I've had a number of android devices, on all of these I've been able to sort contacts by surname and make them appear [First Name] [Surname]. On my band new XPERIA Play however, I can't find any way to sort by surname. Could someone please advise me if there is a way?
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Hello all, I just received my X1, and I am loving it! Great way to start off the new year! However my contact list looks funny...Is there any way to change my contact list? For some reason after every name is a /1 or /2. I am getting my contacts through my sim, is there a way to remove the /1 or /2, or would I have to go through every list and take it off?
try copying your contacts on to your phone to see whether that resolves it. Some phones (my old sony ericsson phone used to) stores primary, duplicate, mobile, work numbers etc. with backslashes.
Yea mine was like that too. I didnt want to change it manually so I just beamed them from my old phone one by one :|
I know what you would've done... You previously had a SE phone in which you had stored contacts with various numbers Home number, work number etc...
Then you copied them onto your sim, before putting in the sim to the X1.
Now this is the way SE stores them on the sim...
great...no way to fix this all together? lol yeahh i had a k810i, which i don't find to be too old of a phone...i tried exporting from the sim to the phone too, didn't change anything though. Is there a way to export your contact list to the computer? I could just write up a quick c++ program to take in the list and remove all slashes and everything after that.
I wanna export my contact list into my comp
Im having problems finding for my contacts on the phone because of the overlapping of names with /1 /2 sort of titles... but before i do any changes and arrange the contacts, i wanna save them into a list on my computer. but it doesnt show on the microsoft office outlook contact list ?? help me~!
totally new to pocket pc here... please help!
greatly appreciated.
W810i to Xperia
Yea similar thing happened to me. I have a w810i and i saved all my contacts to the sim, and tried to copy them into my Xperia. The contacts were saved like
last name; firstname /m (mobile)
last name; firstname /h (home)
So what i did was I put the SIM back in my w810i and sent the contacts via bluetooth. You don't need a sim to power on the Xperia. However, i was unable to get "Send all contacts" to work. So i had to send one at a time!, it was a pain, but at least it's better than trying to removed the /m /h and consolidate the numbers into one contact.
Hope this helps!
I just corrected all contract one by one... the problem is the difference between a mobile phoen and a smart phone...
Hi all,
Just recieved my new HTC HD2 handset. Transferred all/most contacts from my old phone, to the SIM and placed in the new phone. However, the names show as a scramble....
eg.... If I had the name "John Smith" on my old phone, it now shows it as "-Sm;John/1"
Also, if I edit the contact, there's only one name field. However, if I add a new contact, I can add a First Name and a Surname
Just connected it to my laptop, don't have outlook, but do use thunder bird.... Is there a way a syncronising these together?
BTW: my last phone was a Sony Ericsson C902
Did you wipe the simcard before you copied all the contacts to it? My gf has something similar that occured when she combined the phone contacts and teh sim contacts. (Bit late for you to do anything about it now, of course, just asking ) as for TBird support, sorry, don't know.
I thought it was already clear TBH....
Just started a gMail account, gonna see if can sync up with that
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]
Hi all,
When I choose [people] then [Add favorite], in which map and file(s) does the HD2 put this stuff ? (XannyTech ROM V1.3)
It doesnt put it in a file, it adds meta data to the 'notes' field of that contact.
For example, if you have outlook on your PC, add someone as a favourite, then open their contact card on the PC and in teh notes field you will see something like
<HTCData><!-- Please do not modify -->
<Favorite>actionid:CallWork</Favorite>
</HTCData>
If that person is a favourite and also a facebook contact you will see
<HTCData><!-- Please do not modify -->
<Favorite>actionid:CallWork</Favorite>
<Facebook>id:#########/friendof:#########</Facebook>
</HTCData>
That is why favourites and facebook linked people persist after hard reset, so long as they are synced.
Thanks Sam !
So can I extract and restore this favorite data (incl. photo) from a stored SPB
backup ?
You dont even need to extract that data. So long as you have backed up the contact list, as soon as you restore it you should find the favourite people tabs automatically filled, and as soon as you connect the 'me' contact card with your facebook account, all your contacts that are linked to facebook contacts will get teh facebook contact image and access to the albums and such like.
Oh one thing I missed out, the favourites are added to a contact category of 'HTC favourite'
I'm not sure exactly how it knows which contact to put on which shortcut, but ive flashed new roms four or five times, with another two or three hard resets, and each time as soon as i sync outlook the people favourite shortcuts are there again.
OK fixed with 1 more little step for each favorite ..then all is allright !
Thanks !
Hello,
I set EVERY contact I have with Birthday information, and it is perfectly displayed on my X10 mini with cyanogenMod 6. On the Arc however, the birthday field is not shown. I do have a calendar with all the birthdays, but if you have no clue when someones birthday is coming up, this is a real pain in the ass...
Is the birthay only displayed on cyanogenmod or did S/// (for whatever reason...) disable this feature?
Is there a workaround?
Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Linkin
I'm planning to buy Arc ( waiting for it to be available in my country ), and now I'm worried about this as I used to have Birthdays in any contact that I know his/her birthday...
BTW, does Android add a yearly calendar event when adding new birthday to a contact ?
the birthday entries dont get deleted, you just cant see them...
I enabled the option "birthday calendar of your contacts" so when you enter a new contact's birthday it will shop up there, but unfortunately you cant enter it with the xperia arc (at least at the moment...)
Does someone have a solution to this?
I don't have Android yet but I believe there's some apps in the market that will let you do so
yeah, another dialer app might help. But isnt there a way to fix this another way?
If not, can someone tell me, whats the name of the gingerbread stock dialer or give me some tipps?
ok as a solution does anyone have the possibility to give me the apk files for the contacts/dialer app from cyanogenmod 7?
I didnt find them :/
well, since there seems no option to change this, I did the following:
Contapps can show you the birthdays:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.contapps.android&feature=search_result
I tried A LOT OF CONTACT APPS, and this is the only one I found which does show the birthdays, but the way: it seems to be a really good app!
Ebobirthday shows and can give you a reminder for birthdays:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ebomike.ebobirthday&feature=search_result
Keep testing it, but since Contapps does most of it, I think I'll remove it!
Nevertheless: if someone can offer me an apk file to the default gingerbread contact app, I would really appreciate it!