In the Android 4, there is only one correctly working contacts application - the stock contacts application, part of Android Open Source Project. Unfortunately often stock contacts application is replaced by a false contacts application by manufacturer or user installs a false application being humbugged by false review or similar. There are 3 categories of false contacts applications
I experienced data loss caused by Samsung contacts application so I prepared True Contacts for Android 4.0.x to avoid contacts data loss and corruption again.
Let's explain issue in detail - with Samsung contacts application.
Samsung contacts application is legacy (Android 1) application in Android 4 that is patched together by Samsung to somehow work in following Android version, but Samsung contacts application
If contact with various phone numbers is created in Android stock application
![]() and is open in the Samsung contacts application editor
![]() the contact is open corrupted - it does not know all various numbers and puts Mobile instead of correct number type - and if you save it data will be corrupted and can be lost.
To avoid this unwanted situation it is possible to configure stock contacts application as default contact editor - select stock contacts editor as default when editing contact:
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