I am looking for an app that will scan my contacts and will let me merge 2 or more similar entries. And I don't mean what the native app does, joining two entries from two different sources. I did a bunch of backups and now I have every contact two or three times. Some of them only have the email address, some of them have only the home number or cell number.
Was I clear enough? I'm tired and I'm not sure you'll get my point, but anyone came across this kind of app?
Thanks.
Really??? Nobody?
If they're on Gmail, there's a way to export them to a CSV file. Once you do that, open it in Excel, which makes it a TON easier to prune things out, then nuke all of your Gmail contacts and upload the CSV.
Im having issues trying to clean up my contacts Ive got many doubles and I want to clean up my phone and SIM contacts its Ive tried before to delete them but they never seem to delete from my contacts.
EDIT: NVM fixed it
For those of us that might be having the same problem, would you mind enlightening us on how you fixed it?
Do it from a PC. Yes it is painful but it only has to be done once. I do not recommend using SIM contacts for a very simple reason. Many people today have email and phones plus IM etc datafilled with their contacts. Only phone numbers are supported on the SIM and even that has a limit of 1 number per contact. so if you have a contact with 4 phone numbers, that will be 4 contacts on your SIM and in your device when you import them.
I know this is the way it worked for GSM long ago and I don't think this has changed.
Best workaround is sync to Google. If you want a local copy after cleaning things up on a PC, export you contacts to your external SD card...
I cleared the data from contacts and contact storage from manage applications and then I synced my google contacts
There is app to delete duplicate contacts ..sorry I forgot the name...but its very effective...and also just like others stated always use google to sysnc contacts...this way when getting new phones...its easier and you wont have duplicates...
Why has no one yet figured out a way to force Facebook Contact Sync yet on 3rd party apps on ICS??? This has been an issue for a while, and while there are apps out there to sync contacts and pics, they don't provide numbers. I rely on FB to provide some of my friends numbers, and I would like the chance to use something like Go Contacts. I mean the stock Sense dialer can load FB numbers, so why doesn't any of the other dialers do? I mean there isn't even a root hack to do so as far as I can tell.
Is there something I'm just missing?
try this app. I use it because facebook sync doesn't work for me either
haxsync doesn't import numbers though, which is what I'm really after.
My phone dialer has some contacts repeated literally 100 times. They are not that way in the Contacts app, just the phone. Just ran a dedupe app that did find some in my Contacts, but didn't touch the phone contacts list. I did not realize they are two different lists, which makes no sense.
Would appreciate a hint as to getting rid of all the dupes, and especially if there is something I can do to make the phone contacts and "regular" contacts the same database.
Use Google account to sync your contacts and remove them from your sim card/phone internal storage.
The stock dialer app does not store contacts. Are you sure you aren't looking at the call history?
Miami_Son said:
The stock dialer app does not store contacts. Are you sure you aren't looking at the call history?
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Wouldn't that be something... lol
Miami_Son said:
The stock dialer app does not store contacts. Are you sure you aren't looking at the call history?
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Yep; pretty sure I did not call my son 100 times in a row!
Mike
Phalanx7621 said:
Use Google account to sync your contacts and remove them from your sim card/phone internal storage.
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Well, now I'm really confused. Ran a de-dupe app, following which my dialer Contacts was empty, but desktop Contacts fine. Now my desktop contacts do seem to be the same as the phone, though it has 29 instances of the same person, whom I never call. I have a Google account with Contacts, but it has some that are not on my phone and the other way around. Also, when I look at Google Contacts at Google.com the right side shows no duplicates, but the left side scrolls though dozens to a few hundred of the same entry.
So, phone and Google not syncing, and Thunderbird is totally different from them both. Sure would loke to get all three the same.
Mike
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Well, now I'm really confused. Ran a de-dupe app, following which my dialer Contacts was empty, but desktop Contacts fine. Now my desktop contacts do seem to be the same as the phone, though it has 29 instances of the same person, whom I never call. I have a Google account with Contacts, but it has some that are not on my phone and the other way around. Also, when I look at Google Contacts at Google.com the right side shows no duplicates, but the left side scrolls though dozens to a few hundred of the same entry.
So, phone and Google not syncing, and Thunderbird is totally different from them both. Sure would loke to get all three the same.
Mike
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Maybe you were restoring contacts from a backup app causing one to show up then google synced the one that it had before making the total 2. Then it just went exponentially higher as it went on. As in it would go from 1 each to 2 each to 4 each to 8 each etc
Check you contacts in your Gmail account.i bet that's where all the duplicates are.
there are lots of free apps in the market to delete duplicate contacts.
please try 1 of them..
Hope helps
bqudamith said:
there are lots of free apps in the market to delete duplicate contacts.
please try 1 of them..
Hope helps
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Dude read the thread he has used them multiple times
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Google Contacts, Oh My
Dove back into this today. At Google, I don't have all that many duplicate contacts (though some posters report as many as 25K; up to 2K of the same contact), but have several thousand totally empty Contact Groups! The groups are actually a person's name, anywhere from 8 to 30 times. So their name is a group name, not really a contact, and that is what is showing up on my dialer Contacts list because not a one of them actually has a phone number.
Postings at Google and all over the internet *****ing about his since 2009. No prevention, no way to clean them out. All I can find is to delete the empty folders one at a tine (no mass delete, no way to tag multiple groups); 00 times would take forever, and I guess would have to repeat weekly.
I've tried all the merging / de-dupe stuff, and they are for duplicate contacts, not duplicate groups, unless someone knows an app that would. If I could batch delete them on my phone, perhaps that would also wipe them out at Google.
Resolved!
Found two fixes (but don't know about prevention or reoccurance). There is a popular utility that deletes all groups. The text at the site where available says that it deletes all groups, cannot skip any. So the first fix: download my one group with contacts to a CSV file, delete everything, then recreate the group, empty, and bring back the CSV data. However, I found that the utility did delete everything except the group "My Contacts", which seems to be the standard group, created by GMail, which was left untouched. So the utility deletes all customer-created groups, but not the one created by Google, which is what I wanted anyway.
So here is the utility: http://blog.scrappydog.com/2009/01/deleting-4000-gmail-groups-or-repairing.html
Thanks to all.
Fixed!
Thought I posted this, but doesn't seem to be showing up, so I want to close this out with a solution for others to find. If this is a duplicate, my apologies.
For customer created groups, 1) download to a CSV file, 2) run the utility found below to delete all custom groups, then 3) make the group again and copy back the CSV file.
Here is the utility: http://blog.scrappydog.com/2009/01/deleting-4000-gmail-groups-or-repairing.html
However I wanted to keep the Google standard My Contacts, so I did the above. But after running the utility I found that it does not touch the My Contacts group (I assume Google prevents it from every being deleted), so I did not need the CSV file, just the utility to get rid of my 600 empty groups.
Hello
Is there any way to sort the contacts on the Watch when paired to a phone? On my phone all the contacts have been arranged and none have no names but I have double/triple entries for contacts left and right. I even tried re-organizing and merging contacts on the phone but nothing else works.
Anyone out there have a clue whats going on? or if there's a fix or a work around to just filter phones, actually force re-sync or is the contacts app just straight up broken.
solved it myself. retarded
caused by the contacts merge on Galaxy S6/S6Edge and +. Sooo had to search through all merged contacts or all contacts that weren't within a name (so loose contacts /emails/numbers) and delete them.. through the phone.
welp that sucked. but at least its fixed