OK so if I go to send a txt msg and click on contacts I get everything from my gmail account as an option. Is there a way to just have it show my contacts with phone numbers? I set up the phone dialer to do this but I can't seem to find the setting for messaging.
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In messaging, hit hour menu button then display, you can adjust your settings from there
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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.
I've more than 1500 contacts on my gmail contacts and when I bought the phone added the gmail account and sync'd everything.
Also there are about 500 phone contacts on my phone (with phone numbers) and nothing else since the last phone I used was a basic phone.
Now i've disabled the sync and disabled google contacts from displaying in contacts app.
Now when I get a call from unknown number and I try to add to an existing contact, I get to see 1500 google email contacts + 500
Phone contacts which is a big pain to search.
Is there anyway to circumvent this and display only phone contacts in all places or remove google contacts from without deleting from gmail.
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Also the problem exists when I try to text someone. Instead of displaying only phone contacts, the phone displays all the email (gmail) contacts as well
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Did you also turn off the phone contacts in the contacts app under desplay? Make sure nothing is selected except the sim card contacts. That should take care of it.
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not sure I entirely understand... but...
you know you can edit whats viewed in contacts by Menu > Display Options right?
That can then be expanded for a lot more options.
I wrote a guide a long time back on cleaning up google contacts and removing phone contacts... you may find it searching, may be helpful.
You can also press the search button to jump to contact faster
Yea if u go into Display options in settings while in you're in your contacts list you can customize what you see. Or just go online to your gmail account and play with your contacts.
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I've more than 1500 contacts on my gmail contacts and when I bought the phone added the gmail account and sync'd everything.
Also there are about 500 phone contacts on my phone (with phone numbers) and nothing else since the last phone I used was a basic phone.
Now i've disabled the sync and disabled google contacts from displaying in contacts app.
Now when I get a call from unknown number and I try to add to an existing contact, I get to see 1500 google email contacts + 500
Phone contacts which is a big pain to search.
Is there anyway to circumvent this and display only phone contacts in all places or remove google contacts from without deleting from gmail.
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I suggested this for a friend of mine who had an equally ungodly amount of contacts in his regular gmail account, so it may be worthwhile for you to consider.
Consider.....using another gmail account....one you use for your PHONE and only your phone. This in no way limits you from checking mail on your primary gmail account, and allows you to control which contacts end up on the phone.
It sounds to me you're merely annoyed with the ungodly amount of contacts to deal with if you use this as the phone's primary gmail account....so just don't.
@dan @s15274 @bobb
The display options work only in the main contacts . (home screen - contacts)
None of the selected options work in two scenarios.
1. when you type in a message and select contacts to select one and send a text.
2. In the call log when u try to save a number to an existing contact.
@master you got the problem. I'll try removing my gmail account.
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Is it just my View or is the stock mail app messed up. I have a shortcut to the mail app on the home screen. When I get a new email the notifier tells me and the mail icon on the home screen has a number on showing the number of new emails. I tap the mail icon and open the mail app and instead of showing the messages, it says no mail. I have to open the mail app and then tell it to refresh on order to see the email that the app notifier has told me that I have. Is this how the stock mail app is normally?
Are you using gmail or some other mail provider?
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It is a pop 3 account with the mail app. My gmail works great.
Mail app is fine on my end. Exchange, yahoo, hotmail accounts. Mail icon pops up on the notification bar, open the mail app the emails are sitting in the respective inboxes. Do you have auto download messages checked in the settings?
Yes it is set to auto download and I have the peak and off peak download time set tot he same. I also tried checking the Refresh on open but that didn't help either. I removed my pop account and set it up again and that didn't help either. I don't know what is going on with it.
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Mail app is fine on my end. Exchange, yahoo, hotmail accounts. Mail icon pops up on the notification bar, open the mail app the emails are sitting in the respective inboxes. Do you have auto download messages checked in the settings?
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wow does that mean you got the exchange calendars to work!!!
jiggered if i can.. i am about to give up..
it upgraded (nice of it) the other night and low and behold no calandar now... well no calandar in exchange..
I'm runing office 2010 on my business laptop and have a made an exhange mail account on my SG3.
Works fine, but apart from email I also get my text messages in the e-mail inbox. I'd prefer to get the sms' in my messages inbox only, but they show up in both inboxes. I didn't happen on my old HTC Desire HD, so I guess it's related to the SG3. I've been trailing the settings but I cannot find any setting that will disable it.
It's driving my crazy, so help will be highly appreciated!
Which App are you using for SMS?
GO SMS supports WebSMS which requires activating to support Web SMS send/recieve SMS.
Beards said:
Which App are you using for SMS?
GO SMS supports WebSMS which requires activating to support Web SMS send/recieve SMS.
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I'm using stock messaging and e-mail apps.
My work email is also setup on this phone. While on the main page of your inbox,go to settings. There is a checkbox there that says Sync SMS uncheck it and you should be all set
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This is a cool feature of MS Exchange and Samsung
Hi.
This feature is brought to you by Bill Gates and his gang.
The newest Samsung devices support this feature and it also gives you the possibility to send sms's from your desktop (Outlook client).
If this is annoying someone it can be turned off from you email settings.
- open your email app
- menu -> settings
- click your account name
- scroll to the last option and uncheck it
I hope this helps!
Thanks a lot
Looks like I get to keep my sanity after unchecking sms sync!
Big thank you guys!
Issue: When pulling up a contact and clicking on the email address (to send the contact an email), I get a message that says there is no account configured.
I have gmail configured, and I get and send from it all day long. So I don't understand why it doesn't recognize gmail as a valid account.
I set up my gmail account using "email" and it was fine. Am I forced to not use the gmail app, or is there something I'm missing?
Change the action so it's set to go to your Gmail account by default. I believe it's set to use the mail app in sense by default.
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I can't find that setting. It isn't in contacts setting or gmail settings. I cleared the default settings in "mail"... but there isn't anything in gmail to make it default.
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I can't find that setting. It isn't in contacts setting or gmail settings. I cleared the default settings in "mail"... but there isn't anything in gmail to make it default.
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In settings go to "App Associations-> mail
Thanks so much, now I've learned something new and very valuable.
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