Well, the title explains it, really. I have people under Contacts, but it's a pain to have to hit contacts instead of just flipping through Favourites. Any way to import them all?
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In 1.5, I could do this (or something similar)
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=3a1a78cfe42ee8d9&hl=en
But that option is not there in 2.1. I'm assuming it has something to do with Sense.
Any ideas?
It's no longer there. It's a huge pain in the ass to me. Was super useful that it was an option in 1.5, a selling point for me, in fact.
i've posted in every Android and Sprint forum I could find. I even tried flashing the Contacts app from 1.5 to 2.1 but that never works.
The overal consensus on all forums is that they really don't care and nobody used this feature... what!? This feature is KEY in my opinion. I'm basically looked at as a whiner. I get that this reply is whinny but usually I come at it from a reasonable standpoint.
so annoying.
the way i fixed it was create a group for phone contacts and then i erased ALL of the contacts in gmail HAHAHA
/ME SLAPS FOREHEAD
On Darchdroid, I can go Contacts>Menu>Display Options>select my Google acct>Select the groups. But Darchdroid is based on AOSP, so I'm not sure about Sense.
Yeah, it's def. a Sense issue.
the way i fixed it was create a group for phone contacts and then i erased ALL of the contacts in gmail HAHAHA
/ME SLAPS FOREHEAD
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yikes. no thanks.
On Darchdroid, I can go Contacts>Menu>Display Options>select my Google acct>Select the groups. But Darchdroid is based on AOSP, so I'm not sure about Sense.
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This is because you have AOSP Contacts.apk and it can filtor out the contact groups you don't want. But you still have to have to stock contacts app on the phone with ALL your contacts which means they will still show up in the results list of any app that can look through your phonebook, like handcent, fring, other SMS and VOIP apps. Oh, and Google Voice too. Pretty good workaround but not ideal for me. I actually want them to not be synced in AT ALL.
I also would like to have this feature back. Under sense 1.5 you could chose between if you wanted my contacts and all contacts synced from your google account. I have not been able to find this option at all under 2.1.
Because I email other people through the web gui those people/email addresses now show up on the phone which I don't want (just like all my facebook people showing in the phone dialer) the only way I have found to reduce this is to go into google contacts on the pc and select all contacts>put a space in the search box(which now shows two groups other contacts and My contacts) and than delete any of the "other contacts" you don't want and add any you want into my contacts
Would a work around be make a [email protected], export the contacts you want to include, make android not link the contacts in your main email then link the contacts in your [email protected] account?
I had a simular problem with the Palm Pre where it would export my contacts from facebook (and really... I dont need half those peoples numbers) and then sync them with my Google contacts. So I had to create a Facebook contact and link every single person to that contact name so they would be removed from my list. It was really annoying. Took me about 15 minutes to fix but was good after that.
This is a f'ing JOKE!!!
What were they thinking. Hello HTC gmail is an email account not a phone book it seems pretty logical that people would have a number of contacts in gmail that they don't have phone numbers for.
I loved choosing which groups to sync. I specifically created a set of groups for the purpose of syncing with my phone. I certainly do not have a need to have all 500 of my gmail contacts on my phone.
So seriously no work around for this other then moving to a different rom?
email htc and ask for group syncing to be returned
After posting my feelings on here I went ahead and sent HTC a support request email. I encourage everyone to email HTC (and sprint for that matter, get sprint to apply some pressure on HTC to have this feature returned).
Here is the txt of the email I sent to HTC:
Hello
I have an HTC Hero from Sprint here in the USA. I updated to android 2.1 using the rom that you and sprint released. I am EXTREMLY UPSET!!!!!! This update had made managing contacts impossible. What were you thinking!!!! Gmail is an email service first and foremost so it would be clearly logical that gmail users would have contacts that they do not have phone numbers for and thus don't need to be in their phone. I have 500 contacts (yes 500 email contacts) and I DO NOT want 500 contacts in my phone. In 1.5 I could chose which gmail contact groups I wanted to sync with the phone but it seems like that ability has been removed in 2.1, WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???????????????
Please bring this feature back IMMEDIATELY. It should have never been removed. The remove of this feature has crippled me in the use of my phone.
Contacts in Phone App not necessarily People App....
I have 4200 contacts. I REALLY REALLY REALLY want this solved.
While testing the Andriod App and Google Contacts I realized a couple of things.
In Google Contacts selecting ALL Contacts I could REMOVE them from MY CONTACTS under GROUPS.
If you look to the left hand side column you will see MY CONTACTS now has ZERO contacts in it and ALL CONTACTS has all your contacts.
Then I selected ALL CONTACTS in the left hand side column. The I selected only the contacts I wanted to be in MY CONTACTS. When you click on a CONTACT you now have an option next to GROUPS at the top that say MOVE TO MY CONTACTS.
The great thing about this is under the PEOPLE APP only MY CONTACTS and the GROUPS I have created show up in the PEOPLE APP.
This is what I hoped would happen.
What happened in addition to this you ask?
