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I have recently reinstalled Android due to some problems with the SD Card. I decided to keep all my contacts only in Gmail, as a centralized solution to avoid problems in the future. I do not want other SIM or phone contacts to show in the contacts list anymore.

However if I try to uncheck both the SIM and phone contacts and I do check all possible google contacts groups and the option for showing only contacts with a phone number1, no contact is shown at all.

Note: If I show also the phone contacts them the google contacts are shown (and thus I have some duplicates), but removing the phone contacts removes the google contacts too.

How can I prevent this?

The phone is a B63M.

Edit: since people keep asking the same information:

The contacts are perfectly synched and all under the My contacts group. It's not a synchronisation problem. I'm asking why I must select the show phone contacts in order to see any contact at all (from whichever source you like. Even SIM. I cannot show only the SIM contacts without the show phone contacts enabled.)


1 Having or not this option active doesn't change anything. Even if it is not active no contact is shown.


Updated To make things clearer, here are some screenshots of the situation:

Here I have set only the phone contacts (Contatti del telefono in Italian), without google contacts:

Here I have added the google contacts in the options and they are shown (see red rectangles. Note the number of contacts at the top going from 116 to 156):

Now, I'd expect that removing the phone contacts I should see only the google contacts (in this case those that above have red rectangles and the other not shown), but this is what I get:

On the right it just says that there are no contacts to show and that I can add new contacts or import/export from other sources.

What should I do such that this last set of options does show the google contacts?

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Go to Contacts > [Sitting Button] > More > Accounts.

Be sure the following are checked:

  1. Background data.

  2. Auto-sync.

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Contacts/People > Menu > Contacts to Display > select your gmail account to display.

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