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Keep losing one Contact!!!

Hey everyone,
Can anyone tell me if they've experienced this problem too please. I keep losing one particular contact on my HTC Desire. Once I've saved the contact to the phone, it could be there for a day or for 5 days before the cantact is deleted on its own accord!
Any ideas???
Many thanks.

does the record contain special characters? google sync doesn't seem to be able to handle these
(eg: ë é è ä á )

willumpie82 said:
does the record contain special characters? google sync doesn't seem to be able to handle these
(eg: ë é è ä á )
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Nope, nothing mate, just a plain old name and a phone number.

When you save it, try saving it as a google contact, then sync it. I had that problem till I did this.

socktug said:
When you save it, try saving it as a google contact, then sync it. I had that problem till I did this.
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I was set in Google Contact and my Contact still deleted from my Contact
How to fix it?

Try adding it on your PC (in Gmail, via browser). I know it's not really a fix, nor it helps you understand what's going on, or prevent it happen with another contact but ... it's worth trying.

Its actually losing any new contact now. I saved a new one last Saturday, and now its "lost" it already! :-(

I had this problem on stock orange Rom.
Have had no problems since I rooted.

Guys, it seems to happen to any new contact. Any idea why this is happening? I'm not even close to the maximum number of contacts.

Anyone else have this issue too?

I had this issue with my Hero, that it would delete the second phone number I added to a contact, everytime I synced.
I got around this by changing the sync options to "replace item on PC" in the conflicts section, and it worked.
It seems for some reason the sync kept thinking the new data in the phone somehow is the older one or someting.
Give it a go and tell us what happened.

But this isn't even happening when I sync mate! :-( It just doing it randomly, any new contact I add.

Guys, was just checking System Updates on my phone, and Software 1.21.405.2 was available. I've just downloaded and installed it, was looking through me phone including my messages and noticed its added one of my missing contacts!!! :-D Hopefully was bug has been fixed!!!

I had a similar issue a few days ago - I added a couple of contacts to one of the default 'Groups' (Family, Friends etc).
Once added they disappeared from my contacts list on the handset. I moved over to the 'Call History' panel and found them, and switched the group option back off. But they were still not showing in my contacts. I thought they'd been deleted.
I jumped into G-Mail Contacts on the PC and found that they were still in the 'All Contacts' list, but had been taken out of the 'My Contacts' list.
By selecting each contact, and clicking the large 'Move To My Contacts' button on the top bar, they instantly reappeared back on the phone again.
Hope this makes sense and stops anyone wasting time trying putting the contact info back in again.
All this happened before the latest 1.21.405.2 - maybe this has been fixed though.

ThePriceIsLight said:
I had a similar issue a few days ago - I added a couple of contacts to one of the default 'Groups' (Family, Friends etc).
Once added they disappeared from my contacts list on the handset. I moved over to the 'Call History' panel and found them, and switched the group option back off. But they were still not showing in my contacts. I thought they'd been deleted.
I jumped into G-Mail Contacts on the PC and found that they were still in the 'All Contacts' list, but had been taken out of the 'My Contacts' list.
By selecting each contact, and clicking the large 'Move To My Contacts' button on the top bar, they instantly reappeared back on the phone again.
Hope this makes sense and stops anyone wasting time trying putting the contact info back in again.
All this happened before the latest 1.21.405.2 - maybe this has been fixed though.
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This is why I suggested adding a contact in Gmail. If you have problems with Google apps (gmail, contacts, calendar) it's allways good to check with the mothership (Google) to see what's going on.

pascanu said:
This is why I suggested adding a contact in Gmail. If you have problems with Google apps (gmail, contacts, calendar) it's allways good to check with the mothership (Google) to see what's going on.
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I understand what your saying mate, but I'm a bit of a tart, I'd want all my contacts the same and be on the phone, not as SIM, Google, etc... I know what your saying is an easy fix, but it shouldn't be like that, the phone should bloody manage something simple as remembering a phone number! lol.
Anyways, fixed now, job done.

Yes I have the same problem. I hardly ever sync my phone because I have a Mac. Today my contact of my husband just disappeared, this contact I use the most, has the most details within it.
I know that the new download may fix this, but I use Skype on 3 and I do not know if skype will work after the upgrage. I use Skype to contact my family in South Africa.

