I searched google and on here and cant find anything with out doing a custom rom which I don't want to do.
I have my phone rooted, but cant seem to find a way to get rid of the preloaded at&t contacts. Is there a work around on this? Thanks in advance.
I don't think there is any other choice that doing a custom rom to get rid of the att contacts. You can try disabling the contacts from setting, applications, all, and the click on contacts then disable. This is all I can think of. Good luck!
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Well i did have an idea of maybe using titanium backup and deleting the contacts apk then reinstalling it as the app only with out the data. I don't know if the AT&T contacts are built into the app or not though.
Edit: tried this and didn't work.
spoonerdee said:
I searched google and on here and cant find anything with out doing a custom rom which I don't want to do.
I have my phone rooted, but cant seem to find a way to get rid of the preloaded at&t contacts. Is there a work around on this? Thanks in advance.
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The workaround would be to hide them. I sync my contacts to my Google account so this is what works for me......
Press the phone button and click the contacts tab
Press the menu button and click "contacts to display"
Click the account listed that pertains to your google account, obvioiusly it'll have the Google logo in front of it.
Problem solved!
Gadgetz said:
The workaround would be to hide them. I sync my contacts to my Google account so this is what works for me......
Press the phone button and click the contacts tab
Press the menu button and click "contacts to display"
Click the account listed that pertains to your google account, obvioiusly it'll have the Google logo in front of it.
Problem solved!
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Awesome, wonder if my car will ignore them not too, doubt it, but at least it's one step close. Thanks.
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I set up my Google account in Motoblur and it downloaded my entire contact into my phone. With my iPhone, I can set it so it only imports those in the "My Contacts" group. I would like to do the same here since "All Contacts" stores every single email address I've ever communicated with.
I am mitigating this issue by turning on the filter for "only contacts with phone numbers" but I would like more control over this.
If Motoblur can't do this, how can I bypass it as have the Contacts app connect directly to my Google account?
Thanks!
Sadly. You can't do either. This is our fate with MotoBlur.
Just make, your own contact list put who ever you want in it select it under contacts then, it will pretty much be your main one
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Seymour2884 said:
Just make, your own contact list put who ever you want in it select it under contacts then, it will pretty much be your main one
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Yeah, but I want it to sync with Google Contacts.
There's an option in the contacts app settings menu to show only contacts with phone numbers.
phobos512 said:
There's an option in the contacts app settings menu to show only contacts with phone numbers.
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Yup, thanks! That's what I'm using now and it is a lot better. But I was hoping for more control group-wise.
bleuiko said:
Yup, thanks! That's what I'm using now and it is a lot better. But I was hoping for more control group-wise.
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Unfortunately the Motoblur contacts app doesn't allow for the same level of control as the stock Android contacts app. I have asked about installing the AOSP contacts app but no one has told me whether it would work / what dependencies it has, and reading through the Cyanogenmod forums hasn't helped me figure it out (I'm no android developer).
And weirdly enough this option isn't available in the bell version.
phobos512 said:
There's an option in the contacts app settings menu to show only contacts with phone numbers.
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y2whisper said:
And weirdly enough this option isn't available in the bell version.
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I can't find any option for that in contacts either Can someone tell me where it's situated or the Bell version doesn't have it :/ And if there's a work-around if this is the case?
I just went into my contacts in the web version of gmail and starred everyone that I wanted in my phone contacts list. Then on my phone I just set the contacts to favorites and all that showed up was the starred contacts from gmail.
sleepovr said:
I just went into my contacts in the web version of gmail and starred everyone that I wanted in my phone contacts list. Then on my phone I just set the contacts to favorites and all that showed up was the starred contacts from gmail.
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Awesome tip!
Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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that was a really annoying "feature" of the samsung fascinate. I guess the only way around it is to use the AOSP contacts program. I will attempt to restore it from titanium backup and see if it works
it usually sets it as gmail right out of the gate when i'm creating contacts, etc...i find myself checking every once in awhile now anyways. it is truly annoying!
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evilmansin said:
I don't have a thunderbolt but that **** would piss me off. If they have you an option to save settings as defaults but thats lame sauce... Eff VZW
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A) language
B) It's a feature of sense, therefore htc, not vzw, is to blame.
however, yes, annoying. One solution would be to export contracts to SD from phone, import from SD to google.
(you would have to keep doing this, but it's a good way to back up before wipe/flash.)
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evilmansin said:
I don't have a thunderbolt but that **** would piss me off. If they have you an option to save settings as defaults but thats lame sauce... Eff VZW
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butthurt n00b detected....launching all countermeasures!!!
patches152 said:
butthurt n00b detected....launching all countermeasures!!!
