Yesterday i imported all my sim contacts to phone because seems the only way i can customize(link with facebook, change photo, etc) but now when i press the "phone" button i can see my contacts 2 times, sim and phone which is annoying...even if i unchecked SIM contacts in "Peoples", so i guess "Phone" and "Peoples" are 2 different apps. Anyway my question is if there is any way to hide SIM contacts from contacts ?
btw using htc sense.
in People | Menu | View | Uncheck SIM
HTH
Hey, thx for reply but you didn`t understood, il show some screens ->
even if i unticked the sim, i still see sim contacts when i press the "PHONE" button but in PEOPLE it`s okay so that`s why i said i think that People is a different app than "Phone" ( middle button on htc sense)
This is not currently possible in HTC Sense AFAIK.
Quite annoying really, as I would prefer to keep a backup of my contacts on the SIM card.
I know the problem. It has been a bug since 2.1, possibly even before.
Used to pi$$ me off on my Hero and now my DHD too
HTC need to fix it.
I'm suffering from this and a similar problem with the 'phone' menu in relation to facebook contacts.
I too like to keep a backup of my contacts on the sim (or preferably only on the sim), but when going through the 'phone' button on the home screen it shows them no matter what.
When I have a facebook account registered in my accounts and sync, whether its the Facebook app or the Facebook for HTC Sense account it'll sync all of my facebook friends over into my 'phone' list no matter what options I change - and believe me I've tried everything!
In an ideal world I would like to be able to have the 'phone' list only show the contacts from my sim (or copied to the phone and the sim contacts hidden) and only update the Facebook information (picture / status) for the people I have linked a facebook account for.
I'm really hoping that this is rectified in 2.3 as while it by no means makes the phone useless, it makes the 'phone' button - currently the largest button on my homescreen - not user friendly.
Grim.
Dear RobE9 et al, HI!
Did anyone find a solution to this? - It's currently annoying me too. I agree that it's totally uncomfortable and I haven't yet found a work around.
I will start playing with different ROMs if there is no solution.
Guys I Think Its Solved in Sense 3.0 Android 2.3.5 Just Do As Told And Then Rebbot Your Phone
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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.
I have another problem. problem is that when I get into Phone to look for a person to call ,contacts appear to me 2 times, once from gmail account and the second time from sim but that option is disabled to see contacts from the sim card , and when I want to send a msg is the same problem.
what can i do to see only the gmail/phone contact??? Without sim contacts
sorry for my englis hand I hope you understand the problem
Is that a Sense ROM you're using?
I believe there are two places where you need to make the change for what to view. Where they are I can't help, I don't use Sense but check settings in both phone dialer and contacts / people app and main SMS screen.
I had a similar issue a LONG time ago with my HTC Hero when it was on Sense (that will be the first day then) and it turned out to be a cache issue.
Contacts view
It's under the view settings. You can untick google/facebook/phone/sim contacts and they will dissapear from the view.
With Sense look in
Settings > Accounts and Snyc > HTC Sense, if enabled and synced it should offer you a contacts merge. Might take a little while for it all to come through depending on how many contacts you have, what speed your phones connection is and also if you happen to be in Australia (like me) whether or not the server is operating properly.
If it is a Sense Rom being used and sense isnt working please reply and i'll post the steps HTC told me to go through.
Hi all.
Just installed LeeDroid HD v3.3.3 GB R5 PORT A2SD on my Desire A8181. Seems really nice but have noticed a few quirks that I haven't found any info on (apologies if I missed something, been searching for 20 mins).
If I open the Phone menu, my contact list is blank. Typing numbers does nothing (no contacts shown). Typing one number and deleting it brings up the contact list and then the Phone menu works normally (smart dial etc).
Pressing call still calls the top entry in the (invisible) contact list.
The All Messages pane shows the name of the message recipient, but when opening/ editing the message it only displays a number in the To: field.
That, and Sense 3 pack caused bootloops/ screen just showing wallpaper & notification bar, unresponsive => battery pull. But I think this has been dealt with elsewhere.
And the market is painfully slow, but I have a feeling that's down to the market app itself?
Cheers!
If you've just installed the ROM and are running it for the first time you will have to wait for a while whilst it syncs with your GMail account and pulls all the contacts over - perhaps you have connectivity issues or GMail is down?
