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How to go faster through large contact list without scrollin

Hello,
I dont know if it's just me or if anyone else here has a similar problem.
Apparently the contacts page has very small alphabets in the top horizontal menu, which makes it very difficult to read when I am multitasking 2 or 3 jobs at the same time.
Is there a software which has larger alphabets or can I increase the size of the font in the registry?
I do understand that holding down the cursors skips throught the alphabets fast but I need something that has an instant access to the contact list. I have more than 1500 contacts and searching them with my thumb besomes a pain.
Any suggestions will be welcome.
Thanks.
rohseq

Did you notice that you can switch through the categories by pressing the contacts button several times? Provided that you maintain categories with your contacts though.

Did you notice that you can switch through the categories by pressing the contacts button several times? Provided that you maintain categories with your contacts though.

You can also keep the "down button" pressed down for a few seconds, and youll get an option to scroll through the alphabet.
I never use the letters at the top anymore.

Hello rohseq, I think maybe you can try this application Inesoft Address Book instead of the original contacts. This application will provide to you with much bigger alphabets at the bottom.

Thanks a lot seasky. I will try it. Looks very much like something I need.
Regards,
rohseq

Improvements on SMS/MMS thread?

Hey all,
I'm definitely a fan of threaded messaging on the Diamond. But the implementation has a few problems, and I've been unable to find any solutions out there. Perhaps someone here knows (or can write!) a solution.
First Problem: when you start a new message, you can see your character count under your text. But as soon as you get to the second line of entry, the count is pushed out of view, and stays there! You have to scroll down (in that tiny box) to see it again. Which brings me to...
Second Problem: History and new message are shown in two separate boxes, with separate scroll bars. It'd be so much nicer if my new message was just being typed at the bottom of history, like a new entry. You could more easily see the entirety of your message as you type it (pushing the history further up, but that's a small loss compared to being able to check for typos before hitting Send.)
Anyone know of improvements out there?

eurotwelve said:
Second Problem: History and new message are shown in two separate boxes, with separate scroll bars. It'd be so much nicer if my new message was just being typed at the bottom of history, like a new entry. You could more easily see the entirety of your message as you type it (pushing the history further up, but that's a small loss compared to being able to check for typos before hitting Send.)
Anyone know of improvements out there?
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You can avoid the 2nd problem by clicking/touching on the SMS itself inside your TF3D.
That will take you to the history and give you the ability to reply. As opposed to going Menu > Reply. Which starts a blank message.

Don't know if this is really what you mean but
You can make the small new sms typing 'box' larger by..
Open the directory 'Windows' and then click 'File' and choose 'Find Files'
Type 'Thread' into the box and it should find 'thread_sms.htm' after a few seconds.
With 'thread_sms.htm' highlighted click 'File' then 'Edit'.
Scroll down through the file until you find the line
'<Inbox:content id="COMPOSESUBJECT" width="98%" height=35'
Change the value for height from 35 to something more suitable. I did 50, but you can do more if you please.
Once you've done that click 'File' then 'Save'.
Now do a soft reset on the phone, and when it starts up your space for typing a message should be bigger
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This was talked about some time ago... can't remember who said this...

Thank you, at least that gives me some control over it. Ideally the box would start only one line tall, then grow naturally as you type, up to some limit.
Anyway, with its current size, if your message is 3 or more lines tall you can only see the last two lines, and the box is too small to scroll using a finger. Making it larger should help a bit.

Contacts in TF3d?

I have done a lot of searching for a program that can either replace the Favourites (aka People) tab on the TF3D interface but cant find anything? It would be lot easier/simpler to have a Tab where you can scroll through all your contacts fast and efficiently (like scrolling through all the weather countries/cities). the current contacts app is slow and doesnt respond nicely to finger sliding. Im not looking to put another application like icontact or something to improve this, but merely an interface for all the contacts on the TF3D. Just as a scrolling purpose with the option to:
1) Add a new contact
2) Sms/Phone/Email a contact
All the other details and nitty gritties I can do in the contacts app.

When in People screen in TF3D I just hit "all people" in bottom left and all my contacts come up. I have no problem scrolling through those using finger or I can use the stylus or the up and down key on the bottom of the phone. It is not slow at all. If I touch any contact up comes the contact details including phone numbers etc. Also when in that screen bottom left again has "new" that i can press and add a new contact.
Doesn't that work on your phone?

