I'm a total newbie. I have no idea where favorites are. I never even made a call from this phone. Somehow when I was adding contacts I made one a favorite. It has a yellow star.
It just hit me. This contact is the only one I have with a gmail address so did it automatically make it a favorite because of the google link?
This might be a minor bug. I've noticed that most, if not all of my contacts also show up under the Favorites tab. And not even one of them is starred. Easy enough to just scroll down to a contact in the regular contact list so it never really bothered me.
i think if you log into your gmail, and go to contacts there (from pc) you can manage the favorites better, and it will sync back to the phone the way you want it.