So I've experienced this on a slew roms. I back up my contact list via the people app and save the file on my SD card. I import it back whenever I flash a new rom. I'm to the point to wheel this is getting a little old. 80 contacts have turned into 300.. has anyone else experienced this? What can I do to prevent future situations?
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Set them up through gmail contacts. No need to backup each time you flash because when you log into your gmail, it automatically syncs.
Do you use a Google account where your contacts are? You can create Gmail and Phone contacts. Maybe the Google ones are getting restored upon flashing a new ROM...? Then your restoring the Phone contacts, creating multiple entries?
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20twins10 said:
So I've experienced this on a slew roms. I back up my contact list via the people app and save the file on my SD card. I import it back whenever I flash a new rom. I'm to the point to wheel this is getting a little old. 80 contacts have turned into 300.. has anyone else experienced this? What can I do to prevent future situations?
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Had this happen to Me & just went to Google account online & hit merge contacts
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Last night I updated my wife's Epic to DK28. The problem is her contacts are gone and syncing doesn't bring them back. Why wouldn't they have saved to her gmail am I overlooking something. I have flashed my phones a lot and never had this issue.
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check google/contacts online and see if her contacts are listed there. My wife had a similar problem and turns out when she added a contact she added them to her phone address book and not google.
http://www.google.com/contacts
They are not there is there a way to add them to Google after they are back in the phone?
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can you get them back on the phone? Are there a lot of them?
I had a similar problem on the syndicate rom a while ago. It would say it was syncing for a second then stop. I also noticed when i went to facebook.com and tried to install the app from there it thought my phone was something other than the epic. I resolved the issue by using a different ROM. I don't know if these things are related, but that might be a start...
Yeah luckily we found her old phone and transferred thru bluetooth but I am tryin to figure out how to get them to google in case this happens again. As far as the rom she was totally stock di18 not even rooted for 5 weeks and I updated her to unrooted dk28.
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They are not there is there a way to add them to Google after they are back in the phone?
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You should be able to export them from contacts via the import/export menu option. This will create a file named something like 00001.vcf(vCard file) in sdcard/external_sd/. Then go to the google contacts and import it. Hope that helps!
Ok I will try that. Thanks alot guys.
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You should be able to export them from contacts via the import/export menu option. This will create a file named something like 00001.vcf(vCard file) in sdcard/external_sd/. Then go to the google contacts and import it. Hope that helps!
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that is what I did.
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Ok I will try that. Thanks alot guys.
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Just make sure when she adds any new contacts that she adds them to google.
Stupid question but she does have syncing turned on in her contacts right? After they're restored try to force sync, then check her google account from a desktop/laptop to see if it worked.
I've not had much luck with the import export v card feature. I recently had to delete all contacts on my phone, then go to my google account via desktop, export all contacts to google.csv, delete all contacts online, then reinstall online from the google.csv file in order to fix a syncing problem.
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I think google may be having an issue at the moment. My phone is saying that Sync is currently offline and will be back shortly.
Yeah her sync is on I just don't get what happened. I have reflashed my epic about 10 times without issue. And my moment ugh probably 75-100. Never lost contacts it has been automatic since I got my first android.
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Yeah her sync is on I just don't get what happened. I have reflashed my epic about 10 times without issue. And my moment ugh probably 75-100. Never lost contacts it has been automatic since I got my first android.
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After my last rom flash I had a situation where any time I added a contact on the phone it got deleted after syncing. No idea why but a google search lead me to others that had the same issue.
I think this OS still has a lot to be ironed out. I wish they'd stop adding features and just make a decent contacts app. I can't for the life of me figure out why I have to select which of the same four phone numbers I want to dial when I try to call a contact that is synced to multiple accounts, for example.
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sometimes when i have synching issues, i fix it by going into 'manage applications' and clearing the data for that app. i've had to do that with gmail.... it erases and re-synchs the app, and afterwards it works like normal. of course, only do it if she does indeed have her contacts backed up on Google... otherwise they will be gone. not sure if this will fix hers, but just saying it did fix my synching issues a few times.
A lot of times my contact changes from a name to their number instead. idk why this happens :/ can someone show me how to reverse it?
ie:i type in my friends name in the smart finer or w/e. John Smith, but when i click enter instead of John Smith it says 999-999-9999. And now its staying like that!
You have tried rebooting your phone, right?
Is this how John Smith is displayed in "people" app in the drawer as well as in the dialer and your messaging app? What if anything other than stock are you using?
Are your contacts synced through a gmail account, facebook, etc? Or are they stored strictly on your phone?
Not exactly sure what the problem you're having but perhaps your settings might do this. Is your view "Only with phone number" checked when you go into view in the peoples app?
I did restart my phone but it didn't stop. It went away 3 hours ago then came back. The people are linked to Facebook and gmail if view have one. It is not view phone number only and The display is based on the name I put in my phone and not Facebook or gmail. I'm using standard sms and running rmk gingersense.
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Check in your contacts and make sure you have area codes put in. I had a " John Smith " put in as 111-1111 when he called back it did not read it as him because Verizon always tacks on the area code.
Hopefully it is that simple.
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You could try a no-wipe flash of the rom to correct a possible rom software issue.
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I keep getting these weird texts from 6250 saying VZWNMN 1 and VZWNMN 2. Anyone else see this?
Me to. Comes prior to every email. VZW said they never heard of it.
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I used to receive these, but I figured out how to stop them!
