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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.
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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.
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Fellow xda people...
I'm a ms messenger addict, well I like it anyway and I've been looking forward to using it on my vario over uk T-mobile web'n'walk...I'm running black 2.5 so now I have the "windows live" thing on my today screen and I'm signed in...
thing is, seems to work...but i CANT STAND the way it insists on putting all my MSN contacts into my contact list! Does this annoy anyone else? Anyone found any clever work arounds?
Typical of microsoft trying to integrate an app and take over the whole machine - horrible?
cheers
bb
its so annoying...almost makes me want to use a different messenger client?
using black 2.0. cannot sign windows live from yesterday until now. it said no internet connectivity but i am connected with gprs and also wifi. can surf net also. it the mobile server different from the desktop?
I'm talking about the contacts in particular....
anyone else use messenger - windows live....polluting my contacts !
I had the same problem when I first used the live messenger beta a few months back. The final version does have the "sync contacts" optionality but as you say it still syncs them and creates duplicates and rubbish!
The only work around I found was to use outlook to copy and paste all the relevant info from the original contacts details into the new contacts created by messenger and then deleting the old one. This then avoids the duplication next time you flash and set up live.
unwired4 said:
The only work around I found was to use outlook to copy and paste all the relevant info from the original contacts details into the new contacts created by messenger and then deleting the old one. This then avoids the duplication next time you flash and set up live.
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That seems to work the best for me, I don't have to many contact and it wasnt that hard for me to delete them all and put them back in again - when you do this it asks what sort of contact you want - I think MS should have included a wizard that goes through your contacts when you first install them asking if you want Outlook, Contacts List and/or Messenger for each contact.
Another problem I found was everytime it synced from phone to computer, it would change my Messenger contacts, I found that if you edit the contact in Windows Messenger and make sure the name info is the same as what is one the phone has stored, it solves this problem, my contacts sync OK now.
I have the same issue, so i just reverted to using Pocket MSN...
Someone posted a workaround in the following thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1236933&postcount=22
Don't know if it's working since I didn't have time to install Live Messenger and try it out. Can someone try it?
My Workaround ...
Yeah,
I had the exact same problem. And i have HEAPS of contacts both messenger and outlook ... and of course ... i'm ridiculously anal about having everything exactly perfect ... so i fixed my contacts and reinstalled my phone ... hah
What i found worked for me, was before syncing the first time, make sure that you have outlook contacts corresponding to the email addresses of your messenger contacts. (ie: if windows live messenger sees you have an outlook contact with the same email address, it will just attach the msn display pic etc to that contact.
- Phixx
cheers for this...infuriating !
I have now taken the route one approach...deleted all the daft MS Messenger contacts and removed Windows Live from my today screen (I would delete it if I could)....Hope I never see it again!
The best way to deal with it is to make sure all of your contacts in MS Live have contact entries in Outlook. It sucks, but once you have all of your contacts sync'd up, it's pretty cool: you can see people's online status anywhere you see their contact info on the phone.
BTW; no matter what route you take, you MUST back up your Live contacts and your Outlook contacts on your PC. Seriously. Do it now. I made the mistake of not doing that, and during one of my many reloads, I somehow managed to wipe out my entire Outlook contacts list *and* my Windows Live contact list. It was not a fun day restoring that.
Go to Contacts->Save instant messenging contacts in Windows Live on your PC.
yeah, but i don't want my instant messenger stuff anywhere near my contacts...to me it's a separate app! (or it should be) MS trying to be too clever by half.
What would be nice is if it put the messenger emails in contacts under "emails" Ie personal / business and email catogries.
It really is quite annoying when sifting through the contact list to find a phone number and having to sift through 100's of mail addresses too.
Of course I do try to use the smart dialing but they still come up.
Just having to do these work arounds every reinstall / HR e.t.c is tedious at best.
LeoBadhan said:
I have the same issue, so i just reverted to using Pocket MSN...
