I upgraded my GS II to 2.3.5 yesterday and now my contact pics do not show up on the messaging app. Now, before people ask the obvious questions:
1. No, I do not sync my contacts with Facebook or any other account.
2. I tried GoSMS Pro and Handcent. They do not show contact pictures any longer either.
3. I know it's a permissions problem.
NOW, what directory needs to be chmod to fix this? I've looked all over but the directories listed for other devices are not used on the GS II.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
No one? Haven't seen this problem occur on any other GS II sites. It's rather frustrating.
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Baldilocks said:
I do not sync my contacts with Facebook or any other account.
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I know it's a permissions problem.
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Where are the pictures supposed to be coming from and do they show in your contacts? I realise my question may be superfluous because of your final statement, but I've never heard of such a permissions problem.
oinkylicious said:
Where are the pictures supposed to be coming from and do they show in your contacts? I realise my question may be superfluous because of your final statement, but I've never heard of such a permissions problem.
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I use pics I have on my SD card. They worked fine with Android 2.3.3 and 2.3.4. Once I did the update they no longer show in the Messaging App(s).
Baldilocks said:
I use pics I have on my SD card. They worked fine with Android 2.3.3 and 2.3.4. Once I did the update they no longer show in the Messaging App(s).
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You only answered one of the questions.
oinkylicious said:
You only answered one of the questions.
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Yes, they show in Contacts and the Log, but not in any messaging app.
It has been suggested it is a permissions problem with the com.android.providers.contacts/files directory. However, I have no 'files' directory there. So, I am clueless as how to fix it.
Problem Solved!!
I deleted all the contacts from my SIM.
Re-Added the pictures for each phone contact again.
Now they show up.
For some reason having the contacts on the SIM had something to do with it, even though I had them hidden. (shrug). Never ran into that problem before.
I have noticed this to, after update to 2.3.5 the contact pics in the standard messaging don't show up, yet if you use go SMS or any messaging widget the pics show up fine. So how did you sort it again? Mine simply sync with Google
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Baldilocks said:
Problem Solved!!
I deleted all the contacts from my SIM.
Re-Added the pictures for each phone contact again.
Now they show up.
For some reason having the contacts on the SIM had something to do with it, even though I had them hidden. (shrug). Never ran into that problem before.
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Only just seen this thread. I posted about this a lil while back. Exact same problem, exact same solution
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Oh yes, i turned off all other displays in my contacts so only Sim was showing, then hit delete, select all, then turned back on the google contacts etc...now automatically showing again.
So 2.3.5 is not liking sim cards I guess, thanks for this help
THUDUK said:
Oh yes, i turned off all other displays in my contacts so only Sim was showing, then hit delete, select all, then turned back on the google contacts etc...now automatically showing again.
So 2.3.5 is not liking sim cards I guess, thanks for this help
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You're welcome.
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Thank you, my wife's SGS had the same problem, solved thanks to you!
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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This issue is not just related to 2.3.5, I'm on 2.3.4 KI4 and it happened on it as well.
I noticed this issue last week. Somehow all my contact pics stopped showing up in my Call Logs, Contacts, and in the stock messaging app as well as Gosms Pro (which is what i use). I noticed that when i deleted a particular sim contact the picture would then show up, so the phone was obviously defaulting to sim numbers where it had 2 numbers stored. Oh, and for the record, i sync my contact from Yahoo Mail.
So yeah, delete your sim contacts (nobody uses them anymore, right?! and you're good to go.
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Hi,
I'm having problems syncing my contacts from my phone to my Gmail account. Basically, they're syncing the wrong way!
If I put a new number in my phone then sync to Gmail the number is deleted as it isn't already in my Gmail contacts list.
Surely this is the wrong way around? Surely it should add the new number to my Gmail account? After all, the phone is the logical place to create new contacts.
So, what am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
If it matters I'm running Vodafone branded firmware: Baseband 1.2.28, Build R2BA024.
Thanks.
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could it be you're editing your contacts on gmail as well? then again.. it couldn't be because it's 2 different contacts right?
how bout, if you create an account in google contacts? does it get synced with your fone and show up there?
