Here is my problem or annoyance if you will. I added my contacts to my phone and added their email accounts and numbers. I synced Facebook to my contacts so it would merge my contacts with their Facebook pictures and such. Well now my contacts show their name twice. One being Facebook and the other being the phone number on my sim card. Is there any way to merge them together and have my contacts listed just one time in my contacts folder?
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If you go to Contacts>Menu>Display Options you can edit the options to show contacts from SIM card or not, have you tried that?
StefanB86 said:
If you go to Contacts>Menu>Display Options you can edit the options to show contacts from SIM card or not, have you tried that?
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Well the problem with that is that I can not edit the contacts with Facebook information. It will not let me add a phone number. This would be sweet if I could do that because then I would not need the contacts that I saved to the sim card.
Lethal_NFS said:
Well the problem with that is that I can not edit the contacts with Facebook information. It will not let me add a phone number. This would be sweet if I could do that because then I would not need the contacts that I saved to the sim card.
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Try copying your contacts from sim to phone. Then go to the options to only display phone contacts.
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Most likely you have more that one vcf file on external sd being restored .
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Thanks for the responses guys. I will try to copy the contacts to the phone and see if I can get a merge going.
Also it's better to have them all saved as Google contacts anyway so if you lose your sim or do a factory reset they'll all sync up again after you put in your gmail info on initial setup.
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Looks like importing from the sim card to the phone fixed my problem. This merged all of my phone numbers to my friends list from Facebook. Thanks!
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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.
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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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watermelun said:
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.
Hello, I am having trouble getting my contact pics to display in my messages. I have deleted all contacts, removed all synced apps, updated pictures one by one and saved to phone. Yet still it doesn't show. Have I missed something? I an on rooted (only) 2.3.5 GB.
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I had this issue once, it was picking up my contacts from my SIM card instead of from my Google contacts. I ended up having to delete all contacts from the SIM, which was fine with me since all my contacts were in my Google contacts list anyways. Once the SIM contacts were deleted the pictures showed up.
You could also try joining the contacts too, if you're not comfortable deleting them.
Mate you are a genius! I deleted the Sim contacts from Sim, checked the phone contacts then exported to Sim for safety. All sorted!
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I have a galaxy S 2
I go to the contact list, I can see pictures of contacts
I go to the SMS list, I can not see pictures of contacts
help
thanks
Where pictures come from? Facebook?
i had this the other day when changing rom. My contacts are stored in google with a back up on my sin card. I had to delete the sim card contacts then the pictures showed up in messaging apps. Then i could make a fresh back up.
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skimminstones said:
i had this the other day when changing rom. My contacts are stored in google with a back up on my sin card. I had to delete the sim card contacts then the pictures showed up in messaging apps. Then i could make a fresh back up.
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thanks for your help, I solved
I really screwed up this time... Normally I'm pretty good with backing up and preventing this kinda stuff but this one slipped through my fingers. I did a factory reset of my Samsung S3 (US Cellular) and formatted it on my PC via USB. I assumed all my contacts had been saved through my gmail account, but apparently they were not.
#1. Is there any way I can possibly retrieve some of my lost contacts? One number in particular is extremely important.
#2. If they weren't being saved to my Gmail account (some did, some didn't), where did they save to?
gmcmxci said:
I really screwed up this time... Normally I'm pretty good with backing up and preventing this kinda stuff but this one slipped through my fingers. I did a factory reset of my Samsung S3 (US Cellular) and formatted it on my PC via USB. I assumed all my contacts had been saved through my gmail account, but apparently they were not.
#1. Is there any way I can possibly retrieve some of my lost contacts? One number in particular is extremely important.
#2. If they weren't being saved to my Gmail account (some did, some didn't), where did they save to?
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U shld have sync google before u factory reset. There is no way u can get back the lost number.
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I'm supposed to 'sync' every time I want a number to be saved? I've had this number in my phone for months and months.
If your contacts haven't been saved in GMail account then see if your Sim Card has them. When you save a contact, you can choose to save it in your phone's memory or Sim Card. To see if your Sik Card has your contacts saved, Go to Contacts, press Home button and tap Import and hen choose import from Sim Card.
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gmcmxci said:
I'm supposed to 'sync' every time I want a number to be saved? I've had this number in my phone for months and months.
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Normally, and if you activated the sync, it should sync once you created the contact and you got an internet connection. If this did not happen, and you already formatted anything and don't have any nandroid backup or Titanium Backup of the contacts files, I fear there is no way to get those contacts not synced back.
Did you check the contacts in Gmail on web? The phone saves to Google account based on preferences settings.
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zoleegee said:
Did you check the contacts in Gmail on web? The phone saves to Google account based on preferences settings.
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Yes.
Check with your Service Provider, and demand a print of calls or sms messages sent from your number in a specific time frame, that way you'll 100% get the number. But this method is not free, they will charge you for it. Good luck.
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maybe this tool is useful:
Wondershare Dr Fone for Android
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