How can I make contacts from sim not visible in Android? - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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

Related

[Q] Contacts showing wrong in messages

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

[Q] frustrating contacts section

just got my note and and am having a frustrating time setting up contacts section. looked on here but cant find any other threads for what im looking for. i added my facebook account to the phone and synced my contacts with it. now the problerms are: i cant join facebook contacts with normal contacts, doesnt even give me the option to join normal contacts with other normal contacts. i cant add normal contacts to my favorites, only facebook contacts which does me no good. and cant seem to add multiple numbers to a single contact. i had no problem doing these tasks on my sgsII, so why does this phone seem to not have this capability.
okay nevermind. stupid me didnt realize the contacts i had were on the sim. once i copied from sim to phone, i could do everything.

[Q] Calls always done using SIM contacts

Since upgrading my S2 from 2.3.5 to ICS 4.0.3 XWLP7 firmware, i have been having an issue with contacts.
I have the same contact with same number but different names on both my SIM (Eg. Alex/M) and Google account(Alex). In the contact app, i selected to display only Google contacts. Now when i select the Google contact(Alex) and call, the call is made using the SIM contact and the dialer app displays Alex/M instead of Alex. This happens for incoming calls also.
How can i fix this and ensure that the calls are done using only the google contacts?
If i go to the dialer app, select menu->Contacts it displays my SIM + Google contacts, but even on selecting a google contact and making the call, the SIM contact is displayed...
I think that the only way is to modify the name your sim contacts to match the google contacts.. and I think that contacts are always referred to the SIM, as you can make calls,sms and use internet only with SIM
Sent from my hybrid SII with the power of ParanoidAndroid and Fluxi kernel
or you could just delete the sim contacts. if you don't use the sim in another phone where you can't access your google contacts, you really don't need them anymore.
You can either sync your contacts with Google or delete your SIM contacts (remember to back up!)
important contacts on sim
I don't want to delete the SIM contacts as i store only the important ones and if i use another phone i would still have these contacts.
Is this a bug in ics as i have not faced this issue in gb 2.3.5
it happened to me before, even on sms, sim contacts were being displayed, i noticed it because my contact pictures doesn't appear on sms, and when i click it, it shows that it is the sim contacts
i solved it this way
1. make sure that every contacts on sim were imported on your google contact
2. delete all sim contacts
3. now export your google contacts to your sim
4. finally when making a call or receiving sms, google contacts were being fetched
hope this will solve your problem

[HELP] Sim Contacts dissapeared but still in call log

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

How to salvage contacts from phone after closing Google account?

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

Categories

Resources