Questions tagged [contacts]
Built-in app for managing Contacts (names, phone numbers, addresses, e-mail). Some manufacturers offer their own customized version.
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How to move phone contacts to Google?
I'm using the Samsung Vibrant, T-Mobile's variant of the Galaxy S, running Android 2.1. When I create a contact on my Android phone, I can choose to store it to the SIM, the phone, or to Google. If ...
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In a Google account (sync), what is the difference between Contacts and People details?
For a Google account, you are allowed to sync Contacts and People details. What is the difference between these two?
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Use existing contact for "Me" in Ice Cream Sandwich
My Nexus S has just been updated to Ice Cream Sandwich, and I notice that in contacts there is a new space for "me". Is there a way to assign the existing ordinary contact for me (a contact with my ...
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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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Add contact without using "Google account"?
When I got my phone, I imported my old contacts by writing a small program that uses the contacts API. That worked great, and all my contacts were stored locally on the phone (sync with Google is ...
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Suggestions for syncing data to someone besides Google? Funambol?
I've been toying with the idea of getting away from syncing my contacts and calendar with Google. I'd like more control over my data. I've heard that Funambol might be a good solution to this and I'm ...
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Where is the data for "Contacts Storage" located?
Settings -> Applications -> All tells me that "Contacts Storage" uses 2.5MB which must be my contact data.
Since I had to revert to 4.03 after a faulty update to 4.1 my contacts seem inaccessible ...
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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 sort contacts by date added?
Is there a way to sort contacts by date added, or at least see contacts that have been recently added? I'm running android os 2.2.
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How can I manage contacts on my SIM card with an Android phone?
How can I add and manage contacts on a SIM card with an Android phone (HTC Magic)? I'm aware of 1 application which is capable of doing this but it cost 4€ for SIMPLY managing SIM contacts o_O
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How do I set a custom SMS tone for a single contact?
If it matters any I have an HTC Desire Z with the original Sense install.
We have this monitoring service at work that keeps an eye on the various servers and starts frantically SMS'ing me whenever ...
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How do I sync only "My Contacts" from Google on Samsung Galaxy S?
Is there any way that I can limit my Galaxy S to only download & sync contacts from the google account that are in "My Contacts"? Right now, it downloads everything, in particular, contacts in the ...
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How can I set a default contact for a phone number?
In my contact list I have a number of contacts that share the same home phone, because they are family members. For instance:
my mother
my father
my brother
the family's house
I keep the home phone ...
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Switching contacts from Windows Phone to Android
I have been trying to figure how too switch my contacts over to my Galaxy S III. I had a Nokia Lumia 520 and I really don't want to manually put my contacts in, but I don't see where they were saved.
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How do I transfer numbers/contacts from Windows Mobile to Android?
I finally activated my Android phone and would like to import numbers/contacts to the new phone. I forgot to ask the store rep how to do this, but I figured since both of them can be hooked up to a ...
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Is it possible to display nicknames in the contact list?
Is it possible to use nicknames, instead of first+last names, as the contact's display name in the contact list and/or the incoming/outgoing call view?
Device is Samsung Galaxy S 2.
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How can I send a contact from one Android to another?
While I can chose Share by a contact on my Droid's contact list, the Droid on the other end seems unable to open, or really do anything with, the resulting attachment if I receive it via Gmail or the ...
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Contacts have been randomly renamed and/or merged
I have a Moto X 2nd Gen running Android 5.0. All of sudden, my contacts have become very screwed up. Here are the symptoms I'm seeing
names of my contacts seem to have been randomly swapped. ...
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How do I enable birthday reminders or view birthdays as events in Calendar on Nexus 4
Simple problem: I forget the birthdays of my friends. I have the dates saved in my contacts (CardDAV-Sync address book) and can view them with the People app. I have not found a way to set up an alert ...
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Is there a contact book that allows partial access for apps?
In my phone book, I have both personal contacts and work-related contacts, like clients, contractors, etc.
Applications such as 'WhatsApp' are great and easy, but I do not necessarily want to add all ...
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How can I force Google Contacts to respect "File as" (or "NickName") field for sorting and display?
Let's say one wants Android to display their father not as "FirstName LastName", but simply as "Dad". This seems to be a pretty essential feature; and, as I have heard, it is ...
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How to move contacts from SIM to phone?
I have all my contacts saved on my SIM-card but I want to move them to the phone which is Galaxy note so that when I change the SIM-card my contacts are still saved and I don't need to save them all ...
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How do I transfer iPhone contacts to an Android phone?
I know someone who just got an Atrix 4G and previously had an iPhone 3GS. I was asked how he could move his contacts from the iPhone/iTunes onto the Android device. I have never owned an iPhone and ...
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How can I get Facebook and Google contacts to sync in 4.2?