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LOL! Couldn't have said it better myself.
edited my previous post. Seems go contacts wouldn't solve the issue.
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mcmillanje said:
however, yes, annoying. One solution would be to export contracts to SD from phone, import from SD to google.
(you would have to keep doing this, but it's a good way to back up before wipe/flash.)
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I did the same thing. I went into gmail and organized/updated all my contacts. So now all my phone contacts are Google contacts. Be sure to go into gmail and do a perge/merge of any duplicates. This makes porting contacts over that much easier.
What really annoyed me was the linking/suggested linking of contacts on the phone vs google vs facebook. After you centralize everything around your google contacts things become much easier.
To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
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lvond555 said:
Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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I think if you create the new contact in your google account (vs on the phone) then it will sync up and everything will be OK.
I have to get into my google account contacts and clean up some stuff, duplicates, etc., that seem to appear every now and then.
thejondude said:
To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
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Thanks, this is one step closer to what I need. I have a couple GMail accounts on my phone one of which I use solely for work contacts and I use the option of selecting which GMail account I added the new contact to. Really missing this feature
Any word if the AOSP contact app works?
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To set contact default to Google go into you contact list then press menu and choose view next uncheck the box that says "phone" and now your default is Google
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That just changes which contacts show. I am talking about entering a new contact and letting it be a Google contact by default. I don't want to accidentally set it up as a phone contact which will not sync to your Google account.
lvond555 said:
Why can't you change the default for your contact that you create on the phone to default to a Google contact instead of the phone contact? Does anyone know how this can be changed? I rooted my phone and lost a couple contacts that I had put in the phone because phone contacts don't sync to the gmail account. Glad I at least found this out early so I don't have a huge problem when putting a different rom on it in the future.
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I gotta say Contact Management with Android has been probably one of my biggest frustrations. I like the ability to sync my GMail contacts, that's easy enough. But between getting pictures and "linking" "synching" and "attaching" contacts via Twitter, MS Exchange, and other means... TO not being able to only populate mobile numbers when creating SMS/MMS's and such, it is just way more difficult than it should be.
It could and SHOULD be much simpler. Maybe I'm just a wii-todd, idk.. Either way, I feel your pain dude.
Ya so was I.... Maybe since u have a mixture it isn't working for u.....Export all your contact to Google then remove ur Google account from the phone then delete all ur contacts off ur phone then sync with Google and do the steps I posted before
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That just changes which contacts show. I am talking about entering a new contact and letting it be a Google contact by default. I don't want to accidentally set it up as a phone contact which will not sync to your Google account.
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Now that my Nook is rooted, I'm trying to find a contact manager that will sync with Google contacts. Not having the phone portion of the Android system makes it difficult to load contacts!
Any ideas?
I have also been looking for this without luck. Every contacts app that I have tried force closes. I even copied the CM7 stock app from my Nook Color to my Tablet, but got the same result. Seems something is missing from our Android build....but I don't know what....
I'm using Go Contacts. It's free on the Market.
That did it! Thanks.
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I'm using Go Contacts. It's free on the Market.
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I'm having a hard time getting Go Contacts to sync with my gmail contacts for some reason.
I all I have to do is download/install, and then make sure it shows my gmail account in the app??
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And I need to learn to try every possible thing before I ask for help...I'm not actually retarded, I promise.
For those who are having problems with getting your contacts to sync:
1)Download and install Go Contacts
2)Open Go Contacts
3)Press Menu Key
4)Press Setting Icon
5)Press Backup and Recovery
6)Press Account Sync
7)Select whichever account's contacts you want to sync
8)Check the box to begin syncing Contacts
Anyone had problems creating or editing contacts? I found that for me, this and other functions weren't working until I installed the stock email app using Indirect's method. (Thread is in this same section.)
Now Go Contacts properly allows me to add/edit contacts (I guess it needs to use an outside contact editor for this, and B&N's stock doesn't work.) Now contacts-to-email functions properly.
A nice bonus is that street addresses will open in Google Maps (or Google Earth if you have either installed) and phone numbers will open a chat in textPlus.
I think the stock email app also fixed some issues with other contact managers that were crashing or giving 'no application for that' errors before. I was curious and reinstalled a few that had failed before, and some worked. But overall, none seem as seamless as Go Contacts, so I wouldn't recommend anything else.
