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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!
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.
Abu-7abash said:
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?
itsLYNDZ said:
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.
itsLYNDZ said:
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
itsLYNDZ said:
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.
Alex9090 said:
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
Hello all,
Accidentally (or just pure curiously). I pressed Merge with google, and all my contacts got the google icon on their card...
It there a way to batch unlink. or any idea how to rollback this definitely ****ty option?
Thanks,
Menu- More- Display options under Contacts.
Regards.
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ithehappy said:
Menu- More- Display options under Contacts.
Regards.
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Try that,not working.
All contacts have the icon of google and the icon of the green with the phone inside.
That means uncheck the google contacts in the display option doesn un merge the contacts.
Any other idea to un merge?
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It shouldn't show any google contacts if you uncheck everything under google settings.
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RedGrinGo said:
Try that,not working.
All contacts have the icon of google and the icon of the green with the phone inside.
That means uncheck the google contacts in the display option doesn un merge the contacts.
Any other idea to un merge?
Thanks,
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You could alway export all the contacts. Then import the contacts. Don't allow Android to the merge. Delete the ones you don't want. Finally sync the gmail account.
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It shouldn't show any google contacts if you uncheck everything under google settings.
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you probably not understand the issue!!!
i have merge all contact with google account.
Now, when i look inside a contact i see him with two icons.
I WANT TO GET RID OF THIS UGLY GOOGLE ICON.
RedGrinGo said:
you probably not understand the issue!!!
i have merge all contact with google account.
Now, when i look inside a contact i see him with two icons.
I WANT TO GET RID OF THIS UGLY GOOGLE ICON.
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Why would you not want to store your contacts on google? Easy to sync from phone to phone, backed up and easy to edit/add/delete online as well as on handset.
1) I just don't like it.
2) It's synchronize with more than one account.
3) I think this is my privilege to choose.
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RedGrinGo said:
1) I just don't like it.
2) It's synchronize with more than one account.
3) I think this is my privilege to choose.
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Maybe disabling automatic syncing in "Accounts and sync" could help.
Hello everybody,
first I want to thank you for all the great instructions and FAQs, they really helped a lot.
However, I finally bought myself an Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 and flashed it yesterday with the Resurrection 1.8.1 ICS ROM (which is really amazing). But I am experiencing an issue for which I couldn't find a solution.
After synchronizing the S2 via MPE with Outlook, and saving the contacts only on the phone they disappear after a while. But not the contacts which are linked to an online account (Facebook etc).
I think this issue was also raised in [Rom](M5)[Pitch Black](tabletUİ)[AOKP-B35][04/05]Resurrection Remix ics v1.8.1[4.0.4] (page 2546):
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Originally Posted by Kamikaze1 View Post
I have some problem with my contacts.
I uploaded my contacts with MyPhoneExplorer and after about 1/2h, all contacts are gone/deleted.
I moved from 1.4 to 1.5 (no wipe). CM9.
And i got battery draining.
Thanks a lot ...
Amazing rom. I like Resurrection Remix.
After no help and still problem with loosing contacts I moved to "CriskeloServanTEAM-V8-LP7" and now all is OK.
Please can you fix this bug?
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Does anyone now what I could do without having to sync the contacts with Google.
Thank you for your help.
Have you checked to see which contacts are selected to be displayed.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
All of the contacts are displayed, because I did not sync it with Google.
Vladi_1002 said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
All of the contacts are displayed, because I did not sync it with Google.
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I think he meant when you go to the Contacts app, then open menu > more > display options, you can choose various options here. Under the "select contacts to display" heading, if under phone, nothing is checked, then it will not display any local phone contacts. See if they are all un-checked here.
EDIT: Oh, you're on Resurrection Remix, which is an ICS ROM. Could be slightly different for you. But the idea is the same.
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I think he meant when you go to the Contacts app, then open menu > more > display options, you can choose various options here. Under the "select contacts to display" heading, if under phone, nothing is checked, then it will not display any local phone contacts. See if they are all un-checked here.
EDIT: Oh, you're on Resurrection Remix, which is an ICS ROM. Could be slightly different for you. But the idea is the same.
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Your are right if I uncheck everything no contacts are seen.
But if I want to view the contacts I saved on the phone (phone-only, unsynced contact), I have to show "All contacts", but after some time these contacts disappeared.
Vladi_1002 said:
Your are right if I uncheck everything no contacts are seen.
But if I want to view the contacts I saved on the phone (phone-only, unsynced contact), I have to show "All contacts", but after some time these contacts disappeared.
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Hmm.. Turn off contact sync on your google account, maybe?
ctomgee said:
Hmm.. Turn off contact sync on your google account, maybe?
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I disabled all synchronization except Google calendar, then I also disabled the synchronisation with Contact-sync.
But still the contacts are deleted. The only contacts which are left are either synced with HaxSync or Whatsapp.
Does it mean I cannot leave any contacts which are not synced with something?
It should be possible to leave some contacts on the phone itself?!
Vladi_1002 said:
I disabled all synchronization except Google calendar, then I also disabled the synchronisation with Contact-sync.
But still the contacts are deleted. The only contacts which are left are either synced with HaxSync or Whatsapp.
Does it mean I cannot leave any contacts which are not synced with something?
It should be possible to leave some contacts on the phone itself?!
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That's very weird. I can save a new contact that is "phone only" and it displays just fine, and is never synched to my Google account. (though, I really don't understand why people don't like synching to Google. It's like automatically backing up your Contacts online. What's not to like?)
Can you post some screenshots maybe of your display settings with all the settings expanded?
