Can't Edit Contact Display Name

[Chan1254]

New Lumia owner

Anyways, I have this strange "bug" happening. I signed up my Facebook account and it imported all my friends to my contacts, and merged the ones I already had. However, I can't seem to change the name of the contact. Let me use an example. I had a contact named "John D", because I didn't know his last name. It imported my friends from Facebook, so there was also a contact named "John Doe", but it was the same person. Therefore, I linked the two contacts, but it named the new linked contact "John D" and not "John Doe". So I edited the name and changed it to "John Doe", but it still displays "John D" in the contact lists and everywhere else. The strange part is that when I go to edit the name again "John Doe" is already filled out, but like I said before, it just displays "John D" everywhere else on my phone.

Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?

 

[eruptflail]

Alright, MS account contacts take precedence over Facebook contacts. Say you added your mom to your phone, but, obviously, your mom's name isn't "mom" on facebook. This way, if you use a MS account contact, Mom will always be mom. So, edit the MS account contact to the correct name and you'll be golden. I don't know if there is another way to do this. Try unlinking them, editing them, and relinking them.

 

[Chan1254]

I've tried that, multiple times, and it hasn't worked. It says that its the correct name when I go edit it, but it displays the wrong name everywhere else on the phone. I think I'm just going to have to add the number to the Facebook contact possibly.

 

[Chan1254]

I've tried that, multiple times, and it hasn't worked. It says that its the correct name when I go edit it, but it displays the wrong name everywhere else on the phone. I think I'm just going to have to add the number to the Facebook contact possibly.

This worked as a work around. I just wrote down the number, deleted the MS Contact, and added the number to the Facebook contact using the Backup Assist. It works