I have this odd problem I can't seem to resolve. My wife has two twitter accounts, a personal one and one that's for her web site. Somehow my phone has decided to associate these all to her contact entry. The personal one I can abide but I don't actually want to see tweets for her web site linked to her. I can't find a way to disassociate them tho.
The twitter acct isn't listed anywhere in the editable sections of the contact entry, the email address don't match, ... the only common thread is her full name. But does that mean if I know a "Bob Smith" and I follow a different "Bob Smith" on twitter my phone would irrevocably decide they're the same person?
I've even tried changing her name on the contact entry to no avail. Any suggestions?
If you are rooted you might try freezing twitter authenticator. You could also delete twitter from my accounts and use the twitter app itself to log on. Might break the association
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For some reason, all people I email ends up in my contacts. Even if I emailed them just once and not even from the phone. This never happened on my Nexus One... Any ideas? Thanks.
Go to contacts, menu, display options, select only show contacts with phone numbers.
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Ok but what if I have some contacts that are only email addresses. It seems the phone is getting contacts from within gmail's "all contacts" instead of "my contacts"
The only thing you can do is stop synching your gmail contacts.
This has happened on every android phone I've owned since the G1. Google remembers anyone you send an email to and it becomes part of your address book, even if it's not on your list of contacts. To show this, open up gmail in on a PC and type the first couple chars of that email address and it will pop right up.
I know what you're talking about but it didn't happen when I was running cyanogen or kangorama on my nexus one. Maybe it has something to do with Samsungs contact app instead of stock, I don't know...
nope same thing happened to me, i just deleted and move on though...
this is so annoying. Every android phone I have had syncs with 'My Contacts' (G1 and Nexus)...but the Vibrant syncs with 'All Contacts'...I haven't found a fix yet, or a good work around.
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In the gmail web portal setting there is an option to turn that off. I remember seeing it just three other day.
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I remember the days of the G1, when I had a separate "phone" list setup in google contacts, and I could display ONLY those contacts. Some numbers I do want to keep in google contacts, but only some I want to pop up when making a call.
Why did they change the contacts stuff so much? Does anyone else find this annoying?
any solution to this?
Beside this, can it show the actual group I put in the Google contact rather in the same group "Google"
Hi,
I have Android 2.3 on my phone, like most here. But I'm not familiar with the inner workings of Android.
When I started it up, I created a dummy account. It's the one used for Android Market, so Google uses that account to track installed programs and purchased programs. When I did that, it looks like the whole OS got associated with that account - the first time I used that gmail program, it also logged into that dummy account.
I do have a personal gmail account that I want my emails, but I also don't want all my google searches and location tracked to my personal account. Not doing anything illegal, just don't want the big brother looking over me.
How can I make the gmail app use a separate account than the one associated with the OS?
It may make you feel more comfortable, but I promise you Google already knows more about you than you want them too. regardless of how many accounts you associate or don't associate with your phone. All of this info ends up on big Gs servers one way or another. They keep your phones unique ID and the email addresses associated with it - so all they need to do is query your ID and find both of your gmail addresses and call them both "you".
But to your point. You can add both accounts to the phone, but the "First" account will always be treated as the primary account--Getting all of your search history and what not.
In Gmail you can tap the email address in the top right hand corner to switch inboxes/account being viewed.
I entered in my Facebook account and it started uploading all my friends and added like 700 more contacts. Certainly didn't want that so I unchecked all the contacts stuffed went into people and unchecked Facebook there. I they all went away however when I am picking a contact when I start a message it shows all of the Facebook numbers again. I it did the same thing on my girlfriends rhyme as well and she'd like a solution too. Thanks in advance
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+1 this happens with Google + contacts also. Any advice on this one would be greatly appreciated.
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+1 this happens with Google + contacts also. Any advice on this one would be greatly appreciated.
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Google+ is part of your Google Account. All of your cantacts are synced together under that account. There is no way to separate it, even if you didn't have G+ on the phone.
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I entered in my Facebook account and it started uploading all my friends and added like 700 more contacts. Certainly didn't want that so I unchecked all the contacts stuffed went into people and unchecked Facebook there. I they all went away however when I am picking a contact when I start a message it shows all of the Facebook numbers again. I it did the same thing on my girlfriends rhyme as well and she'd like a solution too. Thanks in advance
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You entered your Facebook account info into your phone, and it started uploading your contacts to Facebook? Did you mean downloading your Facebook contacts to your phone? Yes, it does that. The People app in Sense loves to suck in ALL your contacts and combine them (it calls it "linking" and you can see what contacts it has linked for you in the Settings menu.) The Messages app pulls from that same database, and I couldn't find a way to restrict it either.
