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Multiple Contacts Help

Okay so i was just wondering if anyone can help me fix this little problem im having with my contacts when i text.
So whenever i go to compose a message and i want to add a contact, the contact shows up 3 times. For instance i type in "John" and it will give me 3 Johns all with the same number. I only have one John. So does anyone know how to make it just show the persons name and number once? Its not so much an issue but it just kinda bugs me. Im also not synced with google contacts or anything else.
Thanks in advance

I have the same issue also, very annoying..

ditto!!
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Yea, same. Is it because we have more then one selected under the options for view when under the regular contacts.... IE---> Phone ---> Contacts ---> View

jjlean said:
Yea, same. Is it because we have more then one selected under the options for view when under the regular contacts.... IE---> Phone ---> Contacts ---> View
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I dont think its that because i always uncheck all of them and only view contacts from the SIM. I noticed it on both the stock and ICE roms. maybe its a sense thing iono.

If you link your similar contacts, then this problem will be resolved. I think.....
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yes, i believe linking your contacts together will solve this problem...
you are probably getting one number from sim and another number from FB.

ESKIMOn00b said:
yes, i believe linking your contacts together will solve this problem...
you are probably getting one number from sim and another number from FB.
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I tried, still didnt work , maybe its just my phone. thanks

The same thing happens to me when ever I factory reset or what not. Go to your contacts list, pick one of your duplicates, long press and select edit. Press menu key then select join. Pick one of the multiple names and confirm. Then select join again and select the last duplicate of that name. Confirm. Now when you go back to your contact list there should be only one of that name. Repeat for other contacts. Now if your having multiple names pop up when you text still, you need to edit contacts again and this time delete all the duplicates.
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Those 2 methods should fix your problem until you factory reset. Rebooting your phone will not undo the changes, but again a factory reset will, ie, whenever you flash a new rom
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Glad I Looked Here First
I was about to start a new thread defining the same issue. Got my G4 last week and experienced the multiple contacts on the native apps. Using "Companionlink" to sync my Outlook contacts with "DejaOffice". Works like a champ so far but it does seem like unnecessary duplication.

greygoose0 said:
The same thing happens to me when ever I factory reset or what not. Go to your contacts list, pick one of your duplicates, long press and select edit. Press menu key then select join. Pick one of the multiple names and confirm. Then select join again and select the last duplicate of that name. Confirm. Now when you go back to your contact list there should be only one of that name. Repeat for other contacts. Now if your having multiple names pop up when you text still, you need to edit contacts again and this time delete all the duplicates.
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Yeah i just ended up Viewing all the contacts and just deleting the duplicates. Thanks

[Q] Gmail App

How do you delete messages out of the trash folder in the gmail app?
All I see are commands for making it read/unread, or refiling it into another folder... but I can't find anyway to delete them out of the trash.
Also the one's that get moved to the trash (by me) on my Xoom won't show up in my trash folder in my iphone.. which is odd to me, so i can't even use my iphone to delete these messages if i put them in the trash folder on my Xoom...
I hate having 920348432534 messages in my trash.
Any help will be appreciated.

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Does anyone know?
lol... is it a missing feature? I was hoping I was just being slightly naive and missing a button somewhere.

RadDudeTommy said:
How do you delete messages out of the trash folder in the gmail app?
All I see are commands for making it read/unread, or refiling it into another folder... but I can't find anyway to delete them out of the trash.
Also the one's that get moved to the trash (by me) on my Xoom won't show up in my trash folder in my iphone.. which is odd to me, so i can't even use my iphone to delete these messages if i put them in the trash folder on my Xoom...
I hate having 920348432534 messages in my trash.
Any help will be appreciated.
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It can be done.
Select message(s) (Long press)
Select icon that shows angled envelope over a horizontal bar.

mjpacheco said:
It can be done.
Select message(s) (Long press)
Select icon that shows angled envelope over a horizontal bar.
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That doesn't delete it, it archives it... if i do that then go to "All Mail" it's still there.

RadDudeTommy said:
That doesn't delete it, it archives it... if i do that then go to "All Mail" it's still there.
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Actually it's just sticking back in my inbox and popping up a new message notification.

