Hello guys,
Last week I changed my phone from htc GENE to Samasung galaxy ACE S5830. During backup I sent all of my contacts from my GENE to ACE via bluetooth (called as Beam contacts in htc). I don't know how but the process sent each contact 3 times. I successfully received each contact but now each contact is having 3 "joined" contacts.
I want to separate each of them and delete all the duplicate ones. I search whole market but no luck. The duplicate contact remover even failed to detect these contacts! And manually separating each contact is really not a good option since having more than 500 contacts and all are important!
I shall be highly obliged if anyone can help me!!
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I had a similar problem a while back...couldn't find anything on it. Had to go through and delete duplicates and re-sync with google.
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You can solve your problem at http://contacts.google.com
You can merge your duplicate contacts there or even add or delete if you sync your google contacts to your phone or vice versa.
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Hey!
My friend just bought a Samsung Galaxy S2, and soon he faced a weird problem; All contacts had 3 duplicates(four numbers total/contact)!
I tried to batch delete them with Samsung's contacts app, but for some reason, they weren't gone! I also tried Go Contacts, but the problem still existed.
The phone is completely stock.
Any help appreciated!
I had a similar problem. I backed everything up/synced to Google contacts. Then I removed the duplicates in Google (on a PC), then synced the contacts back to the phone.
You can merge contacts in Google which should take care of many of the duplicates, but for some reason it isn't perfect & there will be some (there might be a lot) you'll have to delete manually.
I don't see any reason why you can't do this with a phone running stock.
Thanks. I will tell him. I also wondered how can this problem exist on a completely stock phone.
you wont have duplicates in google not i would think anyway .. on ur ph u would prolly be seeing Ph contacts sim contacts and google contacts.. just delete ph and sim contacts, best to stick with google ones as each time u buy new ph first thing u can do is log into ur google account and have them back in minutes..
pretty sure there is a checkbox on which one u want to use , make sure all 3 are not checked maybe..
pretty sure if you go into one of the menus there is an option of which contacts to display, i usually pick sim only and that fixes it
Hi!
I have this really annoying "bug" where every single contact us duplicated several times(most contacts have 5 duplicates!).
I could batch delete the duplicates, but the problem is they would probably duplicate again and again...
So, what exactly causes this problem?
Just for the record, my father has this problem too(stock S2). I'm currently running MIUI but the problem seems to not be related to the rom.
Cheers guys, thanks.
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ArmorD said:
Hi!
I have this really annoying "bug" where every single contact us duplicated several times(most contacts have 5 duplicates!).
I could batch delete the duplicates, but the problem is they would probably duplicate again and again...
So, what exactly causes this problem?
Just for the record, my father has this problem too(stock S2). I'm currently running MIUI but the problem seems to not be related to the rom.
Cheers guys, thanks.
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try clearing data/cache of contacts app and see
Sun90 said:
try clearing data/cache of contacts app and see
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in contacts press MENU button and Contacts to display and Choose witch one you want to see in Contacts
i think you have phone and gmail contacts to display
P.S i had a hard time with that too
Thanks for help! Unfortunately neither worked. I downloaded several different dialer apps, but no luck...
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ArmorD said:
Hi!
I have this really annoying "bug" where every single contact us duplicated several times(most contacts have 5 duplicates!).
I could batch delete the duplicates, but the problem is they would probably duplicate again and again...
So, what exactly causes this problem?
Just for the record, my father has this problem too(stock S2). I'm currently running MIUI but the problem seems to not be related to the rom.
Cheers guys, thanks.
Sent from my premium Mercedes
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The Problem can be because you have configured multiple accounts with your Phone and each one of these has the contact data.
Try this and let me know if it worked.
Go to Contacts > Menu > Contacts to Display
Here select the accounts, the contacts of which you want to be displayed.
A more polished way would be to create an Excel Spreadsheet of all your contacts and then upload it with a name in Gmail. You can then enable only this list contacts to be displayed in the Contacts application.
