[Q] Calls always done using SIM contacts - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Since upgrading my S2 from 2.3.5 to ICS 4.0.3 XWLP7 firmware, i have been having an issue with contacts.
I have the same contact with same number but different names on both my SIM (Eg. Alex/M) and Google account(Alex). In the contact app, i selected to display only Google contacts. Now when i select the Google contact(Alex) and call, the call is made using the SIM contact and the dialer app displays Alex/M instead of Alex. This happens for incoming calls also.
How can i fix this and ensure that the calls are done using only the google contacts?
If i go to the dialer app, select menu->Contacts it displays my SIM + Google contacts, but even on selecting a google contact and making the call, the SIM contact is displayed...

I think that the only way is to modify the name your sim contacts to match the google contacts.. and I think that contacts are always referred to the SIM, as you can make calls,sms and use internet only with SIM
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or you could just delete the sim contacts. if you don't use the sim in another phone where you can't access your google contacts, you really don't need them anymore.

You can either sync your contacts with Google or delete your SIM contacts (remember to back up!)

important contacts on sim
I don't want to delete the SIM contacts as i store only the important ones and if i use another phone i would still have these contacts.
Is this a bug in ics as i have not faced this issue in gb 2.3.5

it happened to me before, even on sms, sim contacts were being displayed, i noticed it because my contact pictures doesn't appear on sms, and when i click it, it shows that it is the sim contacts
i solved it this way
1. make sure that every contacts on sim were imported on your google contact
2. delete all sim contacts
3. now export your google contacts to your sim
4. finally when making a call or receiving sms, google contacts were being fetched
hope this will solve your problem

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[Q] contacts

I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I have noticed that my contacts are all fine when I look them up to call or browse but when I want to send a sms and go to select a contact I have a heap of contacts that shouldn't be there and a lot of them repeat themselves several times. I have cleared all my contacts from my gmail account and from both phone and sim card but they remain in my sms contact and i cant delete them. Its frustrating having to scroll through all the names that shouldn't be there when ever I want to send a sms.
Would a factory reset clear all my contacts?
I am using galaxy s2 with skyrom 8 xxkh3
android version 2.3.4
Do you use Facebook for Android? If so, did you select it sync at all? If so, it syncs all facebook contacts to the SMS area you are talking about. Easiest way to check is by opening the Facebook app then: Menu -> Settings -> Scroll all the way down -> Sync Contacts -> Remove Facebook Data
It's the same with any social media app, like Twitter. Twitter is the same way.
Let me know it worked for ya!
thanks David for your suggestions. I don't have or use facebook. I do have it synced with gmail and hotmail but I have cleaned out both accounts contacts and then synced it again but no change. I have also removed all contacts from phone and the sms contacts still remain.
I cant understand why the sms contact list repeats itself several times
zuesdog said:
thanks David for your suggestions. I don't have or use facebook. I do have it synced with gmail and hotmail but I have cleaned out both accounts contacts and then synced it again but no change. I have also removed all contacts from phone and the sms contacts still remain.
I cant understand why the sms contact list repeats itself several times
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You can try backing up your text messages with an app and then clearing data for your SMS application. I'm not sure if it will work, but it's worth a shot.
You can also try using a third party SMS app (like Hsndcent, Chomp, or Go SMS) and see if the problem is only with the stock app.
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thanks for the advice and help
I use a 3rd party sms ap (Go sms)
I will try to work out how to clear my sms data and see if that helps.
Just looked again and I have a contact listed 8 times in sms but the same contact doesn't show up in my normal contacts.
Thanks guys for your help and I will post the outcome
tried to clear the data from my contacts and sms contacts but it only removed a couple of names.
I've just noticed that some of the contacts in the sms list dont even contain a phone number only an email address?
problem solved.
in case others have this issue I will try to explain how I sorted it.
I wiped the data from contacts which made little difference until I rebooted then the contacts that shouldn't be there were gone but Iwas left with double of every contact.
I deleted all the contacts from the sim and that removed the duplicate from the sms......
A little bothered that I cant keep contacts on both sim card and phone. I like to keep them on both as if I needed to change phone my contacts would be there no matter what phone I put the card in. I also like to keep them on the phone as it allows me to store more info and pics of contacts.
If anyone has a fix for this I would be happy to hear it.
Thanks again to the guys who helped me out....and yes you did help!
From the SMS app, go into settings and make sure no show from history options are selected, also same with show email.
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[Q] Contacts showing wrong in messages