I also have massive problems with finger-scrolling on the Contacts list. No problem scrolling in "Programs" or Opera though.
Anyway, my solution was to enable D-pad scrolling in the Contacts list. Now I just tap the appropriate letter on the right side and then scroll w/ D-pad until I reach my destination. Works pretty well actually... I'm happy with the solution.

Try this! (more stuff added)

Ok, by now you probably know HTC's nice text selection tool. To use it, write some words in a HTC application (like the text message composer), then tap-and-hold somewhere in the text. You get one handle to move around, or two if you want to select a precise part.
But there's more. Change "HKLM/Software/HTC/TextSelection/EnableMagnifier" from 0 to 1. Now activate the text selection tool again as described above and try moving the single handle around...

Nice catch. Can be helpful in tight selections. I've been looking through the reg. So much stuff disabled... Why does HTC do this? They could've placed it as an option on SMS menu...

Thanks. Added to tips thread.

Maybe they disable it so we at XDA have something to do until HSPL is released

Some other simple but cool things I discovered:
* You can use the album app to crop pictures. Just pinch-to-zoom until the part you want fills the screen, then tap the screen, tap the icon on the bottom right and choose the second option from the menu. In Dutch it's called 'Schermafbeelding opslaan'. It will save a cropped copy of your pic.
* Here's a registry entry I found: "HKLM/Software/HTC/Manila/InternetPush/EnablePushInternet". It's set to 0 by default. I'm not really interested in push internet, so I haven't experimented with this, but it seems you can enable it if you want.
* Sometimes touch scrolling gets in the way of selecting text. If you want to select text, the solution depends on the context, but to start you just tap-and-hold anywhere:
-- In Opera, you can switch text selection on/off in the context menu;
-- In some apps (like while reading an e-mail message) you get a pop-up menu where the first option is 'make selection' ('selectie maken' on my Dutch device);
-- In Word, just before the pop-up menu appears, you see this: '[T]'. As soon as it appears, move your finger and you'll be able to select text!
* If you like the Footprints app but prefer full size pictures to those square 'polaroids', there's an option to save a full sized copy whenever you create a 'Footprint' (Footprints tab -> Menu -> Settings).
* The 'me' entry in the People app stores your 'owner' info. I know this is widely known by now, partly because I've been posting it everywhere, but I still see so many people complaining they can't register their applications (Resco stuff, SKtools)... because the can't find the old owner info icon. I have registered both Resco Explorer and SKtools perfectly fine without ever bringing the owner info icon back.

I haven't ever been able to get the Text Selection sliders to work on a custom rom even after setting the registry value to 1.
This is an awesome feature and I can't understand why it doesn't work.

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I haven't ever been able to get the Text Selection sliders to work on a custom rom even after setting the registry value to 1.
This is an awesome feature and I can't understand why it doesn't work.
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you know it only works in text messaging, right? (well, some other htc apps too, apparently, but i couldn't name another one i've seen it in)

Yes of course... I'm aware that it only works in the realm of Sense specifically mail and text. I can do the standard selection thing but I just can't seem to get the sliders.
Any ideas?

hmm, well a common mistake I've come across a few times is people not pressing select the first time.
firstly go type some text into a new text message. (not sure where the idea it works in email came from, certainly doesn't on mine.)
ok, press and hold should bring up a cursor and the words "select|select all.
use the single sljder to set the start(or end, whichever) press 'select' nd now a second slider should join the first, enabling you to select.

Thanks for the responses guys, but as it turned out, I didn't realise that Energy ROMs are stripped of the HTC Messaging Module and that seems to be the only place where this 'feature' works.
It's a shame that's it's not available system-wide considering how easy it makes life.
I installed the HTC Messaging Client and voila, it was it there! but that excitement was short lived considering how bad HTC's messaging client is.

hah couldn't agree more. with the magnifier too its great ,, just never gets used.

HTC contacts list

Hello,
I have a little problem with the TouchFlo contacts list.
If I have opened a contact from the list and then go back to the list the list always goes to top.
Is there a way (Reg key or so) to have the scroll state before opening the contact ?
Often a contact is opened during scrolling, because the sensitivity to difference between scrolling and clicking is not so good on my TD2. If this I only can go back and must begin scroll from top again.

There is no fix for this.
You can try to adjust your pressure settings but you really just need to find that sweetspot between contacts that don't open them.