In case it's not a displaying problem - I use Wondershare MobileGo for Android.
Intall the free version, connect your phone to the computer, open the program and under "contacts" tab there is a "De-duplicate" button. It will help you merge duplicated contacs.
There is a workaround for this problem. You can use Go Backup to take a backup of all your existing contacts.. there is an option to merge duplicate contacts as well.. after taking backup delete all your contacts from mobile; sync to server and then restore your contacts..
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Thank you every one for help! However,I found the best solution to be Contact Remover Plus app(paid). It took five minutes to delete all duplicates.
Anyway, thanks guys, some good info here!
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That suggestion about dealing with multiple Google account on your phone is good. Works for me. First, I delete the duplicate contacts on my Android phone and then extract them as Excel files. Finally, the data are uploaded to Gmail. Problem solved. Thank you so much.
i have a problem and that is i when first i buy the phone i add accounts like fb numbuzz whatsup so contacts was separated and i can chose whats to display
after i beaning stupid to try CM10 nightlies i backup my contacts to import them after a while i go back to stock image and restore contacts from android exported file but now i have all the contacts at the same list ( and thats a stupid android coz it didn't restore each contact to its group ) and i discovered that's why my s3 android give me android process cached and stooped so i originally have 260 contacts but now i have 2800 contacts right now im using an option called only view contacts with phone numbers and its okay but how i delete the other contacts ?
is there an app can export only visible contacts ? or contacts with phone numbers ? or delete contacts without phone numbers ?
i really want just the contacts with phone number and delete the others
help please i Google this for 3 hours and nothing useful
If you have your phone contacts synced with Google you should be able to de a restore back to before the import. See here:
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1069522
Joey.
j0ey2069 said:
If you have your phone contacts synced with Google you should be able to de a restore back to before the import. See here:
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1069522
Joey.
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i have them and restored but all together not divided by community fb and others and i don't want in my contacts other than contacts with phone numbers
MotasemBT said:
i have a problem and that is i when first i buy the phone i add accounts like fb numbuzz whatsup so contacts was separated and i can chose whats to display
after i beaning stupid to try CM10 nightlies i backup my contacts to import them after a while i go back to stock image and restore contacts from android exported file but now i have all the contacts at the same list ( and thats a stupid android coz it didn't restore each contact to its group ) and i discovered that's why my s3 android give me android process cached and stooped so i originally have 260 contacts but now i have 2800 contacts right now im using an option called only view contacts with phone numbers and its okay but how i delete the other contacts ?
is there an app can export only visible contacts ? or contacts with phone numbers ? or delete contacts without phone numbers ?
i really want just the contacts with phone number and delete the others
help please i Google this for 3 hours and nothing useful
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WRONG THREAD.
there is a Q&A thread go and ask there
i have a problem and that is i when first i buy the phone i add accounts like fb numbuzz whatsup so contacts was separated and i can chose whats to display
after i beaning stupid to try CM10 nightlies i backup my contacts to import them after a while i go back to stock image and restore contacts from android exported file but now i have all the contacts at the same list ( and thats a stupid android coz it didn't restore each contact to its group ) and i discovered that's why my s3 android give me android process cached and stooped so i originally have 260 contacts but now i have 2800 contacts right now im using an option called only view contacts with phone numbers and its okay but how i delete the other contacts ?
is there an app can export only visible contacts ? or contacts with phone numbers ? or delete contacts without phone numbers ?
i really want just the contacts with phone number and delete the others
help please i Google this for 3 hours and nothing useful
MotasemBT said:
i have a problem and that is i when first i buy the phone i add accounts like fb numbuzz whatsup so contacts was separated and i can chose whats to display
after i beaning stupid to try CM10 nightlies i backup my contacts to import them after a while i go back to stock image and restore contacts from android exported file but now i have all the contacts at the same list ( and thats a stupid android coz it didn't restore each contact to its group ) and i discovered that's why my s3 android give me android process cached and stooped so i originally have 260 contacts but now i have 2800 contacts right now im using an option called only view contacts with phone numbers and its okay but how i delete the other contacts ?
