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:
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):
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:
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?
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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
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