Hi, was hoping someone could help as this minor issue is really bugging me.
When I first got the phone, in the contacts app, all my contacts with a Facebook account displayed their profile images along with their most recent Facebook status.
Recently, I reset the phone with a full wipe. Since then, only the profile pictures of those with Facebook show up, not their status updates.
Any ideas? Already tried resyncing within the fb app and also under settings /accounts.
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Not helping but I dont remember ever seeing that on my GS3.
I've had a look through varioous settings in the contacts app and also on the accounts & sync pages, but cant see anything to enable this.
I'll check back in with this thread in case you find something.
subvertbeats said:
Not helping but I dont remember ever seeing that on my GS3.
I've had a look through varioous settings in the contacts app and also on the accounts & sync pages, but cant see anything to enable this.
I'll check back in with this thread in case you find something.
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Appreciate you looking. There was definately a status update in the space next to the right of the contact picture. Weird I can't get it anymore.
I'm gonna try something to see if I can recover this... I'll post back if it works
Hi, I have full Facebook profile photos and Recent Status updates on all my contacts.. I've not changed any setting in Samsung but I use an app called "HaxSync" works great on all ICS phones.
hope this helps.
Facebook status and pics didn't work for me using the official FB app. Only Friendcaster seems to fix that, and it seems better anyway.
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OK, iv figured it out. Hope this works for you guys too.
For those not getting the FB pics to sync in Facebook (this happened to me after doing a factory reset), I found that uninstalling the facebook app, then reinstalling the app and syncing again within the app updated all my contacts in the contacts app with their corresponding facebook profile pics (no third party app required except Facebook)
OK, the best bit - to get the facebook statuses of all the contacts within the contact app to show up, (its pretty cool as it shows up under the contact name in the scroll list, and when you click the contact, its next to their pictures which you can click to read in full - also shows up on screen when the contact calls/if you call the contact), all you need to do is add the Facebook widget on one of the homescreens - let the widget refresh, VOILA! Thats it .. you can at this point remove the widget.
Let me know if it worked for you too
Thanks
nbhadusia said:
OK, iv figured it out. Hope this works for you guys too.
For those not getting the FB pics to sync in Facebook (this happened to me after doing a factory reset), I found that uninstalling the facebook app, then reinstalling the app and syncing again within the app updated all my contacts in the contacts app with their corresponding facebook profile pics (no third party app required except Facebook)
OK, the best bit - to get the facebook statuses of all the contacts within the contact app to show up, (its pretty cool as it shows up under the contact name in the scroll list, and when you click the contact, its next to their pictures which you can click to read in full - also shows up on screen when the contact calls/if you call the contact), all you need to do is add the Facebook widget on one of the homescreens - let the widget refresh, VOILA! Thats it .. you can at this point remove the widget.
Let me know if it worked for you too
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Thanks for the update.
Unfortunately none of this worked for me.
I have no problems with contact pics syncing - all fine - but get no status updates shown in contacts app.
subvertbeats said:
Thanks for the update.
Unfortunately none of this worked for me.
I have no problems with contact pics syncing - all fine - but get no status updates shown in contacts app.
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Strange you definitely added the Facebook widget and refreshed the widget? Could it be that your contacts don't have recent updates? I know only some of my contacts have statuses showing as only a few have had recent updates.
Maybe try removing fb app, reinstalling, syncing, adding widget and refreshing widget again?
Hey, installing the FB widget worked! I didn't have to delete and re-install FB. Thanks for this tip!
Ken
Thanks for the post.. I seem to have a separate issue where I tell FB to only sync with contacts on my phone, but yet it syncs every friend on FB to my phone..
I only have a handful of contacts on the phone to begin with, but FB doesn't seem to care which option I select -- it just syncs everyone. :\
Wintrmte said:
Thanks for the post.. I seem to have a separate issue where I tell FB to only sync with contacts on my phone, but yet it syncs every friend on FB to my phone..
I only have a handful of contacts on the phone to begin with, but FB doesn't seem to care which option I select -- it just syncs everyone. :\
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I have this same issue, so I'm using HaxSync, much better.
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nbhadusia said:
OK, iv figured it out. Hope this works for you guys too.
