topic Re: Contact name goes wrong in XPERIA archive

Contact name goes wrong

pkhanhh — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:36:06 GMT

Okay, I'll try my best to make myself clear, English's not my native language.

There's something wrong with my contact, it's not just saving name of the contact, it's saving *everything* I type in the name boxes (well, name prefix, first name, middle name...) without clearing them after I'm done edit the contact.

For example, a guy's full name is Andy Gee, I mistyped it, to Andrew Gee or something, then fix it to Andy Gee, and I'm done editing the contact. After that, in Contact, my phone show that contact with the name Andy Gee (of course) and just under that is Andrew Gee (with the matter of fact that I cleared the name before). More than that, I can find Andy Gee by typing Andrew.

The more I mistype, the more messy the contact name become after saving

Now my contact list is a little bit mess because of that, many contact names begin with C now is sorted into A, B group.

Is there anything I could do ?

Re: Contact name goes wrong

Danial-mach1 — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:11:28 GMT

you mean even you use edit to corrct your mistyped contact both corrected and uncorrect contacts still shown?

go to setting>apps>all>contacts

clear cache and data force stop and reboot phone

this might delete all of your contacts

Re: Contact name goes wrong

pkhanhh — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:21:14 GMT

Thanks for your reply,

I saved my contacts under my Google account the whole time, now I have to sync then try your solution, then restore ?

Re: Contact name goes wrong

Danial-mach1 — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:23:18 GMT

if you sync them now your uncorrected contacts will saved also and will retorn after restore

did you sync them before?

Re: Contact name goes wrong

pkhanhh — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:42:48 GMT

I tried your solution twice, in the right order.

The first time, after reboot, I got a report that some google gapps that's not working, with unscratched contact list (everything's till the same, with the error I pointed out in #1 post) with wifi on, I thought my contact list was automatically synced with Google server (yes, I synced my contacts before)

The second time, things're still the same, nothing change, even making a whole new contact name (not just editing), that error's still occured.

Re: Contact name goes wrong

Danial-mach1 — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:50:17 GMT

strange!

i cant see that pic untill mod users approve it

so i cant say much more

Re: Contact name goes wrong

pkhanhh — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:23:33 GMT

Okay, thanks for your replies, I'll keep following this thread.

Re: Contact name goes wrong

pkhanhh — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:50:08 GMT

Okay, anything new ? Can I do anything about Contact Storage ?

Re: Contact name goes wrong

3xperia — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 15:16:47 GMT

It used to happen to me each time I bought a new phone. Try this step and hope it helps.

Phone book > Settings > Accounts & sync > Auto-sync data&colon; uncheck the checkbox

Re: Contact name goes wrong

Sam — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 04:01:54 GMT

If the contacts are synced with your Gmail account, it may be worth editing the contacts via Gmail directly and then syncing the contacts again.

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Re: Contact name goes wrong

pkhanhh — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:42:57 GMT

I tried uncheck/check auto sync settings but not working.

About go directly to google contact website, it's great to edit contacts, but it's no use in this case.

Today I delete all mess-up contacts and recreate them using Xperia International Keyboard (I was using Japan Keyboard before) and things went just fine, except Myself contact, I couldnt delete it, so I had to unlink it, and now i'm trying to edit Myself contact with my information.

Re: Contact name goes wrong

3xperia — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 08:29:03 GMT

I don't think "Myself" can be deleted as it an automatically added feature on the Phone book.

Another way to get rid of unwanted names or contacts, go to your Phone book » Filter. You can uncheck the boxcheck on Display Contacts list that you don't want to be displayed

Re: Contact name goes wrong

_alexdon_ — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 08:41:30 GMT

Yes,myself can be edited on some cases through SIM,but it was available on the phone in older Sony ericsson phones.

Re: Contact name goes wrong

3xperia — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:09:52 GMT

@ Alexdon.

So can I. I can edit it yet not allowed to delete it. But I like that feature tho. When messaging, there's a picture of myself on it. lol

Re: Contact name goes wrong

_alexdon_ — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:16:17 GMT

Very nice,that way you do not forget how you look.

Re: Contact name goes wrong

pkhanhh — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:14:00 GMT

Okay, final post.

I can confirm that when using Japanese keyboard, editing or creating new contact could lead to both correct and incorect contacts still shown, the more you edit, the more mess up your contacts become. There's no way to hide incorrect information of contacts.

//Oh, and I managed to edit Myself contact, so everything's normal now.