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T-mobile contacts(check message, check balance, check minutes)

I've been wondering if there is any way to remove these contacts. I would delete them and they would come back to haunt me each time.

Is this related to T-Mobile contacts sync? Do you have it disabled in the system settings?

Even if you uncheck sync they just come back. You have to hit menu in contacts and filter them out
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hmmm did you filter yours out by unchecking the "show phone contacts"? i feel like that's the only way to get rid of it, but that means i would have to use google contacts or something right?

Yea. I uncheck everything but google. But those tmobile ones are on the sim so if you uncheck sim they will be gone.
id22 said:
hmmm did you filter yours out by unchecking the "show phone contacts"? i feel like that's the only way to get rid of it, but that means i would have to use google contacts or something right?
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is there any 3rd party app that will allow deletion of these useless numbers on my sim?

[Q] How do you disable/remove AT&T Address Book?

Every time I open my address book (or at least the first time after a reboot) I get this AT&T address book verifying subscriber status popup that takes a while to complete. I have no interest in ever using that service so how can I disable the check and just stop using it at all?
I'm guessing that the answer might be root and remove bloatware but I'm hoping there's a way to just turn it off without rooting. Don't worry I'll be rooting sooner than later but for now I'd like to just get rid of that annoying delay.

I havent got my phone yet, should have it within the next 3 hours, but have you looked through the settings, and opened up the AT&T address book app and checked the settings within that app itself?

Yeah. Not seeing any settings for it or actually any AT&T Address Book App at all.

Yeah i finally got mine a few hours ago, but i dont see any options to disable it either.

I'm guessing this will be one of those annoyances that only root can salve.

Not sure about the s3 but on skyrocket I checked out the programs.. scrolled down to sync and disabled..
Rebooted and never got the error again.
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jumanji404 said:
Not sure about the s3 but on skyrocket I checked out the programs.. scrolled down to sync and disabled..
Rebooted and never got the error again.
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Where exactly did you "check out the programs.. scroll down to sync and disable"?
I don't see anything about AT&T address book anywhere.

I have the same issue. Every so often when I go into my phonebook I have to wait for it to check the AT&T Address Book. So now there is a huge lag to access my contacts.
Why do carriers think they should be mobile phone designers? I wish they'd just leave the designing to the people who are good at it.
Over 10 years of buying my own phones out of contract for a reason. I've only had the phone for a few hours. I wonder what other lame surprises await....

Ok, I seemed to have fixed it. Not sure which action it was because I was just doing everything I could to make it stop.
First thing I did was to turn off AT&T phonebook in my online account. Log into www.attwireless.com. Under MyAT&T tab, mouse over "Wireless" and select "Usage & Recent Activity". Scroll down to "Members Shared Usage" and click on "view details of the number you're working on. Scroll down to "Minute Detail" and right under that is "Phonebook" with the option to turn it on or off.
At the same time I was doing a lot of flailing around in the the phone. I was Settings page in Contacts and I deleted all the AT&T BS contacts it auto inserted into the phone.
I rebooted and it stopped trying to access that AT&T phonebook. Hope this helps.

1. system setting
2. app manager
3. click on the phone book
4. force stop
Now it will stop and the icon will be removed from the app list. You can do this for all of the apps that will not uninstall till we get root.

duckfart said:
1. system setting
2. app manager
3. click on the phone book
4. force stop
Now it will stop and the icon will be removed from the app list. You can do this for all of the apps that will not uninstall till we get root.
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In step 3 when you say "the phone book" do you mean the app called Contacts that has an icon that looks like a phone book? When I disable that app my phone dialer icon disappeared making it so I couldn't dial out. Had to re-enable it.
Otherwise, I dont have an app named Phone Book.

kennonk said:
In step 3 when you say "the phone book" do you mean the app called Contacts that has an icon that looks like a phone book? When I disable that app my phone dialer icon disappeared making it so I couldn't dial out. Had to re-enable it.
Otherwise, I dont have an app named Phone Book.
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No.
My AT&T and YP.

I was trying to disable the AT&T Address Book as well. I found out you disable AT&T Messages. Works like a charm.

phoenyx said:
Ok, I seemed to have fixed it. Not sure which action it was because I was just doing everything I could to make it stop.
First thing I did was to turn off AT&T phonebook in my online account. Log into www.attwireless.com. Under MyAT&T tab, mouse over "Wireless" and select "Usage & Recent Activity". Scroll down to "Members Shared Usage" and click on "view details of the number you're working on. Scroll down to "Minute Detail" and right under that is "Phonebook" with the option to turn it on or off.
At the same time I was doing a lot of flailing around in the the phone. I was Settings page in Contacts and I deleted all the AT&T BS contacts it auto inserted into the phone.
I rebooted and it stopped trying to access that AT&T phonebook. Hope this helps.
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I can confirm this method mentioned by Phoenyx worked. For me at least. No more AT&T Addressbook confirmation dialog when I go to Contacts. :good:

phoenyx said:
Ok, I seemed to have fixed it. Not sure which action it was because I was just doing everything I could to make it stop.
First thing I did was to turn off AT&T phonebook in my online account. Log into www.attwireless.com. Under MyAT&T tab, mouse over "Wireless" and select "Usage & Recent Activity". Scroll down to "Members Shared Usage" and click on "view details of the number you're working on. Scroll down to "Minute Detail" and right under that is "Phonebook" with the option to turn it on or off.
At the same time I was doing a lot of flailing around in the the phone. I was Settings page in Contacts and I deleted all the AT&T BS contacts it auto inserted into the phone.
I rebooted and it stopped trying to access that AT&T phonebook. Hope this helps.
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Yes, I just tried this as well instead of what I posted earlier and it also worked. I didn't know there was a phonebook option in my online AT&T account.

