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Windows Live Messenger Contacts integration

There's a way to remove the windows live messenger contacts from my contacts list?
I don't want thats messenger contacts on my FONE contacts LOL!
I already have a lot of contacts ad that contacts are a crap!
Please, someone can help? thanks

I think there's a bug and if you remove them from your list they'll be removed from your msn acount...

That's not a bug, it's how it is supposed to work so that your contacts are integrated.
I don't think it's something you can turn off, but then, I haven't tried.
You can always add a category to your non-messenger contacts, and view by that filter if you don't want them showing.

I have more than 200 non-messenger contacts.
That messenger contacts on my PHONE list are crap

ZeD said:
I have more than 200 non-messenger contacts.
That messenger contacts on my PHONE list are crap
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You can bulk highlight them in Outlook and add a category to them.
To *you* it's crap
I have about 150 contacts, 50 messenger contacts, and of those, about 30 I had as real contacts anyway. I like the way they are both integrated into one thing, and that the information is with me wherever I sign in.

I want the msn contacts hidden from my phone contacts list without selectiong categories all times... Or just dont add these contacts to my phone...

just a setting
It is a setting in Windows Live. When you set up the Windows Live connection you can choose if you want to sync mail and/or contacts. I only chose mail and my contacts did not appear in my address book.
You can change it in Windows Live: Menu/Options/2 Sync Options - Deselect contacts and messenger.
-Ireneus

ireneus said:
It is a setting in Windows Live. When you set up the Windows Live connection you can choose if you want to sync mail and/or contacts. I only chose mail and my contacts did not appear in my address book.
You can change it in Windows Live: Menu/Options/2 Sync Options - Deselect contacts and messenger.
-Ireneus
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Yes.
But when i try to sig in into messenger i get a message that this action will sincronize the contacts to my fone contacts...

ireneus said:
It is a setting in Windows Live. When you set up the Windows Live connection you can choose if you want to sync mail and/or contacts. I only chose mail and my contacts did not appear in my address book.
You can change it in Windows Live: Menu/Options/2 Sync Options - Deselect contacts and messenger.
-Ireneus
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On mine, it still puts the contacts in, it simply does not synchronise my address book online.
That option is about the online sync with Windows Live services, not about placing them in your address book.

ZeD said:
I want the msn contacts hidden from my phone contacts list without selectiong categories all times... Or just dont add these contacts to my phone...
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Basically, tough. In this instance, 'I want' doesn't get! Microsoft have designed it this way, and until a new version of Windows Live is released that doesnt do this (unlikely), that's the way it will be

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What you need to do is when it asks you if u want to integrate the contacts you say Cancel, you then go to the right hand menu at the bottom of the screen and select windows live. It will open a search box with a login button underneath.
Log in to windows live and it will give you 5 screens, 1 of which disables the syncing of the contacts into your address book..
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Sup3rT3d said:
What you need to do is when it asks you if u want to integrate the contacts you say Cancel, you then go to the right hand menu at the bottom of the screen and select windows live. It will open a search box with a login button underneath.
Log in to windows live and it will give you 5 screens, 1 of which disables the syncing of the contacts into your address book..
Sorted
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That option is to do with synchronisation with the windows live address book. This is not the same as your contacts/address book on your device.

phone contacts

I logged in to the MSN Messenger and all contacts were downloaded to the MSN application.
The problem is now when I look at the phone directory at my phone contacts I see my contact phone but also a (long) list of my messenger contacts.
How can I seperate the 2 lists. i.e. to have my list of IM friends when I log in into the MSN and to have a list of contacts (phones only) on the phone contacts?
thanks

there is an option when you log into msn for the first time to add your contacts to your phone.....sounds like you didn't uncheck the box

so I can I undo it?

remove msn contacts
TTman said:
so I can I undo it?
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yes...open Windows Live, go to Menu --> Account Options --> switch windows id...this will delete msn contacts from phone book....then create your account again with no merge option

worked..
it worked for me...

