does anybody know a good way to organize contacts? Google synced all my contacts together and now i have 1450+ contacts on my phone. (email, phone contacts, facebook, twitter). I want to just have the phone contacts with phone numbers. Is there a quick way to delete all the ones that just emails? Cheers
There is a setting in the contacts.
In the contacts you should have an image with 3 heads in it in the to right of the screen. Click on that and choose to only show contacts with phone numbers.
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i know that works but i want to have an organized set of contacts instead of just seeing subsets of the mess
Add contact groups on gmail and tell you e-mail app on your phone to only sync the groups you want synced!
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I am having trouble syncing my contacts that I inputed on my Atrix to Gmail. Even if the contact is Linked to both Phone and Google, none of the contacts show up on Gmail from my computer, but if I add a contact from my computer, it shows up on my phone. How can I sync from my phone to Gmail? btw, this is my first Android device.
Thanks.
I have exactly the same issue and it's driving me nuts! Creating a new contact on the phone adds it to the "Contacts" group but there doesn't seem to be a way to get that to sync with google/gmail. Have you found a way around this?
Ok, my phone auto syncs it with contacts and gmail, but I think I know why yours isn't.
Open the contact and verify that it has a linked profile to your google account. If it does not, then link it.
If it does, go to settings > accounts > gmail account
Hit the menu button and sync. Log into your gmail account on the desktop version, not mobile version, hit contacts, click all contacts and verify.
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DarrellRaines said:
Ok, my phone auto syncs it with contacts and gmail, but I think I know why yours isn't.
Open the contact and verify that it has a linked profile to your google account. If it does not, then link it.
If it does, go to settings > accounts > gmail account
Hit the menu button and sync. Log into your gmail account on the desktop version, not mobile version, hit contacts, click all contacts and verify.
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If I create a brand new contact I can't link it to gmail because the contact does not exist in gmail. Your method only works if I have the contact in gmail/google also.
Anyone solve this yet? I'm dealing with 150 contacts or so that were imported from a sim card and trying to figure out how to get them into gmail.
I think I might be able to do export all contacts to a file, then email it to myself, then import all contacts to gmail but I'm trying to avoid CSV errors.
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I am having the same issue in my thunderbolt. I just rooted it and when I went to look for a contact that I added when I got the phone I realized it never was sent to my gmail account and now it is not synced.
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Through some searching I found that the thunderbolt defaults to a "phone" contact when you enter one on the phone. You have to select it as a Google contact before you even put it in the phone. You can't change this after putting in the contact. I'm glad I found this out early enough so that I only lost one contact.
I had this issue and found how to solve it:
Open ContactsApp->Menu->More->Settings
Here each phone is a bit different but you will be able to choose how to set your new contacts, whether it will be on your phone contacts, a specific gmail account or all.
In My Motorola Atrix, it automatically saves to contacts (and cannot be removed) and if you have more than 1 gmail account it all gets mixed up there and you should add/select the right one.
Hope it helps.
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I had this issue and found how to solve it:
Open ContactsApp->Menu->More->Settings
Here each phone is a bit different but you will be able to choose how to set your new contacts, whether it will be on your phone contacts, a specific gmail account or all.
In My Motorola Atrix, it automatically saves to contacts (and cannot be removed) and if you have more than 1 gmail account it all gets mixed up there and you should add/select the right one.
Hope it helps.
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This is the correct method and set by default on the Atrix.
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delta530 said:
I am having trouble syncing my contacts that I inputed on my Atrix to Gmail. Even if the contact is Linked to both Phone and Google, none of the contacts show up on Gmail from my computer, but if I add a contact from my computer, it shows up on my phone. How can I sync from my phone to Gmail? btw, this is my first Android device.
Thanks.
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i have the same problem only i want my facebook contacts !
firefox3 said:
i have the same problem only i want my facebook contacts !
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Make sure FACEBOOK is added under MANAGE ACCOUNTS and then look at DISPLAY GROUPS to select ALL CONTACTS.
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Make sure FACEBOOK is added under MANAGE ACCOUNTS and then look at DISPLAY GROUPS to select ALL CONTACTS.
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Didnt work even when i view facebook it says no facebook contacts ! i have 1,394 friends and before i updated i had them all in my contacts
firefox3 said:
Didnt work even when i view facebook it says no facebook contacts ! i have 1,394 friends and before i updated i had them all in my contacts
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Just to be clear, we are talking about viewing contacts on your Atrix and not viewing contacts on GMail on your PC. The point being that Motoblur does not push contacts from the various Social Networking accounts to your Google hosted Gmail contacts. I think you already know that but wanted to be sure. Did you try to delete your FB account on the Atrix and re-add. Also, and this should not make any difference, but I do not have the FB app installed. I find it a bit useless.
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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How do i upload my phone contacts to gmail???
i have gmail synced but my phone contacs are not getting uploaded to gmail. the addresses from gmail do come to my phone.
but my contacts are being uploaded.
same thing with my calender
When you select edit contact if it shows as 'Phone (PC Sync)' then that means it wont be synced with gmail. You need to upload the contacts in csv format to gmail via a PC and then enable contact sync on the phone.
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How do i upload my phone contacts to gmail???
i have gmail synced but my phone contacs are not getting uploaded to gmail. the addresses from gmail do come to my phone.
but my contacts are being uploaded.
same thing with my calender
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In contacts, filter the view to only show phone and sdcard contacts. One of the menu options will export contacts to sdcard. Once that is complete, import from sdcard will prompt you to chose phone our gmail.
When you create a contact make sure to select gmail contact at the beginning. That prevents any problems in the first place.
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Hi All,
Looking for a solution to an issue which is bugging me...
Linking contacts in the phonebook to the facebook contact, displays their picture on your contact list - great!
However, if you then log out of facebook, the phone breaks the connection and you lose all the pictures.. and have to go through and manually connect the contacts again.
Is there any way to actually IMPORT the pictures to the phone contact, so it doesn't lose them when you log out of facebook?
Or any other work around?
I like an organised, uniform contacts list!
Thank you,
I downloaded an app called "Facebook contact Sync" from the play store instead of using the facebook app's way. Works flawlessly, only thing is you have to rename your contacts to their facebook profile's name.
And if you log out of Facebook do the pictures stay?
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when i sign in my facebook account on my phone it asks me wether to sync all facebook friends, sync only with existing contacts or don't sync, i choose with exsisting contacts,but facebook syncs with all my friends from facebook even some without numbers. And all i want with the sync is for my friends to their facebook pictures, but they don't. How to sync my contacts to have pictures?
I join the contacts manualy. From Contacta. One by one. Select contact, menu button, join contact.
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and what do you get with joining the contacts manualy? do they have pictures from facebook?
Yes, but not fullscreen.
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i don't get the joining, i go to some contact and go settings, join contact and then it gives me the rest of the contacts, so i can join him if i have 2 or more of his number... please explain