I have the stock email installed as well as go contacts...they sync fine but I still can not edit or add contacts...both installed to system/app and both have permissions set to:
Read write
Read
Read
Can not get go contact to edit/add
I shut down and restarted....no luck...anyone have any ideas? Maybe remove the stock social.apk?
taldridge27 said:
I have the stock email installed as well as go contacts...they sync fine but I still can not edit or add contacts...both installed to system/app and both have permissions set to:
Read write
Read
Read
Can not get go contact to edit/add
I shut down and restarted....no luck...anyone have any ideas? Maybe remove the stock social.apk?
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When you say you can't get go contact to edit/add, what happens when you tap the edit icon on the top right of the screen? Can you actually edit the details? Do the changes not save?
Go Contacts works perfectly for me.
Nothing happens when I press the + button. When I long press on a contact it takes me to a menu so I can choose edit...but nothing pulls up. Thanks for responding
Anybody know where I can get the apk for Go Contacts? I see it's not in the Amazon App Store and I don't want to send it to my phone to get the apk. Thanks.
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Anybody know where I can get the apk for Go Contacts? I see it's not in the Amazon App Store and I don't want to send it to my phone to get the apk. Thanks.
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Android Market.
taldridge27 said:
Nothing happens when I press the + button. When I long press on a contact it takes me to a menu so I can choose edit...but nothing pulls up. Thanks for responding
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Do you have a google account set up?
When I hit the + it says "Create contact under account" and lists the gmail account I set up for the stock email account. When I choose it, I can create new contacts.
Edit brings up the same contact editor under the same account.
I'm running http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400023 this rom and and rom I use besides cm7/9 won't allow me to add my facebook account in the accounts section. The "F" from facebook shows up but everytime I click it nothing happens. I can long press and again, nothing. I love having my pictures on my contacts so this is kind of a big deal. If anyone knows a fix for this as its been doing it for a long time now, I'd greatly appreciate it.
I skip the blur setup at start (if that has anything to do with it) I have my google account working and syncing no problems there. I do not have blur running as it is too bulky for me but I know at one time I did in fact get facebook contacts to work w/o my blur account.
Please and thank you for the help!
no one have a solution?
Apparently this is an "issue" with the beloved motoblur. (sigh)
Don't know where I read, but they deactivated this in android, so you are stuck with the motoblur option.
BUT, fear not, I have a solution for you. Look for "Facebook Contact Sync" app in the market and all your problems will be solved.
FAVM said:
Apparently this is an "issue" with the beloved motoblur. (sigh)
Don't know where I read, but they deactivated this in android, so you are stuck with the motoblur option.
BUT, fear not, I have a solution for you. Look for "Facebook Contact Sync" app in the market and all your problems will be solved.
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thank you very much , i will try it.
FAVM said:
Apparently this is an "issue" with the beloved motoblur. (sigh)
Don't know where I read, but they deactivated this in android, so you are stuck with the motoblur option.
BUT, fear not, I have a solution for you. Look for "Facebook Contact Sync" app in the market and all your problems will be solved.
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I love you, thanks.
My friend has this phone (I believe), and she lost all her contacts after a factory reset, due to the fact that the LG system by default adds contacts to the phone instead of her Google account. I know it's possible to choose where the contact is stored when you create a new contact, but it's terrible software design to force the user to remember that every time. Is there a way to make the Google account the default (or only) contact storage?
Or is the only solution to install a custom ROM? Thanks
fenstre said:
My friend has this phone (I believe), and she lost all her contacts after a factory reset, due to the fact that the LG system by default adds contacts to the phone instead of her Google account. I know it's possible to choose where the contact is stored when you create a new contact, but it's terrible software design to force the user to remember that every time. Is there a way to make the Google account the default (or only) contact storage?
Or is the only solution to install a custom ROM? Thanks
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I dont think you can BUT what you can do is make it as "google account" for each contact. So whenever she factory resets she can sync her account. :highfive:
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geeshiet said:
I dont think you can BUT what you can do is make it as "google account" for each contact. So whenever she factory resets she can sync her account. :highfive:
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Thanks. There's no address book or contacts app that will add all new contacts this way?
fenstre said:
Thanks. There's no address book or contacts app that will add all new contacts this way?
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I don't think so? Don't be lazy lol...
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geeshiet said:
Don't be lazy lol...
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Laziness is accepting an annoyance instead of trying to solve it permanently.
fenstre said:
Laziness is accepting an annoyance instead of trying to solve it permanently.
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You cant solve it permanently from what i know, thats why they added the option to move contacts to sim, phone, google account etc..
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geeshiet said:
You cant solve it permanently from what i know, thats why they added the option to move contacts to sim, phone, google account etc..
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Oh, is there an option to move all at once? That would be helpful. I don't know this phone very well.