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[Q] Best way to sort/clear out contacts?

I don't know how I managed it, but recently I somehow accidentally synchronised all my contacts with my gmail contacts - to which there are HUNDREDS. Literally every person I have ever sent an email to or received an email from, all sorts, all jumbled together. It's even mixed in with all the people I follow on twitter and I can't get rid of them (I tried deleting the twitter account off the phone completely and even though it says it'll remove all twitter contacts, it doesn't).
It's looking as though I'm going to have to manually go through them all and delete every contact I don't want, then manually link all the contacts together that should be linked (facebook-google-sim-etc.).
What's the best way to do this? I have over 900 contacts now, whereas before I had maybe 40 or 50. Is there an app or a piece of sync software that'll let me do it from a computer? Doing from the phone is extremely slow and tedious =\

neoKushan said:
I don't know how I managed it, but recently I somehow accidentally synchronised all my contacts with my gmail contacts - to which there are HUNDREDS. Literally every person I have ever sent an email to or received an email from, all sorts, all jumbled together. It's even mixed in with all the people I follow on twitter and I can't get rid of them (I tried deleting the twitter account off the phone completely and even though it says it'll remove all twitter contacts, it doesn't).
It's looking as though I'm going to have to manually go through them all and delete every contact I don't want, then manually link all the contacts together that should be linked (facebook-google-sim-etc.).
What's the best way to do this? I have over 900 contacts now, whereas before I had maybe 40 or 50. Is there an app or a piece of sync software that'll let me do it from a computer? Doing from the phone is extremely slow and tedious =\
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delete all the unnecessary contacts out of gmail?
when I synced gmail contacts to my phone and latter my FB account, it automagically linked the contacts that it found numbers in common with, I didnt have to do anything there!
are all the contacts on gmail now or between the different services?

[Q] Contact Management and Gmail

OK so here is my problem. I got my phone and was very excited. I started it up and set up my google account (not actually knowing that it was not the sense delivered one). Ok all is fine there... but I wanted to use the HTC Sense email client with m.google.com exchange service.
So I went and stopped the syncing from google. I then went and created a m.google.com exchange account and am getting my mail just fine... but now when I go into the people tab everything appears fine, but when I click on a contact I see 2 of almost everything. I unchecked see google contacts. But when you open it apparently already "linked" the google contact with the excahgne contact.
So, my question after all this is how do I clear all the google contacts and leave the exchange server contacts? will it take a reset? I would prefer not to have to do that.
Thanks in advance for any help.
SoBBie

Well from the response I guess I will have to go with a reset.
Oh well. If someone does know a way please let me know.
Thanks,
SoBBiE
Sent from my HTC Incredible.

Log into your gmail account, click on contacts. You should be able to delete them from there and it should remove them from your phone for you.

OK thanks for that. but the problem there is my Exchange is with Google.... and my google is with google.
So I exported all my contact both the google and the exchange (even though they are the same) to my SD card. I also exported them from google to a CVS file.
So I went into google contacts and deleted all of my contacts. I then went to my phone and did a "Sync" for my exchange and my google account. This removed all my contacts except facebook... GREAT. half way there.
Know I imported only my exchange contact back to my exchange account. Even better if linked my facebook and I see all my contacts (With Pictures) in people.
BUT here is the bad part. when I do a sync with Exchange all my contacts disappear again. What is going on? can I not update my contact from my phone to my exchange (remeber this is google exchange m.google.com).
Please give me some direction. I know that I can import the CVS file in google and only sync with exchange but I will loose all the pictures (250 contacts and almost everyone has a image even BW3's gets a food image ).
I dont want ot have to manually add all those pictures back. and the import on the phone seemed to work great. but it is not pushing the contacts out to google. Any advice would be great.
Kind Regards,
SoBBie

OK so I did the entire process again and it seem to take. I know see my contacts out on google.
Thanks for you help.
SoBBie

Backing Up Contacts... Sim Card?