For those not getting the FB pics to sync in Facebook (this happened to me after doing a factory reset), I found that uninstalling the facebook app, then reinstalling the app and syncing again within the app updated all my contacts in the contacts app with their corresponding facebook profile pics (no third party app required except Facebook)
OK, the best bit - to get the facebook statuses of all the contacts within the contact app to show up, (its pretty cool as it shows up under the contact name in the scroll list, and when you click the contact, its next to their pictures which you can click to read in full - also shows up on screen when the contact calls/if you call the contact), all you need to do is add the Facebook widget on one of the homescreens - let the widget refresh, VOILA! Thats it .. you can at this point remove the widget.
Let me know if it worked for you too
Thanks
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thanks!
this has been bothering me since i got my 1x! i think the first thing i did was remove the FB widget cause they are usually a resource hot. a while later, i noticed no ones statuses would update in contacts! 2 month old statuses! how am i supposed to live? hahahha
Update: later in the day, some contacts statuses reverted back to their two month old statuses. :-| going to try clearing data.
I got the same problem..almost. I get the fb profile picture in my contactlist but the picture dosent show up in my people widget...look at the picture
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Hi,
I have flashed GSB V1.6 and I find three or more entries for each contact. Any reason why? Same happened when flashed Tazz's Gingerbread ROM. Can't seem to get rid of this problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Luis
Do you have the Facebook or Twitter app installed, set up to sync with contacts? I know I had a few duplicate contacts from FB because the names were different; I was able to go into the FB contact, edit the contact, and there was a link button on the menu - so I could link it with an existing contact.
Otherwise maybe you have dupes in your Google contacts? If you are a gmail user, you can go into gmail (on a PC browser), look at contacts, and I think that they have a duplicate detector.
Go to settings/Accounts & Sync, anything other than your gmail go into and uncheck sync contacts.
doogald said:
Do you have the Facebook or Twitter app installed, set up to sync with contacts? I know I had a few duplicate contacts from FB because the names were different; I was able to go into the FB contact, edit the contact, and there was a link button on the menu - so I could link it with an existing contact.
Otherwise maybe you have dupes in your Google contacts? If you are a gmail user, you can go into gmail (on a PC browser), look at contacts, and I think that they have a duplicate detector.
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I had to do this the other day. Syncing Facebook, Gmail, etc was showing 300+ contacts. I logged into my Gmail account via my laptop and told it to find and sync duplicates. I had to fix a few manually (middle initials etc), but now only have 70 contacts.
Removing duplicates from my gmail account fixed the issue!!!
It was driving me crazy! Thanks so much for the tip!
leteruel said:
Removing duplicates from my gmail account fixed the issue!!!
It was driving me crazy! Thanks so much for the tip!
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I stopped manually backing up my contacts, in Google I trust lol, and had no more issues unless somebody opens a new account... then I have to link their new and old.
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Duplicates are really frustrating; this can cause other conflicts as well. On the side note using duplicate remover tool Scrubly Duplicate Remover is really effective. This automatically scan and delete those duplicates , merge compatible contacts and resolve other related conflicts.
ChrisSmithWebGuy said:
Duplicates are really frustrating; this can cause other conflicts as well. On the side note using duplicate remover tool Scrubly Duplicate Remover is really effective. This automatically scan and delete those duplicates , merge compatible contacts and resolve other related conflicts.
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I was curious enough to want to go ahead and try this. Google's own duplicate & merge feature misses some things, and I have just around 250 contacts so it would be a PITA to manually do things unless I absolutely have to.
Unfortunately, this is what I got when I tried to sign up for Scrubly:
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I did sign up; we'll see if they respond in a timely manner.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I was curious enough to want to go ahead and try this. Google's own duplicate & merge feature misses some things, and I have just around 250 contacts so it would be a PITA to manually do things unless I absolutely have to.
Unfortunately, this is what I got when I tried to sign up for Scrubly:
I did sign up; we'll see if they respond in a timely manner.
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I'm not sure what you are referring to about it "missing" some things but I just found that after flashing to the newest CM7 release, all my contacts were duplicated. I used the merge function on the web interface (not the phone) and it worked perfectly.
I'm not really sure why the issue even happened but I'm glad Google had something in place to help fix in short order.
mrrogers1 said:
I'm not sure what you are referring to about it "missing" some things but I just found that after flashing to the newest CM7 release, all my contacts were duplicated. I used the merge function on the web interface (not the phone) and it worked perfectly.
