Hi!
I have this really annoying "bug" where every single contact us duplicated several times(most contacts have 5 duplicates!).
I could batch delete the duplicates, but the problem is they would probably duplicate again and again...
So, what exactly causes this problem?
Just for the record, my father has this problem too(stock S2). I'm currently running MIUI but the problem seems to not be related to the rom.
Cheers guys, thanks.
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ArmorD said:
Hi!
I have this really annoying "bug" where every single contact us duplicated several times(most contacts have 5 duplicates!).
I could batch delete the duplicates, but the problem is they would probably duplicate again and again...
So, what exactly causes this problem?
Just for the record, my father has this problem too(stock S2). I'm currently running MIUI but the problem seems to not be related to the rom.
Cheers guys, thanks.
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try clearing data/cache of contacts app and see
Sun90 said:
try clearing data/cache of contacts app and see
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in contacts press MENU button and Contacts to display and Choose witch one you want to see in Contacts
i think you have phone and gmail contacts to display
P.S i had a hard time with that too
Thanks for help! Unfortunately neither worked. I downloaded several different dialer apps, but no luck...
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ArmorD said:
Hi!
I have this really annoying "bug" where every single contact us duplicated several times(most contacts have 5 duplicates!).
I could batch delete the duplicates, but the problem is they would probably duplicate again and again...
So, what exactly causes this problem?
Just for the record, my father has this problem too(stock S2). I'm currently running MIUI but the problem seems to not be related to the rom.
Cheers guys, thanks.
Sent from my premium Mercedes
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The Problem can be because you have configured multiple accounts with your Phone and each one of these has the contact data.
Try this and let me know if it worked.
Go to Contacts > Menu > Contacts to Display
Here select the accounts, the contacts of which you want to be displayed.
A more polished way would be to create an Excel Spreadsheet of all your contacts and then upload it with a name in Gmail. You can then enable only this list contacts to be displayed in the Contacts application.
In case it's not a displaying problem - I use Wondershare MobileGo for Android.
Intall the free version, connect your phone to the computer, open the program and under "contacts" tab there is a "De-duplicate" button. It will help you merge duplicated contacs.
There is a workaround for this problem. You can use Go Backup to take a backup of all your existing contacts.. there is an option to merge duplicate contacts as well.. after taking backup delete all your contacts from mobile; sync to server and then restore your contacts..
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Thank you every one for help! However,I found the best solution to be Contact Remover Plus app(paid). It took five minutes to delete all duplicates.
Anyway, thanks guys, some good info here!
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That suggestion about dealing with multiple Google account on your phone is good. Works for me. First, I delete the duplicate contacts on my Android phone and then extract them as Excel files. Finally, the data are uploaded to Gmail. Problem solved. Thank you so much.
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Hi,
I'm having problems syncing my contacts from my phone to my Gmail account. Basically, they're syncing the wrong way!
If I put a new number in my phone then sync to Gmail the number is deleted as it isn't already in my Gmail contacts list.
Surely this is the wrong way around? Surely it should add the new number to my Gmail account? After all, the phone is the logical place to create new contacts.
So, what am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
If it matters I'm running Vodafone branded firmware: Baseband 1.2.28, Build R2BA024.
Thanks.
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could it be you're editing your contacts on gmail as well? then again.. it couldn't be because it's 2 different contacts right?
how bout, if you create an account in google contacts? does it get synced with your fone and show up there?
Yeah if I add a contact to Gmail it syncs to my phone fine. Just not the other way around.
*confused*
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Anyone?
Perhaps I should have put this in the Q&A section!
Sorry Mods. My fault!
Care to move it for me? I don't want to start a duplicate thread.
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Okay I'm going to bump this one last time! I know that's bad form but I've been searching google and asking on other forums too and still can't find the answer!
If anyone can help it's the users on this forum!!
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Okay I'm going to bump this one last time! I know that's bad form but I've been searching google and asking on other forums too and still can't find the answer!
If anyone can help it's the users on this forum!!
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Pl try clearing the contacts from going to settings>applications>manage applications and clear the cache data from the contacts...it ill erase all ur current contacts on Phone and than u can recync all again from Google..hope that works...
Okay I'll give it a try. Thanks man.
I'll let you know how I get on.
