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Another possibility is Google Voice: https://voice.google.com You can make free calls/texts with it. If you already have a Google account, I don't think you even need a phone to verify it. If you had an Android phone, your contacts may already be synced up with it.
If you don't have your friends' phone numbers anymore, you should check if they got synced. If you had an Android phone you can check at https://contacts.google.com/ and if you had an Apple device you can check at https://www.icloud.com/
Google's backups might save you if he was signed in on the phone; go to Google Contacts (after signing in using the account he used on his phone) look if any data is there. Hope your dad can recover the info.
They <em>did</em> fix it way back in 2012. Somehow, though, phones are allowed to keep fucking it up.
On my HTC One M8, contact photos synced as a low resolution mess unless that contact was starred as a favorite. But starring a contact after the photo was downloaded didn't make the photo update, so I had to star every contact, remove my Google account from the phone, put the Google account back on, and then unstar everyone after the photos synced.
On my Moto Z Play, it just works. Every contact photo comes in at high resolution. (As a bonus, it seems to keep the photos properly stored on the phone in a way that lets me scroll through contacts without seeing empty spaces while the thumbnail loads.)
I know the possibility to sync at high res is there because some phones do it. I'm not sure how or why, but based on what I've seen it appears that phone manufacturers have decided to ruin that syncing. It's a little disappointing that Google's own Pixel would also shit all over your contact photos, but seeing as Google's wonderful new Contacts interface on desktop doesn't let you view contact photos at any size larger than a nickel, I guess it's not surprising that they decided you only need 10 or 11 pixels for those photos on your phone.
All your contacts are backed up to Google (https://contacts.google.com) so you don't need to worry about backing those up. You don't need to remove the SIM to do a factory reset, either.
If you haven't already, clear cache partition before you resort to a factory reset. Google for instructions on how to do that, its easy. If you don't see improvement, then go ahead and do a factory reset. Everything is backed up to Google and when it's done you'll be given an option to reload all your apps and whatnot. You might consider not reloading all your apps in case one of them is the root cause of the problem. Just go with the stock apps at first and see if it's working better. If so, you can start adding apps back in.
Even though his contacts may not be synced to Google's Contact management service, they may still be backed up to his Google Account. Try connecting his Google account to another Android device, and then go to Settings > Google (or open the Google settings app if applicable for the device) > Restore contacts (make sure his account is selected), and see if there are any contacts listed. If so, you should be able to choose an option to copy those contacts to Google's contact manager so you can view them at contacts.google.com.
Settings > Account > Google > [your Gmail address] > Contacts
After you've done that, you should find your contacts appear here.
Turn the same setting on your new phone and it'll be restored there.
You don't need a module. You can edit these on the new desktop Google Contacts interface. (I'm not sure if it's still opt-in, but if it is, visiting https://contacts.google.com/ will ask you if you want to try the new contact manager. Click yes. Otherwise, it will just take you to your contacts.)
Now find the contact you want to edit and click on it. In the screen that pops up, it will show the g+ profile info, as usual. If they have added no contact info at all aside from email, then you will see a link that says "add private contact details." Click that and edit the name and other details as you see fit. If they have added some details but not all, you will see a box with the info and the pencil icon--click that and edit as needed. Then save.
Finally, it will be updated in Hangouts the next time you exit and relaunch Hangouts (make sure you have sync enabled for your Google account). Also note that this won't update the name in the frequently contacted section of Hangouts until you next communicate with that contact. But you should be able to see the modifications in your contacts list in Hangouts as soon as you exit and relaunch.
So, I just factory restored my Moto G 2013 GPE after installing 5.1 OTA and now my "Contacts" app does not sync. I can see the contacts at https://contacts.google.com/preview/all but I can't see them in the app. Any fix for this?
Sync them with your google account and sign in to that on your iPhone. Result is that you should have all your contacts on your phone.
Alternatively you can export them using https://contacts.google.com and then import them on icloud.
Depends on the format in excel, but you should be able to save it as a .CSV file. You would then need to go to the google contacts web link and import the .CSV file from there.
YSK - This is the right way to save details.
Phones now-a-days come with detailed contact info form which asks range of questions from Name, to Relation, to Work Info, to custom form fields that you can fill in for your reference.
This information is read by Call Screening software like TrueCaller, Hiya, etc., to update their database and display information to others using the same service.
I suggest you take a few moments and update contact details. It's a one time thing, with huge reward for everyone.
You can manage your contacts here:
If the phone was signed into a google account, check https://contacts.google.com/ while logged in with the account from the phone to see if contacts have been syncing automatically. Sms texts don't sync as far as I know however.
I don't disagree that oil & gas canals have exacerbated the problem, but to say it is the main mechanism is really absurd.
The main causes are a combination of natural subsidenece and the construction of man-made levees that dammed up the Mississippi and prevented the silt that travels in it from being distributed into the marshes.
