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Hide contact groups
Is it possible to hide some contact groups from the default People App? I'm talking in particular about the default Google groups named "Family", "Friends" and "Coworkers"; since I don't use them, and in their stead I have added some other groups that are more useful to me, I'd like to remove or sim...
Is it possible to hide some contact groups from the default People App?
I'm talking in particular about the default Google groups named "Family", "Friends" and "Coworkers"; since I don't use them, and in their stead I have added some other groups that are more useful to me, I'd like to remove or simply hide these default ones, in order to keep the list of groups less cluttered.
Is it possible to do so?
user86241
Jan 7, 2015, 03:11 PM
• Last activity: Feb 4, 2023, 05:26 AM
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Nexus 4 auto dialing extension does not work
I used to own a T-Mobile Mytouch 4g before, which had the pause character before extension otherwise '*p*' on that handset and it was working fine. Now, I own and use a Nexus 4 and I understood that the pause character on the Nexus 4 is '*,*' (*a comma*). I replaced all the contact entries that had...
I used to own a T-Mobile Mytouch 4g before, which had the pause character before extension otherwise '*p*' on that handset and it was working fine.
Now, I own and use a Nexus 4 and I understood that the pause character on the Nexus 4 is '*,*' (*a comma*).
I replaced all the contact entries that had a '*p*' with '*,*' (*a comma*) in my contacts. And now it is not working, basically, what happens is when I make the call using that contact's number, the number gets called but the extension is not dialled automatically.
Anyone would know how to fix my issue?
Srik
(123 rep)
Feb 5, 2013, 01:11 AM
• Last activity: Dec 11, 2020, 09:07 AM
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How do I enable birthday reminders or view birthdays as events in Calendar on Nexus 4
Simple problem: I forget the birthdays of my friends. I have the dates saved in my contacts (CardDAV-Sync address book) and can view them with the People app. I have not found a way to set up an alert or reminder, though. Alternatively I'd like to see them as events in Calendar. I would hope there i...
Simple problem: I forget the birthdays of my friends. I have the dates saved in my contacts (CardDAV-Sync address book) and can view them with the People app. I have not found a way to set up an alert or reminder, though. Alternatively I'd like to see them as events in Calendar. I would hope there is some option in the stock Android 4.3 of my Nexus 4 to configure this, but if it is not possible, do you know of a simple reminder app _that does not ask for full internet access_?
Thanks in advance.
Perseids
(271 rep)
Oct 2, 2013, 07:07 PM
• Last activity: Feb 27, 2017, 09:18 PM
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People app disappeared from apps on Nexus 4
It's a system app, but somehow I disabled it. Now, it won't show me my contacts or anything. If I try to see a missed call from notification drawer, it leaves me at home screen. I cannot view any of my call records.
It's a system app, but somehow I disabled it. Now, it won't show me my contacts or anything. If I try to see a missed call from notification drawer, it leaves me at home screen. I cannot view any of my call records.
Aditya Kamath
(151 rep)
Jul 16, 2013, 07:27 AM
• Last activity: May 2, 2016, 02:44 PM
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How to add a contact to People from Hangouts?
I'm using KitKat. I have Hangouts conversations with people who are not in my contacts (this may be an artifact of using a Google Apps account provided by my school). How can I add someone from one of these conversations to People? I have tried double-tapping and holding down their icon or their cha...
I'm using KitKat. I have Hangouts conversations with people who are not in my contacts (this may be an artifact of using a Google Apps account provided by my school). How can I add someone from one of these conversations to People?
I have tried double-tapping and holding down their icon or their chats without any success, and looking at the "..." options menus. No luck. I do know how to add contacts from email.
katriel
(195 rep)
Dec 19, 2013, 02:18 AM
• Last activity: Jul 17, 2015, 07:39 AM
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Can you set the colour for contacts in Android 5 Lollipop?
I just upgraded to Android 5.0 which made all my contacts' random colours even more prominent. Is it possible to customize the colour for each contact? For example, if I don't like that Mister Brown got a green background, can I change that, haha?
