Hi,
I know there is a setting which either adds or ignores random emails you reply to as contacts. Idisabled it to stop every random mail being added to my contacts but cannot remember how I disabled it ????
This is driving 2 Hero users here crazy....please somebody remind me where this setting is!
Thanks
Phil
in people, go to the groups tab
press menu
select sync groups
tick only 'my contacts'
Arghhh...that's the one. I was confused by mixing it with the 'Phone' setting as 'Save to contacts' option!
Thank U!
Hmmm...created some new groups in gmail and assigned existing contacts (via PC browser)
Only one of the groups being picked up on synch though ?
Manually synched few times...no difference
Edit: It picked up the Group I created. Not the existing ones 'Collleagues', 'Family' etc... Is that expected behaviour?
i don't actually use the groups, so i have no idea!!
rhedgehog said:
in people, go to the groups tab
press menu
select sync groups
tick only 'my contacts'
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I've seen this posted a few times, but I can't seem to find the "my contacts" option. In People - Grounds - Menu theres only and "Add group" button.
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong/why it doesn't work?
I'm actually having the same problem - can't choose only to sync "My Contacts". I'd be really grateful if someone could help us out.
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Gosh, 1 hour with the Hero and 2 questions. Here is one of them.
How do I sync contacts only from My Contacts in GMail and not All Contacts?
Thanks
What's the reason to want to do that?
If its space, really not a problem in my experience.
If its just because they get in the way, there are settings to show ALL or FAVE or JUST THOSE WITH PHONE NUMBERS etc
Remember that they are stored on the web anyway, so really simple to swap the views. I have all my contracts synced including a huge number of email contacts, but I don't see them all when I go to contacts as I've got it set to show just Phone contacts.
When I write a mail, as I type an address it shows in the :to section searching and refining as I type - I don't even notice.
If I'm searching all, I can also bring up keyboard and press a letter to get contacts with that letter in the same way, or fast scrolll at the edge by going to midd, top or bottom to show that part of the alphabet.
That said, I think you can only sync all contacts, but could be wrong.
Dayz
In the People app, I only want to see My Contacts, not all contacts. Hmm, not sure thats possible. It doesn't actually show which group things are in at all it seems.
Magic and hero differ lots here as the Magic doesnt have the People app. so dunno on this one. xxx
Dayzee said:
Magic and hero differ lots here as the Magic doesnt have the People app. so dunno on this one. xxx
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Sure, thanks for the help anyway. I am continuing my hunt!
Just found the answer! In the people app in the Groups tab, press menu and then tap sync groups and you can select which groups to sync there!
Awesome
The Jones said:
Just found the answer! In the people app in the Groups tab, press menu and then tap sync groups and you can select which groups to sync there!
Awesome
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Something I found on mine was that it only showed the groups I had added and People couldn't seem to detect all my other existing groups.
The Jones said:
Just found the answer! In the people app in the Groups tab, press menu and then tap sync groups and you can select which groups to sync there!
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Good Man, Thank you!!
People, any idea how to add ringtone and photo to groups? or some other distinctive feature?
The Jones said:
Just found the answer! In the people app in the Groups tab, press menu and then tap sync groups and you can select which groups to sync there!
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You absolute legend! Now I won't get all these crappy email addresses coming through that Gmail decides to add to my contacts.
Top spot!
anyone? pls help here
umaronly said:
People, any idea how to add ringtone and photo to groups? or some other distinctive feature?
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It is possibble for individual contacts, but not for the groups, afaik!
I'm I'm a new G2/Hero user, great forum here.
I really like the fact google contacts sync up with the phone & are phone independent, is there any way of making your normal contacts become google ones or an app to do it?
many thanks
If you set your phone up with a Google account then by default all your contacts will be synced with Google. Most mobile phones offer a facility to export the address book, often via MS Outlook which can then be further exported to Google and from there propagate to your phone.
I set it up with a google login first time I used it. The google contacts sync up fine but the rest of the contacts listed as 'phone' dont sync to google.
So what I was hoping is I can change the type from phone to google in the contacts listing then edit them on my computer & sync them back to the phone?