I'm not really sure why the issue even happened but I'm glad Google had something in place to help fix in short order.
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I used Google's manual merge feature recently and I'm satisfied with the results, but I have nearly 300 contacts AFTER merging so it was a lot of manual work.
I was referring to Google's automatic duplicate detection in the same menu. All the contacts I manually merged were missed by it's duplicate detection feature. Probably 50 duplicates (25 or less contacts since some contacts had three or four entries).
It looks like every time my phone syncs with each of my accounts, it is bringing all the contacts again as new contacts rather than syncing them with the existing ones. This is very annoying because every time I go to my contacts application the same contact is repeated several times.
I tried recreating the accounts (deleting all the contacts and syncing them again) but no matter what I do, within a few minutes I start seeing the multiple copies of all the contacts again...
Does anyone know how to stop the madness?
Thanks in advance!
ZaidSenall said:
It looks like every time my phone syncs with each of my accounts, it is bringing all the contacts again as new contacts rather than syncing them with the existing ones. This is very annoying because every time I go to my contacts application the same contact is repeated several times.
I tried recreating the accounts (deleting all the contacts and syncing them again) but no matter what I do, within a few minutes I start seeing the multiple copies of all the contacts again...
Does anyone know how to stop the madness?
Thanks in advance!
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go into your gmail on a pc and merge all duplicate contacts, that should do it, had that issue a long time ago.
roloracer said:
go into your gmail on a pc and merge all duplicate contacts, that should do it, had that issue a long time ago.
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The problem is not duplicate contacts. Say I have one contact on my gmail account named John Doe. There is only one John Doe in my gmail acocunt, however on my phone, with time, there will be several John Does, and while it creates multiple copies of John Doe on the phone, there will only be one John Doe on my gmail account.
Makes better sense now?
Uncheck sync contacts. If you leave it checked every time it syncs up it creates duplicates. After you uncheck sync contacts go to you contacts and delete all the dulpicates then export your contacts to you SD card. Its frustrating it kept happening to me till I used this method. I no longer use Google to sync my contacts for me.
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lildoggs said:
Uncheck sync contacts. If you leave it checked every time it syncs up it creates duplicates. After you uncheck sync contacts go to you contacts and delete all the dulpicates then export your contacts to you SD card. Its frustrating it kept happening to me till I used this method. I no longer use Google to sync my contacts for me.
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but syncing the contacts is part of the whole point of having a smartphone. if i add a contact on the phone, i want it to sycn to my other web services, be it google or my company's exchange server or my hotmail account. and if i add a contact on any of those accounts, i want it on my phone the next time i use it.
syncing works perfectly on other platforms and it was working well on the Note until ICS, at least for me.
and don't get me started on not being able to merge more than 5 contacts on the phone, if you have gmail, hotmail, exchange, facebook, linked in, google+, tango, and more (i do) and if a contact is on all of those services then you can only merge 5 and the rest appear as a separate contact on the address book... #$^%$#^... i know that windows phone merges all the contacts from all the services for you...
so, no. stopping sync should not be the solution, although i recognize that it would stop creating duplicates on my phone, it would defeat the purpose of having a smart phone, at least for me...
thanks for your suggestion, though. i appreciate it.
Sounds like have your contacts saved not just thru Google but on the phone itself. Also u can filter to show just Google contacts. I only sync with Google so I never had this but seen it with ppl
No contacts on the phone. Also each of my accounts have its own contacts. I don't want to put my work contacts in my google account, because those live in active directory and are synchronized with my outlook on my PC, and on the company's citric servers through exchange...
I'm beginning to think that I'm switching to windows phone 8 when it comes out. This never happened to me on WP7, or on the old windows mobile...
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In Settings>Accounts do you possibly have two accounts that have the same contacts?
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In Settings>Accounts do you possibly have two accounts that have the same contacts?
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yes i do, but that's what combining contacts is supposed to be for. too bad touchwiz only lets you combine five of them...
Well just out of curiosity what would happen if you signed out of the non-google account and rebooted? Would the duplicate contacts be gone?
merging the duplicates should solve the problem, also make sure you dont have facebook, sim card, phone and google all syncing. if you have numbers on all those accounts it will cause duplicates
rangercaptain said:
Well just out of curiosity what would happen if you signed out of the non-google account and rebooted? Would the duplicate contacts be gone?
