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Why wont anyone answer this question??? SMS Problem!

Ive seen this question asked several times during my search for the answer, but no one ever replies to it....
Since the upgrade WM6, the Reciepients name in the "to:" field within any new message will not auto complete...
I always have to fill in the number, or their name and select 'Check Names' in the menu and then choose my selection.
PLEASE will SOMEONE tell me the reg entry i need to alter, or the cab i need to (re)install to fix this chink in my BA's armour....
Many thanks in advance.
Dickie.
o2 XDA IIs -- UK -- WM6 by Helmi

dickie2007 said:
Ive seen this question asked several times during my search for the answer, but no one ever replies to it....
Since the upgrade WM6, the Reciepients name in the "to:" field within any new message will not auto complete...
I always have to fill in the number, or their name and select 'Check Names' in the menu and then choose my selection.
PLEASE will SOMEONE tell me the reg entry i need to alter, or the cab i need to (re)install to fix this chink in my BA's armour....
Many thanks in advance.
Dickie.
o2 XDA IIs -- UK -- WM6 by Helmi
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No one has answered this question cause probably no one has faced this problem after upgrading to WM6. I just now checked by creating new Text Message and when I hit at "To:", it opens up my contact list and I can pickup any number.

I know others have faced this problem 'cos several other people are asking for soloutions to the exact same issue, they just never recieved replies...
Also, yes mine works when i click the 'to:' button aswell, but it should predict the recipients name as you type it.
there are users on several platforms, not just BA, running WM6 roms with this exact same issue...
C'mon guys, PLEASE HELP!
Dickie

May be I dont understand your question!!
When I type "a" in the space, list of all names starting with 'a' opens up and gets shorter and shorter as I type more letters. What else do you expect it to do?

dickie2007 said:
Ive seen this question asked several times during my search for the answer, but no one ever replies to it....
Since the upgrade WM6, the Reciepients name in the "to:" field within any new message will not auto complete...
I always have to fill in the number, or their name and select 'Check Names' in the menu and then choose my selection.
PLEASE will SOMEONE tell me the reg entry i need to alter, or the cab i need to (re)install to fix this chink in my BA's armour....
Many thanks in advance.
Dickie.
o2 XDA IIs -- UK -- WM6 by Helmi
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Hi, just for ur info, the "to:" u mentioned is a button. Just double click it and the contact list will appear.
Good day,
Anth

Anth said:
Hi, just for ur info, the "to:" u mentioned is a button. Just double click it and the contact list will appear.
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i know, its the same on mine. but if i type any letter, i dont get a list of possible matches, as April 1 just described:
April 1 said:
When I type "a" in the space, list of all names starting with 'a' opens up and gets shorter and shorter as I type more letters
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This is EXACTLY whats not working! this 'auto complete' function has stopped since the WM6 upgrade...

hey, i got the same issue also..
when i typed "A" in the recipient it dont auto complete with "a" contacts.
my solution is :-> type "a+space" then delete the space, the auto complete will come out with the "a" contact listings. hope it helps.. =D

I have always found it faster just to click on the to button and let that do the auto complete. I seem to always select the wrong contact with the auto complete in the actual message.

do you have other then English language support on your device?
I have Hebrew support, I have to type the first two letters and delete the last one -> then it source according to the first letter

SMS works fine for me but MMS doesn't do the predictive contact call up and it is a pain in the arse.
Not a big problem but a pain in the arse nonetheless.

did you install "htc dual keyboard + keypad". I installed this app, and the predictive contact search stop working on sms. After uninstallation, its working again.
as with mms, i dont think it has ever worked since 2003SE. you have to click "to:" and search within the contact list.

the answer to your proplem is :
this is because the contact are not stored in your PIM database, but on the SIM card, that is why they are not predicable but they can be accessed by pressing on the "to" button.
solution: use sim manager to save contacts to the phonebook
hope u find it helpful

that is what i was gonna say "life owner" you are correct according to the problem i had

life owner said:
the answer to your proplem is :
this is because the contact are not stored in your PIM database, but on the SIM card, that is why they are not predicable but they can be accessed by pressing on the "to" button.
solution: use sim manager to save contacts to the phonebook
hope u find it helpful
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i will NOT do that if i were you...
that would only make the predictive list double the names you have...
(Or you could delete the contacts in your simcard after you copied)
if you played with the options
in the Settings->Input->Word Completion.
i would suggest a hard reset
if you did the above and no changes was reflected.

