Contacts and GPS widget... strange things - myTouch 3G, Magic General

Hi,
I've falshed my Magic with the NOVERCA HTC Rom. All good about the OS but.
1. I've made a sync with outlook for the contacts. I have some contacts with both first and last name and some with only the first name. When I scroll the contacts i've have first all the only first name contacts (from A to Z) and than all the first and last name contacts (from A to Z). So if i have to see all the B contacts with first and last name I have to scroll first all the only first name contacts and than the other one.
2. I have installed the GPS widget (the blue one)... but every time I tap on it it gives me an error (interruzione imprevista dell'applkicazione processcom.roundedlabs.widgests.gps). With the original Vodafone rom it worked fine.
Thanks for the help.

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Sorting contacts by first name

On all my other SE phones, I've had the contacts sorted by First name, but the Xperia wants to sort them by last name. I downloaded Xperia tweak, and that helped to stop viewing my SIM contacts, but even when I have xperia tweak change sorting to "First name, last name" it says done, I click save, restart, and my contacts are still sorted by last name. If I don't restart, they still aren't sorted any differently. Halp?
Nebor said:
On all my other SE phones, I've had the contacts sorted by First name, but the Xperia wants to sort them by last name. I downloaded Xperia tweak, and that helped to stop viewing my SIM contacts, but even when I have xperia tweak change sorting to "First name, last name" it says done, I click save, restart, and my contacts are still sorted by last name. If I don't restart, they still aren't sorted any differently. Halp?
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That's because the last name field in ur contacts program is actually the first name. You have to manual fix your first and last name.
The sim card is never fully compatible with any phone. SIM cards are designed to work with every other operating systems.
Don't ever use sim card to backup your contacts, get a PIM manager for that and back it up as a PIM file.
sync with outlook dude, customize outlook to sort all contacts names as first last

HTC HD2 - Help With Contacts

Hi all,
Just recieved my new HTC HD2 handset. Transferred all/most contacts from my old phone, to the SIM and placed in the new phone. However, the names show as a scramble....
eg.... If I had the name "John Smith" on my old phone, it now shows it as "-Sm;John/1"
Also, if I edit the contact, there's only one name field. However, if I add a new contact, I can add a First Name and a Surname
Just connected it to my laptop, don't have outlook, but do use thunder bird.... Is there a way a syncronising these together?
BTW: my last phone was a Sony Ericsson C902
Did you wipe the simcard before you copied all the contacts to it? My gf has something similar that occured when she combined the phone contacts and teh sim contacts. (Bit late for you to do anything about it now, of course, just asking ) as for TBird support, sorry, don't know.
I thought it was already clear TBH....
Just started a gMail account, gonna see if can sync up with that

HD2 active sync and importing contacts

Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
CDurham221 said:
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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I had the exact same problem. The only fix I could find was to edit the contacts name with the drop down arrow, and move the full name into the "First Name" field. It's the only way that will remain the same after syncing with activesync.
CDurham221 said:
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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use marketplace to find contact changer. its one dollar and will do ALL ur contacts the way you are wanting (first name last name) i didn't know of this till AFTER going thru them all and changing them one by one on outlook
that solves half of my issue. but also the other half of my problem is that since i already erased all o my contacts out of my phone from outlook it wont let me re sync it back to my phone to get all my contacts in there. it says synchronized 4/12/10 and wont let me re import my full list from outlook on my computer to my phone.
so is there a manual way to force the sync or to completely erase all information from outlook so it sees it has to re sync it?
CDurham221 said:
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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Changing the order in which they show in your Outlook doesn't actually change anything that needs to be synchronized to your phone. The Outlook sort order doesn't get synchronized.
Plus, it's a WinMo thing that it shows the All People by last name, first name. You can, however, buy a $0.99 app that will allow you to change this:
http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/details.aspx?appId=1ef4f47b-4145-49b5-bb91-de7c1a46dacd&retURL=/search.aspx%3Fkeywords%3Dcontact
Personally, I think it's not needed, especially when you can quickly type in the first few letters of a person's first name and it shows the matching contacts quickly.
Thank you guys. I do appreciate it. I just need to find out now how to get my hd2 to manually force the contacts back in my phone. it keeps saying its already been synchronized and wont update.
all you need here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269316
check out that website. it has a lot of useful tips on there but i still cannot get my phone to re sync and bring back in the contacts. i deleted the partnership and re entered all the info it needs to sync back up it. it connected and said it synch'ed but no contacts came back into my phone.
ok guys, if anyone is having the same issues. instead of synchronizing over the air i connected through wmdc and created a partnership and it synched all my contacts.
i used the contact manager and it worked flawlessly awesome stuff guys. thanks to all
This is somewhat unrelated. However, I can't start new threads.
I'm using google active sync as well. I have email in my google account setup in different folders. I can see the folders but they are all empty. Only the inbox has mail in it.
Solution: HD2 active sync and importing contacts
MS Out look and Activesyn. There is no need to purchase software at all. Plus you can use your Outlook contact database for any phone in the future. or emergency swap the phone out before travel...
1- Export all out look as *csv (windows)
2- Modifying the first name by merge first and last name together becomes first name only (couple minutes by formulate)
Was Was Was
First name Last name
John Summervile
Kelly Summervile
After After After
First name Last name
John Summervile BLANK
Kelly Summervile BLANK
3- Delete all the contact on MS outlook and import modified *csv file again. Look at the "File as", it should show "John Summervile "instead showing "Summervile, John"
4- Launch Activesynce again.
Good luck!
my laptop doesnt recognize my htc hd2
ok i have a dell laptop running windows vista
i dont have software cd for htc hd2
when i connect using usb phone to laptop,,,,comp tells me that had trouble installing device so its not installed properly
please help..............................................................
i looked up on another thread and i can sync phone until computer recognizes phone

