Is there a way just to display the contacts that are saved on the phone and not display the SIM contacts?
Thanks,
You can use a REGISTRY EDITOR to hide the SIM contacts. To hide the SIM contacts in the Contact List set the following:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone\ShowSIM = 0 (DWORD decimal)
If that is too complicate for you: search the forum for the REGISTRY WIZARD tool. It also has the HIDE SIM contacts option - but be carefully with all other settings in there as long as you do not know what you're doing!
thanks for the help, it worked.
thanks,
It worked
Thanks a lot, my contact view has always been cluttered with doubles as I imported my sim contacts into outlook a long time ago. Nice fix!
It worked
Thanks a lot, my contact view has always been cluttered with doubles as I imported my sim contacts into outlook a long time ago. Nice fix!
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my contacts are displayed surname then forname. Is there a way to change this
Cheers
You can change it in Outlook and on next synchronisation they will change on your PDA as well.
many thanks!
The contact system is really not upto scratch compared to my Nokia 9210
I've found that some are forename, Surname and some are the other way round with no real logic ???
If outlook uses 'lastname, forename' and you add a contact on the MDA 'John Doe' its added as 'John doe', it should have been 'Doe, John' but it doesn't add it that way :roll:
I have a silly way of doing it, but it works
Add contact as you normally would
Copy to sim
Delete contact from phone
go to sim manager
copy contact from sim to phone
tada! John Doe!
I just received my shiny new XDA II and I was wondering is there an easy way to dial phonebook entries which are stored on my SIM card?
I notice when you press the Green button to start the phone application there is a button at the bottom to go to the Contacts list (sync'd from Outlook).
I have a hundred or more phone book entries on my SIM card but I notice that when I hit the call button it gives me the option of choosing people out of my synchronised Outlook Contacts list but to call people from the SIM card I have to bring up the SIM Manager and click and hold and select call from an entry which seems cumbersome. Is there a nice easy way to have a combined list of Outlook Contacts + SIM Phone Book entries with a simple click to call mechanism?
I also notice for received calls and SMS's the Caller ID thingy doesn't look at any of the phonebook entries on the SIM card to translate numbers into names - can this be fixed as well?
OR alternatively if the only solution is to have everything in Outlook Contacts then is there a nice easy tool (preferably freeware) which takes all my existing SIM phonebook entries and converts them into Outlook Contact entries?
Thanks,
Rodney...
Ok: when you are in "SIM Manager" select "Tools" and "Select all".
Tap and hold anywere in the window and select "Save to Conctacts" in the pop up that will appear.
I hope this can help you!
Yep - I found that a few hours after making this post - but thanks for that anyway...
So is the general consensus that we shouldn't use the SIM based phonebook at all but rather have all entries in the Outlook Contacts list?
Copying SIM entries to Outlook
I've use the SIM toolkit to 'add' my SIM contacts into my XDA contacts, but when sync'ing with my PC, the new contacts claim to xfer over, but don't appear in my PC's address book. ActiveSync is set to xfer contacts.
Any ideas what might be wrong, or are there tools that will upload the SIM data to Outlook in an easy manner. I appreciate that SIM contact info is limited by the SIM.
Thanks, Hamish.
Is there a way to hide sim contacts from outlook? I use PPCContactsMgr v1.6 to back up my outlooks contact to the sim card so that I can swap between different phones. However I don't want outlook to show it in the list because it's just making the list longer with duplicates. Is there a way I can hide sim contacts from outlook?
please checkout wiki for reg hacks....
Hey guys!
Does somoeone figured this out:
I have set my phone not to show SIM items, so in Windows contacts manager, only my devices contacts is shown.
The contacts within SPB shows both SIM items, and device contacts.
is there a registry hack to hide the SPB SIM contacts aswell?
It clutters up my screen cause i have about 300 contacts!!
Thanks guys!
try turning hiding sim contacts from Schaps advanced config tool.
(Also, 300 contacts is nothing....i have around 700 )
sorry guys i've just copied my sim contact to phone contact but when i open contact there's a sim contact data and phone contact data
ijust want to know how to hide the sim contact data cause it's very disturb me and make me confuse
displaying data
my solution for your problem is that i synced all my contacts to outlook then opened the editor in outlook and changed the catagory for all the on phone contacts to personal, then when displaying contacts on phone i just filtered it by catagory
hope this works for you
thx i've just want to try it
Check post no. 4
i have installed this on my HTC touch and i no longer see the sim contacts in the contacts list.