[TriLUG] Android Address Book

[Mike Viscount via TriLUG]

First time TriLUG poster.... hello folks...

I had a similar although not exactly the same issue when going to an
Android phone with Verizon and ended up with boatloads of duplicate
contacts.  In that case it had to do with verizon's contacts and gmail
contacts both trying to play at the same time.  I turned off the verizon
contacts and I think perhaps more importantly the verizon backup
functionality and all duplicates went away and life was good with only
gmail contacts after that which is what I wanted.

I can't look at the settings to be real specific since I finally sickened
of all the garbage / un-wanted apps Verizon forced on my phone and when my
daughter's new job made her use their iPhone I hijacked hers and went over
to the dark side... which is not nearly as dark as Verizon with regards to
unwanted apps :-)

Hope that's somehow userful.

Mike

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:54 PM, William Sutton via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> I saw this happen several years ago with $WIFE's phone when she upgraded
> Android devices.  The original had one entry per person; the copy had one
> per phone number.  Guessing its your import software.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Brian McCullough via TriLUG wrote:
>
>  Once again this afternoon, I was reminded that I really don't like what
>> has been happening to me on my phone, for quite a while.
>>
>>
>> Is there an Address Book application that Does NOT multiply entries?
>>
>> More specifically, I am looking for something that has only one entry
>> per person, instead of, as it seems with the current phone, one per
>> phone number.
>>
>> I look in my phone, and I find myself half-a-dozen times.
>>
>> Part of it may have to do with the VCF format, which doesn't seem to
>> accept multiple phone numbers per record.  Maybe that's just an issue
>> with the export-import application that I have, too.
>>
>>
>> Any bright ideas?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
>>
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