Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Clear Contact's Default Preferences in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

Marking an entry within a contact as the default preferences will help your phone to know which the primary entry that should be used if the contact has multiple entries in a field, e.g: phone number, name or email address. However, for some reason, you may want to clear the default preferences of an entry within a contact, for instance if you have accidentally marked a wrong entry as the default preferences.

How to remove the default preferences of an entry within a contact?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact.
4. Long tap the entry that has been set as the default preferences (e,g: phone number or email address) and then select Clear default.
5. The default preferences of the selected entry has been cleared and the checkmark will be removed.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Mark Contact's Default Preferences in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

When you have a contact that has multiple entries in a field or when you have linked contacts so that it has multiple entries in a field(e.g: name, phone number or email address) then you can set one of the entries in that field as the default. The entry within a contact that has been set as the default preferences will be used automatically when you use it in other apps, for instance when you're going to send a message to a contact that has multiple phone numbers then the stock Messaging app will automatically use the default phone number as the recipient.


How to set the default preferences of a contact?
To make it easier, as the example, we'll try to set the default phone number in a contact that has multiple phone numbers by using three different methods as you can see below.

Method #1: From the Contacts app

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact.
4. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Mark as default.
5. Tap the required phone number you want to set as the default. The radio button next to the phone number will turn green when it's selected.
6. If needed, you can also set default preferences for another fields (name or email address) here.
7. Tap Save button to save the changes.
8. The selected phone number has been set as the default and will have a checkmark .

Method #2: From the Contacts app

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact.
4. Long tap the required phone number you want to set as the default and then select Mark as default.
5. The selected phone number has been set as the default and will have a checkmark .

Method #3: From the Messaging app
This method lets you easily set the default phone number when you're going to send a message to a contact that has multiple phone numbers.

1. Open the stock Messaging app.
2. Tap to compose a new message.
3. Tap to select contact. If the contact has multiple phone numbers, you can set one of them as the default by checking the box next to Remember this choice and then tap the required phone number.
4. The selected phone number will be set as the default and will be used as the message recipient.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Unlink Contacts in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

One of the ways that can be done to avoid the Contacts app displays duplicate contacts when you have chosen to display all contacts from all sources or accounts is by linking the same contacts so that they will be displayed as a single entry in the Contacts app. Aside from linking contacts, if needed, you can also separate a contact from linked contacts so that the contact will be displayed as a separate entry in the Contacts app, for instance when you have accidentally linked a wrong contact.


How to separate linked contacts?
You can unlink a contact from linked contacts to display the contact as an individual entry by using these following methods:

Method #1

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact you want to separate.
4. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Unlink contacts.
5. Tap next to the required entry you want to separate.
6. Tap OK button to confirm separation.
7. The selected contact has been separated.

Method #2

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap the required contact you want to separate.
4. Tap in the Connected via section.
5. Tap next to the required entry you want to separate.
6. Tap OK button to confirm separation.
7. The selected contact has been separated.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Link Contacts in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

As we all know that the stock Contacts app allows you to display or sync contacts from other sources or accounts, e.g: Facebook account, Google account, etc. Therefore, when you have synced contacts with those accounts, you will probably face a situation where you have a single contact whose the information are saved in the different locations, for instance a contact named Robert that has an entry with phone number stored in the phone memory and another entry with email address stored in the Google account. To avoid the Contacts app displays duplicate contacts, you can link those contacts so that the app will display them as a single contact but the information is still kept separate in the different locations.

How to link contacts?
You can merge multiple contacts into a single one by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. If needed, tap the Contacts tab.
3. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Links contacts.
4. The device will show you all of contacts that can be joined. By default, the contacts are sorted by the name. If needed, you can change how the contacts will be sorted by tapping the box in the right side of the Sort by option and then select from the following options:
• Name: select this option to sort contacts by their names so that all contacts with the same name will be listed in a single section.
• Phone number: select this option to sort contacts by their phone numbers so that all contacts with the same phone number will be listed in a single section.
• Email address: select this option to sort contacts by their email addresses so that all contacts with the same email address will be listed in a single section.
5. Select the required contacts you want to join.
6. Tap Done button.
7. The selected contacts within the same section have been joined into a single contact. As the example, if the contacts are sorted by the name then all selected contacts with the same name will be joined into a single contact.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Sort Contacts in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

The stock Contacts app lets you sort your contacts list alphabetically, either by the first name or the last name. Sorting contacts list with the proper method will be able to help you to quickly and easily find the required contact. If needed, you can also change the way the Contacts app to display the contacts' names, either display contacts by the first name first or by the last name first.

How to sort your contacts list?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Tap Contacts.
4. To change how the contacts will be sorted, tap Sort by and then select from the following options:
• Given name: select this option if you'd like to sort your contacts list alphabetically by the given name or the first name.
• Family name: select this option if you'd like to sort your contacts list alphabetically by the family name or the last name.
5. To change how the contacts will be displayed, tap Display contacts by and then select from the following options:
• Given name first: select this option if you'd like to display the contact's name in your contacts list by the first name first.
• Family name first: select this option if you'd like to display the contact's name in your contacts list by the last name first.
6. Press the Back key twice to go back to your contacts list and you'll see your contacts list will be sorted and displayed based on your selection.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Show Only Contacts with Phone Numbers in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

The stock Contacts app lets you display contacts from other sources or accounts, e.g: Google account, Facebook account, etc. Some of contacts from those accounts sometimes don't have phone number inside or only contain with email address. For any reason, if you don't want the Contacts app displays contacts without phone numbers then you have to set this app to only show contacts with phone numbers and hide other contacts.

How to show only contacts with phone numbers?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Tap Contacts.
4. Check the box next to Only contacts with phones to enable this option so that only contacts with phone numbers which will be shown.
5. Press the Back key twice to go back to your contacts list.
6. The Contacts app will display only contacts with phone numbers and hide other contacts.

Samsung Galaxy S5: How to Select Which Contacts to Display in Android 4.4.2 Kitkat

In Samsung Galaxy S5, you are not only allowed to add a new contact and save it in the different places(e.g: in the device storage, in SIM card, etc), but also display contacts from other accounts that you have added in your phone(e,g: Google account, Facebook account, etc). By default, the Contacts app displays all contacts you have, either those you have saved in your phone, SIM card or other accounts. However, if needed, you can select which contacts to display so that the Contacts app will display contacts from the selected source or account only.

How to select which contacts to display?
You can display only contacts from certain source or account by using the following steps:

1. Open Contacts app.
2. Tap or long press the Recent apps key to open up the additional options and then select Settings.
3. Tap Contacts.
4. Tap Contacts to display.
5. Here you can choose which contacts to display by selecting from the following options:
• All contacts: select this option to display all contacts you have.
• Device: select this option to display phone contacts only.
• SIM card: select this option to display SIM Card contacts only.
• Your Samsung account: select this option to display contacts in your Samsung account only.
• Your Google account: select this option to display contacts in your Google account only.
• Your third-party app account: select this option to display contacts in certain third-party app account only, e.g: Facebook, WhatsApp, etc
• Customised list: select this option to display customized list contacts. Tap to select which contacts you want to display. As the example, you can select Device and SIM card to display your phone and SIM card contacts only.
6. Press the Back key twice to go back to your contacts list.
7. The Contacts app will display only contacts from the selected source or account.