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Help Help with Contacts-- contacts multiplying!

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Hey all, just a random tweak that is annoying me and im not sure whats going on.

I have all my contacts, about 800 of them, and they seem to have 4 numbers for each one. For example for my friend ben, when i search for him, it has one number of the four (all the same number) and one of them has his facebook picture correctly assigned. the others are just a mystery.

it seems my "phone" contacts are syncing with google accts that i never really set up/my friend doesnt have one. it seems to only be for the contacts that i actually use haha..


great thx if anyone has had a similar problem and could point me in the right direction---->

thanks, chris
 
Did you start using VZW Backup Assistant? I was syncing my contacts with Google, and then started also using Backup Assistant and all my contacts doubled. One for Google, one for Phone. What a pain. I had to manually go into each contact and link matching contacts. Took a while, and I only have 160.
 
SeekerOfTheWay said:
Did you start using VZW Backup Assistant? I was syncing my contacts with Google, and then started also using Backup Assistant and all my contacts doubled. One for Google, one for Phone. What a pain. I had to manually go into each contact and link matching contacts. Took a while, and I only have 160.
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yeah dude thats where im at... i have legitimately 800 contacts so they are doubling..... and tripling up. terrible. looks like no fix for this one---
 
Chrizzl3 said:
yeah dude thats where im at... i have legitimately 800 contacts so they are doubling..... and tripling up. terrible. looks like no fix for this one---
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Start using google only to back up. You can merge your contacts in there and imo its way better than backup assistant. Go to your gmail and click contacts. You'll see a drop down menu up top. Click that and do the duplicate fix and then edit and merge contacts on a one by one thing. When you're done there go into backup assistant and cancel it then it will remove itself from your phone. No more duplicates.
 
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