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did that, didn't work
tolli84 said:
merging the duplicates should solve the problem, also make sure you dont have facebook, sim card, phone and google all syncing. if you have numbers on all those accounts it will cause duplicates
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you can only merge 5 contacts. and the problem is that the contacts start duplicating themselves...
i had to disable contacts from all my accounts and sync only the google contacts, and i'm really upset because i should be able to use the contacts from all my services, which used to work fine before ICS and works fine on windows phone 8
I've had almost the exact issue with my contacts and I only sync my google contacts. Drove me crazy, everytime I flashed an ics rom it did it but I think I finally fixed it. I went into contact settings and checked "show contacts with numbers only" and all the other contacts went away.
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ILuvRice said:
I've had almost the exact issue with my contacts and I only sync my google contacts. Drove me crazy, everytime I flashed an ics rom it did it but I think I finally fixed it. I went into contact settings and checked "show contacts with numbers only" and all the other contacts went away.
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i don't only store numbers in my contacts, i also store addresses and emails, so i want to see them all...
The same over here...
It happens the same to me, I was thinking that may be an issue asosiated to flashing rom with out wipe... I'm going to try to do a full wipe and reinstall all over again, but it's just anoying because it only repeat contacts on the phone and no in my google or exchange accounts. And believe me it's not a merging problem... it's something else...
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 (international version) with ICS 4.0.4
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I also have this problem on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I had it once where it duplicated contacts once, but I deleted them all and started over and my contacts all linked up nicely with the contacts I have in Skype and WhatsApp. However, since last week it is misbehaving. I have deleted the contacts on my phone and let them sync again, but some time later they duplicate. How it manages to link to Skype and WhatsApp contacts is also varies. Sometimes just a couple link automatically - and not the same name each time. Right now I have 7 contacts for each name and 7 entries in the calendar for each appointment. I sync contacts to Skype, WhatsApp and Microsoft Exchange only, nothing to Facebook, Gmail etc. If I delete 1 entry (out of 7) on the phone then my 1 entry in Outlook goes.
Sorry I don't have a solution to offer yet, but I will keep trying. My feeling is that is has something to do with Kies but I have not figured out what yet (and probably Microsoft Exchange Server, but that is unavailable for most of us to test...). Things seemed to get worse after installing the latest Android update (4.04) that was pushed out last week.
lauchon said:
It happens the same to me, I was thinking that may be an issue asosiated to flashing rom with out wipe... I'm going to try to do a full wipe and reinstall all over again, but it's just anoying because it only repeat contacts on the phone and no in my google or exchange accounts. And believe me it's not a merging problem... it's something else...
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 (international version) with ICS 4.0.4
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+1 same issue with iinternational S3. How to resolve?
gadgetdan said:
I also have this problem on my Samsung Galaxy S3. I had it once where it duplicated contacts once, but I deleted them all and started over and my contacts all linked up nicely with the contacts I have in Skype and WhatsApp. However, since last week it is misbehaving. I have deleted the contacts on my phone and let them sync again, but some time later they duplicate. How it manages to link to Skype and WhatsApp contacts is also varies. Sometimes just a couple link automatically - and not the same name each time. Right now I have 7 contacts for each name and 7 entries in the calendar for each appointment. I sync contacts to Skype, WhatsApp and Microsoft Exchange only, nothing to Facebook, Gmail etc. If I delete 1 entry (out of 7) on the phone then my 1 entry in Outlook goes.
Sorry I don't have a solution to offer yet, but I will keep trying. My feeling is that is has something to do with Kies but I have not figured out what yet (and probably Microsoft Exchange Server, but that is unavailable for most of us to test...). Things seemed to get worse after installing the latest Android update (4.04) that was pushed out last week.
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I only used Kies to install the ICS update. All my accounts are setup as exchange accounts. I have one warning, though. One of the things I tried was I went to each account and told it not to sync the contacts, then I went to the contacts app and deleted all the contacts and then I reenabled sync on my accounts to redownload the contacts and the result was that all of the contacts from one of my exchange accounts were gone. I was able to prevent further disaster because first I had backed up my contacts on my PC, and because when I reenabled sync, the phone warned me that I was deleting too many contacts and let me cancel the deletion (I had to restart the phone because it kept warning me and stopping the deletion wouldn't work)...
