When i try to call somebody through SmartDialing it searches by LastName/FirstName is there a way or some registry hack where i can do it by FirstName/LastName......
isn't anybody facing any problem in this regard???
are u serious????
nobody is experiencing it????
is it only me???
.... is there a solution yet???
same problem
I have the same problem.
In Portugal, we call people by first name/last name.
Anybody knows how to fix it?
Regards
Marcus
I don't know what smart dialing you ppl are talking about but on my exec if i seach by name in contacts it gives both results - by first as well as last name.
If I use the keypad to key numbers in the dial mode then it searchs by number, firstname and lastname. So whats the issue about? Also the list of people is displayed wherein the matches for the firstname are displayed first and then the lastname. Yes the names are displayed in lastname-firstname format but that doesn't really make a difference does it? (the names are highlighted to the last character keyed in)
The only way to change the order from Last, First to First Last is via desktop Outlook. Go into Tools > Options > Contact Options and change the "Default Full Name order" and "Default File As order" options to what you wish.
However, the only way to change the existing contacts is to go into each within desktop Outlook and change the File As option.
Cheers
Ant
but isn't there a way or a registry hack to change the display to FirstName/LastName in smart dialing?
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I downloaded this to my phone and installed it... but nothing happened... Are there any steps that I should follow?
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I downloaded this to my phone and installed it... but nothing happened... Are there any steps that I should follow?
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In contacts, press the contacts and it appears a new item in Menu in order to make first name, last name
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Anyone know how to skip to a name in the middle of my phone book, instead of scrolling through all the names. I have a 8125.
Thanks
JW
Er.. you should play around with your phone more
Assume yours is WM5 (maybe 2003 is the same, not sure)
(Method 1) The top section, you have a list of alphabets, just click on them to jump to the names that you are interested
(Method 2) If you click on the keyboard (or pen) on the bottom (center) bar, you will have your input method (e.g. the keyboard), simply punch in the name of the person you are interested in, and it will scan through all names and filter out the relavent ones for you.
or if you press and hold the scroll button for two full pages (eg through "A"), it should pop up with the letters of the alphabet B through to Z, this will give give you direct access to letter by letter.
combination of sim and phone memory
How can you make it so that the sim and phone memories stay in 1 alpabetical list rather then 2 separate list its quite annoying that they are split in 2.
move all sim to contacts, simple.
sim has no where near the functionality of contacts.
i have a question also mate
how can i list my contacts
name first last name 2nd
not last name first and name
thanks.
Edyhan said:
i have a question also mate
how can i list my contacts
name first last name 2nd
not last name first and name
thanks.
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Use the CAB found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=45664&highlight=first+last+name
Oh!! Is it possible to move all contacts from the SIM to the Memory contacts ? because I was adding each name from the SIM, I couldn't find a way to save them all at the same time. Please tell me how if it is possible.
Thomas1234 said:
Oh!! Is it possible to move all contacts from the SIM to the Memory contacts ? because I was adding each name from the SIM, I couldn't find a way to save them all at the same time. Please tell me how if it is possible.
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yes use the sim manager in programs select all then use the menu option to move to contacts.
Edyhan said:
i have a question also mate
how can i list my contacts
name first last name 2nd
not last name first and name
thanks.
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There does not seem to be a option for this on the device, but i got around it by changing it in outlook on my PC then syncing.
BTW, does anyone know how to hide SIM contacts so they dont show up twice in contacts?
dangerous_dom said:
Edyhan said:
i have a question also mate
how can i list my contacts
name first last name 2nd
not last name first and name
thanks.
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There does not seem to be a option for this on the device, but i got around it by changing it in outlook on my PC then syncing.
BTW, does anyone know how to hide SIM contacts so they dont show up twice in contacts?
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Kinetics helped me with this in case you missed it this is the link for the first and last
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=45664&highlight=first+last+name
hanmin said:
(Method 1) The top section, you have a list of alphabets, just click on them to jump to the names that you are interested
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I can't seem to click on the alphabet. is this just on certain versions or must it be on contacts? i currently have everything on SIM.
simon_darley said:
or if you press and hold the scroll button for two full pages (eg through "A"), it should pop up with the letters of the alphabet B through to Z, this will give give you direct access to letter by letter.
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I tried that and it never goes to the letter I want. I also tried clicking on the group of letters at the top and it doesn't do anything. I don't want to have to go to the box and click on the letter i want to go to the name; I want to scroll through.
I am saving them to sim, does it need to be on memory for all these to work?
Please help!
I have having this problem which been bothering me.
The phone dial prefix was wrong. The format is (XXX) 123-12345
my country singapore format is (XX) 1234-1234
With this wrong format, it cannot display the correct contact.