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i also have a question to this case. obviously (and i think this is also the reason why this thread was opened) gmail sync only syncs the contacts from your gmail-account to the phone...actually it would be more valuable if i could transfer the contacts from my phone to my gmail-account, as it would also be a kind of backup if something happens to my device.
it is also a thing of daily routine, if i receive a new number or mailadress, i do save it in my phone. because of the only sync-direction gmail->phone, i have to sit in front of my pc in the evening and add the new contact details to my gmail-account...? wouldn't it be easier if i could start a transfer from my phone TO gmail?!?!
Petarsson said:
i also have a question to this case. obviously (and i think this is also the reason why this thread was opened) gmail sync only syncs the contacts from your gmail-account to the phone...actually it would be more valuable if i could transfer the contacts from my phone to my gmail-account, as it would also be a kind of backup if something happens to my device.
it is also a thing of daily routine, if i receive a new number or mailadress, i do save it in my phone. because of the only sync-direction gmail->phone, i have to sit in front of my pc in the evening and add the new contact details to my gmail-account...? wouldn't it be easier if i could start a transfer from my phone TO gmail?!?!
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My thoughts exactly! Far more logical that way around.
The weird thing is, it used to work that way for me. Now it doesn't. As far as I'm aware I haven't changed any settings on either my phone or my gmail account. Very strange!
Tried clearing the cache btw and that hasn't solved the problem.
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so you already did that with your X10? you transferred the contacts of your phone to gmail?
of course it would be perfect, if i could chose which side should synchronize with the other...
e.g. if i need to reset my phone, then i'd love to get my contacts back from gmail!
hope, that somebody can help us here!
Petarsson said:
so you already did that with your X10? you transferred the contacts of your phone to gmail?
of course it would be perfect, if i could chose which side should synchronize with the other...
e.g. if i need to reset my phone, then i'd love to get my contacts back from gmail!
hope, that somebody can help us here!
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Yeah. As far as I'm aware it used to sync in both directions. When I first got my phone I ran a manual sync and all my contacts appeared on my phone. Then if I added one to my phone, or changed one, and ran another sync it would update my gmail contacts with the new/changed one.
Now it doesn't. Strange!
The only thing I can think it would be is that I changed the last part of my address from googlemail.com to gmail.com.
I wonder if that might have something to do with it?
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Petarsson said:
so you already did that with your X10? you transferred the contacts of your phone to gmail?
of course it would be perfect, if i could chose which side should synchronize with the other...
e.g. if i need to reset my phone, then i'd love to get my contacts back from gmail!
hope, that somebody can help us here!
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hey dont worry for that part as it syncs all contacts in a very clever way, for eg i had flashed my phone several times and didnt kept backup of my contacts(apart from one on gmail) and when i was done with flashing i just use to sync them again with gmail and voila..ph got updated according to copy of gmail contacts...so it doesnt deleates the contacts on gmail...
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hey dont worry for that part as it syncs all contacts in a very clever way, for eg i had flashed my phone several times and didnt kept backup of my contacts(apart from one on gmail) and when i was done with flashing i just use to sync them again with gmail and voila..ph got updated according to copy of gmail contacts...so it doesnt deleates the contacts on gmail...
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ok, thanks for your note! so we are now sure, that the transfer of contacts from gmail to the phone works properly. and how about the other way round? do you know about that?
SunjinSak said:
Yeah. As far as I'm aware it used to sync in both directions. When I first got my phone I ran a manual sync and all my contacts appeared on my phone. Then if I added one to my phone, or changed one, and ran another sync it would update my gmail contacts with the new/changed one.
Now it doesn't. Strange!
The only thing I can think it would be is that I changed the last part of my address from googlemail.com to gmail.com.
I wonder if that might have something to do with it?
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hm, so it should normally align both states maybe? is the sync-function really checking the contacts of the phone and those in gmail an adds only the contacts on that side, where they are missing?
well, i have tried the sync once and it deleted all the new contacts on my phone! there was only a transfer of my gmail-contacts to my X10...phone book was ignored and even overwritten!
any hints what sunjin an i do wrong?
hm, so it should normally align both states maybe? is the sync-function really checking the contacts of the phone and those in gmail an adds only the contacts on that side, where they are missing?
well, i have tried the sync once and it deleted all the new contacts on my phone! there was only a transfer of my gmail-contacts to my X10...phone book was ignored and even overwritten!
any hints what sunjin an i do wrong?
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It used to sync both ways for me but now it doesn't. This is very, VERY annoying as I frequently add new contacts to my phone but I now have to remember to go add them to Gmail too or they get deleted next time I sync. Illogical if you ask me.