I've been looking around for a long time in searching this site and other forum sites and no one really had the answer i was looking for, so im only wondering about this. Since we've all been rooted, i decided to install a ROM, and when i finally had it booted and everything, i was prompted to put my google account in to sync my contacts. But they didnt show up? Now mind you, i only have 1 google account, and that is the one i created at verizon when i asked for the DI2. Im currently on the Stock right now with all my data. in Settings >Account & Sync, i have the backup assistant, facebook, the google account, mail news and twitter. In the muiu ROM, i put that google account in but never got my contacts back. So my question is, are there other ways of backing up your contacts without erasing them to your SD card, OR SIM CARD? when i go to export contacts, it wants to save it as a file in my SD card, and then when i import them on another rom, it asks for a Vcard, but it doesnt work? Can anyone explain this to me?

Sync the contacts to your google account. I believe it asks you when adding a contact if you want them as a google contact or phone only. Make sure you select google contact. Then check the "sync contacts" box under your google account sync settings (its checked by default, but I uncheck it once its done to save battery life. Don't know if you do the same). Then force a resync of contacts before you change roms to make sure no new contacts or info are left out. From there change to any rom, or any other android phone and your contacts will be restored on the initial sign in.
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yeah i see what your saying. In the people app, when i click menu, and then view contacts, it says with Facebook fot HTC Sense, i have 538 contacts, my Google account has 4, and the Phone has 179. How to save all the phone contacts to my google account?

Not sure myself. Never tried it and I dont know if you can change a phone contact to a google contact once the info has already been put in. Try GO contacts from the market? Lets you back up all your contacts. Haven't tried it but I've backed up and restored texts with GO SMS from the same developer, and it worked great. Im assuming it would work just as well.
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tried it, and it worked just as i expected. Huge thanks, you saved me a LOT of time! and big ups on that SMS backup app, it did wonders. much appreciation

Glad I could help
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LG G4 Facebook contacts won't sync

Hello everyone,
My device is G4, LG-H815 variant and it's updated to Android 5.1, not rooted. My problem: there seems to be no way to import Facebook contacts to contacts list.
I have migrated all my settings and apps from my G3 using LG Backup successfully. The Facebook and Messenger apps work fine, show all my contacts, and are configured to sync contacts. I have also gone into Contacts settings and made sure Facebook sync is enabled. But no matter how long I wait (1 day), only my Gmail contacts show. There also seems to be no syncing option for Messenger.
Things I've tried to no avail:
- rebooting
- reinstalling Facebook and Messenger app and configuring them from a scratch
- restarting Contacts app
- unsyncing and syncing again
- removing my Facebook account and adding it again

searme9 said:
Hello everyone,
My device is G4, LG-H815 variant and it's updated to Android 5.1, not rooted. My problem: there seems to be no way to import Facebook contacts to contacts list.
I have migrated all my settings and apps from my G3 using LG Backup successfully. The Facebook and Messenger apps work fine, show all my contacts, and are configured to sync contacts. I have also gone into Contacts settings and made sure Facebook sync is enabled. But no matter how long I wait (1 day), only my Gmail contacts show. There also seems to be no syncing option for Messenger.
Things I've tried to no avail:
- rebooting
- reinstalling Facebook and Messenger app and configuring them from a scratch
- restarting Contacts app
- unsyncing and syncing again
- removing my Facebook account and adding it again
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I always turned Facebook sync off, I never use it [emoji14], but I'll try to give you some suggestions.
1. have you tried setting Contact to display in contact app settings to All contacts?
2. is the contact sync in the Facebook app settings turned on for all contact?
that's as far as I know in android syncing. if it doesn't work, maybe the other could help you. sorry!

aquavalanche said:
1. have you tried setting Contact to display in contact app settings to All contacts?
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Yes, of course.
aquavalanche said:
2. is the contact sync in the Facebook app settings turned on for all contact?
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Naturally.

Same issue
Thank god I'm not the only one with this issue!! I thought I was going mad. I just got this phone & not used to LG phones.
Okay, so I haven't done as much as you, I have uninstalled/reinstalled fb and msngr though & still nothing. When I select to see only fb or msngr contacts it shows none, only myself.
I'm slowly losing hope to see a resolution as this is the first post I've seen with this issue!
I will keep checking this thread Thanks for posting

I have a similar problem but with Dragon Quest 8....the thing refuse to sync my save on the cloud....i remember that on a M8 i hasnt problems at all ;_;

Vikki690 said:
Thank god I'm not the only one with this issue!! I thought I was going mad. I just got this phone & not used to LG phones.
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I feel just the same. I can confirm than syncing worked just fine on my LG G3. With G4, it looks just like the Contacts app doesn't see my Facebook account for some reason, regardless of the settings.