The proof of this is 100 miles West in the Atchafalaya Basin where land is actually being added to the marshes and there are plenty of oil & gas canals there as well. This is because the entire basin was dammed instead of the river itself. You can even see in this picture that this area will the the only part of the state projected to gain land in the next 50 years.
Well your pixel photos should have automatically backed up to Google photos with your free original quality storage. If you left that on you can access them at https://photos.google.com . For your contacts, if you were having your contacts backed up to your Google account, you should be able to access them at https://contacts.google.com . Both of these should've backed up regardless of your drive storage being full as contacts don't take up space and neither does photos from a pixel. Also if you get a new phone and sign into your Google account, everything will come back.
All my contacts are synced across devices, same in phone and web. The "default" number setting is on phone only though. https://contacts.google.com/ doesn't even have any way of tagging a number as default. Is that what you are saying?
She never signed into her Google account on her Android phone? You need a Google account to even download apps from Google Play, so even if she never used the actually Gmail application, I'm sure she had her Google account signed in.
With that being said, saving your contacts by default on Android is saved to your Google account. Go to Google Contacts and under the "More" tab on top, it should say "Export." Now tick "This Group - My Contacts" as well as "vCard Format." After you have that downloaded, go over to iCloud, sign in, and go to "Contacts." There should be a little settings cog on the bottom left. Click that, select "Import vCard" and select the file you just downloaded before from Google Contacts. All of your contacts should transfer successfully, and will now be stored in iCloud.
Edit: Forgot to mention that if she never used iCloud before, all she needs is an Apple ID. If she doesn't have that, then she can create one and login to iCloud after that.
Your phone contacts should sync with https://contacts.google.com/
Login to that site from your computer and see if your contacts from your phone are there. If they are, go back to your phone Settings, Accounts, Google, and make sure "Contacts" is turned on to sync. Then make sure it has synced recently.
I would do that before trying the spreadsheet thing.
If you have no contacts in contacts.google.com, then you can still use that site to upload your contacts with a csv file. Once it's uploaded, it should sync with your phone.
~~Log in to Gmail on desktop. On the top left corner, just under the Google logo you'll see it says Gmail with a down arrow beside it. Click it, and choose contacts from the menu. If your contacts are not there then they are gone.~~
Go to https://contacts.google.com/ and sign in with your account. If your contacts aren't there then they're gone and sync was probably not enabled.
You might try logging into the new Google Contacts preview?
https://contacts.google.com/preview/all
It has a way to merge duplicates, and the changes you make there should reflect on your phone...
I've been working on this exact same thing and have also landed on using GAMADV-XTD3 but have only been in some preliminary testing since I do not want to delete everyone's users!
I've always been annoyed that Google Admin does not provide any access to end-users contact list to remove contacts. Since the API exists, it doesn't seem like it should be too hard for Google to implement in their admin UI! Maybe we need to launch a feature request.
Another use case is that if the whole school gets a phishing email impersonating another staff member and folks engage, that address sticks in their contacts.google.com which increases the chances they will accidently send emails to that address in the future! So part of mitigating a phishing attack needs to include using GAMADV-XTD3 to purge the known address from all contacts!
Agreed with @BattleRabbit here.
Also, the setting to have people added to "other contacts" can be modified in Gmail settings - but it's per user and can't be set by admin globally.
I tend to just send people to
And let them know they can delete anyone they want there in "Contacts" or "Other Contacts" - the only downside would be losing the auto-fill for that person (and contact info, obviously).
I'd prefer to disable the auto-adding if it were up to me, but I don't know that it's possible.
We've battled the same thing - old account, duplicates, etc.
The whole "contacts" feature/service truly looks like it hasn't been improved/revisited for a decade..
It could take up to 15 minutes to sync. Did you check > Settings > Accounts > youraccount at Gmail.com > account sync?
Are you checking in https://contacts.google.com/ ?
Can you post setup description as I posted above?
What does it say in Settings > About phone > LineageOS version or About phone > Android version > LineageOS version?
No forwarding of calls needed with an Obi200. And what you want to accomplish is possible, but complicated.
DO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ON A COMPUTER - NOT A MOBILE DEVICE.
First, setup a google voice number on a separate google account and use it for the phone service.
Once you get the Obi200 working with your new GoogleVoice number, go to contacts.google.com while logged into the google account associated with the GoogleVoice number. Add only contacts to the contacts list that you want on the whitelist.
Next, while logged into the same google account, go to voice.google.com
In the upper-left of the page, click the 3-bar menu and select "Legacy Google Voice." On that page, you'll see 6 tabs there. Click on the first tab, which is "Phones."
Under "Forward Calls to," UNcheck the box next to the Obi device and phone numbers below it, if any.
To create the whitelist, click the "Groups" tab. Under "*Callers | All Contacts,"* click EDIT and make sure "Ring my" Obi device is checked.
The Anonymous section should be set to ring NONE.
