Question Phone deleating/not reading my contacts - Moto Edge X30

My aliexpress motorola x30 keeps deleating my contacts on the phone "contacts" app. Keep changing the order in the names. Also keeps deleating the "+" in the whats app saved contacts.
Keeps "forgeting" the contacts (in the app) i imported through .csv file to google contacts or the phone's memory. (I did it both ways many times)
please help.

I'm facing this same issue. I already tried these things:
- Deleated all contacts and imported again;
- Downloaded google contacts apps and imported them to a google account;
- Tried others google account;
Maybe it's a rom problem... I can't figure it out! =/

LêxJok3r said:
I'm facing this same issue. I already tried these things:
- Deleated all contacts and imported again;
- Downloaded google contacts apps and imported them to a google account;
- Tried others google account;
Maybe it's a rom problem... I can't figure it out! =/
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Hi.
My contacts were a mess, so in the .csv format i edit them in microsoft excel, fist. ( the mess was that i export them from many phones so the +52 1 were add and the phone/whatsapp couldnt read them in that format).
So after i edit them, i save them in .csv format from excel and import then in google account linked with the phone... Same tragedy ... (I use google contacts app). So i try to import them to the google contacts app but i couldnt from the phone (google contact app), you only have the option in the gmail app, account manager - people & sharing, contacts - import).
So i open the phone's original contacts app, and then try to import the .csv contacts but it only could read .vcf files. so i imported the contacts to gmail again and exported them in "vcards (ios only)" format which is a .vcf file.
Then i downloaded the new .vcf file and imported them in the phone's original contacts app. Since 8am and until now. No contact have been erease or "forgoten" from the phone. (I imported this file to the "phones" memory and turn off the auto sync with the gmail account).
Hope it works for you too!

I'm experiencing the same issues and I didn't find solution ,
also there is anther problem that some of my contacts their name not show when they call , some of them not all.
Hope some one find how to fix this annoying issues.

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Change contact location (SIM, Google, Phone) impossible ?

Is there any way to change the contact's "location" (SIM, Google, Phone) ?
I would like to get all my "Phone" contacts synchronized with Google, but i can' find any way how to change the setting from "Phone" to "Google".
I can't find any way to sync all the contacts (SIM+Google+Phone) with Google.
Is it a bug or do I missed somthing ?
Have you tried Contacts > Menu > Import/Export?
that doesn't work, I've tried. There are a few threads here asking exactly the same question.
All we'd like is to be able to put all the contact links we have from google, facebook, phone, phone, phone and phone for one contact to go under one contact, hopefully, the google one, to include all the relevant info from all the places like facebook. I don't believe anyone has said how this can be done yet.
Bandare said:
that doesn't work, I've tried. There are a few threads here asking exactly the same question.
All we'd like is to be able to put all the contact links we have from google, facebook, phone, phone, phone and phone for one contact to go under one contact, hopefully, the google one, to include all the relevant info from all the places like facebook. I don't believe anyone has said how this can be done yet.
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That's really not the same thing as what the OP was asking. Mind me asking why you want to change that, tho? It's only a horrifying mess in the edit contact screen, when viewing the contact I only see one entry (Name, phone, email, address, nickname, facebook profile).
Of course, when I hit edit I have
Google contact with phone, email
Google contact with another email
Google contact with phone, email, address, nickname
Facebook contact
It's all very derp.
I don't want to link all the contact accounts for one person (his twitter, phone, gmail accounts) together.
what i want is to move all the "Phone" contacts to "Google" contacts location.
Example: when I click on People->Menu->View, then i have
SIM 0
Google 41
Phone 123
contacts
I want to have 41+123= 164 Google contacts only.
because i want automatically backup contacts on Gmail (e.g. to be able to restore them after ROM flash)
When i click on individual contact, then i see "Phone" on the right upper corner of the contact screen. i want to see "google" there. But it's not editable. Its only linkable ...
When i restored my contacts using mybackup pro they all restored as google contacts as well as phone contacts, so then i just deleted all of my phone cntcts using a contact deleter app from the market.
Google contacts all the way!
The google contacts have the phone and facebook info combined so photo birthday and all that.
thanks for the tips.
unfortunately my myBackup trial has allready expired.
but i have exported all "Phone" contacts to a *.vcf file, then deleted all contacts and finally imported them from *.vcf into "Google" contacts.
hopefully it will not mess up after synchronization with google (which is running in this moment)
I recently kinda done this, I just exported all contacts, and then imported multiple rather than one or all, and when you import it asked you where you wish to save them, Gmail, phone or sim, This is the ONLY way I can see about doing this
It's probably the only way to do this and it worked for me.
problem solved.

