odd problem in contacs with "send sms" - MDA, XDA, 1010 General

after installing the special editition rom to my tmobile i can no longer click on a contact and go to " send sms" the system just doesnt do anything? when in inbox and i open a new sms and i click on the contacts no contacts appear however they do exist under contacts can anyone help? this is driving me nutz!

jivesh said:
after installing the special editition rom to my tmobile i can no longer click on a contact and go to " send sms" the system just doesnt do anything? when in inbox and i open a new sms and i click on the contacts no contacts appear however they do exist under contacts can anyone help? this is driving me nutz!
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Tmobile sets up the dvice to use t-mobile software to send sms. Can be removed through some registry hacking, but I don't remember exactly which keys, and I don't have a t-mobile rom loaded anymore.
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[Q] Duplicate contacts when creating text message

When I start a text and put in the name of the contact I want to message, duplicates are showing. I have it set so it doesn't do this for calls, but I can figure out how to do it for texts. It shows 2 of every contact. Is there a way to set it do it only pulls names from either the phone or sim?
Any sUggestions as to why this is happening?
do you use gmail to backup and save your contacts?
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From Contacts > More> display options> pick whatever you usually store your contacts on be it sim or phone.
Abu-7abash said:
From Contacts > More> display options> pick whatever you usually store your contacts on be it sim or phone.
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I already did that. i dont have this issue for when I make calls and look up names, just texts. Im not storing my stuff on gmail either
This all started after I tried to update my phone to the newest update thru mini kies. i ended up having to wipe my phone and restart. I did get the update, and now i noticed its doing this.
It looks as though the Messaging contacts display is ignoring the 'Contacts-->Display Options' settings. I have my phone contacts set to display just the names etc from the Phone memory, not the SIM memory and it works well - no duplicates. However, when composing a Message or Email and press the Contact button, the list of contacts shows 2 of everybody. I've gone through everything obvious but can't see it, now turning to the experts for advice please? What do i need to tick/untick remove or whatever to put this right?
Any suggestions how to make this stop?
itsLYNDZ said:
Any suggestions how to make this stop?
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Are you using gmail to backup your contacts? If so just go into gmail and consolidate all the dupes than delete the contacts saved on your phone and sim. Had the same problem with dupes in the messaging. If you need more help just shoot me a pm
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Which ROM are you using?
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My contacts are not backed up to gmail, and im just using the regular stock rom. I dont have phone phone flashed/rooted/whatever.
I had the same problem
sign in to gmail on your computer click contacts it will display all including the phone numbers stored on you your phone if you delete them all (contacts with phone numbers) it should take off all duplicate contacts away
but make sure all phone numbers stored already on your sim card
its something about MIUI if you ever used it before
if that didn't work I know for sure if you have a gmail contact and a phone number contact with the same name and you trying to send sms or mms it show both of them as to send to at that point I would edit the first name of gmail contact by adding * to the name
Hope that helps
But I dont have any contacts listed on my gmail contacts when I sign in on my laptop.
itsLYNDZ said:
But I dont have any contacts listed on my gmail contacts when I sign in on my laptop.
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the only thing i can think of that after you restore your phone do you restore it from backup that it has a duplicate contacts ?
or go under contacts/press the first key to the left/display option/ choose phone,sim,gmail (all) then view your contact list and delete all duplicate contacts
best thing i found is to store contacts on sim only that allow you to import them to any phone and also to your own phone after you wipe it off
My contacts show up fine in my address book, no duplicates. So I know the issue isnt with that. There are no duplicates on my phone.
I dont know what to do. Ive tried everything, and its really annoying when trying to send a text to go thru all those duplicates.
when I go to create a text, there are also email addresses showing when I begin typing a name to search for a contact. I dont know where they are coming from
itsLYNDZ said:
But I dont have any contacts listed on my gmail contacts when I sign in on my laptop.
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You need to backup all your contacts to gmail. First.
Go to accounts & Sync and tap your google account or any other email accounts you have on your phone. It will give your sync screen, see if "sync contacts" is ticked there. If it is then try unticking it, see if that helps.
Alex9090 said:
Go to accounts & Sync and tap your google account or any other email accounts you have on your phone. It will give your sync screen, see if "sync contacts" is ticked there. If it is then try unticking it, see if that helps.
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Already tried that. It is unticked