Yeah if I add a contact to Gmail it syncs to my phone fine. Just not the other way around.
*confused*
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Anyone?
Perhaps I should have put this in the Q&A section!
Sorry Mods. My fault!
Care to move it for me? I don't want to start a duplicate thread.
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Okay I'm going to bump this one last time! I know that's bad form but I've been searching google and asking on other forums too and still can't find the answer!
If anyone can help it's the users on this forum!!
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SunjinSak said:
Okay I'm going to bump this one last time! I know that's bad form but I've been searching google and asking on other forums too and still can't find the answer!
If anyone can help it's the users on this forum!!
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Pl try clearing the contacts from going to settings>applications>manage applications and clear the cache data from the contacts...it ill erase all ur current contacts on Phone and than u can recync all again from Google..hope that works...
Okay I'll give it a try. Thanks man.
I'll let you know how I get on.
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i also have a question to this case. obviously (and i think this is also the reason why this thread was opened) gmail sync only syncs the contacts from your gmail-account to the phone...actually it would be more valuable if i could transfer the contacts from my phone to my gmail-account, as it would also be a kind of backup if something happens to my device.
it is also a thing of daily routine, if i receive a new number or mailadress, i do save it in my phone. because of the only sync-direction gmail->phone, i have to sit in front of my pc in the evening and add the new contact details to my gmail-account...? wouldn't it be easier if i could start a transfer from my phone TO gmail?!?!
Petarsson said:
i also have a question to this case. obviously (and i think this is also the reason why this thread was opened) gmail sync only syncs the contacts from your gmail-account to the phone...actually it would be more valuable if i could transfer the contacts from my phone to my gmail-account, as it would also be a kind of backup if something happens to my device.
it is also a thing of daily routine, if i receive a new number or mailadress, i do save it in my phone. because of the only sync-direction gmail->phone, i have to sit in front of my pc in the evening and add the new contact details to my gmail-account...? wouldn't it be easier if i could start a transfer from my phone TO gmail?!?!
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My thoughts exactly! Far more logical that way around.
The weird thing is, it used to work that way for me. Now it doesn't. As far as I'm aware I haven't changed any settings on either my phone or my gmail account. Very strange!
Tried clearing the cache btw and that hasn't solved the problem.
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so you already did that with your X10? you transferred the contacts of your phone to gmail?
of course it would be perfect, if i could chose which side should synchronize with the other...
e.g. if i need to reset my phone, then i'd love to get my contacts back from gmail!
hope, that somebody can help us here!
Petarsson said:
so you already did that with your X10? you transferred the contacts of your phone to gmail?
of course it would be perfect, if i could chose which side should synchronize with the other...
e.g. if i need to reset my phone, then i'd love to get my contacts back from gmail!
hope, that somebody can help us here!
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Yeah. As far as I'm aware it used to sync in both directions. When I first got my phone I ran a manual sync and all my contacts appeared on my phone. Then if I added one to my phone, or changed one, and ran another sync it would update my gmail contacts with the new/changed one.
Now it doesn't. Strange!
The only thing I can think it would be is that I changed the last part of my address from googlemail.com to gmail.com.
I wonder if that might have something to do with it?
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Petarsson said:
so you already did that with your X10? you transferred the contacts of your phone to gmail?
of course it would be perfect, if i could chose which side should synchronize with the other...
e.g. if i need to reset my phone, then i'd love to get my contacts back from gmail!
hope, that somebody can help us here!
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hey dont worry for that part as it syncs all contacts in a very clever way, for eg i had flashed my phone several times and didnt kept backup of my contacts(apart from one on gmail) and when i was done with flashing i just use to sync them again with gmail and voila..ph got updated according to copy of gmail contacts...so it doesnt deleates the contacts on gmail...
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hey dont worry for that part as it syncs all contacts in a very clever way, for eg i had flashed my phone several times and didnt kept backup of my contacts(apart from one on gmail) and when i was done with flashing i just use to sync them again with gmail and voila..ph got updated according to copy of gmail contacts...so it doesnt deleates the contacts on gmail...