[Q] Weird Kink Transferring Old Nokia Contacts to HTC Desire

Okay, so I decide to transfer some contacts from a Nokia 6680 to my Desire, and I did it via Bluetoothing .vcf files from one to the other. Easy enough. Like any good smartphone user, I synced them immediately w/ GMail.
However, after the sync, I opened my Gmail and could not see the newly-synced Nokia contacts. Only the pre-Bluetooth phonebook entries were there. So I did the whole Bluetooth bit again, synced, but the problem remained.
Then I noticed that the phonebook entries that remained were all classified as Google contacts on my Desire (because that's the way I saved them when I inputted them before). These Nokia contacts were saved automatically under "Phone", and so I did not have the option of saving them as Google contacts, and perhaps because of that they couldn't be saved as "syncable" phonebook entries. Neither can the phonebook entries be edited to become Google contacts after saving.
Anyone got any ideas about a remedy to this? I'm about to dispose of the old Nokia, so it'd be good if all my contacts were on GMail, syncable at any time.
Thanks for any help
Go to People press menu then import export, export to sd card and then do the same but import them. When you will import an option with save as google contacs will appear.
When I got my Android phone I exported the Nokia contacts, via outlook, and imported them directly into Gmail on my laptop. It then let me edit and clean up at the same time.
I don't know if this was the most efficient way but it worked for me.

[Q] Delete ALL phone contacts but NOT Google

Hi guys,
I seem to have cocked up my contacts through a load of synchronising and messing about.
I now need to delete ALL my phone contacts but NOT the Google contacts (because I want to import the Google contacts after).
The problem is, everytime I delete a phone contact (ie. Have only PHONE visible in contacts list and delete) it also deletes from Google (even though Google is hidden).
This is probably because they're linked contacts... but I have HUNDREDS of linked contacts, also with Facebook etc to show the photos. It took hours setting up all the links and I don't want to break them.
What do I do? :-S I'm really confused.
Thanks
Matt
PS: This came about because I'd accidentally been adding NEW contacts to Google rather than my phone. All I wanted to do was get the 10 extra contacts from Google onto my Phone also (then link them). So i exported the Google contacts to SD card and then imported them to phone from SD Card. It created duplicates on the phone (so now there's 2x more contacts listed in the Phone storage).
Did you try disabling synchronize for google account before deleted action?
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
thanks. Tried and it doesn't help. I disabled all synchronisation, unchecked Contacts in the Google account... and it still deleted it.
Re-enabled sync and hoped it would still have a copy on the Google account but it hasn't, it really deleted it.
:-S
But you've the vcf file from your last backup process in your sdcard right?
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yep i just exported google contacts to SD card so I have a copy.
I just want to delete ALL phone contacts and re-import.
When I delete a phone contact though it deletes the Google contact also! And god knows what happens to the Facebook contact (not risking deleting one that's linked to Facebook)
Hej,
When you initailly set up you phone, you setup HTC sync & Google Sync by default. 1. Disable Google Sync, it will delete/not show all the synced google contacts
2. Create a Google Exchange account & sync.
3. Enable linked contacts with facebook (or you can disable facebook sync altogether as I did so as not to have duplicate entries (having mobile number of John twice)
Hope this helps
PJS
thanks for the replies guys.
I've fixed it as follows...
Deleted Facebook account.
Deleted Facebook for HTC Sense account
Deleted all contacts (also from Gmail)
Restarted phone
Imported SD card to Google
Resync'd
Added Facebook accounts
Relinked everything.
What a ball ache! :-S
Thanks again

SERIOUS PROBLEM: Google Contacts Sync generates xxx amount copy of each contact!