Probably not there on purpose as it goes against the Gmail way of doing things. They don't want you to delete anything.
-Bauxite
Sent from my Evo 4G

Bauxite said:
Probably not there on purpose as it goes against the Gmail way of doing things. They don't want you to delete anything.
-Bauxite
Sent from my Evo 4G
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Well this would be a mistake. Cause it would make me have to go on a computer everytime i want to clear my trash... Which for me is quite frequently...
I don't know about anyone else, but when i want something deleted i don't want it to go to another folder and infinitely sit there... what's the point of deleting then?

doesn't gmail periodically empty the trash folder?

They might... and if that's what i have to rely on, i guess that will have to do.
I was just wanting to find out if i was missing something, or if the feature is actually missing. And it looks like it's missing.
which is a little irritating, but whatever.

The desktop version of Gmail deletes Trash messagse when they're 30 days old. That naturally deletes them from your Xoom's Gmail app, as well.
If there's a way to empty the trash any earlier from the Gmail app, I haven't found it.

This made me look at my gmail folder . I found that on in my evo/xoom/gmail.com all 3 trash folders were the same (all emails found in all 3 places). Every email i deleted from either of the 3 was automatically deleted from the other two. The only way to permanently delete them is from the website (on your computer or xoom). Or just wait 30 days...haha.

Facebook will not sync with contacts

Just got my new replacement DX, having trouble. I got and add my facebook account to try and sync. When I go to Contacts>Menu>More>Manage Accounts> and click my facebook account, it has the login and says "remove account" then at the bottom it says OK and Cancel. OK brings me back. When I click on the google, it lets me sync.
How do i sync all of my facebook contacts if its not letting me?

Open your facebook app and go menu-settings and at the bottom should be sync contacts.
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Thanks! I was having the same problem.

When I open the FB app then scroll down in the settings the last option I see is "Other Settings" but I cannot scroll down to it. It is like that is the end of the menu. I see no setting to do this All my contats still show their original picture when I first setup my phone and new friends do not get added.
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crobs808 said:
When I open the FB app then scroll down in the settings the last option I see is "Other Settings" but I cannot scroll down to it. It is like that is the end of the menu. I see no setting to do this All my contats still show their original picture when I first setup my phone and new friends do not get added.
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Crobs,
I had a similiar issue and my fix was to remove the account, reboot phone and re-add the account and it synched up fine after that. I hope this helps.

None have worked thus far...

mrpurplehawk said:
...Contacts>Menu>More>Manage Accounts>...
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I use Accounts>Social networking>add social network not contacts....
They do get added to my contacts, but that's not where I set them up at. I have had synch break a couple of times and had to re-set them up.
I'm running 340.

Randomly all synced... not *****ing lol

Fix for FB Contacts not Syncing
I have seen this in multiple forum sites. So I am attaching a fix that you flash through CW so that you can sync your contacts again. I hope this helps someone!

Will this work on ICS roms?

crobs808 said:
Will this work on ICS roms?
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I'm having the same problem. My contacts don't sync fb pictures. Really making the contacts box boring. Running b00sted ICS build 2, which I must say is the nicest ROM i've ever flashed, even though it isn't perfect.

FYI - As of ICS leak 6.7.232, FB contacts/photo sync is working again! Upgrade to ICS and kiss this problem (along with tons of others) goodbye!
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How do I open an email draft I saved?

I hit "save draft" it popped me out
Later I'm back in and there's no drafts folder, not in the outbox...
Lil help?
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What app are you using for email?
If it is gmail, push the inbox button in the top left corner and go to drafts.

I guess its gmail...its whatever the default email app is.
Even though I hit "SAVE DRAFT" I have no drafts folder when I click the top left. I have inbox, trash, outbox (empty) and sent.
Silly thing.....

You guess? It makes a huge difference what app you are using. Is the name of the app gmail or email?

Its says email in the apps drawer...its such a generic looking name I assumed it was a shortcut to "the email app do jour ".... so "email " is the name of the app
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Oh ok thank you. I just set up my account using that app, and I think I got it.
Open the app, press the menu key. Then select folders and look for something with the word "drafts". For me it was GMAIL/Drafts because I have a gmail account. It may be labeled something else if you're using a different provider

Jmoney47,
Thanks for spending time with me and sorry about the delayed response..... unfortunately there was no drafts folder.
But... problem solved!!!!
I am using the messaging widget, and on the opening screen where I can see all my accounts there is a green plus on the title bar top right. When you press that plus you see all of the unsent messages that were partially started. You can either start a new message from there or select any of the partially composed messages and complete them.
It's almost like a generic draft folder for all email clients.... once again the droid o s makes things so easy that they hide in plain sight!
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I'm glad you figured it out