I had to end up deleting all my accounts and recreating them, Importing all the contacts from my other accounts to my gmail account and only syncing my contacts with my gmail, Which sucks, but I guess there is no other way for now...
I'm strongly thinking about going to windows phone 8 when it comes out just because of this issue...
Today, I have 7 copies of each of my contacts... and I have almost 700 contacts, so I can't try anything that include a one by one solution. My exchange account doesn't seem to duplicate (or more) my contacts on the server. Also the battery was almost gone by noon... there must be something wrong on the room that Keeps syncing duplicating contacts
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Most of my favorites I display on my people widget are linked between my google contacts and facebook profiles. No matter how many times I change them to display the google contact pic, it always changes back to their facebook profile pic after a little while.
Searched high and low with no luck. Have had the problem with stock rooted and mean-rom.
Any ideas?
I've had to go into each "favorite" contact and manually change them from facebook picture to google picture of the contact.
cjn14 said:
I've had to go into each "favorite" contact and manually change them from facebook picture to google picture of the contact.
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Yep, I've done that at least a dozen times, but It will revert back to the facebook pic. Let know if it stays for you.
I can't isolate the problem either. It seems to keep it on restart. I will even keep it when I restart sense.
My thinking is the facebook sync is overriding my settings, but I dont' know how to stop it from overriding. I still want all of my other contact to sync up...
Haxsync, sync contacts then manually select the contacts you don't want to update and turn off Facebook syncing.
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Haxsync, sync contacts then manually select the contacts you don't want to update and turn off Facebook syncing.
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Works great, thanks.
According to the settings, it doesn't look like it would do what I want. But I installed it a few days ago, and everything now works how I like it to.
Hi everyone!
I have a small but annoying problem with my android phone.
In my contacts i have ~70 contacts named "(no name)" as you can see here:
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If I tap on it, it shows me that it's somehow connected to Whatsapp:
Why are those entries not linked to the regular contact?
I have this problem with every ROM i use....
I can't delete those entries but the phone tells me that they will be hidden instead. Is there an easy way to fix that instead of trying to delete every single contact?
Thank you in advance.
-Ben
Anyone? Can't imagine I'm the only one with that problem?
Benxter said:
Hi everyone!
I have a small but annoying problem with my android phone.
In my contacts i have ~70 contacts named "(no name)" as you can see here:
If I tap on it, it shows me that it's somehow connected to Whatsapp:
Why are those entries not linked to the regular contact?
I have this problem with every ROM i use....
I can't delete those entries but the phone tells me that they will be hidden instead. Is there an easy way to fix that instead of trying to delete every single contact?
Thank you in advance.
-Ben
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I can't find the answer here, but you should try this app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wolfen.deleteblankcontacts&hl=en
If it helps, hit the Thanks button.
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No problem, glad to help
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Benxter said:
Anyone? Can't imagine I'm the only one with that problem?
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Nope, your not. I just rebooted my G3 and now I have these as well... Mine seem to be linked to outlook though (I don't have what'sapp). Im still using unrooted stock. Im not downloading something else to hide/delete these, that's going on? Why'd this happen and how do I prevent it from recurring? Thanks
This is most likely due to the same issue as Facebook contacts. As whatsapp is owned by Facebook and Google removed all code to sync Facebook contacts natively.
Simple solution
I had the same problem, although I haven't established which one was the offending app, I disabled contact sync for:
Microsoft Exchange
Whassap
Skype
Viber
Linkedin
Sync only with google and it works fine.
Someone ought to figure out which apps are the offending ones and let us know.
/Max
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I had the same problem, although I haven't established which one was the offending app, I disabled contact sync for:
Microsoft Exchange
Whassap
Skype
Viber
Linkedin
Sync only with google and it works fine.
Someone ought to figure out which apps are the offending ones and let us know.
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My guess would be it's ms exchange as that would over ride the default.
Can't say anything about whatsapp, everyone I know stopped using it years ago.
Also don't use Viper nor does anyone I know.
Linked in works fine for me.
