Can't Delete Duplicate Contacts _ HELP!

[shandycat]

Ok, got my BRAND NEW Galaxy S3 yesterday and so far I'm loving it. I'm having the "duplicate contacts" Android problem like a lot of others. I just couldn't seem to get it fixed no matter how much merging, joining, splitting, importing, exporting, manually deleting, etc., so I finally just deleted all my contacts. I deleted ALL OF THEM from the phone. I deleted ALL OF THEM from my gmail account. When I look at the Contacts list in my phone now, they are GONE. Yippee!!!!!! No more effing DUPLICATES, right? Wrong. Let's say I want to send a text to someone. I open "messaging" and start typing a name, and lo and behold, a list begins to populate with a bunch of %$#@! duplicate names. WTF do I have to do??? THIS IS A NIGHTMARE that has lost me literally DAYS worth of time trying to figure out. I have sync OFF. I haven't gone anywhere near Facebook. Where is it getting these damn names? Some of these people I haven't even heard of!!!!

 

[adammcgovern]

Are you sure there's no other social media service that's syncing it's contacts with your phone? I avoid all of that, but where i'm confused is that you have names and numbers popping up on your phone that you have never heard of. Again, I don't do social media on my phone, but I get a sinking suspicion that your problem lies in there somewhere

 

[Zero Hunter]

You might want try to unlink your social media apps and email account and try it again.