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 have tried to find if this has been answered elsewhere so I apologise if I have missed it.
Got my HD2 this morning and the first thing I did was update the firmware to 1.48.
Synced with Outlook and it has my contacts. Tried to put my wife on the People tab as a favourite. My previous phone would have stored her and I would have had to select her work or mobile number after selecting her picture on the tab. However, I see I have to choose which number when I add her as a favourite. That's OK - so I select her mobile number. I then try and add her again with her work number as a separate favourite but that deletes her first entry. It looks like you can only have one favourite per contact even if they have more than one number. Surely that can't be right? I don't want to have to create separate contacts for every number for my favourite people!
Have I missed something?
TIA
norm
Choose which number you're most likely to call - once the contact is added as a favourite, if you tap the name (as opposed to the picture) it will bring an "action" screen listing call mobile, call work, call home, send message, send email etc depending on what info is available for that contact
Thanks for the help, Isadora. That's good as it means I can have more favourite people. The only disappointent is that it is a little more difficult to hit the name instead of the picture if you're walking fast or something like that. But thanks again anyway.
norm
norm2002 said:
The only disappointent is that it is a little more difficult to hit the name instead of the picture if you're walking fast or something like that.
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If you add "View Contact Card" then the default action for that contact is to bring up the action list where you can call them, text them, email them etc..
It's a bit more like the original people style that was exhibited in TouchFlo.
johncmolyneux said:
If you add "View Contact Card" then the default action for that contact is to bring up the action list where you can call them, text them, email them etc..
It's a bit more like the original people style that was exhibited in TouchFlo.
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please elaborate on this "where and how to add this "view contact card" : there is no such option in the people tab. thanks
mobile88 said:
please elaborate on this "where and how to add this "view contact card" : there is no such option in the people tab. thanks
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When you select which contact you wish to add to the grid on People tab a seperate window will be displayed ^ the phone numbers & the option to add contact card will be there. Good luck!
Great! That's just what I needed. Now why can't a 310 page userguide tell you that?
Thanks
norm
this is probably easy to fix or just an error on my part.
I'm using the official rom with some theme mods.
So when i go to the contact list, click on a contact and then click the "call mobile phone" entry for that contact, the option gets activated/grey background, just to get deactivated half a second later and it never actually dials the number (same with people in the favorites list)
The contacts are stored on the phone and copied over from my blackstone, so I know the numbers are all valid.
Anyone got any ideas? Any help would be appreciated
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oh and i can dial just fine when i hiz phone on the today screen, go to the menu and choose "open contact"
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I just realized, when I'm on the contact page of a contact (where you see there phone numbers and so on), I can click Menu -> Show more information, which takes me to the "old" contact page (as it used to be in wm 6.1), where calling someone works as well.
So there are ways around this, it's just annoying having those 2 more presses just to call a number.
Any one know how to remove your Facebook contacts from your contacts list. Considering WM7 hasn't been come up with a quick scroll function, spending a minute scrolling through 500 additional facebook contacts to call someone really is a pain in the butt! Yes I know there is a 'search' function, but I don't like having to type in a persons name to just call them.
Is anyone else having this problem?
PS... I still love the phone. Can't wait for an official update from Microsoft!
you can go to settings ---> people and check "only add facebook info to existing contacts"
Also remember you can hit the search button and look for your contact like that. Searches in both names and surnames.
You can also hit a letter and get the alphabet grid to quickly go to names starting with a certain letter.
The best thing they could do is put a setting in there that only shows contacts with phone numbers. Same thing Android does.
I have a Messenger contact list the size of my facebook friends list.
On top of that I am coming over from an Android phone.
That is 3 different sets of contacts. Having it when I press phone and only showing me contacts with phone numbers makes sense.
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.
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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.
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Best solution....