Have you checked out the FAQ. You might get a better response if you post to the main thread.
I also think the Market app is slow, compared to the older version BTW.
Thanks for the response.
Contacts are fully syncd (google, facebook & skype). In the Contacts pane all is well. All contacts list & appear with Facebook images. Links all fine. It's just in the Phone pane that they don't immediately show.
Can't post in the main thread (new member )
I'm thinking about downgrading the market again. It seems OK over wifi, but deathly slow with 3G.
Hi guys,
I would to ask one thing.
I own a HTC One X. When I press the phone button and search a contact through SMART DIAL, my contacts appear 2 times, from my phone and from my SIM.
I don't mean the people section, there i manage to have my contacts once through people > phonebook and selected what i wanted.
I mean the SMART DIAL section. There, I have all of my contacts twice.
What can I do in order to appear only once?
I'm attaching a screenshot to understand exactly my issue.
WaRRi0R1985 said:
Hi guys,
I would to ask one thing.
I own a HTC One X. When I press the phone button and search a contact through SMART DIAL, my contacts appear 2 times, from my phone and from my SIM.
I don't mean the people section, there i manage to have my contacts once through people > phonebook and selected what i wanted.
I mean the SMART DIAL section. There, I have all of my contacts twice.
What can I do in order to appear only once?
I'm attaching a screenshot to understand exactly my issue.
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Easy way: Use GODialer from market HERE
Harder (what i did): download Wondershare MobileGO HERE and edit it (dont forget to downloade MobileGO to your phone too HERE)
And you can try to hit the thanks button
Or I will just delete my sim contacts
Just remove contacts from sim?
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go into your contacts settings and deselect the ones you dont want the phone to display, ie, sim, google, etc.
wow what an answers are given....
just do what graemeg said goto settings deselect sim contacs..
I would advise ( if u have np with google )
to save all the contacts to google, Easy to edit on your pc and always available
+1 to what graemeg said above. I too had this issue and deselected the source of duplication (phone in my case).
I have some issues with the address book after installing [BETA 0.11][03.06] ICS for Desire[ALL HBOOTS][4.0.4].
I am unable to add new contacts and cannot add a number from call history to people.
This is what happens:
Add New Contact
Click People icon from the main menu.
Click the + icon at the bottom Right Corner
That gives me an option of adding the Contact to my Gmail Or Hotmail that I have configured. But does not give me an option to add it to Phone Address Book.
Add from Call History
Click the Phone Icon to go to Call histoty.
Press on the number I want to add to People.
Gives me three options, Add to Contacts, Call Number, Send Message.
Select Add to contacts.
That gives me an option of adding the Contact to my Gmail Or Hotmail that I have configured. But does not give me an option to add it to Phone Address Book.
Read on some other forum that, the work around for this is to Press and hold the unknown number. A menu will pop up allowing you to send a text to the number, edit it, save it to contacts But here also the same, Can add it to Gmail or Hotmail. Not Phone Contacts.
I'm on another ICS ROM: BCM 3.7U0 and it's the same. I'm guessing this is how the ICS built in People app functions.
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Hi
It seems that Google with ICS have removed the feature of storing contacts on locally on the phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582586
Taken from the above thread:
Originally Posted by kafepuya
If you have ICS, you know that it is not possible to store contacts on the phone per-se, and rather ICS forces you to store them in one of your Google Accounts.
I'm still not a fan of this fact. I rather liked having them separated so that I could leave business contacts on the phone (actually the SIM, i didn't save any contacts to the phone itself) but ICS killed that. I'm not talking a backup to SIM, I didn't want the business numbers in my google account, period.
As to the question at hand, I leave it to Google and the account I made just for the phone, they already have hundreds of copies of the contacts on multiple servers. Anything else is going to be prone to error, incompatibility, corruption, etc. Also, google does the restoring & updating all on its own, no thought needed.
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/Michael
Solved
Alien2653 said:
I'm on another ICS ROM: BCM 3.7U0 and it's the same. I'm guessing this is how the ICS built in People app functions.
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Go Contacts EX from Google Market, solved my issue. I can now store contacts on phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jbapps.contactpro&feature=search_result