Can anyone with a different phone/version of Android confirm if this happens to you also?
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Hi. Updated to Nordic 2.1 last night. Easy as pie.
Problem: Although only one of each of my contacts shows in my phonebook, there are two of every detail within them!!! Two numbers, two addresses etc.
The reason is that it is showing that I have two identical Google Accounts set up but under Accounts and Sync there is just the one.
Anyone know how to figure out this rather irritating problem!!??
Paul.
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Hi. Updated to Nordic 2.1 last night. Easy as pie.
Problem: Although only one of each of my contacts shows in my phonebook, there are two of every detail within them!!! Two numbers, two addresses etc.
The reason is that it is showing that I have two identical Google Accounts set up but under Accounts and Sync there is just the one.
Anyone know how to figure out this rather irritating problem!!??
Paul.
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Yeah... same here.. Damn irritating...
also would be glad about a solution. Ive already tried to filter either Google or Phone Contacts, but this doesn't have any effect.
I use to have this problem on 1.6
I basically,backed up my contacts to memory card which created a .vcf. When the phoneook showed the contacts twice, delete them all and import from vcf.
This would solve the issue for me.
I'm syncing my contacts from Google though. These aren't imported from vcards.
superleeds27 said:
I use to have this problem on 1.6
I basically,backed up my contacts to memory card which created a .vcf. When the phoneook showed the contacts twice, delete them all and import from vcf.
This would solve the issue for me.
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Think I may have solved it!!!
In a contact with duplicates, click "Edit", click on the menu button and then click "Separate". This will remove the duplicate, and it then mysteriously disappears!
Unfortunately you will then have to click menu again and "Join" if you want it to link back up with Facebook contacts.
Hope this helps.
I just use MyPhoneExplorer
TheMathMan said:
Think I may have solved it!!!
In a contact with duplicates, click "Edit", click on the menu button and then click "Separate". This will remove the duplicate, and it then mysteriously disappears!
Unfortunately you will then have to click menu again and "Join" if you want it to link back up with Facebook contacts.
Hope this helps.
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helps, but dirty work for doing this for all contacts
sp9nki said:
helps, but dirty work for doing this for all contacts
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Yes I agree. I dont think the fault is with SE. I think it is fromthe Google Contacts merging process to remove duplicates. I think it keeps them hidden normally but somehow its showing on the phone?
Still a few hidden duplicates in there somewhere... removed with Contact Analyzer 2. Quick and easy.
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If u log into ur gmail and load up ur contacts u can auto filter duplicates
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The thing is ... synced dublicates don't come only from Google (aka Gmail) but also may come from Facebook as well.
And my question is , what if I DO want them to be merged so I can view a full detailed card of each of my contact with Facebook status , email , Facebook picture etc. but I don't want to have dublicate mobile number? I can't proccess the hidden-synced-from-facebook contact card just the one that I have saved , hope I'm not confusing you.
I had the same problem too at first.. so I factory restarted.. and just synced my facebook,twitter and gmail instead. The doubles I think came from my sonyericsson sync. ANOTHER THING IS, click the button on the upper left on the contact list, then click show contacts on facebook and twitter only.. I hid the Timescape facebook and timescape twitter
TheMathMan said:
Think I may have solved it!!!
In a contact with duplicates, click "Edit", click on the menu button and then click "Separate". This will remove the duplicate, and it then mysteriously disappears!
Unfortunately you will then have to click menu again and "Join" if you want it to link back up with Facebook contacts.
Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the tip you saved the day
akila87 said:
Thanks for the tip you saved the day
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you can also try this...
when you are in your phone book...look at the phone book page very upper left hand corner and you will see a touch button with 3 heads. click on that, and then you can edit how to show the contacts in your phone book...
now i have a question on the google sync...do you guys have problem with google sync? after update to 2.1 my google account dun sync with the contacts anymore. Can you share if there is a solution to solve it??
Thanks!
noticed a bug.... if you make a contact with just one entry, i cant edit it...
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noticed a bug.... if you make a contact with just one entry, i cant edit it...
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Hm ... can't quite figure out what you mean. Care to elaborate?
So I recently upgraded to the SGS 2 from an Infuse...and when I set up Facebook sync on that phone I was able to select whether I wanted to add ALL facebook friends, or just the ones that were already in my contacts... With the SGS 2 I wasn't given that option, so now I have like 300 extra people in my Contacts list that I will never call, and a good number of them don't even have phone numbers... So is there a way to filter which friends are synced?