Result: Calls from anyone in the All Contacts group should now ring the Obi200. Calls from anyone not in the All Contacts list should go directly to voicemail, without ringing the Obi200.
You might try asking your family and co-workers to create a contact with your name and email address in their Google accounts (by default, the Google Contacts list can be found at https://contacts.google.com/ ), and set the contact as a "Star Contact" on their Contacts list. Most of Google's client-side spam filtering can be circumvented if the sending address or name exists in their Contacts list.
Weird question for you, by any chance have you travelled to another country recently?
I travelled out a few weeks ago and came back a few days ago. I had the same issue with a few of my contacts as well. There were a few things I had to do to fix it.
1.) Go to https://contacts.google.com/ and make sure your contact for your friend has your country code followed by the actual number (should look like +1 XXX-XXX-XXXX for a US number.)
2.) Once that is done sync the account on your phone by going to Accounts>Gmail address>Account Sync>Three dot menu>Sync now
3.) Once the sync completes see if you can see your friends name. If not open up the google play store and find the Messages app. Uninstall the app (It won't fully uninstall the app just all the updates). Run the not updated messages app and your friend should show up as her contact name. At this point reinstall the updates for Messages.
This resolved the exact issue you had for me two days ago.
Editing can only be done in the full contacts.google.com experience currently, which we know is a bit of a pain. It's on our backlog to support editing directly in the sidebar, thankfully!
Do you need to keep the contacts of both accounts synchronized, or do you just have business contacts in your personal account that you need to be added to the business account?
If it’s the latter, you should be able to do a one-time export from your personal account then import it into your business account. If it’s only a specific set of contacts that need to be transferred, you could even group them before exporting and choose only that group to be exported.
Export/import is availabe under the “More” heading in the sidebar of the Google Contacts webapp:
If you haven't already, add your Google account to your iPhone and enable contacts. The iPhone contacts will then get backed up online (verify at contacts.google.com).
After that, just install the Google contacts app on the OnePlus 6T and it will sync up.
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I have a similar problem as OP, maybe the same problem.
If I go to https://contacts.google.com, my Gmail contacts show up. Going to https://hangouts.google.com shows no contacts, even when clicking the + to start a message. My phone and Gmail are logged into the same accounts. I obviously have a list of contacts on Hangouts on the phone.
My contacts in Hangouts on my Fi phone are not showing up/synced to Hangouts opened in the Gmail connection. In fact, no contacts show up for the Gmail connection to Hangouts when clicking the contacts icon in the Gmail connection to Hangouts. Using the Hangouts icon in gmail and clicking on the + then typing the 1st letter of a contact produces a list of contacts who's name begins with that letter and they look like my Gmail contacts, not my Hangouts contacts. It looks like I can't send an SMS, because I can't access the phone number to the name that pops up.
I can't find a way for the phone Hangouts contacts to show up in the Gmail Hangouts contacts.
Do yourself a favor and go to Google's contacts page and edit them there. Much easier to do on an actual computer than on a phone. It also makes merging contacts (multiple entries for the same person) much easier.
Your contacts should all be linked to your Google account. To make sure they are, go to https://contacts.google.com and confirm you're not missing anyone. If that list isn't complete, then go into your account settings on your phone and sync your contacts with your google account.
Try setting a phonetic name for your "me" contact in google contacts.
Should be 'phonetic first' and 'phonetic last' fields on the contact at https://contacts.google.com for the google account in question.
Well, it was a long shot. Maybe go to https://contacts.google.com/ and check the groups that these missing contacts are in? Maybe some are in Other Contacts?
But yeah, I don't have good ideas about what's going on. Good luck.
I don't actually know what they're doing in 24 Legacy, and I'm not sure just the pic is enough to go on, but Google's Trusted Contacts may be something of note.
It requires location services to be on and you're essentially letting other devices track your movements (obvious privacy warning), but it can identify status and last known location of contacts that have marked you as trusted.
Are you absolutely sure your contacts aren't on https://contacts.google.com and are in local storage.
If they are in local storage they'll be in a database somewhere, then you could probably extract it.
https://contacts.google.com/trustedcontacts/
I haven't personally tried this yet, but it's something new from Google that could be useful if you're gone longer than expected to help loved ones find you. Not sure if it helps if you're out of cell reception range though.
https://contacts.google.com/trustedcontacts/
Look into that, I haven't set it up completely nor messed around with it that much. It looks like it will do what you want to do but much more simplified?
You can open your contacts from https://contacts.google.com/
Whatsapp can backup your conversations to Drive but it's not enabled by default AFAIK.
I don't think you'll be able to install Whatsapp on a non phone device since you won't be able to confirm your phone number with an SMS.
The wiping of the contacts is very weird. Never heard of anything like this. What are these apps that you installed?
In theory, your contacts should be backed up automatically o the Google account you set with the phone. Can you check if they've been wiped there too? You can see them there: https://contacts.google.com
Another possibility is that they haven't been wiped out but are filtered out: in the contacts app>settings>contacts to display, make sure that all are shown.