B3nGz said:
hey, i got the same issue also..
when i typed "A" in the recipient it dont auto complete with "a" contacts.
my solution is :-> type "a+space" then delete the space, the auto complete will come out with the "a" contact listings. hope it helps.. =D
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thank god, someone agreeing this issues does exist and its not something i'm doing...
Although, typing a space after the first character, then deleting it does not bring up the auto complete.
But.. i did install "htc dual keyboard + keypad", which i will remove now to see if functionality returns..
Also.. my contacts are stored on the Phone, not the sim.
Cheers for your suggestions guys, i'll keep u updated...
Dickie
UPDATE - Removed "htc dual keyboard + keypad" and functionality is restored.... what exactly does this program do? if its supposed to skin the touch screen keyboard, it never worked for me anyway...
Cheers Guys!

dickie2007 said:
thank god, someone agreeing this issues does exist and its not something i'm doing...
Although, typing a space after the first character, then deleting it does not bring up the auto complete.
But.. i did install "htc dual keyboard + keypad", which i will remove now to see if functionality returns..
Also.. my contacts are stored on the Phone, not the sim.
Cheers for your suggestions guys, i'll keep u updated...
Dickie
UPDATE - Removed "htc dual keyboard + keypad" and functionality is restored.... what exactly does this program do? if its supposed to skin the touch screen keyboard, it never worked for me anyway...
Cheers Guys!
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"htc dual keyboard + keypad" give you big numbers and letters button (the idea is to allow you not to use stylus and use your thumb to type) AND it also give predictive english words feature.. and i guess it cannot co exist with the predictive contact feature of sms... i guess this is the most logical explanation... for me anyway

actually it's not an issue regarding auto-complete...
htc dual keyboard+keypad is filtering your input and displays it's own "one-liner" prediction and thus the default system Auto Word Completion doesnt kick in.
and it doesnt matter to the default auto-complete if it's in the phone or in the sim card... if you have two copies of one item... it will list double.
it's not an SMS problem... it's a program glitch(feature?). haha...

Hi I have the same problem.
i removed htc dual keyboard and its still not working!
do i need to enable some options some wherE?
Thanks

try to do what silver samurai suggested, the setting may have been changed:
start > settings > personal > input > word completion > place a tick mark on "suggest words when entering text"

I tried that and it didn't work.
Thanks

REMAP buttons on HTC HOME plugin

Is it possible to remap the buttons on the htc home plugin (meaning the sms and email buttons located below the clock)?
I would like to be able to open PocketCM Contacts when I press on the sms button.
Would this be possible?
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks,
htctoucher

Have you tried to search??

yeah i have tried, just I could not find anything..
I searched "remap htc touch home buttons" and every variant of these words I could think of on XDA and Google.. couldn't find any answers
have any ideas?
or did I miss a thread?
thanks

Martinhdk, I'd say at least answer the question for him. Simple Answer: you can't.

oh well.. thanks for the answer haha

Azimuth21 said:
Martinhdk, I'd say at least answer the question for him. Simple Answer: you can't.
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As in it's impossible to get the buttons to map to different things, or it is not really feasible (as in, it would take an enormous amount of work and programming skill)?
I was just wondering about this the other day. I have HTC Touch and I noticed that when I click on the mail button it brings me to my MMS inbox, however I would like it to bring me to my exchange inbox. Is this something which just isn't supported by HTC Touch, or is it something that no one (to your knowledge) has managed to code yet?

callius said:
As in it's impossible to get the buttons to map to different things, or it is not really feasible (as in, it would take an enormous amount of work and programming skill)?
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Hell, nothing is impossible. Look at what Slither has done with the cube! However, the HOME plugin is hardcoded to link to the things it does. There aren't any registry settings to mess with unfortunately.

