Requirements: Windows Mobile 5.0 or greater, 97 Kb of free storage memory.
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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.
My apologies if this subject has been discussed before.
My Outlook Contacts currently holds about 2,100 records from around the world, which are primarily business contacts. As it would not be practical to sync everything to my imate, I put the most frequently called contacts into a custom category and sync that category only.
It has become a problem, however, when I need to have access to a contact which is not in my ppc and I have to wait to get to my pc.
Is there a way to segregate selected phone contacts for access by the ppc Contact software, and then have a separate contact database where I can put the rest of my 2,100 contacts for access anytime I want to, with full phone features?
To put it in another way, is there a ppc facility or a 3rd party software which can create and keep updated a Contacts database, with full phone features, but is separated from the regular ppc Contacts database (which is accessed by the phone)?
Would appreciate your suggestions. Thanks.
Not sure what the problem is, I have over 2.5K Contacts and still less than half my memory is used.
All of my Calendar, Tasks and the last 3 weeks of email.
My Contacts are also business related and are heavily Categorised with some Contacts being in 4 different Categories.
I'm using ActiveSync 3.7.1
No problem
I have the same numbers of contacs and I synch them everyday...
Synchronizing 2,100 is not a problem at all. What I want is not to see all of these 2,100 contacts everytime I want to dial a number through the Contacts directory. I want only about 4 dozen most-frequently called number to appear on this directory, with the rest in a separate database, referable only when I need to.
My question: Is this possible?
If you put [Categories] on your Contacts, you can view them by Category. The default is ALL Categories. e.g. I copied the ones on my SIM card to OL and gave them a uniquie Category - "AAA", so they'd be at the top of the list of Categories.
Then when I go into my Phone Book on the XDA, the first thing I do is change the selection from ALL Categories to "AAA".
Works for me.
Hi is there an app where i can choose which contacts my phone displays.
Basically i want to hide certain contacts (about 30) and then have the option to show the hidden contacts when i choose.
Thanks
if you open contacts and go to 'filter' you'll see some settings. It's not ideal but in theory you can set the category of all of your contacts to business except for the ones you don't want to see...then filter to 'business' and the others will be excluded...
I've exported contacts from my previous Nokia phone to my PC's Outlook Express Address Book (Not Microsoft Outlook but the one present with Windows XP). Now I want to transfer all those contacts on my new TD2. But when I'm connecting it via ActiveSync, it is giving message that contacts cannot be synchronized as Outlook is not installed on Windows PC.
I could not understand what does it actually means. Pls guide me exactly what I need to do to copy my contacts back to TD2.
You should have got outlook (full) on a cd with the phone, if you install it you can import all your contacts (usually does it automatically).
The just sync with windows mobile device centre.
I already have MS Outlook 2007 installed on my laptop, still its seems phone is not recognizing it. Do you mean to say that I need to install Outlook on my phone also...But CS contains only 60 days trial version of Outlook...don't know if it is for phone or laptop..
Searching particular contact
Thanks...problem solved..When I restarted my pc, phone detected the Outlook..
I've 2 more queries:
1) All the contacts are shown in lastname, firstname format. Can I change them to firstname, lastname format, so that when I'll select alphabet from right bar, it positions as firstname.
2) When I open contacts while dialing, they are positioned at very beginning. If I've to search for some particular name, I cannot type the contact name so that it appears. Instead I've to select alphabet from right bar which only positions at starting of that character. So is there any way that I can search contact by typing the name partially or fully...
1) search for contact changer.cab on main forum but if you are syncing with outlook, I always thought it picked it up from there, try changing the "display as" option in outlook then resync.
2) Try icontact (search on main forum for info) far better than main contact app IMO
1) Although I've set firstname, lastname in Outlook, but still it is not showing same in phone.
2) I've installed iContacts. It is working fine. Thanks!!
1) that applies to all new added contacts.
On my pc i have set up the main contacts folder and a subfolder which contains all my mobile numbers [all nicely ordered etc!]
Is there anyway I can make the activesynch see this mobiles-sub_folder to sych with rather than just the main "contacts" folder of email addresses?
I tried importing from SIM and the process is screwed up:
What was "John Smith" home number on my SE (backup to SIM)
imports as "forename" - blank
Surname - smith; John/1"
So I don't think I could even use the re-sorting cab file to re-order them first name/Surname and would have to edit >180 contacts unless I can synch with the Outlook Folder.
Help Appreciated!
I didn't even know you could make additional folders in outlook...
You should merge the contacts, as in so that mobile and e-mail address for the same person are in the same contact - as it's meant to be.
If you want to differenciate, use categories.
If you don't want to / can't merge, or they're simply completely different people, I'd assign let's say a "phone" category to all your phone contacts, a "mobile" category to the mobile ones. Then move all the "mobile" ones into the main folder.
You can always filter by category afterwards, both on outlook and on the phone.
Okay thanks
Reading around, I see that ActiveSync can't synch with sub-folder.
It is rather poor that MS software will not do something with MS software than a 3rd party App [that Ericsson provided] will do.