also for me
thanks

Windows live mobile lost my contacts list :S

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Uppon searching means of getting them back i discovered windows live help forums and it appears alot of people have been having their contacts deleated and they can be retrived by a windows live employee adding them to your account again.
Thus i beleive this may have been coninsidence and not linked.
Thankyou anyway for reading.
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Hey, a while ago i set up msn on my phone and stupidly made it so that contacts emails where added to my adress book. This added something like 400 emauils that i really didn't want on my contacts list.
So i used a program to remove them all, this worked a charm. Now i go onto msn and i have 6 contacts on my phone, on my pc i ahve a full list. I tryed syncing to update them that didn;t work, i tryed even telling it to add emails to my addressbook to no avail.
Im a bit lost as too what to do, i cant even find windows live messenger on my remove programs list to reinstall it.
It is possible to have a contact list on windows live mobiel without having it saved onto your phone isn't it?
Thanks.
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now after trying sync to my pc i no longr have windows live messenger contacst either.

I think its about time I add something to the forum
Same thing happened to me, what i did was:
1. Log into messenger on your pc
2. Go to Options
3. Click on Privacy
4. Midway the screen you will see Contacts List and a button View. Click on view to see who has you on their list
5. You will see a list of all the contacts who have you and if you right click on them, you can add them to your contacts. Do this for all the contacts.
Only problem is, is that you will have to put them back into the category of your choice. But the ones who you have blocked will remain blocked
Hope this helps.
EDIT: oh and to prevent your email adds from adding to your contacts, re-setup your email address in windows live messenger on your mobile, and there should be an option of not syncing the contacts. I can't remember exactly what the option is called but its definitely there.

the_cool said:
I think its about time I add something to the forum
Same thing happened to me, what i did was:
1. Log into messenger on your pc
2. Go to Options
3. Click on Privacy
4. Midway the screen you will see Contacts List and a button View. Click on view to see who has you on their list
5. You will see a list of all the contacts who have you and if you right click on them, you can add them to your contacts. Do this for all the contacts.
Only problem is, is that you will have to put them back into the category of your choice. But the ones who you have blocked will remain blocked
Hope this helps.
EDIT: oh and to prevent your email adds from adding to your contacts, re-setup your email address in windows live messenger on your mobile, and there should be an option of not syncing the contacts. I can't remember exactly what the option is called but its definitely there.
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Cheers mate that is alot quicker then the way windows live gave me! why the hell didn't tjhey tell me to do that!
But i also posted on the ocuk forums and some nice guy on their wrote me a lil program that takes the huge list of contacts and puts it into one file i can import in
Thanks though, if it wernt for the other guy writing me a lil program this would be a total life saver in comparison!
And yeah i wanted to reset up my email adress, the problem is it wont let me deleate it to start with...

I can help you with that too
1. Open Windows Messenger on your mobile
2. You should be on that main page which says sign in as and you can choose status. Click Cancel
3. Click Menu
4. Click Windows Live
5. Click Menu
6. Click Account Options
7. Click Switch Windows Live ID and press yes.
9. Choose Accept
10. Enter details for your account and click Next
11. Choose whether you want the search bar etc n press next
12. IMPORTANT: Uncheck "Store Windows Live contacts in you mobile phone's contact list". This will stop the contacts from going into your account again. Press Next
13. And there you go!
I don't mean to patronise you by adding every single step but for completions sake I thought I should as it can help someone in the future.
Let me know how you get on

cheers mate, not patronizing at all. Just being helpful.
Ill get back to you on how i do.

Removing email accounts from Touch Flow screen

I am running BB Connect on my sock TMO TP2, on the mail screen I have 2 system email accounts that are not in use and would like to remove them.
Is there a way to get them not to show there?

You need to delete them from the account picker. By default, this should come up if you press the messaging key on your keyboard. Otherwise, from your inbox, tap Menu, Tools, Options, and check the "Display account picker when opening Messaging".
Once you're in the account picker, just tap and hold on the account you want to delete and tap on the context sensitive menu that pops up.

