Built-in app for managing Contacts (names, phone numbers, addresses, e-mail). Some manufacturers offer their own customized version.
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Skype integration with the native contacts?
I tried adding Skype information to my contacts and there's a gray circle showing up beside the Skype username. I can then deduce that it is indicating my contact as offline. However, there seems to ...
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How do I change the number identification format (to associate with a contact's number)?
I have a Sony/Ericsson Xperia Arc phone with Android 2.3 In my country, I can receive calls with the following number patterns (it's the formatting used by my operator):
12345678
0aa12345678
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contacts storage on android 2.3.5
Is there a way to have access to the file/s that list the contact details on an Android 2.3.5 phone? My contacts storage is growing up to many MBs, and I would like to be able to delete some of these ...
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Sync only one contact group
I am using Samsung Galaxy ACE with Android 2.3. Since I have too many email contacts in google I do not want to sync everything to my phone and consume the precious phone memory. Also syncing so many ...
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How does Android contact linking work?
I'd like to understand how contact linking in Android works - or to be specific I'd like to understand it pretty deeply, almost from an algorithmic point of view.
What I've observed on my phone is ...
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Is there a desktop / web app to manage Android contact linking?
Contacts on my Android phone come from different sources (Google account, Facebook, Skype, Windows Live etc.) and I can link them manually using the People app or how it's called. The user interface ...
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Is there a way to “re-link” all contacts using some button or other procedure?
My contacts come from 3 sources:
Google account
Facebook
Skype
Some of those contacts were automatically linked together so "Joe Smith" appears as one contact instead of three. However, some ...
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Where do these strange contacts come from?
I recently noticed that in my phone contact list (which is synchronized to the Gmail contacts) there are many contacts that I don't remember adding and that I don't even know.
Has anyone else ...
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How can I show someone's name instead of their number when someone calls?
I want to hide the number when some calls me and just display their name. How can I do that?
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Contacts with and without international extensions
I'm in the UK. My Nexus S received its update to 4.0.4 yesterday, and I now have the following problem.
If I have a contact with (say) the number 07123456789 and I receive a text from this contact, ...
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How can I make anonymous calls for everyone but contact list?
I want to show my caller id to everyone in my contact list but be anonymous for new numbers... do you know a method/app?
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How to send multiple contacts by email?
I've searched all over the place and couldn't find a solution.
I want to send around 30 contacts (names + phone numbers) by email, to someone. Now I can't seem to succeed with the feat! What can I do ...
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How can I save contacts on the SIM card alone by default?
Using ICS, is it possible to store and use all my contacts on SIM only?
If it is possible I don't really want to copy all my contacts to the phone and I would prefer all the new contacts to be stored ...
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How do I merge contacts based on phone numbers?
I have been using 2 SIM cards in 2 separate phones and until recently I bought the Alcatel OT-918N Glory, a dual SIM Android phone.
Since I had 2 phones before, I am expecting to have duplicated ...
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HTC EVO crashes while exporting phone contacts to SD card
I was running low on internal space so I tried exporting all my contact info from my phone (my Google worked) to my SD but it keeps crashing a bit over halfway through. When I plugged it in to my ...
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Copy all contacts from HTC Desire HD to my google account
I'm trying to sync all my contacts from my HTC Desire HD to my google account but I can't see them anywhere in my google account. I have already found several tutorials on the the internet but still ...
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How can I group duplicate contacts from different sources (Google, WhatsApp, etc)?
I have installed an ICS ROM (Virtuous Inquisition 4.0) on my phone. In my address book I am syncronizing all contacts from my Gmail, Google+ and WhatsApp accounts with the consequence that some ...
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Manually Sync Outlook 2010 contacts/calendar only from Windows PC to Android cell phone (Samsung Galaxy S II) via USB cord only
How do I manually Sync Outlook 2010 contacts and calendar only from Windows PC to Android cell phone (Samsung Galaxy S II) via USB cord only. I do NOT want to use any kind of web based product, i.e. ...
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WhatsApp contact's icon not showing
I have WhatsApp installed on my HTC Sensation running Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread). I also have other social contact related apps such as Google Voice, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. For my Google ...
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Transfer *.contact from PC to Samsung Galaxy S 2
How can I transfer my contacts from my PC (win7) .contact (iPhone 4) to Samsung Galaxy S2? I no longer have the iPhone 4.
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Change sort order of contacts
I have a HTC Legend with Android 2.2. My contacts usually have first name and last name filled in. The ordering and display consists of <first name> <last name>. Since I know most of my ...
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<HTCData><Facebook> auto sync after changing ROM
I had stock rom for my HTC Wildfire S with HTC Sense and facebook. I had joined contacts - Google account and Facebook friends.
Now I flashed to Cyanogen mod 7 and they are not synchronised. But I ...
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Sending all contacts *with number* via Bluetooth
I would like to transfer all my contacts to a different phone from my Android 2.2 device. In my phonebook I disabled showing contacts without numbers. When I choose sending via Bluetooth however all ...
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“Show only contacts with phone number” - Filter missing in Android 4
The stock contacts app of Android 2.3. (and older versions) had a filter that displays only contacts with a phone number, accessible under Menu -> Display Options -> Only contacts with phones.
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ICS: Add Google Contact Group To Home Screen
Please note I'm using Ice Cream Sandwich.
I'd like to add a shortcut to a Google Contacts Group such as 'Co-Workers' to my home screen. Can I do that?
