Android 5.0 Lollipop, my mobile contact numbers?

ballyblack

I have a Nexus 5 and have just installed Android 5.0 Lollipop(I was previously on KiKat)

I find that now my phone contacts are all mixed up with my email addresses

I have to sift through all the email addresses to find an individual contacts to ring, it’s a real pain:mad::mad:
(previously on KitKat where only Contacts and their telephone numbers displayed )

Is there an easy way to display numbers only in the dialling App?

Thank you in anticipation



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pepdavies

I'm sure it was like this on KitKat as well, if you store the contacts in Google anyway. I just type a couple of letters and the contact I want soon appears. I would think that you can install a third party contacts app and separate numbers from email addresses

ballyblack

No it was not like previously on KitKat. All the apps I have tried are the same as they just mirror the installed one.
I used your tip and type a few letters but I feel this should not be necessary.

Ta for replying

fiendishlyclever

Are you in the dialler or contacts app? Both mine show lists of names and no numbers or email addresses (until I press them)

ballyblack

I am in the installed 'dialler' app, the one with the phone icon.

Names are shown, a tap brings up/dial number

Some of the names are bringing up email addresses which I don't want in a Dialler App:mad:




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System

I noticed this too. The dialler app has also added a host of email only contacts so when I click on them its just an email address and no phone no.

Doesn't make sense to me TBH. Its a dialler app so put numbers in it. If I want to email I will use the email app!

Also they have put all of my emails in the Gmail app which I don't like either.

OT but Ballyblack, are you experiencing poor battery life? Mine was bad already but Lollipop has made it almost unusable.

ballyblack

Battery life is about the same. I uninstalled a load of Apps and I found this helped battery life

pepdavies

Walcott wrote: »

Also they have put all of my emails in the Gmail app which I don't like either.

You can use whichever email app you like. It's not an iPhone

System

pepdavies wrote: »

You can use whichever email app you like. It's not an iPhone

I never said I couldn't. I said that Google removed the email app and added other email accounts to the Gmail app as part of the 5.0 update.

Rusty!

Simplest option would probably be to create a "Phone Contacts" group in Google Contacts and have the phone set to only display those.

I've been set up like that since Android 2.1

ballyblack

Finally got a work around which is a bit better.

I put a 'star' against most of the phone numbers I use, thus making them 'favourites'.


This way they are displaying in 'Speed Dial' for quick access.



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