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Built-in app for managing Contacts (names, phone numbers, addresses, e-mail). Some manufacturers offer their own customized version.
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How can I easily edit / add contacts to my phone book without them showing on Google?
Use www.google.com/contacts
I recommend to move all information about contacts that is stored on your SIM card to the Google contacts. … Furthermore Gmail will only show contacts that have a e-mail address. So there is no need to have something like phone-only contacts. …
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How do I find my contacts?
Maybe you just unchecked some/all contact sources from showing up in the contact list?
Open the contact list -> open the context menu -> hit 'more' -> choose view settings
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Where exactly does Android get its contact suggestions from?
As long as your WIFI has internet connectivity, Android will be able to communicate with Google's servers.
There is one thing that people get wrong when it comes down to contact suggestions, be it Fa …
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Xperia Arc Social Phonebook Add Contact Problem
Typical case where an app, in this case socialphonebook (package com.sonyericsson.android.socialphonebook), has messed up (or lost) its configuration and seems unable to recover from this.
Without ro …
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Are contacts from the Google account also stored on the phone?
A copy is locally stored, so these contacts are also available when there is no current data connection. …
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How do I change the order of my contacts on the frequent contact toolbar?
I am pretty sure that the order it determined by the frequency you call or receives calls from these contacts (maybe SMS messages are also counted). There is IIRC no manual way to fix the order. …
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Merging duplicate contacts - is my phone broken?
First, you have to know that there are 2 reasons why there are duplicate contacts:
because your contact is in many contact sources (Phone, Google+, Facebook, Skype, etc.)
because the contact appears … The approaches to solve these situations are for
"joining" contacts from different sources
"merging" the contact information into one single contact
Since you know how to perform a merge/join operation …
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How does contact management work?
There is a single list of contacts. But smartphones allow many different contact providers (Google Contacts, Facebook, SIM card, internal phone contacts, Skype, ...). … I recommend to use Google Contacts as main contacts provider. Don't save contacts on the SIM card and the internal phone memory. …
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How can I manage contacts on my SIM card with an Android phone?
The contact App from Android 4.0 on provides a feature which lets you import your contacts form SIM card to either Google contacts (which I highly recommend) or simply local phone contacts. … However, note that contacts stored on the SIM card are unprotected. Everyone who has access to the SIM card can read your contacts. This impacts your and your contacts privacy. …
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How can I merge contacts in CyanogenMod?
It's also available in CM9: If you have selected "edit" for a contact, the overflow/context menu will show the "join" option.
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Where do these strange contacts come from?
This is often caused by linking other social networks (via the appropriate App) or third party E-Mail providers to the Android device. This will cause the contact lists or address books to be synced a …
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Can apps be controlled through adb?
Yes and no. You can issue intents with adb but that's it. So the steps you described can't be achieved with adb.
Edit: ce4 showed a blog post which mentions the input binary which is able to simulate …
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Preventing syncing of Google+ contacts to Galaxy S3
If Sparx's answer is not an option, the I suggest to simply hide the Google+ contacts in the app. This does not prevent syncing but it's a sufficient solution. … For ICS open the contacts app, select the list view and press the context menu button, which should present a menu with the "Contacts to display" option. …