[Q] Reinstallilng native 'email' app on Nexus 7

I installed the K-9 email app on my tablet. It seemed like the native app (titled 'Email') was causing some syncing problems, so I disabled it, or so I thought. When I realized that the syncing issue was probably not related to the Email app, I went to reactivate it, but I could not find it anywhere; I looked in Settings > Apps > All, but didn't find it.
I'm not sure what happened, though I'm pretty darn sure I didn't uninstall the app (someone on another thread said you can't uninstall the native Android/Google-supplied apps only disable them)
So can anyone take a stab and telling me what may have happened here? And how I might be able to get the app reinstalled on my Tablet.
As an aside, there are some things that I really like about K-9 email app over the native one, mostly that it has a 'select all' feature, so I can more easily select emails in the Trash folder to delete them. The native app only let you select emails one at a time--even in the Trash and Spam folders--which was a royal pain in the toosh. One downside to K-9 is it doesn't seem that the Trash folder is synced up to the Trash folder on my ISP's server. I can delete emails in the trash folder in K-9, but they are still waiting there for me when I view them back on my PC in either webmail or in Thunderbird. Not sure why this is happening, but it only seems to be true for the Trash folder.
Best, David

freedda said:
I installed the K-9 email app on my tablet. It seemed like the native app (titled 'Email') was causing some syncing problems, so I disabled it, or so I thought. When I realized that the syncing issue was probably not related to the Email app, I went to reactivate it, but I could not find it anywhere; I looked in Settings > Apps > All, but didn't find it.
I'm not sure what happened, though I'm pretty darn sure I didn't uninstall the app (someone on another thread said you can't uninstall the native Android/Google-supplied apps only disable them)
So can anyone take a stab and telling me what may have happened here? And how I might be able to get the app reinstalled on my Tablet.
As an aside, there are some things that I really like about K-9 email app over the native one, mostly that it has a 'select all' feature, so I can more easily select emails in the Trash folder to delete them. The native app only let you select emails one at a time--even in the Trash and Spam folders--which was a royal pain in the toosh. One downside to K-9 is it doesn't seem that the Trash folder is synced up to the Trash folder on my ISP's server. I can delete emails in the trash folder in K-9, but they are still waiting there for me when I view them back on my PC in either webmail or in Thunderbird. Not sure why this is happening, but it only seems to be true for the Trash folder.
Best, David
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If all you did was disable the app from the App Info page, you'll find it in one of two places.
a) If you're running Android 4.3, the furthest list to the right in the Apps settings menu will be Disabled apps.
b) If you're not, then scroll to the very bottom of the list and you should see any disabled apps there.

Re-installing Email app
Thanks for info. I did look in the apps 'all' list and Email is not there, so it looks like--despite my best intentions--I did delete the app. I wonder if there's a way of re-installing it? From what I've read, it is not an app that's been made available on its own by Google. Maybe there's a place I can request it?
In the mean time, I still have K-9 email app, which is working, but has some quirks to it.
Best, David
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If all you did was disable the app from the App Info page, you'll find it in one of two places.
a) If you're running Android 4.3, the furthest list to the right in the Apps settings menu will be Disabled apps.
b) If you're not, then scroll to the very bottom of the list and you should see any disabled apps there.
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freedda said:
Thanks for info. I did look in the apps 'all' list and Email is not there, so it looks like--despite my best intentions--I did delete the app. I wonder if there's a way of re-installing it? From what I've read, it is not an app that's been made available on its own by Google. Maybe there's a place I can request it?
In the mean time, I still have K-9 email app, which is working, but has some quirks to it.
Best, David
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That really shouldn't be possible. The stock e-mail app is installed to /system, so you can roll back any (of the non-existent) updates or disable it, but not uninstall it by default. What exactly are you running on your tablet right now?

Use a file explorer (ES File Explorer) and navigate to the /system/app directory and check to see if the email apk is there. If not, then you must somehow have uninstalled it. If that's the case, then here are the links to Email.apk and Exchange2.apk. Move them to /system/app and set permission to rw-r--r--
http://db.tt/vOwdMNPh
http://db.tt/oktx8ekd
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