Hi all,
Just recieved my new HTC HD2 handset. Transferred all/most contacts from my old phone, to the SIM and placed in the new phone. However, the names show as a scramble....
eg.... If I had the name "John Smith" on my old phone, it now shows it as "-Sm;John/1"
Also, if I edit the contact, there's only one name field. However, if I add a new contact, I can add a First Name and a Surname
Just connected it to my laptop, don't have outlook, but do use thunder bird.... Is there a way a syncronising these together?
BTW: my last phone was a Sony Ericsson C902
Did you wipe the simcard before you copied all the contacts to it? My gf has something similar that occured when she combined the phone contacts and teh sim contacts. (Bit late for you to do anything about it now, of course, just asking ) as for TBird support, sorry, don't know.
I thought it was already clear TBH....
Just started a gMail account, gonna see if can sync up with that
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Hey,
Im somewhat new to this WM6 stuff. I previously had a Sony Ericsson and when I had switched to my new Wing, I had saved all my Contacts to my SIM card and when I went to load my contacts from my SIM onto my PPC, they all look like "Norman/M; Norman/H; Norman/W" or instead of "Norman Kiwan" it would show "Kiwan;Norman" for all my contacts. It gets really annoying and I was hoping maybe some of you found a program I can use to easily edit/change my contacts on my phone... it would be extremely appreciated! thank you.
- Norman
That's quite simple. Space character is not allowed in name string on SIM That's probably why you have a semicolon between the first and the last name. /M or /H are shortcuts for (M)obile or (H)ome phone number. Remember on SIM one number is always one independent record. Just save numbers to Contacts in your phone, then synchronize with Outlook. Amend contacts there and synchronize back.
ok so pretty much use outlook to change the contact's name... just gotta figure out how to do that with outlook.. ill give it a shot.
Now in terms of using MSN messenger, for some reason even if I put in the settings NOT to sync contacts it still does! and its just a huge mess seeing all these phone contacts and email contact everywhere... is there a way to get rid of those too?
thanks for the help!
- Norman
** bump **
Not syncing contacts means only not syncing contacts when you sync manually. but when you start messenger it syncs contact's automatically.
Contact manager..amzing and easy install
lol
I hate the way contacts are sorted on wm6 too!
Check this one out is pretty good one, actually i love it!
http://www.pocketcm.com/
Haven't had problems with contacts ever since my first WM phone ( got used to it quick) but the only problem I ever had was that you couldn't delete multiple contacts at once. Tried to do this for the first time in over a few years and seems like the SIM Manager has had quite an overhaul since I've last tried to use that feature. If it were a Microsoft program I think we would still be having this program.
Thats enough ranting for now
Peace
Hello all, I just received my X1, and I am loving it! Great way to start off the new year! However my contact list looks funny...Is there any way to change my contact list? For some reason after every name is a /1 or /2. I am getting my contacts through my sim, is there a way to remove the /1 or /2, or would I have to go through every list and take it off?
try copying your contacts on to your phone to see whether that resolves it. Some phones (my old sony ericsson phone used to) stores primary, duplicate, mobile, work numbers etc. with backslashes.
Yea mine was like that too. I didnt want to change it manually so I just beamed them from my old phone one by one :|
I know what you would've done... You previously had a SE phone in which you had stored contacts with various numbers Home number, work number etc...
Then you copied them onto your sim, before putting in the sim to the X1.
Now this is the way SE stores them on the sim...
great...no way to fix this all together? lol yeahh i had a k810i, which i don't find to be too old of a phone...i tried exporting from the sim to the phone too, didn't change anything though. Is there a way to export your contact list to the computer? I could just write up a quick c++ program to take in the list and remove all slashes and everything after that.
I wanna export my contact list into my comp
Im having problems finding for my contacts on the phone because of the overlapping of names with /1 /2 sort of titles... but before i do any changes and arrange the contacts, i wanna save them into a list on my computer. but it doesnt show on the microsoft office outlook contact list ?? help me~!
totally new to pocket pc here... please help!
greatly appreciated.
W810i to Xperia
Yea similar thing happened to me. I have a w810i and i saved all my contacts to the sim, and tried to copy them into my Xperia. The contacts were saved like
last name; firstname /m (mobile)
last name; firstname /h (home)
So what i did was I put the SIM back in my w810i and sent the contacts via bluetooth. You don't need a sim to power on the Xperia. However, i was unable to get "Send all contacts" to work. So i had to send one at a time!, it was a pain, but at least it's better than trying to removed the /m /h and consolidate the numbers into one contact.
Hope this helps!
I just corrected all contract one by one... the problem is the difference between a mobile phoen and a smart phone...
On all my other SE phones, I've had the contacts sorted by First name, but the Xperia wants to sort them by last name. I downloaded Xperia tweak, and that helped to stop viewing my SIM contacts, but even when I have xperia tweak change sorting to "First name, last name" it says done, I click save, restart, and my contacts are still sorted by last name. If I don't restart, they still aren't sorted any differently. Halp?
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On all my other SE phones, I've had the contacts sorted by First name, but the Xperia wants to sort them by last name. I downloaded Xperia tweak, and that helped to stop viewing my SIM contacts, but even when I have xperia tweak change sorting to "First name, last name" it says done, I click save, restart, and my contacts are still sorted by last name. If I don't restart, they still aren't sorted any differently. Halp?
