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Contacts only off of my sim card?

What if I only want to use the contacts off of my sim card and not contacts saved to phone or from my Google account? Is this possible?

Yes, contacts -> display options uncheck google and facebook.

Do I need to "Import from SIM card". With my Vibrant and any other GSM phone I just slide the SIM in and there are my contacts shown off of my SIM. Does stock Android not do this?

I imported my SIM contacts and in display options under Choose contacts to display. Only Google is showing up AND I am showing triple contacts in my phonebook, YES THREE OF EACH CONTACT. What the HECK is going on. A little frustrated with this.

DanRo80 said:
I imported my SIM contacts and in display options under Choose contacts to display. Only Google is showing up AND I am showing triple contacts in my phonebook, YES THREE OF EACH CONTACT. What the HECK is going on. A little frustrated with this.
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first of all, in contacts under accounts, uncheck sync contacts.
then delete all the phone contacts (you may use mass contact delete app from market).
then import from sim card.
in this way, no repetitions and only sim contacts would be displayed on the phone.
also if you want to manage the contacts on phone and on the sim use "contacts to sim" app from market.
hope it helps.
and also to mange the contacts of your gmail, in pc go to gmail, then on left side, click contacts.
and in options click merge duplicates. it does it.
but again duplicates. lol
so what i did is deleted the gmail contacts and if it again backups i delete again.
hope it helps.

Thanks for your assistance. I just wish that "SIM" would show under "Accounts" just as it does in my Samsung Vibrant.

[Q] Sync Google Contacts -*SOLVED*

Is anybody having problems with sync of contacts from Google after the GB upgrade?
When i go to Settings -> Accounts & Sync -> Google
and run the sync of Contacts, i get the message "Sync is currently experiencing problems. It will be back shortly".

I have added a new Google account and can sync Contacts from that account, but not from the existing Google account.
Tried to delete the first Google account, but then i get a message saying that it can only be deleted by a Factory Reset.
So how to delete the first Google account so i can add it again?

This is what i did to solve the probelm:
First, press menu and go to "settings" - click on "Accounts & snyc" - uncheck "background sync" - now use your back key to get back to the screen where you saw "Accounts & snyc" and then click on "Applications"
Locate "Contacts Storage" - if you can't find "Contacts Storage", click menu again and select filter, then select all - open the "Contact Storage" and click "clear data" of "Contacts Storage"
Get back to the first step above and recheck "background snyc" - it will start to snyc and take anywhere from 2 minutes to 15 minutes
If you have problems with "calendar" and "gmail" do the same steps above to for "Calendar Storage" and "Gmail Storage"

[Q] Cant add, view or edit "Phone Contacts", only "Google Contacts"

[Q] Cant add, view or edit "Phone Contacts", only "Google Contacts"
This is really weird, I've had the phone about a year now but just today I decided to add a custom ringtone to one of my contacts, which even though I'd done it before, I couldnt find any way to do it again for another contact. All my contacts are google contacts synced with my gmail. So I went to display options to see if the phone contacts were being hidden but there isn't even an option to view them, only my google contacts. Tried to add a New Contact but there isn't even an option any more to save as phone contact instead of google.
Does anyone else have this problem or is it just me?

[Q] is there any way to save contacts to SD card..?

i wonder if there a way to save contact to SD card.. so i don't need to Sync to Gmail anymore.
if any1 knows it.. tell me please..
cause when i sync to Gmail.. 1 contact can be 4 on my contact after i sync..
or is there anyway to delete contact on Gmail..? so when i sync it won't fill up my contacts..?

try this
go to contacts > press menu button (left button) > choose export to sd card

droidface said:
try this
go to contacts > press menu button (left button) > choose export to sd card
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hmmm.i think what he is saying is that if we can make the default storage of contacts be in sd card so he wont need to resync after wipe data.
as far as i know it can't? don't know if others can but me myselft don't know any method to do it.
can press "Thanks" if i helped,;]

2nd post op is right can tact can be exported to sdcard with that option and after a wipe they can be restored
one other thing the op of thread can do is go to "contact to display" setting and unticking Google from the list

eksdiey said:
hmmm.i think what he is saying is that if we can make the default storage of contacts be in sd card so he wont need to resync after wipe data.
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Personaly i think it's not good idea, things are saving in phone memory (like widgets, contacts, settings) are essential to good working phone without his sd card. Placing there contacts is quite weired :|. Wonder that would be unpractical if you using 2 sd cards

okay, here's a tip how i reorganize my contacts so i dont have duplicates and also clean contacts database..
at first we need to use gmail and it would be easier to open it from pc..
step 1 : sync your phone contacts with google
step 2 : open gmail, login and go to contacts (click on the text gmail, you'll see 3 menus: gmail, contacts and tasks.. choose contacts)
step 3 : export your contacts to sdcard, and import them to gmail.
step 4 : on the left, choose "My Contacts"
step 5 : select all contacts, and on the "More" drop down menu, select "Find & merge duplicates..."
step 6 : recheck your contacts manually for empty names or numbers/emails without names (in my case, there are some emails with no name, so i just delete the not important ones, and merged the ones i recognise with the correct contacts)
now, if you think you've sorted all of the contacts then you could MERGE/DIVIDE the contacts into groups..
you could do that by ticking all the contacts and click the "Groups" drop down menu, and uncheck everything except "My Contacts" group.. this step is to remove "imported" groups from android..
if you need to divide contacts into groups then you can select the contacts and create a new group from the "Groups" drop down menu..
Now, if you think your contacts are perfect, this is the last step.
EXPORT YOUR GMAIL CONTACTS to pc for safety reason.. then
DELETE ALL YOUR CONTACTS FROM THE PHONE (you could install "go contacts" or similar app to easily bulk remove them.)
SYNC your contacts from your phone
and you are done.. after all contacts are correctly synched to your phone, you could export them again to SDcard for later use..
sorry if the steps are messy and maybe a little unclear, if there's any questions just let me know

[Solved]Duplicated contact

Hi, I've just patched my nexus 6 with 1 March patch.
But honestly I'm not sure if it's from patch or not.
Some of my contacts are doubled, some are tripled, and some have no duplicates.
I checked via web based google contact, and it has no duplicate, just normal.
My other logged account have no contacts at all (even though the contact sync is checked)
I also download contact optimizer app, it gives me no duplicate, and shows normal list.
I go to contacts and try the contact to display, my second account shows only a handful email address (which is true and normal) but my main account shows those multiple contacts
I tried to delete one of the duplicate and end up losing all of the contact. umm..sorry for bad english...i mean ...
i got A, A', and A". deleting A end up losing A' and A"... so i need to re-add the contact from scratch...
the duplicate contain is exactly the same
again, sorry for bad english.
and Thanks.

Assuming you are using the stock contacts app, tap the 3 dot menu, and click "Contacts to display" - is only your primary google account (where your accounts are stored) selected?

jj14 said:
Assuming you are using the stock contacts app, tap the 3 dot menu, and click "Contacts to display" - is only your primary google account (where your accounts are stored) selected?
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sorry for late reply, yup, i selected only the primary google acc.
btw I solved the problem by clearing the data at google contacts and contact storage.
thanks jj14