Does your dad's phone syncs contacts with a Google account? If it does, here you go:
Go to https://contacts.google.com
Login with that account.
Check out the options. There must be an option to restore the contacts to a certain time.
You can also remove duplicate contacts there. You don't need to spend a lot of time trying to do that on the phone.
another option is to sign in to icloud in the browser and then select all the contacts and then export them. That'll give you all your contacts and you can move them anywhere from there. In your case you fire up google contacts (or you upload them to gmail contacts, it's essentially the same) and import them.
https://contacts.google.com will show you your synced contacts and not your gmail address book. If you want to know what is synced, go to Settings > Accounts > Google on your phone and see what's checked.
EDIT: THANK YOU FOR GOLD!
this right here.
I find it 1000 times easier to manage all my contacts via Google Contacts and save them there. You can still do changes on your phone and they sync the second you save as well. Get a new phone? Get a tablet? All your contacts sync between them all. You never lose anything.
I dunno, all my contact photos are high res. Check https://contacts.google.com/preview to see which contact photos you have. You can always change them there to high res if by some weird reason they're low res for you.
I also recommend reducing duplicate information where you can. For example, instead of storing the person's contact info in Notion, link to their record in your Google Contacts (or whatever tool you use). You probably don't want to open Notion whenever you want to text or email someone, just to get their number or email address!
To do this for Google Contacts:
- Open the contact record in your web browser
- Right click and "inspect element" or "view source" the see the page HTML
- Search for the "data-sourceid" attribute and copy the value.
- Append the string you copied to https://contacts.google.com/contact/.
- Test it to make sure you got the right one. Sometimes there are multiple data-sourceid attributes in the page code.
Edit: or don't link to them directly at all; it's not much extra work to search for them every time. 😉
Go to Google Photos settings and make sure all your folders with photos are backed up.
You will need to reinstall all your apps, you will lose your progress in offline games and you will need to log again into all your websites and apps. You can check your saved passwords in Chrome settings. You will lose your saved WiFi passwords.
You will lose your messages depending on which app you use. Also use a file explorer to browse your downloads and save anything important to Drive.
You can log into your Google account on a computer and check the pictures on photos.google.com and contacts on contacts.google.com
I am happy that it worked for you and that I did answer an unasked question! I use viewTemplates (even edit templates too) a lot and like it very much.
Also as a side note to add.. you can have 1 template like... "DetailsTemplate" which can work for more than 1 tag.. Like this...
<$list filter="[all[current]tag[Contact]]"> <a href={{{ [all[current]addprefix[https://contacts.google.com/search/]encodeuri[]] }}} >Google Contacts: <<currentTiddler>></a> </$list>
<$list filter="[all[current]tag[Place]]">
!!! Google Map: <<currentTiddler>> <iframe allow src={{{ [all[current]addprefix[https://www.google.com/maps/place/]encodeuri[]] }}} width=100% height=300px /> </$list>
Note: though this example requires that you disable the protection against mixed content in browser
Hi Geert!
Macros accept variables that are set outside the macro definition. Using the wikifywigdet we can pretransclude the title
So a macro would like this:
\define googlesearch(value) https://contacts.google.com/search/$value$ \end
<$wikify name="myTitle" text={{!!title}}> <<googlesearch $(myTitle)$>>
</$wikify>
Go to https://contacts.google.com/ and see if you can see your contacts there. When you rest/restore the phone, make sure to add the Google account so you can see your contacts. I prefer to have mine on Google because I switch between iOS and Android often.
I think it tells you, before you pull the trigger to do it. Before you do it, you might want to download a copy of some or all your account's stuff at takeout.google.com
The contacts for each account will remain separate, but it's easy to Export/Import a copy of all your contacts between accounts. Use a computer and go to contacts.google.com Export the .csv file from one account and import it into the other account.
If you mean that you are trying to do this from a text message record on the mobile Google Voice app, a recent app update removed that feature for some undisclosed reason, so no, you are not overlooking anything.
There are still ways to add a new number to Google Contacts:
- Add it from the desktop website: https://voice.google.com/u/0/messages
- Add it on Google Contacts on the desktop website (Contacts) or on the Google Contacts app on your phone.
- Ask the person to call you, or you call them. Nobody needs to answer the call, just let it ring at least once. That'll create a phone call record in the app. Add the contact from the phone call record.
As a workaround, you can definitely import vCard on the contacts.google.com website... Make sure your contacts are saving by default to your Google Account, as other accounts may not be able to import vCards, and it may be defaults to that other account.
What exactly do you want to back up?
Android natively supports backing up of your data (contacts, SMS / MMS, media) to Google Drive. When you setup your phone for the first time, it asks you if you want to restore and activate backing up.
So if you ever reset your phone and opted to restore, it would pretty much setup your phone exactly how it was before you restored (IE ring tones, wall papers, all your contacts, apps, SMSes / MMSes, Photos).
