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Is it only me, or does the inbuilt Caller ID app that HTC provides suck rather large rocks?
My ROM is pretty recent (unlocked 1.12 WWE), and the Caller ID says it is version 1.20 (Build 18567), but I have the following problems with it:
- Very slow to load my 200 contacts
- Very difficult to find a contact. Click one of the short-cut letter combinations at the top, and it seems to go to a random contact
- Type in a letter/combination, and it finds that letter/combination in every contact (ie RE gives me fREd), rather than using that as the first two letters in a name
- Overall very slow and sluggish to respond to anything. It would be quicker to call Directory Enquiries and then type the letters in using my toes
- Unless I start it (and its running in the background), I don't get any of the PhotoID on ringing functionality
- Setting the font size of the incoming call has no effect - the name still comes up in microscopically small font.
Any suggestions? Shall I unmap the contacts button and use the default Microsoft contacts manager (without any of the cool pictures/ringtones functionality), or is there an update or an alternative?
Thanks, guys
Alex
I've some issues with it as well.
When I try to change the storage path for photoid files, my CallerID keeps crashing.
Is there a registry location where I can change this? I've tried finding it in the registry but I failed at it
I gave up on the HTC version it really is slow, bug ridden and generally crap.
Try Photo contacts instead, its fast, easy to set-up and doesn't alter contacts when you attach pictures as instead of being attached they are simply referenced by the name you store the contact under.
E.g. If your contact is Joe Bloggs then the contact picture is bloggs,joe and it will display full screen too!!!!!
It's slow and buggy memory hug and has ****ty functionality. Don't install this (ie. by preventing from customization) unless you are planning to use ArcSoft MMS 2.5.
I agree its slow but never found a bug with it (until now with the GPRS problem).
Its the best photo contacts software I have seen for the imate and good for when you're in the car with its full screen id and large display of contacts to dial.
Unless you know of another program which is better?
I did just find this, it's pretty cool, I like the fat-finger only use....
http://www.sygic.com/mobile/phoneedition/
madinga said:
I did just find this, it's pretty cool, I like the fat-finger only use....
http://www.sygic.com/mobile/phoneedition/
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So I thought this was pretty interesting. I installed this software today and overall I really like it until the first time I try to sync and I get the old "Unable to connect..." error message. This is the first time I have gotten this message in over a month since doing the downgrade but it is also the first time since then I have installed a prgram that was some sort of contact/caller ID related software.
I uninstalled this program and it seems the error message has gone away..... wierd
nothing better than this : http://www.pocketx.net/products/photocontactspro_ppc/#photocallerid
Tried every program that is related to photo contact and photo dialing. And I came to one conclusion, they all suck.
There is really no program that doesn't slow your ppc down or give an error of somekind...
Uninstall HTC Caller ID
Does anyone know how to uninstall HTC caller ID. When I go into remove programs on my PPC, HTC Caller ID is not listed. I installed it from a cab file that I downloaded here! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Uninstall HTC Caller ID
Does anyone know how to uninstall HTC caller ID. When I go into remove programs on my PPC, HTC Caller ID is not listed. I installed it from a cab file that I downloaded here! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
to fut*
I don't know to uninstall it but there is a way not to install it, but you have to do a hard reset. See instructions here http://pocketpcdubai.infopop.cc/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/582600994/m/237102159/r/237102159#237102159
Question for Jarek
Why should you use PhotoContacts if you use ArcSoft MMS 2.5?
I also don't like the PhotoContacts prog but don't want to spoil anything else.
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Re: Uninstall HTC Caller ID
futsoulja said:
Does anyone know how to uninstall HTC caller ID. When I go into remove programs on my PPC, HTC Caller ID is not listed. I installed it from a cab file that I downloaded here! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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1. delete the IA_CID_Startup shortcut file from the \windows\startup directory
2. delete the IA_CID_Startup from the \windows dir.
