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Two weeks ago I created a backup using the 'backup & restore' function on the phone, before upgrading to 2.1. After upgrading, part of the backup fille was restored, including all my contacts. Something went wrong after upgrading though (phone restarting everytime I plug it into a computer with a USB cable), so this weekend I decided to reflash with pc companion 'repair'. I created a new backup with only my messages and my contacts. Once I restored, only the last five contacts that I have added were restored. I tried from both restore points, but the rest of my contacts are gone!
What has happened and is there anything I can do?
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Contacts -> Contacts to view -> phone contacts
kimb0 said:
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This was the first thing I tried. It didn't help...
but thank you anyway!
i had the same issue, the backup/restore app is a piece of crap. my contacts were not restored after the 2.1 upgrade (and yes, i did backup them).
you can restore them though, by going in the settings / sync settings and doing a manual 'contacs' sync with your google account.. as long as you have had them sync'ed before, of course.
Have you tried manual sync of your phone, cos Google store the numbers too if your using a googlemail account on your phone
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meegs said:
Have you tried manual sync of your phone, cos Google store the numbers too if your using a googlemail account on your phone
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Do you mean the googlemail account I use to log in to the market?
If so, where are the contacts stored? Does this happen automatically? How do I access them?
It is really a big mystery to me that all but 5 contacts just disappeared. Especially from my first backup, which had all my contacts AFTER the 2.1 update...
Also, can Titanium Backup do backup of my contacts and stuff?
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I had most of my contacts on my old phone, so I did this:
1. Copy from old phone to SIM
2. Copy from SIM to new phone
3. ????????
4. Profit
Have a similar problem.
Have imported my contacts using sprite migrate.
cannot see the contacts in the contacts. but found out that they are on the phone.
when i dial a number of one of my invisible contacts the name is dispayed.
checked suggestion in post 2. did not help.
has anyone a clue?
I had this problem too, i also had problems with google sync so i just backed my contacts up to my memory card then restored them from the same place.
sirmarcelot said:
i had the same issue, the backup/restore app is a piece of crap. my contacts were not restored after the 2.1 upgrade (and yes, i did backup them).
you can restore them though, by going in the settings / sync settings and doing a manual 'contacs' sync with your google account.. as long as you have had them sync'ed before, of course.
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had similar problems, backup&restore app restored only 10 contacts after 2.1 upgrade. i fortunately had a .vcf backup on my sd card. after that incident i uninstalled backup&restore app and started using only google contacts that is more reliable...
Loaded all my contacts via vcf into google mail and synced. had contacts on the phone.
Then installed MyPhoneExplorer and found that although i could only see all contacts once they were double on the phone.
Basically deleted through MyPhoneExplorer all contacts. phone was empty.
then deleted all contacts in google mail. synced phone and google mail.
no contacts in mail and on phone.
Now loaded my contacts again via vcf in google mail and synced phone.
contacts visible en checked via MyPhoneExplorer there was only one set of contacts.
i have a problem, i istalled minicm9 and now i havent any contact in phone, i have numbers in simcard but i cant get. how can i do? i try with contact2sim but it says there isnr any contact but in old phone i can see numbers in sim.
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before installing cm9 i used "contact2sd" to import contacts from telephone to simcard. whats happen???? :S
In the phone contact application, press the menu key of your phone, select "import/export" and select "Import from Sim card".
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Pickout said:
In the phone contact application, press the menu key of your phone, select "import/export" and select "Import from Sim card".
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i cant, i fix it installing minicm10. now i can read my phone numbers of sim
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.
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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!
Does anybody have any idea on how to make GMail the default contact save location? I had 3 options - PC Sync, SIM & Gmail, the default contact save location being PC sync.
Using Titanium Backup, I froze the "PC Sync 1.0.8" service. This removed PC Sync from the above 3 options. But I am Still left with the rest of the 2 options, the new default contact save location being SIM.
Tried freezing the "com.lge.simcontacts 1.0" service. But this doen't remove the SIM option from the contact save locations. It just disables adding new contacts to sim BUT THE OPTION STILL APPEARS AND REMAINS AS THE DEFAULT ONE.
Please help.
Why doesn't anybody answer? Is it because no one knows the answer or because I am the only ignorant person on board here?
I would also like to know how to do this!
Seems like we are the only two guys bothered by this problem.
I've had this trouble as well and not found any answer. You just need to make sure you select your Google account when adding new contacts.
no idea try to search the forum
Still waiting for the answer.
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Still waiting for the answer.
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Being arrogant like that will NOT get you an answer, it will convince people to NOT give you answer because you are pissing them.
Sorry, my friend, but that is not arrogance but my frustration coming out.
You should be nicer... i dont know the answer but when i create a contact i choose pcsync and it goes to my google accaunt as well...
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Do you mean to say that when you chose pc sync as the default contact save location, your new contacts are saved in your google account and on your phone simultaneously?
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You should be nicer... i dont know the answer but when i create a contact i choose pcsync and it goes to my google accaunt as well...
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It should be! After i imported by hand my contacts (on .CSV format) to my gmail account they went to a place in google contacts called "My Contacts" -Note that at the time i was uploading the contacts list in CSV format i said to move it to the said "My Contacts" place!
Then i turned my phone's wifi on and it synched my Gmail contacts onto the phone! after that on "Display" i put PCSynch off , SIM Contacts off and on Gmail i put only show "My Contacts"!
