Amaze contacts stop working if more than 5000 contacts - HTC Amaze 4G

Both my wife and I have Amazes and both of us have the same problem: in caller Id and messages, the contacts become unlinked from the phone number. So someone calls or texts and I have no idea who it is even though the contact is in the address book.
If I'm in messages I can click the phone number and it will find the contact.
The only thing I can think of is that we both have lots of Google contacts. Anyone else with 5000+ contacts?
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Who really has over 5000 contacts? Seriously? I hate Facebook!
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Thanks for the useless feedback. I don't use Facebook at all. At all. So, bite me.
I have over 5000 Google contacts. I've been using Gmail for years and they add up.
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riprowan said:
Thanks for the useless feedback. I don't use Facebook at all. At all. So, bite me.
I have over 5000 Google contacts. I've been using Gmail for years and they add up.
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Any time! Maybe one of your 5000 contacts will give you something better
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Can't be any worse!
It's annoying that Sense downloads all the contacts, THEN applies the filter. I can't remember if stock Android does that, but I seem to remember that it only downloads the selected contacts, and leaves the rest on the server.
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Lol, sorry i cant help, but seriously, how in the hell do u have over 5000 contacts!? Only solution i can think of, unless you really stay in contact with all 5000 people, is do some cleaning up and delete the ones u don't need...
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I had about 2000 from Gmail. Now I have over 4000 Google+ followers. That's 6000 Google contacts.
They are properly labeled so that I can easily filter to the 200 or so that I actually contact. However, Sense still downloads all of them to the phone before applying the filter.
I love boards where the only replies you get to valid questions are from people who tell you you're stupid for having the problem in the first place. What a complete waste of time.
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riprowan, i would suggest you to backup your address book, then delete Contacts and start loading them back from the backup little by little to see if quantity is really the issue or something else

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That's a great idea, but how? I have 6000 contacts in Google. Apart from deleting 5800 of them, I don't think there is a way to only get a subset to download. I already have groups set up, and I only have one group selected - about 200 contacts - but I believe they're still all downloaded to the phone (the phone downloads them all but only displays the selected groups)
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aj_2423 said:
Lol, sorry i cant help, but seriously, how in the hell do u have over 5000 contacts!? Only solution i can think of, unless you really stay in contact with all 5000 people, is do some cleaning up and delete the ones u don't need...
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glacierguy said:
Who really has over 5000 contacts? .....
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YES...who really does have 5000+ contacts hmmmmmm.....
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riprowan said:
I love boards where the only replies you get to valid questions are from people who tell you you're stupid for having the problem in the first place. What a complete waste of time.
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Dude chill.... you gotta admit at first note 5000+ contacts....wtf???
oh riiiiight facebook , google+ etc.....
not flamin ya , laugh with it.
probably a limit on your contacts, simple as that. Maybe it'll change with ics sense3.5/4.0 update.
There is ALSO the possibilty they designed the phones that way on purpouse so spammers cant spam ya, like some kind of politco aoutodialer or something.
Maybe you should make an ap for people who have millions of friends?
Perosnally I think social networking is fkn evil and its really a social experiemnt to see how far people are willing to be controlled and give up their privacy.
Hope you find your solution, sorry I cant help ya out.
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^^^ what he said ^^^
+1
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Yeah, that's it. I'm a pot dealer. That explains everything.
Perfect.
What a useless board.
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riprowan said:
Yeah, that's it. I'm a pot dealer. That explains everything.
Perfect.
What a useless board.
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Y r u getting so upset. i was giving u an honest suggestion. Sorry for trying to help u. My phone doesnt sync my g+ friends/followers, only my contacts. Why do u have people synced that "follow" u on G+
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In Contacts, I have only one Google group selected (my Friends group which has about 200 people in it). It's been set up like that since before I got the amaze. I don't have all of my G+ contacts on my phone.
However, I believe that Sense still downloads all of them to the phone. It just hides the ones you haven't chosen to view.
My experience is that, once my total number of Google contacts went over 5000, the phone broke. Without caller id in the phone or messages, the phone is pretty useless.
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Aj_2423 I appreciate your feedback. As I said before, short of deleting 5800 contacts from Google, I can't selectively limit the number of contacts downloaded to the phone.
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riprowan said:
Aj_2423 I appreciate your feedback. As I said before, short of deleting 5800 contacts from Google, I can't selectively limit the number of contacts downloaded to the phone.
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What if you wipe and reflash ROM/Kernel, then during setup, uncheck the box that syncs your Google contacts... Then maybe you can sync the ones you want?
No need to get all butt hurt about the picture of the joints either... Get the sand out of your crotch and lighten up. If its a useless board, then quit checking it and find your answer somewhere else. Take your sour grapes and your 5000 friends elsewhere and learn to take a joke
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glacierguy said:
What if you wipe and reflash ROM/Kernel, then during setup, uncheck the box that syncs your Google contacts... Then maybe you can sync the ones you want?
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Sync the ones I want... How? I'd love to learn how.
No need to get all butt hurt about the picture of the joints either... Get the sand out of your crotch and lighten up. If its a useless board, then quit checking it and find your answer somewhere else. Take your sour grapes and your 5000 friends elsewhere and learn to take a joke
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Cool. Thanks for your help.
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glacierguy said:
Any time! Maybe one of your 5000 contacts will give you something better
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Glacierguy: Sync the ones I want... How? I'd love to learn how. Are you able to describe the process to do this?