In the People app (i.e. Google Contacts), the "Accounts" area has an option for adding Facebook contacts, which I've checked. In Settings->Accounts->Facebook, I've checked "Sync Contacts," yet ...
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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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Can I make home screen contact icons update their picture?
I was just wondering if anyone knows how to make contact icons on the home screen update their picture when the contact's picture is changed, without needing to delete the shortcut and recreate it. ...
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Good idea to transfer all phone numbers from SIM card to google contacts?
I am new to the whole smartphone thing. Currently all of my telephone contacts are on my SIM card. I suspect it makes sense to move all my phone numbers from the SIM card to my Google contacts (i.e. ...
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How can I search for a contact by its phone number?
Is it possible to search for a contact by phone number in Froyo ? How ?
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Deleting unwanted contacts after accidental account sync
A friend borrowed my phone when they forgot theirs. They had to log into their Gmail to get their contacts to find where they left the phone. When they added their account, it was synced to my phone.
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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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"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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Google Now and pronouncing/recognising contact names
One of my contacts has an unusual name which Google Now has never been able to understand.
How can I get around this (apart from asking the person to change their name)?
I'm using "send sms to [...
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Separate ringtone for calls from numbers not in the contact list?
Good old Siemens phones had a feature that allowed you to set a single ringtone for all calls coming from your contacts, and a single ringtone for all calls coming from numbers not in your contact ...
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Default contact for a number
Is there a way to set a default contact for a specific number, which happens to be bound to multiple contacts?
I.e. for some reason Alpha and Bravo share a telephone number. Currently if I try to ...
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How do I send a contact via SMS?
I would like to send two contacts (name+phone nr) to one of my contacts. This is a simple menu-option on my old Sony Ericsson.
How can I do this on Android?
I'm not in the same building as the ...
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How do I import all contacts from a SIM-card to an Android phone?
My mother have got a HTC Wildfire with Android 2.2.
Now I want to import all contacts from her old SIM-card to the phone. I did it and it worked. Then I switched to the new SIM-card, and now when I ...
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How to set one Ringtone for Contacts and another for non contacts?
Is there an Android App that can perform one ring for anyone in my Contacts and another ring for anyone not in my Contacts?
I know how to go in and set individual ringtones, but I have 350 contacts.
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How to transfer apps, contacts and settings between two identical phones?
I'm having trouble with my new Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant running 2.1. It constantly reboots and I'm going to return it for a replacement unit. How can I transfer all of my phone settings, contacts, ...
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Is there any contact information on the SD card?
I found an sd card that was definitely in someone's android phone. Is there any file within the card that would have it's owner's info, so that I might contact them somehow and return what they've ...
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Is it possible to keep multiple address books on a single phone?
I'm trying to find a way to set up and manage multiple address books on my phone, and to keep them distinct.
I want to do that to separate my personal contacts from the work ones.
The default ...
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Android phone<->Google contacts - usage model and best practices?
I am finally forced to admit that I'm completely flummoxed by the communication between my android phone and my google account's contact list. I have tried various usage models and experienced lost/...
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Sync only Gmail "My Contacts" group on android 2.3
I have more then 2k contacts on other contacts, but i only want to sync the "my contacts".
Any hints?
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Can I create a contact in a particular contact group on Android 2.2?
Is there a way to add a new contact into a particular contact group which I have in my Google contacts? Similarly, is there any way to move contacts from one group to another?
It seems as of now, I ...
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Limit sync'ed address book entries to bluetooth car-kit
Is there an app (because I don't see it as a feature) to limit the address book entries to a particular category when accessing via bluetooth?
My car will only take 1000 phone numbers, but my address ...
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How to (unhide WhatsApp contact / remove WhatsApp account) in Samsung Galaxy S5?
Please be patient for me to explain the situation. This seems to be an odd case to me, but it could happen to everyone using Android.
I make this specific to Samsung Galaxy S5 because this problem ...
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Number recognition of company number ranges
I would like it, if it was possible to program a number range of a company in my phone as a pseudo-contact.
For example, I know my company has a thousand telephone numbers in a block. I have a number ...
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How to show only Gmail's contacts in the Contacts app?
I have recently reinstalled Android on B63M due to some problems with the SD Card. I decided to keep all my contacts only in Gmail, as a centralized solution to avoid problems in the future. I do not ...
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How can I manually extract my contacts from a backup image of Android?
So I recently made an .img using dd of my Froyo installation on my phone prior to wiping and installing a custom Jellybean ROM. Turns out that the contacts were saved locally and not with Google.
I ...
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How do I transfer my phone numbers to an Android phone?
I just bought a new Android Phone (HTC Hero), but I need to import my Outlook contacts with all their phone numbers.
Any directions as to how to do this?
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Why were some of my contacts automatically merged without notice?
I found several questions here where people want to merge several of their contacts into one.
I'm having exactly the opposite problem:
On both my Android devices (Google Nexus 4 and Nexus 7), two of ...
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