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help with contacts its gone stupid

Hi i have the htc desire and of course i have tried different roms lol.
My contacts seem to have become really messed up for some reason and i am looking for a way to fix it by starting afresh.
My contacts are synced to the google account but when i resync them back to my phone i seem to have 3 or 4 for each contact, this shows its self in the link thing where you can link a contact to facebook account.....the contacts are also linked to google contacts that are the same.
Is there a way i can remove them all from my handset and also from google and start over ... if so how....even if this means i have to manually type them all in again.
I have backed them up to the sd card by exporting them as a file but i think these may also hold the problem of the linked contacts too.
So what would be the best way to sratr over again ?
Thanks

Have you gone into... people then menu then view, to tick or untick the ones you want to show

You can merge duplicated gmails contacts. Go to
http://www.google.com/contacts

[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.

[Q] Syncing Contacts to Google/Restore Contacts From Nandroid

How the hell do u back your contacts up to Google?? I've searched and I cant find the answers i'm looking for anywhere. Whenever I sync to Google from 'accounts and sync' nothing happens..and now i have successfully deleted all my contacts from my phone after clearing the Contacts app data cache, which i read might help...Luckily i have nandroids to pull the data from.. How exactly do i go about re-flashing the contact data back to the phone from the nandroid, so i can then back em up to Google/export them the the sdcard?? (without restoring the entire nandroid)
Idk if its my ROM or what..but its frustrating..

Go to your gmail account, and click the contacts tab. Do you see any of them there? If not check and make sure that you are saving your contacts to google and not your phone.

Thanks for the quick reply. There's nothing there under the Contacts tab, or any of the sub categories, but how to i check if im syncing them to Google vs the phone?

I cant tell you how to restore your contacts from nandroid, however when you do have them restored go to Settings>Accounts & Sync>Google and make sure you have Sync Contacts checked. This is a 2 way sync so any contacts you have on google will be synced to the phone and the phone to google

Yeah, I've done that as well. It even shows the date when it was last synced..10 min ago, of course i have no contacts to sync now but i'm sure that was working earlier.

I dont know that you can say its not working until you can get those contacts restored, after you do that and sync then lets deal with a non sync issue if there still is one.

I mean I had tried that before I lost the contact data..before I created this thread. The reason i wiped the contacts cache was because sync was not working. I think im just going to do a full nandroid restore anyway and end up installing a different ROM. Any suggestions?

They are automatically backed up when you sync your gmail
As long as u checked back up data with my Google account
This is one thing that I love about Google
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Yeah, the problem is it's not syncing automatically

[Q] Getting contacts and messages back after flashing new ROM

I've flashed my phone with the Defrost ROM and despite backing up & restoring my contacts and messages with Titanium I can't seem to get them back. Can anyone help, thanks?

Do a reboot and try again.

Tried this and had no luck. I think it may have something to do with the fact that I've stored my numbers on the phone memory, maybe Titanium only backs up SIM card contacts. God knows about the text messages??

Contacts should be backed up to your gmail account.
As for texts, I use SMS Backup and restore from the market and haven't had any problems
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How do you do this? I think I've synced mine to my Gmail account but I don't know how to check for sure?
Plus a few of my contacts haven't linked correctly to Facebook but the ROM I'm using (Defrost) doesn't seem to give me the option to do manual Facebook links.

Zammo76 said:
How do you do this? I think I've synced mine to my Gmail account but I don't know how to check for sure?
Plus a few of my contacts haven't linked correctly to Facebook but the ROM I'm using (Defrost) doesn't seem to give me the option to do manual Facebook links.
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check it online in your gmail account, if its synct than all your contacts should be in there. To have this sync you have had to choose to save all your contacts as google contacts before, if you did not do it then they are not synct, will not do it automatically.

Checked gmail and they have synced with it, thanks.
Now I just need to work out how to link a couple of contacts to Facebook.

Im on GingerVillain and I think the contacts list/software is similar. Edit contact then press menu button should then give you option to 'Join Contact's you can then manually select a Facebook contact to add to your contact on your phone.

[Q]Contacts appear multiple times

i have the orginal desire hd rom by htc and its rooted. the contacts are appearing more and more times. first each contact only appeared twice, now they appear eight times. i don't know whats causing it and i really need a fix, it becoming a joke. any help is apprachated
Thank You

I had the same problem. Didn't really solve the problem but i removed the duplicates by simply deleting them. Quick and dirty but it "works". I also stopped syncing my Facebook contacts and haven't had problems after that.

BazookaAce said:
I had the same problem. Didn't really solve the problem but i removed the duplicates by simply deleting them. Quick and dirty but it "works". I also stopped syncing my Facebook contacts and haven't had problems after that.
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i think...... when we flash a new rom the device synchronizes our contacts with the google account... and reload our contacts.... but wen you flash a lot of times...diferent roms, the list of contacts multiplies the numbers because "google sync" was maked a security copy of de data from the roms one by one.
Conclusion: whenever flash a new rom I erase one to one the duplicated contacts.

I used to have that problem, what I did was just go inti my Gmail account on the PC, go to contacts and delete the duplicates or you can just merge them. And now I just let Google sync my contacts back to phone, also check in contacts on the phone the contacts display option for which contacts to show, phone/Facebook/sim
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