Help! Duplicate devices on iPhone with iMessage's Continuity

Hi! After a clean install of Yosemite  on my MacBook Pro (15“ early 2011) my iPhone 4S (iOS 8.1) shows 7 different devices called "Macbook Pro of Niccoló" in Settings - Messages, without the ability to erase the duplicates. I'm used to do a clean install since Leopard. I have also an iPad Mini 2 which is correctly displayed on my iPhone. This is driving me crazy, please someone can help me? Thanks.

In my case this happened when I first set up to synch my contacts with Exchange, at this point it asked if I wanted to keep the contacts on my phone, when I said Yes I ended up with two entries for most people on the All Contacts group listing on my phone, the solution was to use one addressbook or the other.
I suggest you have a look at the Groups page of your Contacts app, as that will list the addressbooks you are currently using and help you diagnose the problem.
Note: If you use Google for email and sync with Google contacts using the Exchange GAL it will show Google's record of which contacts you have EVER used in email among the suggestions that pop up when addressing a mail, even though they are not stored locally in your contacts list.
Hope some of the above helps you, or someone working with a similar problem
Peter
SolubleApps

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