I have several accounts of contacts. Whenever I save a new contact I cannot chose to which account I would like to save to. It let me choose when I added the last account, now I cannot change it, nor setting a default one and even choosing for a single contacts when adding just one. Any idea? Thank you.
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It doesn't give you the option to name it when you create a new account & I've looked in the Account Settings & the option to change the display name is grayed out.
Any ideas?
Once the account is created, it is not possible to change the label. If you wish to label the account with a name of your choice, delete the account and create a new one but this time, configure the account manually instead of using the wizard to set everything for you.
I was hoping there was a different way. Oh well, guess I'll try that. I currently have them set as POP3 accounts since you can change those.
Hi All,
The Defy has what my google account contacts sync"ed" seem okay., now I hve many contacts in the Defy which is fine.
However, when I manually add contact within my Defy, it shows me "saved okay" but the contact I made is not seen from anywhere afterwards in the Defy., nor in my google account in gmail dot com/contact
I tried & tried & tried again, no hope. The Defy kept say "SAVED" but it couldn't be found from anywhere in the Defy the contact I manually added. Just like I never add one.
See if any solution from you guys. Thanks much. edmond
For me there are a few “annoying” things with adding contacts on the DEFY. I recently had to return mine due to the earpiece failure, so the following may be slightly off because I am working from memory
1) By default a new contact will be added to ALL accounts. For me this meant that each name would be added to 4 accounts (AOL, Exchange, Blur and Tmo). I believe the setting to change this is in contacts. You need to un-check the accounts that you do not want a new contact added to. UNFORTUNATELY, you cannot un-check the Blur account I would add a contact, then “un-link” the contact so I could delete the Blur contact and keep only gmail contact...
2) New phone contacts for any account other than Blur are “hidden”. Again setting under contacts will prompt you to select which contacts you want to un-hide.
3) New gmail contacts are not saved under “my contacts”. You may see that they show up under “other contacts” when viewing your gmail account on a PC...
Hey guys,
I'm on v4.0.4; sense 4.1
How can you choose which account to select by default every time you want to create a new contact, in case you have multiple Google accounts.
In other words, if you have multiple Google accounts, and you create a new contact you can select, from a drop down list, to which account you want to add your new contact. How can I choose which one to be select by default?
Deleted.
Is there an option to save contacts in the Google account by default? I saw a lot of suggestions but none of them works. Every time i add a contact it's back to 'phone' by default.
It only defaulted to phone with me the first time. Has defaulted to Google ever since.
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I have the same problem. I came from Samsung Galaxy and i think it remembers where did I save contact last time.
Quick test looks to me like the default save contacts location that comes up is the last one you used.
So save to Google contacts once and next time that's the default.
Pretty old thread but anyway. I have same problems regards to contacts. Even if my first saved contact is on google, for next one it asks me again to save it on phone. Any idea how to change that?
Same here. Any solution?
Any solution please? I have the same problem. It doesn't matter where you saved the last time, it will always save to "Phone contact".
Thanks.
You might try deleting (from the phone), and then re-adding, your Google account.
Hello, i tried everything that was suggested, so far i lost dozens of contacts when upgrading to android 5.0 because i was used to saving them on my google account.
Is there any way of making the google account the default save location for the contacts on the Android 5.0 ? Is there an app that does this?
- Already tried removing and adding the google account
- Cleared data from phone and contacts app
- Show only google account contacts.
- Saving a contact on the google account and rebooting, or adding a contact on the google account and another after.
Every time i try to add a contact it defaults the save location on the phone.
When you are saving contact there is option to choose where you want to save it.
That option is missing only when you are saving contacts that someone has send them to you via Whatsapp. Then it is saved to phone memory.
Hello. I have the same problem. Any suggestions? Thanks
Hi,
When I create new contact the default is save it to phone memory and not to Gmail account.
Only if I change it manually it's saving to Gmail.
There is any option to change the default to Gmail instead phone?
Thank you !