Sorry to post a similar thread to others that seem to have no solution.
I posted this very similar question when I moved to an S-III 4 years ago:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3/help/character-limit-contacts-notes-field-t2440978
I dropped Samsung devices al along in favour of LG, but recently I got a Note 8 from my provider, just to discover that Samsung keeps doing the same weird thing of limiting the number of displayed and editable characters in the contacts notes field.
In the long time gone era of Windows Mobile, it can be fixed in the registry (not a big deal), but I've found no way to do that in Samsung Devices (my S-III question thread explain how LG solution is different, and workable).
3th party programs are either limited or incomplete, and are not a real solution to this stupid limit. Furthermore, some are limited themselves by dessing in other áreas.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, or I will have to send my NOTE 8 back to the store......
Regards.
I got the same problem. I sitched all my contacts (3k+) to Google Contacts and I use Google Contact app on my S8. My contacts are still accessible in Samsung Contact and in Phone app. Everything is good. Note that I also use it in Dex mode that is my main work station.
Mmmmm
Do I understand that you can import your contacts to the phone via Google Contact?
And do you mean your contacts are displayed and editable in full length (notes field included) in your native Samsung phone contact App?
Just sent my Note 8 back to Samsung for this reason.
I have no way to check it now, but would be extremely surprised if this worked.
I would appreciate if you explain exactly how you made it.
Regards.
In the native Samsung Contact app (Phone), note feild is displayed and editable only to 1000 chars.
In Google Contact app (must download), note feild is unlimited. You can also dial from Google Contact app. There is an option to transfer contact from Phone database to Google Contact Database, both online and on the phone. Then In Samsung Contact app you can see Google Contact. But do not edit note feild in Samsung app if over 1000 chars, you'll loose them!
Thanks for explaining.
So you have to rely on Google Contact for Samsung devices NOT loosing your valuable information.... and still if you edit a contact (even by mistake) in Samsung Contact App you will again loose your data....
Mmmmmm
I'd rather stay away from Samsung until they overcome this stupid limitation.
Not to mention that I don't feel confortable having my full contact data in Google hands...
I'm a real fan of My Phone Explorer Sync App: neat, clean, and privacy wise.
Regards
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ok so I know the captivate won't allow me to choose which gmail contact groups to sync (although other phones do, wtf), and I've told it to only display contacts with phone numbers, and I've also chosen to display only a certain group.
my problem is when choosing a contact to send and sms to it shows ALL contacts so I have a bazillion sale****@craigslist.com to sort through... using the search allows me to find what I want, but as a bit of a perfectionist it bothers me that this one little hiccup is left in my setup.
is there anything to be done about this? I'm ok using a different contacts program, or even a different sms program, so long as this issue is resolved.
Is anyone else having issue trying to do group messaging from your contacts? Before I upgraded to the Nexus 6 from the Note 2, I would go into my contacts (or Messages) and Select a group contact Like "362nd Soldiers" or "Coworkers" and be able to send a message to that group of people without having to manually select each and every person. I also noticed in messages, when I click on attach it goes straight to my camera and does not allow me to select another contact to send info or perhaps a pdf or excel file or an email link. This is vital in all facets of my life, reserves and my civilian job. I do not want to have to download an app for such a basic function that was pretty much automatic in all other phones. Am I missing something on how to do these basic functions or do I just need to get a different phone?
I tried searching the forums but I get anything other that what I am searching for and I have to go back to the main page of the forum and search Nexus 6 and go back to the main forums each time as well. The search function here is horrible and forget trying just to go right back to where you were. So I apologize if this question has already been answered.
Is it possible to display only contacts with phone numbers? I have contacts with only emails I don't want visible..
TIA
contentryder said:
Is it possible to display only contacts with phone numbers? I have contacts with only emails I don't want visible..
TIA
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Unfortunately this is one of the few bad things about Lollipop. The ability to display only contacts with numbers was removed.
These are the only options I've been able to find of what contacts to display
I had this option in my Note Edge, but in S6 I don't see it.
I was looking under phonebook, contacts etc.
Where is this option? Is it really gone?
Make Galaxy 6 ONLY display contacts with phone numbers
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Unfortunately this is one of the few bad things about Lollipop. The ability to display only contacts with numbers was removed.
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I found a way to fix this but it takes a bit of savey but this is a developers forum...
Export your google contacts (csv)
Sort your contacts by the phone number (there's 4 fields there, I sorted all 4 type/number) since I wasn't entirely sure the mobile 1 is really always there or not if there is a mobile 2 (1 is primary) but regardless I just wanted to separate the entries with phone numbers and those that didn't.
After sorted I deleted everything without a number.
I went into gmail and made a Phone contact list (if you want you can make an example entry so you know what it looks like I guess) but I could tell it was like * something:::* All Contacts in the one field, I just changed this to * Phone:::*All contacts
then I wrote out the file
Unfortunately even thought it's a CSV it tab delimited it vs comma (this may have been the libreoffice)
so i edited with vi and substitute all tabs with ,'s
s/(control-v)(tab)/,/g
when I did this is also had three "blank" lines at the beginning with all ,'s so I just deleted those to get the titles on the top.