Same thing is happening to me... Any of you with this problem have a second phone? I have an s6 with no sync problems for work in addition to my g4. My only possible thought is some how that is affecting my lg...? Hopefully someone figures this out ASAP

Been talking to UK LG Mobile Support today, their advice is to enable syncing from Facebook app's settings. When told that this didn't work for me, they said they're not aware of anybody having this issue. So, has anybody solved this yet?
Alright, here's the reason behind the problem:
Apparently Facebook no longer supports syncing for Android devices. Just like that. As confirmed by Facebook itself under a link I can't post.

searme9 said:
Been talking to UK LG Mobile Support today, their advice is to enable syncing from Facebook app's settings. When told that this didn't work for me, they said they're not aware of anybody having this issue. So, has anybody solved this yet?
Alright, here's the reason behind the problem:
Apparently Facebook no longer supports syncing for Android devices. Just like that. As confirmed by Facebook itself under a link I can't post.
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Hey there,
Poked around a bit more...not sure that is true. Seems like a lot of internet BS generated from frustrated people with the same problem we are having. There are no concrete facts from Facebook or Google that currently support that theory.
On another note, this problem started happening on my G4 about two weeks ago, at which time it was synced to my facebook contacts prior...so, it may be possible a software update was pushed and this functionality was not carried over?
My current workaround (i'm not giving up on this, don't worry)...buy/borrow an older android device from a friend or off CL, sync your facebook, manually program the names of the contacts you need from facebook sync on that phone to your G4...I already tried exporting the CSV from my work phone to my G4 with no luck of carrying over my facebook contacts.
Cole

Facebook changed the api download most of the photo sync apps from the appstore they do nothing now
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I spent three awesome hours last night pretending like it was 2002 and manually copying numbers from my work phone to my new phone since it is still sync'd with facebook...at least now they are permanently in my google account

Had the same issue. I uninstalled the FB updates to factory. Re-syncedb and set Facebook to manual updates.

Hi!
I know this post is relatively old, but I recently purchased the LG G4 Vigor. While at the Kiosk of my service provider, they transferred all my contacts for me. Bad idea!!! I spent the last two days trying to figure out why my Facebook contacts would not transfer. Furthermore, all the addresses were not transferred at all. So, I worked hard to find the problem. I simply had to Reset Factory data! . For some reason, when they transferred my contacts, it was interrupting the Facebook contacts from transferring. Before doing so, make sure you save all info on your SD card. I took out my SD card, for good safety measure. After the Reset, do not install the SD card right away. Open Facebook and go through login etc., then in your phone contacts settings, accounts & sync, add Facebook, then go to "contacts to display", click all contacts. Check your contacts folder to be sure. Do this before transferring your data from your SD card. Unfortunately, you will have to go through and delete those contacts, from FB, you don't want. At least they are all there, with picture and info! Hope this helps!!!

Can't create / sync Google contacts?

Maybe I'm an idiot, and forgive me if I'm asking a dumb question, but this feels like something that should be easy but I can't figure it out.
This is my first HTC. On every other phone dating all the way back to my Galaxy S2, when I created a contact, it would ask if I wanted to save it on my phone or as a Google contact (or automatically save it to whichever of those two I had told it to do by default.) Saving it as a Google contact automatically synced it to my Google account.
When I set up my HTC 10, it downloaded all of my Google contacts. Easy!
Tonight, when somebody texted me they got a new number, I went to change it on a contact that already exists; it asked which contact I wanted to edit: their phone contact or their Google contact. Changing their Google contact didn't update the phone contact.
So then I just deleted his contact, and created it anew; it only asks if I want to create it on the phone or on the SIM card, with no Google contact option. Furthermore, creating it on the phone doesn't sync it to Google, nor does creating it on Google sync it to the phone.
Is there something I'm missing here? Is this some HTC specific thing where it just doesn't do Google contacts? Any help on this would be much, much appreciated; I'd really only rather maintain the Google contacts and not have to micromanage contact lists or use a third party syncing app (but I guess I will if it comes to it).

