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]
I'm coming from a Touch Pro 2 with a custom 6.5.1 ROM. This is my first go at Android. As I use my device I keep coming across little quirks and things that I don't like. I usually forget for a few hours until that quirk pop-up again. I just thought I would document these things here and see if anyone can provide some input or help.
1) Google Contacts (it sucks)
2) Why does the contact manager want to give me the option for sending a message to all the fax numbers in my contacts (IE: click on a contact, and now I have 4 options for sending a mesage, - cell, fax, office and home - UGH that is SUPER WRONG!!
3)Why sort contacts by the first name.... who does that ??? Why not give an option. (EDIT: found out how to fix this... Thanks!)
4)Why store all the names as just one field, not first name and last name seperately? (EDIT: Found out how to fix this one too.. Thanks!)
5)No option for a display name in contacts
6)Can't edit a contact from "Phone" type to "Google" type. (is it because Google contacts sucks?)
As you may notice, this has a lot to do with contacts, I've been messing with my EVO for a few days now to try and get my contacts straight.... I'll add more stuff as I run across it.
Im pretty sure you can edit your contacts on the evo
...I had windows mobile ...and I hated it. android rocks!!!
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I use phone contacts, not google and i it works fine for me.
1)Never used google contacts
2)This one i agree with
3)The way it is displayed, is the way it is sorted
4)Mine ask me for first and last name seperate
5)Under the tab where it says first and last name it has for dispaly name
6)No idea on, i told it to use phone not google, when i first opened contacts
BWCorvus
I like google contact better then windows...
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for first and last names, I just type the full name in the "first name" field.
Hi all,
I have successfully activated WP7 on the HD2, but I made a critical mistake:
When I created my Zune account, you have to fill in your country/region. I filled in the Netherlands. But if you don't fill in a supported country here, Marketplace won't work, because you CANNOT change the country of your ZUNE account.
You can change the country of your live/hotmail account, but that won't help (and you will get an error in zune).
My question now: Is there any way to change my Zune-account/create a new Zune account on the same Live ID?
If not, when I hard-reset my phone to connect it to another live ID, do I have to call MS again for an activation code?
Same problem here. I think I tried just about everything.
I think the only solution is to hardreset the phone and setup a whole new live-account and call again with microsoft for the activation code on the new live-account
If there's anyway to solve it, please share it
I think you can revoke your Live ID from your phone on your Windows Phone page (on this one you can make ring your phone, erase your data or even block the phone). I don't know the URL but I got the page navigating Parameters>Locate my phone menu
Let's give it a try
I've done a reset of the phone and connected with a brand new live-id. I called Microsoft to get a new key, but without succes. The guy told me I had to go to HTC. This morning a lady helped me very well.
So I tried the key i got this morning, it worked perfect! Only problem of course is that i have multiple e-mail acounts on my phone. I'm not really sure how the connection with SkyDrive is, but I think I'll have to upload my photos to my new live-id.
Do you guys think MS will just give us a new activation code if we just tell the (partial) truth? So saying we want to change our Live-ID on WP7?
Because this issue is not limited to HD2-users, but also to "normal" WP7 users that want to use the market in countries without support.
You don't need a new activation code. A single code will work fine for multiple activations.
gl0b said:
I think you can revoke your Live ID from your phone on your Windows Phone page (on this one you can make ring your phone, erase your data or even block the phone). I don't know the URL but I got the page navigating Parameters>Locate my phone menu
Let's give it a try
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I think the URL is windowsphone.live.com, but I can't revoke my ID there. It still won't solve my problems if I could, because I want to revoke my ZUNE ID, so I can set it up again...
onslaught86 said:
You don't need a new activation code. A single code will work fine for multiple activations.
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Even with a different Live ID? And within 30 days?
Ok guys, I can confirm it works!
What I did:
1. hard reset the phone
2. create a new Windows Live ID, based in the USA.
3. connect the new ID to Zune, say you are in the USA.
4. set up the phone, without windows live, but with another email adress
5. do the whole unlock-thingy including the registry change to HD7
6. Activate your phone with the new live ID and the old activation code.
Result: a fully functional WP7 phone.
Daanmannetje said:
Ok guys, I can confirm it works!
What I did:
1. hard reset the phone
2. create a new Windows Live ID, based in the USA.
3. connect the new ID to Zune, say you are in the USA.
4. set up the phone, without windows live, but with another email adress
5. do the whole unlock-thingy including the registry change to HD7
6. Activate your phone with the new live ID and the old activation code.
Result: a fully functional WP7 phone.
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That's the easy part. Now try to connect your non-US credit card with your account. You can't.
Or somebody found a solution to that?
PedrooNL said:
That's the easy part. Now try to connect your non-US credit card with your account. You can't.
Or somebody found a solution to that?
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If you have an European Credit card, create a UK-based live-ID instead of an US. The Credit Card should work, just make sure you use an existing address (they will never send mail, so just pick one).
Nice, but I already have US account. Changing it to UK seems to be impossible. Screw that multiple accounts. I dont wanna buy apps with dummy fake account since there is no way how to transfer these apps to my regular account (which I use for everything actually - mail, contacts, calendar) later.
Daanmannetje said:
If you have an European Credit card, create a UK-based live-ID instead of an US. The Credit Card should work, just make sure you use an existing address (they will never send mail, so just pick one).
