Hi all,
I do not think this is directly related to Windows/the phone or the combination but more to do with the target.
I have my contacts quite well sorted in Outlook or so I think.
The first names are in the firstname box and the surnnames/secondnames are in the correct box for that.
I beamed all the contacts over to my car sat nav system which has a bluetooth phone too (thanks to someone on here who added the select all feature - I wish I could remember his name!)
The problem is that the names on the system are secondname/firstname rather than firstname/secondname.
Firstly, is this a phone/OS issue or is this more to be the sat nav system?
When I try a Nokia 8800, it beams it over correctly which makes me think its the phone and/or the compatibility.
Does the OS store it as sn/fn but display it fn/sn by any chance?
Thanks!
akash_84 said:
Hi all,
I do not think this is directly related to Windows/the phone or the combination but more to do with the target.
I have my contacts quite well sorted in Outlook or so I think.
The first names are in the firstname box and the surnnames/secondnames are in the correct box for that.
I beamed all the contacts over to my car sat nav system which has a bluetooth phone too (thanks to someone on here who added the select all feature - I wish I could remember his name!)
The problem is that the names on the system are secondname/firstname rather than firstname/secondname.
Firstly, is this a phone/OS issue or is this more to be the sat nav system?
When I try a Nokia 8800, it beams it over correctly which makes me think its the phone and/or the compatibility.
Does the OS store it as sn/fn but display it fn/sn by any chance?
Thanks!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269316&highlight=firstname
Mike
Thanks Mike, I've already seen this thread.
I don't think this is what I'm after though.
My Outlook has the contacts in the correct way... the fields are filled in and the "display as" is displayed always as firstname/secondname
My phone also has firstname/second name format exactly replicating Outlook.
the Issue is after beaming the contact from the phone to my navigation unit, the navigation unit interprets the name as secondname/firstname.
The question was that was this issue caused by the phone beaming it over wrongly, or the navigation unit not being able to see the data correctly
I think (I'm not an Outlook expert) that Outlook stores in whatever format it likes, most likely Surname Forename. Display as is a custom field generated for whatever - you could write anything in there.
However, when beaming, it's likely Outlook uses the substantive data, the proper Surname and Forename, and sends them in its default order.
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I think you agree with my thought then in some way
That outlook views it in one way (whether its fn/sn or sn/fn I dont know)... once synced with the phone, the phone views it in the Display field way of Outlook but infact is stored in another way and THAT is the way it gets beamed over.
I think I'll do some changing about in contacts to see if anything works
Anyone found a program so that someone can attach a gps location to an appointment in their calendar. My Garmin ique3600 could do this , it was running palm os 5 ..... anyone have a solution. I do sales and visit many many locations in a day so its great to just click on the appointment in calendar and hit the route me too it..........
If there is some secondary software that costs i wouldnt mind paying for it ( as long as i can back it up)....
My trinity arrives in less than a week, and i will need to integrate this immediately.....wm5 or wm6 upgrade, whichever will allow me to accomplish this !!!!
BUUUMMMMPPPPP come on anyone??? icontact linking perhaps ????
don't know, but maybe try this:
http://www.oopsimlate.com/
or
https://developer.handango.com/Plat...0&productType=2&platformId=2&productId=209640
Oops I'm Late! v1.1 has this feature (Standard & Professional)
It was in part because of this thread that this feature was added to v1.1. It requires Microsoft Live Search (free) and allows the user to “attach a gps location to an appointment in their calendar” per the post. chavonbravo and totalpackage181, please private message me (oopsimlate) via this board w/your email addresses, your phone types and the registered owner name and I would like to give you both a free copy of the Professional version as a thank you.
To go from a calendar event to directions on the phone is a few short steps. After launching Oops I’m Late and once the location has been resolved (geocoded), go to the Destination menu, To Map and Microsoft Live Search launches w/the location as your destination. Now you can select Directions and pick the start/end to correspond to your destination. If you are not in a known location, set your start as a new location and pick Current GPS Position from the Choose Location dialog. You should be receiving directions and be on your way.
