I can't select say the 'S' surnames in my contacts list, or go instantly to the names beginning with 'L' (for example). This feature looks to be there as the alphabet is listed down the side....so why doesn't it work? I have to either start typing the contact's name or scroll through my entire list. Is anybody else experiencing this problem?
Works ok on mine, I just tap whatever letter on the alphabet list and the names starting with that letter come up. Don't know if it's somehow linked with the name sorting used? I use Company/Surname/First name as my "save as" option for my contacts
It works for fine me , strange problem though.
Possibly calibration issue or not touching the screen correctly (i.e. with fingernail instead of fingertip)?
To be honest I'm quite suprised how accuate it is for me, considering how close the letters are
Doesn't work at all for me and it hasn't on my previous two HD2s, so I don't think it's a screen (or finger) problem. It must be something to do with the way the contacts are stored or the way they have been saved? They are on my SIM and pretty standard, they've remained like that for several years and worked perfectly on many different handsets. I did think that it was maybe because I had not transferred the contacts to the phone memory - they are still just on my SIM - but when I copied over to the phone memory the problem still remained and this time I had two of every contact listed! I had to filter the SIM contacts. So, still in this strange situation, can anyone lend a hand?
jrrigney said:
To be honest I'm quite suprised how accuate it is for me, considering how close the letters are
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Same here, right letter every single time
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Doesn't work at all for me and it hasn't on my previous two HD2s, so I don't think it's a screen (or finger) problem. It must be something to do with the way the contacts are stored or the way they have been saved? They are on my SIM and pretty standard, they've remained like that for several years and worked perfectly on many different handsets. I did think that it was maybe because I had not transferred the contacts to the phone memory - they are still just on my SIM - but when I copied over to the phone memory the problem still remained and this time I had two of every contact listed! I had to filter the SIM contacts. So, still in this strange situation, can anyone lend a hand?
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Could well have something to do with that, no idea how or why though! So can't really help you I'm afraid but I hope someone's got the answer Might be worth you getting in touch with HTC support and see if they have a solution?
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Doesn't work at all for me and it hasn't on my previous two HD2s, so I don't think it's a screen (or finger) problem. It must be something to do with the way the contacts are stored or the way they have been saved? They are on my SIM and pretty standard, they've remained like that for several years and worked perfectly on many different handsets. I did think that it was maybe because I had not transferred the contacts to the phone memory - they are still just on my SIM - but when I copied over to the phone memory the problem still remained and this time I had two of every contact listed! I had to filter the SIM contacts. So, still in this strange situation, can anyone lend a hand?
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My contacts are save on the Phone, this is good for me as for backups I use activesync and MS MyPhone, it also means I can get more contact information. It could possibly be this as it may limit the indexing capabilities of the phone - this is only a hypothesis though.
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Just re-read your post and noticed that you have tried saving to phone. I would still say something is making not able to index, what this is though is another question
Since I copied the SIM contacts over to my phone, I now have two of everything! I tried filtering out the SIM contacts but they were there again when I went back into my contacts list. How can I get rid of the duplicates, as this is more annoying than not being able to scroll through my contacts!
*I've sorted the duplicates, I filtered to device contacts, select all and then delete. I now have them just on my SIM. I still cannot use the quick scroll letters though!
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HOW DO I: Delete _all_ SIM contacts -- without -- erasing any 'Contacts' contacts?
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My Hermes (Vodafone branded) has an application named SIM-Manager, which allows to edit/add/delete those.
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My Orange SPV M3100 has the same application. However, it only allows deleting of one entry at a time.
Although to be honest it's something you can do rather than playing Solitare
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My Hermes (Vodafone branded) has an application named SIM-Manager, which allows to edit/add/delete those.
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I've looked into this, but it's not obvious which ones are SIM contacts and which ones aren't. Any other ideas out there?
MightyEric.
If you scroll to the bottom of the list in you contacts you will see some have got a small symbol to the right of the entry, that look suspiciously like a sim card.