I then went back into gmail contacts and imported this file
It populated all those entries in my Phone contact list
I then went to the phone and told it to only display entries from my Phone contact list and ...
PRESTO - I see only the entries with numbers now
Everything else is there but I don't see it in my phone when i want to select someone to dial!
Personally I think this is BS to have to do this but I just don't think there is another option.
Solution
A simpler solution is by going to Contacts - Settings - Display preferences - Hide incomplete numbers.
Im running MIUI 7 Lollipop
Luqman82 said:
A simpler solution is by going to Contacts - Settings - Display preferences - Hide incomplete numbers.
Im running MIUI 7 Lollipop
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Doesn't work on EMUI 4.1 on Huawei Honor 8.
I just went through and created some new contact records for some of my relative's kids who were formerly just listed as another cell phone under their parent's contact record in GMail contacts. I actually did this because in my AT&T SMS messages the custom labels I had given those phone numbers simply showed up as "Custom" in the texting interface, not the name I have listed for that number (BUG #1).
Probably created about 10 new contacts in the process. Several times I would make a few edits to a contact record and on the way out would get some kind of brief vague popup error message like "Contact info not saved" or something like that and the edits would be lost. If I went back in and made the edits one at a time and saved that worked almost every time, but sometimes that even failed. (BUG #2)
I wanted to post to make them aware so they can patch these down the road.
You need to have a Samsung account that syncs to the Google account contacts.
There is some kind of issue right now - I had no problem for the past two years but their Contacts are not syncing as perfectly as before and it's driving me insane. I just made a topic on it in the Galaxy S10 forum if you want to follow that and see if anyone has an idea.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s10/how-to/samsung-contacts-google-contacts-sms-t3917970
Hi. I have the S21 ultra Exynos international version (France). I change it or the indonesian ROM in order to have call recording. Nevertheless I have a huge problem with my contact file. The phone messes up all my contacts. I tried several times using my contacts backup files : always the same result : it's a mess. Never be able to find all my contacts : both side mess up : Google (via pc synchronisation) or S21 ultra via Samsung account. Any idea to solve this ?
By the past I had an Oppo find 7 and I had the same problem (due to the Chinese contacts format?). I dont remember how I procedded in order to fix that.
Thanking you in advance
Facts : once synchronised with my google account, all contacts have been "converted" in phone numbres i.e. I had lot of phone numbres of my contacts even in my sms and whatsapp recovered messages. In order to find a nam I had to search it within my contacts (samsung) application, edit it and then pass the call. In the same time when I took a look within the google contacts application I have the same problem, plus the fact that the number of my contacts is not the same as per the Samsung dialer/contacts application. Once I'm editing a contact and putting it in the "correct" form i.e. name then number(s) etc, there is not synchronisation withh my google account. Once i deleted all records from the Samsung contact application and imported my contacts via a vcard file (previously saved via pc through google contacts) I had the same result i.e. lots of numbers instead of names and some "correct" contacts. Synchronising with google does not provide a clean result and some contacts are missing. So i thing thtat there is a wrong mapping between google and my S21 ultra. I tried to make another import from my saved vcard to s21ultra and this time I declared to save all those contacts into my phone. I had the same result : lot of phone numbers and some "clean" records.
//TK
Hello TK!
Hope you are doing well
What is the problem exactly? You mention you have a problem, but not what the problem is.
You can also manage your contacts from contacts.google.com and sort/edit the information from there before syncing it to your phone.
tkparisxda said:
Hi. I have the S21 ultra Exynos international version (France). I change it or the indonesian ROM in order to have call recording. Nevertheless I have a huge problem with my contact file. The phone messes up all my contacts. I tried several times using my contacts backup files : always the same result : it's a mess. Never be able to find all my contacts : both side mess up : Google (via pc synchronisation) or S21 ultra via Samsung account. Any idea to solve this ?
By the past I had an Oppo find 7 and I had the same problem (due to the Chinese contacts format?). I dont remember how I procedded in order to fix that.
Thanking you in advance
//TK
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What do you mean by "it's a mess" ? That could be anything. Do you mean duplicates? Or unintelligible characters? Or missing numbers?
Could you at least describe the issue in detail? I'm not sure anyone will be able to help you fix something unless they can understand what is broken...
denNorske said:
Hello TK!
Hope you are doing well
What is the problem exactly? You mention you have a problem, but not what the problem is.
You can also manage your contacts from contacts.google.com and sort/edit the information from there before syncing it to your phone.
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Hi and thanks for your reply. I had already done this but no luck ! I updated my message in order to describe more preciously my problem
denNorske said:
Hello TK!
Hope you are doing well
What is the problem exactly? You mention you have a problem, but not what the problem is.
You can also manage your contacts from contacts.google.com and sort/edit the information from there before syncing it to your phone.
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Hi and thanks for your reply. I did what you are saying in the very beginning but no luck. I updated my message in ordrer to describe "more precisely" my problem
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What do you mean by "it's a mess" ? That could be anything. Do you mean duplicates? Or unintelligible characters? Or missing numbers?
Could you at least describe the issue in detail? I'm not sure anyone will be able to help you fix something unless they can understand what is broken...
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Hi and thanks for your reply. I updated my message describing my problem