Have recently migrated to WinMobile based PDA phone. Having used various flavours of SmartPhones, I find it disconcerting that I cannot edit the fields in the Contacts Database.
One problem I've had in importing my 600-name database is that most of these contacts have more than one mobile phone, and either only one has come across or the second mobile has been put under work or home (landline) field. This means I can't select one these numbers to send SMS.
Am I missing something or is this the way the Contacts Database is designed?
thats the way its designed. the only way i found around it for multiple phone numbers is to have additional contacts setup, eg the Business line and numbers, then each of the representatives as extra, and usually I would just tweak the names to group them similarly in the contact lists.
Is there a way at all to sort the names by Last, First at all? I use my phone for business and it's easier to remember last names and I sort everything by Last Name.
I dunno about sorting but there is always the search feature where you can search by last name...
Android has a BIG flaw, or google: sorting by last name is missing.
I have to use outlooks remapping of contact fields and then import to gmail to get contacts properly sorted. Its really annoying and a big flaw.
I may be weird but I still sort my contacts by first name. I never call people by their last name so it makes no sense to me to look them up that way. I always hated how windows would automatically sort by last name, unless I changed it everytime I put in a new contact. they could have made it a setting option though.
Cyanogen Mod has this feature I beleive. When Cyanogen releases the mod for N1 it will probably have it.
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
I've had my Wildfire for less than two weeks. I've created employment and education in facebook etc etc, but I have never had synchronisation. HTC support has given up on me (which I find appalling as facebook integration is a big selling point, even though I can live without it).
Am I the only one? Is HTC Sense facebook working for everyone else?
Works fine for me, What exactly doesn't sync?
Contacts or Friendstream?
Home->Menu->Settings->Accounts & sync->Add account->facebook for HTC sense->Sign in
I fill in my details and get "The service is currently unavailable...."
This has happened every time I've tried it. It's never gone further.
I've been onto my facebook account and added one employment (with location) and one education (with location). This made no difference. They've both been deleted
HTC response is (after some to & fro):
We advise you to register e-club from www.htc.com to receive further updates about your handset model
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thanks in advance
If you have an unbranded UK spec SGS with the XEU product code and have updated it to the new firmware Android 2.2 (FROYO) can you please do a check for us and post it here.
Go to contacts and create a new contact then scroll down to the post code part of the address input field. Can you put a post code in? (Alpha/numeric) or is it a ZIP code (Numeric only).
Thanks.
No UK postcode :-(
Upgraded last night and just checked - unable to enter letters!
Not impressed with the lag running K9 and other things, though. JM1 with OCLF was much better!
zeb99 said:
Upgraded last night and just checked - unable to enter letters!
Not impressed with the lag running K9 and other things, though. JM1 with OCLF was much better!
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I should have said those who did not upgrade using the Nordic JPM.
XEU phone - also unable to enter postcode details in contacts.
Yeah, seems it's not a nordic issue. If you check the official bugs thread, people who never had nordic get numeric zip codes only. So I think my *# to get back to xeu may well have worked, and what we're all seeing is a JPO bug
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Using the leaked JPO here - not accepting UK postcodes.
Hi,
Upgraded to official 2.2 via Kies this morning using unlocked / unbranded SGS. Can confirm the Zip code only. Just checked and field says "zip code" and is numeric only.
Cheers,
On CPW unbranded with JPO here and also unable to enter Post codes, numeric only
(Not that it matters for me really, never fill out that much info in contacts)
You can edit the contact details in your online (google) address book to include a postal address. When your phone syncs the contacts with your google account, the correct details are transferred to the phone.
I just tried it and it works like a charm
Failing that, you can just put the whole address in the "Street" field. When it's displayed on your phone contacts list it will only show fields that contain data, so it looks fine.
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You can edit the contact details in your online (google) address book to include a postal address. When your phone syncs the contacts with your google account, the correct details are transferred to the phone.
I just tried it and it works like a charm
Failing that, you can just put the whole address in the "Street" field. When it's displayed on your phone contacts list it will only show fields that contain data, so it looks fine.
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I am aware of this it also does this from my Outlook but. If you want to Navigate to a contact address you really do need the post code for accuracy. The field is there for a reason and this is just one of them.
Understood.
For me personally, it's a workaround that gives me nice looking, synchronisable addresses in the meantime.
I can see how it would be useless if you wanted to search by postcode or something
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I am aware of this it also does this from my Outlook but.
If you want to Navigate to a contact address you really do need the post code for accuracy.
The field is there for a reason and this is just one of them.
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I appreciate that but, following on from Pete's workaround via gmail/synch, once the contact is on the phone
with the full address it is immediately viewable in Google Maps with options for directions and navigation.
A workaround yes, but one that works thankfully.
Homer
Workarounds are only employed when there is a major flaw in software and that is what this is. Perhaps it is a product of the American-centric nature of Android and that continent's dominance of the "smartphone revolution" but it is still a disgrace and for Samsung to have allowed it to slip out into general release after such a prolonged period of testing is nothing less than incompetence on the part of their project managers.
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If you have an unbranded UK spec SGS with the XEU product code and have updated it to the new firmware Android 2.2 (FROYO) can you please do a check for us and post it here.
Go to contacts and create a new contact then scroll down to the post code part of the address input field. Can you put a post code in? (Alpha/numeric) or is it a ZIP code (Numeric only).
Thanks.
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Unbranded UK spec SGS with the XEU product code - Zip codes only, no Alpha/Numeric
Do Samsung have a site that we can report bugs? or are we just relying on them reading this forum?
I wonder if the Galaxy Tab, which was released running FROYO, has the postcode bug?