My dad bought Redmi 9T. I synched his contacts (google account), but now when he opens the "phone" app, under contacts it shows emails as well. I tried looking how to hide contacts with emails, to see only contacts with phone numbers, but I don't see this option anywhere. Am I missing something here? Plz help!
Hia Yoco!
Your dad can go to contacts.google.com on his account, and filter those contacts there.
It's a manual task to clean up contacts, unless you use an app or tool dedicated for this.
There are some useful tips on how to avoid saving emails automatically on google, when mails are sent or replied to.
Read the second list item here.
denNorske said:
Hia Yoco!
Your dad can go to contacts.google.com on his account, and filter those contacts there.
It's a manual task to clean up contacts, unless you use an app or tool dedicated for this.
There are some useful tips on how to avoid saving emails automatically on google, when mails are sent or replied to.
Read the second list item here.
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He won't know how to do any of above so it's on me to do it! Can I create a group and move contacts with emails?
Do you know of a good app for this?
So I manually moved all contacts without phone numbers into different group on contacts.google.com.
But after opening phone app (bottom left), in contacts tab, it's still showing contacts without phone numbers.
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Is this phone app the default Xiaomi app, because it's really bad. I've never had so much problems with any phone before
Ahw I see! You could try to disable contacts sync under "accounts" in the phone settings (and make sure the sync is disabled before you continue) - then delete all contacts and/or clear the cache and data of the contacts application.
Then, attempt to re-sync the contacts again by enabling the contacts sync in the google account settings on android settings, and see if the grouping you did worked out. I am sadly not familiar with the phone in specific, but the contacts are fairly limited in terms of these features. If the problem is merging, contacts.google.com has this as well - it will suggest contacts to merge for you, if there are duplicates.
See in play store if there are better alternatives! It may help you a far way!
I tried as you said, but it didn't work. Even after I deleted all my contacts, on the phone app, all contacts are still visible.
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im switching from my G1 to Hero, is there an app that i can back up my SMS from G1, and restore them back onto the Hero, without rooting the Hero?
thanks
MyBackup can do this and more. I use the pro version all the time although I think the free version can do it too. You can find it on the market.
http://www.cyrket.com/package/tv.studer.smssync
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not exactly what you're looking for, but this is one of the first apps I install everytime I wipe my phone, I saves all your texts into any label you want on your gmail account, which makes them viewable online, and searchable through the gmail app on the phone
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http://www.cyrket.com/package/tv.studer.smssync
not exactly what you're looking for, but this is one of the first apps I install everytime I wipe my phone, I saves all your texts into any label you want on your gmail account, which makes them viewable online, and searchable through the gmail app on the phone
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This is one of the most useful apps I use since I wipe my phone a lot between installs.
circa85 said:
http://www.cyrket.com/package/tv.studer.smssync
not exactly what you're looking for, but this is one of the first apps I install everytime I wipe my phone, I saves all your texts into any label you want on your gmail account, which makes them viewable online, and searchable through the gmail app on the phone
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is there any way at all of getting these back onto your phone though? i'm sure there must be a way we can push them?
circa85 said:
http://www.cyrket.com/package/tv.studer.smssync
not exactly what you're looking for, but this is one of the first apps I install everytime I wipe my phone, I saves all your texts into any label you want on your gmail account, which makes them viewable online, and searchable through the gmail app on the phone
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Ever since I installed Cyangen's 4.2.5 ROM, SMS Backup went broken I tried reinstalling back that was total fail, not to mention, reinstalling made it not remember which was the last SMS I backed up. So it started backing up from the first SMS again, but it forces closes after it uploads the first SMS.
If there's a fix for this please let me know.
"Backup for root users" by BlackginSoft works has been working great for me in CM 4.2.5.
I've been using wavesecure. It backups your sms online and you can view and delete as you wish.
Restore works great too
I use Txtract. But I'm not sure if that's on the market anymore... works great. Saves it to html format in a threaded format, very nice.
I found out today you can only assign a custom ringtone to a contact in the "Phone" section of the phone book. SO I did my export google contacts to CSV and import them into the on line ATT addressbook trick to get them into my "Phone" Phonebook. With me so far?
