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Duplicate contact problem to do with SIM Manager...

Please help me if you can. This problem has nothing to do with ActiveSync.
I transferred all contacts from my SIM Card to my Xda IIs without a problem - at first - but then I had to put my SIM Card back into my old phone, as there remained about 20 contacts in my old phone memory. So, I deleted 20 contacts from my SIM card memory, transferred the remaining 20 contacts from my old phone to my SIM card, then copied all my contacts to my Xda IIs again.
The problem is that all contacts but the 20 old ones, and the 20 new ones which replaced them, now have duplicate entries.
I was surprised that SIM Manager would not recognize the existing entries rather than add the same number twice. I would call this a significant bug. I have thought about trying again, but I don't want to end up with contacts in triplicate!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Found my own solution, albeit a potentially dangerous one:
Installed SKTools, which located all duplicates in no time at all. However, SKTools will not automatically delete the duplicate entry; one must select which contact of each pair to delete, one by one. This would not have made my task any easier but for that I still had these particular contacts on my SIM Card, so I toggled to select all duplicates and deleted both entries for each duplicate, which left me with only 40 or so contacts on my Xda IIs of the hundreds I had had originally. Then, using SIM Manager, I selected all contacts from my SIM card and copied to my phone contacts list.

Best way of moving contacts from old sim?

I have my old sim and I want to put the contacts from that sim on to my new Desire. I had to have a new sim and number for it so want to add the contacts from the old sim. I wondered what the best way was. Any help greatly appreciated......

I know it's laborious but you could copy your old contacts into your Gmail contact list, then they'll automatically be sync'd with the device. It'll be less of a ball-ache than having to key them in on the device.

I was wondering the same but seeing as hand problems going from SE sim contacts to Samsung HD contacts (loads more field options) then spent time having to clean up all the contacts.
So this time i was able to first export all my contacts to VCF files then just joined them up into one big VCF file split by GMAIL groups and they just synced straight to the handset as i was doing it.
Plus its a lot easier to edit the contacts via GMAIL than on the phone.

kazgor said:
I was wondering the same but seeing as hand problems going from SE sim contacts to Samsung HD contacts (loads more field options) then spent time having to clean up all the contacts.
So this time i was able to first export all my contacts to VCF files then just joined them up into one big VCF file split by GMAIL groups and they just synced straight to the handset as i was doing it.
Plus its a lot easier to edit the contacts via GMAIL than on the phone.
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that might be a plan. I have an old Samsung D900 so I might dload the software and see if I can put the contacts on my PC and export them that way..... I'll let you know.... thanks for the tip...

Bandare said:
I have my old sim and I want to put the contacts from that sim on to my new Desire. I had to have a new sim and number for it so want to add the contacts from the old sim. I wondered what the best way was. Any help greatly appreciated......
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Just stick your old SIM into the Desire and 'Import all contacts from SIM to phone'. This will transfer all your old SIM contacts to the phone itself. If you want these contacts in the new SIM (not necessary) then stick in the new SIM and transfer the contacts (now on the phone) to your new SIM.
If I'm not mistaken, I believe contacts saved on SIMs do not support multiple entries/fields or is quite limited.
If you want to transfer all your data 'as it is' (or as close as possible) then you need your old phone and transfer via a common software - MS Outlook for example.

doubly imported SIM and gmail contacts

Ok here's the story
saved contacts to gmail account
needed to return phone for repairs
exported contacts from gmail to SIM card
put SIM card in loaner phone
added new numbers to SIM card from loaner phone
got back real phone and inserted SIM card
imported contacts from gmail AND SIM card
Now all (but the newest) contacts appear twice What's the easiest way to fix them? Do I need to do all one at a time?

In contacts set which number or.places to show (gmail,sim etc)
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Delete all contacts and then just import from either gmail or sim, since they are identical.

You can also check whether your contacts weren't doubled on your Google account (via PC is most comfortable). If so - there is a tool to remove all doubled records offered directly inside your contacts list in the account.
Choosing the source of contacts to show as described above by colleagues will help surely as well. Regards.
Sent from where I was at the moment. Love mobility

Just download MyPhoneExplorer from market and for PC and have full access to your phone.MyPhoneExplorer was initially made for SonyEricsson phones but then expanded with android devices from all brands with WiFi support.
Try it ...

