New S4 - Contacts Problem

[jmgilliam]

I got a new S4 today and when they were doing the setup wizard something happened on the contacts side.

I use Google Apps and when I signed in, all my contacts synced, but just now noticed I had the phone icon next to most of my contacts in addition to the Google icon.

It seems I have 450+ on "Device" and "750+" Google Contacts. Also, all of the "Device" contacts are in the Google contacts... So I wanted to unjoin them so I can delete from "Device" and just have them in Google so they aren't taking up space on my phone... I see how to do it one by one - unjoin or separate then I go back and delete the device one. But I have 450 to do. Do you know of anyway I can do multiple separation?

 

[thecarlsoncrew]

Similarly, my wife just switched from an iPhone to a GS4. She inadvertently imported all of her Facebook contacts alongside her Google contacts. How can I remove all of her Facebook contacts in one shot? There's too many to remove individually. I've tried deleting Facebook and her Facebook account from the phone, but apparently the contact info was imported into the phone's address book or something because they're still there.

 

[Darnell0216]

Similarly, my wife just switched from an iPhone to a GS4. She inadvertently imported all of her Facebook contacts alongside her Google contacts. How can I remove all of her Facebook contacts in one shot? There's too many to remove individually. I've tried deleting Facebook and her Facebook account from the phone, but apparently the contact info was imported into the phone's address book or something because they're still there.

She'll have to go to Google Contacts on the web (https://www.google.com/contacts/) and she can batch-delete from there.

If she doesn't see them there, they are being pulled from somewhere else on the phone and just listed together. That can be fixed by changing the "Contacts to Display" option in Contact's Menu. This will also tell exactly where they are coming from.

 

[thecarlsoncrew]

She'll have to go to Google Contacts on the web (https://www.google.com/contacts/) and she can batch-delete from there.

If she doesn't see them there, they are being pulled from somewhere else on the phone and just listed together. That can be fixed by changing the "Contacts to Display" option in Contact's Menu. This will also tell exactly where they are coming from.

Right, that's exactly what I'm doing to remove and clean up her Google contacts. My question was how to clean up everything else (i.e. Facebook contacts) once I have the Google contacts removed. I'm trying to get back to a clean slate with no contacts at all, and then I'll re-import the Google contacts, and she'll be good to go. I've already tried unchecking Facebook in the "Contacts to Display" option, but they're all still there, so I just want to wipe the whole contacts list everywhere on the phone. How can that be done?

 

[Darnell0216]

Right, that's exactly what I'm doing to remove and clean up her Google contacts. My question was how to clean up everything else (i.e. Facebook contacts) once I have the Google contacts removed. I'm trying to get back to a clean slate with no contacts at all, and then I'll re-import the Google contacts, and she'll be good to go. I've already tried unchecking Facebook in the "Contacts to Display" option, but they're all still there, so I just want to wipe the whole contacts list everywhere on the phone. How can that be done?

When you're done on the web, go into the account settings on the phone and force a manual sync if you don't want to wait for the automatic one (usually within a few minutes). All the contacts removed from the web will be removed from the phone as well. No need to delete all and re-import.

 

[thecarlsoncrew]

Beautiful! Worked perfectly, thank you!

 

[PARAS VORA]

Go to contects then menu button
Select Contact to display and then select device.

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