Well done Samsung, people in the UK still cant actually store any actual UK postal addresses in their contacts as there is only a zip code field that refuses alpha characters
If you use google to synch your contacts (and as a free backup as well) - editing the contacts on your gmail account and then synching them will give you a full UK address.
Not ideal to do it that way, but it is an option.
Homer
Covered here: > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=830011
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Hi folks,
I was just wondering, is there a way to set the phone to automatically associate the contacts in the phone with the relevent 'Friend' on Facebook, or do you have to go through each one in turn?
Just a thought.
Cheers!
The People app should bring up a list of suggested pairings based on contact name. This should appear in the Groups tab ISTR.
I assume that as long as your contact name is the same as the Facebook name, it should match them up. If you call 'Bob Smith', 'baldy' in your phone contacts (hey, he may be balding early), I doubt his 'Bob Smith' Facebook account will match up automatically.
Mine just pinged up a list and I confirmed each match (using check boxes) to link them.
Boringly I tend to use people real names in my contacts list rather than nicknames. It paid off
If you have an unbranded UK spec SGS with the XEU product code and have updated it to the new firmware Android 2.2 (FROYO) can you please do a check for us and post it here.
Go to contacts and create a new contact then scroll down to the post code part of the address input field. Can you put a post code in? (Alpha/numeric) or is it a ZIP code (Numeric only).
Thanks.
No UK postcode :-(
Upgraded last night and just checked - unable to enter letters!
Not impressed with the lag running K9 and other things, though. JM1 with OCLF was much better!
zeb99 said:
Upgraded last night and just checked - unable to enter letters!
Not impressed with the lag running K9 and other things, though. JM1 with OCLF was much better!
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I should have said those who did not upgrade using the Nordic JPM.
XEU phone - also unable to enter postcode details in contacts.
Yeah, seems it's not a nordic issue. If you check the official bugs thread, people who never had nordic get numeric zip codes only. So I think my *# to get back to xeu may well have worked, and what we're all seeing is a JPO bug
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Using the leaked JPO here - not accepting UK postcodes.
Hi,
Upgraded to official 2.2 via Kies this morning using unlocked / unbranded SGS. Can confirm the Zip code only. Just checked and field says "zip code" and is numeric only.
Cheers,
On CPW unbranded with JPO here and also unable to enter Post codes, numeric only
(Not that it matters for me really, never fill out that much info in contacts)
You can edit the contact details in your online (google) address book to include a postal address. When your phone syncs the contacts with your google account, the correct details are transferred to the phone.
I just tried it and it works like a charm
Failing that, you can just put the whole address in the "Street" field. When it's displayed on your phone contacts list it will only show fields that contain data, so it looks fine.
petethesparky said:
You can edit the contact details in your online (google) address book to include a postal address. When your phone syncs the contacts with your google account, the correct details are transferred to the phone.
I just tried it and it works like a charm
Failing that, you can just put the whole address in the "Street" field. When it's displayed on your phone contacts list it will only show fields that contain data, so it looks fine.
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I am aware of this it also does this from my Outlook but. If you want to Navigate to a contact address you really do need the post code for accuracy. The field is there for a reason and this is just one of them.
Understood.
For me personally, it's a workaround that gives me nice looking, synchronisable addresses in the meantime.
I can see how it would be useless if you wanted to search by postcode or something
Tehpriest said:
I am aware of this it also does this from my Outlook but.
If you want to Navigate to a contact address you really do need the post code for accuracy.
The field is there for a reason and this is just one of them.
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I appreciate that but, following on from Pete's workaround via gmail/synch, once the contact is on the phone
with the full address it is immediately viewable in Google Maps with options for directions and navigation.
A workaround yes, but one that works thankfully.
Homer
Workarounds are only employed when there is a major flaw in software and that is what this is. Perhaps it is a product of the American-centric nature of Android and that continent's dominance of the "smartphone revolution" but it is still a disgrace and for Samsung to have allowed it to slip out into general release after such a prolonged period of testing is nothing less than incompetence on the part of their project managers.
Tehpriest said:
If you have an unbranded UK spec SGS with the XEU product code and have updated it to the new firmware Android 2.2 (FROYO) can you please do a check for us and post it here.
Go to contacts and create a new contact then scroll down to the post code part of the address input field. Can you put a post code in? (Alpha/numeric) or is it a ZIP code (Numeric only).
Thanks.