It doesn't work on the system email accounts that are associated with BB Connect for some reason. There must be a reg hack that will hide them. Or I could remove and reinstall but that is a pain.

rsacipher said:
It doesn't work on the system email accounts that are associated with BB Connect for some reason. There must be a reg hack that will hide them. Or I could remove and reinstall but that is a pain.
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OH, welcome to my world. I have 3 accounts that I wanted to remove so I could reinstate them again and I couldn't do it. They don't show up in the "remove account" page. I tried recreating them with the same name but the mail program wouldn't allow me to do it. So I had to rename them and now I have 6 email folders with only three that are active. How dumb.
I tried going through the registry and looking for any files that might be associated with the accounts without luck. I just need to live with it. I don't want to reinstall the ROM to start fresh.
The way I disassociated the original email boxes, if you're interested, is when I realized I didn't want to sync my Outlook box in my phone, so I removed it from the computer syncing program. That basically uninstalled whatever link my Outlook had along with all three of my external email folders. <sigh>

If it is setup to connect using Exchange, you need to remove/change the Exchange server connection in ActiveSync
Otherwise, try this
1. Click the Inbox on TF3D (I'm using v2.1 on wm6.1)
2. Menu > Tools > Options
3. Click and hold the account name > Delete

simular problem with email & TouchFLO
Hello,
I am having a simular issue with the Outlook Mobile and Touch FLO3D. I had 5 email accounts set up. Hotmail, Outlook mail and 3 POP3 accounts. For some unexplained reason this week, the 3 POP3 accounts stoped working, but were still showing up in the TouchFLO email tab. When I checked Windows Mobile email picker and setup, the accounts did not displayshow up. I tried to re-add the the accounts using the same name and credentials. I received an error that the name was already in use. So I added the 3 accouns using different names. Now I have 8 email accounts on the TouchFLO tab, and 5 in the Windows Mobile email screens. There seems to be no way to delete the accounts from TouchFLO tabs. I have also attempted to disable the TouchFLO email and to re-enable. This did not change anything. A soft reset was also no help.

runandgun said:
Hello,
I am having a simular issue with the Outlook Mobile and Touch FLO3D. I had 5 email accounts set up. Hotmail, Outlook mail and 3 POP3 accounts. For some unexplained reason this week, the 3 POP3 accounts stoped working, but were still showing up in the TouchFLO email tab. When I checked Windows Mobile email picker and setup, the accounts did not displayshow up. I tried to re-add the the accounts using the same name and credentials. I received an error that the name was already in use. So I added the 3 accouns using different names. Now I have 8 email accounts on the TouchFLO tab, and 5 in the Windows Mobile email screens. There seems to be no way to delete the accounts from TouchFLO tabs. I have also attempted to disable the TouchFLO email and to re-enable. This did not change anything. A soft reset was also no help.
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runandgun,
Did you ever resolve this issue? I just had the same problem with two Gmail accounts - my Outlook account is just fine. The Gmail accounts appear on my Touchflo screen but I cannot access them. the do not show up in Account Picker, yet I cannot add accounts with the same name because "they already exist". They also do not show up when I do a "View Inbox" and examine the account drop down.
Thanks,
jisso

I guess this was never solved. I have the same exact problem and was hoping I could find a fix for it here.

Ah. I found a thread with the answer:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4176780

[Resolved] What am I missing ??? Contacts will not sync TO GMail, only FROM Gmail ?!

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Original post:
I am so mad at my "Hemroid" (I mean android) right now I am about to smash the g-damn screen,,,,
Apparently I am missing something important ?? - I dunno - ... Why do all contacts created in GMail sync to the phone, BUT,
Only "Some" of the contacts created IN THE PHONE sync back to gmail ????
I freaking hate being mad at stupid ****, this is retarded...
Any ideas ?
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[Resolved for now]

When you create the contact from the phone, do you set it as a Google contact, or a phone contact?
Sent from my girlfriend according to my current girlfriend

When creating a contact you may have to select it as a Google contact. Try recreating a contact that won't sync, select it as a Google contact, and see what happens.
Make sure that your phone is set to sync contacts in Accounts and Sync too.
Sent from my girlfriend according to my current girlfriend

You'll get a hemroid if you push too hard!

