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how do you dial from a note?

I put a phone number down in the notes of my appointment by mobile outlook, and when the reminder pops up, I just want to click and dial the number -- not select it, activate the dialer, then menu>paste and finally dial.
In my old blackberry, all I had to do was enter, 'tel:555-1212' and it would automatically convert it to a link -- click on it and the number was automatically dialed.
Is there an equivalent in WM5?
Also, I noticed that I can't just send ANOTHER text msg to someone in my sent box -- reply sends a message back to ME. Forward has me enter the previous number again. Am I missing something?

Interesting, a friend of mine and myself are also interested in this feature !

mixersoft said:
I put a phone number down in the notes of my appointment by mobile outlook, and when the reminder pops up, I just want to click and dial the number -- not select it, activate the dialer, then menu>paste and finally dial.
In my old blackberry, all I had to do was enter, 'tel:555-1212' and it would automatically convert it to a link -- click on it and the number was automatically dialed.
Is there an equivalent in WM5?
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Try yourself! Tel:5551212
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sergiopi said:
Try yourself! Tel:5551212
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Tried it. Doesn't work on my phone. Is it supposed to?

Did you add a space or line feed/return after the telephone number? Mine doesn't create a link until one of those is entered.

That works, thou I thought about something else.
I'm using Pocketbreeze and what would be great would be to be able to call persons you added in the list of persons included "add person..."
like to be able to choose from a list when the notification appears.
Guess that's not possible atm

I think that that has been requested over at SBSH's forums but I don't remember if it was a planned addition or not. However, if Amit responded like he usually does, he will probably add it at some point if he can.

As far as PB, if you have PB set to show the note icon next to appts or tasks, you can tap on the note icon and it will open the preview window. Tap on the link and it will dial as well. No opening your PIM needed.
One other thing, you can also create a direct link to email as in the example below:
MailTo:[email protected]

favourite contacts

Hi!
Is there a way (a tool or sthg like that) to add several numbers to a fav contact?
E.G. I added my wife to my favs but I can only chose to call our home number or her cellular. It is not possible to add her with our home number an add her additionally with her cellphone number. That´s annoying. It would be nice either to add a person twice with different numbers or once with a pop-up where you can chose the number to dial.
Has anyone a solution for that?
Regards,
insi

This is frustrating me as well. I want one person to appear twice on my People Favorites (one with her home number and one with her mobile).

1IV54IV3 said:
Hi!
Is there a way (a tool or sthg like that) to add several numbers to a fav contact?
E.G. I added my wife to my favs but I can only chose to call our home number or her cellular. It is not possible to add her with our home number an add her additionally with her cellphone number. That´s annoying. It would be nice either to add a person twice with different numbers or once with a pop-up where you can chose the number to dial.
Has anyone a solution for that?
Regards,
insi
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When you select a person to add, it gives you the list of contact methods. Just select "View contact card".

thv a bunch m8

1IV54IV3 said:
thv a bunch m8
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You're welcome matey

Having both!
If you add a favourite with any number, and you press the image itself, it will call the pre-assigned number. But if you tap on the name just below, you will get the contact card.
-Didrik-

re: having both
nice tip, these should both be in the tips sticky.

[Q] Deafault Picture on CM7

I am running CyanogenMOD 7 Nightlies and all I was wondering is if I can add or change MY personal profile picture where it shows a picture next to my number when I'm texting.

go to your contacts, add contact with the name me, add your number then add your pic and save it. should be good.

it didn't work.

jimmygnguyen said:
it didn't work.
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Contacts - my contact card - menu - edit contact - press on picture should be able to change it then
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App

Go to settings > call settings > additional settings > my phone number and put your number in

Haviic said:
Go to settings > call settings > additional settings > my phone number and put your number in
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The method from Havlic did not work for me, because under "call settings" I do not have the option for "additional settings"... dont know why, I am running cm7 nightly, but anyways--
--the solution originally put forward in this thread worked great for me... just created a contact labled "me" and took a picture

fundy42 said:
--the solution originally put forward in this thread worked great for me... just created a contact labled "me" and took a picture
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Well, no. That's only a "partial" solution.
Once again, two things need to be in place for this to work:
1) You have to let the phone know your own phone number by specifying it in the "Call settings"
2) You have to create a contact with the same phone number and assign a picture to it. It doesn't really matter what name you give to that contact ("Me", "Myself", "Irene" or whatever else).
If you fail to make sure that step 1 is done, then the picture will only "half-work", so to say. More specifically, the picture you used on step 2 will only appear next to incoming messages. But all outgoing messages will have no picture next to them.

f1vel66a said:
Contacts - my contact card - menu - edit contact - press on picture should be able to change it then
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There's no such thing as "my contact card" under CM7. You must be thinking about HTC Sense ROM. CM7, unlike Sense, does not have a dedicated contact entry for yourself.
One can be emulated by creating an entry for your own phone number, but it doesn't have to be named "my contact card".

