Fixing Duplicate Contacts in Android People app from Google Contacts and Google+

1 · Danny Tuppeny · June 11, 2013, midnight
Now that I've swapped my Windows Phone for a Nexus 4, I've discovered what a mess my Google Contacts are in once synced to Android and enabling Google+ to supplement contact data. It didn't matter too much on the Nexus 7 tablet, but on the phone it's more frequently used, so having the same contacts appear three times is a problem! Note: The People app has a "join" feature that lets you merge contacts on the device; however this is stored on the device and not synced anywhere. With multiple devi...