Hi,
I have a Nexus 4, and by accident, I've managed to copy my gmail contacts to the SIM. Since doing this, I now can't remove these contacts which means my SIM card is full.
I've tried various SIM apps from the Play store, but they all say they can't delete contacts, or one of the apps confirms deletion, but then displays them again when you go back into the app!
Any way to sort this please?
Thanks
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I just order the vibrant and cant wait to root and flash a rom. If i flash rom, does it delete wipe everything on the phone? (contacts, setting, etc)
I flashed hundreds of times. Text message and phone record logs, yes. Names and numbers, no. Those are stored on the SIM card.
thank you... thats all i wanted to know
on simcard or your google account, depends where u have been creating/savimg them to
FYI anytime you save a contact i would recommend picking Google account instead of saving to the phone or the sim card. Anytime you log in with a phone that has Google support, all of your numbers should sync with it. (if you saved them to Google)
I didn't know people still saved contacts directly on the phone anymore. Why would you want to if saving them in a google account can have such info sync'ed to any phone automatically... especially on an Android handset. Even the crappy-ass iPhone has a method of doing this.
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digitall321 said:
I didn't know people still saved contacts directly on the phone anymore. Why would you want to if saving them in a google account can have such info sync'ed to any phone automatically... especially on an Android handset. Even the crappy-ass iPhone has a method of doing this.
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+1, plus it makes it easier to manage your contacts from the google contacts page.
Sms backup will backup all of your text messages to gmail.
Hi guys, this is my first post but ive been lurking here for a while trying to learn more about my phone.
This is a bit long winded so please bare with me..
I bought this phone about a week ago from rogers wireless. It's locked to rogers and i updated the phone with the SE updater to the latest version they have. I bought the phone under my contract and then gave it to my wife (her old phone broke so i thought it would be nice to give her a new one)
She's now using her old simcard in the phone and other than the phonebook contacts keep disappearing, everything else works fine and all the txt msgs are intact.
1) whenever i switch sims from her's back to mine, the phonebook will be cleared.
2) today she told me that the phonebook cleared even though she didnt touch the simcard.
any idea as to why this is happening? she thinks the phone is defective i think its just something software. Im going to try and do a factory reset on the phone and setup the entire phone w/ her sim instead of mine (which is what i originally done) and then update again on SE updates.
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I've had the problem too. It turned out that the synchronization with Gmail was the culprit. The phone saw that a given contact was not in the contact list in Gmail and therefore deleted it from the phone instead of adding it to the Gmail contact list. The same goes for changes to contacts - if I change something on the phone, it disappears when the phone syncs. If I want to keep the changes, I have to make them in the Gmail list. I don't know how to change that behaviour.
- Martin
Martin5000 said:
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I've had the problem too. It turned out that the synchronization with Gmail was the culprit. The phone saw that a given contact was not in the contact list in Gmail and therefore deleted it from the phone instead of adding it to the Gmail contact list. The same goes for changes to contacts - if I change something on the phone, it disappears when the phone syncs. If I want to keep the changes, I have to make them in the Gmail list. I don't know how to change that behaviour.
- Martin
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Yeah that's just BS. I didn't sync with Gmail right at the start, so when I finally did it last weekend, I lost all of my 249 contacts. Luckily, I had them backed up on my old sim card, so I restored them, but all the contact pictures, facebook links etc were lost
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wow! thanks for solving the mystery Martin!
Any idea how i can either import all those contacts to gmail's contacts (other than manually inserting them.. )
Man it's so friggin annoying to have to restore my contact book every time the damn google sync does a check.
badhobz said:
wow! thanks for solving the mystery Martin!
Any idea how i can either import all those contacts to gmail's contacts (other than manually inserting them.. )
Man it's so friggin annoying to have to restore my contact book every time the damn google sync does a check.
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You could just turn off google sync
well it seems like ive turned off google sync and yet it still has this problem. I figure it might be attributed to her having to log into google accounts??? there is a message on the notification bar sometimes that asks her to log into her google account. Could that be it?
Every time it doesn't detect a password/or has the user logged in, will it purge all the contacts? Is there even a safe way of backing up the contacts on SD card and then transferring that file to my HD so i can reformat the phone for her?