One other question does the google sync work both directions? Facebook images don't seem to appear in gmail?
Yes and yes. Make sure that the contacts are set as 'Google' and it should all work
Unfortunately after setting up some "Phone" contacts you cannot edit them and save as "Google" - or am I missing something?
And BTW, I'd like to ask people who are actually syncing their contacts and using Google Contacts as their primary source whether they suffer from the fact that Gmail adds all the email addresses that they had a conversation with as a new contact. Is that actually an issue?
dkodr said:
Unfortunately after setting up some "Phone" contacts you cannot edit them and save as "Google" - or am I missing something?
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that's exactly what I'm trying to do with no luck. New contacts I will set to google but I imported a load from my sim (150) which are all set to 'phone'
Another problem I had with the calendars, if you set them to only be google it doesn't change the new entry type from 'phone' so I put load of appointments in & couldn't see them which totally threw me. Luckily it does remember the type you set but it should change the default type when you set the view!
no, you cant change the contact type once it has been set. you'll need to delete them and create/import them as google contacts.
when in people and you press menu import, select google to import to the google list. that way they sync up automatically.
If you can't be bothered deleting all the ones in phone, just hide them...on the people list, press menu and select view, only tick google and voila, all the others are hidden.
to stop google from synching all the email addresses as well, go into people, go to the groups tab, press menu and select sync groups.
tick only 'My contacts'
problem solved.
thanks for the reply rhedgehog
rhedgehog said:
to stop google from synching all the email addresses as well, go into people, go to the groups tab, press menu and select sync groups.
tick only 'My contacts'
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I can only select "Sync all contacts" and a couple of groups I created - no option for "My contacts".
strange, i get it, and it should be there as it is a standard google contacts group....
There is an app on the market called ContactSync can help you with this. It's free.
tsekh501>> Worked like a charm, cheers mate
I wonder if anyone can help me. My contacts were stored as 14 on Google and 76 on 'phone'. I used the contactsync app and it said all contacts successfully synced to google. On my contacts list they all have 'Google' next to them.
The problem is, when i log into my google account on my pc I only have 14 contacts listed? Am i missing something here or is there something wrong?
PS - just to add, when i go to menu- settings - data sync - google - sync settings on my Hero, when i tick/untick contacts to try and force it to update i get a 'Sorry The process android.process.acore has stopped......Force close.
Bump! Anyone?
Getting the same problem... Running MCR 2.0...
Odd one this, and I only get the error message when I set the phone to sync my contacts.
Anyone wanna bid in on this one?
Bad idea?
tsekh501 said:
There is an app on the market called ContactSync can help you with this. It's free.
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Tried this advice, and even threw in a reboot after running the ContactSync app. Got the same error-message. Has anyone completed this successfully?
I've been having the same problems- first the change only showing on the hero- and now the random crashes?
I since backed up my contacts to sd with exportcontacts (free on the market) as .csv and then uploaded them to my gmail via my pc.
Strangely,when I did, both copies of the contacts showed up online and I had to manually delete the second copy of each. I know it was both copies as i'd sorted them all into groups after using contact sync and the groups showed only on one of each contact.
Slight feature missing with the new Modaco rom. Did anybody use the feature where you could sync only certain groups in your contacts? This feature was present in the old firmware but is now missing.
Before you could go to People > Groups > Menu > Sync groups and the select the groups you only wanted to sync. This is not present with the new version. Also I can't seperate Google contacts as well. Annoying change for those who sync their contacts with Google.
technononsense said:
I've been having the same problems- first the change only showing on the hero- and now the random crashes?
I since backed up my contacts to sd with exportcontacts (free on the market) as .csv and then uploaded them to my gmail via my pc.
Strangely,when I did, both copies of the contacts showed up online and I had to manually delete the second copy of each. I know it was both copies as i'd sorted them all into groups after using contact sync and the groups showed only on one of each contact.
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Similar experience. However, I experienced an additional difficulty when importing the .csv file to gmail. When it imported the fields was all messed up. I tried to edit it in excel, but didn't get it to work. Quite a hassle, this. Wish they could have streamlined it just a tad more
So far with the 2.1 roms I have tried to sync my contacts that are not part of google contacts without success.