I just upgraded to Android 5.0 which made all my contacts' random colours even more prominent.
Is it possible to customize the colour for each contact? For example, if I don't like that Mister Brown got a green background, can I change that, haha?
Francisc
(2365 rep)
Nov 17, 2014, 10:21 PM
• Last activity: Jul 4, 2015, 01:59 AM
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How do I edit/add a birthday in the `people` app Cyanogenmod 11?
I have Cyanogenmod 11 M8. I keep my contacts on the phone, not sharing them in the cloud, I prefer to run only AOSP software and [FOSS applications from F-Droid][1]. Somehow I can't add/edit birthdays in the people app. Shouldn't this be a **basic** feature for a **people application** . I know they...
I have Cyanogenmod 11 M8.
I keep my contacts on the phone, not sharing them in the cloud, I prefer to run only AOSP software and FOSS applications from F-Droid .
Somehow I can't add/edit birthdays in the people app. Shouldn't this be a **basic** feature for a **people application** .
I know they are somewhere because the birthday adapter shows the imported birthdays from my VCF file in the calendar.
So how do I add a birthday?
Janghou
(163 rep)
Jul 21, 2014, 02:08 PM
• Last activity: May 14, 2015, 12:40 AM
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How to view on-line or download my Android Contacts metadata including Linked info from Linked Apps
There is far more information about my Contacts in my Android phone then what is visible on-line from https://www.google.com/contacts. Primarily I am referring to the information from "linked contacts" which Android captures and consolidates in the "People" "Phonebook" on the Android OS. Presumably,...
There is far more information about my Contacts in my Android phone then what is visible on-line from https://www.google.com/contacts .
Primarily I am referring to the information from "linked contacts" which Android captures and consolidates in the "People" "Phonebook" on the Android OS.
Presumably, Google is capturing and storing this information from my Linked Accounts (the content is not dynamically being pulled from these apps every time I pull up the Phone book). I would like to view the total information regarding my Contacts on-line including this metadata... anyone know where this may be available?
Justin
(11 rep)
May 11, 2015, 03:28 PM
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How can I add a contact to internal address book (instead of Google Account) on Android 4.4?
I'm using Android 4.4.2 with my new Google Nexus 5. I have a question about adding new contacts. On my workstation I'm running my own cloud system. It is an Apache sever running eGroupware on it and I'm using Sogo-Connector and Synthesis Sync Clients to synchronize all my clients. I synchronize all...
I'm using Android 4.4.2 with my new Google Nexus 5. I have a question about adding new contacts. On my workstation I'm running my own cloud system. It is an Apache sever running eGroupware on it and I'm using Sogo-Connector and Synthesis Sync Clients to synchronize all my clients. I synchronize all my contacts and calendar data over my different clients such as Laptops and Mobile phones. Now I want also use the cloud to sync my Google Nexus. Adding a new contact on the workstation (or any other client except the Nexus 5) works fine and after synchronization the new contact is available on the Nexus 5.
If I want to add a new contact on the Nexus 5 itself, I really want to force the Nexus to add it in the *internal phone addressbook* instead of the Google Account. However this option is not available, because the phone forces me to sync it with the google account.
How can I add a new contact to the internal phone addressbook?
user8
(163 rep)
Dec 23, 2013, 11:24 AM
• Last activity: Jun 23, 2014, 08:01 AM
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Google agenda question (Still need help)
my question is more related to the Google contacts system than to Android itself, but hope you can help me.. I have a Nexus 5, and my agenda looks organized with everything that I added perfectly. The problem is when I go to the people section is shows me clones of my contacts for example: my girlfr...
my question is more related to the Google contacts system than to Android itself, but hope you can help me.. I have a Nexus 5, and my agenda looks organized with everything that I added perfectly. The problem is when I go to the people section is shows me clones of my contacts for example: my girlfriend contact with phone number and another with the Skype name, but it's the same person. The problem is that when I try to merge both contacts to be perfect, it doesn't stay with my contact name but instead with the Skype name! For example, her name is Ana and her Skype name is Anaaa.. And when I merge them it appears now as Ana.. Not only in people but also in my contact list.. I tried to see in the settings to fix this, but can't find the solution.
user58960
(11 rep)
Apr 20, 2014, 02:38 PM
• Last activity: Apr 22, 2014, 11:42 AM
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Wrong caller ID for home number
I recently had to wipe my Nexus 4 in order to root it. Prior to that when I received a call from my home telephone it would display my wife's contact from the caller ID. Since rooting it now displays my own contact instead. My contacts are synced from my Google account and I haven't changed anything...