Have you tried Settings -> Accounts and Sync -> Facebook and uncheck "Contacts?" You may have to remove the account entirely, uncheck auto-sync long enough to get the account added, and then uncheck the Contacts box. Just a guess, I haven't tried it.
Yeah that didn't stop it from appearing when I would view contacts through a new text. I just completely removed the account seems fine now.
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Hrm my Facebook only synced with my existing contacts - it's an option in the Facebook app
Also I have like 9000 people on Google+ but they aren't in my phone either....
not sure what you guys are doing to get them all
I don't have 9,000 people on G+ because I am not a whore, lol. But, there are options in both the apps and contacts to only sync with existing contacts, only add people with numbers, etc...
If you have 9,000 friends on G+ they are not your friends. I have been on since day 0 and have slightly over 100 people I know in real life
Apparently there's a big Facebook app update today so hopefully that helps.
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I don't have 9,000 people on G+ because I am not a whore, lol. But, there are options in both the apps and contacts to only sync with existing contacts, only add people with numbers, etc...
If you have 9,000 friends on G+ they are not your friends. I have been on since day 0 and have slightly over 100 people I know in real life
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G+ is more like Twitter for me, I follow people I don't consider "friends" simply because I want to read what they have to say. I have a separate circle for real Friends (capital-F!)
Anyway, the person who was complaining about G+ contacts showing on his phone may have been noticing them in Talk, because the Big G just decided to default all your G+ circles into Talk contacts unless you go in and deselect them. I don't think there's any way to integrate G+ into your phone contacts.
My G+ contacts are linked with their various phone contacts. But of course, all of my contacts have been backed up to Google and GMail since before Android even existed.
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My G+ contacts are linked with their various phone contacts. But of course, all of my contacts have been backed up to Google and GMail since before Android even existed.
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They're linked with existing contacts, yeah. But I don't know if it imports from Google+ contact info for non-local or non-Google people. In other words, if the only place you've got info for someone is a Google+ circle, I think that's where they'll stay. Once you send them an email, though, if your GMail account is set to auto-add to contacts, it'll offer you the chance to link the G+ contact and the Google contact.
This seems like it makes sense to me, because the people I have in my G+ circles that I don't have any other contact info for do NOT show up on my phone or in GMail.
Hi all. Having been with yahoo for many many (often tiring) years, sadly this isn't a new thing, it's something that comes and goes seemingly based on the whims of yahoo deciding to change their settings, potentially to try to herd users onto their (awful) mail app. Anyway, problem:
All of a sudden, my account (yahoo plus, imap) and my mothers (yahoo basic, pop) have stopped receiving emails on our 2 android phones (samsung S3 with latest ICS, & HTC wildfire with whatever was before ICS, respectively). I've read a number of forums with various suggestions, including:
- clear the app cache
- change to a different server: most suggest imap.mail.yahoo.com but others suggest imap.n.mail.yahoo.com, imap.android.mail.yahoo.com, one suggests using IMAP4 (don't know how to select this)
- delete account & reinstall
None of these work. Peversely, I AM getting emails through on imap.mail.yahoo.com, but very intermittently. I'll notice that, e.g. overnight, I'll have gotten most of yesterday's, but if i click for a manual refresh it'll fail. Likewise if I set myself up for imap.mail.yahoo.com, it'll check the settings & be ok, but then give a connection error.
My mum's phone is a slightly different problem: she can log in fine through the internet, but her username/password combo fails for pop access through the stock email app. She's a .co.uk address, & i'm wondering if this is the reason for the problem. I suspect it's just that yahoo is having a problem.
Any thoughts appreciated for both of these - potentially connected - problems.
Cheers
Dez
p.s. previous suggestioons pages:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1105010
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398799
yahoo answers cache thing
http://www.arclab.com/products/amlc/list-of-smtp-and-imap-servers-mailserver-list.html
Address any prompts or issues you see when signing in on a desktop before trying to sign in on a third-party email app, then send a test message.
Sign in to Yahoo Mail from a web browser.
Compose a new email and add your own address in the "To" field.
Send the email.
Wait up to five minutes to see if it arrives.