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That's because the last name field in ur contacts program is actually the first name. You have to manual fix your first and last name.
The sim card is never fully compatible with any phone. SIM cards are designed to work with every other operating systems.
Don't ever use sim card to backup your contacts, get a PIM manager for that and back it up as a PIM file.
sync with outlook dude, customize outlook to sort all contacts names as first last
I have copied my phone number onto my sim from my old phone and imported to contact.
Irrittatingly the HD2 sees the names backwards and only searches for the "first" name [there are lots of "name_mobile" and hence now I have to search for "mobile"]
Anyway to select the order of names or will i have to edit about 180 contacts?
there is a cab that when run reverses the names. I'll try and attach it but if I cant, look for "contact changer first last"
if you add new contacts after using it don't forget to select display first last out they will be wrong.(course you can run the changer prog again to fix it)
this is not my handiwork but sadly I can't remember who to credit.
Mates Mate.
Useful to have
Sadly I don't think that will fix it.
I looked at a few contacts. They were imported to my [still waiting to be active!] sim from my current phone (SE K800i) and then from sim to HD2
Sadly "John Smith" as a saved mobile number is identified in Contacts as:
Forename - blank
Surname Smith; John/2 [I assume the /2 is a code assigned by the SE to differentiate between mobile/home/work/business category symbols].
It is a PITA that I might have to edit all of them by hand.
They are all nicely ordered in Outlook in a subfolder from Contacts Called "Mobile Contacts" but I can't get ActiveSynch to synch with anything but the main contacts folder [The SE Software did allow this easily]
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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I had the exact same problem. The only fix I could find was to edit the contacts name with the drop down arrow, and move the full name into the "First Name" field. It's the only way that will remain the same after syncing with activesync.
CDurham221 said:
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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use marketplace to find contact changer. its one dollar and will do ALL ur contacts the way you are wanting (first name last name) i didn't know of this till AFTER going thru them all and changing them one by one on outlook
that solves half of my issue. but also the other half of my problem is that since i already erased all o my contacts out of my phone from outlook it wont let me re sync it back to my phone to get all my contacts in there. it says synchronized 4/12/10 and wont let me re import my full list from outlook on my computer to my phone.
so is there a manual way to force the sync or to completely erase all information from outlook so it sees it has to re sync it?
CDurham221 said:
Ok I recently got the HD2 and I am coming from a G1, I have outlook, imported all my contacts from google into outlook ran active sync and all my contacts showed up in my phone. But they were all last name, first name and there was no option to switch them in the phone so I switched them on outlook to first name, last name and re sync, no change. ( said it was already sync) so i decided to erase all the entries from my phone and and re sync thinking it would bring it back in, well it keeps saying Synchronized 4/12/10 11.22pm
so im wondering is there a way to force sync, i tried to reboot, hard rooboot, pushed the button on the back, took the battery out. nothing keeps saying the same thing
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Changing the order in which they show in your Outlook doesn't actually change anything that needs to be synchronized to your phone. The Outlook sort order doesn't get synchronized.
Plus, it's a WinMo thing that it shows the All People by last name, first name. You can, however, buy a $0.99 app that will allow you to change this:
http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/details.aspx?appId=1ef4f47b-4145-49b5-bb91-de7c1a46dacd&retURL=/search.aspx%3Fkeywords%3Dcontact
Personally, I think it's not needed, especially when you can quickly type in the first few letters of a person's first name and it shows the matching contacts quickly.
Thank you guys. I do appreciate it. I just need to find out now how to get my hd2 to manually force the contacts back in my phone. it keeps saying its already been synchronized and wont update.
all you need here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269316
check out that website. it has a lot of useful tips on there but i still cannot get my phone to re sync and bring back in the contacts. i deleted the partnership and re entered all the info it needs to sync back up it. it connected and said it synch'ed but no contacts came back into my phone.
ok guys, if anyone is having the same issues. instead of synchronizing over the air i connected through wmdc and created a partnership and it synched all my contacts.
i used the contact manager and it worked flawlessly awesome stuff guys. thanks to all
This is somewhat unrelated. However, I can't start new threads.
I'm using google active sync as well. I have email in my google account setup in different folders. I can see the folders but they are all empty. Only the inbox has mail in it.
Solution: HD2 active sync and importing contacts
MS Out look and Activesyn. There is no need to purchase software at all. Plus you can use your Outlook contact database for any phone in the future. or emergency swap the phone out before travel...
1- Export all out look as *csv (windows)
2- Modifying the first name by merge first and last name together becomes first name only (couple minutes by formulate)
Was Was Was
First name Last name
John Summervile
Kelly Summervile
After After After
First name Last name
John Summervile BLANK
Kelly Summervile BLANK
3- Delete all the contact on MS outlook and import modified *csv file again. Look at the "File as", it should show "John Summervile "instead showing "Summervile, John"
4- Launch Activesynce again.
Good luck!
my laptop doesnt recognize my htc hd2
ok i have a dell laptop running windows vista
i dont have software cd for htc hd2
when i connect using usb phone to laptop,,,,comp tells me that had trouble installing device so its not installed properly
please help..............................................................
i looked up on another thread and i can sync phone until computer recognizes phone