There seems to be no way of getting the option to make a contact a google contact if it is not already so.
I tried the ap loaded kindly on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5879272&postcount=6763 - which call contactsync (as above post)
but it doesn't work - saying something about the database being wrong.
Is this something that the chef's can make available in their roms (a hidden menu - or a menu option that could be put into contacts/people app) ? I think it's something HTC just overlooked when they created the app.
I have an Eris running the lastest xtrSense and all of my google contacts are coming over from syncing, I cannot select just "My Contacts," nor can I choose select Groups I would like to sync.
One search said to go to People -> Groups -> Menu -> and then choose which groups to Sync. However, in my Menu I only have two choices, "Add Group" or "Delete Group." I have no option to choose which groups I would like to sync or not. If I click on one those groups and hit Menu I still do not have any syncing options.
Thanks in advance to anyone with a solution.
(Edit, I am lame, this should of gone in the Q&A sub-forum.)
I'm not running xtrSENSE or a stock ROM now, but, IIRC, within the People app you press menu, choose "view", and from there you can choose your contact groups.
doogald said:
I'm not running xtrSENSE or a stock ROM now, but, IIRC, within the People app you press menu, choose "view", and from there you can choose your contact groups.
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Thanks for the reply. When I do People -> Menu -> View I only get the following options to check/uncheck
*Only Contacts with phone number
*Google (167)
*Show auto Gmail contacts
*Phone (0)
I have about 60 contacts in "My Contacts" that I would like to sync, and the other 100+ I would not like to sync.
SurfHawk said:
Thanks for the reply. When I do People -> Menu -> View I only get the following options to check/uncheck
*Only Contacts with phone number
*Google (167)
*Show auto Gmail contacts
*Phone (0)
I have about 60 contacts in "My Contacts" that I would like to sync, and the other 100+ I would not like to sync.
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Un-check "show auto Gmail contacts" and it should only sync My Contacts.
thenestor said:
Un-check "show auto Gmail contacts" and it should only sync My Contacts.
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Ding Ding Ding. That does the trick. Thanks a ton. For some reason, that was driving me crazy.
Does anybody have any idea on how to make GMail the default contact save location? I had 3 options - PC Sync, SIM & Gmail, the default contact save location being PC sync.
Using Titanium Backup, I froze the "PC Sync 1.0.8" service. This removed PC Sync from the above 3 options. But I am Still left with the rest of the 2 options, the new default contact save location being SIM.
Tried freezing the "com.lge.simcontacts 1.0" service. But this doen't remove the SIM option from the contact save locations. It just disables adding new contacts to sim BUT THE OPTION STILL APPEARS AND REMAINS AS THE DEFAULT ONE.
Please help.
Why doesn't anybody answer? Is it because no one knows the answer or because I am the only ignorant person on board here?
I would also like to know how to do this!
Seems like we are the only two guys bothered by this problem.
I've had this trouble as well and not found any answer. You just need to make sure you select your Google account when adding new contacts.
no idea try to search the forum
Still waiting for the answer.
victortangocharlie said:
Still waiting for the answer.
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Being arrogant like that will NOT get you an answer, it will convince people to NOT give you answer because you are pissing them.
Sorry, my friend, but that is not arrogance but my frustration coming out.
You should be nicer... i dont know the answer but when i create a contact i choose pcsync and it goes to my google accaunt as well...
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Do you mean to say that when you chose pc sync as the default contact save location, your new contacts are saved in your google account and on your phone simultaneously?
batista16 said:
You should be nicer... i dont know the answer but when i create a contact i choose pcsync and it goes to my google accaunt as well...
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It should be! After i imported by hand my contacts (on .CSV format) to my gmail account they went to a place in google contacts called "My Contacts" -Note that at the time i was uploading the contacts list in CSV format i said to move it to the said "My Contacts" place!
Then i turned my phone's wifi on and it synched my Gmail contacts onto the phone! after that on "Display" i put PCSynch off , SIM Contacts off and on Gmail i put only show "My Contacts"!