Hi all.
My set-up: LG G4, Lollipop 5.1, not rooted.
Google Account, Outlook.com, LinkedIn, Skype etc.
The proplem is that during my night-time, Google Contacts Sync starts syncing my contacts (to somewhere; the are NOT visible in my Google account) generating xxx copies of each contact. I have no exact timeline when this has started to realize, but by using Simpler Contacts 5.0.2 (paid version) I was able to clean that horrible mess (took overall ~5 hours with 55.000+ contacts).
Currently I have disabled all contacts syncing.
So should I:
1) Copy all my contacts to Google (already exported cleaned .vcf to my SD card) and import that to Google account?
2) Do something else, what?
What an earth is causing that!?!?
Much appreciated.
BR,
Timo
Any hints / thoughts on this?
Anyhow I will wait for overnight now to see if it still happens even that now Google contacts sync of OFF.
Additional wonder: I can not find those contacts synced to either my Google.com or live.com (Outlook.com) accounts, so it seems they to replicate locally on my phone... Which makes this even more weird.
tjsuominen said:
Any hints / thoughts on this?
Anyhow I will wait for overnight now to see if it still happens even that now Google contacts sync of OFF.
Additional wonder: I can not find those contacts synced to either my Google.com or live.com (Outlook.com) accounts, so it seems they to replicate locally on my phone... Which makes this even more weird.
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In your gmail, try look in contacts tab..Its happened since kitkat, must be something with google services.
faizalotai said:
In your gmail, try look in contacts tab..Its happened since kitkat, must be something with google services.
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Just looked, there's (on Gmail contacts tab) basically only my Google+ contacts and some random e-mail contacts...
Any further tips?
//timo
tjsuominen said:
Just looked, there's (on Gmail contacts tab) basically only my Google+ contacts and some random e-mail contacts...
Any further tips?
//timo
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Try delete all contacts from your gmail then syncing once with phone, disabled auto sync, if you have update your contacts, just sync via account and sync in settings--->google>your email>contacts
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.accaci
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OK, still definitelly NOT working. What I did:
SCENARIO 1:
0) Ensured that all contacts syncs from my Phone were off
1) Cleared (= deleted) all contacts from my Google.com account
2) Started my [email protected] Contacts syncing from my phone
SCENARIO 2:
0) Ensured that all contacts syncs from my Phone were off
1) Cleared (= deleted) all contacts from my Google.com account
2) Imported the exported .csv file into my Google.com account
3) Started my [email protected] Contacts syncing from my phone
-->>
RESULT on BOTH sync scenarios:
NOTHING seems to sync to my Google.com account BUT on my phone contacts start to copy themselves... Generating duplicates, triplicates...
Syncing is working OK for other parts: various E-mail accounts, Calendar etc.
My analysis: my Phone's google.com CONTACTS account is NOT somehow connected to my account on google.com - weird...
I did NOT yet do this (advise from https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=42641):
Clearing out the Contacts Storage. Settings > Application Manager > All, went into "Contacts Storage", force stopped it, and cleared the data. When I went to re-sync, Google Contacts started syncing again.
I am afraid deleting the contacts data (although the CSV file has been exported successfully).
So any further help appreciated.
//timo
tjsuominen said:
Hi all.
The proplem is that during my night-time, Google Contacts Sync starts syncing my contacts (to somewhere; the are NOT visible in my Google account) generating xxx copies of each contact. I have no exact timeline when this has started to realize, but by using Simpler Contacts 5.0.2 (paid version) I was able to clean that horrible mess (took overall ~5 hours with 55.000+ contacts).
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Have you tried a Factory data reset ? I know it's a bit full-on and will mean you have work to do, but might help ?
pcoulson said:
Have you tried a Factory data reset ? I know it's a bit full-on and will mean you have work to do, but might help ?
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Nope, not yet.
Let's see if something else can be done to fix this prior doing that.
I might even wait as long as 6.0 update.
Frustrated, yes.
tjsuominen said:
Nope, not yet.
Let's see if something else can be done to fix this prior doing that.
I might even wait as long as 6.0 update.
Frustrated, yes.
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Any further possible fixes for this?
Next: Should I try importing the exported .CSV to my Google.com account using the phone functionality (use file manager and select the created .CSV file -> import to my Google account?)
//timo