Unknown Name MSactivesync. Outlook and Note 5 400 unk names
Always had good luck synch contacts to Putlook even after they changed this to all exchange vs that hotmail patch thing on the desktop.** My Note 4 crashed so got a temp LG prepaid, which sinked fine, then got a Note 5...yuk...but anyway.* I got 100 contacts 400 of which dont exist on the desktop outlook but show as unknown name.* They say they are from Microsoft Active Account Synch.
The only account I have or want for contacts* is Outlook via the exchange.* Email works great.* I dont like gmail or its contacts especially on desktop.* Im outlook guy.* I dont have skype whatsapp etc.* So google is only sych chrome and gmail as i need* a gmail and google for android.* I like chrome btw.* All the unknows coming from active synch outlook.*
If i add a contact in outlook it comes accross fine.* But where are tye others from? How do I stop it . Samsung support on ph has no idea...in best buy i usually know more than them and verizon is getting less tech knowledgeable by the month.*
Some hints...the unknown names do not show up on the LG phone, which that ph is a prepaid # i bought to use the ph temp on my vz contract number until I got the Note 5 warranty replacement.* The Lg is synched same way and it picks up contacts i added but no unknown names.* So why would the issue be specific to note 5? I checked all the settings and I can't find anything that is importing strange contacts to the Note 5. And the thing is it's saying it's from Microsoft so somewhere if getting unknown name from Microsoft for creating them for some reason.
Another hint. And these may not be related. When I delete these unknown names from my phone I notice some of them anyway show up in my deleted folder in my mailbox on the desktop in Outlook. They don't say unknown names they just have a timestamp for about the time I delete the unknown name for my note 5. They also look like mail folders instead of contacts. But I have never had this until I started deleting these unknown names. You probably know but in outlook the contacts are there and when you delete them they go into the deleted items folder for the email account the contacts are in.
I deleted suggested contacts and case that's confusing something in Outlook.
One more thing is it on my LG they're all of the sudden have been some random contacts show up for people whose names I don't know. It doesn't look like it is hacked. Some of them might be people and email before and there was an online dating site that I use that I have emailed from Outlook and then at one point I imported contacts to Gmail and then deleted them but some of these email showed up in the LG contact list under the Google account which is my gmail.* That is to say that when I look at the contact to see what it's linked to it says it's from Google not Microsoft or anything else. When I go to the desktop for Gmail there are no contacts like this in there. In fact there are no contacts. I deleted the groups that cat contacts but work in my contact list. So if you go into contacts on the desktop for Gmail you can select groups as opposed to all contacts and there what's my imports in there. But these contacts have shown up since I deleted all of that and I have no idea where they came from
So I have been using contacts syncing with my email for ever since I can remember having a smartphone back when I think there was an S3 or something period suddenly now all of this craziness and I have activated 4 different Note 4's because they were all junk on the touch screen or would freeze up and then before that I had a Note 3 and I have a Galaxy S5 and so on and have never had any problems like this and in fact I got so fast switching information over the phone I could do all of my apps all of my settings including pesky ones like opening an app for Facebook and Google search removing those I could do that in about 30 minutes or less. So I have no idea what's going on. Sorry this is so long but I have searched and searched and no one describes this problem exactly like me they all talk about it being associated with another app besides Microsoft Exchange Server and all the people use Gmail and wanted that to work instead of Outlook. So hopefully someone can help.
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So I found the source of the contacts in my LG phone that have never been there before until this phone. For whatever reason perhaps the new Android I don't know but not only did it import groups that I had to delete from the web version of Gmail in contacts but there is something called "other contacts."
If you go into Gmail I don't know where to find the contacts so I have to search Google contacts from Google and then it loads my contacts. I checked all the contact lists which were empty except for when I clicked other contacts it said that that version of the page did not support other contacts. This page on the phone looks different than the one on the desktop .
I clicked on the link on the page that said "go to old version of other contacts." And there I found all the contacts that Were Somehow showing up on to my contact list on my LG.
The weird thing about it is that I have syncing to contacts for. Google unchecked under accounts. So in addition to the problem of of with the unknown name for Microsoft Outlook Exchange ActiveSync or whatever it's called now, now why would "other contacts" from Google show up when contacts is unchecked under accounts for Google on the ph? Good news is I know the source of the contacts but it still doesn't explain why they are syncing when the box is unchecked. And it doesn't explain why all of the sudden now after having Gmail long after I ever emailed any of those people that would have been in "other contacts" is it all the sudden just now showing up? I mean they must have been there a long time and I've been using Gmail with it unchecked for a long time and suddenly this week on a new phone it shows up when all the other new phones it never did that.
