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Annoyance with WM5 behaviour related to number cut and paste

Thought I'd throw this one in incase I'd missed something.
There appears to be some basic failings in the ability to cut and paste phone numbers between various applications on the WM phone.
Take the example that I receive a SMS text message from someone not in my contacts database.
I know who the person is and I want to create a new contact entry using the received phone number.
There appears to be no way of cutting or copying the phone number from the messaging section and pasteing it into a new Contact.
Or it may be that I already have an entry for the person I just don't have their mobile number number in the contact record (or what ever new number is received).
Have I missed a trick here - or indeed is this a limitation that exists. If there is a work around I'd love to know. i just have such an appauling memory for numbers that I couldn't even remember between flicking between applications - let alone the scope for error.
Thanks

Re: Annoyance with WM5 behaviour related to number cut and p
Open the message (instead of just reading it from the list or notification window). You'll note that the From: field is already selected.
Press the Menu softkey, then Save to Contacts.
Simple as that

OK so that allows you to create a new contact. Once you have them in contacts you can do a copy of the number and paste it into an original record. Then delete the new contact just created. Ideally I'd like to miss out the intermediate step of creating another new contact - for those where I know I already have a contact entry, but just not with that particular number.

I agree with you.
There should be an extra choice after save to contact.
Like new contact/ add to contact.
The same with email. If i want to add an emailadres it makes a new contact.
An other problem i find is that copy/ paste is not always available when i select a text.
When I rename a file in file explorer I can't select the word and copy/paste by "tap and hold".
Now i use GSPocket Magic to copy/ paste

You would have thought that on the, what is it, 3rd iteration of WM they could have sorted this out.
It is behaviour like this that can make all the diference between something that is really user friendly and something which is torturous.
Hopefully there are some influential people who read this that can feed it back to the powers that be.

You can try PQz fot copy/Paste : http://www.nicque.com/PQz/
This there too : http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=33343

open up the message, where is says the from tap and drag on the screen to highlight the number then tap and hold on the highlighted but then when the menu opens click copy

Contacts completion in messaging

I suddenly have to do it without contacts completion in the Messaging program.
Before, I could just type the first 3+ letters of a contact name on the 'To:' line in email/sms/mms/ messages and a pick list came up showing the corresponding contact(s) to pick.
That neat pick list doesn't come up anymore.... not even after a soft reset.
There still is the 'Check names' option in the menu, which also comes up with the appropriate name when entering only a few 'To:' letters, but the pick list is much more efficient ofcourse.
Note: I'm using the 2.00.04 PV PRO Crossbow ROM.
Anyone the solution?
Thanks!!

There...
....already found the solution.
Because every Crossbow version still has this 'Suggestion words when entering text' issue, I set 'suggest after X words' to the maximum of 7 letters, so that when I accidentally forgot to disable the suggesting (when Crossbow's bug enabled it again after a soft reset) the suggesting wouldn't come up by typing short words.
The thing is that, even when the entire suggesting is disabled, the number of letters you set up for 'suggest after X words' still affects the number of letters you need to enter on the 'To:' line in a new message before you see the mentioned pick list.
So, solved.

remind last contacts category?

Hi to everybody,
does somebody know a tricks to make the device remenber the last category you use in contact, I mean if i use contact know and I check a number under work category, I'd like the next time I will use contact the device opens directly contactc from the work category.

Open contact,
highlight/select the contact,
select desired category (work/mobile/home..) by pressing left/right hard button
close
open again >> you'll see the last selected category.

Thanks for your answer but may be I don't understand the exactly sequence you wrote because I'm not able to do it.
What are the left/right button? Do you mean the jog dial or the green and the red button? I don'y have others hard button.
What I did is:
1. green button from today to acess phone,
2. soft key on contact ,
3. soft key menu to select filter and category type,
till here everything ok, but ilf I close contact and then I return to contact The device doesn't remember and restart from all contacts.

Sorry I misunderstood your question. I think what your intended cannot be done. It will always return to all contacts.

Lost/elusive contacts page

Hi guys, i'm having a really strange and very frustrating problem with my phone. I was out the other night and had had a few drinks and i tried to add a contact to my phone. I somehow got to a menu that had an option for a name, a number and a drop down menu for the type of contact info it was, 'Mobile' as it was this time. It also had at least 1 largish button that said something like 'add more'. I looked for the contact the next day but it wasn't there and it doesn't come up if i search for the name i inputted. Weirdly, the same menu came up when i sent a text earlier with all the info i'd input still there. I clicked the save button at the bottom left of the screen and assumed it would be saved to contacts but it wasn't. Its definitely not the normal contacts menu for either outlook or sim contacts.
Any ideas where this menu is guys? Its weird and really hard to describe and i could do with finding the contact details.

Davesbeard said:
Hi guys, i'm having a really strange and very frustrating problem with my phone. I was out the other night and had had a few drinks and i tried to add a contact to my phone. I somehow got to a menu that had an option for a name, a number and a drop down menu for the type of contact info it was, 'Mobile' as it was this time. It also had at least 1 largish button that said something like 'add more'. I looked for the contact the next day but it wasn't there and it doesn't come up if i search for the name i inputted. Weirdly, the same menu came up when i sent a text earlier with all the info i'd input still there. I clicked the save button at the bottom left of the screen and assumed it would be saved to contacts but it wasn't. Its definitely not the normal contacts menu for either outlook or sim contacts.
Any ideas where this menu is guys? Its weird and really hard to describe and i could do with finding the contact details.
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If its what I think you're talking about, go to contacts tab > all people > select a contact > edit contact > more > and then you should be presented with a large contact card with add more functions etc. Is this what you were talking about?

No its not that, its just a couple of boxes, a drop down menu and a button or two. Along with the 2 standard buttons bottom left and right. I've no idea where to find it. Its a much more graphics based interface than the fairly texty looking contacts page you described.
Thanks for the try though!

cant call someone from the contacts list

this is probably easy to fix or just an error on my part.
I'm using the official rom with some theme mods.
So when i go to the contact list, click on a contact and then click the "call mobile phone" entry for that contact, the option gets activated/grey background, just to get deactivated half a second later and it never actually dials the number (same with people in the favorites list)
The contacts are stored on the phone and copied over from my blackstone, so I know the numbers are all valid.
Anyone got any ideas? Any help would be appreciated
[edit]
oh and i can dial just fine when i hiz phone on the today screen, go to the menu and choose "open contact"
[edit2]
I just realized, when I'm on the contact page of a contact (where you see there phone numbers and so on), I can click Menu -> Show more information, which takes me to the "old" contact page (as it used to be in wm 6.1), where calling someone works as well.
So there are ways around this, it's just annoying having those 2 more presses just to call a number.