How do you sync GMail "My Contacts" and not "All Contacts" - Desire General

The heading pretty much says it all. I've been searching and can only find people with Hero's saying there is an option in People - Groups, then press menu, and you should be able to select what groups to sync. But I don't have this option. (Though I did here one Hero owner saying his option wasn't there at first.)
Strangely, I even have more contacts than my Gmail "all contacts". Somehow I have some duplicates or fragments, I don't know.
Anyone know how to leave out syncing All Contacts?

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I have the same issue with "all contacts" syncing to the phone. I can filter then in the people app so only "my contacts" are included but they all come up when in the to field of an SMS or email.
There must be a way to stop these syncing?
Thanks, Simon

I fed up with this issue. I dont think there is a way to avoid that.
So, I made now a separate gmail account, for Contacts and Calendar ONLY
That solve my issue. .... right now at least

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Contacts -> All... They aren't al there

Hello,
When I go to my contacts and select the tab "All", well, my contacts aren't all there! I can only see them all browsing by group.
Have you got the same issue?
Are you using Google contacts? I sometimes experience this when a new contact has not been added to the "My Contacts" group. I don't know why, but you may want to check to see if that is the cause.
I'm using Google contacts indeed.
My Wife for example appears in Family and in Starred contacts but not in "All".
Assuming it's the same problem I faced, if you go to the Google Contacts website (Google's url followed by /contacts) you should be able to see your contacts in "All contacts", and then add them to "My contacts". Once your phone syncs they should appear in your phone's contact list.
That was it! Thank You

Google Contact Group Syncing

On my Hero, I could launch the People app, go in to the contact groups, hit Settings, and set which contact groups to sync. I don't see this option, at least under Fresh 0.2. Has this been removed from this Android build, or moved somewhere else? It's driving me crazy having all these contacts; I just want to sync the "My Contacts" group!
Thanks in advance,
cent
CentroniX said:
On my Hero, I could launch the People app, go in to the contact groups, hit Settings, and set which contact groups to sync. I don't see this option, at least under Fresh 0.2. Has this been removed from this Android build, or moved somewhere else? It's driving me crazy having all these contacts; I just want to sync the "My Contacts" group!
Thanks in advance,
cent
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in the people app press menu then view then just have google and phone checked
dont check show auto gmail contacts or facebook for htc sense.
Freelancerx said:
in the people app press menu then view then just have google and phone checked
dont check show auto gmail contacts or facebook for htc sense.
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Not exactly what I'm referring to... In GMail, I have over 150 contacts under "All Contacts." I also have another contact group called "My Contacts" with about 60 people (friends, family, etc).
On the Hero, I could tell it to only sync specific groups, which I would only select "My Contacts". With what you posted, I either sync all Google contacts or not, but with the option to exclude auto-gmail contacts. That's not what I want; I want to sync only specific groups.
cent
CentroniX said:
Not exactly what I'm referring to... In GMail, I have over 150 contacts under "All Contacts." I also have another contact group called "My Contacts" with about 60 people (friends, family, etc).
On the Hero, I could tell it to only sync specific groups, which I would only select "My Contacts". With what you posted, I either sync all Google contacts or not, but with the option to exclude auto-gmail contacts. That's not what I want; I want to sync only specific groups.
cent
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you were not listening lol if you check "show auto gmail contacts" then YES you will see ALL CONTACTS...if you just check "GOOGLE" then you will only see the "my contacts"... the number next to google is the all contacts number but in reality it will only show the my contacts in your phone....
i also have 133 "all contacts" in my gmail... the number next to google shows you the number of ALL google contacts, NOT how many contacts it will sync with your phone....
do a test go to your Google contacts page online and just see if one of the contacts from all contacts is in your phone it shouldnt be..
so you see the number under the view screen next to the word "google" shows the "all contacts" number but it doesnt actually put those contacts in your contact list...just the ones who are in "my contacts"
like i said just do a test and see if one of your "all contacts" contact is in your phone contacts... i think you will find that it wont be...
Freelancerx said:
you were not listening lol if you check "show auto gmail contacts" then YES you will see ALL CONTACTS...if you just check "GOOGLE" then you will only see the "my contacts"... the number next to google is the all contacts number but in reality it will only show the my contacts in your phone....
i also have 133 "all contacts" in my gmail... the number next to google shows you the number of ALL google contacts, NOT how many contacts it will sync with your phone....
do a test go to your Google contacts page online and just see if one of the contacts from all contacts is in your phone it shouldnt be..
so you see the number under the view screen next to the word "google" shows the "all contacts" number but it doesnt actually put those contacts in your contact list...just the ones who are in "my contacts"
like i said just do a test and see if one of your "all contacts" contact is in your phone contacts... i think you will find that it wont be...
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Gotchya, understood! I guess the count was what was throwing me off... You're absolutely right. Thanks for clearing that up!
cent
I have one thats driving me nuts about contacts.
I want to have a custom number name, not just phone one, phone two, work, work2, home, I want to be able to name it. So, like for work. I can put my Company, then names by the numbers. Or can you group the numbers with the company name?
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contacts save and sync but dont appear in people