Since my phone is showing my Gmail contacts, whenever i create a new contact (usually on PCSync i never bothered to change it :x) when i turn my gmail on or the android starts synching with google the contact apears on my google's "My contacts" list and therefore it pops back to the android contacts list!
Or so it worked for me! Some ppl say they didn't have that much trouble but hey... i had all my contacts on PCSynch and couldn't synch them to google before and now after all the hassle of importing them by hand... now i can!
Does not work for me. if I add a contact to pc sync, it still doesn't appear on the google contacts list. Have you installed any other application which helps you sync pc sync contacts with google?
Has anybody found out a way to do this yet?
The solution is still evading us. I hope that some developer sees this and provide a solution.
Your question is a a little confusing but I think this is what your after:
To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
So I've had this phone less than 24 hours and I want to get rid of it.
I have all my contacts in gmail and organized. Work, Businesses, Personal, etc.
The only way I can see my all gmail contacts is if I go under "All contacts". (But thats cluttered with every auto added email address for the past years)..
And select show only contacts with phone numbers. All I get is my own contact. WTF!
Now that I'm searching for it, tons of people are having this issue with no real solution..
yes, i hate this
scoob8000 said:
So I've had this phone less than 24 hours and I want to get rid of it.
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If this is your only issue with the Atrix, I am sure there will be a solution somewhere for it, and you will find that it is an amazing piece of hardware, and you will reap the benefits.
Where have you looked for solutions so far?
I've tried just about every contact manager on the market with no luck..
I'd settle for seeing all my contacts with out grouping for now but can't even figure that out.
Theres a few other unrelated things bugging me.. I hate the sms iphone like bubbles, can't see how to disable them asides from a 3rd party app.
usb charging doesn't seem to work.
And I already had top do a battery pull to get the phone to wake once.
I miss CM lol
Contact Groups
scoob8000 said:
So I've had this phone less than 24 hours and I want to get rid of it.
I have all my contacts in gmail and organized. Work, Businesses, Personal, etc.
The only way I can see my all gmail contacts is if I go under "All contacts". (But thats cluttered with every auto added email address for the past years)..
And select show only contacts with phone numbers. All I get is my own contact. WTF!
Now that I'm searching for it, tons of people are having this issue with no real solution..
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Below is a link to the contacts manager I use. 'Go Launcher EX Contacts' it works great for me, you can create as many categories as you want and name them whatever you what. Give it a try see what you think.
com.jbapps.contact.apk
Yea, I would also suggest trying out the GO Contacts app.
The only thing I don't like so far is that the GO wallpaper team steals code from freeware developers and tries to make money off of it :\
log into Gmail. go to your contacts. Delete all the entries under "other contacts" as that is where it stores all the email addresses you've sent email to over the past years, that aren't an actual contact that you've entered yourself.
Now go to Gmail settings. General Tab. In the option "Create contacts for auto-complete:", select the "I'll add contacts myself" radio button. That should solve your problem. or atleast some of them
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I'd settle for seeing all my contacts with out grouping for now but can't even figure that out.
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Open your contacts app. Not the dialer + contacts tab. The actual contacts app. Press the options soft key button, select display group, and then All contacts.
smsparks said:
Below is a link to the contacts manager I use. 'Go Launcher EX Contacts' it works great for me, you can create as many categories as you want and name them whatever you what. Give it a try see what you think.
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Wow, I can handle this. It's not quite what I'd like, but it'll do for now. It displays my groups perfectly!
holtenc said:
log into Gmail. go to your contacts. Delete all the entries under "other contacts" as that is where it stores all the email addresses you've sent email to over the past years, that aren't an actual contact that you've entered yourself.
Open your contacts app. Not the dialer + contacts tab. The actual contacts app. Press the options soft key button, select display group, and then All contacts.
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I actually tried that this morning, didn't change anything when displaying only contacts with phone number.. I'm still the only contact it shows.
But alas I figured out what this stupid thing was doing!
It only shows google contacts that are in the "My Contacts" group. All of my contacts only belong to one group (Work, Personal, Etc). Putting them all in my contacts fixes the default contacts app.
But I think I'm going to stick with GoContacts for now..
Thanks guys!