least advanced way to save a contact because you can only have a name and number, that is all.
I use to save all contacts to sim with my old phones. As soon as I started using my google account I stopped saving to the sim. Mind you I've been with t-mobile for five years with the same sim.
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This morning some strange thing has happened. I added my HTCSense account to my DHD just to try. After couple of hours my notification bar signalled the link persons sign and when I opened the notification, it was showing multiple (20+) possible links. After checking I found out that all my contacts were duplicated and, that some of them were automatically linked. I think adding my sense account is responsable for this problem. Anybody else experienced this problem and suggestions to solve. Removing Sense account does not solve this, already tried.
I'm on stock 1.32, rooted and ENG S-OFF
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I have used Google Contact to remove all my duplicates.
Once you sync your contact list with Google account, you can go to http://www.google.com/contacts
There is a button called "Find Duplicates".
There are probably 100s of ways to fix this, but this has worked for me.
yes fixing it within gmail contact options, remove duplicates worked fine for me too
I don`t think he means that his google contacts are duplicated, i just think that google backed up your initial contacts, my question is: your initial contacts(before the duplicate) are on sim or phone ? because sense has a bug where it shows ALL your contacts (sim/phone/google) even if you tell him not to. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907275
All my contacts were on the phone, and came from outlook via HTC Sync.
After syncing, all the duplicates also appeared in outlook.
Happily I have assigned a category to all my contacts, and the newly duplicated ones didn't had any category so it was very easy to delete them from outlook, and sync again. Now they're all gone but also I removed my HTCSense account from my DHD
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Strange additional thing to mention.
I live in Holland and my last name is "de Vries" which (as you see) has two words. I normally have the "de" added to the first name and lastname will only by "Vries" in order to get them ordered in a proper way ("de Vries" is supposed to be found under "V")
Nothing strange to that, but the strange thing was that some of the duplicates were missing the "de" part of the name
Hi All,
This is easily the most frustrating issue I'm having with my phone. How the f*** do I make all my contacts just save to gmail, I don't want ANY saved on the phone, my phone died recently, when I got it back I was expecting HTC sense & google to have my contacts stored in their clouds, HTC sense wouldn't log back in (piece of crap) and apparently all my contacts were just saved to my phone...
I've been digging around and can't find anyway to move everything to gmail, the only way I know is to manually change the 'contact type' if it gets manually created.
Any help much appreciated!
Cheers,
G.
This may not be the answer you want but you will most like have to do it manually. The good news is you only have to do it once then it'll be on gmail automatically synced.
Go to contacts/menu/display options. Select to only view phone contact and then on your pc go to contacts in gmail and compare it with your phone.
You may be able to extract the contacts and import them to google but its been a while since I did this.
Does this make sense?
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This may not be the answer you want but you will most like have to do it manually. The good news is you only have to do it once then it'll be on gmail automatically synced.
Go to contacts/menu/display options. Select to only view phone contact and then on your pc go to contacts in gmail and compare it with your phone.
You may be able to extract the contacts and import them to google but its been a while since I did this.
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I think this is what you'll probably have to do. AFAIK theres no "move all to google contacts" button or setting.
You're kinda gonna be stuck moving them manually. After that you're good to go.
Contacts - menu - import/export .... this option is in contacts on cyanogenmod