I think the Caller ID function of this program is decent, but there is no way to backup/restore your photo/ringtone assignments which really sucks. So after every hard reset you have to do it all over again..... :evil:
After I came to this forum and so tired of the htc caller ID I decided to give a try to photo contact as bruxelles5 suggested, and I have to confess that it did impressed me. It was been working perfectly, photos stored in sd card so after hard reset I don't have to set it up again, full screen image and picture arrangement. Very good *****
PS: I got rid of caller ID with anansky method and got 27 mgs store!
Photo Contacts bug?
Does anyone else have a bug in Photo Contacts Pro like me: I have to pick up the phone useing touchsceen button otherwise (with hardware button) both me and caller(!!!) hear nasty "fragmented" end of ringtone wich rings (ca 1 sec) AFTER pressing the button
It doesn't seem to depend on location of ringtones folder (main memory, storage card)...
BTW, all the ringtones are in wma-format. Should I try another format?
Any thoughts?
PS Sorry for my English
SOLVED: Mort, thank you very much for your MortRing!!!
I have this problem as well with the ring tone blasting into the caller's ears when using the hardware button to answer. Do you mind sharing what you did to solve that?
How can you choose which of the caller ID apps opens when a call comes in?
marsonist said:
I have this problem as well with the ring tone blasting into the caller's ears when using the hardware button to answer. Do you mind sharing what you did to solve that?
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Just try this s/w http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=20711&highlight=mortring
I'm happy with MortRing as I don't need Photo ID on my phone but I like to assign individual ringtones very much
It is unbelievable that HTC ships products with this crap. Even a cheap cellphone has better Caller ID functionality. Not only is the program very slow when editing, you can't backup/restore your ringtone/photo assignments. Caller ID doesn't work 50% of the time, and after a lot of troubleshooting, I have not reached a firm conclusion as to why. The only credible explanation I found was in the XDA-developers forum and it simply seems that unless you have plenty of free resourses the program won't work. And still, I have an upgraded Jam (128 MB).
This is very very sad. I miss the solid performance of my iPaq.
Hi all, does anyone know if it is possible to assign a different ringtone for different groups, like "VIP" or "family" is this possible, or is there a third party application that can do this?
Photo contact pro
http://www.pocketx.net/products/photocontactspro_ppc/
i was about to ask a similar question, however mine is that I would like to assign a different tone for some peoples SMS messages. I havent tried it yet but i dont think photo contact pro will do this ?? anyone know of another prog
maltloaf said:
i was about to ask a similar question, however mine is that I would like to assign a different tone for some peoples SMS messages. I havent tried it yet but i dont think photo contact pro will do this ?? anyone know of another prog
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Thats a feature I am also looking for - but no luck so far. All the different programs that I found can do is:
1. Change ringtone per person/group
2. Full Screen Picture ID of caller
But none allows me to change the SMS tone per person/group. I am going to write to the authors of PhotoContacts PRO if they will add this feature to their program.
i just had a google and it appears 'Ringo mobile' may do it. I'm going to try it now and i'll report back.
http://www.electricpocket.com/products/ringo-mobile.html
maltloaf said:
i just had a google and it appears 'Ringo mobile' may do it. I'm going to try it now and i'll report back.
http://www.electricpocket.com/products/ringo-mobile.html
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Cool! This sounds promising - let us know what you found out.
Couldn't wait - I gave it a try myself 8) So far it seems to work pretty well. At least I could test the ringtone part - all my friends are still sleeping so it'll be a while for my SMS Test :wink:
Nice thing is that I switched off the ringtone manager in Photocontacts PRO and Ringo takes that part now and Photocontacts shows the caller full screen picture. But I guess I will be getting rid of Photocontacts once Ringo performs solid and without problems, the tone is more important than a picture to me - or I need a lightweight fullscreen picture id program...
i gave it a shot too, i havent had a sms off anyone yet either but seemed to be able to set the tones per contact ok. My only worry is intergrating it with phonealarm, as that app takes over the tones too. I've set the default sms tone to 'system' in pA, hopefully that will let ringo take over.