Ok that done I decided to try once again to make the different lists you can set up contain contact info WITH pictures. I have every contact in my phone and I am using Google and facebook information. All contacts in the "Phone" section of the contact app are Linked to their Facebook and/or Google Counterparts.
Easy.
Now here's the stupid problem. My address GROUPS still look like THIS:
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In "Contacts" View the entries all have pictures.
In "Groups" View NO pictures.
Can anyone else duplicate this? I have two weeks to determine if there's something wrong with my phone before my 30 days are up.
Fyi you can export contacts using the phone app to csv on sd card then import them right back into "phone" to create the links.
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My Google contacts with pics have pics when added to family. I don't sync Facebook.
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Gunny, I'm having the same problem, I thought it was from SRE 1.2.3 or the lagfix or flashing too many times with Odin, lol.
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Gunny, I'm having the same problem, I thought it was from SRE 1.2.3 or the lagfix or flashing too many times with Odin, lol.
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I reverted back to total stock. Still having the problem.
I tred the export vcf thing but I get a parse error when trying to re-import them.
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I reverted back to total stock. Still having the problem.
I tred the export vcf thing but I get a parse error when trying to re-import them.
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That blows, I did a reinstall of a Nandroid Backup of a previous version of SRE last night after I used the SRE with death sleep, lol, and everything was synced and then after an hour the pictures and FB links disapeared. Now, my phone has been unplugged for 4 hours and the battery only lost 1%. These phones are wacky, but I love them.
If anyone else has this problem and wants to fix it, I found a solution.
Go to Android Market and install Contacts GroupU. Its a free contacts manager that integrates to your built in address book. Create your groups there and they show up in the Stock Contacts app with pictures intact.
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If anyone else has this problem and wants to fix it, I found a solution.
Go to Android Market and install Contacts GroupU. Its a free contacts manager that integrates to your built in address book. Create your groups there and they show up in the Stock Contacts app with pictures intact.
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Thanks for that, I will give it a try.
Hi guys..as u all know, some friend deleted my 'wallpaper' folder...now I have some 10gb of music which obviously don't want to delete..at the same time, I want the cool wallpapers...
So if i factory reset my hd7 ...wwill I lose all my data???including msgs and contacts...??
Short answer, yes. It's essentially a wipe.
Long answer, sync it to Zune frist, essentially backing up your tunes on your PC.
Text Msgs, etc, are gone. Contacts should be synced to the cloud (gmail, live, exchange) and can be resynced after a wipe. I recommend a live account (hotmail, msn, live), as the integration is really tight.
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Short answer, yes. It's essentially a wipe.
Long answer, sync it to Zune frist, essentially backing up your tunes on your PC.
Text Msgs, etc, are gone. Contacts should be synced to the cloud (gmail, live, exchange) and can be resynced after a wipe. I recommend a live account (hotmail, msn, live), as the integration is really tight.
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Thanx a ton!!
I got the wallpapers luckily..was looking in the wrong section...but I have a question...You mentioned that the contacts will be synced with the Live account...where can I look for it??
I mean, on my Live ID, where do i search??
THanx again!
For me, I use Hotmail. When I log into the Inbox, I simply hover over Hotmail at the top, and a little dropdown appears allowing me to choose contacts.
Failing that, pretend you're going to write a new email and click the to: button to add contacts. Should show you what it has. However, it'll only show contacts that have email addresses that way, so you're likely to get better results using the first method.
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Just check the Settings-->Email Accounts first to ensure you're even syncing contacts from your live account. For me, I'm only syncing email since I'm connected to Exchange.
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For me, I use Hotmail. When I log into the Inbox, I simply hover over Hotmail at the top, and a little dropdown appears allowing me to choose contacts.
Failing that, pretend you're going to write a new email and click the to: button to add contacts. Should show you what it has. However, it'll only show contacts that have email addresses that way, so you're likely to get better results using the first method.
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gee..thanx a lot..didnt know it was that simple...thanx for the screenie!!
and if I ever have to hardreset, will it mean I will necessarily I will b wiping my data clean?? Or can I just hit factory reset and the data will remain untouched??
THanx a lot.
Factory reset and hard reset do the same thing.
