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When I start a text and put in the name of the contact I want to message, duplicates are showing. I have it set so it doesn't do this for calls, but I can figure out how to do it for texts. It shows 2 of every contact. Is there a way to set it do it only pulls names from either the phone or sim?
Any sUggestions as to why this is happening?
do you use gmail to backup and save your contacts?
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From Contacts > More> display options> pick whatever you usually store your contacts on be it sim or phone.
Abu-7abash said:
From Contacts > More> display options> pick whatever you usually store your contacts on be it sim or phone.
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I already did that. i dont have this issue for when I make calls and look up names, just texts. Im not storing my stuff on gmail either
This all started after I tried to update my phone to the newest update thru mini kies. i ended up having to wipe my phone and restart. I did get the update, and now i noticed its doing this.
It looks as though the Messaging contacts display is ignoring the 'Contacts-->Display Options' settings. I have my phone contacts set to display just the names etc from the Phone memory, not the SIM memory and it works well - no duplicates. However, when composing a Message or Email and press the Contact button, the list of contacts shows 2 of everybody. I've gone through everything obvious but can't see it, now turning to the experts for advice please? What do i need to tick/untick remove or whatever to put this right?
Any suggestions how to make this stop?
itsLYNDZ said:
Any suggestions how to make this stop?
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Are you using gmail to backup your contacts? If so just go into gmail and consolidate all the dupes than delete the contacts saved on your phone and sim. Had the same problem with dupes in the messaging. If you need more help just shoot me a pm
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Which ROM are you using?
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My contacts are not backed up to gmail, and im just using the regular stock rom. I dont have phone phone flashed/rooted/whatever.
I had the same problem
sign in to gmail on your computer click contacts it will display all including the phone numbers stored on you your phone if you delete them all (contacts with phone numbers) it should take off all duplicate contacts away
but make sure all phone numbers stored already on your sim card
its something about MIUI if you ever used it before
if that didn't work I know for sure if you have a gmail contact and a phone number contact with the same name and you trying to send sms or mms it show both of them as to send to at that point I would edit the first name of gmail contact by adding * to the name
Hope that helps
But I dont have any contacts listed on my gmail contacts when I sign in on my laptop.
itsLYNDZ said:
But I dont have any contacts listed on my gmail contacts when I sign in on my laptop.
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the only thing i can think of that after you restore your phone do you restore it from backup that it has a duplicate contacts ?
or go under contacts/press the first key to the left/display option/ choose phone,sim,gmail (all) then view your contact list and delete all duplicate contacts
best thing i found is to store contacts on sim only that allow you to import them to any phone and also to your own phone after you wipe it off
My contacts show up fine in my address book, no duplicates. So I know the issue isnt with that. There are no duplicates on my phone.
I dont know what to do. Ive tried everything, and its really annoying when trying to send a text to go thru all those duplicates.
when I go to create a text, there are also email addresses showing when I begin typing a name to search for a contact. I dont know where they are coming from
itsLYNDZ said:
But I dont have any contacts listed on my gmail contacts when I sign in on my laptop.
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You need to backup all your contacts to gmail. First.
Go to accounts & Sync and tap your google account or any other email accounts you have on your phone. It will give your sync screen, see if "sync contacts" is ticked there. If it is then try unticking it, see if that helps.
Alex9090 said:
Go to accounts & Sync and tap your google account or any other email accounts you have on your phone. It will give your sync screen, see if "sync contacts" is ticked there. If it is then try unticking it, see if that helps.
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Already tried that. It is unticked
So I've had this phone less than 24 hours and I want to get rid of it.
I have all my contacts in gmail and organized. Work, Businesses, Personal, etc.
The only way I can see my all gmail contacts is if I go under "All contacts". (But thats cluttered with every auto added email address for the past years)..
And select show only contacts with phone numbers. All I get is my own contact. WTF!
Now that I'm searching for it, tons of people are having this issue with no real solution..
yes, i hate this
scoob8000 said:
So I've had this phone less than 24 hours and I want to get rid of it.
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If this is your only issue with the Atrix, I am sure there will be a solution somewhere for it, and you will find that it is an amazing piece of hardware, and you will reap the benefits.
Where have you looked for solutions so far?
I've tried just about every contact manager on the market with no luck..
I'd settle for seeing all my contacts with out grouping for now but can't even figure that out.