Best Regards,
oopsimlate
PS: You could also do Categories, Map, Traffic, Movies and Gas Prices based on your destination.
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
Hi,
I'm using the standard People widget at the moment on 2.1
What I'm looking for is something more like Outlook, where I can list people in the Address Book by prioritizing their first name, last name, or company.
I also find it frustrating that in the current Contact you cannot view the entire address of a contact. It shows the first line or so and then if you click it, it just opens google maps.
I also find the sidebar scroll throught the address book difficult to use. A simple alphabet down the margin would be preferable.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks
Jack
One major bug bear I have with android is that it does not allow you to save your current GPS position to one of your existing contacts. I just can not believe android would leave out such an important feature.
Now has ICS fixed this serious flaw?
I don't think it's a critical feature or "serious flaw" and it definitely isn't a bug ;-)
You could try to find an app which does that or even write it by yourself - it would be quite easy.
How about doing it the normal way, and put their blooming addresses into their contact page like normal people lol GPS location indeed!! Iphone nonsense again I bet much like ear muffs that double as earphones! Useless and pointless lol.
Unless i've missed the point, which I doubt lol.
biffsmash said:
How about doing it the normal way, and put their blooming addresses into their contact page like normal people lol GPS location indeed!! Iphone nonsense again I bet much like ear muffs that double as earphones! Useless and pointless lol.
Unless i've missed the point, which I doubt lol.
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I was just gonna say, postal address shows up in navigation too... Something iPhone doesn't have lol
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Guys maybe I didnt explain my situation very well. Well here goes.
Sure I could save the postal address into my contacts, however I travel allot with my job to people who live in the countryside.
Usually the postal address does not direct me straight to their homes. This is where I would take the time to add their exact gps position to my contacts. This means that when I visit them again I can find them easily.
There are no apps built for android that allow this to happen. I have tried every single gps app there is. I infact challenge someone to find me one that will allow me to save my current gps position to an existing contact.
I am sure other people who travel allot between customers who may be remote would want the same feature.
You could always add their address as a Favourite in the navigation program you use. Then you just use that as the destination.
Once added as a favourite you can go on google maps and add it to a custom map, and use it as a layer, I have one for personal stuff and one for work. you can then tap these places and navigate there?
diablous said:
Once added as a favourite you can go on google maps and add it to a custom map, and use it as a layer, I have one for personal stuff and one for work. you can then tap these places and navigate there?
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I dont use google maps though. Plus I have 100s of contacts, and sometimes its just easier going to my contacts, searching for someone and then navigating. Where as with the stared places I would have to scroll through 100s of them to find the right contact. Add the fact I cant ring from that star or text the person.
Why don't you ask in the Galaxy Nexus Q thread where people are actually using ICS? Just a thought
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Guys maybe I didnt explain my situation very well. Well here goes.
Sure I could save the postal address into my contacts, however I travel allot with my job to people who live in the countryside.
Usually the postal address does not direct me straight to their homes. This is where I would take the time to add their exact gps position to my contacts. This means that when I visit them again I can find them easily.
There are no apps built for android that allow this to happen. I have tried every single gps app there is. I infact challenge someone to find me one that will allow me to save my current gps position to an existing contact.
I am sure other people who travel allot between customers who may be remote would want the same feature.
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You can save a specific location in Google Maps to My Places. Then you can add the location as Contact in My Contacts. You can save it with the name of person you want or as different person and associate with Contact you want. But, when you will do this it will save the nearest postal address instead of the gps location. So, to save the exact gps location you will select the location you want in My Places, choose More, Share this place and choose Messaging or Email. It will show you an text with Postal Address and web link. This link is the exact location of place in Google Maps. You can copy it and add it to a Contact as website. Then when you will select this website for your Contact it will show it on Google Maps and you can use Maps or Navigation to reach it.
Sorry if my english is not so good but I'm sure you understand what I mean.
I know that isn't a easy workaround but at least you can save the exact gps location for a Contact and this is the only way till someone will make an application for this (I bet is very easy, the gps location is translated into an web link and you only have to assign this web link to an account).