[Q] Go SMS Not Showing Facebook Contacts

So is anyone here using both facebook contacts (with phonenumbers ofcourse) and GO Sms? I love Go SMS, in my opinion it beats ChompSMS (which has the same problem) and HandCent (Which doesnt have the problem, but it looks like crap). But the problem is that it simply cant show facebook contacts.. When composing an sms it won't show anyone who is a facebook contact and where as in the standard messaging app i can see the name and photo of a contact who sent me an sms, in Go SMS it just shows the phone number.
Is there anything that can be done or is it entirely up to the Go SMS developer? 90% of my contacts are just facebook people, i can't be arsed to manually create them all as normal contacts
Thanks,
No one can help?
Just found this thread via Google, I can't believe how much time I've wasted messing around with Google Contacts/FB Sync for this issue.
My suggestion is file a bug report on GoSMS and hope the devs can fix it. It shouldn't even be that difficult - just a specific case for handling Facebook contacts. They've demonstrated they're willing to deal with FB-specific issues as shown by their new 'import FB photo' feature.
Do let me know if you figure out a workaround? Like you, I know Handcent does it fine, but it looks like arse.
URINUDNK said:
So is anyone here using both facebook contacts (with phonenumbers ofcourse) and GO Sms? I love Go SMS, in my opinion it beats ChompSMS (which has the same problem) and HandCent (Which doesnt have the problem, but it looks like crap). But the problem is that it simply cant show facebook contacts.. When composing an sms it won't show anyone who is a facebook contact and where as in the standard messaging app i can see the name and photo of a contact who sent me an sms, in Go SMS it just shows the phone number.
Is there anything that can be done or is it entirely up to the Go SMS developer? 90% of my contacts are just facebook people, i can't be arsed to manually create them all as normal contacts
Thanks,
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You have to have a rooted phone.
Rebuild the contact database or install a custom rom with that feature installed.
Will try to search some links for you and update the post
Edit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1061521

Desksms issue

Hiya
I have unintalled the application from my Desire HD running Cyanogen Mod 7 but some info is still present like email desksms when i go to a contact?
How can I completely remove it? Any help please?
Rakaan said:
Hiya
I have unintalled the application from my Desire HD running Cyanogen Mod 7 but some info is still present like email desksms when i go to a contact?
How can I completely remove it? Any help please?
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I see no replies. I have 348 contacts with the @desksms.appspotchat.com in them. I'd love to know how to get rid of this unnecessary information.
Rakaan said:
Hiya
I have unintalled the application from my Desire HD running Cyanogen Mod 7 but some info is still present like email desksms when i go to a contact?
How can I completely remove it? Any help please?
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Dude I have the same problem with my Google Talk after installing DeskSMS. I would receive a message like "@desksms.appspotchat.com wants to be able to chat with you, and you rejected a previous request. Okay?" I made the mistake of clicking yes and now I can't seem to remove them from my Google Chat list.
Very annoying!
rmarq423 said:
Dude I have the same problem with my Google Talk after installing DeskSMS. I would receive a message like "@desksms.appspotchat.com wants to be able to chat with you, and you rejected a previous request. Okay?" I made the mistake of clicking yes and now I can't seem to remove them from my Google Chat list.
Very annoying!
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I just figured it out. go to contacts.google.com & look for Other Contacts on the left-hand side of the screen. All of the appspot contacts are there & you can delete them.
If the previous solution didn't work, you have to re-download the app, there's a feature to remove the desksms contacts and it delete all of them. I did it and it looks all good so far.
naandrade said:
If the previous solution didn't work, you have to re-download the app, there's a feature to remove the desksms contacts and it delete all of them. I did it and it looks all good so far.
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Is this feature still there for others, because I have no feature to remove these contacts using the desksms application on my phone?
Ok, so in forgot to sync my contacts after I deleted the desksms contacts so they're back and the feature is gone from the app from what I can see. This sucks.
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EDIT: Ok, so I found out a way to delete the contacts if anyone still cares about it:
1) Go to your google contacts
2) Click the "more" tab and export to both Google CSV (in case something goes wrong which it shouldn't) and Outlook CSV (to edit)
3) Open the Outlook CSV into Excel (should be default)
4) Edit to your hearts content!!! (and save!!)
5) Delete all your contacts, be thorough and delete every single thing (don't worry, you made a backup just in case, remember?)
6) Import your new and improved CSV file that you edited earlier and voila, all your regular contacts without the annoying desksms stuff (and anything else you decided to delete/edit)
If this didn't work or messed something else up then just delete everything again and restore the google csv (should be named google.csv I think) and your original contacts will be back.
Hope this works for you guys because it worked for me.
Aaaah. Thanks. Going into Contacts, selecting "Other" and doing a search for "appspotchat.com" showed me all of the contacts. Selected, deleted, done. Appreciate the pointer.

