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Contact name goes wrong

pkhanhh
Visitor

Contact name goes wrong

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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 ?

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Danial-mach1
Leader

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

pkhanhh
Visitor

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 ?

Danial-mach1
Leader

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

did you sync them before?

pkhanhh
Visitor

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.

Danial-mach1
Leader

strange!

i cant see that pic untill mod users approve it

so i cant say much more

pkhanhh
Visitor

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

pkhanhh
Visitor

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

3xperia
Contributor

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: uncheck the checkbox

Sam
Legend
Legend

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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