Alright, so I updated my phone last night via AT&T's OTA update and everything is all great and gingerbread-y. However, now only my Facebook and Google contacts will display on the dialer with no option to access my SIM card contacts. I've looked at the different display options for the dialer, but I have yet to find to an option to display SIM card contacts. My phone WAS rooted before I OTA'ed, but everything else is/ was stock when I updated. Any ideas?
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Alright, so I updated my phone last night via AT&T's OTA update and everything is all great and gingerbread-y. However, now only my Facebook and Google contacts will display on the dialer with no option to access my SIM card contacts. I've looked at the different display options for the dialer, but I have yet to find to an option to display SIM card contacts. My phone WAS rooted before I OTA'ed, but everything else is/ was stock when I updated. Any ideas?
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Phone Icon > Menu > Import/Export > Import Contacts from SIM Card.
So far only option.
And beware, it only works once. So export them somewhere after you improt them.
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And beware, it only works once. So export them somewhere after you improt them.
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I'd recommend getting them onto google then dining an export to an external file and save that somewhere safe. Thus not losing your contacts.
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Well, this is amazing. I tried importing my contacts and it gave me "Import contacts failed." I tried it a second time and now it says there are no contacts on my SIM card. Well thanks Motorola.
Check ur sim card first, and if there's no problem with it, read the contacts from another phone and export them, then upload to google.
anyway, everything goes down but not include G 囧
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Whenever i double tap the home button and want to call a contact, there are always multiple contacts that show for the same person. Yoy have to keep repeating the name until it finally calls. I have show only phone contacts to show and hiding sim ones. How can i avoid multiple contacts
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Do the multiple contact entries have different phone numbers or are they the same? You can go into a contact and hold down on the number and make it the default if they have more than one. Also, it may be a good idea to clean up your contacts. I had to do this with my gf. It was a mess. She had stuff in her google account, on her sim card, and with facebook with various names. I put all her contacts on her google account and cleared out everything else. You are probably getting contacts stored on the phone and your google voice contacts showing up.
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Do the multiple contact entries have different phone numbers or are they the same? You can go into a contact and hold down on the number and make it the default if they have more than one. Also, it may be a good idea to clean up your contacts. I had to do this with my gf. It was a mess. She had stuff in her google account, on her sim card, and with facebook with various names. I put all her contacts on her google account and cleared out everything else.
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The contacts have the same number. I only have one contact and name but it always says multiple found. I'm guessing it's still seeing the sim contact as well. If i long press on a contact there is no option to make it default.
indie said:
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The contacts have the same number. I only have one contact and name but it always says multiple found. I'm guessing it's still seeing the sim contact as well. If i long press on a contact there is no option to make it default.
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I think you are right. I would log on to google voice and check your contacts there and then delete them off the sim card. It's obsolete to have them on the sim card anyway because of it's limited storage and the cloud where you can have your contacts on all your devices. Plus if they're only on the sim and you lose it, they are gone.
BTW, the long press default option only shows up in a contact that has multiple numbers.
I think I have solved it. I deleted numbers from the sim card that was also present on the phone. I then exported all to SD card. I went to manage applications and the ontact storage and cleared phone storage for contacts. The only numbers that were left were around 5 on my sim. I then imported the vcf file from SD card. It then showed some duplicate numbers contacts that were not showing anywhere before !! I then deleted them and left only 1 of each. It now dials on first attempt and no more duplicate entries found
In Mi A1, I am not seeing any option to save newly created contact in phone or SIM, the only option is to save in google account. Also tried in google dedicated contact app from play store, but the option to save contact in phone or SIM is missing there as well in Google contact app. Anyone know any app or workaround to save contact in phone or SIM?
Use "LocalAccount" app from Play Store. Will do the trick.
That's be a use those options don't exist in stock Android. Sim cards in most places in the world have not been used for phone numbers in almost a decade so devices with it come with a separate app to make it happen
Contacts>>>>Menu then find 3 dots on top right corner and you find>>>>>Import\Export
Check this works
there is one way to save contacts in phine storage i.e first root your mobile and then by installing titanium backup,freeze google contacts sync.thats it your contacts will besaved to phone storage.
hope this helps.
This can't be for real ... is there still no way to store contacts on the device itself? What is Samsung doing that MIUI can't/won't?
I too was searching for this. There is no option in the mobile to do that.
Hopfully u could export all the contacts to SSD card and later use another Sim(new one), n
copy all contacts to it. U know phones before smart phones; were the ones that could do it.