Im sorry but reading that is just making me confused lol :S
I think no one can write this because its not built into android, im sure windows 7 phone users have such a simple feature included. Why not android...
Man YOU are a major bug, what a strange request.
Go buy a WP7 device then.
An entire page of people just told you how to do it.
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I dont use google maps though. Plus I have 100s of contacts, and sometimes its just easier going to my contacts, searching for someone and then navigating. Where as with the stared places I would have to scroll through 100s of them to find the right contact. Add the fact I cant ring from that star or text the person.
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You can search your layers for names or addresses, you can also include phone numbers aswell. oddly enough mate i have hundreds of contacts too, so the point is mute. as I scroll through the list, like a phone book to find the person i need. and if i can't be bothered i just search and it finds the person.
while i know a BMW i had would save addresses via your current GPS, which i was handy this works just as well. Plus using the My maps feature, i've outlined the london congestion charge zone, my clients places, my suppliers, my co-workers home address etc. I've got account numbers, phone numbers, emails, pictures of the buildings i'm visiting, with my maps it's endless and tbh I'm pretty sure it covers your issue.. Also with my maps you can sit at a desktop and put your contacts on the maps, so you don't even need to be at the address to do it...
I've never come across a device that lets you do this in an "official" manner, the best you could hope for would be to copy their Google Maps location URL into the notes for that contact.
I can't imagine it being a feature that many people would have any use for, certainly not over the more common feature of a basic street address.
It's certainly not the major lack-of-critical-feature that you're making it out to be.
@knightnz, but it does exist it's just the maps app is used not the contacts book.
here is my latest map plotting new accounts i've opened. if you do this you'll be sorted. I appreciate sometime i wish i could drop a pin where i'm standing from my phone to my maps, but if i put a favourite star down, when i go to my maps i can turn it into a drop pin. so it's all good.
in theory this chap could favourite his clients then go to my maps and turn them into drop pins. simple.
Guys I DO NOT USE GOOGLE MAPS FOR NAVIGATION.
Maps can 'Share' location information via an Android intent, but it seems the contacts application doesn't consume it (though it is just sent as a plaintext intent so it shouldn't be too hard to make Contacts support this). I'm not sure that there is a standard way of sharing location information via intents (which is unfortunate, there should be), so clean integration is unlikely to be possible. Though it should be possible to modify the contacts directly from the GPS app via the Contacts API. Or modify the contacts app so that you can add 'current position' as a location.
This basically means no app can use the feature to save gps position to current contacts.
Sygic allows you to assign a "position" to a contact from either a search of it's location database or from a point on a map. However, that assigned position seems to stay associated with the contact only in Sygic. It doesn't get written into Contacts for other programs to use (or to get synced up to Google).
Again I repeat I do not use google maps, and other apps would possibly implement this feature but they cant because android doesnt allow it.
Omg, I've allready explained how to do this and you didn't even bother to test it step-by-step. Your claim is a non-sense because you dont' have a GPS position field for a contact in your Contacts application and I bet its the same in iOs and Windows mobile. That's why you can't save it, because you don't have a field for it. If you just want to save the gps position as a Note for a contact there are dozens of apps who does that.
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I've never come across a device that lets you do this in an "official" manner, the best you could hope for would be to copy their Google Maps location URL into the notes for that contact.
I can't imagine it being a feature that many people would have any use for, certainly not over the more common feature of a basic street address.
It's certainly not the major lack-of-critical-feature that you're making it out to be.
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Cut the OP some slack, I found this a very useful feature when I used Garmin on my old Nokia N95, and it spoils you once you're accustomed to just doing it. What's critical to everyone varies.
As someone who can have the same types of problems with rural locations, it never ceases how many people seem to assume the world ends at the edge of a city.
As for what I learned to do and this is pretty fast I use the "GPS status & toolbox" app from the market and a few seconds after it opens it has a lock then I just hit menu > share > "copy to clipboard"
Go into my contacts and paste it into the address of whichever contact and delete everything except the plain latitude and longitude.