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How to show only Gmail's contacts in the Contacts app?

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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** want other SIM or phone contacts to show in the contacts list anymore. However, if I try to uncheck both the SIM and phone contacts and I *do* check all possible Google contacts groups and the option for showing only contacts with a phone number1, **no** contact is shown at all. If I also show the phone contacts, then the Google contacts *are* shown (and thus I have some duplicates), but removing the phone contacts removes the Google contacts too. Note that **the contacts are perfectly synched and all under the *My contacts* group**. It's **not** a synchronisation problem. I'm asking why I *must* select the *show phone contacts* in order to see *any* contact at all (from whichever source you like. Even SIM. I *cannot* show only the SIM contacts without the *show phone contacts* enabled.) To make things clearer, here are some screenshots of the situation: Here I have set *only* the phone contacts (*Contatti del telefono* in Italian), without Google contacts: Screenshot of contacts App showing the phone contacts and related options Here I have added the Google contacts in the options *and they are shown* (see red rectangles. Note the number of contacts at the top going from 116 to 156): Screenshot of contacts App showing the phone and the google contacts and related options Now, I'd expect that removing the phone contacts I should see only the Google contacts (in this case those that above have red rectangles and the other not shown), but this is what I get: Screenshot of the contacts App not showing any contact and related options saying to show only (and all) Google contacts On the right, it just says that there are no contacts to show and that I can add new contacts or import/export from other sources. What should I do such that this last set of options *does* show the Google contacts? ------ 1 Having or not this option active doesn't change anything. Even if it is not active no contact is shown.
Asked by Bakuriu (169 rep)
Nov 27, 2013, 09:30 AM
Last activity: May 28, 2025, 05:07 PM