It'll be them
I've tried to delete them one-by-one too, but it's taken a while. I have usually found better things to do in my breaks. Like sleep
If you are still unsure then post again with your query
I ended up putting my sim card into a different, empty phone and then deleting everything. Annoying, but it worked.
start SIM manager, select menu/select all, press screen for 2 seconds or so, and select Delete in the popup window.
do NOT: start SIM manager, select menu/select all, select menu/delete contacts
Last one is almost the same, but does something totally different
Mate, check the date on this thread, It was over 2 years ago....
true... hadn't seen that
anyway, solution is still valid, just now for WM 6.5.3
(especially the "do NOT" part)
1. ok so sometimes I have to jerk/nudge my phone to get the accelerometer to work...
2. When I create a new text through text msg interface and type in the contacts name in the name field it only seems to read and recognize half of my contacts... so i have to exit out, go to contacts, select the contact and text that way...
3. If i haven't used my phone for a while, say in the morning when i wake up the touch screen seems act funny and is not very accurate... to say the least!
4. When replying to text sometimes i have to click the text entry field numerous times before the keypad will launch, both in landscape and portrait...
and damn this phone needs multi touch! ; )
any feedback would be great, thanks!
well i have only had my phone for about a week now and haven't seen any of these problems at all. I use Chompsms so not sure about the default program for text. The touch pad works pretty well for me. I don't really have any problems with it. I use Dolphin for internet which has multi touch so I don't really care if it gets added to the default browser or not. All in all the only problems i seem to have is with the USB for the PC. Connection speeds are really really slow. Don't get anything over like 600k transfer rate. Where as if i plug the SD card into my PC its self i get over 8mb asec.
1. Haven't noticed this issue, unable to comment.
2. sounds like a possible problem with how your contacts are named, or possible where they're sourced from (multiple places, google/facebook/sim/microsd). Unify your source and/or try cleaning the names.
3./4. Known issue, try rebooting your phone, there's a problem that crops up over time. Also, ensure you don't have the edges of your hand/finger near the edge of the screen, its super sensitive. This includes the meaty part of your palm as you reach over with your thumb.
thanks for the replies,
@bofslime
I'm always trying to watch where my other hand is, no MT ; ( This problem is only in the text msg screen I have to click the field a bunch in different spots until it finally selects it... doesn't happen all the time but enough to bugg me!
Also How do I merge/unify I got my contacts on my phone via vcard from my apple address book then loaded into gmail and from there added to the phone... I do have contacts on my sim, at first i uploaded them but it was missing so many i deleted them off the phone then gmail synced it... follow?
thanks!
The reason why you have to go to contacts to text some people is because you don't have the number stored as a mobile phone number. It is probably list as other or home. Just edit it to mobile and it should fix it.
When I receive a call or a text message from someone it displays their phone number instead of their name that is in my phonebook.
How do I fix this as I have tried google and the user manual and can't seem to find it.
Thanks in advance.
I've been talking to HTC tech support about this issue and they got me to try a few things. They now say that I will have to send it back to them for repair as they reckon it is faulty. Hopefully they won't send it back to me reflashed to the UK Orange ROM....
The other day I synched my tattoo with my Outlook contacts and calendar. It screwed it right up. Deleted over 500 contacts and moved loads of events in my calendar.
I have to wait for the IT dept to restore my outlook from the backup tape from the exchange server.
Since I told HTC about this they have stopped replying. Maybe next week they will take it in for repair......
Has anyone else had this problem. If I have the phone with SIM only contacts then the name shows. If I sync my Outlook contacts then none of my outlook or SIM contacts display the name. The ROM that I am using is 1.67.405.6
The phone is just back from repair and no fault found and they reinstalled the Orange ROM on it. I have put it back to 1.67.405.6 ROM
I love this phone apart from this problem (which I must get fixed or it's back to using the Kaiser).
My camera doesn't auto focus either to scan barcodes
Am I the only person in the world that owns a Tattoo that this happens to ????
No, to be honest my tattoo camera doesn't auto focus either when scanning barcodes...when using the normal camera it does really well...
Since I don't really need this feature it didn't quite bother me...
All my incoming phone calls and text messages just show the callers id number but it doesn't translate them into the phonebook names. Very annoying.
I doubt that this is a fault on the tattoo. Should be some settings somewhere. Remember on windows mobile 6.x you had to set the minimum number of digits in the phone number if your country used less than the default settings for it to show phonebook names? Might be something like that. Try to dig in this direction.