My profile picture on CM7 - how?

Does anyone know how to set up my own profile picture under CM7?
For example, if I go to SMS messaging interface, each message has a placeholder for the picture of the sender. The pictures of other people are, of course, taken from their profiles in the contact list. But messages sent from my phone just have an empty gray placeholder. How do I specify the picture to be used for my messages?
In HTC Sense ROM the address book has a special entry - "Me" - which is used as the profile of the phone owner and the picture from that entry is used with messages sent from this phone. CM7 has no such entry. What does CM7 offer instead?

TheKorbenDallas said:
Does anyone know how to set up my own profile picture under CM7?
For example, if I go to SMS messaging interface, each message has a placeholder for the picture of the sender. The pictures of other people are, of course, taken from their profiles in the contact list. But messages sent from my phone just have an empty gray placeholder. How do I specify the picture to be used for my messages?
In HTC Sense ROM the address book has a special entry - "Me" - which is used as the profile of the phone owner and the picture from that entry is used with messages sent from this phone. CM7 has no such entry. What does CM7 offer instead?
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step one should of been to Search
that would of lead to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026503&highlight=PROFILE+PICTURE

neidlinger said:
step one should of been to Search
that would of lead to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1026503&highlight=PROFILE+PICTURE
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Er... OK. So the last post at your link says
"Contacts - my contact card - menu - edit contact"
What does "my contact card" mean? There's no "my contact card" entry in contact list in CM7. There's no "my contact card" entry in contact list menu.

TheKorbenDallas said:
Er... OK. So the last post at your link says
"Contacts - my contact card - menu - edit contact"
What does "my contact card" mean? There's no "my contact card" entry in contact list in CM7. There's no "my contact card" entry in contact list menu.
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You have to create a contact card (person) for yourself. Then edit the picture within that contact point.

neidlinger said:
You have to create a contact card (person) for yourself. Then edit the picture within that contact point.
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Well, I already tried that and it didn't work. If you simply create a contact card for yourself, it will only display the picture for incoming messages that you send to yourself. I.e. you send a message to your own phone number, then in the SMS list the incoming message will have the picture next to it, while the outgoing message will still have a gray placeholder next to it. Not very useful. So, no, simply creating a contact entry for yourself does not work (and the thread you found by search does actually state that "it didn't work").
I found the solution though. The key part is to go to "Settings -> Call Settings -> Additional Settings -> My Phone Number" and enter the phone number in that field. CM7 will find the contact with that phone number in the contact list and use the picture from that contact as your profile picture. Of course, the natural approach would be to create a contact entry for yourself and specify your own phone number as "My Phone Number"
P.S. It is surprising how many threads dedicated to this issue say that "you have to create a contact entry for yourself" and the authors of the original question immediately respond that "it doesn't work" (and it really doesn't) and the thread basically ends there without offering any solution. They "should of" (sic!) mentioned the key bit with "My Phone Number" setting! I hope this thread will serve as the complete solution for the issue.

Glad you figured out. What you were seeing was sense dialer combined with facebook for htc. I have a feeling if you downloaded the official facebook app and synced the contacts, you will get the profile picture back. I can't prove it since i am not on aosp roms, and cant remember how its was when I had mt3g. Good luck. All and all its not a big deal, you know what yourself looks like.
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TheKorbenDallas said:
P.S. It is surprising how many threads dedicated to this issue say that "you have to create a contact entry for yourself" and the authors of the original question immediately respond that "it doesn't work" (and it really doesn't) and the thread basically ends there without offering any solution. They "should of" (sic!) mentioned the key bit with "My Phone Number" setting! I hope this thread will serve as the complete solution for the issue.
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Indeed, OpenSource seems to attract lots of "knowledgeable" bullshitters.
Just wasted a whole load of time creating "me" contacts in different cases, trying it as Google and local contacts, nothing working, and then I found this thread hidden away...

Missing feature in Contacts "Mark as default" after lollipop update

Hello,
I used to join my contacts (facebook,linkedin, google plus,google) to one. After the join and when I an into the contact details If I pressed the "three dots" settings button I could see an option "mark as default". This option give me the opportunity to select the default name, photo, number of the contact... So for example I could use the photo from facebook, the name from google...
After updating to lollipop Poland SM-N910C I do not see this option anymore. Did samsung remove it ? Or is it just the specific CSC that disables this function?
Could anyone else see if this "Marked as default" exists into their phone....after lollipop update??
Thanks in advance

Hello,
I cannot really say anything about Note 4, but the same thing happened on my S4+ when I updated to Lollipop. The "mark as default" option is gone and I've yet to figure out how to actually do that.
I know this is not really helping with this problem at all, but at least others will now know that it's not something that has happened to just them.

