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Phone number now has brackets?

After hard-resetting my mini and loading ROM 1.11 then not loading the extended rom ( reset prior to installation ) I notice when I dial a number on the phone, it now reads (993) 137-83 instead of 9931 3783
Any ideas as to why? Am I supposed to run a particular cab file?
thanks in advance

frigit said:
After hard-resetting my mini and loading ROM 1.11 then not loading the extended rom ( reset prior to installation ) I notice when I dial a number on the phone, it now reads (993) 137-83 instead of 9931 3783
Any ideas as to why? Am I supposed to run a particular cab file?
thanks in advance
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The short answer is YES, its in one of the CAB files but I don't know which one. If I hat to guess I'd go for the "default_103133" CAB.
What i did was test each CAB file to see what it changed but didn't write it down. :roll:

Try playing around with the regional settings... example if u use english (australia) the bracket will be gone or if u use english (united states) the numbers dialled will be according to the standard format there which has brackets. good luck.
::adit

Thanks folks, Adit you hit the nail on the head. My regional settings were set to United States. Much appreciated.

hi. im in sydney wit xda2mini, set my region to english aust.
in my contact i have like this : (04) 0157-5243 for mobile phone, which is very bad looking. can some1 tell me how to change it to 0401575243 or 0401 243 575.. as long it doenst have bracket, then im happy
maybe this is because my outlook? i sync my xda with outlook 2000. i tried to change outlook setting but couldnt find the correct option like region or something. thx every1~~~~~~~~~~~

Check ypur regional settings on your PDA.
START, SETTINGS, REGIONAL SETTINGS, make sure it is selected to ENGLISH (AUSTRALIA)

I have changed this setting and I still have the numbers looking stupid with the brackets.
Might it have something to do with how outlook handles the numbers?

yes, thats what i said in prev. post. if i insert new contact FROM XDA, then i wont have bracket. but if i create new contact FROM OUTLOOK, it will make 1st 2 digits inside brackets. i couldnt find any setting in outlook to modify this.. some1 can help? thx

Outlook
Lads,
This is an outlook querk. If you go into a contact and enter a phone number or tap the edit button next to a contact you get a window which has three enterable areas. Country code, NDC (National destination code) or area code and number. Outlook automatically formats the number into
+<country code> (<area code>) <number
You can stop it from doing this but it can be helpful when its formatted like this. I've changed all my numbers to this format.

Re: Outlook - how to remove brackets on numbers?
latts said:
You can stop it from doing this but it can be helpful when its formatted like this. I've changed all my numbers to this format.
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So how do you stop outlook from doing this?

adit said:
Try playing around with the regional settings... example if u use english (australia) the bracket will be gone or if u use english (united states) the numbers dialled will be according to the standard format there which has brackets. good luck.
::adit
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This bracket thing is really annoying me too.
Is there any English (Indonesia) or English (Singapore) that don't use bracket? Or should we change to English (Australia)?
Hormat saya,
Arto.

UK
Try UK regional settings. No brackets

i believe the problem is at the OUTLOOK side, not from the xdamini. like i said, (mine set to english australia) if i enter new contact FROM XDA, then it will be stay without bracket, but iwill have bracket if i create new contact FROM OUTLOOK.

I think it will only add brackets once you edit the number. I think Outlook sees spaces in the phone number as telling it what is the international code, area code etc. If you leave the number as +11234567890 I think Outlook ignores it.
I had mine as a mixture but prefer them with the brackets and so edited them.
Its definitely Outlook not the phone

SmartDialing search by FirstName/LastName

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?

Try This....
I think is this what are you looking for....

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gazela00 said:
I think is this what are you looking for....
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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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cuteangelika said:
gazela00 said:
I think is this what are you looking for....
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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

How to create a .cab customisation file ????

HI
I wanted to find out how can i create a .cab that i can use to do a total customisation to my requirements.
for example,
1.assign a specific number to emergency numbers and make it show the text label EMERGENCY when u call that number.
2.loading all my connection configurations for GPRS and WAP.
3. customising the MMS settings to my specific setting.
4. loading my personal today screen
5. setting the voice mail number to a specific number.
also can you tell me how to edit an existing .cab file ?
Regards
reo

Don´t think, that a cab file is required. Should be possible to do all this by exportinmg/inserting some strings to the registry.....
Regards
Stefan

hi
ok so any ideas how and where in the registry can i adjust these strings.
regards
reo

reo said:
ok so any ideas how and where in the registry can i adjust these strings.
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No. I do not know. easiest way is doing a hard reset to get a clean device, install ssnap to make a snapshot of your device. Then you make all your settings and do a second snapshot.
After comparing those two snapshots, you got the differences and what to enter in the registry....
Stefan

How to change speed dial setting in intelli dialer ???