Think I have looked at every setting on this phone and still can't seem to get it working. Maybe it's a fault in the ROM or summat
Does the phone display SIM contacts AND phone contacts? if yes i would set it to phone only and copy all contacts to from sim to phone - maybe it can't handle doubled entries...Oo
I got it listing phone contacts only, changed my frequent ones to +44 numbers, still no difference, still showing phone numbers for all calls and texts.
Is my phone the only one that does this ??
If it doesn't get sorted soon i'll have to get rid of it as this is a bloody nuisance....
Yes, I'm afraid that your phone is the only one, just as my phone was the only one to delete sms messages automatically...I called HTC support and they told me I had to hard reset the phone (although I did this 2 times before). Nevertheless I tried the third time and now the problem's gone curiously...
You can backup all your data on your SD card before you hard reset it (if you're willing to do this again), so no data loss on this side
It's just a thought...
I think hard reset is triggered when pressing Menu and Back buttons while the phone is turned off and then shortly pressing the power button.
Sorry for not being of more help
Regards
TheSSJ
Right, I decided to bite the bullet again and did a hard reset, scrubbed everything.
1. SIM contacts only, phoned the mobile and the name and number came up the way it should i.e. normal
2. Synched my outlook contacts with the phone
3. Called the mobile from numbers in my Outlook, just the number shows, no name
4. Called the mobile from numbers that worked in step 1, these now show as just number only, no name
5. From this I presume that there is something wrong/corrupt in the Outlook data that the phone doesn't like and screws the names part up. I presume I will need to go through all my Outlook contacts to see if anything jumps out as being the problem.
Any ideas ??
FIXED IT.
Each text or call I received if I clicked on the callers number and listed the contact details it gave me part of one of my contacts with text in the number section (but the same info for every number). I then went through all my Outlook contacts 1 by 1 and found the one that had the same info. Deleted this contact on my Outlook and my phone and boom, hey presto, instantly all my number/names work perfectly now.
HTC sync had corrupted my Outlook earlier and I lost over 500 contacts, garbled others and moved stuff in my calendar.
Thank fook it's all working perfectly now.
I love this phone.
Hi there,
Not sure if this is the right place to be asking this question but i'll give it a try.
I am running handcent on my incredible for handling my sms, I have this odd problem where handcent just stopped recognizing messages from one of my contacts. Is there anyway to get it to start recognizing it again?
This happened to me back in june and I ended up resetting the phone to get it back working again. I really don't want to do that. My phone isn't rooted or anything so everything on it is stock. any suggestions would be great.
I had a similar issue once and it was caused by the area code. I didn't have it listed as part of the number for my contact, IIRC.
rfarrah said:
I had a similar issue once and it was caused by the area code. I didn't have it listed as part of the number for my contact, IIRC.
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I do have the area code listed, i also tried deleting the contact from my phone and recreate it.
Could you have possibly "blacklisted" the contact? If so, none of the SMS's will show up in the main screen until you Check off "Show Blacklist" in settings under Security and Privacy.
That's what it was. i have not idea how he got on my black list, looks like i had a few other contacts black listed as well. Figures it was something so simple.
Firstly, I'd like to apologise if this has been touched up on before, I did a search but couldn't find much.
Secondly, I've been reading the forums for a while and thought I'd register as to seek help for my little problem...
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To put it simply, I have all my contacts stored in my Gmail account. After installing Wildpuzzle, I decided to clean up my contact list to make my phone a bit more organised.
The problem, is that when I receive a text message (SMS) from anyone, it does not show up as their name in my Messages app. It simply shows the full number (inc. international dialing code) with no picture and no name.
For example, let's say I save 'Bob' in my Contacts list as: "07123456789". When I receive a text it does not show 'Bob's name, only "+447123456789".
Now, if I was to edit 'Bob's contact card so it was stored as "+447123456789" then it does show his name.
Has anyone else come across this before? I don't really want to have to go through all the phone numbers in my Contacts and put +44 in front and remove the 0.
Thanks in advance.
Its a known bug, has been posted in the wildpuzzle-thread many times. But if you have all your numbers on gmail-account its pretty easy to put "+44" before the numbers on each contacts, it took me about 10 minutes, only having like 90 contacts, but anyway, not that hard to fix with a little time =)
Yeah, I had a feeling that this was the case due to the lack-of-response from people.
Anyway, got bored at work so I changed them all now. Bit of a pain in the arse, but you have to make these sacrifices for such great software