You can't really plug in your phone and back up to your PC though (unless there is an app that does that for you). I don't really see the need though. Contacts can be viewed here, and your photo's can be viewed here.
- Settings - cloud & accounts - accounts - Google - Sync account - turn everything off.
- Settings - backup & restore - Turn "backup my data" switch, off.
- Settings - cloud & accounts - Samsung Cloud - Settings (sandwitch menu) - Sync settings & Autobackup settings -> turn on all switches.
- Install iCal Import/Export app so as to transfer calendars from Google to Samsung cloud.
- Transfer contacts from Google to Samsung account by exporting contacts from contacts.google.com to a file, and importing it via samsung contacts app. At the end change default contacts location & contacts to show, in contacts settings.
*If you play games and use google play games saves, you will lose google play games sync if you disable all google account sync switches like I did. If you do so, you can try disabling it at first, see the results, and enabling only what you want to check if there is any difference concerning your battery life.
I have a couple thoughts you can try:
- From your PC/laptop, go to contacts.google.com and see if your contacts appear on that site
- If you know someone else in the US with an Android phone, install and run the Google Duo app. I'm specifically looking to see if the Duo app will load your contacts, but if you can try to make a call from there that's even better.
- Try your same steps from a hotel WiFi connection. Perhaps one that you can borrow in the lobby or something like that.
- Try your same steps from a friend's WiFi connection.
- Try your same steps from an open WiFi connection (McDonald's, Starbucks, etc).]
If none of that works, then I suspect that there is an issue that is unrelated to either your phone or Project Fi itself.
I do not see the synced contact on the site "https://contacts.google.com/". only on the phone. I am going to try to delete , reboot and see if it comes back.
My other android phone (personal) is also linked to same google account. Some how it has escaped.
I think it is a much more complicated case than that.
When it restarted, did it prompt the new device setup?
If she has a Samsung and/or Gmail account, it's possible that it auto-backed up photos and contacts.
She can check here: https://contacts.google.com/ or https://photos.google.com/ if she has a Google account.
Unfortunately, Samsung doesn't have a cloud web app yet (that I'm aware of) but if she uses the Samsung account on the phone again, it should restore everything.
No need for any of that. If you had a google account on the phone (which android pretty much forces you to do), just log in with that same google account on another phone and your contacts will sync back from google.
Or just go here and log in: https://contacts.google.com/
Ok, so go to settings > accounts > your google account and turn off contact sync. then go to contacts.google.com and delete all contacts there. Some carriers have contact sync built into their service as well, you will need to check your online account with them to see if it is a thing.
When setting up the device for the first time (after you reset it), you should be prompted to sign into your Google account. If you signed in at that moment, you should be prompted to restore apps data.
Otherwise, apps that support Google Drive backup should have their setting restored when you manually reinstall that app. To ensure the settings are restored, you should go to settings, search for "backup and restore", and turn on "Automatic restore" - although it should be turned on by default.
Do note that not all apps back up or restore all settings and data to Google. Some apps implement their own import/export feature that requires you to manually export the settings yourself. Some of them requires you to create an account on their own platform. Some don't even allow you to transfer any settings.
Contacts are not backed up to Google Drive, they're in Google Contact... provided you saved these contact under Google account. But there are some complexity...
* If these contact were, at one time, imported from other sources, such as iPhone or SIM card, they may be saved under a "local device" account, which won't be synced to Google Contact
* If you haven't set the sync to Google Contact on, they're not backed up
* If, when you create the contacts, picked something other than saving to Google, it also won't be backed up (for example, set to save to local device, like in this pic)
Sign in to Google Contact to quickly check if your contacts are stored in there. If they're there, turn on sync in your phone and they should be synced to your phone in a matter of minutes.
Not sure what Verizon has to do with your contacts list but just add all your contacts to https://contacts.google.com/ and you'll always have them. No need to copy lists from one phone to another ever again.
Don't ever store your contacts on your sim card or sd card.
One source: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/clean-up-google-contacts/
"The distinction between “My Contacts” and “Other Contacts” often escapes people, since Google’s description is vague. “Other Contacts” represents the people to whom you’ve written an email or replied, and some people you’ve called in Android. This list is then used to auto-complete when you type."
I can't say I'm an expert on this, but it seems "other contacts" aren't treated as regular contacts and don't show up everywhere. So you need to add these people from your "other contacts" to your main contacts. On the web if you hover over the Other Contact there's an add to contacts button. I don't see a way to do it in the Android app but I didn't really dig for one so there might be a way. You can visit https://contacts.google.com/other on your phone and get basically the same web interface if you want to do it in your phone.
switch over to Google services.