I recently had to wipe my Nexus 4 in order to root it.
Prior to that when I received a call from my home telephone it would display my wife's contact from the caller ID.
Since rooting it now displays my own contact instead.
My contacts are synced from my Google account and I haven't changed anything on my Google account.
The only thing that has changed is the wipe and root.
How can I get it to display my wife's contact again?
Shevek
(101 rep)
Mar 17, 2014, 06:36 PM
• Last activity: Mar 17, 2014, 07:16 PM
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Problem syncing Gmail contacts on Android tablet
I have a Teac tablet (classic101) with Android 4.0. After signing in on Gmail and Drive and everything, my contacts won't show up anywhere. It doesn't show when I start writing an address in Gmail. It doesn't even show after I downloaded contacts+ (the contacts are empty). When I go to sync it, it s...
I have a Teac tablet (classic101) with Android 4.0.
After signing in on Gmail and Drive and everything, my contacts won't show up anywhere. It doesn't show when I start writing an address in Gmail. It doesn't even show after I downloaded contacts+ (the contacts are empty).
When I go to sync it, it suggests syncing email, calender and drive. But, there is no contacts!
How do I sync my contacts so that they will appear on my Gmail on the tablet? I have over 2000 contacts on Gmail.
It works fine on my phone, just not on the tablet.
Sahar Vardi
(11 rep)
Jan 30, 2013, 12:31 PM
• Last activity: Jan 19, 2014, 08:39 PM
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Cannot find option to edit people in Nexus 4
My device is Nexus 4 with custom PACman ROM installed. It got into a bootloop while taking a pic,So I swiped the dalvik cache and system files using TWRP. It booted up finely But since then i couldnt find the overflow button in people. Anybody have any idea...?
My device is Nexus 4 with custom PACman ROM installed. It got into a bootloop while taking a pic,So I swiped the dalvik cache and system files using TWRP.
It booted up finely But since then i couldnt find the overflow button in people. Anybody have any idea...?
Mahesh Paul
(31 rep)
Nov 20, 2013, 01:51 PM
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How to change my Google+ connection in "Me" contacts
When I set up the social connection in Me I picked the Google+ account that I share with my spouse. How do I change it to my own google+ account. In messaging, it picking up the photo of the two of us from our shared Google+ account. I want it to pick up the photo from my personal google+ account. T...
When I set up the social connection in Me I picked the Google+ account that I share with my spouse. How do I change it to my own google+ account. In messaging, it picking up the photo of the two of us from our shared Google+ account. I want it to pick up the photo from my personal google+ account.
Thanks.
user46452
(21 rep)
Nov 18, 2013, 09:49 PM
• Last activity: Nov 20, 2013, 01:39 AM
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Get all users by Organization name in People app of HTC One X
I have HTC One X and I have stored my contacts in the People app. I have put Organization name in their details. I want to view all the users belonging to a particular organization. I am unable to find a way to do that. Is there a way to view all my contacts in People app by Organization name or at...
I have HTC One X and I have stored my contacts in the People app. I have put Organization name in their details. I want to view all the users belonging to a particular organization. I am unable to find a way to do that.
Is there a way to view all my contacts in People app by Organization name or at least search by it?
Naveen
(1143 rep)
Jun 14, 2013, 11:54 AM
• Last activity: Nov 15, 2013, 01:36 AM
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Combine SIM contacts to single contact back in phone
I have researched on the net for this and have come accross useful apps like Merge+, Duplicate contacts, etc. But they don't exhibit the feature that i am looking for.. When we copy contacts from phone to SIM, if a contact has multiple numbers associated, each of these numbers gets stored as a separ...