Azimuth21 said:
Martinhdk, I'd say at least answer the question for him. Simple Answer: you can't.
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some info here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=359957&highlight=htc+home
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=356015&highlight=htc+home
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319308&highlight=Home+customise
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=352008&highlight=htc+home
Standard XDA search.

it is possible...just as LG today plugin was edited..either by hex editing or modifying some dll...

callius said:
As in it's impossible to get the buttons to map to different things, or it is not really feasible (as in, it would take an enormous amount of work and programming skill)?
I was just wondering about this the other day. I have HTC Touch and I noticed that when I click on the mail button it brings me to my MMS inbox, however I would like it to bring me to my exchange inbox. Is this something which just isn't supported by HTC Touch, or is it something that no one (to your knowledge) has managed to code yet?
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Callius:
When you click on the mail button, you should have a menu button on the bottom. Click on it and goto tools then options.
This screen allows you to navigate to the box you wish. There is also a box at the bottom that you can check which says : "display account picker when opening message" this lets you choose from all your accounts.
If you want it to only go to the exchange account, you have to make sure that asterick * is next to that account if not you need to change in the settings and then when you click on mail it will go to that box!
Hope this helps!

cbus said:
Callius:
When you click on the mail button, you should have a menu button on the bottom. Click on it and goto tools then options.
This screen allows you to navigate to the box you wish. There is also a box at the bottom that you can check which says : "display account picker when opening message" this lets you choose from all your accounts.
If you want it to only go to the exchange account, you have to make sure that asterick * is next to that account if not you need to change in the settings and then when you click on mail it will go to that box!
Hope this helps!
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Awesome, this was extremely helpful. Thank you

cbus said:
Callius:
When you click on the mail button, you should have a menu button on the bottom. Click on it and goto tools then options.
This screen allows you to navigate to the box you wish. There is also a box at the bottom that you can check which says : "display account picker when opening message" this lets you choose from all your accounts.
If you want it to only go to the exchange account, you have to make sure that asterick * is next to that account if not you need to change in the settings and then when you click on mail it will go to that box!
Hope this helps!
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How do I get the * , to display next to the account I want. I seem to be missing something

veeru27 said:
How do I get the * , to display next to the account I want. I seem to be missing something
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Just de-select the box for display account picker.
Then while on the same screen, touch the account you want to have come up when you press the email icon and that should do the trick!

I can't get it to pick up my email account automatically it just keeps constantly going into SMS instead of email when I hit the email button on the HTC Home. Very annoying! Any ideas?

"Sent from my Windows Phone"

Whenever I send an email from Outlook on the phone, it adds this signature line "Sent from my Windows Phone". It can be deleted manually in the email, but I'd prefer it was never added in the first place. Does anybody know how to remove it automatically?
I've searched these forums, and there are solutions for removing a similar message in Windows 6.1, but the user interface is obviously all different in 6.5, and I can't find anything in the menus that might do the trick.
Thanks very much for any advice.

Go into messaging, then Menu - Tools - Options then click on the "Signatures" button...and change/delete/whatever...

(Sorry in advance, if some of the functions mentioned beneath is called something else than what I write. I am on a danish ROM, and there not 100% sure what the english options are called... But you should be able to figure it out anyways )
Choose your e-mail...
Choose "more"...
Choose "menu"...
Choose "functions"...
Choose "settings"...
Press the button called "signatures"...
Delete what it says in the window there...
Press the OK button in the top right corner...
Et voila!

..go to email - menu - options - signature.
There you can change.
GSIAK

Go to email, click Inbox then Menu > Tools > Options and click "Signatures..." (Edit: it seems that this is nth post about the same, sorry for slow reaction)

Thank you very much. I'd not scrolled down my menus enough to find the "Tools" option under settings, and there are also different settings under different menus (both under HTC Messages and Windows). I've now managed to work it out from your helpful posts.

