From many backups and transfers across different phones and platforms most of my contacts are associated with multiple accounts. I always create them on the device and don´t sync with google or facebook or anything else. I use myphonexplorer to sync with outlook on the PC. I understand that a device based contact will also showup as a Skype, Google or Viber contact, since I use those apps.
That said, what I can´t figure is how to remove what I suppose is residual information from previous transfers between devices and accounts. When I edit a contact, sometimes other than the device tab it will have viber (which is expected) and google (expected when I have a google email for that contact), but will also have google tab on contacts that are not in my google account and the google tab will often show up twice. The only way I can clean up the contacts of the excess google tabs is deleting them and creating them again. 500+ contacts its a hassle, to say the least. Has anyone else experienced this and does anyone have a solution?
Again, these are not traditional duplicates, that can be merged: its duplicate information within the contact, having it saved on various accounts.
TIA for any advise
Nuno
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I think this is the answer many of us are looking for to only have My Contacts Sync not all contacts.
Go to People->Menu->View->uncheck "Show auto Gmail Contacts" and "Google"
So you should only have Only contacts with phone #'s and Phones if you want.
Also here is a link to the Google Gmail Contact help section discussing this problem with 1.5 so a few things you will notice are different.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=3836f88898c31b01&hl=en
Hope this helps.
This solved the problem of syncing just My Contacts. This will not sync all contacts!
when i do it, it doesn't do anything.
with "Google" unchecked, the accounts sync doesn't do anything because the People app isn't even searching through my Google account for the contacts (but it is checked in the Data & Synchronization setting screen)
If Google is selected then it will pull All Contacts, The only downside to syncing Only contacts with #'s is if you only email someone they wont show.
See, Google expects you to keep your contact list clean and in good order. They figure that if you have a contact in all contact then you probably want them on all synced devices. So if you want it to work a different way you have to be tricky. This is an amazing phone and Android does have some limitations but we can't have everything. I also think that people would start complaining that this contact or that contact is on their phone if Android had to many options and one got switched on accident. So this is my work around and anyone that i know that I contact that doesn't have a # I put in a bogus one and then they show up.
i have a more shoddy way of working around it, though i'm experience problems with contact sync in general right now
what you could do is just use another Google account and use that one to solely sync your contacts. just export from your main account and import to the contact only one, and sync from there
however, my problem right now is that the phone won't do any sort of contact sync at all with contacts. anyone know why this might be?
Did you flash the 2.1 file? If so try to reinstall it.
I recently upgraded to Froyo and am now having serious problems with synching calendar items which were created on the device by third-party applications. To be more precise I used Call Log Calendar until now to log messages and calls to a dedicated Google Calendar. The entries do appear on my i9000 but never get synched to the online version of the calendar - unless I open them with the integrated calendar app and save them once (without changing anything). The author of the programm actually confirmed that this problem exists under Samsung's version of Froyo (due to a change/bug in the calendar api). All third-party programs should be affected. Could someone please confirm this?
I can confirm this after just checking my "Call Logs" work calendar and seeing zero events since upgrading to Froyo. Forcing a sync didn't change anything, either. Nuts.
maybe try re-adding your user account to the phone to sync with Gmail account
then forcing a sync, and see if successive syncs are automatic or not
You can't remove a primary Google Account unless you do a factory reset. However, I did even that. Still doesn't work. I'm loosing faith in Samsung....
samsung / google are 2 separate entities
how can you blame samsung when it's google account sync that is not working?
now if more than 51% of the XDA owners of SGS have the same problem, then we can say it's a samsung problem
but when most of the owners have no problem syncing their phones with google, then it just leaves to be a problem with the specific unit you are using, or something to do with your account
there was a trick some one mentioned on another topic to fix bugs in google accounts
you have to login to youtube or link up your gmail account with the youtube account, then it'll fix whatever was the problem that was preventing you from syncing.
i had a similar issue before and it worked indirectly, i actually found out it was a problem with the name of my account that google didn't like, according to youtube
Hi all,
I searched everywhere for this feature, but I haven't found it. It probably isn't there because it's hard to implement?
I have contacts from skype, gmail, live mail, my pc, exchange, etc.
Google asks me to link those account. It does that very good. But I want more.
Some exchange contacts have more information on one person then some contacts on my pc or gmail and the other way arrround. I would like an app that sets the contact information the same on every account and if there is a conflict of data not matching it should notify me so I could choose what is the right information.
It probably isn't there, but if there is, please let me know!
(weather it's an app, a service or setting, etc.).
Hello there Android friends,
I'm having difficulties with syncing my contacts with google properly.
There is this function within SGS2 that allows "joining contacts". Therefore allowing us to join a contacts’ email to its telephone number.
I have been spending quite a lot of time rectifying my contacts like so. And then after this I synced my efforts with Google.
However, when I go to my gmail and press the contacts button, the changes are not transferred (or synced) with google, the data is still separated. With data I mean, the cellphone and emails of the same contacts.
I have also tried this by connecting my USB and viewing my contacts with Kies, however the same problem applies again.
Aside from this all other google services sync correctly, implying that my sync setting should be okay, right? (auto-sync is turned on, sync contacts is turned on)
Related to this, what does the function “merge with google” do at contacts>menu>Merge with google.
Thnx in advance
I don't believe contact linking actually changes the base google contact, it just links the two, aka the extra data won't be added to google.
I would think merge with google would transfer all your contacts to google contacts but i haven't tried it so I can't be sure.
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Hello,
I'm having duplicate contacts on my phone. Can anyone help?
I'm getting 2 contacts for everything. Looks like the phone is creating multiple contacts, Is it possible to avoid this (rather than stop syncing with fb and gtalk)
thanks
Maybe it's showing your google contacts and your phone contacts, or your phone and sim contacts, have a look in your settings in the contacts screen, and make sure you only have one of the settings ticked.
Also if you are importing to gmail account, you can use gmail to remove duplicate contacts.
It all depends where the contacts come from.
If you go into the gmail web version on a computer and look up the contacts and there are duplicates - then delete the duplicates and sync.
If the duplicate contacts are stored on the SIM - then either delete them or choose the option not to view them.
If the duplicate contacts are stored on the phone (but do not sync with gmail) - I would just delete them (you could always back them up with KIES on the computer).
If the duplicate contacts come from different applications (gmail, facebook, etc) then you just 'link' them. This way gmail will sync only with the gamil contacts and Facebook will only sync with the facebook contacts but most importantly you only see a single contact with all the info from both souces in it.
Related question.
Is there any way to backup and restore linked contacts when you do a full wipe and restore? Titanium Backup doesn't seem to like doing this, and linking them again really annoys me.
Any ideas?