So far I am really amazed by this Ringo Mobile. It works ( for ringtones ) like a charm. Hopefully my friends will be up soon so I can test out the SMS Part of it.
Now I really want to get rid of PhotoContacts PRO, since its such a memory monster - do you know of any other fullscreen picture ID caller software? AFAIR there is a freeware but I am not sure of its name
i just got my friend to text me and it works perfectly
Good news!
I got some mini-bad news though - there is a bug in Ringo - when a person calls you are not able to use the volume slider to turn of the ringtone. This bug is already reported in the yahoo group of ringo.
So hopefully this will be fixed soon since I don't want to hit the IGNORE button ( since the person calling then knows I ignored them ).
The official statement regarding this problem:
This is a side effect of Ringo Mobile volume being the system volume
not the ringer volume (although we respect the ringer volume at the
point of the notification). However we do intend to add this ringer
mute facility in a future release.
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Just found out about another Ringtone/SMS Tone Tool - its really tiny and FREEWARE!
MortRING
http://www.sto-helit.de/modules/wmpdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=8&lid=66
Haven't tried it yet - but it does sound like it does the same thing as Ringo - but for free.
MortRing works great on my SPV M3000 Wish that I could hide the icon on the traybar though :roll:
I also hope that there will be support for sounds on SD-Card instead of on the device. That way I will be able to attach a SMS/ring tone to every contact and not just a few 8)
DREAMBOXER said:
Just found out about another Ringtone/SMS Tone Tool - its really tiny and FREEWARE!
MortRING
http://www.sto-helit.de/modules/wmpdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=8&lid=66
Haven't tried it yet - but it does sound like it does the same thing as Ringo - but for free.
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Unfortunately, MortRING has issues with WM 5.0. On most WM 5.0 devices (including my US T-Mobile MDA), it does not recognize the caller ID and reports all calls as "unknown caller". I spent about 3 weeks researching this, and Ringo is the best that I have found (best = works great, and not overly expensive).
agree with the previous post...when i upgraded my xda2 to wm2005 it had some issues with mortring (i used the .97 version). sometimes the caller id would malfunction...at times the phone would ring but there was no sound...doing a soft reset would solve the problem but eventually the bugs would come back.
now i'm using a mio a701 and still mortring has some issues....
With all the great working being done here on iPhone-inspired applications, is anyone developing a simple app to let Smartphones and PPC phones display a full screen image (drawn from the contact database image) for incoming and outgoing calls and caller ID?
Kermit
kwoodall said:
With all the great working being done here on iPhone-inspired applications, is anyone developing a simple app to let Smartphones and PPC phones display a full screen image (drawn from the contact database image) for incoming and outgoing calls and caller ID?
Kermit
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This is a thing that's been talked about for years. MS makes software for PPC's with at least resolutions like 240x240, 240x320 etc. But it just doensn't understand that we want to have a full screen caller ID
There are some solutions, but none of them are really small when it comes to memory consumption, or bloatware
Have a look at PhotoContacts and Inesoft Address Book . The last one works the best for me
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There are some solutions, but none of them are really small when it comes to memory consumption, or bloatware
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Yeah, I've looked at those, and others. In fact, IAStyle (I think that was the one) has royally screwed up my incoming caller screen now so I get lots of misaligned graphics and random pixels during the incoming caller / caller ID display.
Someone should be able to make a simple caller ID display that uses the graphics already stored with the contacts in WM5/6 and displays the graphic full screen. It would be wonderful if the display used XML to control the layout so it was easy to redesign the layout as well.
Dreaming away...
Kermit
Have you tried AC's slide to unlock, he has this feature caller ID working. Only problem for me, that is, it is not compatible with AE button plus, the problem being, I can't answer calls. But I have tried it without AE button plus installed on my Wizard and it works great, with a minor hiccup that is, you can only get full resolution Full screen photos if you use photoCM to assign your contacts pictures..
try it...
I'm on a smartphone so slide2unlock isn't going to do much for me I suspect.