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Nope. It won't work unless the billing adress of your credit card is in the UK. But then again you would have a UK credit card
That's right. I've tried to register 3 different cards (2 VISAs and one MasterCard) and none of them is accepted not only in US, but also in UK. I even bought a VPN access to have an IP as coming from US, but no luck
Daanmannetje said:
Ok guys, I can confirm it works!
What I did:
1. hard reset the phone
2. create a new Windows Live ID, based in the USA.
3. connect the new ID to Zune, say you are in the USA.
4. set up the phone, without windows live, but with another email adress
5. do the whole unlock-thingy including the registry change to HD7
6. Activate your phone with the new live ID and the old activation code.
Result: a fully functional WP7 phone.
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Hard reset or only flash new/same wp7 rom?
By 'hard reset' is mean 'reflash the rom' right?
jvitor83 said:
By 'hard reset' is mean 'reflash the rom' right?
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yes, you can do it on 2 ways,
1. go to settings -> about -> reset your phone
2. reflash the rom using MAGDLR etc.
both have the same effect.
Guys, if you know, if I delete my microsoft live account and then make the same one, with the same address (I am using a google account), will I have to ask for a new activation code from microsoft or can I use the one they sent me in the first place?
thank you
You try :
1. Install Registry editor
2. Modify any key :
- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ActiveSync\Partners\{B2830 118-7BC6-4A74-8C9A-3D8B9CEF88E0}]
"Email"=new your email([email protected] or [email protected])
"User"=new your email
- [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\IdentityCRL\Environment\Production]
"DefaultID"=new your email
3. Restart your phone.
4. access setting->email+accounts-> tap to new Windows Live ID -> tap to password -> typing newpassword -> Sign in.
jardan said:
Guys, if you know, if I delete my microsoft live account and then make the same one, with the same address (I am using a google account), will I have to ask for a new activation code from microsoft or can I use the one they sent me in the first place?
thank you
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From my experience, the activation code is tied to the device, not your Live ID. I have hard reset my HD2 multiple times and re-activated using the same code for three different Live IDs. I was using a US-based Live ID, then my son used my HD2 with his Live ID for a while, and now I have it back and am happlity using my Australian Live ID - all with the same activation code.
Hello to all.
I have been developing for windows for a long time but now i want to start at android too but need urgent an apk tool to export records from a database.
This is my cenario:
I have pink messenger installed in a phone that i use to track my childs chats.
Pink messenger has a database named threads_db with a table named nessages that holds the chats.
Every 10 seconds that table is updated from what it finds online at facebook server so even if i go offline i can still see chat history. The only bad think is that if my kid delete a thread from facebook pink messenger auto delete the thread from database also so i am loosing the history.
What i need is a simple tool to keep checking the table for new records and when a new one is found to be added to another database that has the exact same structure with the original. That way tool will add records to the second one that will never loose when deleted from first one.
It would be easy i think for this operation to be performed as the table has a unique key that names msg_id so a select statement can take place and update the second database only with new records.
I am willing to pay something for that tool also.
Thank you.
johntrk said:
Hello to all.
I have been developing for windows for a long time but now i want to start at android too but need urgent an apk tool to export records from a database.
This is my cenario:
I have pink messenger installed in a phone that i use to track my childs chats.
Pink messenger has a database named threads_db with a table named nessages that holds the chats.
Every 10 seconds that table is updated from what it finds online at facebook server so even if i go offline i can still see chat history. The only bad think is that if my kid delete a thread from facebook pink messenger auto delete the thread from database also so i am loosing the history.
What i need is a simple tool to keep checking the table for new records and when a new one is found to be added to another database that has the exact same structure with the original. That way tool will add records to the second one that will never loose when deleted from first one.
It would be easy i think for this operation to be performed as the table has a unique key that names msg_id so a select statement can take place and update the second database only with new records.
I am willing to pay something for that tool also.
Thank you.
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Have you rooted your device ?
If yes than use titanium backup and schedule automatic backup so that it will take automatically backup and if you lose your data than restore it...
Hi all.
I have three issues I have not been able to fix listed in order of importance.
1. Every time I associate a name with a phone number and save it, it will save for a while. It then removes the saved contact automatically.
2. I can not dial over WiFi networks with my phone. Straight talk tells me that my phone is not supported. If I can do this it will make Google Hangouts unnecessary. Does anyone know a work around to force this to work with ST?
3. Every time I link to a phone number from a website it uses “Hangouts” as the default dialer. I would like to use the default dialer for this.
4. I prefer to use the default contacts manager with the phone. Some how the outlook, Hangouts and default contacts manager have taken over and I can not seem to find a way to return to change these settings.
Details about my platform.
I have a rooted phone. I have only changed the straight talk no tethering default. I have an active backup to the “Google cloud.” As far as I have found NO automatic restore is set anywhere in the phone. I also have a Samsung account set up but I am not backing up to it. Titanium backup is installed but I am not using it. X-plor is also installed but to the best of my knowledge it is not doing any automated chores. Uninstall is also loaded but just sits there. I have a terminal emulator and hacker keyboard installed also.
I installed Google Voice and the hangouts dialer to use a Google number in a location I work from with bad cell reception. The problem may be associated with that change. But I have not been able to find a connection.
Outlook has also been installed because Godaddy pushed me in that direction.
Can anybody help?
Thanks in advance xda peeps.
Fixed item #1
Outlook or messenger took over my contacts. I deleted both apps and the phone contacts started to save correctly