| How do I force Talk/Chat/Messenger to use my entries in contacts and not each individual service profile? | 3DKing | 7/2/12 3:20 AM | In google contacts the contact is named as "Julius 'Augustus' Funkyname" and that's how he get's displayed in gmail and gtalk on my android. In google+ he's displayed as "Teenage Mutant 'Ninja' Turtle" because of his own entries in the google+ profil |
| Re: How do I force Talk/Chat/Messenger to use my entries in contacts and not each individual service profile? | wár17 § | 7/2/12 10:26 AM | You have to change each display name individually. Change display namehttp://http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/chat/thread?tid=12e3f2052be40978&hl=en |
| Re: How do I force Talk/Chat/Messenger to use my entries in contacts and not each individual service profile? | 3DKing | 7/3/12 3:17 AM | Your link is about changing my own display name, not that of a specific contact. |
| Re: How do I force Talk/Chat/Messenger to use my entries in contacts and not each individual service profile? | KeithR | 7/3/12 3:26 AM | You can change the names displayed by going to the Contacts Manager and altering the names there. Make sure that you check both Other Contacts as well as My Contacts or use the merge duplicates feature before making changes. |
| Re: How do I force Talk/Chat/Messenger to use my entries in contacts and not each individual service profile? | 3DKing | 7/3/12 3:35 AM | The contact is perfectly clean and alone, no double anywhere. It's connected to the G+ profile and Google profile. In Gmail it shows the name just like I named it "Julius 'Augustus' Funkyname". In G+ it totally ignores that and displays the name as |
| Re: How do I force Talk/Chat/Messenger to use my entries in contacts and not each individual service profile? | KeithR | 7/3/12 3:59 AM | Ah yes, sorry. I didn't read carefully. Unfortunately, the answer is that Google Plus uses profile data for everything: chats, circles, posts, hangouts. There is only one name for any individual, otherwise sharing circles could become very confusi |
| Re: How do I force Talk/Chat/Messenger to use my entries in contacts and not each individual service profile? | 3DKing | 7/3/12 4:06 AM | Okay, thank you, that's what I feared. Unfortunately it leads to the very exact confusion you described by seperating google+ profile date from google contacts entries. |
| Re: How do I force Talk/Chat/Messenger to use my entries in contacts and not each individual service profile? | KeithR | 7/3/12 7:01 PM | True. You could remove that confusion by using the name that person has chosen everywhere. I probably wouldn't do that, I'd follow your practice of using the name I prefer wherever I could. It would be really good if we could tag our own copy of s |