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ok, thanks for your note! so we are now sure, that the transfer of contacts from gmail to the phone works properly. and how about the other way round? do you know about that?
SunjinSak said:
Yeah. As far as I'm aware it used to sync in both directions. When I first got my phone I ran a manual sync and all my contacts appeared on my phone. Then if I added one to my phone, or changed one, and ran another sync it would update my gmail contacts with the new/changed one.
Now it doesn't. Strange!
The only thing I can think it would be is that I changed the last part of my address from googlemail.com to gmail.com.
I wonder if that might have something to do with it?
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hm, so it should normally align both states maybe? is the sync-function really checking the contacts of the phone and those in gmail an adds only the contacts on that side, where they are missing?
well, i have tried the sync once and it deleted all the new contacts on my phone! there was only a transfer of my gmail-contacts to my X10...phone book was ignored and even overwritten!
any hints what sunjin an i do wrong?
hm, so it should normally align both states maybe? is the sync-function really checking the contacts of the phone and those in gmail an adds only the contacts on that side, where they are missing?
well, i have tried the sync once and it deleted all the new contacts on my phone! there was only a transfer of my gmail-contacts to my X10...phone book was ignored and even overwritten!
any hints what sunjin an i do wrong?
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It used to sync both ways for me but now it doesn't. This is very, VERY annoying as I frequently add new contacts to my phone but I now have to remember to go add them to Gmail too or they get deleted next time I sync. Illogical if you ask me.
Can anyone with a different phone/version of Android confirm if this happens to you also?
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Hi. Updated to Nordic 2.1 last night. Easy as pie.
Problem: Although only one of each of my contacts shows in my phonebook, there are two of every detail within them!!! Two numbers, two addresses etc.
The reason is that it is showing that I have two identical Google Accounts set up but under Accounts and Sync there is just the one.
Anyone know how to figure out this rather irritating problem!!??
Paul.
TheMathMan said:
Hi. Updated to Nordic 2.1 last night. Easy as pie.
Problem: Although only one of each of my contacts shows in my phonebook, there are two of every detail within them!!! Two numbers, two addresses etc.
The reason is that it is showing that I have two identical Google Accounts set up but under Accounts and Sync there is just the one.
Anyone know how to figure out this rather irritating problem!!??
Paul.
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Yeah... same here.. Damn irritating...
also would be glad about a solution. Ive already tried to filter either Google or Phone Contacts, but this doesn't have any effect.
I use to have this problem on 1.6
I basically,backed up my contacts to memory card which created a .vcf. When the phoneook showed the contacts twice, delete them all and import from vcf.
This would solve the issue for me.
I'm syncing my contacts from Google though. These aren't imported from vcards.
superleeds27 said:
I use to have this problem on 1.6
I basically,backed up my contacts to memory card which created a .vcf. When the phoneook showed the contacts twice, delete them all and import from vcf.
This would solve the issue for me.
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Think I may have solved it!!!
In a contact with duplicates, click "Edit", click on the menu button and then click "Separate". This will remove the duplicate, and it then mysteriously disappears!
Unfortunately you will then have to click menu again and "Join" if you want it to link back up with Facebook contacts.
Hope this helps.
I just use MyPhoneExplorer
TheMathMan said:
Think I may have solved it!!!
In a contact with duplicates, click "Edit", click on the menu button and then click "Separate". This will remove the duplicate, and it then mysteriously disappears!
Unfortunately you will then have to click menu again and "Join" if you want it to link back up with Facebook contacts.
Hope this helps.
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helps, but dirty work for doing this for all contacts
sp9nki said:
helps, but dirty work for doing this for all contacts
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Yes I agree. I dont think the fault is with SE. I think it is fromthe Google Contacts merging process to remove duplicates. I think it keeps them hidden normally but somehow its showing on the phone?
Still a few hidden duplicates in there somewhere... removed with Contact Analyzer 2. Quick and easy.
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If u log into ur gmail and load up ur contacts u can auto filter duplicates
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The thing is ... synced dublicates don't come only from Google (aka Gmail) but also may come from Facebook as well.