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I want to do the same thing, only I can't find the install for pocket MSN, the only one I could find was on the MS site where you have to pay for it.. it came with my TyTN so I don't want to pay MS another €15 for it!
Can you please provide me the install file? whether it is in PM or in the thread
Thanks alot man
I quite like the way it works.. It's a little bit annoying if you have contacts who have really messed up their details online so that it can't link them to a phone contact, but other than that I really like it.
It would be nice if there was an advanced sync option where you could somehow pair orphan people on MSN to people in contacts on the phone so that it was aware they were the same person.. but I'm not gonna complain too much.
or just give you an option to turn it off.
I'm having an absolute nightmare with this!
I really like the idea in concept and want it to work.
I deleted the contacts it added to my phone adress book cos it looked messy not realising that when I sync'd with my PC it would delete them all (85) from messenger!
So I started re adding my msn contacts being careful to also have a corresponding Outlook contact and all was going well. I was getting them linked up nicely. Now all of a sudden, they've all gone again from my MSN on my PC!
I want this feature to work, I don't simply want to turn it off as some of you have done. How should I go about this?
Yes, me too.. There are nice features in Live messenger for WM, like showing display picture, voiceclip, sending files, pictures, etc, but this contacts problem is so darn annoying! I wish some wizzguy could look into a hack or solution
Greetz.
this may sound odd but i cant seem to find a way to delete the contact that Facebook dragged onto my phone. I have people on my friends that put any garbage into there phone number field i.e. 118118. personally i think if you don't want to put your number on there leave the field blank arg. Anyway i don't really want them cluttering up my phone book so is there a way of just ditching the ones i don't want without Facebook dumping them?
I am having the same problem with no solution in sight....
In the people app, press menu. Choose View. Untick Facebook.
this is great thank you. the only problem is it just hides them i really need the contacts gone from the phone as for example i had a message from t mobile saying welcome to our network etc however my desire says that the message is from one of my Facebook friends. The other issue is although they are now hidden from the contacts they still show when i press the phone button. This is probably something i will have to live with but my fiancée will ask questions if it keeps telling me i'm getting texts from random people lol.
The other thing is then to copy specific contacts from facebook into my normal contacts or is it just going to be easier to put them on manually and link them to there profile?
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The other thing is then to copy specific contacts from facebook into my normal contacts or is it just going to be easier to put them on manually and link them to there profile?
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I think thats the only way around it, so dont import from facebook and just manually link contacts from your phone book. Yeah it can take time if you want to link alot of people but will also be annoying to have lots of unwanted contacts.
Any news on how to get rid of these Facebook contacts from the phone yet? It is only when I press the "phone" button that I see them, but it is rather annoying!!!
think i have sorta solved this problem. You have to clear the contact cache though and then deselect sync Facebook contacts.
jock23 said:
think i have sorta solved this problem. You have to clear the contact cache though and then deselect sync Facebook contacts.
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Can you expand on how we do this please?
I have completly removed Facebook friends in "people":
Menu -> settings -> Accounts & sync --> Facebook --> Remove account
Hi peeps
having some issues\robs and need general advice
1. Is it possible to set up a password for viewing text messages?
2. Can i hide pictures\folders - if so how? I have saved some pictures and removed the tick from show downloaded pictures but when you goto all pictures they still appear
3. my contacts in outlook dont seem to sync properly - address info missing and some contacts missing.
4. when i get a vm i get a link to a facebook contact that i dont even know
5. is there a way to send all unlisted and no numbers straight to vm?
6. Once i link contact from fb etc is there a wasy to sync and update the info in my outlook\gmail accounts so i get upto date info?
7. is there a way to get the internet back to the homepage(google) with 1 key or do a web search using google without having to keep going back to the homepage?
8. i use the internet site newsnow regularly and when you click a news story it should open a new page but it doesnt do so on the desire (when i had the iphone it used to).
9. is there a way to reduce the size of the clock on the homepage so i can fit more shortcuts?