Works
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I disabled syncronized snd it got rid of it
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I just turned off the AT&T phonebook as you described and the pop-up goes away. Didn't need to do anything else.
Thanks!

erikk said:
Every time I open my address book (or at least the first time after a reboot) I get this AT&T address book verifying subscriber status popup that takes a while to complete. I have no interest in ever using that service so how can I disable the check and just stop using it at all?
I'm guessing that the answer might be root and remove bloatware but I'm hoping there's a way to just turn it off without rooting. Don't worry I'll be rooting sooner than later but for now I'd like to just get rid of that annoying delay.
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Hi I just got my phone the same thing happened. I let it load (the second time it happened the first time I hit cancel). I got a page that was basically an ad for att's backup service, I scolled down to the bottom and clicked on close (or whatever the button did say). Now when I start contacts no more "checking subscriber status etc".
I have not rebooted yet but will and if it comes back I'll post, if it doesn't then at least on my Galaxy SIII it was a one time event.

[Q] How to remove AT&T Address Book Pop-up

I swear I saw a post about this somewhere before I got my phone, but now I can't find it... How the hell do you get the "AT&T Address Book - Checking Subscriber Information" pop-up to stop coming up every time you open up the Contacts app?
I tried clearing cache in Contacts, didn't work. I have frozen ALL AT&T bloatware, still coming up. I'm not sure which app is causing this stupid pop-up. Help would be appreciated.

Settings -> Application Manager -> "All" tab -> "AT&T Messages"
Click Stop if its running then Disable.
See if that works.

bardroid said:
Settings -> Application Manager -> "All" tab -> "AT&T Messages"
Click Stop if its running then Disable.
See if that works.
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Thanks, already tried that, for some reason it kept popping up. I ended up rooting, and renaming the app with a .bak extension, and rebooting. Seems to have gone away now. Thanks for pointing me to the right app though.

here's the old thread (it was mine)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1724071
It ended up stopping popping up for me without really needing to do anything. Not sure what if anything changed but I never rooted or did any of the steps mentioned in the thread.

What worked for me is just let it do it's thing, don't hit cancel. A pop up will come up asking you if you want it to check or sync with AT&T address book next time, paraphrasing here, click no. Done. Now when I got into my contacts it doesn't come up anymore.

Gadgetz said:
What worked for me is just let it do it's thing, don't hit cancel. A pop up will come up asking you if you want it to check or sync with AT&T address book next time, paraphrasing here, click no. Done. Now when I got into my contacts it doesn't come up anymore.
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I did the same thing and it never came back up for me. This was before I was rooted. Even after I don't get it anymore

No clue. I let it do its thing probably 10 times and it never went away. Now that I rooted and removed anything related to AT&T, it doesn't come up anymore. I have no idea why my phone was being so stubborn with it.

Recently install SKY ICS, and there are no apps with AT&T or YP, but the checking still comes up... any clues?

I froze everything att with titanium and hasn't happened to me..
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Disable AT&T address book
Saw this some where.. got the issue resolved on my LG V10 AT&t model. All credits to the original uploader
"Go to dialer than dial *#*#2666#*#* and setting "registration" to "completed". Exit out than you are done."

zahid78 said:
Saw this some where.. got the issue resolved on my LG V10 AT&t model. All credits to the original uploader
"Go to dialer than dial *#*#2666#*#* and setting "registration" to "completed". Exit out than you are done."
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Absolutely worked for me. Thanks so much!!!

Why is this so HARD or am I stupid???

Alright so i been going nuts trying to figure out why when i sign in a new device it gets full access to all my google account information. I have a few android phone in the the house all using different google address so its fine. But recently purchased a new tablet and both me and my brother signed in which is fine. Installed all the apps that were purchased from the Play Store and this is were the problem is.
When you sign in once the tablet now has access to everything related to that google account and no verification is asked or prompts to login. I don't want my brother reading my emails and he is the same it makes no sense why you enter it once and the device has access to everything. I would like to control what features of my google account a device has access too.
I just want to be able to install purchased apps on the tablet and nothing more, is this possible?