And my question is , what if I DO want them to be merged so I can view a full detailed card of each of my contact with Facebook status , email , Facebook picture etc. but I don't want to have dublicate mobile number? I can't proccess the hidden-synced-from-facebook contact card just the one that I have saved , hope I'm not confusing you.
I had the same problem too at first.. so I factory restarted.. and just synced my facebook,twitter and gmail instead. The doubles I think came from my sonyericsson sync. ANOTHER THING IS, click the button on the upper left on the contact list, then click show contacts on facebook and twitter only.. I hid the Timescape facebook and timescape twitter
TheMathMan said:
Think I may have solved it!!!
In a contact with duplicates, click "Edit", click on the menu button and then click "Separate". This will remove the duplicate, and it then mysteriously disappears!
Unfortunately you will then have to click menu again and "Join" if you want it to link back up with Facebook contacts.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the tip you saved the day
akila87 said:
Thanks for the tip you saved the day
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you can also try this...
when you are in your phone book...look at the phone book page very upper left hand corner and you will see a touch button with 3 heads. click on that, and then you can edit how to show the contacts in your phone book...
now i have a question on the google sync...do you guys have problem with google sync? after update to 2.1 my google account dun sync with the contacts anymore. Can you share if there is a solution to solve it??
Thanks!
noticed a bug.... if you make a contact with just one entry, i cant edit it...
thor2002ro said:
noticed a bug.... if you make a contact with just one entry, i cant edit it...
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Hm ... can't quite figure out what you mean. Care to elaborate?
Hello everybody,
first I want to thank you for all the great instructions and FAQs, they really helped a lot.
However, I finally bought myself an Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 and flashed it yesterday with the Resurrection 1.8.1 ICS ROM (which is really amazing). But I am experiencing an issue for which I couldn't find a solution.
After synchronizing the S2 via MPE with Outlook, and saving the contacts only on the phone they disappear after a while. But not the contacts which are linked to an online account (Facebook etc).
I think this issue was also raised in [Rom](M5)[Pitch Black](tabletUİ)[AOKP-B35][04/05]Resurrection Remix ics v1.8.1[4.0.4] (page 2546):
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Originally Posted by Kamikaze1 View Post
I have some problem with my contacts.
I uploaded my contacts with MyPhoneExplorer and after about 1/2h, all contacts are gone/deleted.
I moved from 1.4 to 1.5 (no wipe). CM9.
And i got battery draining.
Thanks a lot ...
Amazing rom. I like Resurrection Remix.
After no help and still problem with loosing contacts I moved to "CriskeloServanTEAM-V8-LP7" and now all is OK.
Please can you fix this bug?
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Does anyone now what I could do without having to sync the contacts with Google.
Thank you for your help.
Have you checked to see which contacts are selected to be displayed.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
All of the contacts are displayed, because I did not sync it with Google.
Vladi_1002 said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
All of the contacts are displayed, because I did not sync it with Google.
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I think he meant when you go to the Contacts app, then open menu > more > display options, you can choose various options here. Under the "select contacts to display" heading, if under phone, nothing is checked, then it will not display any local phone contacts. See if they are all un-checked here.
EDIT: Oh, you're on Resurrection Remix, which is an ICS ROM. Could be slightly different for you. But the idea is the same.
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I think he meant when you go to the Contacts app, then open menu > more > display options, you can choose various options here. Under the "select contacts to display" heading, if under phone, nothing is checked, then it will not display any local phone contacts. See if they are all un-checked here.
EDIT: Oh, you're on Resurrection Remix, which is an ICS ROM. Could be slightly different for you. But the idea is the same.
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Your are right if I uncheck everything no contacts are seen.
But if I want to view the contacts I saved on the phone (phone-only, unsynced contact), I have to show "All contacts", but after some time these contacts disappeared.
Vladi_1002 said:
Your are right if I uncheck everything no contacts are seen.
But if I want to view the contacts I saved on the phone (phone-only, unsynced contact), I have to show "All contacts", but after some time these contacts disappeared.
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Hmm.. Turn off contact sync on your google account, maybe?
ctomgee said:
Hmm.. Turn off contact sync on your google account, maybe?
