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 )
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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....
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!
I want to use Windows Live Messenger on my Atom Exec. However, I have to import all contacts from WLM into Contacts of my PDA. Now the Contacts are a lot of mess because I already have around 300 people in my phone and now there're additional 200. It's slow and very very difficult to navigate when I want to phone someone. Is there a workaround for this? I've tried using categories. However, when I close and reopen Contacts, the filter is restored to All Contacts.
Thanks.
Do you mean to say that you now have 500 unique contacts, or is it just that you had 300 contacts and the 200 you imported over duplicated some of them? So do you just have too many contacts?
Well I can think of two things.
First is to use Voice Command. With Voice Command, all you need to do is say, "Call Contact-Name at Mobile" without ever having to go through your contact list. However it is not always practical in all situations.
The other suggestion is to set the "View By" option to Company, then you filter using the Company feature. This "filter" doesn't refresh when you exit the Contact list, so this might help you out.
Some are duplicates. I think it is tedious to get rid of duplication, that is I have to go through all of the contacts. So, I prefer having the phone not displaying imported contacts and just display what I originally have.
Thanks a lot, I'll try justing View by Company.
Ps: Erm.. Is there anyway to set the Company of multiple contacts? Just realize I have 328 Phone contacts and 278 MSN Contacts.
Hmm I think you have to do them one by one.
My suggestion is to do the editing in Outlook and sync that with the phone. But whichever works faster. Hopefully someone has a better fix for this!
Sync the contacts between Windows Live and WM is a hard work when you have 100 more contacts. Besides that, I think Windows Live for Windows Mobile is much better than pocket msn....
me too face this problem!!
I'm very like to use Windows Live Messager on my PPC, but mobile contacts will auto import more contacts from live messager, so i'm very dislike it.
I don't know how to set don't import contacts from Live messager.
Now i'm switch back to old Windows Messager.
I have been having some fun and games with phone contacts as some of you might have seen.
Another thing I did wrong was to import these sim contacts onto the phone [no need I am guessing] so I see them twice.
What I want to do i do a .pst export from my pc with the mobile numbers to my laptop whose outlook currently has no contacts and I can then import them all correctly orientated that way to my phone.
I would like to delete all the current phone contacts to be able to do this.
Anyway easy way please? (I did a quick seach with no joy!)
Thanks
if I understand you, you are trying to clear the phone completely of contacts, but can't be bothered to tick one at a time?
the key herr is that the sim contacts manager has a select all option, people tab menu doesn't.
try this
people all people menu sim manager menu select all menu delete.
that should be the sim empty(if it wasn't already)
now, if you go menu delete contacts, it will populate the empty screen with your phones contacts and let you then do menu select all delete.
phone should now be empty of contacts.
to be fair [bothered to tick one at a time] there are over 180!
Thanks, I will try that.
I can always copy the contacts back to the sim from my other phone.
sync with outlook delete them all from outlook sync again viola (u need to have set that PC is master for data)
Thanks for that.
I managed to solve a couple of problems in one go:
my contacts in outlook on the laptop is not populated so I imported the mobile numbers from desktop outlook to laptop contacts.
Then deleted sim and phone contacts then synched with laptop outlook and now Contacts are nicely arranged first name, last name.
Belts and braces - I copied all contacts to sim and then hid sim contacts
Thanks guys
just a thought but if you have them in the phone and outlook which I assume you are going to keep synced.. why copy to sim when that WON'T be synced and you run the risk of corrupting your good lis
t in the future?
the rationale when I did it was in case I need to send the phone back etc etc but I take your point that I would have the backup on the laptop.
Just another layer of backup which I hopefully will not have to use?
heh yea.just don't forget they're there and accidentally merge them go the future...back to square one. lol
There is an app around that will clear the contacts on a windows mobile device.
If you search 'clear contacts in windows mobile' in google you should find it. Not sure if it's Mobile 6.5 ready.