Hello.
I am new in Android waters.
As a skilled user of many types of WinMobile devices I am missing few things in Android and here is one of them:
In dialer,I cannot lookup contacts with accented characters. For example,I cannot directly dial "Štefan" name,because it doesn't fit to "PQRS" button. Only way is to dial it from contacts.
WinMobile it could do it many years.
Is there any way,how to implement these characters into T9 method?
Thanks.
I'm new to the android, mostly I like it, but there is one thing that is driving me nuts. I don't know if I'm missing something or stupid or what.
There are a number of times I have gotten to my list of contacts - i.e. from Google Maps defining a location to navigate to, or creating a shortcut to a contact- that I get presented with a list of all my contacts (1500+) and no apparent way to search the list.
If I press the search button it brings up the contact search, but then I seem to have lost the app that wanted the contact. Is there a way to do a search on the contacts and then have it get entered into the original app? I also tried google gesture search, which was great, but I can't figure out how to do anything with the contact other than call them.
I'm beginning to think I am dense or something, please help.
if i understand correctly, i think you want to navigate to a specific contact's address from google maps?
if so, all you need to do is, while in google maps, in the destination field just type the contacts name. and if you have their address saved in your contacts it should just pop up with their address.
For maps tha'ts great, I must remember not to rush things at traffic lights.
However, the thing I am still having trouble with is creating direct dial shortcuts. I go to create the shortcut, and get a long list of contacts and A-Z on the right. I can pick a letter, but there are still hundreds of phone numbers to go through. There is no search box available at that point - I tried pushing the search button and it searches the contact list, but then all I can do is call the contact, not create a shortcut. I tried BetterCut and it doesn't have the A-Z selector.
Am i missing something here too?
This is the problem of not having a physical keyboard. And not having gestures in all lists. What you are doing is exactly what I want to do many times and there is unfortunately no way around it except scrolling up and down a list. Very annoying idiom started by the iPhone and unfortunately copied by Android. There is simply no way to filter lists unless every list is accompanied by a filter text field.
So I picked up a note for my pops.
He has a ton of contacts that are in Asian characters and contacts that are in english characters.
The contact list has the Asian character names as being listed first.
Is there a way to flip the order around? English alphabet first, then the Asian second?
He more frequently has the need to look for the English contacts but he has to "scroll" through Asia first. Lol.
Btw, his os is set to an Asian language natively.
He lives 2 hours away, otherwise I'd be messing with the phone right now helping him.
Any info would help. Thanks.
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