Hi there,
the feature is stull there.
let say you have more than 2 numbers for one of your contact.
you have to long press on one of the number, then a pop-menu will appear, click the "set as default" if you wanr to make it a default number.
hopefully the above helps.
regards,
morisa
Sent from my SM-N910C

mmorisa said:
Hi there,
the feature is stull there.
let say you have more than 2 numbers for one of your contact.
you have to long press on one of the number, then a pop-menu will appear, click the "set as default" if you wanr to make it a default number.
hopefully the above helps.
regards,
morisa
Sent from my SM-N910C
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Thanks for your answer... I know that! The problem is when I want to make default the photo or the name of the contact...

talexop said:
Hello,
I used to join my contacts (facebook,linkedin, google plus,google) to one. After the join and when I an into the contact details If I pressed the "three dots" settings button I could see an option "mark as default". This option give me the opportunity to select the default name, photo, number of the contact... So for example I could use the photo from facebook, the name from google...
After updating to lollipop Poland SM-N910C I do not see this option anymore. Did samsung remove it ? Or is it just the specific CSC that disables this function?
Could anyone else see if this "Marked as default" exists into their phone....after lollipop update??
Thanks in advance
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I am having the same problem. It is important feature and I cannot understand how it was taken away from the upgrade. Do disaapointed.

mabadran said:
I am having the same problem. It is important feature and I cannot understand how it was taken away from the upgrade. Do disaapointed.
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I think it is lollipop restriction... I do not know why.. It was a good feature!

This feature is also now missing on my Galaxy S5, after the Lollipop update.
I also really preferred this feature, being able to select which photo to use. There appears to be a heirarchy list, to which the Contact list will populate the photo, and it is as follows:
Self taken picture > LinkedIn > Google+ > Facebook
So, if the contact is being forced into an image I do not prefer, the only work-around that I have able to come up with is unlinking the connection with the contact. So, if said contact doesn't have a LinkedIn photo associated with their account, I have do disassociate it with the contact, lest be forced to see I grey blank picture icon.
Very annoying...wish they would fix this.

This feature is still there, but buggy.
Hello, I found this feature! But it looks like the update to Android 5.0.1 made it buggy.
I upgraded my AT&T S4 to 5.0.1 and the "Mark as Default" option went away but after trial and error I noticed it only went away for contacts that I had linked to a Facebook entry. If I un-linked a Facebook entry from a contact, the menu item came back. I could use it to set the defaults. Then I re-linked the Facebook entry and the defaults were preserved.
The looks like a bug to me but I'm not sure on what level it was changed (Samsung/Google/AT&T)
-Mike

I found some kind of workaround, but it's very empirical:
- Go to the details of a contact you want to change the default name or picture of, and click on the link icon. You will be redirected to the list of linked contact for the person
- From there, just unlink the contacts who don't have the right name and picture, one by one, all except the one who has the name and picture you want to keep.
- Then, add back all the linked contacts again, one by one. The contact name and picture shouldn't change from the previous step.
It did work for me. The only issue I see is that you might not be able to mix the name of linked contact #1 with picture of contact #2 for example.

Found a work around
While in the edit menu of the contact simply click on each linked profile tab(ie facebook, google, linkedin) and hit the photo then remove photo for all the ones you dont want and it will go to the only available photo.

Work around solution
talexop said:
Thanks for your answer... I know that! The problem is when I want to make default the photo or the name of the contact...
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Go to the contact and hit edit. Add another phone number (you can make it 999-999-9999). Hit save. The phone should recognize this as a conflict and ask you "Mark as default - This contact has more than 1 phone number /email address. Select default?" Click OK. It should take you to a screen where you can then select the default Caller ID photo (facebook, google, linkedin, etc.) and other defaults (phone, email, etc.).
It's a hassle, but it works for me.

Nice one peep's, now at least we got back some control from this chaos of the Lollipop upgrade to 5.0.1.
Either unlink all, choose the one we want as default, then re-link. Or... un-link all, remove the other pictures or Names etc we don't want from the other accounts, then re-link keeping the default one we want as default.
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This is a good work-around but they made our life harder by taking a simple good thing away. Unless of course it's a bug that should be fixed in Lollipop 5.1.

If you long hold the item that is currently set as default, you can choose to remove the default status. Then long hold the item that you want, and choose to mark it as default.

Kraz31 said:
Go to the contact and hit edit. Add another phone number (you can make it 999-999-9999). Hit save. The phone should recognize this as a conflict and ask you "Mark as default - This contact has more than 1 phone number /email address. Select default?" Click OK. It should take you to a screen where you can then select the default Caller ID photo (facebook, google, linkedin, etc.) and other defaults (phone, email, etc.).
It's a hassle, but it works for me.
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Best solution....