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[Q] Need HELP! How to add contacts to groups???

Hi All,
Just got my Vibriant and had a quick question. I send alot of group emails and text messaging. I sync'd all my exchange, gmail and facebook contacts and they all show up under their own specific groups. I am able to create a group, but when I go to add a contact, it says no contacts? I also, try to go to the specific contact that I want to add but their is no where to select a group?
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

Ha, I thought I was the only one that couldn't figure this out. I gave up after screwing with it for 5 minutes.

I think grouping is not available for google contacts. Its only for "phone" contacts
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arshadaziz said:
I think grouping is not available for google contacts. Its only for "phone" contacts
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OK that explains it all my contacts are google contacts.

So would I need to import some how the corporate contacts that I have to the phone contacts to customize my own group? I will try... Another thing that I notice, I have 384 coporate contacts and if you long hold your corporate group you can check mark the contacts that you want but for me that's a long process...

arshadaziz said:
I think grouping is not available for google contacts. Its only for "phone" contacts
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@arshaziz, On an off shoot I noticed that you are sending from an XDA App, where can I find this app would love to have xda directly on my phone? Cheers!

interceptor63 said:
@arshaziz, On an off shoot I noticed that you are sending from an XDA App, where can I find this app would love to have xda directly on my phone? Cheers!
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Android market, search XDA

Hey All, just uploaded an app from the marketplace called "Groupy" and it solved my problem! You can pick contacts and move them into your groups you created in your contacts! Once you do that you can go back into your contact app and send a group sms!
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I have the answer! I had some problems with this as well. The best way that I have found to do this is:
1. Download Contacts2Sim from the marketplace
2. Use it to transfer all of your contacts to your sim card
3. Select the contacts you want and go to your phone and transfer them one by one from sim to phone.
4. Now that they are on the phone you can set up groups using with the contacts that you just moved over.
5. Once you set up your group, go back to contacts2sim app and delete the contacts from the sim
6. Restarting the phone will remove the duplicate entries from your contact list.
That should be it. Took me a day to figure it out. Any questions, feel free to email me at [email protected] or post a reply here.
Ryan

Hope this helps someone, I downloaded Groupy and was about to D/L another app; I found you can set sms groups with the android software (SGS) NO OTHER APP NEEDED;
1. copy contact from SIM to phone
2. open contacts
3. go to groups
4. open menu and create your group
5. open your group and select (add) contacts
happy group SMSing

Removing all contacts?

When I first got this phone I synced up my contacts from my computer but now I've merged everything on gmail, is there a way to remove all the contacts on the phone leaving only the ones from gmail?
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Any ideas? I don't want to got through and delete contacts one by one, and as out is now the names that show up from phone calls and texts are the numbers on my phone not the gmail ones.
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go into contacts then display options
uncheck everything BUT phone
then go to groups
create a group call it something like delete add contacts to group select them all
when done long press on group choose delete
then select delete group and members
then go back and recheck google in display options.

Thank you for that. I never would have done that on my own
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No problem. Happy to help where I can.

[Q] Default Contact Info Backup

Whenever I restore using TiBu using "restore missing apps + all system data", it doesn't restore my contacts' default info. I am backing up using the "backup all user apps + system data" batch. Is there something else I should be backing up?

When reinstalling do not choose system data just re install apps and data not system
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Restart your phone after restoring to get your contacts and texts to show up.

If I'm understanding you correctly just back them all up to google.

Here's what I do, after I'm done with titanium backup I go back into the folder and search for contacts. Copy everything that comes up from the search and delete the rest. Paste the contacts that u copied back into the TI backup folder which now should be empty. Go back into titanium backup on the phone and reload. You will probably need to do a reboot afterwords but that should get all your contacts back.
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All of my contacts are restored, that's not the problem. The defaults are not restored. For example, if I have an office number, a fax number and a mobile number stored for a contact and I set the mobile number as default before backing up, after I restore it no longer has a default (and usually tries calling the fax number).
Not sure if this matters, but I have contacts syncing from Google, a corporate account and Facebook.
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Doubled/triples calendar items and contacts

Since I updated to the official 4.0.4 I constantly get contacts and calendar items duplicated. Do you guys have this? Is there a possibility to wipe just the calendar and contacts and resync? Just taking the tickboxes out and putting them back.in the account settings doesn't cut it.
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may be the contacts are in your sim too.

