Dupe problem - Where is contact data stored - Memory / SD card

[Tim K]

So, the moron at the Verizon store who was activating my replacement Droid decided to import or retrieve contact data from my broken droid / SD card....he didn't know that it handled all the contacts from the cloud. As soon as I entered my gmail login it imported all my contacts and so, now I have contacts with duplicate data and some contacts that are now just phone numbers. I tried deleting the contact data and resyncing but it appears to be grabbing this duplicate data from somewhere. All my contacts are CLEAN in gmail when viewed online. But if I look on the phone, when go to edit them each person has 1 contact with multiple google contacts merged together. The problem is, any time I go to search contacts or enter a contact in email or create a contact shortcut, all of them are appearing twice in the selection list.

I went through each contact and split the merges, essentially deleting the dupes, but they are still appearing multiple times in the search/selection lists....and when I resync the dupes come back. I don't see anything that looks like contact data/backup on the SD card and don't know if that is something that can be deleted from the phone's memory or not?

HELP!

[I know I can deleted all the dupes, but my concern is that I did this already and they came back. Is this data stored anywhere else that it might be pulling it from again when I sync?]

 

[CRPercodani]

Just do a factory reset and also go on google from your pc to make sure nothing is duplicated there.

 

[buckyweet]

Since you said you've already fixed all the duplicates on your GMail contacts list, give this a try, as it worked for me:

1) In Settings->Accounts & sync settings, disable Background data and Auto-sync
2) In Applications->Manage Applications, choose Menu button->Filter->ALL
3) Contacts->Clear Data
4) Contacts Storage->Clear Data
5) Go back into Settings->Accounts & sync settings and enable Background data and Auto-sync
6) Give it a little while to update all of your GMail contacts

 

[Tim K]

that's exactly what I did...and the dupes came back. I just went through gmail and cleared all the dupes again. Right now, my phone contacts are OK. I just have to switch out phones again and I have a feeling when I do they will come back .... I just hope not.