why cant i call up contacts in my inbox while writing an sms? i own a t-mobile. i can only send sms to my contacts from the sms icon in the tray.
my contacts in my inbox is empty.
has anyone also had this problem?
thanx for your help...
Hmmmm... I never saw any contacts folder in my inbox. Maybe someting with ActiveSync went wrong with your device?
Or do you mean when tapping on the "To:" line the MDA will show an empty contacts list?
AFAIK the list will only show phone numbers entered as mobile numpbers and email adresses. Other phone numbers won't show because they're not supposed to receive SMS, which of cause is not always true.
Martin
thanx, i'll try to change the numbers then into mobile numbers.
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Hey guys
When I try to type a new message and then select add recipient it gives me a long list with facebook account and gmail, Is there a way to only show the phone contacts when selecting a recipient?
I disabled the facebook and gmail contacts from displaying on phonebook but it doesn't seems to affect messaging!!
Apologies but I'm going to answer your question with another question: Why don't you download Handcent from Market? Free download and works well.
As for the stock messaging app, try going into contacts and click the 3 heads icon at the top left and choose contacts with phone number, under Phone contact choose contact.
Not sure if it will solve it but have a go.
Hi
Then I write SMS and have to point contact to whom send SMS. I open the list of contacts but in it I see not only my contacts from phone book but also my FB and gmail contacts. How can I do so that I would see only my phone book's list?
Thanks
Nepyk said:
Hi
Then I write SMS and have to point contact to whom send SMS. I open the list of contacts but in it I see not only my contacts from phone book but also my FB and gmail contacts. How can I do so that I would see only my phone book's list?
Thanks
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where are you from? and what version n carrier u using?
Lithuanian but I did not understand the other part of question
Try this
Open Contacts>Menu>Display options, find Facebook and whatever account you have and uncheck the contacts box.
They are unchecked. In phone book my contacts are sync with my gmail acc contact's one folder. And in that place only that option is check. So in my phone book I see only contacts from my gmail acc folder, witch contais information about my numbers, but in sms I also see my other gmail contacts (to whom I have writen emails and so on) where is the problem?
Nepyk said:
They are unchecked. In phone book my contacts are sync with my gmail acc contact's one folder. And in that place only that option is check. So in my phone book I see only contacts from my gmail acc folder, witch contais information about my numbers, but in sms I also see my other gmail contacts (to whom I have writen emails and so on) where is the problem?
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OK I see what you mean. I think that's just how Android work.
Try Settings>Accounts and Sync>Look for different account and un-check "Contacts"
It did not change anything. In contanct list I still see all sort of things (emails, persons contacts and so one). ANd what I noticed that in this list there are all groups from my Gmail acc contacts. Then I want to see only one of it witch it is call Tel. I can do this by choosing in upper meniu Groups and so on then I have to point receiver of sms. Maybe where are more suggesstions?
I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I have noticed that my contacts are all fine when I look them up to call or browse but when I want to send a sms and go to select a contact I have a heap of contacts that shouldn't be there and a lot of them repeat themselves several times. I have cleared all my contacts from my gmail account and from both phone and sim card but they remain in my sms contact and i cant delete them. Its frustrating having to scroll through all the names that shouldn't be there when ever I want to send a sms.
Would a factory reset clear all my contacts?
I am using galaxy s2 with skyrom 8 xxkh3
android version 2.3.4
Do you use Facebook for Android? If so, did you select it sync at all? If so, it syncs all facebook contacts to the SMS area you are talking about. Easiest way to check is by opening the Facebook app then: Menu -> Settings -> Scroll all the way down -> Sync Contacts -> Remove Facebook Data
It's the same with any social media app, like Twitter. Twitter is the same way.
Let me know it worked for ya!
thanks David for your suggestions. I don't have or use facebook. I do have it synced with gmail and hotmail but I have cleaned out both accounts contacts and then synced it again but no change. I have also removed all contacts from phone and the sms contacts still remain.
I cant understand why the sms contact list repeats itself several times
zuesdog said:
thanks David for your suggestions. I don't have or use facebook. I do have it synced with gmail and hotmail but I have cleaned out both accounts contacts and then synced it again but no change. I have also removed all contacts from phone and the sms contacts still remain.
I cant understand why the sms contact list repeats itself several times
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You can try backing up your text messages with an app and then clearing data for your SMS application. I'm not sure if it will work, but it's worth a shot.
You can also try using a third party SMS app (like Hsndcent, Chomp, or Go SMS) and see if the problem is only with the stock app.
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thanks for the advice and help
I use a 3rd party sms ap (Go sms)
I will try to work out how to clear my sms data and see if that helps.
Just looked again and I have a contact listed 8 times in sms but the same contact doesn't show up in my normal contacts.
Thanks guys for your help and I will post the outcome
tried to clear the data from my contacts and sms contacts but it only removed a couple of names.
I've just noticed that some of the contacts in the sms list dont even contain a phone number only an email address?
problem solved.
in case others have this issue I will try to explain how I sorted it.
I wiped the data from contacts which made little difference until I rebooted then the contacts that shouldn't be there were gone but Iwas left with double of every contact.
I deleted all the contacts from the sim and that removed the duplicate from the sms......
A little bothered that I cant keep contacts on both sim card and phone. I like to keep them on both as if I needed to change phone my contacts would be there no matter what phone I put the card in. I also like to keep them on the phone as it allows me to store more info and pics of contacts.
If anyone has a fix for this I would be happy to hear it.
Thanks again to the guys who helped me out....and yes you did help!
From the SMS app, go into settings and make sure no show from history options are selected, also same with show email.
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How do i sync contacts with facebook pictures without getting ALL my friends from facebook to the phone.
"Sync existing contacts only" doesnt work. Mine just syncs all my FB friends numbers to my phone.. and doesnt even update the contacts picture on phone..
same problem....but some contacts were updated and some others not
i have had this problem as well, and there is a small work-a-round when in the contacts menu i go to Options > Visible contacts > Edit , and simply only have the desired contacts show up.
as for your picture problem, i have always done this by hand simply merging the contact with the corresponding facebook account
Yeah thats a workaround, but then when you start typing receiver in text messages for example, random people from facebook with number pops up.. kind of annoying.
SyncMyPix, is a app that does the job but i would want FB native app to do the job..
If anyone knows, please share!
I'm having two weird issues with my contacts.
First the pictures for my contacts sometimes disappear and reappear when I open my SMS
Second issue is when I open a new SMS and I type the persons name and the numbers for that person show up , I have the number in my contacts coming up for that person but I'm also getting old numbers that are out of service for that person. I tried deleting all contacts and re-importing them and still the same issue
I'm using Wondershare MobileGo to sync my Outlook 2010 with my phone. When I go into outlook there is only 1 number for a lot of my contacts and when I pull them up on the phone through the contacts only 1 number shows up, but again when I open a new SMS I get several numbers coming up for a person that I only saved 1 number for.
Where are the numbers coming from ? I did not set up the AT&T phonebook. and I have everything in my contacts unckecked ( ex: facebook, gmail, tango )
Any info would be greatly appreciated