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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] How to sync Facebook pics to Messaging :(

I noticed that even though i have Facebook set to sync with existing contacts, it doesn't sync the profile pictures of people with the messaging app. it does show the pictures in Contacts, but not messaging or phone calls. Is there anyway i can do this without any apps from the market? i wanna keep the stock messaging app. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Current Rom: Mosaic III (2.3.3)
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Update on this, I've figured out how to sync my Facebook App with my contacts.
when i launch contacts it shows each persons Facebook Profile picture next to their name, however when I launch messaging or phone, I do not see these pictures, instead they are replaced with the default "No Picture" image
has anyone figured this out?
Rom: Mosaic V

I would ask in the Rom q&a thread as this should be the normal behavior if the snsprovider etc are incorporated into the Rom. Haven't messed with any of their new stuff but I would assume they have the correct apks included.

Delete all your accounts. Use the integrated Facebook thing in Accounts to sync your Facebook account to your phone. Then install Facebook and Twitter app.
Remember to clear Samsung Mobile in your Facebook App page, otherwise it won't work properly.

geokilla said:
Delete all your accounts. Use the integrated Facebook thing in Accounts to sync your Facebook account to your phone. Then install Facebook and Twitter app.
Remember to clear Samsung Mobile in your Facebook App page, otherwise it won't work properly.
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+1 only way it works correctly
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Facebook pics on contacts

So suddenly my contacts that are joined with my facebook friends aren't sharing the pics. Used to be that whenever I would get Call or a text the contacts name would show up with their facebook picture. Now all of a sudden it just shows an android pix. Although the facebook pix will show up in the contacts page. Anyone have any ideas? Im using com rom 2.1 and this high voltage reenergized.

Here is what I do. I use the Max os x address book and sync it to my Google account, and there is an app that sybcs Facebook info with address book. So I sync Facebook and address book, then address book with Google, the Google with the phone. Haha.
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Have you tried setting defaults, with joined contacts, to facebook pics?

i am having the same problem on the latest commrom

Try friends caster..for facebook..
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Efrencalvario said:
Try friends caster..for facebook..
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There is no option to link photos in the app. Does it do it automatically? Been a few hours since installed and nothing has changed.

Here's a question to all: is this linked account done via the Facebook app or SNS? I noticed personally that pictures would only show up with SNS configured.

How do you set defaults? Been looking around on phone and can't find anything. Also, I sync using facebook so everything isn't doubled up. Is that why the pics aren't linking?

I have the same issue
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zimsport said:
How do you set defaults? Been looking around on phone and can't find anything. Also, I sync using facebook so everything isn't doubled up. Is that why the pics aren't linking?
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You can tell the Facebook app to not sync contacts, and tell SNS to sync contacts, and you won't double up. That's been my experience on CR2.1.

Running ComRom 2.1 and have had same problem. SyncMyPix didn't work for me, but I did find a workaround.
I downloaded and installed 'Phonebook' from Market. It is a contact replacement app. I logged into Facebook through the app and it matched my existing contacts and it automatically downloaded their Facebook pictures and replaced all the Contact pictures.
Now when I go back into 'Contacts' all the latest Facebook profile pictures are with the contacts. And the photos also appear for incoming calls and text messages.
Hope that helps.

You gotta go into facebook settings. And then select, "Sync existing contacts with facebook contacts". The names have to be exactly the same as well or else it won't sync automatically. Otherwise you'd just have to link it manually.

is there a way to link contacts in cm7?

Go into market and search "syncmypix"
It takes all the pictures for contacts you have and uploads them to Google contacts
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i have no prob with my pics not being link i do however have a few that names dont match up entirely and some starggler contacts that i can usually "link" to there name in fbook and it works great. Anyone?

bigjobber69 said:
i have no prob with my pics not being link i do however have a few that names dont match up entirely and some starggler contacts that i can usually "link" to there name in fbook and it works great. Anyone?
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1) Go into your Google contact
2) Select menu -> edit
3) Menu -> join
4) Profit

sweet but a pain in the ass from when just needed to click menu on contact and go join. But good find none the less!

shanky0506 said:
Here's a question to all: is this linked account done via the Facebook app or SNS? I noticed personally that pictures would only show up with SNS configured.
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You are 100% correct. I disable the facebook app from syncing. Then I re-created the SNS facebook sync, and joined my contacts again. Everything shows up.

davidstre said:
You are 100% correct. I disable the facebook app from syncing. Then I re-created the SNS facebook sync, and joined my contacts again. Everything shows up.
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LOL mine is the opposite....I have SNS off and fbook app does it.

Previously Contacted Persons Syncing as "Contacts"

This has been driving my crazy since I got the phone, and I thought it was a combination having multiple email accounts set up (gmail, @Live, @aol, @corporate, etc.). However, I've cleaned out my contacts from my non-Gmail list, and still have this issue.
The issue being:
I have my Gmail synced from all-time, so from 2008 or whatever it was. When I compose an email in any of apps (Outlook, AOL, Exchange, Gmail, etc.), ANYONE who I've ever emailed with on my Gmail account will pop up as a contact. So if I begin to type my friend's name in "Michael", rather than having 3 Michaels pop up, I have about 50 "Mi..."s pop up.
Anyone have any clue how I can remedy this so that only the 150 people or so I have as actual contacts will popup instead?
Thanks!

Anyone? I hope the solution isn't "root"!

If you go into your contacts, bring up your menu click contacts to display. go to customize and uncheck "all other contacts". If I have it checked under my Gmail accounts I have 1484 contacts, Everyone I have ever sent/got an email too/from, Craigslist addresses, mailing lists, spammers, etc. unchecked I have 160. I could be mistaken but I vaguely remember an option on the gmail webmail client settings (years ago) to add anyone you talked to into your contact list. On my old note 2 there was an option to only display contacts with phone numbers but I can't find a similar option on the turbo though so you may still have a few unwanted ones if you have email only contacts.

Seemed to have worked, thanks! Now working on getting my Exchange to remove some unwanted contacts, but this was huge!!!
Thanks!!!

No sweat, glad it helped!
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