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Facebook contact sync in Ice Cream Sandwich
The rivalry between Google and Facebook seems to have gotten in the way of a really useful feature from Gingerbread: Facebook contact sync. Currently my Verizon Galaxy Nexus has the ability to add ...
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How do I find my contacts?
My contacts have dissapeared from my phone, over night, for no reason. (Galaxy S) Althoug nothing else in the phone has been affected. The messages still exist, the history is there, but only listed ...
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Open Source “My QR code” app to quickly share my contact details?
Especially in Japan/Korea, there are many proprietary apps to quickly share your name+email+phone. Example here. They all work the same way:
At first use, enter your name, email, phone: It generates ...
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Is it possible to select default contact picture service?
Here is my problem: I merged all my Google and Facebook contacts in my contact list. When a contact has both a picture on Google and on Facebook, the picture from Google will be displayed.
I don't ...
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A tool for semi-automatic merging of contacts?
An android newbie here --- I've recently got my first Android phone (HTC Desire S) and I'm trying to clean up a mess of my contacts from a sim card (three of them, in fact). For example, a certain ...
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Synchronizing skype contacts with android
I installed skype on my android 2.3 samsung galaxy and all skype contacts were added to pnone contacts. Later in PC while using skype I renamed some of skype contacts and removed few of them. After ...
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How can I transfer my contacts from an iPhone to an Android device?
I tried to transfer data from my 3 year old iPhone to my new HTC Inspire via bluetooth but it keeps saying the two are "paired but not connected". Seems I can't get past this problem.
How can I ...
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Adding direct contact to the “Share via” menu
The Share via menu is awesome.
But in more than half of the cases I use the menu to share something with my wife, and the question is not what to "share it via" but who to "share it with".
I ...
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Facebook contact pictures not updating
Some contact pictures from Facebook are never updating, while others are working fine. The "google" part of the account have no picture set, the one showing is an old Facebook picture.
This problem ...
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How can I have a separate birthday calendar without shoving all those contacts onto GMail?
I have the HTC Sensation XL if that has any significance on the issue.
I'd like to have the birthdays of my contacts show up as appointments in my calendar automagically.
What I don't want is to put ...
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Contact images cropped and downsampled when syncing with google contacts
When Syncing with google contacts the photos I chose for my contacts are cropped to a square, and are downsampled to a very low resolution.
Is there a way to sync my phone contacts (without ...
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Looking for application that captures name-card and sync with google contact?
I'm looking for an Android application that captures picture of name-card and can help to sync with Google contact the contact information in that captured image.
If you know one, please share.
ps.
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How do I copy/move contacts from phone to my exchange account?
My contacts are stored on a (Open-)Exchange server, so they are synchronized between phone, the server and my other mail clients (e.g. on my desktop PC).
However, I have some "phone-only" contacts ...
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Disable syncing of contact that belongs to multiple groups
I have few Contact Groups.
Friends
Coworkers
Schoolmates
With someone whom I haven't communicated in many years, I add an additional group called Archived.
So, for example, a person can be in ...
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How to sync contacts with Outlook, WITHOUT Exchange?
Can anyone recommend an app to sync Outlook contacts with Android? I know there are a number of them which sync with Exchange, but I am not using Exchange.
I'm looking for something that will sync ...
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Sync contacts with ubuntuone?
It doesn't look like UbuntuOne has a sync app for contacts. Files and music, yes, but not contacts. Are there any workarounds to this?
I've successfully avoided linking my phone to a google account ...
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What is the best way to get pictures on your contacts with ICS (Galaxy Nexus)?
Before I bought my Galaxy Nexus I had a HTC Hero. HTC synced the pictures from Facebook to my contacts. This happened on the phone so when i activated my new Galaxy Nexus and synced it my contacts had ...
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reduce memory usage of “Internet” and “contacts”
The DiskUsage app shows 14,8MB data used for "Internet" and 11,5MB used for contacts.
Is there a way to reduce memory usage?
I know I can delete Internet data using the general app settings but I ...
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how do you delete specific contacts in ICS?
I have a Nexus S phone just updated to ICS. This forum was very helpful in finding out ICS' now more cumbersome way to delete specific calls from call logs. Thank You.
It's a new year, and I want to ...
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Changing contact to canonical form (adding + country_code)
I am using Samsung Galaxy S2. Is there any automated way or app to change all my contacts with appropriate country code into canonical form.
I just found that lot of my contact are there without the ...
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Save merged contacts information
I just spent a lot of time merging contacts from different sources (two Google accounts, Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Skype), and now my contact list looks somewhat clean for the first time in months. ...
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Can I store contacts on my SD card? How?
I have 400mb of internal storage on my HTC, 100 of which is consumed by my (extensive) contacts. I am constantly low on storage--is there any way to store my contacts on my SD card?
I looked in the ...
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Transferring contacts, calendars and applications from one device to another
I am completing my contract on my EVO 4G and replacing it (with a Galaxy SII Epic 4G).
Both are Android - I am wondering what is the best way to transfer my contacts (a few thousand) and calendar (a ...
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How to edit the “ME” contact?
On my Galaxy Nexus running (stock, non-rooted) ICS, there is a contact entry for "ME".
This is different from the contact entry farther down the list with my actual name on it.
And the contact for ...
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Sudden loss of contacts on my Samsung Galaxy S - running Gingerbread
I have recebtly experienced that all my phone contacts suddenly disappeared from my internal phone memory.
I could still see the 2 contacts that were on my sim-card, and I have no contacts on my ...
