What should I do about contacts settings that crash?

papaPageno

New user here, I am trying to configure my contacts.

DAVx5 (installed via F-Droid) works for syncing contacts and calendar, but I can't figure out how to move a contact from Device to the online address book or vice versa. When creating a contact I can select one or the other, but then the contact is basically stuck there.

I tried to find how to configure the online address book as default, so far when I create a new contact it says "Saving to Device" by default.

In the phone Settings, when searching for "contacts", I see the following two items that seem relevant:

Where to save contacts
Apps > Contacts storage

and

Device only
Apps > Contacts storage

However, tapping on either of these produces either no response or a crash message, looking as below.

type: crash
osVersion: google/tokay/tokay:15/BP1A.250505.005/2025050700:user/release-keys
package: com.android.settings:35, targetSdk 35
sharedUid: android.uid.system
process: com.android.settings
processUptime: 106 + 246 ms

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.android.settings/com.android.settings.SubSettings}: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'int android.os.Bundle.getInt(java.lang.String, int)' on a null object reference
	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4219)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:4406)
	at android.app.servertransaction.LaunchActivityItem.execute(LaunchActivityItem.java:222)
	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeNonLifecycleItem(TransactionExecutor.java:133)
	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeTransactionItems(TransactionExecutor.java:103)
	at android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:80)
	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2782)
	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:109)
	at android.os.Looper.loopOnce(Looper.java:232)
	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:317)
	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:8973)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method

teezeh

Which provider do you use for your online address book?

In the GOS contacts app, you can select a standard account for new contacts. Just choose the DAVx5 address book.

papaPageno

teezeh
The provider is infomaniak.

In the GOS contacts app, you can select a standard account for new contacts. Just choose the DAVx5 address book.

Where is that setting? Is it one of the two that I mention in the original post (which crash)?

teezeh

papaPageno Where is that setting?

As I wrote: In the GOS contacts app, not phone app.

papaPageno

teezeh Ah, thank you, I had not realized there was a separate contacts app. I can indeed define the standard account for new contacts there. Still haven't figured out how to move/copy a contact from one account to the other though.

What do you think about the crashes?