Hahahah. Jebise. Haha. Bravo on the nik.
AFAIK, no is the answer to ur question. Google is said to be working on multiple user accounts. Maybe an app is out on play store that locks ur email app but i havent heard of it.
PS. Pusti brata neka cita email naucice nesto novo. Heheh.
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Thanks, it was unintentional way back when i was thinking of an internet alias. It was suppose to be Jebus (Homer say this in one of the episodes) but young foolish me decided to spell it Jebise and it just kinda got stuck and like you once in a while i get these messages. I know what it means now but anyways back to OP.
That is really dump. This is why we never shared accounts, I don't want to purchase the same apps again. I guess Apple has it right with the AppStore because it prompts for a password to install apps and there is no link to email.

jebise101 said:
Thanks, it was unintentional way back when i was thinking of an internet alias. It was suppose to be Jebus (Homer say this in one of the episodes) but young foolish me decided to spell it Jebise and it just kinda got stuck and like you once in a while i get these messages. I know what it means now but anyways back to OP.
That is really dump. This is why we never shared accounts, I don't want to purchase the same apps again. I guess Apple has it right with the AppStore because it prompts for a password to install apps and there is no link to email.
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Look in settings in the app store I think there is a setting where it will ask you if u want to ask for password before installing any apps. My phone is off so i cant confirm but I believe i did see it almost 100 %.

bbgt2 said:
Look in settings in the app store I think there is a setting where it will ask you if u want to ask for password before installing any apps. My phone is off so i cant confirm but I believe i did see it almost 100 %.
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It's for a PIN but that still does not solve the issue for gmail. I guess we can just uninstall the app.

Sign in, install your apps the remove the account.
Solved.
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kinghorsey said:
Sign in, install your apps the remove the account.
Solved.
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THIS! and/or titanium backup...

yes but thats kind of annoying.

or you can just go to the google settings in each tab and tell it not to sync email and calander or just disable google sync for all app all together.

drksilenc said:
or you can just go to the google settings in each tab and tell it not to sync email and calander or just disable google sync for all app all together.
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yeah but if you go into the app, you can still manually see emails and such even if sync is disabled. it seems I have to remove my account or use TB which is a pain with multiple devices and that not even including updates.
After some thinking I think I will just have to create a new google account just for purchasing apps and nothing else. Sad google has no real control on this.

jebise101 said:
yes but thats kind of annoying.
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I dunno about annoying....you only have to do it once.
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not if new apps are purchased or updates.
I think the far easier option is to create a generic email with just a CC used to purchase apps.

Check out Switch Me on the Play Store.
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[Q] Changing the G3s default contact location

Hi guys,
I'm curious as to whether anyone has worked out how to change the G3s default contact storing location. By default it chooses the phone, however I want it to save to my Gmail account, meaning I have to change it manually each time. It also means that if I forget, somewhere down the line I'm going to end up accidentally losing some contacts if I change phone.
Any ideas?

I chose my Gmail contacts to be displayed. When I go to add a new contact it automatically says my Gmail at the top as the place to save. Give that a try?
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Thanks!
xRamz said:
I chose my Gmail contacts to be displayed. When I go to add a new contact it automatically says my Gmail at the top as the place to save. Give that a try?
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Yep, this worked for me. I tested it with entering in a test contact and then editing it. It showed up in my account online and changed accordingly.

xRamz said:
I chose my Gmail contacts to be displayed. When I go to add a new contact it automatically says my Gmail at the top as the place to save. Give that a try?
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I Like Soup said:
Yep, this worked for me. I tested it with entering in a test contact and then editing it. It showed up in my account online and changed accordingly.
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Hmmm, very odd. Mine still defaults to phone. I've tried setting up numerous fake contacts in various different ways, but nothing sticks
Is anyone else having the same problem?

same problem for me...
10G-eur

ClownShoes said:
Hmmm, very odd. Mine still defaults to phone. I've tried setting up numerous fake contacts in various different ways, but nothing sticks
Is anyone else having the same problem?
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Make sure the only contacts being displayed are your gmail contacts.
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I've got same problem 10h EUR. Contacts to display google only, but phone still asks me to save on phone and not google account. -.-

Same Problem here always Phone

This was the same on the g2 as well

Okay, so this is peculiar then that the majority of us can't change this behaviour. Apart from the two reports above from people who aren't having this issue, is there anyone else?
I'm wondering if those that aren't having the problem have removed or frozen something or made some other change that is allowing them to change the default option?
Thoughts?

ClownShoes said:
Okay, so this is peculiar then that the majority of us can't change this behaviour. Apart from the two reports above from people who aren't having this issue, is there anyone else?
I'm wondering if those that aren't having the problem have removed or frozen something or made some other change that is allowing them to change the default option?
Thoughts?
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I've run Stump Root to get root, but other than that, I'm running stock. I just got my G3 2 weeks ago and I didn't think to check the contacts locations until I saw the thread posted up and made the change yesterday.
On my G2 it was defaulted to gmail contacts, as I recall, when I eventually looked in to it, it was already set.
Good luck and I hope y'all can make the change. That used to drive me nuts on my wife's phone.

Yes I have the same problem even if I change the saving location from drop list to Google, later on again the default is phone I talked to some LG Officials also but no any benefit :-s for that purposes Samsung is the best !!