Upgraded 2.1 Official rom.. Now contacts wont show?
I just upgraded to 2.1 but now my contacts wont show up in my contact book but they are appearing when people call/text? they're saved on my SD card and I've tried restoring several times. Anyone having this issue? I've tried rebooting and pulling them off my card using the import .vcard but then I get this process com.android.phone after 5 contacts are pulled in.
sorry if this isn't exactly developer section but I'm not sure where else to get a solution.
This probably belongs in sprint Q&A..
Don't you sync contacts with google?
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I've cleared my contacts a bunch of times (by going into manage applications and clearing them in the app) and reloaded from my SIM card. It seems like each time i come back from my phone sleeping or turning on (i haven't totally figured out the pattern) i'm seeing 6 or 7 copies of the same contact for all of my contacts.
is there any known issue between 4.0.4 and contacts? should i import and then store somewhere else? how to I go about choosing a different place to store them and a different place for my contact app to look for them?
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DaveKid
Are they coming from google via sync? You can turn contacts sync off, but maybe logging into google http://mail.google.com , clicking on contacts and removing any you don't want from there.
they are all coming off my sim card.
goto my.tmobile.com and make sure your contacts there is empty. Your sim may be syncing with tmo.
no contacts on tmobile except for myfaves.
Got it...needed not only to make sure i didn't have any tmobile contacts but gmail as well. found them all in my gmail account. didn't realize it synced with that by default.
DaveKid said:
Got it...needed not only to make sure i didn't have any tmobile contacts but gmail as well. found them all in my gmail account. didn't realize it synced with that by default.
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That was my first suggestion and you slapped me down
omg...my bad...you are totally right. crap...i wasn't paying attention. sorry about that.
Does anyone else have this issue?
My contact list displays all three sources...SIM/Phone/Gmail no matter what I select in "display" I had to delete all SIM and Phone contacts and just use Google Contacts not to have duplicates...
Maybe it is something I am doing wrong? Did not have this issue with 2.1.
I don;t use exchange. I am Google centric so Its not a bad thing but i was wondering if anyone else noticed this on their updated Phones.
I had the same problem. I had to unjoin all my contacts and delete all the multiples.
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I had the same issue. It's bothering me, so I'm just going to pretend it doesn't exist.
Great I am glad its a "bug" and not unique to my device. I use Google contacts as it syncs. Phone and SIM contacts have no benefit for me. I have back ups to the SD card JIC.
Google contacts all screwed up.
found issue in other thread
they need to add an option to remove duplicates.
Ok...I totally F'd up. I flashed from 2.1 to COG 2.2-6 not knowing that my contacts on the simm card were going to be erased. Is there a way to get them back?
Click on the phone icon, then click on contacts, then click on the far left button on the bottom of your phone the one to the left of the home button(forgot what its called) there will be a import option. Your contacts may be saved to your memory card if you put them there. Worth a look.
Also next time use this to export contacts before flashing.
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well...I'm really hosed now...back to square one...I tried Titainium back to get contacts....that f'd up the contact app in the phone app...keeps force closing...then I tried to restore to JH7 using Rom manager.....that f'd up my log on. Now it gets stuck at the welcome screen....so I then tried to go back to my very first backup.....same results....looks like its Odin to JF6 for me....
But...I was wondering.....does a rom manager back up save the contacts stored on the simm card?.....could of saved myself a bounch of trouble if I knew the answer to that question ahead of time....
Contacts saved on the sim card should not be effected by flashing a rom at all, it is only contacts saved on the actual phone that would be lost. I'm amazed that so many people these days don't sync their contacts with the cloud, all I need to do after flashing a ROM is enter in my Google account info and then all contacts etc are synced up automatically.
jaseone said:
Contacts saved on the sim card should not be effected by flashing a rom at all, it is only contacts saved on the actual phone that would be lost. I'm amazed that so many people these days don't sync their contacts with the cloud, all I need to do after flashing a ROM is enter in my Google account info and then all contacts etc are synced up automatically.
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I did try and sync from sim and the numbers were not there.....thats why I was trying to go to a previous restore to see if they would be there....going from eclair7 to cog 2.2-6 blasted all my data out....
also...I did try the gmail thing but it was interfereing with personal ringtones when sync'd...so like a dumb ass I deleted them off of gmail.....that wont happen again
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also...I did try the gmail thing but it was interfereing with personal ringtones when sync'd...so like a dumb ass I deleted them off of gmail.....that wont happen again
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Either use Ringdroid from the market to assign ringtones to Gmail contacts or just create a phone based contact with the same name that should automatically link to the gmail contact and allow you to set a ring tone, kind of annoying to do though but much better than losing your contacts.
jaseone said:
Either use Ringdroid from the market to assign ringtones to Gmail contacts or just create a phone based contact with the same name that should automatically link to the gmail contact and allow you to set a ring tone, kind of annoying to do though but much better than losing your contacts.
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UPDATE...got phone back up and running on Cog 2.2-6. Found my .vcf backup with Astro....uploaded it to Google and then sync'd back to phone...all better....on side note...for whatever reason my phone is not picking up the .vcf when I try and restore it from the contacts menu. I Googled the issue and seems to be common. Thanks for the responses.
Same problem, but I found that turning on car mode caused the contacts to suddenly appear. After turning off car mode contacts worked properly. I saved the contacts to the sim card between update tries & the contacts import would never find it. Guess Titanium had it but left it hidden for some reason.
Hey, here's a better answer. You'll something like Root Explorer. Seems the contact app saves the contacts in /sdcard/sd (provided you exported them to the sd card. When you try to re-import them the app claims nodda. That's because the app is looking at /sdcard/external_sd for whatever reason. I just copied the .vcf file over to that location & bam contacts will import.
Can someone help me on this? I've saved all my contacts into the SIM card and I know that they're still in there because when I wanted to add another contact into it after flashing, it was stated that the SIM is full. The problem is, the contacts won't appear even though I've checked the SIM contacts box under 'display options'.
Did you import them from the contacts menu .
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I am having the same issue.. just went from Eclair to Gingerbread 2.3.3 and when I try to import contacts from SIM, none show up. Yet, when I put my SIM back into my Samsung Eternity, all of my contacts show up..
At least I know it's not just me!
When my USIM contacts were not recognised by Whatsapp on my O2x, I converted them all to MS Exchange contacts. Today I froze the stock email app to replace it with a different one. After I did this, all my contacts vanished! I lost all phone numbers stored on my phone. Unfreezing the mail app has not brought them back. What can I do? This is a disaster!
Sorry if this is the wrong forum.
don't have an answer for you but I always sync my contacts with my gmail just in case something like that happens
smokie700 said:
don't have an answer for you but I always sync my contacts with my gmail just in case something like that happens
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Unfortunately I didn't sync my contacts with anything..
I don't understand, surely freezing an app shouldn't delete any data? I'm hoping the contacts are still there some how and can be recovered.. but how?
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Nevermind, found a solution. I remembered that, when I first put my SIM card into the O2x, a lot of contacts were there even though I deleted them in the past on my previous phone. So I figured the reverse might be true.. and yes, when I put my SIM card in my old phone, I was able to see my contacts again. Apparently when USIM contacts are deleted they are not actually removed from the phone, although for some reason the phone that deleted them does refuse to read them. Now I just have to manually enter each contact on my O2x and make a back-up.