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I disabled all synchronization except Google calendar, then I also disabled the synchronisation with Contact-sync.
But still the contacts are deleted. The only contacts which are left are either synced with HaxSync or Whatsapp.
Does it mean I cannot leave any contacts which are not synced with something?
It should be possible to leave some contacts on the phone itself?!
Vladi_1002 said:
I disabled all synchronization except Google calendar, then I also disabled the synchronisation with Contact-sync.
But still the contacts are deleted. The only contacts which are left are either synced with HaxSync or Whatsapp.
Does it mean I cannot leave any contacts which are not synced with something?
It should be possible to leave some contacts on the phone itself?!
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That's very weird. I can save a new contact that is "phone only" and it displays just fine, and is never synched to my Google account. (though, I really don't understand why people don't like synching to Google. It's like automatically backing up your Contacts online. What's not to like?)
Can you post some screenshots maybe of your display settings with all the settings expanded?
Just save all contacts to SIM memory, not in Phone memory.
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Just save all contacts to SIM memory, not in Phone memory.
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Is there no other way?
Is someone else experiencing the same problem as I do?
I can't imagine that it is normal that all the phone contacts are deleted if they are not synced with an account...
Vladi_1002 said:
Is there no other way?
Is someone else experiencing the same problem as I do?
I can't imagine that it is normal that all the phone contacts are deleted if they are not synced with an account...
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It's NOT normal. As I said, it works fine on my phone. Again, please post screenshots of your settings. I'm guessing there is a wrong setting somewhere.
Vladi_1002 said:
Is there no other way?
Is someone else experiencing the same problem as I do?
I can't imagine that it is normal that all the phone contacts are deleted if they are not synced with an account...
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I think there isn't any way to get back your contacts, but hereafter save all contacts to SIM memory.
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It's NOT normal. As I said, it works fine on my phone. Again, please post screenshots of your settings. I'm guessing there is a wrong setting somewhere.
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Could you specify which settings you need, or do you need all of them?
Would you mind telling me your settings in the meantime and I compare them with mine.
Thanks again for the help.
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Could you specify which settings you need, or do you need all of them?
Would you mind telling me your settings in the meantime and I compare them with mine.
Thanks again for the help.
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I was talking about display settings from your contacts app, like I was suggesting in post 4.
For me, (I'm on GB still) I open contacts, menu, more, display options, and expand out phone. I have everything checked here.
I don't know what it looks like on ICS, as I'm not on ICS... but if I can see screenshots of a similar screen, I may be able to help you. You may not have that set of contacts set to display.
EDIT: I got a hold of a work colleague's i9100 who has ICS installed on it, and found the menu steps...
Ok, so on ICS, it's a bit different. From the Contacts app, hit menu, contacts to display, customize, then expand out phone. Are all the checkboxes here checked?
ctomgee said:
I was talking about display settings from your contacts app, like I was suggesting in post 4.
For me, (I'm on GB still) I open contacts, menu, more, display options, and expand out phone. I have everything checked here.
I don't know what it looks like on ICS, as I'm not on ICS... but if I can see screenshots of a similar screen, I may be able to help you. You may not have that set of contacts set to display.
EDIT: I got a hold of a work colleague's i9100 who has ICS installed on it, and found the menu steps...
Ok, so on ICS, it's a bit different. From the Contacts app, hit menu, contacts to display, customize, then expand out phone. Are all the checkboxes here checked?
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If I check all of them I have ca 150contacts, but after I have synced it with MPE I usually have over 500.
After some time (or a sync with an account I guess) the contacts decline only to the contacts which are synced with an account.
Currently, I have one possible solutions in mind which is however not satisfying for me:
1. Syncing all contacts with Google.
Vladi_1002 said:
If I check all of them I have ca 150contacts, but after I have synced it with MPE I usually have over 500.
After some time (or a sync with an account I guess) the contacts decline only to the contacts which are synced with an account.
Currently, I have one possible solutions in mind which is however not satisfying for me:
1. Syncing all contacts with Google.
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I was concerned about JUST the checkbox entries under "Phone"... which isn't in any of your screenshots.
