Hey guys,
I was trying to edit some contact, and I want to copy last name and past it into first name. But although I select last name and keep it pressed, menu for copy and paste is not showing. Is this a bug or I'm doing something wrong..
No, you are not doing anything wrong.
It's because the custom Contact editor that HTC included with the Topaz doesn't support Copy/Paste.
Hopefully HTC will provide a fix for this in the upcoming months (or possibly with the 6.5 upgrade) But until then, you can either edit the contact using the WM Contact editor (which I think you can Copy/Paste) or just input all your names manually.
You can switch the SIP to "Keyboard" and then use CTRL+C and CTRL+V.
Tap the contact you want to edit, tap on "Edit Contact", scroll down and tap on "More".
There you will enter the default WM6 Contact editor where you can do the copy(cut)/paste thing you wanted to do.
Thanks,,,it's working!!
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Thought I'd throw this one in incase I'd missed something.
There appears to be some basic failings in the ability to cut and paste phone numbers between various applications on the WM phone.
Take the example that I receive a SMS text message from someone not in my contacts database.
I know who the person is and I want to create a new contact entry using the received phone number.
There appears to be no way of cutting or copying the phone number from the messaging section and pasteing it into a new Contact.
Or it may be that I already have an entry for the person I just don't have their mobile number number in the contact record (or what ever new number is received).
Have I missed a trick here - or indeed is this a limitation that exists. If there is a work around I'd love to know. i just have such an appauling memory for numbers that I couldn't even remember between flicking between applications - let alone the scope for error.
Thanks
Re: Annoyance with WM5 behaviour related to number cut and p
Open the message (instead of just reading it from the list or notification window). You'll note that the From: field is already selected.
Press the Menu softkey, then Save to Contacts.
Simple as that
OK so that allows you to create a new contact. Once you have them in contacts you can do a copy of the number and paste it into an original record. Then delete the new contact just created. Ideally I'd like to miss out the intermediate step of creating another new contact - for those where I know I already have a contact entry, but just not with that particular number.
I agree with you.
There should be an extra choice after save to contact.
Like new contact/ add to contact.
The same with email. If i want to add an emailadres it makes a new contact.
An other problem i find is that copy/ paste is not always available when i select a text.
When I rename a file in file explorer I can't select the word and copy/paste by "tap and hold".
Now i use GSPocket Magic to copy/ paste
You would have thought that on the, what is it, 3rd iteration of WM they could have sorted this out.
It is behaviour like this that can make all the diference between something that is really user friendly and something which is torturous.
Hopefully there are some influential people who read this that can feed it back to the powers that be.
You can try PQz fot copy/Paste : http://www.nicque.com/PQz/
This there too : http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=33343
open up the message, where is says the from tap and drag on the screen to highlight the number then tap and hold on the highlighted but then when the menu opens click copy
HI All - Does anyone know how to force the phone display to show my contacts as <first name> <second name> rather than the other way a round?
I tried the hack available at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=41968&sid=b73d9d6aacdea440d7d0dd916618b70c
but it didn't seem to make a difference
Dear stevep,
After installing this hack, you should tap and hold on the name in the contacts window and choose " File as: First Last " from the menu...
Regards and thanks...
Hiya! Are we talking about the same window? I mean the one that appears in the phone application. I think you are talking aobut the 'tap and hold feature' in CONTACTS app NOT the PHONE app. If I 'tap and hold' when in phone mode...I just get a window that shows all that contact's telephone numbers plus an option to send them a text
Thanks anyway
Dear stevep,
I meant that, after installing the hack, if you tap and hold in the contacts on a name and choose " File as: First Last " from the menu, then the name order is changed to First Last and this should also effect the phone window view.Now you should see the same view order in the phone window...
Regards and thanks...
File as <first> <last>
Hi again - Thanks for the reply
This is strange. The names are filed 'First' then 'Last' in Contacts, but in the phone view SOME aren't. I specifically changed one in Contacts to First Last...and when I opened up the phone window it was showing LAST, FIRST
:x
Dear stevep,
i advice you to soft reset after changing the orders to first last, because the phone window doesnt refresh it self till soft reset...May be this helps...
