On my LGOG, there are two apps, Phone and Contacts. In Contacts, I can use the Display option to expand the categories of contacts that are shown and I have set it to show the maximum number of contacts possible. However, in the Phone (i.e., Dialer) app, I am unable to pull up certain names under the Phone app's Contact tab (not to be confused with the separate Contact app). These names freely show in the Contacts app, but are missing from Phone. I cannot find any Display settings in the Phone app. The Contacts tab display in the Phone App says "Phone Numbers > Custom" at the top, but I cannot figure out how to change the "Custom" display.
Does anyone know how to change what contacts are displayed in the Phone (not Contacts) app?
Also, in the Phone app, the Favorites tab displays my contacts as large icons/tiles. Is there any way to make them show up in list view? Again, I see these settings in the Contacts app but not the Phone app. Very frustrating!
Thanks for your help.
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Contact listing inconsistent in Groups
I have an HTC HD2. When using a MIUI ROM the contacts are listed pic then name on a single line, same in looking in Groups. When using Jellybean or ICS ROM the contacts are listed name then pic but in the Groups (when looking at contacts) they are listed two pics and names per line. Is there anyway to make the contacts in Groups as single line entries per name ? If not, could that be something to be worked on in future updates ?
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Hi
Do I have a bug here or am I not doing something right?
I have my People contacts set up:
Only contacts with phone numbers: Off
Sim (0): Off
Google (1): Off
Phone (77): On
Facebook (140): Off
Then in each of my contacts I have linked the phone contacts to the Facebook accounts. All is fine, photos are displayed etc. For some of the contacts, their names are displayed like
Firstname Su
due to the length limitation of when I imported them from my old device, via the Sim. No problem, I think, you can go into the "Linked" screen, and change the drop down for "Select Contact Name" and select the Facebook name.
Now some time later I have noticed that some, not all, of my contacts have reverted back to the shorter "Phone" name.
I could edit each of these names to be equal to the Facebook name, but this was ok earlier?!
I got the same problem. I keep changing their names to their facebook names repeatedly
Yep seems to be a bug with the phone.
Thankfully it only seemed to happen with around 6 of my contacts, so I manually changed their 'phone' names to their full name too.
Thanks, I have emailed HTC Support.
By default, all of my gmail contacts synced to the phone were under the "Friends" category and all showed up under the ALL category.
However, the moment I change the category on a contact, it no longer shows up under ALL. Consequently, if I change the contact to be under no category, the contact disappears altogether.
Is this a bug ? If so, any workaround ?
Hmm, some more info.
Went into gmail, and all of the contacts missing from ALL were no longer in the "My Contacts" group. Now this group cannot be added to manually, but simply adding a contact to another group automatically adds it to this group also.
So the workaround for me was to add all of the missing contacts to a new group (made up) and then immediately remove them again. Sync this to the phone, and they now show up correctly in ALL.
Sounds like a bug with changes on the phone removing the contact from the "My Contacts" group. Anywhere this can be raised as a bug to have fixed ?
I'm having all sorts of issues with contacts. For one the people app refuses to remember the settings to also show facebook contacts. Because for some reason they think some of my contacts are in fact facebook contacts and they don't show up anymore under gmail.
Really seems like a total mess to me : (
Guess it will take some time to figure out what is what with all the linking and things going on.
You are not alone by any means. Both my mate and I are are having similar problems.
You are right that all contacts get download to the phone correctly and show up under "All" as you'd expect but when you add them to another group, i.e. Friends, they do get added to the group but disappear from "All". Remove them from the group and they disappear altogether. However, they are still on the phone as you can find them through the "Search People" app.
I went online to my Google contacts, at contacts.google.com, and found these contacts had been removed from the "My Contacts" folder but appeared instead in "All Contacts". I moved them back to "My Contacts" and they reappeared on my phone.
Surely if you add a contact to a group it should still appear under "All" contacts as well as the group it's been added to?
Workaround??
Been looking into this a bit more....
