Some quality vanilla roms have appeared in the market and I was debating whether or not to switch to one of them. One issue I have is that SenseUI leaves some notes that contain metadata for each contact that get nicely parsed in senseui but look like gob-illy-gook in Vanilla android. I have over a hundred contacts and manually removing this would be a hassle (even in gmail).
If anyone knows of a way to do this efficiently please share.
Thanks!
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I'm new to Android, so I don't know if my question is specific to Streak, or a general Android question.
In my Streak contacts, I have both Facebook and Google contacts, many of which I have merged. I've noticed that whichever contact I select first, that is the name of the merged result. If I change the listbox at the top left to my Google mail address or to Facebook, I can see the contacts with their unmerged names.
This kinda makes sense, but took me a while to suss as it's not documented properly.
What I can't do, however, is unmerge. How do I do that? Sometimes the contacts have slightly different names (e.g. Johnathan in FB and John in Google). If I want to choose which is displayed, it would seem I'd have to unmerge somehow, and the remerge selecting the right one first.
The only thing I can think that might work is to delete one of the contacts, then re-sync. I don't want to risk deleting anyone completely though, so if anyone has found a better unmerge method -- let me know!
I got really fed up with three stock contacts app pretty quickly, so I know use phonebook2.0 much better solution and free
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
Cheers for that Fards... it seems a very useful app!
Hi,
Complete Android noob! Im thinking of getting an android phone, moving from many years of Windows mobile but i now have a need for multiple exchange/activesync accounts (two jobs, both with Exchange!)
If i move to Android, i think i want the Legend simply because it looks and feels better built, but i guess a Desire would also do. The problem is, i've read that while Android (2.1 maybe, 2.2 definelty) supports multiple Exchange mailboxes, the HTC Sense removes the ability. Is this true, and is there anyway of restoring it? Can i get Sense off and revert to pure Android without 'rooting' it or doing anything else that could theoretically make it less reliable?
If anybody does use multiple Exchange profiles, can you tell me how it handles the different calendars and contact lists? does it keep them separate or does it all end up merged together and then sync'd back to each Exchange server?
Sorry for the questions, especially if its the wrong forum, but i want to get this right as the phone is going to be fairly critical for both jobs (and i keep being told an iPhone can do everything i want, but i dont want to got that way!)
Reading my German Vodafone Legends' Manual it says: "...only one Exchange Account...". I don't care about this as I need only one and - I use Nitrodesk's Touchdown Exchange client which not only supports more than one Exchange account but is overall much better than Android's client. Huge feature list, perfect widgets (from third party collaboration), great support (check out their google group). Started using TD more than a year ago and coming from WM too I can say TD is perfect and is worth the money. They have a 30 day trail in the market. Maybe you give it a try (or just study their documents as you don't have a phone already)?
Cheers,
Derek.
Thanks for this. The feature list looks good, so i'll give it a try
Its such as shame that Sense kills the ability to have multiple accounts though.
I've been using Android for some time now first with the HTC Desire and now with the HTC Desire Z. I'm sorely tempted by the GSII and have already pre-ordered on clove (can always cancel but need to be in queue).
For me the app that I use the most is Exchange Sync (E-Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Corporate directory lookup). Something stock Android sucks at (and even Cyanogen mod doesn't help on that score) but HTC have done quite well with the HTC mail client on top of Sense.
Never used a Samsung device before and have been hunting high and low on how well they do Exchange sync. The press release does mention full support etc however can anyone point me in the direction of some screen shots or feature lists. Lots of minor niggles in stock android like inability to view inline images, unable to lookup corporate contacts, unable to forward calender invites I'm hoping don't get carried over to the Samsung implementation.
Please don't suggest third party mail clients.. I've tried them all and just don't like how they always feel like they are layered on top rather than fully integrated and a lot of them are resource hogs as well.
Any feedback appreciated. TIA.
I have an idea that I'm fairly sure hasn't been implemented in such a large scale as this suggestion. A continuous client is something that supposedly connects a client, an instant messaging program for instance, between all platforms (PC,android,etc.) so you can do something on one, and pick up right where you were on the other.
So here's what I'm envisioning:
An app that when installed on one phone, backs up all that it has about it (Text messages, contacts, call logs, a list of apps with saved data related to them, background, settings configuration, remembered wifi points, etc.) and allows for the restore of all of these things on a different phone or ROM.
This idea came from my incessant need to switch between roms, and the time consumption that comes with the manual restoration of apps, contacts (Sometimes I forget to sync them to Google...) and everything.
More so, I thought this would be a good thing to actually directly build in to modified roms if possible. I'm talking anywhere from building the app in to the rom, such as rom manager in cyanogenmod, or as deeply ingrained as cyanogenmod settings or the "welcome tutorial" at the beginning of many AOSP roms. Basically, you load a rom, boot up, go through said tutorial that is on many roms, and then a window comes up asking if you'd like to sync with your account in *Whatever this app would be called*.
I don't know if something similar has been implemented before, and I'm aware that something like this, if done as I described, would require dedicated server(s) and a lot of storage space if it became popular enough. I know that a project like this would be massive, but if it really became a thing, it would be one of the most useful tools for ROM addicts.
I'm no developer, I'm no coder, nothing. I have no idea how one would go about doing this, but that's why I came to XDA.
sounds like titanium backup with dropbox but with a few additions. i dont think titanium backup does settings, accounts or messages, just app data. i just use it to quickly get all the apps back on my phone.
So either a correlation between the two are built to support more phone info, or a new app
For contact and sms backup and restoring check http://www.bloove.com. Call logs are backed up but not restored to another phone. Wifi points are in waiting list. It doesn't require root so it's not possible to backup configuration and other apps.
I had the Note for a month and I love it. I have and iPhone $S and an IPad2 hand the Note has replaced the two for me. I now keep as my iPhone as a backup phone only. After installing some apps to my Note I have had no problems with my iMac, iCloud, and google syncs. I feel like freedom is at sight from the big digital vampire of apple. The only thing left is to get my iTunes and photos taken care of. It is like breaking out of hostage captivity.
So far my only gripe is the email list views. The Note displays subject first line then the sender. I personally find it makes it difficult to manage my emails. It is would have been much better to see, on the list view, the sender of an email first. This makes it a lot easier to sort out junk mail and unimportant mail from the stuff sent by senders I care more about. Unfortunately the settings does not provide an option for it. I find this surprising.
I tried Kaiten Mail which solves this problem by providing many list view options but it seems to be slow app. It takes several seconds load list views.
I am using the Official Hotmail application from the Market called:
Microsoft+Seven,its very good and fast.
Thanks. I will give it a try.
hi, if i click menu->more->viewmode and choose 'standard view', i be able to click menu-->'list by'. there you can select what ever you like to sort your mails after. at least my stock rom version XXLA4 behaves like that.