Regards and thanks...
Names 'order' in Contacts
Sorry...it does not appear to do this even after a soft boot. ie I still get LAST FIRST in some contacts in the phone window whilst they are FIRST LAST in Contacts
Thanks
I tried searching thorugh the xda forums for an original HTC Home Plugin thread, but couldn't locate one, so i'll start here and maybe someone can forward me to the right place.
I have contacts in my contact list that just have a Company name, and not a first or last name.
The problem is that these contacts cannot be added to the quick dial area of the HTC Home Plugin, it will allow you to select it, but it doesn't show up, and you are unable to click that entry to dial the number. However, if you go edit that contact and add a first / last name, then it magically shows up on the quick dial.
Does anyone know of a bug fix / workaround for getting contacts with just a company name to show up? (And please don't say add a first / last name, that's obviously a solution, but not a fix.)
Any way to also have the phone number displayed on the screen as well when selecting a contact?
If you have multiple numbers on a contact, it just lists the contact 3 times.
J.D.
put the company name in the name field and then change file as: to the company name and it won't change it to look like a name
what i mean is if i get a call from a number that is not in my phone book and i decide to save that number after the call, when i save it it will usually save it as last name then first name. is there a way to change that. i know that if i go through contacts and add a new contact it will let me choose how to file that contact but is there a way to do that with "on the fly" contact saving?
you can change the name order before you save it for the first time. there is no need to save the contact then return to the contcat and change the name order.
The other option which i have used is a cab file which switches all the names with last name first around. Cannot remember what it was called, i need to find it again myself. will have a look for you!
regards
EDIT: just added the cab file below, hope this is useful in any way.
no i mean when i save a number directly from the call log or from the phone application, it will only give me three fields: first name, last name, number and the type of number (i.e mobile, home, etc.) it doesn't give me the option to change the file options. i know that this is possible through the contacts menu.
when you say file do you mean the order in which the names are shown in the contacts list?
Hi, if I start the new SMS application and I then click on the keypad letters to add a contact the names that pop up are not shown alphabetically.
For example if I press 'G' to add Gary the first name that shows on the small grey bar is Gemma, although I have 5 names that start with letters that come before Gemma alphabetically, like Gary !
So for example if I had a friend called AAA and one called AAB and one called AAC, when I press 'A' to add a name I get shown AAC first and not AAA.
Does that make sense?
Anyone any clues please it is really annoying me.
Yea, I would like to know how to list the first names first and the last names last. Right now my phone book is in alphabetical order by last name. I would like it to be in order by first name.
I simply swapped the fields when inputting contacts...
when you click on a contact and than press edit you can change the option to archiv. ass
there you can change to save first name first. i would be much easier if there was a program that automaticly changes this.
eithley said:
when you click on a contact and than press edit you can change the option to archiv. ass
there you can change to save first name first. i would be much easier if there was a program that automaticly changes this.
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sounds like a pain if you already have several hundred contacts in the phone backwards.
I have this issue too and it's synched with Google Contacts... I don't want to have to modify the first name into the last name, I want to modify how it is viewed...
I downloaded a program called 'contact changer' that sets the 'archive as' field in the first-last name order
if you create a new contact you should manually put the archive as in the correct order
http://www.shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact
tested and synched with oultook 2007 with no problems.
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I have this issue too and it's synched with Google Contacts... I don't want to have to modify the first name into the last name, I want to modify how it is viewed...
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I am having the same problem you are... I sync my contacts with google and everytime it is resync'd it goes back to last name first.
I downloaded a program called 'contact changer' that sets the 'archive as' field in the first-last name order if you create a new contact you should manually put the archive as in the correct order
http://www.shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact tested and synched with oultook 2007 with no problems.
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I tried this app but its only a manual fix...like i said above everytime I resync it goes back to last name first.
Is there anytype of app/ cab or registry hack that makes it first name first by default?