Confirm app is configured with the correct POP settings or IMAP settings for Yahoo Mail. Sometimes even if the info seems correct, the data the app saved could be corrupt or contain hidden invalid characters. Delete your Yahoo account from the app and re-add it to be sure. If you need specific instructions for your app, contact its manufacturer.
Regards,
J Wick
I have 5 gmail accounts on my V10. Only one is selected to sync contacts. When I use the dialer I start typing a number and start to see choices from other unsynced gmail accounts. When I select other account as visible in the contacts app it populates the supposed unsynced account with names. I have tried clear contact storage a couple times but it keeps syncing the contacts I told it not to. This is getting frustrating. Any suggestions?
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I have 5 gmail accounts on my V10. Only one is selected to sync contacts. When I use the dialer I start typing a number and start to see choices from other unsynced gmail accounts. When I select other account as visible in the contacts app it populates the supposed unsynced account with names. I have tried clear contact storage a couple times but it keeps syncing the contacts I told it not to. This is getting frustrating. Any suggestions?
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5 gmail accounts? amazing, i just have 1, did not see this issue before. try some email app.
The issue isn't related to an email app.
Do you use Google +?
If so, the first time of use, it asks if you want to sync all your G+ contacts.
I made this mistake once and now I have thousands
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I don't use G+ and all the contacts are not synced to one account. The are listed under each individual gmail account. The issue only happened after moving to the V10. My note 4 didn't have this issue.
Any further suggestions?
can anyone confirm they have same problem
Anyone able to try duplicating this issue?
This happened to me on the Moto X (first generation) ... I've been screwed ever since.
My problem with this is how invasive - while at the same time disruptive, repetitive and completely unnecessary this unauthorized merge is as it duplicates contacts.
Example:
1. I have 1 email (& matching Contact List) for work and work related contacts. These contacts include only their work phone and email - and in some instances their work cell # -- which of course would be labeled "mobile" as that was the only labeling option a decade ago.
2. I have 1 email (& matching Contact List) for my friends. These contacts include only their personal phone and email. Although there are a few cell phone numbers that match the business cell, the rest of the info is unique to their personal life.
*** Part 2 of this Contact List is their wives/sig-other gets a Contact Listing - to which repetitive info like the land line and maybe e-mail address is entered, but more importantly their individual cell number. This makes contacting them individually an easy task without guessing what cell number goes to the husband or the wife ... and in some instances ... their kids (who sometimes baby/dog sit). [This may sound rather convoluted to you younger kids, but 10 years ago we didn't have the option of custom labeling the phone numbers, only a short pull-down list of Home, Cell, Fax ... so this is how we did it ... and a decade later with several hundred entries, we're NOT going back to redefine all these fields and merge contact lists as this is still an easy system].
Well - a while back when the Droid X came out, I loaded each email profile into the phone separately - Google/Droid decided to merge all contacts and it's been a friggin' disaster ever since! I went from 200 to 800 contacts in different email/contact profiles, to one, bigass, convoluted, double, triple, quadrupled contact list that is impossible to tell which one is from the Work List or the Personal List or any other miscellaneous list I had .... a 4000K Contact list for every email account - not just g-mail, but Outlook and Windows too! ! !
I've yet to find any app that can simplify or remedy this for me ... (I've spent WEEKS looking for one ... so about a year ago, I took several days and merged all the Contacts into one Gmail list and custom labeled EVERYONE on those lists into one, clear, concise list. I admit that I'm anal about keeping things organized and in clear and concise manner and this may seem nutty to some ... but I also don't make the mistakes my friends make with mis-dials and wrong numbers.
I've had some issues ... (hint: once done, copy to a window computer, then go and delete every back up you ever made of every contact list in every e-mail file to prevent reloading old files into the new, revised Contact list.) ... but I stay on top of it and delete or modify any duplicate. I'm almost back to being sane ... probably because I haven't stopped drinking ;- )
It's going to be a long and lonely road back to sanity. Google is invasive and loves getting all the info it can and will "F" up the way you kept it.
Good luck with a solution. Please post a solution if you find one.
I have three Gmail accounts on my phone. Mine, my daughters and wife's. I only want to sync the calendar, but it also syncs the contacts. Especially if I get a text from my brother, it will come up as Uncle.....(my daughter's account). I tried contacts sync fix as I read in a forum once that LG phones have an issue with broken contacts if you have an I.C.E. contact listed (in case of emergency). This did fix it for about two weeks and then something happened and I was back to seeing my wife's and daughter's contacts over mine.
If you find a solution, please let me know.