Chinese display issue

I do not speak english,so I will be in Chinese and English, accompanied, it is likely to be unreasonable hope that the master guiding.
About the English:
Hong Kong trip has to start five days Gw825V
Found many problems, Bluetooth is always just go away, and can not start; message issued unable to pronounce a few on the go, basically the factory of a few hours before, it is depressing.
With the official upgrade software update system, 10c to 10d, blue bud issue is resolved, SMS can only send a few, is the factory of a few hours, increasing MMS unable to pronounce to the problem (settings are no problem, because for the first time successful, go back unable to pronounce).
10g lg download in the U.S. system, a smooth upgrade, all English, all of the above issues are resolved, and fairly stable.
New problem: installed ce-star, or various versions of the font character have tried, have no problem receiving text messages sent, txt Chinese show no problem, but not show up in Chinese phone book, caller names are also mouth try an online description of the many ways has been ineffective.
chinese:
港行Gw825V已经入手五天了
发现很多问题，蓝牙总是无故消失，并且无法启动；短信发几条就发不出去，基本上几个小时就要出厂化一次，很郁闷。
用官方升级软件更新系统，10c到10d，兰芽问题解决了，短信也只能发几条，也是几个小时出厂化一次，增加彩信发不出去的问题（设置都没有问题，因为第一次成功了，后面发不出去）。
在美国lg网站下载10g系统，顺利升级，全英文，以上所有问题都解决，而且相当稳定。
新问题：装了ce-star或各种版本的字体字库都试过了，短信发送接受都没有问题，txt中文显示也没有问题，但是中文电话本显示不出来，来电姓名也都是口，试了网上介绍的很多办法都无效。

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chu1982 said:
I do not speak english,so I will be in Chinese and English, accompanied, it is likely to be unreasonable hope that the master guiding.
About the English:
Hong Kong trip has to start five days Gw825V
Found many problems, Bluetooth is always just go away, and can not start; message issued unable to pronounce a few on the go, basically the factory of a few hours before, it is depressing.
With the official upgrade software update system, 10c to 10d, blue bud issue is resolved, SMS can only send a few, is the factory of a few hours, increasing MMS unable to pronounce to the problem (settings are no problem, because for the first time successful, go back unable to pronounce).
10g lg download in the U.S. system, a smooth upgrade, all English, all of the above issues are resolved, and fairly stable.
New problem: installed ce-star, or various versions of the font character have tried, have no problem receiving text messages sent, txt Chinese show no problem, but not show up in Chinese phone book, caller names are also mouth try an online description of the many ways has been ineffective.
chinese:
港行Gw825V已经入手五天了
发现很多问题，蓝牙总是无故消失，并且无法启动；短信发几条就发不出去，基本上几个小时就要出厂化一次，很郁闷。
用官方升级软件更新系统，10c到10d，兰芽问题解决了，短信也只能发几条，也是几个小时出厂化一次，增加彩信发不出去的问题（设置都没有问题，因为第一次成功了，后面发不出去）。
在美国lg网站下载10g系统，顺利升级，全英文，以上所有问题都解决，而且相当稳定。
新问题：装了ce-star或各种版本的字体字库都试过了，短信发送接受都没有问题，txt中文显示也没有问题，但是中文电话本显示不出来，来电姓名也都是口，试了网上介绍的很多办法都无效。
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Do you mean you have a GW825V Chinese ROM and it Runs in an English ROM?
How did you do that? What ROM did you flashed?

Have you tried this?
My English WinMo devices can display and enter Chinese after installing the package from this site. Try searching for 小熊工作室. Studiokuma dot com
Hope this helps,
David

[Q] Problems with contacts "linked" and messed up numbers

Hi all,
for a while back I had a problem with my Desire where it suddenly started asking for my PIN code continuously, loosing connections and all. I did a full reset on the phone then synced it with my PC again (Outlook 2007).
After this I don't know what's happened but all phone numbers that used to be in international format, i.e. +31631231231 turned into numbers like 31631231231, i.e. without the +, and in a number of cases spaces were added, making it look like 31 631231231. Some of these seem to work as they are, but many are giving me error when I try to call the contact or send an sms or so.
In addition I noticed that many of my contacts somehow are doubles, linked to eachother
No idea how this happened or why, anybody who does? And, more importantly, anybody who knows how to solve it?
Cheers
//Joris

Did I run into a unique problem (again) ?

i would do from scratch, write all contacts down and delete all contacts on phone, and retype them as google contacts.

with over 250 contacts...
What's the advantage with Google contacts over SIM/Phone contacts?
One part of the problem might be that the phone during it's previous installation at some point imported info from Facebook as well I think - sucks.

i feel the pain
advantage is: better sync **** etc.....
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=30a6a99f562bbb28&hl=en

Message bug since update

I have a very strange bug since downloading and installing the latest OTA update. I'm just running a stock system if you need to know.
Basically after the update I went to messages and some old messages I have are shown as being received from the completely wrong person :S These messages were not originally received on my desire HD but I put them all on it when I got the phone. The original person who sent them is in my contact list and linked with their facebook account and all that. Before the update it was showing the messages as being sent from the correct person.
Is there any way to fix this...it's very frustrating as there are over 50 messages which it has done this for.
I cannot say if it's doing it with new messages as that person is away on holiday so I can't check but messages received on my DHD from them seem to be ok...it's only happened with the messages I transferred onto the phone.
Thanks

Also I've now tried backing up all those messages to my gmail account using the SMS Backup+ app. They appear on my gmail from the original sender, then I deleted them off my phone and restored them using the app but it goes back to being shown as the wrong person (it keeps linking it to the same wrong person). The only details I have of the wrong person are what has been sync'd from facebook. There is no connection between them and the original sender (and I've checked all the contact links).
Also I wanted to try deleting that wrong person and then restoring the messages but I cannot figure out how to delete them off the phone. They are only on the phone because of the facebook contact sync so when I try delete contact it gives me a list of my contacts which they are not on as they're only in the 'people' section. I guess deleting them of facebook would work but I don't want to do that if possible.
Sorry if this is getting confusing.

well, tried to unlink facebook contacts with your contacts ?

