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Hi there,
I'm having a small problem when I come to type text messages. When I add recipient, I have 2 entries for all my names; one sim and one contacts. I had a similar problem in my 'people' folder but there was a menu option to display sim only contacts. However there doesn't appear to be a similar option in the messaging menu. Does anyone know how I can overcome this so I only have one number displayed for each of my contacts?
Thanks in advance
I have the same problem and would like to know if anyone has a fix for this. Most annoying and has led me to delete all my contacts from my SIM card, which is not ideal as I like it as a backup...
Yes I was thinking of deleting all mine from sim card too but as you say, not an ideal solution if phone then ends up having a major crash!
BsB Tweaks and disable "show sim contacts"??
thanks ill give that a try. I'm quite new to all this as you can probably tell
hmmm..... I've installed the bsb tweaks (very useful program), and turned off the option for show sim contacts, but I still have the duplicate entries in messaging. any more ideas?
anyone have any other ideas regarding this issue? the option in bsb tweaks does not appear to make any difference.
thanks
does anyone know why I am still having this issue? I've installed latest version of BsB tweaks but I still get my sim contacts displayed when txting
Did you by any chance do a ROM upgrade and restored data from a back up software?
On the duplicate contacts, do you see a blank face and a sim card or two blank faces?
no not performed any ROM updates, just running the O2 rom (1.43)
when I go to add recipient after typing a txt, there is both the blank face and the sim card symbol for each contact
soft reset?
I had this problem, deleted all contacts from the device and just used SIM contacts. Works a charm. Use 'select all' and then delete...but make sure you are on the device list and not the SIM list, or you'll accidentally delete your SIM contacts (mind you, you could always copy them back if they're still on the device).
l3mm said:
no not performed any ROM updates, just running the O2 rom (1.43)
when I go to add recipient after typing a txt, there is both the blank face and the sim card symbol for each contact
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What I did is, I copied all my sim contacts to phone, then I selected to hide Sim contacts. I don't get any duplicates.
erosennin said:
What I did is, I copied all my sim contacts to phone, then I selected to hide Sim contacts. I don't get any duplicates.
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That works in the contacts list but doesn't seem to in the text messaging app.
Anyone solve this yet?
Karlos G said:
Anyone solve this yet?
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Yes, look at post 12 in this thread. I had this problem but don't anymore after deleting all device contacts and just using SIM.
up. need help on this
Hi -
I've noticed a bit of a weird problem with certain contacts. I sent a couple of text messages through my contact list but when the replies came in the contact names didn't show up just the number did, and for one it just said 'un named'.
Does anyone know how to fix it? The numbers were exactly the same as in the contact list.
Thanks
Hi - does anyone know how to edit or remove favourites on the contacts screen? None of the menu options has it (or it's not obvious). I've set up some contacts with the "wrong" default contact method and I want to change it.
Thanks.
PS unlocked Desire from Clove - arrived Wednesday 14th April.
Press - People after that Groups, select Favorites and long press over the contact
soledue said:
Press - People after that Groups, select Favorites and long press over the contact
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Thanks Soledue. Typical - I sort of discovered the method not long after I posted and it's how you describe. The people widget can show any group - Favorites is just one of them! Cheers.
Am I being really dumb, because I'm having a problem with this too and your solution doesn't seem to solve it!?
All I want to do is remove some people from the "Favorites" group.
I have selected that contact, chosen "Edit", opened the groups list and unchecked the box. The list on the contact's screen still shows "Favorites" and they still appear on the widget. Go back in to edit the contact and the box is still unchecked.
If I open People and then open the groups screen, select the group and long press the contact I have the following menu items: "Call Mobile", "Edit Contact", "Delete Contact", and "Send contact as vCard". Delete contact does exactly that, delete's them completely from the phone.
So how can I get these people out of the Favorites group???
It's prob cause it's still on the Google sync'd contact...had some issues with it myself
EddyOS said:
It's prob cause it's still on the Google sync'd contact...had some issues with it myself
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My feeling was the same, especially since I have been able to get the contacts removed from the group and widget only to have them reappear minutes later. I assumed this was the result of the phone sync'ing. But I can't quite figure it out... if I view the contact in gmail they aren't a member of the "Starred" group and there is no "Favorite" group, so I think that group must be local to the device.
I am getting the same also, if you view the details they are not in any group, yet show on the widget and in the favourites group itself. Even went to google and removed the notes that, I think, related to the group entry???
Same problem here!