Same problem here....
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So I recently upgraded to the SGS 2 from an Infuse...and when I set up Facebook sync on that phone I was able to select whether I wanted to add ALL facebook friends, or just the ones that were already in my contacts... With the SGS 2 I wasn't given that option, so now I have like 300 extra people in my Contacts list that I will never call, and a good number of them don't even have phone numbers... So is there a way to filter which friends are synced?
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Go to contacts... then menu button...then more button..then select display options
in the pop screen which comes up...tick the box showing ..only contacts with phone numbers...
click done...
now if you go back to contact listings..it will only show contact with phone numbers...including...facebook/gmail/yahoo etc sync ones
edit : Ok not exactly what you wanted, but i dont see anyother way
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Go to contacts... then menu button...then more button..
in the pop screen which comes up...tick the box showing ..only contacts with phone numbers...
click done...
now if you go back to contact listings..it will only show contact with phone numbers...including...facebook/gmail/yahoo etc sync ones
edit : Ok not exactly what you wanted, but i dont see anyother way
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Thanks, that's good to know. Problem is, that hides any "real" contacts that don't have phone numbers and shows ANY Facebook friend, so long as they have a number.
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Go to contacts... then menu button...then more button..
in the pop screen which comes up...tick the box showing ..only contacts with phone numbers...
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Thanks Woodstock...that's good enough for me at the moment
newly added contacts not able sync back to google......
anyone know why?
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Go to Contacts--> Press capacitive button for more(the one on the left ) click more
then click "Display Options"---> Select Contacts to display and uncheck the ones you don't want to show up
i am facing this issue for past one month. when ever i try to sync my facebook contacts using social hub it says sync is experiencing problem. try again shortly. The thing is this problem occurs only one of my facebook account. My other account is syncing properly. I tried every known setting but still no success. i can find any option in facebook that enables or disable this thing. Any help please
ashok said:
i am facing this issue for past one month. when ever i try to sync my facebook contacts using social hub it says sync is experiencing problem. try again shortly. The thing is this problem occurs only one of my facebook account. My other account is syncing properly. I tried every known setting but still no success. i can find any option in facebook that enables or disable this thing. Any help please
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I am experiencing the exact same problem. I synced all my accounts yesterday and it was working great for about 3 hours and then it tells me "sync is experiencing problems right now" What is happening? Is there a fix for this?
Hiya
I have unintalled the application from my Desire HD running Cyanogen Mod 7 but some info is still present like email desksms when i go to a contact?
How can I completely remove it? Any help please?
Rakaan said:
Hiya
I have unintalled the application from my Desire HD running Cyanogen Mod 7 but some info is still present like email desksms when i go to a contact?
How can I completely remove it? Any help please?
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I see no replies. I have 348 contacts with the @desksms.appspotchat.com in them. I'd love to know how to get rid of this unnecessary information.
Rakaan said:
Hiya
I have unintalled the application from my Desire HD running Cyanogen Mod 7 but some info is still present like email desksms when i go to a contact?
How can I completely remove it? Any help please?
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Dude I have the same problem with my Google Talk after installing DeskSMS. I would receive a message like "@desksms.appspotchat.com wants to be able to chat with you, and you rejected a previous request. Okay?" I made the mistake of clicking yes and now I can't seem to remove them from my Google Chat list.
Very annoying!
rmarq423 said:
Dude I have the same problem with my Google Talk after installing DeskSMS. I would receive a message like "@desksms.appspotchat.com wants to be able to chat with you, and you rejected a previous request. Okay?" I made the mistake of clicking yes and now I can't seem to remove them from my Google Chat list.
Very annoying!
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I just figured it out. go to contacts.google.com & look for Other Contacts on the left-hand side of the screen. All of the appspot contacts are there & you can delete them.
If the previous solution didn't work, you have to re-download the app, there's a feature to remove the desksms contacts and it delete all of them. I did it and it looks all good so far.
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If the previous solution didn't work, you have to re-download the app, there's a feature to remove the desksms contacts and it delete all of them. I did it and it looks all good so far.
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Is this feature still there for others, because I have no feature to remove these contacts using the desksms application on my phone?
Ok, so in forgot to sync my contacts after I deleted the desksms contacts so they're back and the feature is gone from the app from what I can see. This sucks.
