Removing duplicate contacts

[coffeekat]

Can someone recommend a good app to do that? I've tried several, and they report I have no duplicates, although I have about 240 copies of Dr Tedrow, and I don't even remember who Dr Tedrow is! I'm running a Galaxy S2, and the only odd thing is I back up to my own cloud with carddav, instead of the usual Google. Thanks.

 

[dvhttn]

First thing - decide where your "master" copy of contacts will live.
Then - sort this out to remove duplicates/whatever other editing needed (spend time doing it manually to get it right).
BACK THIS UP!
Delete all other copies
Lastly - sync devices.

IMHO I reckon most "duplicate" removers will not accomplish what you want 100%.

Dave

 

[RazzMaTazz]

You may want to check to see if your duplicate contacts are essentially different sets of contacts, such as:
* "Phone-only" contacts, which are stored only on your phone)
* "Google" contacts, which are essentially stored on Gmail's servers and synchronized with your phone.
* "Corporate" contacts, which are essentially stored on a Hotmail or Exchange server and synchronized with your phone.
* "Facebook" contacts, which are essentially stored on Facebook's servers and synchronized with your phone.
* Etc.

If you go to edit one of your duplicate contacts, at the top does it say "Phone-only" or "Google" or "Corporate" or something? And if you go to edit the duplicate, does it say something different at the top? If so, I don't think there's any kind of app that can help you. You should probably:
1) Delete the duplicate contact source (which also frees up phone memory), and/or
2) Change your "Account & Sync" contacts settings to uncheck the "contacts" boxes for accounts with contacts that you don't want to sync (which also frees up phone memory space), and/or
3) Go into contacts and change the "Display Options" so that you're only displaying the contact source that you want to see. (This doesn't necessarily free up space on your phone if you're syncing multiple contact sources.)