Hi,
I have skype, whatsapp and a few other apps installed on the phone and their contacts are showing in the main contacts app. I use Google contacts as my main source for contacts.
I want only the contacts from my Google account to show. I can use the 'contacts to display' option to select the google account but this is not good enough as apps like gosms take all the address books available and uses them and as such is pulling old names from whatsapp etc.
How can I remove all the contacts from the contacts app with the exception of my google contacts. If I want a whatsapp or skype contact I will go in to the relevant app.
Please help!
harveyd said:
Hi,
I have skype, whatsapp and a few other apps installed on the phone and their contacts are showing in the main contacts app. I use Google contacts as my main source for contacts.
I want only the contacts from my Google account to show. I can use the 'contacts to display' option to select the google account but this is not good enough as apps like gosms take all the address books available and uses them and as such is pulling old names from whatsapp etc.
How can I remove all the contacts from the contacts app with the exception of my google contacts. If I want a whatsapp or skype contact I will go in to the relevant app.
Please help!
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Try this
goto contacts
settings
contacts to display
then Customised list
and select what you want in there and uncheck what you dont want. expand all the options to check/uncheck
see how you get on
Yap thats what I would do too
I had this issue by my own
Many contacs where shown twice or else
winwiz said:
Try this
goto contacts
settings
contacts to display
then Customised list
and select what you want in there and uncheck what you dont want. expand all the options to check/uncheck
see how you get on
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I did do that and it works within contacts but not in other apps that access your contacts like gosms etc.
if you wnat only the google contacts to be shown why dont u delete the other ones
jiffer1991 said:
if you wnat only the google contacts to be shown why dont u delete the other ones
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Deleting whatsapp account just causes it to reappear and deleting skype is not possible, just gives a message saying I would need to wipe the phone to get rid of it.
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It would be pretty great if someone developed an app or something so you can have all your facebook contacts seperate from your personal contacts,
or if it was an option under the contacts menu
Just a thought...
You do not need an app for this. The phone already does this. Just sync your facebook and then under contacts you go in to the options and select "get friends" choose facebook and select all those you want to transfer to your contacts list. You then can put them in their own group or join them with their phone number and google account.
so this will not interfere with my personal contact list at all?
i DO NOT want facebook and personal contacts together.
You will have to sync your FB contacts, tell your phone to not show them in the contacts via Contats>Menu>Display Options.
Then when you want to only look at your Facebook contacts, from the Contacts app, click group, scroll down to "All Facebook Contacts."
It doesn't really accomplish anything, other than making you look in two places for information.
You also could use a Facebook Live Folder on your Home Screen if you want.
I have mine set so my contacts store their Gmail and Facebook on their contact profile. I can then just go to contacts and pick a person. Then I can click on updates in the right corner and it displays Facebook posts from my contacts. Its pretty nice.
how to delete gmail contacts in samsung galaxy S II? I don't see Gmail Contacts in contact list but when I goto MSG and see numbers I see them there.I have deleted all the Contacts from Gmail but I still see them.How to delete them?
Don't allow gmail to synchronize your contacts. If you still have them, go to contact options and allow the phone to show every contact you have and delete the gmail ones.
Sp1tfire said:
Don't allow gmail to synchronize your contacts. If you still have them, go to contact options and allow the phone to show every contact you have and delete the gmail ones.
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Ok Thanks
Where are the Google contacts stored?
The only place I can see them is when I am creating a message and tap add contact. There seems to be all the contacts from my Gmail account many of which do not have phone numbers and some of which I wouldn't want certain family members to see.
I have tried every setting in contacts and accounts I can find but no luck. I have cleaned up my Gmail account contacts and did a sync hoping that would over write them but no luck.
Any help is appreciated.
aussiemax said:
Where are the Google contacts stored?
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Google Contacts are stored on your phone and Google server if I am not wrong.
Regards.
By default Gmail adds anyone you email to your contacts. This used to be so annoying to most people.
Sign into Gmail on computer, go to settings, general, "create contacts for auto-complete" and check off "I'll add contacts myself".
Now go to your Contacts and start deleting the ones you don't want.
As for where they are stored, they are stored on Google's servers and not necessarily on your phone. Any changes you make either on your phone or via the web are pushed and synced I'm real time.