Export your contact list, and upload it togoogle contacts
export your calendar, then upload to Google calendar
make a google account if you don't have one.
then search the play store for equivalent apps you use that might not be on Android...like I know you'll have questions about Reddit apps, so look at Slide (my favorite), sync, Reddit is Fun, relay, and boost.
also, I have never done it, but some of the other stuff (contacts, calendar, texts, call logs) is done right through the setup process if you have the right cables.
Yeah, that's definitely not faster if you have lots of contacts. Setting up groups and favorites is a huge time saver too. I really suggest you just take some time to set it up and it will be helpful all around, especially since it sounds like you're starting from scratch anyway. https://contacts.google.com
Sideloaded on my phablet, looks pretty awesome. All things consistent with https://contacts.google.com/
Edit: After installing it, and I can't send a group message to any of my labels...this sucks now! The only thing is I'd be able to edit labels.
- US
- I jot a quick note with their information in Keep. After a bit I go to https://contacts.google.com/ and enter their information there. And then I make sure it syncs properly to my phone.
- If they ask for it I send them a text message with my name
- Usually nothing
- Nope
You can delete the contact picture. BUT it's a little bit cumbersome. I assume you sync them with Google contacts. You have to go to the Google Contacts website, there chose the contact, tap the edit button on the top right, then tap the "X" to delete the field (where the picture is).
Okay. You'll probably have to do a factory reset. Follow instruction set #1, and while in recovery mode, select factory reset.
Note: This will delete all your apps/contacts (if not synced with Google)/accounts, etc. Check https://contacts.google.com/ to see if your contacts are backed up (if they are, they will be restored once you sign back into Google on your phone). Factory resetting shouldn't delete your pictures/music, as a factory reset only wipes the /data and /cache partitions (pictures/music/other user files are stored in /sdcard).
Google Calendar now has a special birthdays calendar that specifically pulls birthdays from your contacts if they were provided (either through a G+ profile or manually).
I was oblivious to this until an ex's birthday showed up on my calendar and I couldn't figure out how to delete it. Fortunately there is now Google Contacts so it's not too difficult to find and nuke the offending data.
There is a "nickname" field in the contacts database (people app) . Google Now uses it if specified.
Here, you can add it in the browser too: http://i.imgur.com/Hn7gEU0.jpg (preview of Google Contacts)
In Google Contacts it's 2 clicks. If I'm logged into contacts.google.com in a browser and click "Export" in the bottom left, a dialog immediatley popps up where the default already selected is for all several thousand of my contacts. I click once more on the "Export" link and the CSV is downloaded. It really is about one second (once you're logged in of course).
As to how someone got in, could be any number of things. Malware, poor password selection, repeating the same password on multiple sites (one of which was hacked) etc.
>with the username and password https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?hl=en&visit\_id=637960885744750893-2929280927&rd=1
It seems like you think I’m dumb or something, mate.
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>https://contacts.google.com/u/0/
I did use the Contacts, but I already have my non-Gmail email connected to my profile there, and I do have a photo too — still, my photo didn’t show up in emails.
> Where is this option located?
https://contacts.google.com/u/0/
>How can you log into Gmail as an external email address?
with the username and password https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?hl=en&visit_id=637960885744750893-2929280927&rd=1
Can you login to gmail, go contacts and click directory? Or try this direct link: https://contacts.google.com/u/0/directory?hl=en_GB
Do you see any "ADMIN" or similar style accounts that might look familiar? If so login to admin.google.com with that account and go from there (including attempting to use the for personal link download link).
Go to https://contacts.google.com/ and export all of your contacts to a file.
Go to https://icloud.com and sign in, then click contacts.
Click the cogwheel and choose the option to import contacts.
Choose the file you created earlier.
Once that's done the contacts will be merged into your icloud account and you can safely delete the account and sign back in again.
Though you don't really have to do this -- if you can see your contacts in Google Contacts, all those contacts will repopulate when you re-add the account.
You have a global directory and a personal directory. Google will start saving contacts to each persons personal contact directory. If you go to contacts.google.com you can see there are several sections. For example, there should be one called "Other Contacts". I find this "Other Contacts" is usually the culprit when an email isn't showing correctly. You will have to delete this contact out of there if you want it to display properly. You can either ask users to do this themselves or you can try using GAM. Depending on where the contact is saved will depend on the command you need to run. Some examples:
Delete contact from all users if it belongs to other contacts:
gam all users delete othercontact emailmatchpattern <code>[email protected]</code>
Delete a specific users contact. This doesn't work if the contact is in other contacts.
gam user <code>[email protected]</code> delete contacts emailmatchpattern [email protected]
Check under Google Photos if you have your photos already backed up there.
As for the Google Authenticator situation, I hope you have saved recovery codes or have another device with Google Authenticator with all your 2FA codes. I use Google Authenticator and have it on my tablet and on an old phone for these cases where my main driver is not available.
As for contacts, if you use the Google Contacts app then all your contacts can be accessed here https://contacts.google.com/ and are safely backed up with your Google account
Most of those things copied fine from my 4a to 6a. I used the cable that came in the box. I didn't have to check or uncheck anything.
