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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

[Q] (Q) Help With Syncing Facebook

I have had a Motorola Droid 3 for about a week now. I just downloaded the Facebook App. It asked me to sync my contacts, so I did it. Now when I go through my contacts, there are doubles. There's the contact that was originally on my phone, and the one that came off of Facebook. I don't want to delete the original because I'm not quite sure if the number on Facebook is the correct number, and I like the idea of having a picture ID for my contacts. Any help would be appreciated.

you can join the contacts, although the process of having FB contacts and GMAIL contacts should be automatice. did you add a FB account in the account setup portion?
to join, edit the account, hit menu and then join. select accounts you want to join.
i have to do this with a few friends that insist on using aliases on FB.

On facebook you can disable the contact importing to your phone. Or on your phone in the main contacts directory you can disable contacts from fbook sync from showing. I had done it another way when I first got my droid 3 which was less of a hassle but I think I did it by luck.
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Socialhub software facebook issue

Note is my first Samsung Android device and I liked the Socialhub app so much. It is much better then friendstream app of HTC. But when I click on facebook links I always end up with a browser screen with warning message this page cannot be shown. Anybody knows how to fix this or is this a well known bug? I don't know if its related but email app also doesn't show attachments as well.
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What is the usefulness that you find with Social Hub that the Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn app can't do? They get integrated with your contacts too and you can open profile from contacts.

[Q] evaluating WP8 purchase: is there Hangout app and Google Contacts Sync ?

Hello,
I am evaluating switching to WP8,my question is: is there any app to allow me to chat with Google Hangout contacts, and does it sync with Google contacts ?
Thanks in advance to anyone answering me.

Google contacts (and calendar) sync automatically, yes.
I haven't tried any of the Hangouts apps, but there are several available that offer group chat.
If you just want basic chat, then any app which supports GTalk (Jabber/XMPP) should still work, although I think Google may be phasing out that support in their ongoing quest to remove features that people use but which don't make money for Google. IM+ (and many other chat clients) support this protocol.

Thanks a lot for answering.
Perhaps I could evaluate to switch also to another chat system, like Viber.
Thanks
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select contactlist in telephone app

Hey guys,
I'm looking for a solution on how to specify which contactlist is to be shown in the telephone app (NOT the contacts app)
right now, my S10 displays ALL contacts, from all sources (google accounts, simcard, phone contacts) together and thats just a mess....
I want it to show my contacts from my google account only...
So is it possible to select a specific contactlist to display only?
please keep in mind, that I am talking about the contacts in the telephone app, not the "contacts" app.
thanks for your help

oh, no one with this problem?

I also have this issue. On Huawei's EMUI it was possible to choose the contact list including groups when using Google.

Same problem but no solution... ):

I'm using the Groups-Icon in the contact list to filter. But it's kinda annoying. It's faster to search for the specific contact.

xsvaxn said:
Hey guys,
I'm looking for a solution on how to specify which contactlist is to be shown in the telephone app (NOT the contacts app)
right now, my S10 displays ALL contacts, from all sources (google accounts, simcard, phone contacts) together and thats just a mess....
I want it to show my contacts from my google account only...
So is it possible to select a specific contactlist to display only?
please keep in mind, that I am talking about the contacts in the telephone app, not the "contacts" app.
thanks for your help
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Hi... is this mby what you are looking for ... look at the screenshot..( follow the arrows)..

thx all. its good to know, that I am not the only one with this problem.
Xode said:
look at the screenshot..( follow the arrows)..
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thank you for your screenshots, which actually show how to create a new contact and where to store it.
But my problem is, that I want the telephone app to show contacts from one specific source only...
For example: show / display contacts from gmail-account X only...