Remove Duplicate Blackberry Contacts

On February 24, 2010 · 14 Comments · In RIM

Steps to remove duplicate contacts

Duplicate Blackberry Contacts

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I had an issue come up yesterday where I needed to reconnect a user’s Blackberry to our BES server. Upon reconnecting, the users contact list was duplicated because I did not clear the users device before reconnecting (nobody’s fault but my own). To clear this issue up I took these simple steps:

  1. On the Blackberry, open the contacts and go to your options. (Menu -> Options)
  2. Simply type: rset
  3. The device will prompt you to delete the local list and re-populate from the server, choose yes. (Probably a good idea to make a backup of the contacts on the server)

After a few minutes the device downloaded the contacts again and the duplicates were gone!

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  • No

    nope

  • Jaime Mejia

    Very good. that saved my job, time and headaches. Thanks a lot. Pretty short instruction with a big solution.

  • http://www.synergy-blog.com/ Steve Latronica

    Jaime- glad to hear it helped you out!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=746237253 Porfirio Reyes III

    Thank you!! My local Contacts list had become corrupt and this saved me a lot of hassle!

  • Anonymous

    Awesome, this post really helps. Duplicates are really frustrating; this can cause other conflicts as well. On the side note using duplicate remover tool Scrubly Duplicate Remover is really effective. This automatically scan and delete those duplicates , merge compatible contacts and resolve other related conflicts.

  • Bryan

    you need a medal! this is brilliant!

  • http://www.kaltechsolutions.com website development

    Thanks for the simple tip. I removed all the duplicates.

  • http://www.arhelectric.com electrical contractor

    I am getting mad since 3 days on how to remove the duplicate contacts and this article made my job. Thanks!!

  • Tony

    Thank you. Solved my problem with some contacts having incomplete information as well as with duplicates. 

  • BB_Guy

    Great tip. Worked well.

  • Monga Vinit

    rockstar!!! thanks a ton..

  • ITadmin

    sweet…this is great.  

  • Shanhan

    This is a great help. I just reconnected to the BES and I had the same problem and it just solved like a magic.

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