Hello,
Having problems with my contact auto sync, Im not sure what is causing it or why, but it seems that there is no way can get the autosync icon to go away. When I add and remove contact, and I turn sync off and on, the changes are made and seen on the phone as well as google contacts on the web, however I always have that icon present. YES, I have tried clearning data and cache from the contacts storage, contacts, and google contacts apps, with no change. I have removed my account and re-added it on my phone, with no change. I have removed all of my contacts from the website (google calendar) after exporting them, and still same sync problem with no contacts! Any help would be much appreciated!
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Haxsync with JB fix.
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Hello,
Having problems with my contact auto sync, Im not sure what is causing it or why, but it seems that there is no way can get the autosync icon to go away. When I add and remove contact, and I turn sync off and on, the changes are made and seen on the phone as well as google contacts on the web, however I always have that icon present. YES, I have tried clearning data and cache from the contacts storage, contacts, and google contacts apps, with no change. I have removed my account and re-added it on my phone, with no change. I have removed all of my contacts from the website (google calendar) after exporting them, and still same sync problem with no contacts! Any help would be much appreciated!
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Haxsync with JB fix.
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I have had similar random sync problems with my main google account on the phone. However, despite reporting an error it usually syncs anyway. Other than a re-flash (sounds like it would totally fix your issue), not sure what to do.
Also, HaxSync JB workaround is no longer necessary for any 4.2.x release. Perhaps this is causing some issue. Good luck, let us know what fixes it!
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I have had similar random sync problems with my main google account on the phone. However, despite reporting an error it usually syncs anyway. Other than a re-flash (sounds like it would totally fix your issue), not sure what to do.
Also, HaxSync JB workaround is no longer necessary for any 4.2.x release. Perhaps this is causing some issue. Good luck, let us know what fixes it!
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Thanks, your probably right with the false error reporting however the one is still on 4.1.2 so the work around I suppose will still be needed
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I am tearing my hair out over this. I use text messages to share contacts. Or at least I used to. This feature recently stopped working on my Nexus 6 (stock). To share, I select a Contact from Contacts, click the 3-dots, select Share and select Messenger. The moment I provide a contact to share to, I get the error message "Messenger failed to load attachment".
When I do a full factory reset, the feature works. But after it does the updates, I start getting the error. I have tried all the usual tricks like resetting app defaults, deleting app cache in both Contacts and Messenger. I even tried the factor reset option from Recovery instead of from Settings. Same result. Nothing seems to help. My wife has the same phone (only hers is the 32gb model and mine is 64gb) and she doesn't get the error.
Any ideas?
Phone is currently at Android 6.0.1, totally stock. The only thing I've done with Contacts is to use MyPhoneExplorer to sync them with Outlook. I even tried deleting the MPE Client after syncing and it still does it so I don't think it's MPE. (And my wife also runs MPE and hers is fine.)
Is this due to the Google messenger update? Mine just updated today which is odd since it says it updated 8/29
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I tried uninstalling the Messenger updates to go back to factory version and that didn't cure the problem.
Just FYI...I got an update earlier this afternoon for the stock Google Messenger app. Just now I tested it myself and was able to forward my contact card from my personal mobile number to my work mobile number without any problems.
So, IMHO, any problems don't seem to be related to the update of the Google Messenger app.
I'm starting to isolate the problem down to Contacts, not Messenger. I'm not sure what's going on. When I deleted ALL Contacts and then just put in two contacts for testing, things worked fine. I'm beginning to think that SOMETHING in MyPhoneExplorer, which I used normally to sync Contacts with Outlook, is corrupting something in the Contacts database which is causing the error.
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I'm starting to isolate the problem down to Contacts, not Messenger. I'm not sure what's going on. When I deleted ALL Contacts and then just put in two contacts for testing, things worked fine. I'm beginning to think that SOMETHING in MyPhoneExplorer, which I used normally to sync Contacts with Outlook, is corrupting something in the Contacts database which is causing the error.
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OK, I did some more testing and what I found is that if I synchronize my Contacts with Outlook using MyPhoneExplorer, those contacts cannot be shared via Messenger. It's as if there is something extra in them that screws up the vCard. If I sync Contacts ONLY with Google, they share via Messenger fine. That sux because I use MPE to do more than just Outlook syncing. It's really a great tool. I have posted this issue in the FJSoft forums (MPE maker).