Also, there's no reason not to use the contact databse's pics is there?
Kermit
kwoodall said:
With all the great working being done here on iPhone-inspired applications, is anyone developing a simple app to let Smartphones and PPC phones display a full screen image (drawn from the contact database image) for incoming and outgoing calls and caller ID?
Kermit
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The same request with Windows 10 for phone am I!
Anyone else help us?
xuxukalo said:
The same request with Windows 10 for phone am I!
Anyone else help us?
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4 years later...wphone 8.1 had it,,,really great in-call ui and caller app but they went to small photos in w10 lol
After I searched everywhere on the web I can't find that kind of software. On my old Symbian Nokia I had this software, and I can't understand why there is not for PPCs.
I don't know if somebody could make that kind of software, but It would be really cool.
I'm posting to discuss this idea, and maybe to make something...
I hope you will be interested too
I too want a Video Caller ID option!
S2U2 has caller id....you cand find itin settings.
But S2U2's Caller ID is not a video caller id
What do you mean by a Video Caller ID?
pctuner said:
What do you mean by a Video Caller ID?
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To put AVI file or something like that to an incoming call instead of photo
Thats just to help Pocket Windows crash on in coming call LMAO! I can't imagine this is somink that will be made in the near future, it would kill most phones resources based on most current specs available.
MM
yup.... CPU will be completely used up. I don't think this'll be possible.
I'm pretty sure that windows mobile already does this out of the box, maybe only certain formats. I kind of remember doing it once but you could only use the audio on the video and no mp3, so it was dumb.
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yup.... CPU will be completely used up. I don't think this'll be possible.
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Samsung Device already do that why can't be possible on windows mobile
The idea of a video sounds coool.... what if have a specific gif file (like a ringing phone) appear on S2U when someone calls (in addition to the contact picture)... especially with the new gif feature A_C just addded? how does that sound? if interesting probably someone should suggest it to A_C...
i researched on Phonex 1.3 for the caller id problem which is i finding the caller id number appearing whenever theres a incoming call is straining on my eyes. but i saw the screenshots that the Phonex will actually add-on alot of icons and programs on the panel that i using. is there any program that only enlarges the caller id and nothing else?
read from the forum ppl saying about the antenna on the bottom back of the phone, suggesting pasting a clear body protection on the back. any recommendation on the brands to use? does it affect the screen sensitivity?
thanks
loyjwe said:
i researched on Phonex 1.3 for the caller id problem which is i finding the caller id number appearing whenever theres a incoming call is straining on my eyes. but i saw the screenshots that the Phonex will actually add-on alot of icons and programs on the panel that i using. is there any program that only enlarges the caller id and nothing else?
thanks
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Phonex can be configured to not add the icons to the Today Screen and still have the display for incoming calls. For me, the reason I bought Phonex was the dialer, it eliminated the fustration I was having using the default dialer for conference calls.
-- Mike
so i can still use my SE panel without any changes to the layout? just the incoming call layout will be changed?
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Try " Photo Contacts Pro 5.11 " . I'm using it since a few days and all is customizable. I wanted a program to enlarge the call id screen only, and this can be configured for that. Best regards
oh can give it a try, any other users of this application have any other comment?
btw the file is not attached.
i try to research on the program but only available in trial version which stated expiring in 5 days. any1 able to attach full version?
Sorry I had problems to attach. Here is the link for the program.
http://rapidshare.com/files/208351363/Photo.Contacts.Prov5.11.Full.cab
Best regards
thanks.
sorry if you dont mind can u paste the file directly? coz i got problem downloading anything from that rapidshare site. everything i try there also cannot download. sorry
I'm not able to attach the file. If you send me your email by private message, I'll send it to you. Best regards.
given. thanks
ok. i think i PMed u with my email. please reply here if u did not receive my PM. thanks
hey friend. how come i cant open the file on my phone. is there any .cab version?
I sent to you a RAR file. Extract it using WINRAR or another similar program and you'll get a CAB file.
oh ok. sorry for noob questions.