Help Android Contacts from SIM instead of email?

[jp2code]

I have had my Gmail address since 2005, and I have 3500 or so Contacts in there.

Most are Sellers on Amazon, Craigslist, and eBay that Gmail has decided need to be a part of my list of contacts.

There are also a lot of people in there I keep for historical reasons because I may need to contact them later at some point (I doubt it).

I got a Motorola Moto E2 a few weeks ago. Before getting this Android phone, I kept all of my contacts on my SIM card.

I was not able to see any of those contacts, and a quick online search was able to tell me how to merge my SIM contacts into the phone.

What that did, however, was merge all of those phone/SIM contacts with my Gmail contacts.

Now, my phone is a complete mess! A lot of the contacts it was not able to resolve, so whenever I try calling someone from my Contacts it seems to be trying to convert their email address into a phone number.

It took me a while to figure out what this phone was doing, but now I have literally thousands of messed up contacts on this phone.

Short of resetting the whole phone, is there a way to fix this?

Honestly, why would someone want their email contacts to show up when they are trying to make a phone call or a text?

Is the Android group working to create a fix for this, or is there a fix that is out there now?

Phone Specs:
Baseband version: M8916_2020602.05.03.21.07R SURNIA_TMO_CUST
Hardware SKU: XT1527
Kernel Version 3.10.49-gf2d7a94 \n hudsoncm@ilclbld97 #1 \n Mon Mar 28 03:56:31 CDT 2016
System Version: 23.201.2.surnia_cc_tmo.CC.en.US cc
Build number LPIS23.29-18.9-2

 

[girolez]

Honestly, why would someone want their email contacts to show up when they are trying to make a phone call or a text?

Well, because from the contacts app it allows you to directly create a phone call, text or email. Gmail is after all an email app. The contacts app is not meant just for phone calls.

 

[jp2code]

I suppose if you don't have too many contacts, it isn't a big deal.

Is there anyway to ask Android to only display those Contacts that have Phone Numbers when I am at the Phone interface and using my Contacts list?

Same goes for sending an email. If a Contact only has a phone number and no email address, they really should not show up in the list.

Do you follow that logic?

 

[Hadron]

My phone's phonebook can be set to only show contacts with phone numbers: go to the list of contacts, then open the app's settings and look for it there. But it may depend on the manufacturer (the phone app is one that commonly varies between manufacturers).