I've added a contact to the Favorites Tab and now I can't delete it from the Group. I've tried all the methods from above posts but none works.
Does anyone know how to fix this, because it's quite frustrating!
The only prob I have , i that every group has " voice mail " in it .. at the top!!...
cant get rid of it .. and it's not part of grp settings
any ideas?
i would like to know that how can i remove the Voicemail number from the contact list widget? tried doing it many times but it keeps on showing no matter what. i dont have a voicemail number and if i had it, it will never be my fave number ever. please help
deepakoffline said:
i would like to know that how can i remove the Voicemail number from the contact list widget? tried doing it many times but it keeps on showing no matter what. i dont have a voicemail number and if i had it, it will never be my fave number ever. please help
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i only hope that someone will help me
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Press - People after that Groups, select Favorites and long press over the contact
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I have spent all day trying to remove one contact that was stuck in the favourites and your idea worked instantly.
I could remove and add other users just not this particular people.
Thank you
I have had a similar issue to all mentioned in this thread, and there is a way to resolve it.
I beleive the problem is caused by multiple entries per contact. These entries are from your contact, sim contact, google contacts etc.
This is how I fixed the issue;
>Click on the people app
>Select the contact you want to fix (unfortunately it has to be done individually)
>on the top right of the screen there will be something call "Linked", tap on this
>this now shows you what this contact is linked to. If it shows multiple phone, facebook, google etc unlink them all
>make sure you only 1 phone contact, in this set the Group to favourite (or whatever you want), now either link the google/hotmail etc ones to it, or copy the details to the contact and delete all duplicate details
I have condensed mine to phone contact and facebook (plus a few with google).
The desire links all different contact details from various form together. when it does this it picks its own default one, hence you have favourites that aren't, or vice versa.
It took me about 2 to 3 hours to go through my entire contacts list sort it out, pain-staking, but well worth it
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Press - People after that Groups, select Favorites and long press over the contact
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THANK YOU!
I'd been at the groups menu and looked at my favorite contacts, but it never occurred to me to remove them from the group directly! Spent several hours editing this one contact I was dying to remove from favorites, only to find it stuck as a favorite. Went through my Google Contacts settings over and over, synchronizing manually every minute after un-starring it, but this was what I was looking for!
I registered only to thank you ^^
Im rather confussed
I have just got my ideos..
what widget r u talking about? I have no contact app.
Im wanting to deleted the people out of the "favroites" in the phone book area...
Please explain to me what to do???
thanks
Firstly, I'd like to apologise if this has been touched up on before, I did a search but couldn't find much.
Secondly, I've been reading the forums for a while and thought I'd register as to seek help for my little problem...
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To put it simply, I have all my contacts stored in my Gmail account. After installing Wildpuzzle, I decided to clean up my contact list to make my phone a bit more organised.
The problem, is that when I receive a text message (SMS) from anyone, it does not show up as their name in my Messages app. It simply shows the full number (inc. international dialing code) with no picture and no name.
For example, let's say I save 'Bob' in my Contacts list as: "07123456789". When I receive a text it does not show 'Bob's name, only "+447123456789".
Now, if I was to edit 'Bob's contact card so it was stored as "+447123456789" then it does show his name.
Has anyone else come across this before? I don't really want to have to go through all the phone numbers in my Contacts and put +44 in front and remove the 0.
Thanks in advance.
Its a known bug, has been posted in the wildpuzzle-thread many times. But if you have all your numbers on gmail-account its pretty easy to put "+44" before the numbers on each contacts, it took me about 10 minutes, only having like 90 contacts, but anyway, not that hard to fix with a little time =)
Yeah, I had a feeling that this was the case due to the lack-of-response from people.
Anyway, got bored at work so I changed them all now. Bit of a pain in the arse, but you have to make these sacrifices for such great software
Anyone figured out how to get rid of dupe contacts on the phone app? On the contacts app, they show up fine. But, on the phone app, I sometimes show three listings for the same person - due to whatsapp and duo being added for the same contact.
Thanks.
same problem here...with Xiaomi mi a2
Open your contact app > tap on the 3 dots setting at the top right corner > customize view > select customize > uncheck every boxes but my contact.
Let me know if it works?
Caltinpla said:
Open your contact app > tap on the 3 dots setting at the top right corner > customize view > select customize > uncheck every boxes but my contact.
Let me know if it works?
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Thanks,
But this didn't solve that.
