• After 15+ years, we've made a big change: Android Forums is now Early Bird Club. Learn more here.

People Widget reverts names

Okay this is more of a niggle, but hey ...

It's been fun going linking up all my email and phone contacts, and it turns out some friends have 6+ sets of details I've linked together.

Some have slightly different names listed on different details, and I know how you can go into the contact and click on the name to set the one you want.

There's a few people with google accounts that list their name with surname first like: "Rubble, Barney". I go into those accounts and pick "Barney Rubble" as the name to use. Widget looks fine for a while, but next time it updates (from facebook I think) it changes all those names back to the Surname first format.

This is annoying because I refer to my friends by their names, not by their surnames. It also moves them around on the contact list/widget.
 
I noticed this as well when I was first setting mine up. I think I got round it by going into my Google Contacts and merging the contacts that repeat.

If you tick a few contacts you should see the option to Merge them in the right-panel.

Obviously just makes sure the single contact that remains is displayed how you want.
 
Back
Top Bottom