Hi
You're not using multiple computers to sync by any chance? Further, if the information comes from Exchange Server, don't bother as you will never get it straight. I've tried everything to sync with Outlook and gave up, MS and Android just don't match

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Since I updated to the official 4.0.4 I constantly get contacts and calendar items duplicated. Do you guys have this? Is there a possibility to wipe just the calendar and contacts and resync? Just taking the tickboxes out and putting them back.in the account settings doesn't cut it.
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I am having the exact same problem...
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jaraya13 said:
I am having the exact same problem...
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Got the same problem here. Copy of my exchange calendar up 6 time.
If I Clear the account and re install if works fine for while but suddenly it start copying. ?

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Got the same problem here. Copy of my exchange calendar up 6 time.
If I Clear the account and re install if works fine for while but suddenly it start copying. ?
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ı got the same problem. Can changing the contacts application solve it. I will give a try. I will change the contacts app with galaxy s3

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801605
See this thread and try some of options stated
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I found a solution. First export exchange contacts to your ext usb and then open outlook and delete exchange contacts. When you delete from your pc your phone contacts will be deleted. Finally import the contacts from your ext usb and sync with your exchange. 2 days left nomore dublicated contacts.
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I found a solution. Just flashed Crash ROM v8 based on LRK and problem solved no more duplicate contacts nor calendar items. I am happy again! 4 days now and everything is perfect

Check this thread for solution. Apparently an update to gmail app solves it!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1799582

having the same issue contacts creating one additional copy each time it syncs. I have 7 copies of each contact. although you can select show contacts having number only will display only required contacts.

Contacts not visible

Hello guys
I changed my phone to z. Restored all the contacts from my old phone to new one.
After this is done. For few contacts I can't find their name or number when I search it using smart dial or phonebook search. But when that user calls me up his name n no. Flashes on the screen n stays in the call log. Later vanishes.
Could anyone help me to get all those hidden contacts.
Thank you.
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Did you make a backup of all your contacts on Googleaccount on your previous phone
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Nope. I dint backup to a Google account.
I used wondershare mobilego.
My old phone was HTC wildfire we could not keep 2 Google accounts in it old version of android so I dint backup n dint want to mess up my primary account.
N in this phone I backed up all the contacts to a gmail account.
But I can't find it in phone.
I.e. When I try to find contacts In phone home screen last tab after favorites. Three persons icon where u can find local groups n Google account
In Google account the count is 0 , though I backed up the contacts.
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Go to your contacts, optiond -> filter, expand the gmail account you used and make sure the correct group has a tick in the checkbox.

Thank you.
But in gmail account I checked all the sub fields.
When I backed up all my contacts to that gmail account.
After logging into gmail from my pc I'm able to see those contacts.
But in phone I can't find them under the Google account tab.
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karthik0001 said:
Thank you.
But in gmail account I checked all the sub fields.
When I backed up all my contacts to that gmail account.
After logging into gmail from my pc I'm able to see those contacts.
But in phone I can't find them under the Google account tab.
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Re-sync maybe?

Could be duplicated numbers or names?
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Yup.
I had so many duplicates must be *3
Coz I had the Facebook sync on old phone.
That's the reason I used mobilego app to delete the duplicate. It worked well.
Still I have few duplicates. Very few I don't bother much with it.
But if I factory reset n sync my gmail account will I be able to restore my contacts.
I doubt coz I'm not able to find them in my phone.
I'm planning to root. So will have to be doing a factory reset many times. I'm new to root.
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Resynced everything contacts calender etc.
No change
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Sync your contacts to Google than open your gmail on your pc and check if all your contacts are there before doing a factory reset.
In gmail there is an option to merge all duplicated contacts
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This happened to me too. I found out the contacts merged somehow O_O it's apparently a problem that other people have (Google it) as well. I painstakingly just unmerged every single one manually
Check if the contacts are merged!

apkapkapk said:
This happened to me too. I found out the contacts merged somehow O_O it's apparently a problem that other people have (Google it) as well. I painstakingly just unmerged every single one manually
Check if the contacts are merged!
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My Z merges contacts with every single reset or flashing of the phone. Became a bit wearisome.