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I was concerned about JUST the checkbox entries under "Phone"... which isn't in any of your screenshots.
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If I click on "Contacts to display" the options of the first Screenshot show up. So there is no "Phone" option
I just created a new contact which is then included in the googlemail account and then shown as "phone" and other shown as "connections".
Hope that is what you ment.
Vladi_1002 said:
If I click on "Contacts to display" the options of the first Screenshot show up. So there is no "Phone" option
I just created a new contact which is then included in the googlemail account and then shown as "phone" and other shown as "connections".
Hope that is what you ment.
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It's not what I meant... it's really strange; on my co-worker's phone, on the screen of your first screenshot, he has Phone and SIM displayed, in addition to his Google account... but you do not have either. (So krasavchik's suggestion above wouldn't work either...)
What ROM are you running? Is it a custom ROM, or are you on a Samsung stock firmware?
ctomgee said:
It's not what I meant... it's really strange; on my co-worker's phone, on the screen of your first screenshot, he has Phone and SIM displayed, in addition to his Google account... but you do not have either. (So krasavchik's suggestion above wouldn't work either...)
What ROM are you running? Is it a custom ROM, or are you on a Samsung stock firmware?
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It is the Resurrection 1.8.1 ROM. I think this problem was mentioned in a post concerning previous versions but I don't know if it is still common in 1.8.1
Vladi_1002 said:
It is the Resurrection 1.8.1 ROM.
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Whoops! You mentioned that in your first post. And I even acknowledged that fact in post 4. Silly me... Sorry.
But that's still really strange that Phone and SIM don't show up in that screen.
Vladi_1002 said:
I think this problem was mentioned in a post concerning previous versions but I don't know if it is still common in 1.8.1
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Hmm... so it sounds like it is an issue specifically with this ROM. You may want to inquire in the ROM thread to see if anyone else using this ROM is able to get "Phone" or "SIM" contacts to show up in the contacts app.
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
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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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 just updated my HTC One to 4.3 today, things seem to work fine except that when I get a new text message, the contact picture for that user or sometimes all users of current texts disappears for a while than magically comes back. If I go into contacts, the person's picture is always there. Also, it is not consistent, sometimes it happens and sometimes not. Anyone else experience this after the update/any solutions? I did notice that during the update it said updatinig contact database.
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I just updated my HTC One to 4.3 today, things seem to work fine except that when I get a new text message, the contact picture for that user or sometimes all users of current texts disappears for a while than magically comes back. If I go into contacts, the person's picture is always there. Also, it is not consistent, sometimes it happens and sometimes not. Anyone else experience this after the update/any solutions? I did notice that during the update it said updatinig contact database.
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Same is happening to me. It's not really a problem for me, I just close the app from the recent apps list and open it again and it's back to normal. Annoying but I can deal.
I'm having this same issue and it seems it's affecting all HTC One's running 4.3, not just T-Mobile. Any thoughts as to possible causes of this problem? I hope HTC becomes aware of it so they can fix it.
This is weird. It's happening to my friend too. I don't have this problem though. I told my friend to clear data on s few apps like contacts, people, dialer, phone and messages. She said it was good for a day but today is back to the same problem. I wonder why some people have this problem and some don't.
Are you guys having problems with all contacts or just some? Maybe it's happening to the contacts that aren't backed up with google?
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This is weird. It's happening to my friend too. I don't have this problem though. I told my friend to clear data on s few apps like contacts, people, dialer, phone and messages. She said it was good for a day but today is back to the same problem. I wonder why some people have this problem and some don't.
Are you guys having problems with all contacts or just some? Maybe it's happening to the contacts that aren't backed up with google?
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It's happening randomly on pretty much all contacts (and all my contacts are Google contacts). The only unique thing I have is that my contact photos are synced to my phone using HaxSync. For those of you also with this issue, do you use HaxSync?
I can't figure out what could be the cause of the issue. I contacted HTC and they just told me to clear the cache.
Others have been experiencing the problem here as well: http://forums.androidcentral.com/htc-one/319268-sms-contact-picture-4-3-a.html
Some even performed a factory reset and the issue was still present so clearing the cache wouldn't be a fix.
