Don't want to display sim contacts - Desire General

Hi, I have just got my desire and am very very impressed so far, however when I go into my contacts I see the ones I have synchronized from gmail and also my sim contacts.
Is there anyway I can stop the sim contacts showing in the app?
Thanks
Stewart

Wonder if this helps. Under Contacts there is a View option where you can set the sources. SIM is one of those and you can deselect that option to avoid any SIM entries.

Yeah that kinda helped! Now when i go to people the gmail only contacts appear, however when I go to phone dialer, my sim contacts are still appearing? Thanks, stu

I was annoyed by this too and the only workaround is to delete all contacts on the sim.
Desire couldnt do it and neither could the sim app I tried, so I put the sim on my old phone and deleted it from there.
Now I live happily ever after
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huleboeren said:
I was annoyed by this too and the only workaround is to delete all contacts on the sim.
Desire couldnt do it and neither could the sim app I tried, so I put the sim on my old phone and deleted it from there.
Now I live happily ever after
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I was able to delete the sim contacts using the desire. Long press on the contact, view contact, hit menu then delete. Job done. Might take you a while if you have alot to delete, but I didn't mind doing it one by one as I was also adding them to gmail as I went along.

I only had 60 sim contacts and even that would have been too much to go through one at a time for me - I am lazy
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I have read some posts which mention that the phone dialer includes all contacts and therefore what is applicable to contacts is not applicable to dialer. I am afraid that deleting contacts is the way to go (for now), unless someone is aware of any other option.

Well I deleted the contacts from my sim, so only my Gmail contacts are showing now. However, it seems like the contacts are not actually stored to my phone, as it doesn't show any contacts being saved to the phone.
Is there anyway I can copy all the Gmail contacts to my phone?

All you have to do is select contacts to be sync'd under Accounts&sync>google>sync contacts and press the sync now button. Once you do that all your gmail contacts should be available on your phone.

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[Q] Got my new Desire

Hi all I received my new Desire Tuesday on 3UK network, but I have a few questions I was hoping you could help me with.
I currently have all my contact saved to the Desire is there a way I can delete them all off my Desire and get my contact list to look at my google contacts to save space on my Desire ?
I have installed Handcent but now I get two SMS notifications for every SMS I get one on the default and one on the Handcent this also happens when I receive an email how can I stop this ?
hi
on the contacts i dont know but whit the sms notifications you have to turn it off in the stock sms settings
Google contacts are the best way to keep your contacts on any android phone.
They actually sync with your phone, your phone doesn't look them up online so it takes the same amount of data as having them on your phone in any other way.
Google contacts just makes it a lot simpler to resync your contacts on new phones etc.
Lennyuk said:
Google contacts are the best way to keep your contacts on any android phone.
They actually sync with your phone, your phone doesn't look them up online so it takes the same amount of data as having them on your phone in any other way.
Google contacts just makes it a lot simpler to resync your contacts on new phones etc.
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That's strange because I deleted a contact off my phone then done a sync all and the contact as not added back onto my phone
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That's strange because I deleted a contact off my phone then done a sync all and the contact as not added back onto my phone
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Ok I have just checked my Gmail contact on the PC and the contact I deleted on my Desire as been deleted on my PC I wasnt aware of this I thought that the contact list on the PC was master but obviously not

[Q] duplicate contacts

hey people, few days ago when i am using my phone, i realised some contacts has 2 entries and some has 3 similar entries. so i delete them one by one and thought that will be the end of the problem.
after that, i never use my phone to sms. but today when i look through the 'People' application, all my contacts got duplicated. and when i try to delete one of it, it ended up deleting both of them. i never sync to any places, including gmail at all.
can anyone help me with this problem?
I believe some of them are from facebook contact and some of them are contacts stored in your simcard...
This annoyed me too. So I took the pain to delete all my contacts stored in my simcard.
Give it a try.
winwintoto1234 said:
I believe some of them are from facebook contact and some of them are contacts stored in your simcard...
This annoyed me too. So I took the pain to delete all my contacts stored in my simcard.
Give it a try.
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hmm. i already choose do not sync from facebook already. if i delete all my contacts from simcard, i need to add them 1 by 1 back? cause right nw when i delete 1, both will be deleted
One is "call mobile" and another one is "sent message"?
A screenshot may be helpful...
Another good way is, if you still have your old phone with you (with all your contacts in it), then delete all the contacts in this new phone, including the simcard.
Then select "set up", i.e., the icon looks like a magician's hat, select send from my old phone from there...
its back to normal again...
all i did was take out my sim card and put it back to my old phone to copy the contacts into the mem card there. after i placed my sim card back to my desire hd, the total number of contacts go back to normal and all the duplicated contacts has disappeared.
this is strange
I found that even having facebook contacts sync disabled I was still getting this problem. I had to stop using the facebook facility built into sense and only use the facebook app but that seemed to work.