Once again I need your help, pls.;
Inside intellidialer there is the option to set up speed dial numbers.
How can pre installed number "one" be changed? For examle to my mailboxnumber, not to the preinstalled voicemail number.
Any ideas?
Thanx

I guess you can only change it be altering the network services :-(

Is it this one?
HKCU > Software > Microsoft > Vmail
V

V,
It is, though changing the Value does exactly the same as updating the Voicemail number in the services settings.
M

Did we want to change something else?
I've never used the SpeedDial, so forgive my unfamiliarity!
V

V,
I'm not sure what happens when you change the value. You can upload it to your provider & I guess your network settings could be really messed up. This is one of the ways to change it, that's correct. But the result ...? Well it's up to thormdac what to do with it.
Btw How's mrs V? Still grounded. I am

vijay555 said:
Is it this one?
HKCU > Software > Microsoft > Vmail
V
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It is.
To be more exact, the voicemail number should be a REG_SZ (string) value next to name 'Phonenumber1'.
(No clue where the 'Phonenumber2' stands for.
On some networks the update via the services menu does not work (ie on my network: T-Mobile NL). Therefore I have put a cab in my ExtROM that sets just this value.

God I wish I was grounded!
I'm still in the office working extremely late on a horrible task that's likely to take most of the night, and tomorrow). For about the first time in a loooong time, I don't think I'm donig any programming tonight.
Can't wait for the weekend
I doubt changing your speed dial would change anything at your operator's end. You can probably just examine one of the cabs that contains operator settings (if you don't have one, search for buymobilephones.net on the board, I've posted a few). I imagine they change the voicemail speed dial themselves.
V

Gee,
I thought i was pretty routined with my mda.
My question came up after changing from german rom to wwe matmnl_11300_132_11200. Thereafter I noticed the voicemail number being setup as a netherlandsnumber. It was even loadede to my service provider. So the idea was to simply erase speed dial number one which you cant.
Now I edited the number in my systemsettings and uploaded it to my provider. Voila, works.
Only thing I cant change is the name of speeddial one. Ill try registry idea from edsub.
Thanx for your numerous help.

Changing the name is out of my league. Or in other words: can't find it, it might be stored in the intellidialer app.
M

Changing Phone and Contacts display format

Hi all,
I'm a new PDA phone user....just bought my O2 Atom Exec few days ago.
Not sure if this has been answered before but I can't seem to find any posts on this anywhere.
1) When dialing or receiving calls, the phone number is always displayed with country code, area code format, e.g. 1 (234) 567-8, even though all I wanted was to dial an 8-digit local phone number without any country/area codes. Is there any way to change this display behaviour?
2) Can we choose what fields to be displayed on the Contacts page? Currently, only the Name and phone number is being displayed in the Contacts list. Can we also perhaps choose to display the company name on the list as well? I have customers from different companies with the same names....would be good to be able to differentiate them at a glance.
Appreciate any help. Thanks.
Andrew

andrewlhl said:
1) When dialing or receiving calls, the phone number is always displayed with country code, area code format, e.g. 1 (234) 567-8, even though all I wanted was to dial an 8-digit local phone number without any country/area codes. Is there any way to change this display behaviour?
Andrew
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u have to change the regional settings...
try other types of English
for example: English (United Kingdom) or English (United Sates) or...

No No I think it is purely network operator dependant.

Anant said:
No No I think it is purely network operator dependant.
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no i do not think so

coldfire is right....I changed the regional settings to English (Australia) and it's ok now.
Any ideas on how to add more fields when displaying the contacts list? Or are there any good replacement software?
Thanks.

See if PocketCM works on the Atom. I love it on my Wizard and Hermes.

problem with my mobile nokia n73
hello
I have a portable music eddition nokia n73.
but it does not apply.
what do I do?

probleme with n70
l ve got a laptop n70 musical eddition but this same block whenever I flascher and I install the latest versionn but always the same problem
thank you

lemontagne said:
hello
I have a portable music eddition nokia n73.
but it does not apply.
what do I do?
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What do you want to 'apply' in the first place? Regional settings?