How do I display only contacts with phone numbers on Lollipop?

[TwitchyPuppy]

[...] So latest androids versions 4.x and 5.x don’t have that “contacts with numbers only” [...]

That is not true, see my post quoted below.

I do not know if it is Lollipop 5.1 or HTC, but I have this in Phone --> People --> Settings.

Posted via the Android Central App

 

[MrDoh]

Well, here's the facts from the future. Using Android N Preview 3 on a Nexus 6P, and there is no easy way to do this. I'm sure that are some apps that do this, but I'd rather not add more apps just for this.

I have no idea why, it just makes sense to me to only display contacts with phone numbers when I get to contacts from the phone dialer, but no.

I'm so disappointed. Last time I had an Android phone (4.4.2) you could do this easily. I have no idea why Google would eliminate such an intuitive, obvious option.

 

[tokkyuuressha]

I registered just to post a good workaround for this.
You need to have all the contacts synced with google account.
Go to gmail, then press "gmail" and switch to contacts http://i.imgur.com/Na00OfC.png
It should switch you to the new google contacts. On the left menu press more, then "Leave the contacts preview" http://i.imgur.com/6ImFUOr.png
Should bring you back to old contacts editor
Now, what you need to do is select the contacts with numbers, and add them to a separate group using this button http://i.imgur.com/IcmsyvN.png.
You can select them manually if there's not too much of them, or you can use excel to sort them out:
Press "more..."->export->to .csv, then open excel, Data tab, Import data, from text, select the exported .csv, select comma as separator. You should have a big spreadsheet imported with all of the contacts.
Now select all, find the column with numbers and check its letter(in my case "AE"), now press Sort http://i.imgur.com/XaL67Tm.png, then in the window select the column you checked earlier, and choose from biggest to lowest.
Now you should have all the numbers from the top and then at some point, the contacts without numbers should be starting at some point and go till the end. Select the latter and delete. Save as .csv, then import in google contacts. They should be imported to a separate group, like "imported on 6/6/666".
Now go to contacts on your phone->display perferences->customize, select only the group you've just created.

 

[toneymon]

Re: How to display only contacts with phone number on Lollipop

On my Nexus 5 with Android 4.4.4, the phone dialer had a "All Contacts" tab which only displayed my google contacts with phone numbers. That's the way I like it since I have a few hundred contacts in my google account and only 20% of them have phone numbers.

Now that I upgraded to Android 5, there is no "All Contact" tab in the dialer. Instead, there is a "Contacts" tab which basically show all my contacts with or without phone numbers. Setting "Contact to Display" in the "Contacts" app doesn't change the way Contact is being displayed in the dialer either. Is there any option to make the dialer to display only Contacts with phone number on Lollipop? Thanks.

Hi

Goto settings, applications and then you can see phone as an application there. Enter there and there is option - hide contacts without numbers

 

[alienlost]

Hi,
The solution to the issue for me was to use the contact list from the dialer.
This contact list is green (not orange like the classic contact list) and is reachable from a "contact" tab in the dialer. This contact list only contains contacts with phone numbers.

 

[kroz84]

I registered just to post a good workaround for this.
You need to have all the contacts synced with google account.
Go to gmail, then press "gmail" and switch to contacts http://i.imgur.com/Na00OfC.png
It should switch you to the new google contacts. On the left menu press more, then "Leave the contacts preview" http://i.imgur.com/6ImFUOr.png
Should bring you back to old contacts editor
Now, what you need to do is select the contacts with numbers, and add them to a separate group using this button http://i.imgur.com/IcmsyvN.png.
You can select them manually if there's not too much of them, or you can use excel to sort them out:
Press "more..."->export->to .csv, then open excel, Data tab, Import data, from text, select the exported .csv, select comma as separator. You should have a big spreadsheet imported with all of the contacts.
Now select all, find the column with numbers and check its letter(in my case "AE"), now press Sort http://i.imgur.com/XaL67Tm.png, then in the window select the column you checked earlier, and choose from biggest to lowest.
Now you should have all the numbers from the top and then at some point, the contacts without numbers should be starting at some point and go till the end. Select the latter and delete. Save as .csv, then import in google contacts. They should be imported to a separate group, like "imported on 6/6/666".
Now go to contacts on your phone->display perferences->customize, select only the group you've just created.

Thanks, solved it this way!

 

[Sergio Arculeo]

I solved installing the "Contatti & Telefono - drupe" APP from the Play Store.