Theres a few other unrelated things bugging me.. I hate the sms iphone like bubbles, can't see how to disable them asides from a 3rd party app.
usb charging doesn't seem to work.
And I already had top do a battery pull to get the phone to wake once.
I miss CM lol
Contact Groups
scoob8000 said:
So I've had this phone less than 24 hours and I want to get rid of it.
I have all my contacts in gmail and organized. Work, Businesses, Personal, etc.
The only way I can see my all gmail contacts is if I go under "All contacts". (But thats cluttered with every auto added email address for the past years)..
And select show only contacts with phone numbers. All I get is my own contact. WTF!
Now that I'm searching for it, tons of people are having this issue with no real solution..
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Below is a link to the contacts manager I use. 'Go Launcher EX Contacts' it works great for me, you can create as many categories as you want and name them whatever you what. Give it a try see what you think.
com.jbapps.contact.apk
Yea, I would also suggest trying out the GO Contacts app.
The only thing I don't like so far is that the GO wallpaper team steals code from freeware developers and tries to make money off of it :\
log into Gmail. go to your contacts. Delete all the entries under "other contacts" as that is where it stores all the email addresses you've sent email to over the past years, that aren't an actual contact that you've entered yourself.
Now go to Gmail settings. General Tab. In the option "Create contacts for auto-complete:", select the "I'll add contacts myself" radio button. That should solve your problem. or atleast some of them
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I'd settle for seeing all my contacts with out grouping for now but can't even figure that out.
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Open your contacts app. Not the dialer + contacts tab. The actual contacts app. Press the options soft key button, select display group, and then All contacts.
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Below is a link to the contacts manager I use. 'Go Launcher EX Contacts' it works great for me, you can create as many categories as you want and name them whatever you what. Give it a try see what you think.
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Wow, I can handle this. It's not quite what I'd like, but it'll do for now. It displays my groups perfectly!
holtenc said:
log into Gmail. go to your contacts. Delete all the entries under "other contacts" as that is where it stores all the email addresses you've sent email to over the past years, that aren't an actual contact that you've entered yourself.
Open your contacts app. Not the dialer + contacts tab. The actual contacts app. Press the options soft key button, select display group, and then All contacts.
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I actually tried that this morning, didn't change anything when displaying only contacts with phone number.. I'm still the only contact it shows.
But alas I figured out what this stupid thing was doing!
It only shows google contacts that are in the "My Contacts" group. All of my contacts only belong to one group (Work, Personal, Etc). Putting them all in my contacts fixes the default contacts app.
But I think I'm going to stick with GoContacts for now..
Thanks guys!
I have an issue, I am trying to add phone numbers to existing facebook friends in my contact list and it won't let me. It is saying that since it is just a facebook contact it cannot be edited...PLease help, I have many contacts in my phone twice, one is the facebook contact and the other is the phone number. Thanks for any help!
brimart37 said:
I have an issue, I am trying to add phone numbers to existing facebook friends in my contact list and it won't let me. It is saying that since it is just a facebook contact it cannot be edited...PLease help, I have many contacts in my phone twice, one is the facebook contact and the other is the phone number. Thanks for any help!
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i attempted to do the same thing, and here is a very, very annoying workaround i had to do.
go through and rename all of your contacts to match their first and last names on Facebook; after that, remove your facebook account and add it back in. if it won't allow you to re-apply your facebook account, you're going to have to change your password. i don't know why, that's just what worked for me after searching for a solution for about 3 hours.
it might not update your contacts immediately, i have to do this process everytime i add a new contact to facebook/my phone and i want them synced. the longest it's taken my phone to sync back up with Facebook is about 15 minutes.
remember, their names have to be exact for this to work.
Try separating the contacts, adding your changes to the non-facebook entry and then rejoin them.
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Try separating the contacts, adding your changes to the non-facebook entry and then rejoin them.
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That's the problem, I have tried that and there is no option to "merge" them together.
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brimart37 said:
That's the problem, I have tried that and there is no option to "merge" them together.
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You've hit menu, edited the contact and then hit menu again? That's where the 'Join' option is. Once they're joined, I hit 'done' and all set.
I've noticed that I need to delete their icon on the original contact if I want the their FB profile photo to take effect.
Not sure if I understood what you need... but I think Contact Analyzer 2 could work for you. I had a lot of duplicated contacts. That program helps you to merge contacts, delete duplicates, etc.