I have researched on the net for this and have come accross useful apps like Merge+, Duplicate contacts, etc.
But they don't exhibit the feature that i am looking for..
When we copy contacts from phone to SIM, if a contact has multiple numbers associated, each of these numbers gets stored as a separate contact. For example, contact "abc" with numbers num1 and num2 will get stored as two separate contacts abc->num1 and abc1->num2.
I want to merge these contacts back to single contact when imported to phone. How can this be accomplished?
TechSpellBound
(111 rep)
Nov 2, 2013, 09:56 AM
• Last activity: Nov 2, 2013, 10:17 AM
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Filter contacts by account
I have a number of mail accounts on my Samsung Tablet. Contacts stored online are synced with the local tablet contacts and visible in the stock Android `Contact` app. As different accounts are connected with different task/activities, I would like to filter contacts by account. Is there a way in th...
I have a number of mail accounts on my Samsung Tablet. Contacts stored online are synced with the local tablet contacts and visible in the stock Android
Contact app.
As different accounts are connected with different task/activities, I would like to filter contacts by account.
Is there a way in the stock contact app to display only contacts for a given account?
If not, is it possible to achieve this with a different app?
My Android version is 3.2.
antonio
(121 rep)
Jul 19, 2013, 10:05 AM
• Last activity: Jul 23, 2013, 11:51 PM
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Phone favorite - remove picture icon due to screen real estate
Using a new Nexus 4 with OS 4.2.2. I've pulled my contacts onto the phone (from Exchange/OL using Companion Link) and they are synchronized to the phone's Contacts (people?) app. I can see them from both the Google People app and from the phone app. I have over 3000 contacts, and am trying to set up...
Using a new Nexus 4 with OS 4.2.2.
I've pulled my contacts onto the phone (from Exchange/OL using Companion Link) and they are synchronized to the phone's Contacts (people?) app. I can see them from both the Google People app and from the phone app.
I have over 3000 contacts, and am trying to set up my favorites for people I call regularly (a list of about 20 contacts.) This was very easy to do on my last Android phone, and the favorites would show me a list of contacts.
On this 4.2.2 phone, the favorites area is displayed with the contacts' pictures as a huge tile, with the contact names at the bottom of the tile. I do not maintain pictures for my contacts, so I do not want to take up all of this screen real estate for non-existent pictures. And, even if I had pictures, I wouldn't want them to appear as these huge tiles when I'm trying to look at a list of contacts.
How can I do one of the following things?
1. Force the phone/people apps to not show the picture tiles in lists.
2. Remove the picture tiles altogether.
3. Ensure that the picture tiles do not appear when there is no picture.
Jennifer K. klyjen
(13 rep)
Apr 3, 2013, 04:40 PM
• Last activity: Apr 3, 2013, 04:57 PM
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When I delete contact item (phone, email, etc), the item deletes but reappears
In the People app, if I delete a portion of a contacts information (like their address or phone number) the information will disappear for a time, but the next time I view my contacts, the information is back. Plus, I noticed that no changes were made to the contact's information in gmail, but it sh...
In the People app, if I delete a portion of a contacts information (like their address or phone number) the information will disappear for a time, but the next time I view my contacts, the information is back. Plus, I noticed that no changes were made to the contact's information in gmail, but it should have been; the phone is set to sync automatically with my gmail account.
HTC DNA.
user26632
(19 rep)
Jan 12, 2013, 06:11 PM
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Is there a solution to get the stock ICS Dialer and People apps with Touchwiz devices?
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Note with the stock Touchwiz UI ROM. I was wondering if there's a standalone ICS Dialer and People app available? I've managed to find a standalone messaging and calendar app which works just fine but have been unable to find the People app.
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Note with the stock Touchwiz UI ROM. I was wondering if there's a standalone ICS Dialer and People app available? I've managed to find a standalone messaging and calendar app which works just fine but have been unable to find the People app.
Mridang Agarwalla
(845 rep)
Jul 23, 2012, 06:42 PM
• Last activity: Sep 27, 2012, 07:36 AM
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