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EDIT: Ok, so I found out a way to delete the contacts if anyone still cares about it:
1) Go to your google contacts
2) Click the "more" tab and export to both Google CSV (in case something goes wrong which it shouldn't) and Outlook CSV (to edit)
3) Open the Outlook CSV into Excel (should be default)
4) Edit to your hearts content!!! (and save!!)
5) Delete all your contacts, be thorough and delete every single thing (don't worry, you made a backup just in case, remember?)
6) Import your new and improved CSV file that you edited earlier and voila, all your regular contacts without the annoying desksms stuff (and anything else you decided to delete/edit)
If this didn't work or messed something else up then just delete everything again and restore the google csv (should be named google.csv I think) and your original contacts will be back.
Hope this works for you guys because it worked for me.
Aaaah. Thanks. Going into Contacts, selecting "Other" and doing a search for "appspotchat.com" showed me all of the contacts. Selected, deleted, done. Appreciate the pointer.
I upgraded my GS II to 2.3.5 yesterday and now my contact pics do not show up on the messaging app. Now, before people ask the obvious questions:
1. No, I do not sync my contacts with Facebook or any other account.
2. I tried GoSMS Pro and Handcent. They do not show contact pictures any longer either.
3. I know it's a permissions problem.
NOW, what directory needs to be chmod to fix this? I've looked all over but the directories listed for other devices are not used on the GS II.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
No one? Haven't seen this problem occur on any other GS II sites. It's rather frustrating.
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Baldilocks said:
I do not sync my contacts with Facebook or any other account.
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I know it's a permissions problem.
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Where are the pictures supposed to be coming from and do they show in your contacts? I realise my question may be superfluous because of your final statement, but I've never heard of such a permissions problem.
oinkylicious said:
Where are the pictures supposed to be coming from and do they show in your contacts? I realise my question may be superfluous because of your final statement, but I've never heard of such a permissions problem.
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I use pics I have on my SD card. They worked fine with Android 2.3.3 and 2.3.4. Once I did the update they no longer show in the Messaging App(s).
Baldilocks said:
I use pics I have on my SD card. They worked fine with Android 2.3.3 and 2.3.4. Once I did the update they no longer show in the Messaging App(s).
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You only answered one of the questions.
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You only answered one of the questions.
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Yes, they show in Contacts and the Log, but not in any messaging app.
It has been suggested it is a permissions problem with the com.android.providers.contacts/files directory. However, I have no 'files' directory there. So, I am clueless as how to fix it.
Problem Solved!!
I deleted all the contacts from my SIM.
Re-Added the pictures for each phone contact again.
Now they show up.
For some reason having the contacts on the SIM had something to do with it, even though I had them hidden. (shrug). Never ran into that problem before.
I have noticed this to, after update to 2.3.5 the contact pics in the standard messaging don't show up, yet if you use go SMS or any messaging widget the pics show up fine. So how did you sort it again? Mine simply sync with Google
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Baldilocks said:
Problem Solved!!
I deleted all the contacts from my SIM.
Re-Added the pictures for each phone contact again.
Now they show up.
For some reason having the contacts on the SIM had something to do with it, even though I had them hidden. (shrug). Never ran into that problem before.
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Only just seen this thread. I posted about this a lil while back. Exact same problem, exact same solution
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Oh yes, i turned off all other displays in my contacts so only Sim was showing, then hit delete, select all, then turned back on the google contacts etc...now automatically showing again.
So 2.3.5 is not liking sim cards I guess, thanks for this help
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Oh yes, i turned off all other displays in my contacts so only Sim was showing, then hit delete, select all, then turned back on the google contacts etc...now automatically showing again.
So 2.3.5 is not liking sim cards I guess, thanks for this help
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You're welcome.
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Thank you, my wife's SGS had the same problem, solved thanks to you!
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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This issue is not just related to 2.3.5, I'm on 2.3.4 KI4 and it happened on it as well.
I noticed this issue last week. Somehow all my contact pics stopped showing up in my Call Logs, Contacts, and in the stock messaging app as well as Gosms Pro (which is what i use). I noticed that when i deleted a particular sim contact the picture would then show up, so the phone was obviously defaulting to sim numbers where it had 2 numbers stored. Oh, and for the record, i sync my contact from Yahoo Mail.
So yeah, delete your sim contacts (nobody uses them anymore, right?! and you're good to go.