10. i recieved a vcard via sms and i click on it and it says saved to contacts but when i go into contacts the person is not there.....so where is the contact and how do i save the vcard info?
11. my son has downloaded a lot of games (free of course) and i want them on thier own page but how do i get more pages and also how can i stop them appearing in all programs or can i create a games folder in all programs and stuff them in that?
i think thats all for now...im sure ive forgotten something
thanks in advance
L
7. is there a way to get the internet back to the homepage(google) with 1 key or do a web search using google without having to keep going back to the homepage?
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Press the search button on the bottom right of the phone.
daaa - now you said that it all becomes obvious...lol
cheers
ladjei said:
Hi peeps
having some issues\robs and need general advice
4. when i get a vm i get a link to a facebook contact that i dont even know
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You'll probably find this facebook contact uses something stupid like 'hahaha' as their number on facebook rather than leaving it blank or putting in a real phone number. Remove syncing of facebook contacts from the settings > accounts and sync > Facebook for HTC (can't remember the name of it), reboot and your facebook contacts should no longer show in your phone, if that doesn't work remove the account from friendstream and reboot. I only use the Facebook for Android app, so removing my account from the HTC app didn't cause my any problems.
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You'll probably find this facebook contact uses something stupid like 'hahaha' as their number on facebook rather than leaving it blank or putting in a real phone number. Remove syncing of facebook contacts from the settings > accounts and sync > Facebook for HTC (can't remember the name of it), reboot and your facebook contacts should no longer show in your phone, if that doesn't work remove the account from friendstream and reboot. I only use the Facebook for Android app, so removing my account from the HTC app didn't cause my any problems.
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if you do this do you lose the facebook contact pictures?
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if you do this do you lose the facebook contact pictures?
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Yes you do, but short of messaging these contacts and asking them to either clear or enter a correct number, I don't know another way around it.
I transferred all my contacts from my old phone which was fine, when setting up facebook I think I must have selected sync facebook data with my phone.
So now in my list when I hit the phone key I have alot of facebook people that I dont even talk to anymore which I dont want in my phone list, is there a way to delete these?
Figured out the problem for anyone who is interested.
Go to settings - sync & accounts - facebook - remove account - click ok
Restart phone
Add the Widget for friend stream, resetup facebook account, quickly go into the account settings and stop the contacts sync!
Done.
In people-menu-view you should be able to select which contacts and their details you would like to see
yeah and you can select 'only show contact with number' there
BUT
a lot of idiot people fill in their number field on Facebroke with random nonsense which carries through to the phone.
Its a real real shame there isn't a decent contact manager.
I was spoilt on my c905 with MyPhoneExplorer which gave me full wysiwyg control of my phone, on my computer.
Android is great, but its far from perfect.
Luckily I found it wasnt too difficult to sort out, now I have no issues.
kevinsmbuk said:
Figured out the problem for anyone who is interested.
Go to settings - sync & accounts - facebook - remove account - click ok
Restart phone
Add the Widget for friend stream, resetup facebook account, quickly go into the account settings and stop the contacts sync!
Done.
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Won't this just stall it and repeat later when your phone does a sync...
Ok so I used apparently easy and nice way to sync contacts and calendar
WM 6.5 -> Windows Live -> WP7 through ActiveSync on WM.
The result? All calendar entries got synced.
Contacts?
ALL EMPTY!!!!!!
Only some of them have home phone.
Nothing else. No phones, emails, address, nothing.
1500 contacts.
Solution? If this is the only result I can get, I say WindowsLive sucks big time!
P.S. contacts in Hotmail server/online are FINE
umm since when did activesync work with wp7?
rachnov55 said:
umm since when did activesync work with wp7?
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errm, again:
On WM6.5 I used ActiveSync to sync with WindowsLive.
Contacts were correctly synced with Hotmail.
Than I just synced my WP7 with my Live account.
Result is email works like it did from the beginning, Calendar fine BUT no past
Items were synced.
Contacts result is most of them is empty, and not even all are on the device.
Any clue? Currently it TOTALLY pisses me off!!!!