Some things I hate about the EVO

I'm coming from a Touch Pro 2 with a custom 6.5.1 ROM. This is my first go at Android. As I use my device I keep coming across little quirks and things that I don't like. I usually forget for a few hours until that quirk pop-up again. I just thought I would document these things here and see if anyone can provide some input or help.
1) Google Contacts (it sucks)
2) Why does the contact manager want to give me the option for sending a message to all the fax numbers in my contacts (IE: click on a contact, and now I have 4 options for sending a mesage, - cell, fax, office and home - UGH that is SUPER WRONG!!
3)Why sort contacts by the first name.... who does that ??? Why not give an option. (EDIT: found out how to fix this... Thanks!)
4)Why store all the names as just one field, not first name and last name seperately? (EDIT: Found out how to fix this one too.. Thanks!)
5)No option for a display name in contacts
6)Can't edit a contact from "Phone" type to "Google" type. (is it because Google contacts sucks?)
As you may notice, this has a lot to do with contacts, I've been messing with my EVO for a few days now to try and get my contacts straight.... I'll add more stuff as I run across it.
Im pretty sure you can edit your contacts on the evo
...I had windows mobile ...and I hated it. android rocks!!!
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I use phone contacts, not google and i it works fine for me.
1)Never used google contacts
2)This one i agree with
3)The way it is displayed, is the way it is sorted
4)Mine ask me for first and last name seperate
5)Under the tab where it says first and last name it has for dispaly name
6)No idea on, i told it to use phone not google, when i first opened contacts
BWCorvus
I like google contact better then windows...
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for first and last names, I just type the full name in the "first name" field.

First name only on contacts app SENSE PROBLEM

I have a non rooted EVO with froyo, and sense on.
On 2.1 all of my contacts were displayed last name,first name.
SO, in contacts it would say..
Smith, John
now with the 2.2 update and without me changing around any settings it says
John Smith.
I want the last name first, but unfortunetly I cannot change it. The HTC people app doesn't have the option to change it.
I sync my contacts with Exchange and they are all on my outlook at the office, and it has changed the way my contacts look on outlook too, when I try to change it, it just reverts back to first name then last name.
I read and found that with non sense froyo, you can change the order of it, however the HTC People app is different, and did not have that setting.
Also I downloaded a Froyo AOSP version of contacts (from 2.2 ROM) and tried installing it, but got unsuccessful installation. I got the .apk from the CM6 ROM, I was thinking I can just use that app, and change the contacts to display last name, first name.
If anyone can help please let me know.
anyone????
mjz147 said:
anyone????
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I am with you!! ANYONE.. HTC Sync seems to have a real mind of its own.. today it said 163 contacts changed on my phone, then 2 minutes later the 163 were different on the phone!
This FIRST LAST is real annoying and it appears to have messed up my Outlook (don't know how good my most recent backup is). But all my display as fields are gone and some on the PC are now showing up as FIRST LAST even though they are set to display and LAST, FIRST.
and if you make a people shortcut for a quick dial it doesn't use the full name anymore just the first.
someone screwed froyo royally

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