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Help Can't text an "individual" contact IF that contact has been used previously in a group text

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Originally on my S2 everything had been working fine. I had to do a factory reset, so I backed up my contacts and messages using Kies, F/Reset phone, restored contacts/messages.

They did not restore properly, and from then on certain test message chats were no longer linked to a phone number, even though they were in my contacts with the right phone #.

Some pertinent information for the next bit. Contact A, B and C were working fine in that when I sent or receive info from contact A B or C, it went to its own correct individual message threads. I also had another message thread that was grouped with Contact A, B, and C, working correctly.

I upgraded to the S5, and used the Samsung Smart Switch, and the same thing happened, 1/2 of my threads were all messed up, some have the title ME, but have multiple numbers listed in them.

Now, when I receive from contacts A B or C individually, it shows up as the group thread labeled ME listing the phone numbers for A B and C. Note: when i get more info on the message it ONLY has the 1 number, not all 3 like the thread suggests.

When I send a message to either A B or C individually, it automatically wants to send it to all 3 and errors out and say s"Invalid recipients entered". I can go to "add recipients" and remove the extra 2 numbers and it will send, but only show up under the group convo even though I'm not sending it as a group message.

Is there any way to resolve the contacts and messaging problem?
 
Try switching the names of contacts in the 3 ur having probs with, just add a 1 2 3 at the end to throw it off. If it catches again mix the numbers up. Drop the one on one, put a # symbol on end of another. Quick simples to try till u get further into it. If u know the original text or by anychance its still in ur messages, delete them. If need them back up or snapshot them n then toss original. Worst, prob in an app like dialer storage n getting the connect from there.
 
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