I've had a contact for myself in Gmail for years. This way I can just type my first name and email stuff to my work, or home, or whatever.
The People app lists a contact up at the top of the list with my name and calls it "My contact card". I would love to be able to link it to my normal Gmail contact but it doesn't give me any options to.
Is there any value to me duplicating all my info by hand into the "My contact card"? What does that even do for me?
It allows you to send "My Contact Card" to another person, which of course can also be done with your Google contact info. Oh and it also shows your picture in SMS and MMS chat threads. if there is anything else i cant think of it, maybe if you lost your phone somebody honest could contact you ....
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Right, I'm at my whit's end.
I've added contacts to my new Desire, and managed to link them with their respective FaceBook profiles. The thing is, i now want to send a group text message, and the primary message method is via e-mail. I don't want to send an e-mail, i want to text their phone number. I can't seem to find anything which will change it so that an SMS is primary and e-mail is secondary.
Any ideas on that one? I know i can send a single message, but that isnt what i want to do, i want to highlight any contact i wish and have it automatically send an SMS, and not an e-mail.
Also, when sending a message, is there any way to filter the contacts down to just those with phone numbers OR e-mail instead of having a massive amalgamated list of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Phone contacts?
Any help will be hugely appreciated!
hi did you get anywhere with this - esp your last point - must be something obvious ?!
Nope, got nowhere. I can't find any option or anything anywhere to do this. Ive just decided to try and live with it.
If I understood well..when you type in a new message and click in recepients, then the list with your contacts pops up. But, in mine at least, every contact that has a phone number and an email, has 2 records, one with the mail and one the phone number, only to let you choose what you want. Although in contacts list, have one all together.
it shows me:
nikos <[email protected]>
nikos <+000>
etc...
I have the same system as well. The issue i'm raising is when you have say, 350 Facebook contacts and 200 Gmail contacts, and you want to send a message, you have to scroll through every contact to get to the one you want.
I want to know if there's a way to filter the contacts to say "Mobile Numbers Only" or "Email Only" when you're trying to select a (many) recepient(s) for a message.
Andrew.Gamblen said:
I have the same system as well. The issue i'm raising is when you have say, 350 Facebook contacts and 200 Gmail contacts, and you want to send a message, you have to scroll through every contact to get to the one you want.
I want to know if there's a way to filter the contacts to say "Mobile Numbers Only" or "Email Only" when you're trying to select a (many) recepient(s) for a message.
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Oh how I hope you get an answer, see my last point on the following thread...I feel yer pain bruv...soooo frustrating.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667158
Hi all, I have added the facebook facility to my desire and linked contacts to their fb accounts. However lloyds tsb sent me some details via text and it has been linked to a friends facebook account (despite not having them in my phone contacts) in my contacts list.
I've had exactly the same problem. I also had a text from Lloyds TSB a few days ago and it came up in my messages as being from a Facebook contact (which confused the hell out of my until I looked at the message details and realised it wasn't from this chap at all).
The same has just happened when I received a text from Mobile Fun saying that my Car Holder has just dispatched, the text said it was from the same contact.
Hi guys. A lot of people have found this bug. The first thing you need to do is check these friends contact details on Facebook. What I found when it happened to me was two of my Facebook contacts had "ask me" or "none of you business" in their profile under the Phone Number field. Sense UI imported this along with all their other details and so, you may not think they are in your phone contacts, they are saved with a phone number (which is just gibberish they entered in that field)
The only way I was able to solve it was to ask my contact to remove the field altogether from her profile, seeing as she didn't want to fill it out at all. I don't know why, but rather than leaving it blank people feel compelled to have some sort of silent protest at being asked in the first place and fill that field with fake numbers or random words.
The bug means when Sense picks up a message from an unknown source with a name where the phone number should be (in my case T-Mobile would send my allowance details and they would appear as T-Mobile) and then tries to find them in your phone book it attaches to the first contact it sees who also has text in their number field. I deleted a contact I wasn't really that keen on in the first place because of it.
I had a number of these in my phonebook - have just removed the Facebook contacts link until a fix is put in place.
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.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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?
Thanks
I hope this is in the right place. I am trying to figure out how to link my phone number with my Facebook account so that in the messaging app, it isn't just a blank contact card for me. Any help would be appreciated!
I just created a contact for myself. Was the quickest way I knew of.
Im going to bump this since i had the same problem and i figured it out.
go into your "contact card" at the top of your people app. and type in your name and email as it is on you facebook account. From there, go into settings>accounts & sync and remove the facebook account. Go back in and re-add your facebook account and it should update your contact card with your picture.
hope that helps
This has bit me in the a** twice now.
How do I get all my contact say from Google linked to be permanently on the phone? I've either unchecked some setting or unlinked so connection and a bunch of phone number become unlinked and appear in the "unknown numbers" section. How can I make it so even if I delete my email accounts the contact will still be there?
I've lost a lot of contact information this way and now I have 20 numbers that I have no clue what contact they goto. And even if the contact is kept, the phone number has just disappeared.
Does this make any sense? Do I need to go in with all my google accounts and add them to the address book and still then group the original contact?
So frustrated....