Maybe try backing up all you documents google drive on you old phone. Your photos are probably copied because those are backuped to google photos.
Aren't you phone contacts on 'google contacts'? On contacts.google.com you can see all the contacts that will be used in the default app on your phone. Those don't need to be copied over. Maybe you are using a different contacts app that doesn't have backup.
Apps got copied from my privious phone, but not all their data. I had to login again in almost all apps and set them up again the way I want them. Some apps use your login account to store those settings, most don't.
These are likely addresses in "Other contacts" section of your account Contacts.
Open contacts.google.com, and scroll to the bottom of the sidebar navigation. You should be able to delete contacts listed there that are no longer useful.
>I don’t have every single one of my 350+ contacts’ numbers memorized.
Congratulations?
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>When viewing the message in GV app on iPhone, the name appears just fine.
Which doesn't mean a whole heck a lot, because the app isn't running on the watch.
Like I said I don't know anything about iOS development, but from a cursory search, it looks like watch notifications are done with standard apple notifications. I'm not particularly familiar with those, but I believe they're like WebPush notifications, which I am familiar with. If they're coming from the server, rather than phone, then the issue could be that you've got the contact on your phone, but not "contacts.google.com". So when using the app, it can look in your phone's address book to resolve the name, but when sending notifications from the server, they don't have access to your phone's contact list. I run into a similar issue when doing localization, on the web, when serving content for a webpage, I can see the user's language, and serve appropriately. But when sending a webpush notification, I have no way of knowing what language the user my have their browser set too.
Or it may just be a bug/oversight hence... provide feedback so they know what you want.
Ok guys I figured out how to get this to work. I accidentally sent a test email to every single email address (+1000) in my company while researching so I hope this helps someone else too.
- Go to your Gmail contacts page > contacts.google.com
- Go to Directory
- Highlight all users ^((click first one, scroll down and while holding shift press the last contact. This was working but now when im putting together these steps I can't get them all to highlight again😫, so hopefully it works for you))
- Scroll to the top of the list and Click the 'add to contact' button at the top
- Now that the contacts are in your 'Contacts', you can resync the contacts for Google App Sync
- The contacts should now be showing in the 'contacts' address book.
- Create a new message
- Open address book > Contacts > Highlight ALL contact sand add them to the "To" field
- Put something into body and Close the window and save as a draft.
The addresses will now auto-populate in when typing them out.
Go to https://contacts.google.com/, click on Settings (the cog wheel in the upper right corner), More Settings, and make sure "Phone Number Country Code" is set to "United States".
one thing i can think of is google contacts you can manage it online via the browser https://contacts.google.com while samsung you can only edit on device. maybe more convenient to do via browser sometimes.
>One more suggestion, and really not meaning to insult your intelligence (I've done more stupid things than this), but have you refreshed contacts.google.com when looking at the contacts in your Google account?
No insult taken! It is a safe assumption that I am capable of such oversite. But yes, I have refreshed.
OK...
I checked the spreadsheet and the number of contacts on the spreadsheet equals the the number of contacts in the spreadsheet.
The last 2 columns are not complete. There are only 153 completed rows, which equals the same number of contacts listed in the client account.
Looking at the logs, the ClientInit script has not run for 3 hours. Should I manually run the script again?
It shouldn't be taking that long...😕
Take a look at the spreadsheet. Does "Sheet 1" have all of the contacts from the master account (just check the total number of rows - it should be equal to the number of contacts in the Master account)? If not, it may be worth starting over.
If it does list all of them, and assuming the client account is the last one listed in the variable "syncAccounts," check the last two columns of Sheet 1. The cells in the last two columns will be blank for any contacts not sync'd. As the script runs, you should be able to watch those get filled in.
One more suggestion, and really not meaning to insult your intelligence (I've done more stupid things than this), but have you refreshed contacts.google.com when looking at the contacts in your Google account?
I'm assuming here you're talking about the web version of Gmail, since you did not give any other information.
The autocomplete feature is actually accessing your contacts at contacts.google.com and looks them up to autocomplete them. So if you want to remove that contact from autocomplete you will have to delete this contact for it to not appear anymore.
further, gmail has a 'Create contacts for auto-complete' feature which creates a contact once you write to a specific address. This of course will re-enable the autocomplete feature. You can disable this in the settings.
Basically, through user error you are now castigated Google Fi for,your problems. It has its problems for sure but yiu caused this, not them. Recontact customer service and they can probably help you through this. Use the link below,to find your contacts.
Yes, you have Samsung Cloud. Let’s hope that the backup was activated.
It’s also worth to check Google Contacts, if she was saving the contacts on the google account instead.
There would also be the ADB way, but I doubt she had developer options activated.
When you create a new contact, make sure your contracts are created on Google, not on your phone only. (when you create a new contact, the dropdown at the top of the screen should be your google account, not "phone"). You can then confirm that all your contacts are on Google by going to contacts.google.com. Once you log on to google after resetting, your contacts will be restored in the sync process.
