Ghost Contacts

1) I don't own an Optimus M, but I think your problem is your contact list is only showing one type of contacts. Most android phones allow you to save your contacts either under "phone" or "google account". The phone contacts are only stored on your phone, while the google account contacts are synced with your gmail contact list. So if you save your contacts under "phone" and your contact list is only showing google contacts, then you won't be able to search for it. The solution is go to your contact list's setting and see if you can list both your phone and google contacts. Or better yet, save all your contacts as google contacts and list only your google contacts. This way, it syncs with the cloud and are always backed up. Hope that's not too confusing.



2) Don't know the answer to this one, since I don't sync contacts with facebook. But I've heard a lot of people having problems with it.

 

Same thing happened to me.this is what I did...save all your contacts to your SD card.then delete all your contacts from your phone.after that clear your Gmail app of all app data that way you have to resync your account.once you do that sync your phone with Gmail again,and all the contacts should show up without you even having to do anything else.by if they don't show up,go to your SD and select your contacts and you should be good to go after that.

 

There is also an option in your contacts to show ONLY contacts with phone numbers.select that option after you do that if you want.that way it don't show you any email contacts.

 

Yea.that's how I noticed it was messing up.I saves like 4 contacts and they never showed up.but this fixes it for me and every number I saved since then has stored perfectly.hope this helps you out.

 

thats EXACTLY what i did on my phone.and it worked for me..as far as your facebook sync issue,thats not your contacts screwing up,its the facebook sync application.i have the exact same issue with it on my phone.but as far as the saved contacts not storing,this should DEF fix this..my friend that works at metro said these phones need to have a google accnt synced to them before any kind of contacts are saved to the phone or it will malfunction.im just passing on info that worked for me and other people i know that have this phone..plus,resetting all the ringtone assignments!? REALLY?! thats petty crap to be worry about compared to your REAL problem of not being able to store your contacts..

 

where is this found? when i touch the gmail icon it goes straight to my mail page and i dont see option????

 

found it, thx