is there an app can export only visible contacts ? or contacts with phone numbers ? or delete contacts without phone numbers ?
i really want just the contacts with phone number and delete the others
help please i Google this for 3 hours and nothing useful
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Instead of using a import/restore app for your contacts, you could always sync it to your google acct and it will automatically restore once you sign in during initial google setup...
this is late for my problem now all contacts are together and about 2800 i want to deletenone phone numbers contacts like whatsup and skype numbuzz and facebook my real contacts are 260 how i get them please i need answer not advise im in problem now
thanks
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I have similar problem where all my contacts have been duplicated and then there are contacts with no phone no.'s. Isnt there a way to group the accounts or delete duplications?
-Phone > contacts > visible contacts > Show all
-Export all your contacts to a .csv file. (on the sd card)
-Delete all contacts: phone, sim, Google and others (tango, Whatsapp etc.)
-Log in to your Google account and import your contacts from that csv file you created. I suggest doing this on a pc.
Now, in Google, you can manage your contacts by editing, merging or marking all and deleting duplicates (if there're any)
Your phone will automatically sync all your refined Google contacts and of course Tango, Whatsapp, Viber etc. will get that contact list and everything will be synced and perfectly set up.
Then it's up to you what contacts you want to have in the contact list and whether you only want to show "phone numbers only"
Saving contacts on phone or sim card is a bit old school
I'd like to recommend, like y2quila suggested, using Google for contacts because it's reliable and painless. It's also a great time saver, especially when changing phones or in case you lose your phone or sim card. All you have to do is logging in to your Google account and voila
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NemysysS3 said:
I have similar problem where all my contacts have been duplicated and then there are contacts with no phone no.'s. Isnt there a way to group the accounts or delete duplications?
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If your contacts are already on Google then log in to your account and mange them by marking all and deleting duplicates. If they're not on Google I suggest doing so by exporting them to a file on sd card or pc and then importing them in Google and doing as suggested.
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NemysysS3 said:
I have similar problem where all my contacts have been duplicated and then there are contacts with no phone no.'s. Isnt there a way to group the accounts or delete duplications?
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this's what i did
i view all contacts together and then upload them to google account then locate contacts.google.com and there i edit them so i start search in my contacts for example i seach ( @yahoo ) and delete all ( @hotmail ) and delete all etc etc then for facebook contacts i hade to chose them one by one you can see them names without numbers i also select them manualy
but after all i have a problem with whatsup messenger when installing i get error about android.acore.proccess crached and after a too many retries i get it installed and even so after installed i get every 15 sec the error message so i think ur problem is def than mine so i hope u get help
and another thing managing the contacts from contacts.google.com is easier becuase when ur done deleteing non numbers accounts select them all and from option menu click on find duplicates and then remove them or search google play store for duplicate remover
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=duplicate+contacts&c=apps
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Hi,
Ever since I upgraded to 5.5.3, my contacts keeps merging wrongly.
All my contacts are stored on the gmail account.
The phone keeps merging contacts with different phones and different names.
Even after separating the contacts manually, they sometime return to be merged, with a different contact.
Anyone heard of this bug or know how to fix it?
Had the same problem on my Galaxy Fame, running on Android 4.1.2
Any solutions?
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Unfortunately, no solution so far.
emoneta said:
Unfortunately, no solution so far.
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Export your correct list of contacts, then delete all your contacts from gmail and phone. make a manual sync of your account, possibly it will tell you that are to manny contacts deleted. log on your account from pc to check if there is no contacts! after that you can import the list exported earlier! or add them one by one in gmail , from a pc. after your can make a sync to see if will not mess up!
You can try first to download Contacts sync fix from playstore , maybe it will fix the problem!