ejdavis72 said:
You'll get a hemroid if you push too hard!
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Eeeeewwwww
When you create the contact from the phone, do you set it as a Google contact, or a phone contact?
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Set as a Google contact, and selected the correct email address.
I even tried looking at an alternate email I had, thinking it might have synced to the wrong one - nope...
Just for example, I had created 2 or 3 contacts from my phone, the same way each time, as google contacts. When I synced the phone, only 1 of them synced to gmail...
I though "WTF? maybe I screwed up", so I rebooted the phone, logged out of gmail, deleted the contacts, and tried again.
NOPE !!!
POS "Hem--RRRROOOOIIIIDDDD"........
Anything I create "From" gmail syncs correctly, but only "some" created from the phone synce back to gmail..
And yes also I did double, tripple check that 'background services, auto sync, sync contacts, sync email, default email account, were all correct... I tried repeatedly clicking 'manually sync now' 'sync this' and so on...
NOPE ! Nothing.
"Hem-ROOOOOIIIIIDDDDDD"

Well just chiming in my Gmail contacts won't sync on NY one account but they will on any other maybe try a new account?
Sent from my Incredible using XDA App

go to your contacts, hit menu, select "view" and uncheck everything but "phone" contacts...those are the ones that aren't syncing, am i correct"
"phone" contacts won't sync
"google" contacts will sync

I would follow the patches advice. I found that I was looking at facebook phone numbers but they were not getting uploaded to my gmail account. I dont understand why there is not a "phone to contact" or "contact to phone" option like sooo many phones in the past. It would be GREAT if there was an android app built for that. I dont understand why they do not have a "Sync ALL" option that will allow you to save all information from facebook/gmail/phone/ect to a single location to use.
I also dont like the "gmail" vs "mail". That may have something to do with it too. I set up my initial gmail account but never got to see my mail because it was always in the "gmail" app and not in the mail.
Anyway, I think that is a separate issue all together.
Good luck
SoBBie

patches152 said:
go to your contacts, hit menu, select "view" and uncheck everything but "phone" contacts...those are the ones that aren't syncing, am i correct"
"phone" contacts won't sync
"google" contacts will sync
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What a dumbass, What a dumbass I am ....
P.S.
ATTN: Hey all future searching dumbasses of America who stumble across this thread: Make sure that you click the dropdown menu that says "Contact type" and change it to Google, every single time you create a contact... And when you are sick or drunk, add them later, because you might end up looking like a dumbass, like myself

BaLLZaCH said:
What a dumbass, What a dumbass I am ....
P.S.
ATTN: Hey all future searching dumbasses of America who stumble across this thread: Make sure that you click the dropdown menu that says "Contact type" and change it to Google, every single time you create a contact... And when you are sick or drunk, add them later, because you might end up looking like a dumbass, like myself
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ANOTHER PROTIP: every once in awhile go check how many "phone" contacts you have by following the steps in my last post. i also found that i have a bunch of duplicate contacts, you can either link them, but i find it easier to edit via PC from the gmail contacts area. you can select multiple contacts, merge them, etc. when you email people gmail automatically creates a contact, but it's stored under "other contacts". you can move contacts in and out of the different groups, etc. get familiar with that and it's way easier than doing it from your phone.
inb4 TWSS

Good learning, and sound advice for folk.
Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for your input, I had the issue of my gmail contacts wont sync and throws up the error that it cant sync at this time, and it keeps trying and runs your battery dead trying to. this was all after I rooted my dinc s-off, I even deleted all my contacts and it would sync one time successfully then go right back to the same crap.
But I never tried making all my contacts into gmail contacts mainly because I wasnt having an issue until I rooted my device, but here is a bigger mystery, I run Cyanogen7 and dont have any issues syncing anything, only when I run the stock rom.
So I guess I need to be added to the DA list...LMAO

And one last tip if you have a bunch of "Phone" contacts and want to get them all transferred at once: you can export your phone-only contacts then import them all into google.
People > Menu > Import/Export > Export to SD Card > Phone
This will export all of your contacts marked as "Phone".
People > Menu > Import/Export > Import from SD Card > Google
This will re-import everything into the gmail account you select.

This is some good information. My wife was asking me about this the other day. XDA FTW.