On Contacts app i see every contact once, but on the Phone app i see 2 entries for every contact, i mean everything is duplicated. when i'm opening each contact i see that one entry is for his phone, and the other is for his Whatapp's account.
I removed Whatsapp app and now nothing is duplicated on the Phone app, but when i'm reinstalling the whatsapp - again everything is duplication in the Phone app (the contact app is always fine, no duplicates).
I saw this bug online, but nothing that people offered helped me.
This is a new phone, it's the Xiaomi mi A2 with Oreo 8.1.0.
Please advise
idopes said:
Thanks,
But this didn't solve that.
On Contacts app i see every contact once, but on the Phone app i see 2 entries for every contact, i mean everything is duplicated. when i'm opening each contact i see that one entry is for his phone, and the other is for his Whatapp's account.
I removed Whatsapp app and now nothing is duplicated on the Phone app, but when i'm reinstalling the whatsapp - again everything is duplication in the Phone app (the contact app is always fine, no duplicates).
I saw this bug online, but nothing that people offered helped me.
This is a new phone, it's the Xiaomi mi A2 with Oreo 8.1.0.
Please advise
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I don't want to be rude but this is Essential phone forum so I don't have your kind of phone to replicate the issue that you are having.
Did you contact Xiaomi tech support for help?
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I don't want to be rude but this is Essential phone forum so I don't have your kind of phone to replicate the issue that you are having.
Did you contact Xiaomi tech support for help?
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Everything cool
I contact them vie email, they didn't reply yet.
I don't believe it's something that caused by the phone model or brand, i believe it's a bug that sometimes happen on Android..
idopes said:
Everything cool
I contact them vie email, they didn't reply yet.
I don't believe it's something that caused by the phone model or brand, i believe it's a bug that sometimes happen on Android..
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Check this out...it might help.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/forum....o/workaround-duplicate-contacts-t3740903/amp/
rtype0 said:
Anyone figured out how to get rid of dupe contacts on the phone app? On the contacts app, they show up fine. But, on the phone app, I sometimes show three listings for the same person - due to whatsapp and duo being added for the same contact.
Thanks.
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Unsync the offending accounts...
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Check this out...it might help.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/forum....o/workaround-duplicate-contacts-t3740903/amp/
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Thanks, But that didn't help,
When i'm doing :
Code:
1- Goto settings>Apps & notifications>App info,then search for whatsapp>Permissions,then turn off contacts permission.
and opening whatsapp, all the chats are without the contact name, just bare numbers..
Ok...I found a fix for this. It has to do with the different way Google and WhatsApp handles international numbers. I had to change the way my numbers were in my google contacts from 123-456-7890 to +1123-456-7890. Strangely, it was already displaying that way when I viewed my google contacts on my desktop; however, when I edited them on my phone contacts app, I didn't have the +1. So for anyone else having this issue, make sure to add the '+' and your country's international code to the beginning. If you have a lot of contacts to change, you might want to export your numbers as csv, use a spreadsheet program to concatenate the '+ country code', then import them back.
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Unsync the offending accounts...
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Thanks, but unsyncing didn't really work.
I sent this bug to Xiaomi, and they weirdly replied :
Hi Ido,
Greetings from Xiaomi!
Thank you for writing to us.
Sorry for the delay in response.
I understand that you are facing the issue with your Mi A2 due to duplicate contacts. I regret the inconvenience.
With respect to your concern, would like to inform you that this an inbuilt feature of Mi A2/A1 phone that Whatsapp and Google account contacts could not be merged and they remain separately shown in the contact list of the device.
I regret that there is no way to merge the duplicate contacts of both the accounts. We regret the discomfort this may have caused you.
However, I will definitely transfer your feedback to our concerned authorities so that they can work upon the same. We assure you that we would do our best in order to avoid any further inconvenience to our customers. We value your opinion and see it as an opportunity to learn and improve.
Hope your bond with Xiaomi stays forever and we walk a long distance together.
Please get in touch with us if you need any further assistance.
Regards,
Suman
Xiaomi Customer Support
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Had the same problem
I found a solution for my Xiaomi A2. The new google contacts website on my pc shows a flag in front of the phone number of the contact while i had still the country pre selection code within the phone number. I removed the +YourCountryPreSelection, while leaving the correct flag, then the double contacts in the phone app disappears after a sync.
On some contacts without a country pre select number in front of the phone number i had simply to edit the number.
After some more playing around it most likely is enough just to edit the phone number via browser.
Quick solution. - Download Merge+ from Google Play Store - it worked for me