[Q] sms contacts list missing??

can anyone help???
when i start a new sms message the "to" box shows but not contacts list
althought when i start typing contacts do start to show i would prefer to click on a box to bring up a full list of contacts (i have seen this on other phones where the "to" box is split with "contacts" box but cannot find a setting? to activate it!!!)
thanks for any help
rooted motorola mb200 with andriod 2.3.4 and cyanogen
kam
did you marked the contacs as mobile? if not, edit your contacs and mark the contacs as mobil, solved that problem for me
thanks for your help
just changed a couple to mobile but no different

[Q] Contacts went missing

I have a weird problem, I did a search and finally decided to open a thread here because nothing could help me out of this trouble. My father owns a Galaxy Core mobile and he is really new to android OS. He was trying to save a contact which he received through message from some one else and while saving that contact he played with some options (I guess Gmail Sync) and now many of old contacts have gone missing. I checked the "Contact to display" is set to all and still those contacts are missing. I rooted the phone and tried to recover the contacts through few recovery applications but no help there too. Today I came across to Gmail sync last date & time and that's exactly the same date & time when my father was trying to save that contact. Right now I am getting an error at the bottom of that screen "Sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly." Can someone please help me because my father has lost more than 100 contacts and really needs them back. Thanks in advance
lukcyikeshav said:
I have a weird problem, I did a search and finally decided to open a thread here because nothing could help me out of this trouble. My father owns a Galaxy Core mobile and he is really new to android OS. He was trying to save a contact which he received through message from some one else and while saving that contact he played with some options (I guess Gmail Sync) and now many of old contacts have gone missing. I checked the "Contact to display" is set to all and still those contacts are missing. I rooted the phone and tried to recover the contacts through few recovery applications but no help there too. Today I came across to Gmail sync last date & time and that's exactly the same date & time when my father was trying to save that contact. Right now I am getting an error at the bottom of that screen "Sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly." Can someone please help me because my father has lost more than 100 contacts and really needs them back. Thanks in advance
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You could check to see if they're still in the Google account by google.com/contacts. If so, you can export them as a vcf file and import into the contacts app. This might double up some, but easier to remove duplicates than to track down every missing contact.
es0tericcha0s said:
You could check to see if they're still in the Google account by google.com/contacts. If so, you can export them as a vcf file and import into the contacts app. This might double up some, but easier to remove duplicates than to track down every missing contact.
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Yeah, I checked that too but only gmail contacts are there and they are same in mobile (when I choose "Contacts to Display" as Gmail account only instead of all ). They all are email contacts and doesnt have mobile numbers in them.
Please help.
lukcyikeshav said:
Yeah, I checked that too but only gmail contacts are there and they are same in mobile (when I choose "Contacts to Display" as Gmail account only instead of all ). They all are email contacts and doesnt have mobile numbers in them.
Please help.
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Please help guys, I am really struggling to get those contacts back.

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