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Contacts in "Messaging"

Has anyone found another way around this? When you go to Messaging > New message...do you really have to put in a phone number or can you type a name instead?
Because If i type in a name, it just types in the numerical equivalent of the letters. for example: Ryan Smith comes out to "7926 76484"
Does Google actually think that people will memorize the phone numbers of the contacts they want to text message?
So the way around it for now is to go to Contacts and click on "Send Txt Message" but I've been spoiled with the Dash where I can just search for the contacts in the messaging client itself.

when I go to messaging>new message and I type in a name, it has a list to select from. The first is the numerical equivalent, but under that are all the matching names in my phone book. Is yours not like this?

gospeed.racer said:
when I go to messaging>new message and I type in a name, it has a list to select from. The first is the numerical equivalent, but under that are all the matching names in my phone book. Is yours not like this?
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Me too....

it's weird cuz i do. since there is no program that takes screenshots of the g1 yet, i took a picture:
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i tried typing in Cheryl Addeco (don't worry, it's not a real name haha) and it never displayed the phone number I inputed 14089994433. Instead, it just did the "numerical equivalent" of 243795 233326

weird... it should show below it did on mine... I will get screen shots tomorrow of what I do.

i get a list of my contacts as well not sure why this is happenning to some and not others.

yeah i,ve had that problem with i first got the phone.
I didn't use Gmail for contacts much.
I exported my contacts from outlook using CSV
and then imported them into gmail when i got my G1.
I was having the same exact problem as the OP.
I've noticed a pattern with it though.
It only happened with some contacts.
Other contacts it would show up when i started typing their name.
I tried to find something in common with the ones that showed up.
I realized that when i had a POS nokia 6131, when i added contacts it saved their number as "Other"
When i added contacts with my iphone, i had a chance to select it as "Mobile".
The contacts that show, have (Mobile) next to the names.
So i went into my Gmail, and edited all the numbers to be Mobile as opposed to Other.
After i finished that everything was fine!

All of them are Mobile...if they're supposed to be in Mobile. Interestingly enough, I tried playing around with changing them from Mobile to Home and when I click on save, it doesn't save the changes and leaves it to whatever it was.
The ONLY number that shows up is the one I added. I noticed though when I looked in GMail contacts that for the person that shows up, it says "mobile" and the rest of my contacts say "Mobile"

[APP] RenameContacts: Change the "File As" on a contact without Outlook.

I don't have Outlook installed on my desktop, and I wanted to rename some of my Contacts. File As options I had were: "First Last", OR "Last, First." Kinda weak.
Made this in 5 mins, probably took longer to write this up..
Here if any one else is interested.
In the zip:
Source, the VS.Net 2008 C#/.Net CF 2.0 project.
RenameContacts.exe, run from an SD card, or where ever.

Thank you! Looking right now

thanks but fdcsoft PPC contact Manager is a better option.

ok thanks for this nice little app

Nice work, but you don't need
Hi Alex..
You can change name in contacts edit..
You don't need outlook on your desktop.
Use "File as"
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ycimpir said:
Hi Alex..
You can change name in contacts edit..
You don't need outlook on your desktop.
Use "File as"
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I am sure the author knows that but try the app it brings all contacts up in one list much easer to use and quicker

ycimpir said:
Hi Alex..
You can change name in contacts edit..
You don't need outlook on your desktop.
Use "File as"
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As wapvirus suggested, I needed to rename a lot of contacts. Also.. as I mentioned. The drop down in my contact panel has two options. "Last, First" OR "First Last"
I see yours has four options, but there's still no way to name some one "Mum." Is there?

krishan2207 said:
thanks but fdcsoft PPC contact Manager is a better option.
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Doesn't it, ppccontactsmgr only deleted selected contacts. And adds contacts from SMS and Call history? Not rename contacts?
Hmm, tried "Rename" but I think you need them both
Standard I have the below on my device.

Oooooooooohhh man it's so great !!!
I was just facing the issue of having to name my contact with their stupid facebook name to get theim to link with the new Manila vga port.
It's working perfect but... (yes there's always a but. This one is very small and propably easy to solve) ... I would like to be able to launch it from my Internal Storage. For the moment it only finds my contacts when launched from Windows folder

tonio94 said:
... I would like to be able to launch it from my Internal Storage. For the moment it only finds my contacts when launched from Windows folder
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I launched it from a storage card which worked. So why not from Internal storage?

[Idea] SPB Mobile Shell Facebook notifications widget?

Hello all, I'm a software developer (VB/C#) but new to WM. I've recently bought SPB MS3 and fell in love with it instantly. Looking at the widgets currently available, am I correct in thinking creating new ones is just restricted to modding existing ones?
With this in mind I thought about how a facebook notification widget could be created (coming from a blackberry it’s the only thing I miss) I came up with the idea of:
Clone the excisting email notification
Change the picture and name of it Facebook (obviously)
Set up a dedicated email address and enable Facebook email notifications on facebook.com (this would be the only downside as it would also require the user to change their login email)
Develop a simple program which the "facebook" widget links to
The program will simply clear the email inbox and then launch the Facebook application if installed, if not then launch http://m.facebook.com
First of all, being new to SPB I’d just like to check if this is plausible or perhaps I'm missing something and there would be a simpler way to go about this?