I have this problem as well, only happened after the latest update.
I think to rectify this a new update will be released from HTC as this bug was also present on the original Desire phone, and resolved with a update.
Very annoying I agree, lets hope its fixed soon.
Just out of interest which country are you in and which network are you on?
Im in UK and on T-Mobile.

ricocchet said:
I have this problem as well, only happened after the latest update.
I think to rectify this a new update will be released from HTC as this bug was also present on the original Desire phone, and resolved with a update.
Very annoying I agree, lets hope its fixed soon.
Just out of interest which country are you in and which network are you on?
Im in UK and on T-Mobile.
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I'm in the UK on o2 but the phone was bought new unlocked.
I even went as far as deleting the person off facebook. The messages then appeared as they should from the original contact but I then re-added that person and as soon as they accepted it linked the messages back to them. Its so strange as these people have nothing to do with each other, their names aren't even similar.

ccart said:
I'm in the UK on o2 but the phone was bought new unlocked.
I even went as far as deleting the person off facebook. The messages then appeared as they should from the original contact but I then re-added that person and as soon as they accepted it linked the messages back to them. Its so strange as these people have nothing to do with each other, their names aren't even similar.
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I rectified this problem by conducting a hard reset.
Probably not the news you want to hear, but it solved the problem for me.

ricocchet said:
I rectified this problem by conducting a hard reset.
Probably not the news you want to hear, but it solved the problem for me.
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Well I thought about it but decided to contact HTC support first. They suggested that I backup all my contacts to my SD card then delete them all off the phone. I really didn't see how this would help since the person being linked to the messages wasn't a 'contact' he was just added to the People app by facebook.
Also another thing I noticed is that on facebook some people choose to put their phone numbers up which get put on the phone when you sync your facebook contacts with the phone. This particular person decided to be clever and instead of putting actual numbers they put things like 'Mobile: I'm not telling you' so the number was saved on the phone as 'I'm not telling you'. I decided to go in and edit these on the phone (cause you can't delete them) to just numbers i.e. '12345' so that none of his numbers were text.
Then in desperation I went and did what HTC recommended, deleting my contacts and restoring them and the problem was fixed!!!!
Unfortunately I can't confirm which of the 2 methods I tried actually work cause I did them without checking to see if they problem had been fixed in between.
So for anyone else with this problem. Check the person who the messages are being linked to, if they have text for their phone numbers, edit them to numbers (any numbers). If this doesn't work go to People>Menu>Import/Export>Export to SD card, then select all the contacts. Then in People go to Menu>Delete>Menu>Select all and confirm. Then restore the contacts by going to People>Menu>Import/Export>Import from SD card and that should do it!!

Problem syncing contacts

Problem syncing contacts
I’m having a heck of a problem trying to get my new Galaxy Watch (46 mm/non-LTE) to properly sync my contacts. I first realized that I had a problem when I tried to use Bixby to place a call from the watch. Sometimes I woul get the message “contacts syncing” . Sometimes I would get the message that the contact was not found.
I tried resetting the watch and the Samsung Wear app but that didn’t work. I read that turning off Bluetooth and trying to sync over Wi-Fi helped. However, I cannot tell if that is really helping. Some contacts do work while others (most) do not.
It would help to understand from what source the watch gets the contacts. For example does the watch attempt to sync with my Samsung account? Does it attempt to sync with the contacts that reside in the phone memory?
On my phone, I have the contact app set up such that it only displays my Google contacts and I use my Google account as the storage location. I wonder whether that is the problem and if I should somehow either save everything to my Samsung account or save everything physically to the phone.
Naturally, Samsung customer support was worse than useless. The first person I spoke to had me do the hard reset and when that did not work told me to take the watch to a local Service Center. I tried speaking to another support representative today. This one insisted that the Watch would not dial contact numbers from Bixby because it was not LTE.
Any insights?

Hi! It may seem stupid, but give it a try if you haven't already.
In the Galaxy wearable app, go to the tab 'settings' and then 'Applications'. Scroll down till you find the contacts and then check in the settings from where the contacts are synced. The default should be from the phone, so try changing to your google account.
If you already did this, then I don't know for now.

I have purchased the Pro version but I'm still not able to place a phone call (the app says something like "I can't make calls yet", same as the non-paid version. Tried to uninstall and reinstall but it didn't work.
Galaxy Watch 3, Italian language.