Just save all contacts to SIM memory, not in Phone memory.
krasavchik said:
Just save all contacts to SIM memory, not in Phone memory.
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Is there no other way?
Is someone else experiencing the same problem as I do?
I can't imagine that it is normal that all the phone contacts are deleted if they are not synced with an account...
Vladi_1002 said:
Is there no other way?
Is someone else experiencing the same problem as I do?
I can't imagine that it is normal that all the phone contacts are deleted if they are not synced with an account...
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It's NOT normal. As I said, it works fine on my phone. Again, please post screenshots of your settings. I'm guessing there is a wrong setting somewhere.
Vladi_1002 said:
Is there no other way?
Is someone else experiencing the same problem as I do?
I can't imagine that it is normal that all the phone contacts are deleted if they are not synced with an account...
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I think there isn't any way to get back your contacts, but hereafter save all contacts to SIM memory.
ctomgee said:
It's NOT normal. As I said, it works fine on my phone. Again, please post screenshots of your settings. I'm guessing there is a wrong setting somewhere.
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Could you specify which settings you need, or do you need all of them?
Would you mind telling me your settings in the meantime and I compare them with mine.
Thanks again for the help.
Vladi_1002 said:
Could you specify which settings you need, or do you need all of them?
Would you mind telling me your settings in the meantime and I compare them with mine.
Thanks again for the help.
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I was talking about display settings from your contacts app, like I was suggesting in post 4.
For me, (I'm on GB still) I open contacts, menu, more, display options, and expand out phone. I have everything checked here.
I don't know what it looks like on ICS, as I'm not on ICS... but if I can see screenshots of a similar screen, I may be able to help you. You may not have that set of contacts set to display.
EDIT: I got a hold of a work colleague's i9100 who has ICS installed on it, and found the menu steps...
Ok, so on ICS, it's a bit different. From the Contacts app, hit menu, contacts to display, customize, then expand out phone. Are all the checkboxes here checked?
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I was talking about display settings from your contacts app, like I was suggesting in post 4.
For me, (I'm on GB still) I open contacts, menu, more, display options, and expand out phone. I have everything checked here.
I don't know what it looks like on ICS, as I'm not on ICS... but if I can see screenshots of a similar screen, I may be able to help you. You may not have that set of contacts set to display.
EDIT: I got a hold of a work colleague's i9100 who has ICS installed on it, and found the menu steps...
Ok, so on ICS, it's a bit different. From the Contacts app, hit menu, contacts to display, customize, then expand out phone. Are all the checkboxes here checked?
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If I check all of them I have ca 150contacts, but after I have synced it with MPE I usually have over 500.
After some time (or a sync with an account I guess) the contacts decline only to the contacts which are synced with an account.
Currently, I have one possible solutions in mind which is however not satisfying for me:
1. Syncing all contacts with Google.
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If I check all of them I have ca 150contacts, but after I have synced it with MPE I usually have over 500.
After some time (or a sync with an account I guess) the contacts decline only to the contacts which are synced with an account.
Currently, I have one possible solutions in mind which is however not satisfying for me:
1. Syncing all contacts with Google.
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I was concerned about JUST the checkbox entries under "Phone"... which isn't in any of your screenshots.
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I was concerned about JUST the checkbox entries under "Phone"... which isn't in any of your screenshots.
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If I click on "Contacts to display" the options of the first Screenshot show up. So there is no "Phone" option
I just created a new contact which is then included in the googlemail account and then shown as "phone" and other shown as "connections".
Hope that is what you ment.
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If I click on "Contacts to display" the options of the first Screenshot show up. So there is no "Phone" option
I just created a new contact which is then included in the googlemail account and then shown as "phone" and other shown as "connections".
Hope that is what you ment.
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It's not what I meant... it's really strange; on my co-worker's phone, on the screen of your first screenshot, he has Phone and SIM displayed, in addition to his Google account... but you do not have either. (So krasavchik's suggestion above wouldn't work either...)
What ROM are you running? Is it a custom ROM, or are you on a Samsung stock firmware?
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It's not what I meant... it's really strange; on my co-worker's phone, on the screen of your first screenshot, he has Phone and SIM displayed, in addition to his Google account... but you do not have either. (So krasavchik's suggestion above wouldn't work either...)
What ROM are you running? Is it a custom ROM, or are you on a Samsung stock firmware?
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It is the Resurrection 1.8.1 ROM. I think this problem was mentioned in a post concerning previous versions but I don't know if it is still common in 1.8.1
Vladi_1002 said:
It is the Resurrection 1.8.1 ROM.
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Whoops! You mentioned that in your first post. And I even acknowledged that fact in post 4. Silly me... Sorry.
But that's still really strange that Phone and SIM don't show up in that screen.
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I think this problem was mentioned in a post concerning previous versions but I don't know if it is still common in 1.8.1
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Hmm... so it sounds like it is an issue specifically with this ROM. You may want to inquire in the ROM thread to see if anyone else using this ROM is able to get "Phone" or "SIM" contacts to show up in the contacts app.
1. If a contact is on both SIM and phone, they merge into one and I can't assign ringtone to that contact. How can I make them not merge?
2. Some of my Whatsapp contacts are not showing up in address book as having Whatsapp. Have refreshed and restarted phone and stuff, still doesn't work. Some of the contacts show the Whatsapp logo just fine. Any way to fix?
Many thanks.
Have you try assigning only one either phone or sim?
Ttblondey said:
Have you try assigning only one either phone or sim?
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Yup, works when I assign only phone.
Was wondering if there's a way to do it without deleting contacts from SIM..