Consider using an app that will backup your SMS and call logs on a regular basis. I use "SMS Backup and Restore" (free or paid). I have it set to back up incrementally to Google Drive every day. Call history and texts can be easily restored if needed.
Have you made contacts, as in briwsabke st https://contacts.Google.com or are you trying to rely on autocomplete? My guess, and it’s just that, is that clickup won’t pull the proprietary autocomplete form Google but will search the contacts section. Try to add a few actual contacts and see if they pop up, assuming you don’t yet have them.
I was just coming here to say this - we use gmail at my work, and it's been a really upsetting challenge for the people who have come out. Google automatically adds everyone that emails you to a contact list called "Other", but never update it.
Unfortunately you have to basically tell everyone who emails you from gmail to change it in their address book themselves. (Yes, this absolutely sucks)
This is where the list lives: https://contacts.google.com/other
Are you sure the names are in your Google Contacts? If you go to contacts.google.com do you see them?
The android app will use the contacts in your phone, even if they're not in contacts.google.com, so that could explain the difference.
I've also used them. I still have my nokia in my drawer. But I'm glad I no longer have to worry about storing phone numbers on a SIM card, or copying them from the internal memory onto the SIM card in order to transfer them to a new phone.
I really mean managing contacts, as in https://contacts.google.com/ which was the biggest blessing when moving away from feature phones.
You can also include the calendar to share events, which is a useful thing for a kid to learn. Or just have the kid record audio notes, which will also make for good memories when growing up.
For your contacts check if they synced to your Google account. You can visit this website to check:
As for your phone number, it is tied to your phone's SIM card. You can move the SIM card from the old phone to the new one. You will have to refer to your phone's manual for locating the SIM card but there are a few possible locations:
There may be a tiny cover on the outside of your phone with a small hole in it. You use a tool or thin paper clip to press into the hole and eject the SIM tray. You should double-check the SIM card location to make sure you don't poke a microphone hole or anything.
If your old phone has a removable battery, the SIM card slot may be located underneath the battery.
Go to
https://contacts.google.com/other?hl=en-GB
Select all. Delete. This deletes all those contacts that are automatically added.
People you’ve interacted with in Google products, as well as any contacts you’ve hidden from your list. These contacts appear as auto-complete suggestions to help you communicate and share. Go to your Google Account to control how these contacts are saved.
In future if you want to stop this auto adding:
https://myaccount.google.com/people-and-sharing
Disable "Contact info from interactions"
The issue isn't about updating your brother's contact info, it's about update your sister's contact information to_NOT_ have your brother's number.
On the web, contacts are easy, just go to contacts.google.com, search for your brother's number and then update every contact that shows up except him.
The problem you might run into is after you update those contacts, one of your phones/devices may upload the old data back into your cloud contacts, contact syncing is just not very good.
Ozark's advice is good, a hard reset of the device works, or just repeated cleaning of contacts as best possible until everything is finally back the way you want.
If you go to https://contacts.google.com/ do they appear there? If they do appear, do they have all details or just a number?
I'm wondering if a previous sync to google only saved the numbers, and after you re-enter the details on the device (particularly if it was some OEM contacts app writing to the background database and not google contacts specifically) google 'helpfully' is syncing the bare version back.
>Se non vuoi copiare i contatti dalla scheda SIM o dalla memoria del telefono, disattiva l'opzione Scheda SIM o Memoria dispositivo.
ma dove? ma che opzione?
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>Se decidi di copiare i contatti da SIM e/telefono vengono sincronizzati automaticamente con l account Google.
io ho attivo il backup automatico del cell su google drive ma su https://contacts.google.com/ non risultano i miei contatti che sono salvati nel cell (proprio come vorrei)
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>A questo punto ti consiglio di esportarli in un file .vcf e ripristinarli cosi
però così non è un backup automatico
If it's an Android device, Google doesn't allow contacts to be handled via local files. They are stored with the dialer or phone app, and then synced to the primary Google Account of the device (unless otherwise specified).
The easiest way to retrieve the contacts is to have the screen repaired, or to take it to a phone repair shop and see if they can pull the data. If it is running Android 6 as you assume, then there may be a passcode or pattern applied that will have encrypted the data. If you know the Google account that the contacts were sycned to, you can navigate to contacts.google.com and sign in with said Google account to see what might be synced there.
Basically, unless the device is functional or you have access to the Google Account used to set it up, it's likely those contacts will be impossible to recover.
Well Google will save and collect/whatever. Then there is possibility that you don't have internet access. On phone is just that. Only on phone. Most people use Google because if phone breaks or is erased contact is gone. You can also see google contacts on contacts.google.com .(U goitta login to said acct) Saving to SIM card is not very good or fast. You can save to phone and export them as vcards, Those files can be emailed or transferred elsewhere.