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LordLugard
Yep cleaned up the contacts on the gmail account. turned of the auto add. Did a sync still have them on the phone.
ithehappy
I know they are stored on the phone and gmail account but where on the phone??
Can you see all the contacts when you hit the contacts tab in the phone menu?
If not then from within contacts Menu, More, Display Options and select the google contacts, under that there is a few options of what to display.
Why not try this last resort, remove your Google account on the phone and add it again.
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vessy
You are the man.
Yep need google contacts on in order to see them in Contacts. Then delete them and turn off google contacts again.
Now I can rest easy.
Thank you very much
No problem, glad to help, found out the hard way too!
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How to get contacts autofill in gmail
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I use viewsonic tablet with android 2.2 running. I have a gmail application installed . Whenever I try to send a new email or take a picture and want to send through gmail instantaneously, I get up to emal "To " field. In there it expects me to type the whole email address again. This is even true if I want to send it to my own gmail id. I mean to say that autofill of email addresses doesn't work. All my contacts is synched with gmail account and that show all the contacts which is available through my email account.
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Ravi
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Then I write SMS and have to point contact to whom send SMS. I open the list of contacts but in it I see not only my contacts from phone book but also my FB and gmail contacts. How can I do so that I would see only my phone book's list?
Thanks
Nepyk said:
Hi
Then I write SMS and have to point contact to whom send SMS. I open the list of contacts but in it I see not only my contacts from phone book but also my FB and gmail contacts. How can I do so that I would see only my phone book's list?
Thanks
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where are you from? and what version n carrier u using?
Lithuanian but I did not understand the other part of question
Try this
Open Contacts>Menu>Display options, find Facebook and whatever account you have and uncheck the contacts box.
They are unchecked. In phone book my contacts are sync with my gmail acc contact's one folder. And in that place only that option is check. So in my phone book I see only contacts from my gmail acc folder, witch contais information about my numbers, but in sms I also see my other gmail contacts (to whom I have writen emails and so on) where is the problem?
Nepyk said:
They are unchecked. In phone book my contacts are sync with my gmail acc contact's one folder. And in that place only that option is check. So in my phone book I see only contacts from my gmail acc folder, witch contais information about my numbers, but in sms I also see my other gmail contacts (to whom I have writen emails and so on) where is the problem?
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OK I see what you mean. I think that's just how Android work.
Try Settings>Accounts and Sync>Look for different account and un-check "Contacts"
It did not change anything. In contanct list I still see all sort of things (emails, persons contacts and so one). ANd what I noticed that in this list there are all groups from my Gmail acc contacts. Then I want to see only one of it witch it is call Tel. I can do this by choosing in upper meniu Groups and so on then I have to point receiver of sms. Maybe where are more suggesstions?
Hi,
I've been using android device for about 3 years now and recently got a Nexus 4. I'm trying to figure out how to make my Google contacts as my primary contacts so that when I add other accounts such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked, etc, I want to sync contacts in my other accounts that are on my Google contacts only. I don't want any other contacts on other accounts to be downloaded. Is this possible?
Thanks.
I don't have it in front of me and tried a couple of different version of OS, but if I'm not mistaking if you go in the settings under your contacts (or maybe in accounts) and you should be able to select with contact/account to show. Personally I only have my google account so I only show those contact but if you have ie. facebook you can also choose to show those contacts as well. Or even only contacts with phone number so in this case I don't get all the contacts in you inbox.
You can also try my favorite app that can be highly customized. Go Contacts...
nitramus said:
I don't have it in front of me and tried a couple of different version of OS, but if I'm not mistaking if you go in the settings under your contacts (or maybe in accounts) and you should be able to select with contact/account to show. Personally I only have my google account so I only show those contact but if you have ie. facebook you can also choose to show those contacts as well. Or even only contacts with phone number so in this case I don't get all the contacts in you inbox.
You can also try my favorite app that can be highly customized. Go Contacts...
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Thanks. I guess you were right about the option to select which account is shown in the Phone app. I guess my problem was in the Viber contacts. I had the setting to Show All Contacts unchecked because it shows all contacts from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter which are not on my Google. I noticed that only the Starred in Android are shown if I had this setting. I could set all my Google contacts as Starred in Android but maybe there's another way of doing this.
Sorry for being difficult.