Can someone please help
If you've just upgraded to WM6 then this is not surprising.
I had the same problem for UK numbers here at home. You need to change your regional options to reflect the country where you are.
Hope that helps!!
xavierng,
Go to Start -> settings -> system -> regional settings and select your region settings.
It should solve this
JP
I am not sure if the regional setting would define format for phone numbers.
Alternatively, open the Contacts and then click on 'Menu' and select 'Options...' Enter correct Area code there and you are done..
xavierng said:
Please help!
I have having this problem which been bothering me.
The phone dial prefix was wrong. The format is (XXX) 123-12345
my country singapore format is (XX) 1234-1234
With this wrong format, it cannot display the correct contact.
Can someone please help
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There is another simple solution for your problem:
Edit the phone WM6 registry, with a registry editor( you can download a freeware version anywhere)
Edit this register:
Record:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone\CallIDMatch
When you find it, change the decimal value from 8 to the desired number: eg 7 in my case.
Good luck !
Juan
April 1 said:
I am not sure if the regional setting would define format for phone numbers.
Alternatively, open the Contacts and then click on 'Menu' and select 'Options...' Enter correct Area code there and you are done..
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Yes, it does.
The regional settings also include numbering format.
When you install the ROM the default regional settings are US so, it uses US numbering format, putting it on your region should solve the problem.
Try it out
JP
JPBRA said:
xavierng,
Go to Start -> settings -> system -> regional settings and select your region settings.
It should solve this
JP
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I have tried this. It actually solved the Dialing prefix but it create another problem. My country is Singapore (chinese) thus the long date format give me alot of boxes. This affect my calender view.
By pass the whole issue by installing a 3 party PIM, I use Webis Pocket informant and format the numbers the way I like them +41 (123) 456 78 90.
MDAIIIUser said:
By pass the whole issue by installing a 3 party PIM, I use Webis Pocket informant and format the numbers the way I like them +41 (123) 456 78 90.
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I am using pocket informat and i like it but due to the dialing prefix problem, it cannot recognize the contact from informant.
I will try the registry solutions...
tommycr said:
There is another simple solution for your problem:
Edit the phone WM6 registry, with a registry editor( you can download a freeware version anywhere)
Edit this register:
Record:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone\CallIDMatch
When you find it, change the decimal value from 8 to the desired number: eg 7 in my case.
Good luck !
Juan
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I am trying to edit the registry in HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone but cannot find callidmatch.
Well you lost me, which is ok.
We here in switzerland had both XX and XXX as dial codes (untill we changed this year). I have never had a problem with that standard nor with USA +1 (xxx) yyy-zzzz or infact any other contry.
I sync from Outlook, my layout is how I want it on each contact and I use +CC on all contacts as I am out of the country a lot.
I think I surpress the auto format in Pocket Infromant, its one of the TONS of settings that you can use.
Good luck, sorry I could not help more.
xavierng said:
I am trying to edit the registry in HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone but cannot find callidmatch.
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If you want to edit the registry:
\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\AddrBook:
You can enter like +xx (xx) or whatever you want to appear.
xavierng said:
I have tried this. It actually solved the Dialing prefix but it create another problem. My country is Singapore (chinese) thus the long date format give me alot of boxes. This affect my calender view.
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Xavierng,
What's the problem with the calendar ? I didn't understood ...
JP
Hi!
I just got my jade....and I love it...but on my hermes WM had the option smart dialing. It was searching in the first AND the last name when I was dialing. Somebody recogniced this?
thanks a lot in advance,
Stefan
For me it is working. When typing someones name in the phone pad, contacts with matching first and last names are highlighted....
really
if have a "Juck Norris" in your adress bock, and you press 5(JKL) + 8(TUV) +6 (MNO) + 6(MNO) it should find it.
I only can search after first OR last names...
Cheers,
Stefan
True, it will find all the matching characters in 'last name' and 'first name'. It will also find them in 'outlook contacts' as well as SIM contacts and display them both.
I don't understand this at all. I tried all was I thinking about, but no chance, that the phone is searching for last and first names at the same time....
nobody else this issuie?
Cheers,
Stefan
Hi, if I start the new SMS application and I then click on the keypad letters to add a contact the names that pop up are not shown alphabetically.
For example if I press 'G' to add Gary the first name that shows on the small grey bar is Gemma, although I have 5 names that start with letters that come before Gemma alphabetically, like Gary !
So for example if I had a friend called AAA and one called AAB and one called AAC, when I press 'A' to add a name I get shown AAC first and not AAA.
Does that make sense?