Hello sir,
It is plausible and doable BUT there are so many great facebook applications out there like FIM that work so well when SPB is running. Yes I would love to see a facebook widget for SPB, but I really used the chat interface alot with facebook so if you can implement that it would be really good. Other than that just emails for notifications, that would be boring .
Let us know what you are thinking in more detail, and I can help you out.
thanks

Hey, think you may of misunderstood what I'm hoping to achieve. I'm not going to create a new facebook application just a simple SPB widget to show when you've got new facebook notifications, for example:
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Oh thats cool you should do that, please go for it. I will be the first one to use it

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Hey, think you may of misunderstood what I'm hoping to achieve. I'm not going to create a new facebook application just a simple SPB widget to show when you've got new facebook notifications, for example:
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WOOOOW, just the widget I was looking for, can u send it to me??

Are you done with developing this widget??

Yeah its a great idea! Did you end up making this?

Gmail Contacts - OMG Finally!!!

In case you haven't heard, Contacts was updated:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/updates-to-contacts-and-slightly-new.html
Best feature I've been DYING to have for months: custom labels!!! My god, I always found it absolutely maddening to look at a contact in Gmail with four different numbers and not know which is which for lack of labeling tools. Finally, I can name phone numbers as "Google Voice" or "Skype" rather than have a whole mess of "mobile" "work" "mobile" "work" numbers and not know which one is which.
Funny bug, notice that if you select "Google Voice" as the drop down in Gmail, it actually comes out "grandcentral" in Android Someone forgot to update the name since that company is long since gone...
(And for some reason the fields selected from the default dropdowns in Gmail come out lowercase on Android like "mobile" rather than "Mobile".)
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Anyway, I am VERY excited about this feature! One more step to Google/Android awesomeness!

??? I've been able to do custom labels since I bought my Nexus

Blueman101 said:
??? I've been able to do custom labels since I bought my Nexus
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Not in Gmail

That's great to hear! I guess I will see them soon once it works its way into GApps users. I have a gmail account for android market and google reader...but I draw the line at my contacts!

Cool.. This is probably off topic a bit, but I have my outgoing calls automatically private (AT&T does it for me), so I manually put in *82 for some numbers..
Android tends to hide it, so I never know if I'm really sending my number (prefixing *82) or not. Actually I need to try something else, most other phones if I put in *82 AAA NNN-NNNN and that person calls me, it doesn't match the numbers so I have to put one with *82 and one without so CID shows that contact...
Okay this has nothing to do with the original topic... So...
Cool, I'll be glad to have some custom ones, as some folks have "Work cell" vs "Personal cell" or such. Thanks for mentioning it, I'll be tweaking at least a few folks in there.

they need to add the other fields that show up in the phone to the google contacts webapp (ie notes, birthday, etc)... birthday in particular needs to be better integrated to contacts and calendar in general so i can ween myself off facebook.
also would be nice to be able to list all my non organized contacts.. currently i can only list my organized contacts or "all contacts"

is this for the android contacts app or just the gmail web interface?
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J.L.C. said:
is this for the android contacts app or just the gmail web interface?
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Just the Gmail Contacts interface, which if you don't see yet, will be rolled out to everybody over the next few days. But all the new data gets formatted and sync'd to phone (as opposed to having to edit hundreds of contacts via phone...)

Hey look, and we still can't add birthdays on from the phone. Good work Google. Keep it up.

GldRush98 said:
Hey look, and we still can't add birthdays on from the phone. Good work Google. Keep it up.
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The phone didn't magically change.... Therefore, no new features were added on the phone.

[Q] Editing the "Me" contact card...

Whenever I look at a text message conversation it puts "Me" as blank picture: (see first picture).
But whenever I try to edit "Me" from the "People" application, the device just hangs and won't let me edit anything. Does this happen to anyone else or does anyone know where to fix it? Thanks!
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From what I remember reading a while back, you will need to make sure that your sim card has your number set in to it... From what I remember reading, you can do this using an iphone or a blackberry... The cyanogenmod rom used to do this from what I recall... But can't say 100%...
Unless someone can correct me, as I only used android for a few weeks

I'd like to piggyback off this question and ask if theres a way to make one of our contacts "Me" or just overwrite it.

lovelldr said:
From what I remember reading a while back, you will need to make sure that your sim card has your number set in to it... From what I remember reading, you can do this using an iphone or a blackberry... The cyanogenmod rom used to do this from what I recall... But can't say 100%...
Unless someone can correct me, as I only used android for a few weeks
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Ah at least I have an idea now! Thanks!

salemfox said:
Ah at least I have an idea now! Thanks!
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On Windows Mobile there was an option to copy any contact into the "Me" contact but I can't find that option, should there be one on Android!

The "Me" thing is an HTC thing, not an ANDROID thing. In Vanilla Android there is nothing like this in the People area, you just have a contact card of yourself. I can edit my "Me" information fine. If you go on Google.com and edit your contacts with your name, it seems to change it as you login to facebook and stuff and it auto associates you with yourself, ie my Facebook is Josh ______, my twitter is GlitchZero, it auto links these things to "Me" or "Josh ______" in my Google contacts.

Ah thank you for that information. I did a hard reset & made sure "Me" was not associated with any Facebook or Google account & it works perfectly, thanks!
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Glad I could help.