It seems that you can add contacts to the default groups on the phone but they will be removed from the "All" contacts list [BUG??!! - I'm sure my wife's Hero doesn't do this]. To get them back, and appear in both the group/s and the "All" list, you have to:
1. Login to Google Contacts Manager, www.google.com/contacts.
2. Remove these contacts from My Contacts. They will go to All Contacts.
3. Sync the contacts on the phone.
4. In Google Contacts Manager, move the contacts back to My Contacts.
5. Re-sync the contacts on the phone.
...a real PITA but it just worked for me.
Alternatively, you can control the Groups directly online in the Google Contacts Manager however this only works for new groups or groups that co-exist by default. Some groups on the phone do not directly correspond with those in the Manager and vice versa so if you add a new group to the Manager of a name that already exists on the phone you'll get a duplicate group on the phone.
The kicker is that if you create your own groups on the phone or in the Contacts Manager then everything works without a hitch.
Hi all,
any of you ever tried to sync only one (or more) specific contacts group?
I remember of such a function in Android 1.6, and it would be great to have it back on 2.1 too (maybe it's there and it's just me who cannot find it).
I don't like to have ALL the Google contacts sync'ed.
Thnx
Can't be done. See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=662949
Thanks Cleargrey,
would you tell me if you ever tried to sync Outlook with the phone did you manage to do so? It seems my HTC sync won't sync, telling me no errors but no contacts sync'ed as well
I also tried to sync Outlook with Goole, and found a good prog to do so (Go contacts sync) since I don't want ot go over with CSV import/export, but it states it syncs pictures too, and it doesn't...
Cleargrey, just a little info to better understand the following HTC answer:
A1. It is not possible to sync just 'My Contacts', it would always be 'Google Contacts, or 'All Contacts'.
what do they mean with "Google Contacts or All Contacts"? Is it just basically a different way of referring to the same "All Contacts" group?
I'm asking because I just checked on Google Accounts and I didn't see anything like "Google Contacts"
There does seem to be some confusion over the various contact lists/groups on the phone and on Google Contacts.
BTW, Google Contacts can be accessed through your Gmail account (left side menu -> Contacts) or directly at www.google.com/contacts.
Basically:
All [phone] = My Contacts [Google Contacts]
Favorites [phone] = Starred in Android [Google Contacts]
Co-workers [phone] = Collegues [Google Contacts]
Family, Friends [phone] = Family, Friends [Google Contacts] resp.
user created groups [phone] = user created groups [Google Contacts], and vice versa.
All Contacts [Google Contacts] is never sync'ed on the phone.
All the above get sync'ed together, you can't cherry pick.
Sorry to correct you JT, but if I access Google Contacts on my desktop I find "All Contact" contains 643 contacts.
Now, doing the same on my phone (Contacts -> Menu btn -> view) I see "Google (643)".
Hence my phone sync'ed All Contacts.
It would be great if it would have sync'ed "My contacts" only, cuz even if it's not a subgroup, it only contains contacts I want to carry on the phone
Two very quick questions I'd love some help with.
1. Whats the quickest way to type a new sms message? When I open the messages icon and choose "new message" it lists ALL of my contacts. Anyone I EVER emailed in my life. 1000s. I justwant to see my 100 or so SIM contacts as I want to write an SMS message. any way around this?
2. I clicked on new message (in the messages icon) and typed in an email address. The phone then sent the email as an attached MMS message via my phone service provider? I assumed it would use my gmail details to send it? Am I set up wrong?
Thanks, Got the desire yesterday. First time on android. bit lost really. not as intuitive as expected, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it.
fastest way to send sms to a specific contact is to go to "Contacts", look for the person you wantto send the sms to, and then click not on the name but on the picture (or on the pic placeholder): some icons will show up so that you cna choose what you want to do. Click on message and you're good to go.
your problem is the same to me: I DO NOT want all my google contacts on my phone cuz everytime I have to do something with contcts (apart from phone, where I checked "show only contacts with tel number") it will fill my eyes with unwanted persons
JapanLover said:
Sorry to correct you JT, but if I access Google Contacts on my desktop I find "All Contact" contains 643 contacts.
Now, doing the same on my phone (Contacts -> Menu btn -> view) I see "Google (643)".
Hence my phone sync'ed All Contacts.