Make sure you've checked all boxes that need checking and then do all your editing on windows live. Do something that makes Live interact with your phone like find it and ring it.
After I made sure Live was interacting with my phone, all my contacts synced and whenever I made changes on Live, they were made on my phone too.
Hope this helps.
Okay, what BOXES you mean?
Guys I would love to know if there is any extra setting regarding this Sync.
I'm in deep **** with this. Annoying.
Ok so apparently nobody here uses WMLive.
I thought all of you do it..
Pity. Looks like "working out of the box" here is just another myth.
And the problem is touching one of the BASIC things on any phone and WP7 especially.
MS products don't speak to themsleves correctly again.
What pisses me off even more, is that People Hub has no problem with updating ************* Facebook news,
but cannot correctly sync basic contact data.
Now I see it makes multiple contacts with separate data. And some of the contacts are missing.
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Okay, what BOXES you mean?
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You've probably already done this, but, just in case...
If you go to Settings>email & accounts you will see a list of accounts you've set up already. Under each account name the content that is currently set to sync for that account is displayed. Make sure that you see "contacts" under your "Windows Live" account. If not, select that account and you'll see a box to check under "content to sync" called "contacts." Check it.
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You've probably already done this, but, just in case...
If you go to Settings>email & accounts you will see a list of accounts you've set up already. Under each account name the content that is currently set to sync for that account is displayed. Make sure that you see "contacts" under your "Windows Live" account. If not, select that account and you'll see a box to check under "content to sync" called "contacts." Check it.
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Thanks. Apparently all of the content is there.
I never selected this, it was like this by default.
When I go to this accunt setup the only box to tick/untick is email.
Calendar is synced as well as email.
I got contact names but no content. I think WHAT mistake could be possibly made.
Aaaaaaaargh!!!!!
Have you tried forcing a sync? Go into Settings -> Accounts and long press on your Windows Live account to get the context menu.
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Have you tried forcing a sync? Go into Settings -> Accounts and long press on your Windows Live account to get the context menu.
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Of course, I did it many times!
doministry said:
Of course, I did it many times!
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How about a hard reset and just trying again?
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How about a hard reset and just trying again?
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Lol, hard reset the device and all the hassle to get my contacts?
Seems a bit odd to me.
I mean I'd love to know what is the eventual mistake I did and what is the workaround for this.
doministry said:
Lol, hard reset the device and all the hassle to get my contacts?
Seems a bit odd to me.
I mean I'd love to know what is the eventual mistake I did and what is the workaround for this.
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I dunno, you've got something crazy going on. It's worth a try. I don't know if I'd consider a hard reset a hassle, a phone is pretty useless without contacts.
I've managed to sync my contacts from Windows Live twice with no issues. I doubt you made any mistakes, from Windows Live -> Windows Phone is as simple as adding that primary account.
How are you verifying that that the ActiveSync -> Windows Live worked correctly?
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How are you verifying that that the ActiveSync -> Windows Live worked correctly?
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Well because all 1500 contacts are sitting nicely on my Hotmail with all details preserved, incl. notes.
Checked it on many of them.
THIS IS A ****ING DISASTER. I have a huge disappointment with WP7 now.
Microsoft you suck big time!!
I resetted my phone.
Now the ****er is syncing endlessly all the contacts from the beginning.
My Hotmail has 2600 contacts in total but the phone does sync 5600 contacts and doesn't stop!!!
What the hell is that. What a crap!!!!!
Anybody experienced such thing? This is ridiculous!!!
I have no bloody idea what to do!!!
Currently it synced 18000 contacts.
It's the biggest crap I've ever seen on any smartphone in my life.
I start to think just the opposite about this device.
After every reset is the same!
Massacre!
This is the first time I've heard about a contacts sync issue this severe.
Maybe it's some sort of hardware issue affecting the phone's performance..
While you still have your sanity, try this...setup a new Live account and sync that to the phone. Then delete the account from the phone and try synching your primary account again.