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Unbranded UK spec SGS with the XEU product code - Zip codes only, no Alpha/Numeric
Do Samsung have a site that we can report bugs? or are we just relying on them reading this forum?
I wonder if the Galaxy Tab, which was released running FROYO, has the postcode bug?
I use an unlocked Vibrant up here in Canada and having a numeric only field for the zip code doesn't help me when we use postal codes.
Does anyone have a hacked up contacts app that removes this restriction? Or an app from a different localization that allows postal codes? UK maybe? I'm not sure if taking the froyo contacts app from the Bell Vibrant I9000/Rogers Captivate SGH-i896/Telus Fascinate T959 (why the hell did they have to swap names, why couldn't they just make up new ones?) would work. If that would solve my problem that's great. I would just need to find it.
Which is these would have the restriction in them (if not all)? Would I need to replace all 3?
Contacts.apk
ContactsProvider.apk
GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk
Thanks.
I've noticed that on my phone all my contacts sync'd from Google have the entire address is in <Street> field. The <City>, <State> & <Zip code> fields are all blank. Maybe you should do the same.
Yeah, that was the first thing I tried, however it's not much of a fix. I can type the postal code in beside the province on my phone if I wanted to- but I would much rather populate a postal code field.
Hi all
does anybody know how to stop this phone from downloading the same emails over and over again?
It gets a bit boring trawling through them everyday
Thanks
Is that not at the email server end .
Settings delete emails after download or something like that .
jje
The best setting I could find was to sync the email for 1 day and not 1 week which is what the factory preset is,lol
I do not know who your email server provider is but google servers for example -which are serving quite a few companies - provide options in the form of key words in front of your name. So your example if your name is "testname" in the filed name you can put
recent:testname
this will download only the recent emails, since the last time you logged in. Search in your email service provider for similar options.
I use this virgin in UK. They are using google email services.
Hi,
I have an Exchange ActiveSync account for work email, contacts etc. I can set up the account as "Exchange" and have access to my email fine, but in my last Nexus 6, in the dialer (PureNexus custom rom) I could start typing names and with a couple of seconds delay, it would return matching results not only from my Gmail contacts, but from within the Active Directory of my work, ie. contacts that I had not saved to any of my accounts. Like for when you search for the phone or email of a colleague that you have not saved as a contact.
This does not seem to be the case with the stock G6 dialer and I see it becoming a PITA sooner or later as I often call several people from work that I don't have or need to save in my contacts permanently. Is there any solution to access Exchange contacts from the Active Directory as I described above?
PS. Also, again on the N6 PureNexus dialer I was able to type company names or places and get their info in the results, I guess that's a Google setting I need to check but anybody knows exactly where it is? Haven't figured it out yet...
Thanks,
M
Try a different dialer?
You can get the Google one from somewhere, or try other ones too.
Make sure the dialer has access to emails as well, the permission might be off.
mclisme said:
Hi,
I have an Exchange ActiveSync account for work email, contacts etc. I can set up the account as "Exchange" and have access to my email fine, but in my last Nexus 6, in the dialer (PureNexus custom rom) I could start typing names and with a couple of seconds delay, it would return matching results not only from my Gmail contacts, but from within the Active Directory of my work, ie. contacts that I had not saved to any of my accounts. Like for when you search for the phone or email of a colleague that you have not saved as a contact.
This does not seem to be the case with the stock G6 dialer and I see it becoming a PITA sooner or later as I often call several people from work that I don't have or need to save in my contacts permanently. Is there any solution to access Exchange contacts from the Active Directory as I described above?
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I Can do this without problem...
Justo go to phone, contacts tab, and on the search contact box, just typing the name of your desired contact. Now, the search results have two parts, the first one, your contacts on your mobile or accounts, the second one, the Exchange Active Directory. I guess you have not selected the "Search online option" under Contacts tab, the three dots option on the upper right corner -> contacts adjustments -> Search Online. Also you must have selected the exchange account under the acounts & sync option...
Note: Maybe the options have a different names, because I have translated from my language (Spanish)...
Hope it helps... Let me know if this works for you...
cpasoft said:
I guess you have not selected the "Search online option" under Contacts tab, the three dots option on the upper right corner -> contacts adjustments -> Search Online. Also you must have selected the exchange account under the acounts & sync option...
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Man, I want to send you beers, NOW! You're a saviour, how stupid that I didn't notice this option (search online)! the rest was ok :good: :good: :good:
I'm glad to help you
Best regards, and thanks for your words about the beers.
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