For me, it does not matter if the picture is from my gallery (google pic) or sync'd to Facebook. It gives the same result. I have tried turning off Facebook sync but it does not make a difference. Given a little time, the picture always returns or I can go into open apps and "close messaging" and when I reopen all pictures are there.
After doing some research, I went into recovery mode and cleared system cache after a couple places suggested this after an update. Unfortunately, this made no difference. I was going to try a factory reset and let all my contacts resync, etc but don't want to do all that work if it is not a sure solution. This all worked just fine for me prior to the update. Hopefully, this will get the attention of HTC. Also, I have read in the last couple days that HTC is preparing another update that is hitting other countries first to move all HTC One's to Sense 5.5. It looks like as big a file as this past update so maybe a fix may be there?
I have it too. HTC screwed up here. They'll have to address this in a next update. Lets all email HTC and let them know
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I have it too. HTC screwed up here. They'll have to address this in a next update. Lets all email HTC and let them know
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Hopefully they send us an update just as fast as they did with the HDR camera mode screw up, they latterly fixed it the next day.
Count me in, same here, even tried wiping everything starting from scratch and not restoring anything
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OK, so I've been Tweeting with @TmobileHelp and I advised that the contact pictures were from sync sources, they say that the pictures we have associated with the contact should be on the devices and this problem should go away. Though it makes sense, at the same time it doesn't make any sense to me.
If we have contact sync's and the phone lets you replicate that kind of data from whats stored on other servers, why should I have a local copy of the pics for it to work?... can anyone help me confirm the local pics thing?
Thanks!
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OK, so I've been Tweeting with @TmobileHelp and I advised that the contact pictures were from sync sources, they say that the pictures we have associated with the contact should be on the devices and this problem should go away. Though it makes sense, at the same time it doesn't make any sense to me.
If we have contact sync's and the phone lets you replicate that kind of data from whats stored on other servers, why should I have a local copy of the pics for it to work?... can anyone help me confirm the local pics thing?
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What do you use to sync your pictures? I use HaxSync. Not sure if everyone having issues is also using that or not. But either way, syncing photos is much more convenient than having to store individual photos for everyone on the device and it worked fine prior to the update so we shouldn't have to lose that ability. What's odd is how the photos are sometimes there and sometimes not. Maybe it has something to do with the linked accounts on those contacts? All of my contacts with photos have a Google contact and a HaxSync account linked together.
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What do you use to sync your pictures? I use HaxSync. Not sure if everyone having issues is also using that or not. But either way, syncing photos is much more convenient than having to store individual photos for everyone on the device and it worked fine prior to the update so we shouldn't have to lose that ability. What's odd is how the photos are sometimes there and sometimes not. Maybe it has something to do with the linked accounts on those contacts? All of my contacts with photos have a Google contact and a HaxSync account linked together.
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Do you use the HaxSync Jelly Bean Workaround ??? I haven't tried that software, it says that its for 4.1, doesn't mention anything for 4.3.
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Do you use the HaxSync Jelly Bean Workaround ??? I haven't tried that software, it says that its for 4.1, doesn't mention anything for 4.3.
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That's only for 4.1. 4.2 and above don't need it. I just tweaked something and my contacts photos seem to working so far. Not sure if it'll last but some of you may want to try it out.
In my contacts app, click up top left in the "Phonebook" dropdown. Unselect HaxSync and just leave Google checked. All of my contacts that are already linked are still showing their photos, and the issue in the messaging apps seems to be fixed (at least for the past 25 minutes).
Let me know if this helps anyone else.
My hypothesis is that those of us having issues with the blank contact photos in the messaging app have multiple items checked in the Phonebook dropdown.
EDIT: Nevermind.... the issue is back. I can't figure it out. It's gotta be a bug that needs to be patched.
Megabiteg: I have a few contacts that do not use Facebook so their pictures I take from things in my photo gallery. I have replaced them multiple times and it makes no difference. I think that was just the quick and easy "answer" from Tmo support.
Jpzsports: I tried your idea and only have Google checked in contacts app and I still have the issue. I am anxious to hear if this continues to work for you!