I believe pre-GB the the buttons were just there when you edit the contact, on GB there is that additional menu button to get to them.
here is how i merged mine. example
joe smith 111-111-111 joe smith facebook contact
you should have 2 entries in your contacts. one with a number and one facebook contact.like you said you can not edit the facebook contact. so while on the facebook contact hit menu - edit contact. that should bring you to the screen where it tells you it is not editable. the boxes done and revert should be at the bottom. hit menu again, in the lower right hand corner should be a join option. hit join and it will bring you to a join contacts screen. now just select the contact that has the phone number.
I don't know how to thank you guys' enough - I thought I would have to resort to a third party app or removing/re-adding Facebook... God, I don't know why they made it so much more convoluted in GB to do something that was easy enough in Froyo.
Thankyou
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here is how i merged mine. example
joe smith 111-111-111 joe smith facebook contact
you should have 2 entries in your contacts. one with a number and one facebook contact.like you said you can not edit the facebook contact. so while on the facebook contact hit menu - edit contact. that should bring you to the screen where it tells you it is not editable. the boxes done and revert should be at the bottom. hit menu again, in the lower right hand corner should be a join option. hit join and it will bring you to a join contacts screen. now just select the contact that has the phone number.
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Thankyou very much man , finaly i sync facebook contact with my sim contact , with your help! thankyou
Plz dont mind i have tried all nothing woks
I have tried all the methods but nothing seems to work really
Hi guys,
Ether past week i have problem with synchronising contacts, out gives me the error sign.
Also three past month my wife's contract has been merged with my number contract and i cannot split it! It seems that out was merged because of google +. I tried through my desktop to spit them, but its not possible! Only solution its delete then totally and add them again..
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Fekish said:
Hi guys,
Ether past week i have problem with synchronising contacts, out gives me the error sign.
Also three past month my wife's contract has been merged with my number contract and i cannot split it! It seems that out was merged because of google +. I tried through my desktop to spit them, but its not possible! Only solution its delete then totally and add them again..
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Have you tried splitting the contact from the phone? Select the contact, go to menu -> edit. While in the contact's edit view, press the menu button again. There should be an option to split the contact there.
What's happening with the error sign? it can't find an account to sync with? From the People view (i.e. the list of contacts) go to menu -> settings -> contact storage and make sure the right account is chosen - whichever one you want to be syncing with (if you have multiple accounts on the phone).
Then, back to settings ->accounts and click on the account you want to be syncing with. Make sure the 'sync contacts' tab is checked. Just because the sync arrows are green in the list view might not mean you've chosen to sync contacts . . .
Thanks fort your time,
I managed to fix the contact. When i deleted the details of my wife in my contact suddenly her contact appeared as previously.
You were right about storage of contracts, i had selected a different account. However this does not fix the synchronisation issue, i still have a problem...
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By clearing data in app, contact storage, and then synchronising again fixed the issue... Of course this meant that i didn't have contacts for a minute.
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Glad you got it resolved.
For the second time in two days im having issues with contacts.
My exchange contacts (hotmail) double up and loose there connections (facebook, linkedin etc) and the only way i can find to get them back to normal and restore the connections is to remove and add the account back in.
Has anyone seen this before?
where can i start for resolving this?
I know there's a setting that will alow you to show contacts from one source only hence hiding the other contacts duplicate but I can't remember where.
Merge them with Google....will that not get rid of duplicates.
that option is there in the contacts menu.
if your on MiUi it will just say Merge contacts......
There isn't duplicates in another account it's litteraly showing the exchange ones twice.
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I am having the same issue but just from a different source... The phone shows my Google contacts (which is what I want) and also shows my 'phone' contacts, because the idiot at Verizon make backup sync my contacts. So suddenly I have 70 something contacts that I no longer use. There doesn't seem to be a way to 'delete' the phone contacts and just display the Google contacts, although I have disabled the verizon apps..
Any thoughts?
The contacts I have are only in one place and only appear once to any other app. Occasionally contacts doubles them up. Disconnect and reconnect account works for me. But why does it keep happening?
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http://www.galaxys3forum.com/galaxys3-general-discussion/duplicate-calendar-entries-and-contacts-w-exchange-2010-activesync/
has a thread of users all with the same issue.