1. Login to your MyVerizon.
2. Find your number and click on Change Features from the bottom right.
3. Select your device/number.
4. Then scroll down until you find Contact Management and click remove!
And they're gone.
EDIT: Don't want to take credit for this, I got this from Droid Life, but I re-wrote it.
Thank you kind sir! This helped!
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I've synced/added gmail and yahoo mail accounts at setup and found that only the yahoo account was affected. Now I just use yahoo mail through their app and the functionality is much better/no VZWNMN emails.
This problem seemed to change from ROM to ROM(some were affected, some not).
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I've synced/added gmail and yahoo mail accounts at setup and found that only the yahoo account was affected. Now I just use yahoo mail through their app and the functionality is much better/no VZWNMN emails.
This problem seemed to change from ROM to ROM(some were affected, some not).
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I had this problem when I went from a Sense rom back to CM7. I think it happens because on the Sense rom, during setup, it syncs your contacts and email to Verizon. When I flashed a different rom, it could no longer sync.
This has to be one of the most annoying things Verizon has done. I don't mind it syncing. It is actually kind of cool. I don't know how many times I have deleted a very important email and had no backup.
But texting me everytime I get an email is annoying and a pain.
For awhile, I was avoiding ROMs(like MIUI for me) that seemed to have this VZWNMN problem more than others I was using.
I've found that using a market email app(for me, Yahoo!) is better than trying to use the installed android email app for non-Google email. Functionality(like folders) is much better, too.
If you use Titanium to back-up apps, you don't need to re-sign into your email app when you change ROM's, just restore and away you go...
My contacts last synced with my Gmail account on Thursday 29/9/2011 at 08h37. It has been saying that Sync is currently experiencing problems and will be back shortly.
Everything else syncs fine, it's just the contacts.
I have rebooted the phone several times. Nothing seems to help. I really don't want to do a default reset if I don't have to. Any ideas?
Much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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MAC
Just do as described here.
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Just do as described here.
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I did just that but it keeps giving the same error message.
Here the same ,error when syncing google contacts,since february 2011...
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Finally sorted out...
I went to Android Central and the answer was there!!!
Here's what to do:
Menu>Settings>Account Sync>Disable all
Then (Be sure to backup call log, contacts etc before next step):
Menu>Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Contacts Storage>Clear Data
This clears the entire contacts database which seems to get corrupt after something or other. Mine happened when syncing Skype contacts!!!
Then Enable Sync again and, then REBOOT device immediately (note not just a power down and fast boot, but a Reboot/Restart).
Your contacts should start syncing again!!!
Yippee!!!
Yeah,it works but when I restore my backup ( contacts and call log) with my backup then I have the same error with syncing again...
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Yeah,it works but when I restore my backup ( contacts and call log) with my backup then I have the same error with syncing again...
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I only backed up my call log. I did not restore my contacts because they were already there on Google. Try it without restoring contacts and let it sync with Google.
But how do you get the contacts from Google back on your phonelist?
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You let you your phone sync normally once you have rebooted. All your contacts are in the cloud already, or should be.
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Ah yes,I see...but I want the numbers back in my internal phonebook...not only in the Google account. And point is that several numbers are not synced for several months,so I loose them if I delete the data and after reboot sync...?
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Everything that's in your phone will sync with Google. You need to back your contacts up with Sprite backup or GO CONTACTS. Then follow the steps indicated. See if that works for you.
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At worst you could always back them up with a pencil and paper
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I went to Android Central and the answer was there!!!
Here's what to do:
Menu>Settings>Account Sync>Disable all
Then (Be sure to backup call log, contacts etc before next step):
Menu>Settings>Applications>Manage Applications>Contacts Storage>Clear Data
This clears the entire contacts database which seems to get corrupt after something or other. Mine happened when syncing Skype contacts!!!
Then Enable Sync again and, then REBOOT device immediately (note not just a power down and fast boot, but a Reboot/Restart).
Your contacts should start syncing again!!!
Yippee!!!
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Until I came across this post, thanks MACkjam!
I'm all confused. Past couple weeks, my Google contacts that I have saved for months keeps dissappearing. I don't know what is causing this. I just lost 5 contact info. Text came in only with phone number showing from people I have saved in my Google account for a long time? Never seen this happen before. And keeps happening randomly. I have to reenter all these people to the contacts again. Please help. I'm not rooted. Nothing crazy. Just using the phone with TouchWiz no skin no odd apps installed. Only using SwiftKey keyboard. That's it. Anyone has any ideas please.?
It has been happening to me as well.
I don't know what's causing the problem, but I do know you can restore your contacts as far back as 30 days ago. Go to Google Contacts in a browser, click More/restore contacts. Choose a time to go back to, then click restore.
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I don't know what's causing the problem, but I do know you can restore your contacts as far back as 30 days ago. Go to Google Contacts in a browser, click More/restore contacts. Choose a time to go back to, then click restore.
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I have done that. But it's very annoying. Keeps happening. I never had this issue with my note 4 for two years. It started with Note 7. So, I thought to myself which apps I have started using that I never did with my note 4 that the app uses access to my contacts. Than, I had tweeter, what's app, Instagram as new apps that I never used before. I hope this helps. That's the only logical explanation I can come up with. Has to be an app that uses contacts access and somehow does not work with Google sync.
Are they just disappearing on phone, or entirely in Google? Check online on PC to see your contacts.
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they are gone from everywhere when they are gone! google, mail contacts, other devices. I think some other app sharing and accessing the contacts like tweeter, whats app etc. causing this.