Anyone any clues please it is really annoying me.
Yea, I would like to know how to list the first names first and the last names last. Right now my phone book is in alphabetical order by last name. I would like it to be in order by first name.
I simply swapped the fields when inputting contacts...
when you click on a contact and than press edit you can change the option to archiv. ass
there you can change to save first name first. i would be much easier if there was a program that automaticly changes this.
eithley said:
when you click on a contact and than press edit you can change the option to archiv. ass
there you can change to save first name first. i would be much easier if there was a program that automaticly changes this.
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sounds like a pain if you already have several hundred contacts in the phone backwards.
I have this issue too and it's synched with Google Contacts... I don't want to have to modify the first name into the last name, I want to modify how it is viewed...
I downloaded a program called 'contact changer' that sets the 'archive as' field in the first-last name order
if you create a new contact you should manually put the archive as in the correct order
http://www.shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact
tested and synched with oultook 2007 with no problems.
slaman said:
I have this issue too and it's synched with Google Contacts... I don't want to have to modify the first name into the last name, I want to modify how it is viewed...
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I am having the same problem you are... I sync my contacts with google and everytime it is resync'd it goes back to last name first.
I downloaded a program called 'contact changer' that sets the 'archive as' field in the first-last name order if you create a new contact you should manually put the archive as in the correct order
http://www.shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact tested and synched with oultook 2007 with no problems.
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I tried this app but its only a manual fix...like i said above everytime I resync it goes back to last name first.
Is there anytype of app/ cab or registry hack that makes it first name first by default?
Can someone clarify if WM7 will show both the full name and company for incoming calls.
I save all my contacts in outlook and use the File As to show both Person & Company i.e. John Smith(ABC Ltd).
I have over 1500 contacts for work and it's one of the features that has kept me with Windows for years.
I've tried Android and that doesn't do it. Iphone doesn't do it. Nokia doesn't do it - Not sure about Blackberry.
Also does WM7 have smart dial - I'm sure I read that it didn't, again it's a feature that's kept me with Windows, I have a shocking memory and being able to dial by first name, last name, company or telephone number is invaluble.
Cheers
Pete
For me it shows only 1st and last name + picture if available. Company info is a no go as long as you don't incorporate it in the contact name itself as I usually do.
Smartdial: No. But searching the contact list is easy. Just type 2-3 letters and you have narrowed the results enough. I'm saying this with 700+ contacts.
...I very much like to use voice dial, too. Very reliable, in fact, and fast.
TheOnly1 said:
For me it shows only 1st and last name + picture if available. Company info is a no go as long as you don't incorporate it in the contact name itself as I usually do.
Smartdial: No. But searching the contact list is easy. Just type 2-3 letters and you have narrowed the results enough. I'm saying this with 700+ contacts.
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That's really dissapointing - as a business tool I find it so very useful.
I guess I'll have to stick with 6.5 until something else similar comes along.
how did get a picture too show i have wm7 on my phone sine dec, and all show is first and last name with number. is there something need too do too get a picture to show thanks
Dear All,
I'm experiencing very strange issue with my WP7 HTC HD2, when receiving call form my saved contacts.
Almost all my contacts are saved in my phone with international dialing code as I'm living abroad.
When I receive call abroad, the name of my contact is displayed.
When I receive call at home the name is not displayed, only the number is displayed and I dont know who is calling while the number is saved in my phone with international dialing code.
To have the name displayed I have to save the number again without international dialing code.
I have the same issue when I dialing also.
Please help.
My_HTC_HD2 said:
Dear All,
I'm experiencing very strange issue with my WP7 HTC HD2, when receiving call form my saved contacts.
Almost all my contacts are saved in my phone with international dialing code as I'm living abroad.
When I receive call abroad, the name of my contact is displayed.
When I receive call at home the name is not displayed, only the number is displayed and I dont know who is calling while the number is saved in my phone with international dialing code.
To have the name displayed I have to save the number again without international dialing code.
I have the same issue when I dialing also.
Please help.
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Apply the following registry and it will solve your problem:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone]
"CallIDMatch"=dword:7
petrosk73 said:
Apply the following registry and it will solve your problem:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone]
"CallIDMatch"=dword:7
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Thanks sir for your help,
but unfortunately I cannot find CallIDMatch in the path you sent.
even when I searching I cant find it.
I'm using RegistryEditor1.4 from Mosko mobi
My_HTC_HD2 said:
Thanks sir for your help,
but unfortunately I cannot find CallIDMatch in the path you sent.
even when I searching I cant find it.
I'm using RegistryEditor1.4 from Mosko mobi
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Try with the method described here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=907169
It works perfectly!