NEVER MIND!
You can ignore me.
For whatever reason, "contacts" wasn't available to check in my sync settings. But I fixed it:
Removed my Google account
Deleted all local phone contacts (to avoid possible duplicates later)
Added my Google account again
"Contacts" is in the Sync settings again, re-synced all my contacts without problems.
No idea what caused it but there you go. I thought I was going crazy because I had no option to sync contacts. If anybody knows what may have caused it I'd be interested to hear, but otherwise just ignore this post :-/

Thank you! I had the same problem and couldn't add contacts to my Google list. I did the same (logged out of account and logged back in) and the sync contacts came back along with the ability to add contacts again. I wonder why that happened.

I'm having similar issues with my HTC 10, majority of my contacts are synced on my Gmail account but I'm missing about 4 numbers, the contact details are there like name but no phone number. I've checked my phone and the contact has a phone number and linked to other accounts like whatsapp but no info on Gmail contacts.
I did manually input the number onto my phone because the numbers was missing so I believe maybe it's the format on the HTC 10, I'll do more testing...

sync google accounts
It's been a while since I've been through this, but unfortunately I have a similar problem. My problem is "Google account" in accounts and sync. But I can only select google photos when I click on the sync mark. No selection box for contacts. How can I fix that?
The device has clone s3 and ics 4.0.4 on it. The gapps packages available for this release also do not work. It does not synchronize people in any case. I cleaned the data from the applications, I deleted Accounts.db and reinstalled it.
Finally, I found the following lines for Accounts.xml and added it, but still there is no positive situation. What else can I do? Thank you.
Syncable = "true"> <authority id = "3" account = ".." type = "com.google" authority = "com.android.contacts"
<PeriodicSync period = "86400" />
</ Authority>

Let me add this here, please:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/google-account-syncing-t3561756

Xenorin said:
Maybe I'm an idiot, and forgive me if I'm asking a dumb question, but this feels like something that should be easy but I can't figure it out.
This is my first HTC. On every other phone dating all the way back to my Galaxy S2, when I created a contact, it would ask if I wanted to save it on my phone or as a Google contact (or automatically save it to whichever of those two I had told it to do by default.) Saving it as a Google contact automatically synced it to my Google account.
When I set up my HTC 10, it downloaded all of my Google contacts. Easy!
Tonight, when somebody texted me they got a new number, I went to change it on a contact that already exists; it asked which contact I wanted to edit: their phone contact or their Google contact. Changing their Google contact didn't update the phone contact.
So then I just deleted his contact, and created it anew; it only asks if I want to create it on the phone or on the SIM card, with no Google contact option. Furthermore, creating it on the phone doesn't sync it to Google, nor does creating it on Google sync it to the phone.
Is there something I'm missing here? Is this some HTC specific thing where it just doesn't do Google contacts? Any help on this would be much, much appreciated; I'd really only rather maintain the Google contacts and not have to micromanage contact lists or use a third party syncing app (but I guess I will if it comes to it).
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Halo !!!
I have same trouble with sync on my htc 10, but I think the problem is not only in the phone, because I have the same google account on another phone, ( alcatel idol 3) and also the same problems with contacts. For example, a sudden disappearance, a certain number of contacts, from my contacts list in both phone ???? On htc 10, a special problem is synchronization is not always possible, I have auto sync on, but the contacts cant be synced when I want to do, but in follow a few days thay are.
That,s whot i do not understand, I tried cleaning cash, and re-installing Google Account, but the problem comes back after a while, so..thats it. If anyone knows something more, would like to here. Thanks !!!

If Power Saver mode is enabled, Contacts Sync is disabled. Sounds crazy but just disable Power Saver (on HTC it's under Settings->Power->Power saver) and the contact sync will start right up. No need to remove and recreate your google account, restart the phone, or any of that - just flip the one switch.