Thanks so much for the fix "Delete empty contacts". I've had the same problem with the no name contacts and I would delete each one as I saw them but it was driving me nuts.
Thanks again!
I have deleted all of thm using the all, but they keep coming back after every reboot, another thing, this was not a problem till I flashed the Google dialer on my xperia. Has been happening every since.
My phone is not syncing with google calendar correctly. It shows that the sync is successful in accounts and sync but when I chsck online nothing is sync'd
If you have the Chinese variant of the HAM2 the MT2L05, you'll need to download and install.
GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk
If not, then maybe remove the account and go back to settings and readd it. Then try syncing again.
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arcadesdude said:
If you have the Chinese variant of the HAM2 the MT2L05, you'll need to download and install.
GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk
If not, then maybe remove the account and go back to settings and readd it. Then try syncing again.
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It's the MT2-L03. I'll redo the account later and report back. Thanks
Same problem after remove/add.
Error message?
Nope. According to the sync status in settings everything is working.
Go to settings manage applications then tap all
Then scroll down and look for Contacts Storage
Then clear data on that, sign out of the account and then sign back in and try manually syncing again.
It will sync from google but not to google from my phone.
For some reason I was thinking contacts were not synching. I see you put calendar isn't syncing. Try going into calendar and tap the 3dots menu, then calendars to display, then tap the 3 dots on the top of the screen and choose calendars to sync then choose the correct google account and which calendars you want to sync and hit ok.
Then when creating a new event check to ensure it is set to a google calendar and not 'Phone' by default (Phone doesn't sync). You might have to go back and change events created on your phone to be a specific calendar.
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Yup. They were defaulted to phone. Now I have to re-enter the events because you can't edit them to google. How dumb to have it default to phone.
Should be able to change them in the drop down. Click phone and then select the google calendar. Like in the picture I posted but you would see phone where it says Google.
The good thing is that the calendar app does remember the last calendar selected so it should remember the google calendar after you select it for new events.
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Should be able to change them in the drop down. Click phone and then select the google calendar. Like in the picture I posted but you would see phone where it says Google.
The good thing is that the calendar app does remember the last calendar selected so it should remember the google calendar after you select it for new events.
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Already looked in to that. It's not editable.
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Already looked in to that. It's not editable.
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You're right that sucks
If you typed a good bit you can save some typing by clicking on the phone only event, clicking the 3 dots, clicking send event, send it to gmail or your email.
Then on your email client download it, and you can go to the browser and the desktop version of calendar and go to settings, calendars, then import calendars and import the .vcs file that was sent to email. You can choose which calendar to add the event too. It seems it can only be done one event at a time and I don't see a way to automate it.
Think u need the calendersyncadapter, not the contactsync. Another way u can try downloading the stock google calender app from playstore and try. It will install the adapter by default. But remember that if u choose to uninstall the Google one, the sync adapter will be uninstall also.
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Think u need the calendersyncadapter, not the contactsync. Another way u can try downloading the stock google calender app from playstore and try. It will install the adapter by default. But remember that if u choose to uninstall the Google one, the sync adapter will be uninstall also.
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Problem was calendar defaulting to 'phone only' and not synching. When new events are created it can be changed to your Google calendar and sync happens properly then. It just defaulted to phone for some reason and wouldn't synch which is a big problem if you created a ton of events in phone only mode. I checked and it won't let you change it to a google calendar if it is already saved as a phone only calendar event. Fix is sending your event to email and importing the .vcs in the desktop version of google calendar for each event, or recreating each event on the desired google calendar which will sync.
Huawei must have done something with the calendar app besides just skinning it. The google calendar app is in the play store and doesn't show as an update.
Every manufacturer's calender are different. It's not just a skin over the stock Google calender. It's a whole different app altogether.
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Every manufacturer's calender are different. It's not just a skin over the stock Google calender. It's a whole different app altogether.
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I'm so use to installing CM on my phones as soon as I get them I didn't realize that. I disabled (by renaming) the stock calendar and am using the google version.