I have even gone so far to look at other apps that have permission to look at/modify contact information and disabling them or have them not interface with contacts and it has no effect.
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Megabiteg: I have a few contacts that do not use Facebook so their pictures I take from things in my photo gallery. I have replaced them multiple times and it makes no difference. I think that was just the quick and easy "answer" from Tmo support.
Jpzsports: I tried your idea and only have Google checked in contacts app and I still have the issue. I am anxious to hear if this continues to work for you!
I have even gone so far to look at other apps that have permission to look at/modify contact information and disabling them or have them not interface with contacts and it has no effect.
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That's interesting to hear that the issue still occurs even with photos from the gallery. That removes the idea that it's purely a synced photos problem.
And sadly my idea failed to work so it looks like this is definitely a bug that needs to be patched.
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That's only for 4.1. 4.2 and above don't need it. I just tweaked something and my contacts photos seem to working so far. Not sure if it'll last but some of you may want to try it out.
In my contacts app, click up top left in the "Phonebook" dropdown. Unselect HaxSync and just leave Google checked. All of my contacts that are already linked are still showing their photos, and the issue in the messaging apps seems to be fixed (at least for the past 25 minutes).
Let me know if this helps anyone else.
My hypothesis is that those of us having issues with the blank contact photos in the messaging app have multiple items checked in the Phonebook dropdown.
EDIT: Nevermind.... the issue is back. I can't figure it out. It's gotta be a bug that needs to be patched.
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Megabiteg: I have a few contacts that do not use Facebook so their pictures I take from things in my photo gallery. I have replaced them multiple times and it makes no difference. I think that was just the quick and easy "answer" from Tmo support.
Jpzsports: I tried your idea and only have Google checked in contacts app and I still have the issue. I am anxious to hear if this continues to work for you!
I have even gone so far to look at other apps that have permission to look at/modify contact information and disabling them or have them not interface with contacts and it has no effect.
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That's interesting to hear that the issue still occurs even with photos from the gallery. That removes the idea that it's purely a synced photos problem.
And sadly my idea failed to work so it looks like this is definitely a bug that needs to be patched.
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Thanks a lot for the follow up. I agree, I know that Tmo-support was pulling a fast one, initially they actually suggested me to pull the battery of the phone out and replace... (lol)
I think that this issue is connected to a contacts database corruption, I've always notice the the contact phone sync (regardless of the source) its kind of flaky, it must of gotten worse while upgrading. Funny because I chose to delete all the txt msg I had prior to upgrading (because I read this thread before hand) hoping this would minimize my chance of getting the issue but no.... it didn't work.
I'm going to keep on trying to figure out what else can I do to make this better until Tmo and HTC decides to fix it.
I hope that these posts don't seem unnecessary but I want to post what I have tried so others don't feel the need. I was playing with the contacts app and suddenly under phonebooks available (upper left corner pulldown) the sim card showed up, where it had not prior and the three contacts listed where the 3 contacts Tmo uses for you to check minutes, balance, whatever ( I never use these) I know I did not put anything to the sim so I deleted these and unchecked sim....no difference. I now have gone back and added sim to phonebooks (tho empty) to see if any difference.
Megabiteg: I agree with you saying about a change in the contacts database and I specifically remember during the update a message saying something to the effect of "updating/reformating contacts database".
Just another text, no change, it appears it does not matter what phonebooks are/are not used; the problem still exists. I am reluctantly coming to the conclusion that this is something HTC will have to remedy.
Did I just post that I would try not to post as much? LOL My experience got me to wonder if maybe the system was going out and checking the sim phonebook first (I would guess most people do not use it) and not finding an image and then after some lag going to contacts? So: I shut the phone down, took out the sim, powered up and went into contacts app and sms app (everything there), powered down and replaced the sim and rebooted.
Well, absolutely no difference. I am all out of ideas other than waiting for a patch...damn.
Is it just me or does the missing photo seem to affect the most recent person you text? (top of the messaging app)
I have a theory that it is related to the Link Contact service. It doesnt seem to effect contacts who have photos on every linked account.