Now when I go into the PHONE APP I click on MENU then PEOPLE and voila! Only the selected contacts come up. Perfect so far right?
Wrong. From the HOME screen I press the TALK BUTTON. When I start scrolling through the HISTORY of the calls and I arrive at the last HISTORY call I see that the 1st CONTACT of my 4200 contacts shows up. Then I scroll on down and realize that all 4200 contacts ARE THERE!!!!
So it is not only the PEOPLE APP that needs work but ALSO the PHONE APP. In my opinion.
Am I missing something?
So my question is now how do I tell the phone app to only sync whats in PEOPLE APP and not request ALL CONTACTS?
Any thoughts? Ive only worked and researched this for about 5 hours. So I am probably missing something.
Thank you for your help.
David
Build: Damage Control v2.09.01
Firmware: 2.1-update1
Baseband: 2.42.01.04.27
Kernal: 2.6.29-bc0d2cf
Hey everyone,
Like most of us, I have contacts in lots of places, and I would be happier if I could have them in one place. Google Contacts I think is the most appropriate tool for syncing contacts (not just with phone / Gmail) but with other places too.
It is rather straightforward how to sync Google Contacts with a TD2, but I really hate that when it does sync, it puts contacts in as Lastname,Firstname.
I was suggested that I use Contacts Changer (a Marketplace available app), but because contacts sync with ActiveSync, it keeps re-syncing and putting them back to the Lastname,Firstname format.
Does anyone know a solution to this? Anyone know how to make it show up in the contacts list as Firstname,Lastname? Permanently??
(Note: I considered putting contacts in using only the 'First Name:' field, but then that has downsides too. Sorry if I'm being fussy now )
Mate...I had to edit my 200contacts one by one on Google Contacts...and write them like:
PHIL_JONES
ROBERT_MILES
...
That was the only way so that they would be properly shown in mu HTC D2...
Hope it helps...
hey. was just wondering if there's anyway to sync selected groups of contacts instead of every damned one on my list.
reason is that i don't want hundreds of e-mails clogging up my contacts list.
sure, i can show only contacts with numbers. but there are some contacts which i only have their e-mails.
thanks!
i'm looking for something similar myself
i got several email accounts (more than 15) that i sync with and you can imagine the huge mess of contacts i have in my phone when i pull up the list to search for an email or phone number
i'm trying to find a way or something to organize all that
also to sync it all across all the accounts
or something along the line
just to clean them up and make it easy to the eyes
i have no problem finding the number or email of the person i need to contact
it just eye soring to see over a 1000+ contacts when you bring up the list to pick from the list.
good lord Android came with an awesome search build in, else it would have been a major pain in the arsenal as it was with Windows Mobile and PalmOS and every other smartphone i've ever had before, even Blackberry sucked at contacts handling
ah well. looks like for now i have to show only contacts with phone numbers. and add some random numbers for the important contacts that i only somehow have their e-mail addresses. bummer.
So my problem is that Ill set my contacts to not be synced with facebook at all, so its just my contacts names and numbers. then ill log into facebook and select "sync with existing contacts only" but then when I go into my contacts instead of just syncing with the contacts i put in only, it puts ALL of my 200+ friends info and numbers and pictures into my contacts. so its like no matter what i choose it decides to choose the "sync with all contacts." and i cant figure it out for the life of me and its really starting to piss me the [email protected]#$ off! any help would be MUCH appreciated!!!!
I have alot of crap like adress fb connections and stuff in my contacts. And now i want to clean up my contact so i only have the name phonenumbers and mailadresses is this possible to do in bulk?
Ive tried via export and excel but it does not seem right cus i get alot of adreeses in teh name colume and dont want to do anyting that could go wrong.
I have no dublicates like all the other threeds but i want to clean up everyting except the importent stuff on each contact in a bulk kind of way.
Thanks in advance
You could start by merging duplicates in Gmail through a browser, if that is part of the problem.
Slightly related, I really don't like skype, facebook etc swamping my contacts with theirs...
This is an awesome and annoying feature of current systems. It pulls all your contacts into one place but it also pulls all of your contacts into one place lol. FB contacts are the worst. I'm way OCD about this stuff, but I've resigned myself to just not think about it, as cleaning it up would be insanely time consuming. If I need to contact someone I look them up. If the contact has a bunch of crap or duplicates I delete it at that time.
If you are in the mood for some learning you could batch them in Access to remove info and export to a CSV Excel. Access isn't all that hard to learn and I think is actually easier to use for data mining/manipulation than Excel.
fullcontact.com
I would recommend you try http://app.fullcontact.com
Did me a great help with managing my 6000+ contact base.
I've tried every single pay service but to be frank they know what they are doing.
tarektarabichi said:
I would recommend you try http://app.fullcontact.com
Did me a great help with managing my 6000+ contact base.
I've tried every single pay service but to be frank they know what they are doing.
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Thanks for the tip! I will try it out, also have some porblems with my contacts.
Turn off facebook contact sync?
alternatively: Contacts --> Optionkey --> Contacts to Display & Contacts --> Optionkey --> Settings --> Only contacts with phones