CM7 help with some issues?

Looking to see if I can solve some issues with my phone without havign to do a fatcory reset,
1. At first the phone wasn't showing contacts from the sim card. So I imported them, but now it appears the phone is reading them as I have duplicates for a lot of the contacts. How do I delete the ones off my phone.
2. I have FB on my phone, but contacts unsynced. When ever I get a txt it comes through with their facebook account name and sometimes their picture. It even happens when they call me. How can I stop this from happening?
Basically how can I use only the contacts on my sim card? Don't want the phone using any others!
Thanks,
First install "go contacts" from market. In its menu options, you can batch delete all contacts. Do it. Then go to settings in your phone( before Google or Facebook sync the contacts again), then go to accounts and sync. You may see you online accounts there like gmail,facebook etc. Click on every account you have and untick sync contacts( if you want to avoid any others like sync Calender/ mail etc, you can untick it too) . Done fb or gmail will never sync contacts till you tick it again and do a sync.
Now go to contacts in your phone( if you are done with removing contacts, you can uninstall " go contacts". I do the same with it on my cm7 rom, as the stock contact application does not have a batch delete option . If you can find any other application which can do the same batch delete , u may use it insted of " go contacts ") now in contacts click menu and it have an import/ export option. Use it to copy contacts from sim to phone.
Remember to take a backup of all you contacts to SD card using the import/ export option. In case you may delete phone/ sim contacts. Pls note that phone contacts load much faster than sim contacts. So just copy it to phone memory. And use it.
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simple.....!!
see first of all keep the facebook for android" app on internal memory...its important othewise you will have to sync every time after the boot...to sync all your fb contact with phone.or to have all your FB contact on your phone you just have to go to settings of the Facebook app...press menu on the primary facebook page..and then select settings and their you'll find an option to sync your contacts...just select "sync all"... an their you go....DONE!!
and yes dont forget to join your existing phone contacts or gmail contacts to your FB contacts it can be done by open the contact you want to join/link > select editing contacts from menu > now again go to menu and their you will see option to join. and in the edit menu u'll also find NICK NAME bar just fill your friends nick name their and it'll be shown in every call/msg to you...
anmol, thats how to sync FB contacts. I wanted to do the opposit.
So I deleted all contacts. Including sim card ones =[
How can I add a conact to sim card for the phone to view them? I can only see the option of my google account of phone only, unsynced.
I prefer to keep all my conacts on my sim card, if something happens to my phone atleast I have the sim card!
CM just seems one big pain after an other!
Remb you have an sd too, back up contacts to sd. I think default contact manager on cm7 have no option to copy contacts to sim.
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Cm7 does have import/export contacts to SD, I had to do the wifes the other day.
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Aye thanks guys, noticed that it didn't actually delete the contacts off my sim card. Sure I tried to import off sim, either phone was having a hissy fit or I was being an idiot.
Got it all sorted now though!

How to Disable/Not Show Sim Card Contacts?

Hi,
My wife just got the i747 model of the Galaxy S 3 not too long ago and I was helping her configure her contacts. Prior to getting the phone I saved all her contacts to her Google account so when she sets up her Google account on the S 3 it will automatically sync the contacts as well.
That worked without any problems, but when you go to contacts it displays all the contacts in her sim card and all the contacts from her Google account as well, so everything is showing double. How do I get the phone to only show the contacts from her Google account? I see that you can delete the sim card contacts, but I don't really want to delete them from the sim card, I just don't want them to show.
I own the T989 Galaxy S 2 and with the stock ROM you have the option in contact settings---contacts to display, you can choose which account you want to have the contacts "display" either just from your google, just from your sim, or a combo of the 2. I can't find that option on the S 3. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
'Contacts to Display' is in the contact settings.. you have to scroll the menu down.
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'Contacts to Display' is in the contact settings.. you have to scroll the menu down.
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Thanks I'm an idiot.
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Contacts not showing on Contacts

Hi there
The thing is whenever I add a new phone number to my contacts list they don't show up there. When saving the contacts I choose to save them to my Google account. So if my phone dies or is stolen I can recover all my contacts. The thing is they're not appearing on my contact list. Even tough I've selected in contacts to show: All contacts.
The only way to find them (since universal search was removed) is to use the dial to type the name (most of the time without luck) or go to the call log (if I called that number before).
I've come to think the contact IS on the phone, Cuz it appears in the log with the name I've given it.
I have account sync on, I've turned the phone off and on. I have deleted the Google account and signed back in. Checked via the web on Contacts and all the new contacts are there.
I've been experiencing this problem on different phones (HTC Inspire 4G and now on a GS3).
If anyone can help, thanks!
PD: is very annoying to scroll through the call log to find a contact. And I call lots of people on my work. Is there a way to add the contacts to a folder on my home screen? After they appear on the contacts app first of course!
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i would transfer my contacts from your Google account to your phone.
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