Hi all,
I am running a completely stock HTC Desire and I have a really strange annoying problem.
The problem is if I add a new contact, it adds the person, as when I am on "Phone" and tap the numbers to spell their name they appear.
Also if I go into google mail and contacts, I can see the contact.
What I cant see is the contact in the "People" application.
This is really frustrating and I was wondering if anyone had any idea how I can fix this? Just to note, I am adding contacts setting them to my google group exactly the same as I have always done. Im not sure when this started to happen.
Thanks for your time.
When adding the contact via phone, are you ensuring the contact type at the top is a Google one?
When adding the contact via Gmail, are you ensuring the contact is added to teh 'My Contacts' group?
Try this...
Go into your Contacts.
Hit your Menu key and select Display Options.
Select your GMAIL account.
Make sure there are checkmarks in each of the lines, especially "All Other Contacts.
Click Done.
HTH

[Q] Gmail Contacts on android

Hi,
Does anyone else find that certain contacts in Gmail do not appear on Andriod in the People app?
I have some contacts which are in 'My Contacts' on gmail but try as I might I can't seem to get them to appear on the phone. The view settings in the People app are:
Sim
Google
My Phonebook
Phone
One of the missing contacts only appeared after selecting 'Show auto gmail contacts' and when I unchecked this option the contact still appears on the phone.
This problem also manifests itself when pulling in gmail contacts to Mozilla Thunderbird on the PC so presumably there is gmail setting I have missed - could this be 'display random contacts'
HTC Desire running stock HTC Sense, froyo.
Any advice or suggestions would be great
Thanks
Google has "contacts" and "My Contacts".
I found that only "My Contacts" are shown in the people apps and synchronised address books.
The contacts listed on GMail under "other contacts" are basically just everyone you've ever exchanged e-mails with. These are not synchronised with Thunderbird or Evolution and are not shown on your phone.
I think that's intentional.
thank you, ill give it a try and let you know
That does not apply to me because I have 98 contacts in ‘my contacts’ and only about half that number appear on the phone.

[Q] Unassigned / Other contacts

I get the feeling I'm beating a dead horse, but I'll try it anyway, 'cause it's driving me crazy:
S4 mini, stock 4.4.2
I have 3 google accounts set up, FB (sync disabled) and Shazzam (if it should matter).
Problem: I can't get "Other contacts" (aka Unassigned) to not show in the contact list. I've tried the following:
- Delete contacts from "Other contacts" in Google Contacts and disabling contact creation from email: Not really an option. I do use email like crazy for work and gmail's address autocomplete on all those unknown addresses is a blessing. Gmail seems to lose this magic skill if I mess with the "Other contacts".
- Uncheck "All other contacts" from "Contacts to display": doesn't seem to do anything; I still have the "Other contacts" listed under the "Unassigned" group. It's the same whether I disable "All other contacts" on any and all accounts.
- Remove sync group "All other contacts" : seems to stop showing/syncing all contacts for that account (the contacts I do want to sync are in "My contacts"; when I remove sync group "All other contacts" the contacts in "My contacts" disappear too, although "My contact" is checked for display and still listed in "Groups" but now has 0 contacts.
I've crawled around all topics on this matter, but it doesn't look like anyone was able to figure it out. This is something of a last try, it's so annoying for me that I think I'll return the damn phone just for this. It makes it UNUSABLE. This and any Android if there isn't an app or tweak out there to fix it.

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