S20+ contacts - sync google contacts - big problem

Hello,have S20+ with the latest Android. Using 2x SIM card (home, work). Every contacts are synchronized to my private google account.
Curently I have 500 contacts in Google Contacts. Device shows me 518 contacts.
Sync doesn't work well. Deleted all contacts from google (500 contacts), in device are 43 contacts now. Deleted them and everything from the trash. Imported 500 contacts to google again, mobile shows me 571 contacts now.
Have this problem for some months. Sometimes I found a lot of contacts are deleted (in trash). Google shows me contacts was deleted by device ie at the night if I sleep.
- tried factory reset, didn't help
- yesterday I removed all contacts again and manually add every contact via google contacts. When 30 contacts was in google contacts, device shows me 42 contacts (a lot of duplicates again).
Any fix for that please? It's really uncomfortable. With iOS I didn't have these problems. I'm thinking about returning to iOS again!
example of duplicates in attachment.. If I go to find duplicates in device (by number, name, email), it still shows me there are no duplicates
I cleaned up some contacts and just found this:
google contacts: 488 contacts
s20 (phone app): 503 contacts
s20 (contacts app): 513 contacts
wtf?
SIM will have some carrier contacts and may have some you saved there in the past?. You may have saved some to the native or other dialler contacts before making Google the default account for contacts
Dont think the device has a problem, just think you havent realised how contacts works or realised theres carrier and dialler contacts.
Stop reimporting them and creating more issues.
Stop manually recreating them because Google will sync and create duplicates - youre creating the problem there...
Google Contacts has an option to merge and fix contacts, both in the Contacts app and in the online web page
Sign in - Google Accounts
Please never mention that locked down abomination of a phone OS again, we like freedom here...though it may be jarring to some
you're not right man..
1. don't have any contacts in SIM cards (tried both SIM in another device)
2. made factory reset (without restore backup) few times, still same problem
3. never had this problem with Android 11. It started with Android 12 I think
4. today tried delete all contacts and reimport again 4x. Everytime device showed me wrong number.
4.1 - first import shows me 28 contacts difference
4.2 - second import - 15 contacts difference
4.3 - third import - 41 contacts difference
4.4 - fourth import - 1 difference
5. if device shows me duplicates, there are no duplicates in google contacts
see attachments..
RenikSK said:
you're not right man..
1. don't have any contacts in SIM cards (tried both SIM in another device)
2. made factory reset (without restore backup) few times, still same problem
3. never had this problem with Android 12. It started with Android 13 I think
4. today tried delete all contacts and reimport again 4x. Everytime device showed me wrong number.
4.1 - first import shows me 28 contacts difference
4.2 - second import - 15 contacts difference
4.3 - third import - 41 contacts difference
4.4 - fourth import - 1 difference
5. if device shows me duplicates, there are no duplicates in google contacts
see attachments..
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Youre seeking support for a beta? Report it to Google....thats what betas are for
sorry, made a mistake in post. It started with Android 12. Using latest official version.
1) What contact app are you using?
2) What is your default account for handling/syncing contacts
Hopefully both Google....or both Samsung
1. default samsung's app
2. my default account for syncing is google account.

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