Thanks for this from me too. I've yet to find a question that I need to ask after spending a few minutes with the search button.

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Many thanks from me too! The UK Vodafone ROM installs a new microsoft message!

I like it when it says: Sent from my Htc.. it sounds smug..
...
After all when u send mail from iPhone it says: Sent from my iPhone

Mine says "Sent from my iPhone trouncing HTC HD2"

SMS adding contact?

Hi guys,
Just noticed how the Nexus, when i go to messaging and compose a new SMS i cannot view my contact list and select someone. Instead i need to type the first 2 letters of their name and they appear in a dropdown box. Is their no way to bring up the contact list and choose someone?
Thankyou

Download "Handcent SMS" from the market

sorry not what i asked. Just would like to know if it is possible or not as i cannot find any results via google.

m00moo said:
Hi guys,
Just noticed how the Nexus, when i go to messaging and compose a new SMS i cannot view my contact list and select someone. Instead i need to type the first 2 letters of their name and they appear in a dropdown box. Is their no way to bring up the contact list and choose someone?
Thankyou
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Yeah, I don't understand the logic there either. Although you could just start in your contacts list and select the text message link from there. Still not as intuitive.

Find the person first, then type the message?

uansari1 said:
Yeah, I don't understand the logic there either. Although you could just start in your contacts list and select the text message link from there. Still not as intuitive.
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Thanks so i guess its not only me that finds this simply problem annoying. I hate it when i make a mistake accidentally hitting the wrong key and need to delete. Would be such a simple process just adding via contact list.

m00moo said:
Thanks so i guess its not only me that finds this simply problem annoying. I hate it when i make a mistake accidentally hitting the wrong key and need to delete. Would be such a simple process just adding via contact list.
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Well... yeah. Go to your contact list, find the person, and you have a centralized screen where you can choose, inter alia, to call, sms, or email them.

add contacts to sms
Assign your contacts a label i.e. home, mobile etc..
This will solve your problem.
You might have to do this individually for each contact.

Removing HTC e-mail signature

I'm trying to remove the irritating HTC e-mail sig from my Leo.
I know this is an apparently daft question, as I've duly searched and the rest of the world gives lots of simple ways of doing this.
Method 1
As I'm a new poster I can't post links, but on thread ID 605124 on this site suggests "Simply go to START/E-Mail. Choose MENU/Options. Now there should be a button "Signatures", press it and change the text in the box."
If I try that I get as far as a menu that has active options for New, Send/Receive, Follow up and Go To, and there isn't even a greyed out "options".
Method 2
Again, i can't post the link, but thread ID 85752 at the ppcgeeks forum suggests "In Outlook.... Tools > Options > Signatures"
However my Outlook icon only brings up options for Contacts, Calendar, Notes and Tasks.
Method 3
A verizon forum suggests "In my TP2, I opened Messenging, and then on the SELECT AN ACCOUNT screen, I went to lower right of the screen, and selected MENU -> Options. There is a signature button below my "Tap an Account to Change Settings" box, and I am able to disable signatures on all of my e-mail accounts."
I don't get the select an account screen, but if I open "HTC Messages > Settings > Options > Signature", then all three options are already de-selected and the signature box is blank. I tried replacing it with a space and telling it to use that as a sig, but that didn't work either.
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I also tried the question on another forum at Modaco. Someone posted a screenshot of what they get then they follow the 1st way suggested here, and I get to a different screen if I follow the same steps. I'm thinking it might be because I have unselected "display account picker when opening messaging", but I can't find any way to get it back!
Any wonderful person able to help?

Go to E-mail tab, Inbox, Menu, *scroll down*, Tools, Options, Signatures..
Hope that helps.

Damm! All that because I didn't notice the scroll bar!
Thanks!
The worst of it is I knew I was being daft and I didn't want to post the Q because I knew there must be an answer that was really obvious, and I still couldn't find it.

You arent the first to not notice the scroll, , you arent even the first this week, and i'm pretty sure you wont be the last.