Hello, i have a problem with my contacts!!!
After i flashed checkrom (i did a full wipe, and made sure all my date on my internal sdcard was wiped) everything went perfectly and i was very happy!
But after sending a message, i noticed something strange!! When i go to messages, it doesnt show the contact that is synced with my google account with picture and full name, but shows the contact that is stored on my sim without picture and without the full name (because sim has max ammount of characters in a name)
Does anyone know how to get my google contacts back?
I only show my google contacts in 'contacts' and that works fine
here are 2 screenshots:
http://www.box.com/s/n4rhh2fx0h811il0z2rx
http://www.box.com/s/nvsqkqquhaxlpv3immhr
ps: i also have no idea why it shows anny jans' google account and the rest sim
just to be clear: I am syncing with both facebook and google. And the problem is not in contacts, but in messages.
I had the EXACT same problem. I ended up deleting all contacts from my SIM card, since with Android, you can sync your contacts to your Google account. That way, the only place the Messaging app can pull contact info is from your Google account.
Just make sure you sync your contacts to your Google account FIRST, before deleting all contacts from your SIM card.
This is only an issue if you plan on going from an Android phone to a non-Android phone, but at worst, you have to manually re-enter all your contact info into your new phone. It will always exist in "the cloud" with your Google account.
i think i fixed it, i first deleted all my sim contacts, than i deleted my facebook account (so all those contacts are gone, they dont need to be on my sim) and then i moved all mmy google contacts back to sim contacts!!
now they are on my sim and i see the correct names, lets hope it stays

[HELP] Sim Contacts dissapeared but still in call log

I have a HTC phone with HTC Sense, the dialer in Sense shows the recent calls then all your sim contacts. By mistake in an attempted effort to delete my google account contacts accidentally also deleted my sim contacts. However i can still see them in the call log (as i have mentioned before not in recent calls but under that where it shows all of my contacts). I can see the deleted contact's name and under it is a phone number but when i attempt to view the contact it says "contact not found".
Is there a way to recover my contacts from the list into a exported file (any format) or better still back into my phone?

How can I make contacts from sim not visible in Android?

Hello,
I customized the display contacts to not show any contacts from SIM, and all my contacts have also been copied to Google contacts. No no contacts should be visible from the sim, however when I search, they are visible. Indeed I got an SMS from somebody that's merged to like 4 accounts including google, google+, facebook etc and my phone still showed that it was received from the contacts on my SIM card!
Now I can't delete my sim contacts (obviously that would be the simpliest solution), however obviously I can't because if my Android phone dies in any possible way, I need to be able to access my numbers from a simple phone...
This is so annoying, because the sim contacts are uncustomized and have a wrong name, so I really want to use the google contact instead of my sim contacts...

How to salvage contacts from phone after closing Google account?

Hi all..
So I had a Google account register with my old msn email, but I decided to delete this Google account and register for a new one with Gmail, thinking that my contacts are preserved on my phone, but I switched off Sync function just in case. Somehow though, my contacts got removed from Contacts app. but they are still on the phone cause if I run the dialer app and punch in the first few numbers of any phone number that I remember, the app offers contacts suggestions, and I find the name and number of the contact I'm trying to call.
How can I get these contacts back and store them again on Contacts app?
Aserar said:
Hi all..
So I had a Google account register with my old msn email, but I decided to delete this Google account and register for a new one with Gmail, thinking that my contacts are preserved on my phone, but I switched off Sync function just in case. Somehow though, my contacts got removed from Contacts app. but they are still on the phone cause if I run the dialer app and punch in the first few numbers of any phone number that I remember, the app offers contacts suggestions, and I find the name and number of the contact I'm trying to call.
How can I get these contacts back and store them again on Contacts app?
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I'd try another Contacts app like Go or exDialer and see if they show up there. If so, you should be able to export them via Vcard and then go back to the main Contact app and import it. If that doesn't work, it might be helpful to list which phone you have and on what update it's on in case there is something more specific to that phone/update that might need to be done.

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