Since my phone is showing my Gmail contacts, whenever i create a new contact (usually on PCSync i never bothered to change it :x) when i turn my gmail on or the android starts synching with google the contact apears on my google's "My contacts" list and therefore it pops back to the android contacts list!
Or so it worked for me! Some ppl say they didn't have that much trouble but hey... i had all my contacts on PCSynch and couldn't synch them to google before and now after all the hassle of importing them by hand... now i can!
Does not work for me. if I add a contact to pc sync, it still doesn't appear on the google contacts list. Have you installed any other application which helps you sync pc sync contacts with google?
Has anybody found out a way to do this yet?
The solution is still evading us. I hope that some developer sees this and provide a solution.
Your question is a a little confusing but I think this is what your after:
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
When I start a text and put in the name of the contact I want to message, duplicates are showing. I have it set so it doesn't do this for calls, but I can figure out how to do it for texts. It shows 2 of every contact. Is there a way to set it do it only pulls names from either the phone or sim?
Any sUggestions as to why this is happening?
do you use gmail to backup and save your contacts?
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From Contacts > More> display options> pick whatever you usually store your contacts on be it sim or phone.
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From Contacts > More> display options> pick whatever you usually store your contacts on be it sim or phone.
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I already did that. i dont have this issue for when I make calls and look up names, just texts. Im not storing my stuff on gmail either
This all started after I tried to update my phone to the newest update thru mini kies. i ended up having to wipe my phone and restart. I did get the update, and now i noticed its doing this.
It looks as though the Messaging contacts display is ignoring the 'Contacts-->Display Options' settings. I have my phone contacts set to display just the names etc from the Phone memory, not the SIM memory and it works well - no duplicates. However, when composing a Message or Email and press the Contact button, the list of contacts shows 2 of everybody. I've gone through everything obvious but can't see it, now turning to the experts for advice please? What do i need to tick/untick remove or whatever to put this right?
Any suggestions how to make this stop?
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Any suggestions how to make this stop?
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Are you using gmail to backup your contacts? If so just go into gmail and consolidate all the dupes than delete the contacts saved on your phone and sim. Had the same problem with dupes in the messaging. If you need more help just shoot me a pm
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Which ROM are you using?
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My contacts are not backed up to gmail, and im just using the regular stock rom. I dont have phone phone flashed/rooted/whatever.
I had the same problem
sign in to gmail on your computer click contacts it will display all including the phone numbers stored on you your phone if you delete them all (contacts with phone numbers) it should take off all duplicate contacts away
but make sure all phone numbers stored already on your sim card
its something about MIUI if you ever used it before
if that didn't work I know for sure if you have a gmail contact and a phone number contact with the same name and you trying to send sms or mms it show both of them as to send to at that point I would edit the first name of gmail contact by adding * to the name
Hope that helps
But I dont have any contacts listed on my gmail contacts when I sign in on my laptop.
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But I dont have any contacts listed on my gmail contacts when I sign in on my laptop.
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the only thing i can think of that after you restore your phone do you restore it from backup that it has a duplicate contacts ?
or go under contacts/press the first key to the left/display option/ choose phone,sim,gmail (all) then view your contact list and delete all duplicate contacts
best thing i found is to store contacts on sim only that allow you to import them to any phone and also to your own phone after you wipe it off
My contacts show up fine in my address book, no duplicates. So I know the issue isnt with that. There are no duplicates on my phone.
I dont know what to do. Ive tried everything, and its really annoying when trying to send a text to go thru all those duplicates.
when I go to create a text, there are also email addresses showing when I begin typing a name to search for a contact. I dont know where they are coming from
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But I dont have any contacts listed on my gmail contacts when I sign in on my laptop.
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You need to backup all your contacts to gmail. First.
Go to accounts & Sync and tap your google account or any other email accounts you have on your phone. It will give your sync screen, see if "sync contacts" is ticked there. If it is then try unticking it, see if that helps.
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Go to accounts & Sync and tap your google account or any other email accounts you have on your phone. It will give your sync screen, see if "sync contacts" is ticked there. If it is then try unticking it, see if that helps.
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Already tried that. It is unticked
My contacts wouldn't show up in contacts even after I imported from sim card, so i kept inporting them to try and get them to show up, however now in my message app, it shows the same contact about 7 times because I imported them so many times trying to get them to show up in the contacts list. Anyway because they don't show up in contacts i can't delete them, is there somewhere on the phone they are stored so i can delete the whole contacts file and start again?
doesn't matter figured it out myself
Can you share the info with us?
Goto contact then menu then view it gives you choices of what contacts you want
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Can you share the info with us?
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well i didn't figure out where they were stored, but i just went into phone settings then applictions then found the contacts app clicked on it, and hit the clear data button, it must have deleted all the contacts with this because it seem to fix the issue i was having also. And now my contacts show up.
also on my phone, there isn't a view options in the menu of contacts?? strange.
I tryed it but after importing my contacts from sd card it dosent show on contacts.
I wanted to get rid of groups from google.
Fixed the issue by going into display
adamo86 said:
I tryed it but after importing my contacts from sd card it dosent show on contacts.
I wanted to get rid of groups from google
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Have you tried importing your contacts from your googlemail account? Go into settings on the contacts apparently and get it to sync the googlemail account.