sorry guys i've just copied my sim contact to phone contact but when i open contact there's a sim contact data and phone contact data
ijust want to know how to hide the sim contact data cause it's very disturb me and make me confuse
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my solution for your problem is that i synced all my contacts to outlook then opened the editor in outlook and changed the catagory for all the on phone contacts to personal, then when displaying contacts on phone i just filtered it by catagory
hope this works for you
thx i've just want to try it
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i have installed this on my HTC touch and i no longer see the sim contacts in the contacts list.
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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.
I am having an issue with sense storing text messages from the same numbers under separate threads on my TMOUS. One thread for the Sim contact entry of the phone number and one thread for the HD2's stored contacts that I have imported from the SIM...Its really annoying.
In the phone tab you can easily change "View" to Contacts so that you don't have to look at duplicates of every single entry every time you enter your phonebook but when I compose a new text message there is no way to have the sense only show me the HD2's contacts. It always shows me all the duplicate entries of the same numbers SIM contacts and as well as tabs for the same contacts that were imported to the device.
In order to not lose my contacts permanently, do I have to save my SIM contacts externally, import them to my phone then delete them off my SIM in order to have my phone contacts (which are superior to SIM bc I can load them with multiple numbers email addresses, etc) be the only contacts and threads sense makes in the messaging app???
There has to be an easier way to resolve this? What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for the help...
I notice that when typing a contact name for a SMS message, some of my old contacts no longer on my Gmail account show up. I think these contacts may still be on my SIM card. How do I edit my SIM card contacts from the phone?
In the contacts option you have to choose which ones to display: SIM card in your case.
Once you do that the SIM contacts will appear in the main list. You can then long press one of them and choose edit.
There is also an app on the market called contact2sim pro which will pretty much do the same thing but I find it completely unnecessary with the Vibrant.
I have my contacts displayed perfectectly just having gmail showing.
Now when I go to send message (handcent) I see duplicate numbers! Also only some numbers display the contact picture when it has a pic from facebook synced in contacts.
How do i fix this.
I had this same issue and I just deleted all of the contacts that were on my SIM... Might want to look into that.
This is a limitation of the underlying way in which touchwiz handles contacts. There is no way to limit contacts to just a particular label in Goog contacts. All contacts are shown. In the Contacts app, you can filter the listing somewhat, but when some other app or some selection dialog appears, all the contacts are shown.
shtay said:
I had this same issue and I just deleted all of the contacts that were on my SIM... Might want to look into that.
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you are right it is displaying contacts from my sim as well as gmail even tho i have display options in contacts set for only goog contacts
is deleting them off sim only way?
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you are right it is displaying contacts from my sim as well as gmail even tho i have display options in contacts set for only goog contacts
is deleting them off sim only way?
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probably the easiest, not sure about the only... They are really not needed on your SIM tho. Just make sure that any contact that is not saved to your google contacts is saved there before you delete it off your SIM.
ughh i deleted all the sim contacts still having the issue. I think maybe it was faceoobk issue so I mune settings accounts and sync and unsync facebook contacts but everything is stilll there.
I got contac2sim app to delete the sim contacts worked good. I saw that it says 479 contacts on left and 0 sim contacts....now i only have 211 contaacts in gmail.. there are no contacts on phone, so facebook must be doubling them
EDIT - The facebook contacts are linked actually wtf. If I click link contact them i go to link the same one that person not there..im goin crazy.
Figured most of it out
The contacts were deleted off the sim but phone didnt recongnize it until I shut it off and removed the sim card.
Once i put it back and it worked and contacts were cleaned up
i guess now the only thing would do is merge gmail and facebook contacts
anyone know how to do that
How can I get contacts etc from Windows Live to Android? I have about 300 so typing them all in is really not an option.
use on market sim contact pro and you see sim and phone contact
I haven't got any contacts on SIM. Things might have changed but SIM contacts never used to support additional contact information so all contacts are in the phone memory.
Actually after starting this thread Outlook sync seems to have worked OK (without the problems of duplication I've had in the past) but it would be nice to transfer text message history to the Android handset.
http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips...rom_Hotmail_Outlook_Yahoo_Others_in_Gmail.htm
This? You just gotta get your contacts imported in your Google account, and they will be synced to your phone automatically. If this guide isn't exactly what you need I'm sure a little googling will give you more than enough help.