It would be great if it would have sync'ed "My contacts" only, cuz even if it's not a subgroup, it only contains contacts I want to carry on the phone
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Hmm, glad mine doesn't do that! Anyhow, go to your "All" contacts list on your phone, then MENU button -> View, un-check "Show auto Gmail contacts".
Seems I may have been wrong, Google Contacts' All Contacts do indeed seem to get sync'd in their entirety but this check box allows you to mask what you don't want to see.
checked that, and will test functionalities for some days, but going to "search contacts" still shows up all Google contacts.
This is something really pissing me off.
For real: I can't understand why 1.6 had the opportunity to select the groups and 2.1 does not!!!
The Contacts/People feature seems a bit confusing to me.
The best way I've found of managing contacts is to create a group called 'Phonebook' and just use the People widget to display that group on one of my home-screens.
I can then add or remove anyone I like in there and it's easy to pick someone to call/text. The widget looks pretty cool too with everyone's facebook pics.
Seems much easier than viewing all People and scrolling through loads of Facebook contacts I don't need or Google contacts with only an e-mail address.
I can manage it all online under my Google account as well so setting it up only took a couple of minutes.
See here for a workaround for syncing just my contacts:
showthread.php?t=666332&page=19
Previously posted in Synergy thread with no resolution/suggestions.
Background
I have contacts synched from my Exchange account (I need to access work email, etc.)
I also have contacts synched from my main google account. In google, under Contacts, the "My Contacts" subdivision are identical to the Exchange contacts. There are no duplicates on either list of contacts.
On my phone, under "search people" I see all contacts, including random people from gmail's of past. This is normal. Under the People App, I see a list of my exchange contacts (which also happens to be the same list as my "My Contacts" sub-list from Google Contacts). There are no duplicates seen here either.
Question
However, when I begin to type a text and start to enter the name of the person to send a text to, the auto complete showing matching names shows DUPLICATES of every entry. So for example, I type Tom, I would get two Tom Mobile numbers and Two Tom Home numbers where it should be only one for each (1 Tom home, 1 Tom Mobile). Is this normal behavior for Sense/SMS 3.0? I did not have this issue with my prior stock ROM. If not, how would you suggest resolving it?
Rocklee99 said:
the only time i see a duplicate is when i type in a name of someone i called recently, and the numbers are one digit different, i original being the real number, and "duplicate" being the one with a "1" in front of it
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Right, that is expected behavior. When I start to type a name in the text input I get two of each and every number showing up in the drop down. But as I said, no duplicates when I browse through "people" app.
KB112 said:
I only get duplicates in this sense as well. I think it even says recent in front of them or by it. I also get a duplicated text "wording"if trying to attach a pic within a text. It seems sending from gallery works the best for mms.
Sent from my PC36100 using xda premium
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There is a "history" listing which is also normal behavior. So for example, If I'd previously typed TOM, when I got to enter T-O, you will see TOM (history next to hit) and again the TOM result. Only I also see an exact duplicate for that TOM again just below it which really shouldn't be there (should it?). I do not believe it was like this in Stock. My only guess is the identical contacts from Exchange and Google (My Contacts) have both been synched over and SMS 3.0 doesn't filter the duplicate entries from showing like the "People" app correctly does. This is why there are no duplicates under "people" app but they do appear in text name entry drop down.
Based on other threads: http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/113907-duplicate-contacts-when-texting-calling.html & http://androidforums.com/droid-x-support-troubleshooting/400279-duplicate-contacts-all-sms-apps.html it looks like others have noticed this issue too. It's not ROM specific but seems to be a GB and/or Sense 3.0/SMS issue? Apparently this IS the standard behavior of a GB rom I guess? I do not recall having this issue with stock Froyo rom. Unless someone else with both identical exchange and google contacts has figured out how to avoid it.
Hi guys, anyone here using the standard Sony messaging app ... when you go to "add recipient" (by pressing the three dots ...) to bring up your contacts list, is there any way that I can display only phone numbers?
It is showing every single contact including email addresses and duplicate numbers all on their own separate line. This is really annoying if I want to browse my contacts list, because it is so damn long! Like 400 items to scroll through!
When i go into my contacts via the phone/calling app, it has a bunch of options to "filter" by phone numbers but does not affect how the messaging app displays the contacts.
Anyone else get this issue?