[Q] Remove old contacts from sd card

Hi
Delivery of my new Nexus has posed one very important question? My previous HTC sensation had all my contacts on board the sd card. I forgot to transfer the contacts to the sim and now my new Nexus has no sd slot and my pc wont read my phonebook contacts so I am in a spot of bother as I dont know who is calling me at anytime. Can anybody shed some light?
Rds

rdsreference said:
Hi
Delivery of my new Nexus has posed one very important question? My previous HTC sensation had all my contacts on board the sd card. I forgot to transfer the contacts to the sim and now my new Nexus has no sd slot and my pc wont read my phonebook contacts so I am in a spot of bother as I dont know who is calling me at anytime. Can anybody shed some light?
Rds
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One of the big advantages to have a Google Android phone over a non smart phone was the built in feature of contact sync between the device and the Google "cloud" for each Google account on the device.
I've always used this contact sync feature and it has provided peace of mind knowing my contacts are also backed up in the cloud where I can access them online, download them, edit or save them without having access to my device.
Also, as I move between Android devices, all I do is login with my Google account and the device loads my most recent version of the contacts and then continues to keep them in sync.
I do know Android stores the contacts in a .db file under the /data partition and this could be pulled from a device as a rough backup/restore method. I don't recall having heard of anybody saving their contacts to the 'sd card'. I'm not really sure the benefit to this. The contacts .db file for Android is an sqlite database, as all other .db files on Android are, and there are programs out there to import/export contacts to/from these sqlite .db files.
What type of contacts file are you referring to? .db ? Could you post up the name of the exact file? What application did you use to create the contacts on your sdcard?
The more detailed the information the better the reply.
Hope that helps and I didnt miss the mark!

Sync Device Contacts To Google?

New question: How do I sync contacts stored on the device to Google? When creating a brand new contact on the phone it asks where you want to save it, but for contacts that are imported via Bluetooth you have no choice as to where they are saved. Thus, I have contacts on the device I want uploaded to Google and can't figure out how to do that.
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Ok, this is a silly question. I have a second S4 which is for work. I have a gmail account specifically for that device (Google Apps corporate stuff as seen HERE), it syncs with my office outlook, etc. That said, I have a number of contacts on my personal S4 which I had been using until I got the company S4 which I want to now send to the work S4 so I can delete them from my personal S4.
Now then, what I want to happen is to be able to send the contact, have it upload to Google, and be done (thus also syncing with my Outlook in my office, etc). What I tried was to open contacts, menu/import/export/share namecard via/Bluetooth and sent them via Bluetooth. That worked, they show up in my contact list just fine, and they are stored on the device. Problem is, they don't seem to upload to Google.
Once (if?) they do, I want to be able to delete them from the device so they are ONLY stored on Google. Will deleting them from the device also delete them from Google again? How would I resolve this conflict if so? I don't want to sit and manually type all these contacts out into Google via web browser (or the phone) to have them sync down to the phone. One would think there would be another way...
Silly questions, I know. But hey, maybe someone has done this before.

I don't exactly remember where it is but if you're using the stock rom if you go to settings (don't know where it really is) there's some feature that allow you to do that, contacts msgs etc.. Its not group play but it's similar to it.. If you're using the stock rom then look for it kuz that's one of the things I first saw when I got the s4...
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Ok, so I ended up just sending all the contacts via Bluetooth since I needed them. That works fine, however they still haven't uploaded to Google. Web searching reveals lots of people with this issue.
New question: How do you force sync contacts stored on the device to Google?

02CWRX said:
Ok, so I ended up just sending all the contacts via Bluetooth since I needed them. That works fine, however they still haven't uploaded to Google. Web searching reveals lots of people with this issue.
New question: How do you force sync contacts stored on the device to Google?
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Settings->Accounts->Google->your account->Sync now should work.

It doesn't.

To the top, still looking for an answer here.

Try this
Select all the contacts that's on device and export it to sd card.
Now chose import from sd card and select which gmail account to import to.
The phone will scan the sd card and should pick up the file you exported earlier.
Edit: I just make up a bunch of contacts and save it to my device. Did the export to sd and import to my gmail account and it sync.

baseballfanz said:
Try this
Select all the contacts that's on device and export it to sd card.
Now chose import from sd card and select which gmail account to import to.
The phone will scan the sd card and should pick up the file you exported earlier.
Edit: I just make up a bunch of contacts and save it to my device. Did the export to sd and import to my gmail account and it sync.
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You're a genius. Since this is a work phone and didn't come with one, I had no SD card in it and obviously didn't want to spend my own money on one for it, thus the export to SD wasn't an option listed. I took the old SD card from my Sensation 4G, did as you suggested, and it worked. Thanks so much!
The only downside was that since I had so many contacts, I got a couple errors that I was trying to do too many at once. Hopefully it all panned out, I will be able to check Monday at the office. I am hoping the new contacts added here will sync down to my Outlook at work, but I think they will.
Thanks again!
EDIT: Everything worked fine. Thanks again!