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Change Contact List To [First Name-Second Name] ??

Is there anyway to change the view, when in all contacts so that peoples first names and listed first?
thanks
and a happy new year!

You will enjoy this tiny freeware software that does just that: almost instantly order your contacts by first name (or middle name or last name). Look here for Contact Changer. You run it once and 1 second after, all your contacts are sorted. The downside is that it doesn't change standard setting of the program, which means that the default order will still be LAST NAME first. But since the application is free and quick... You could run it everyday.
Happy new year mate

rzasharp said:
You will enjoy this tiny freeware software that does just that: almost instantly order your contacts by first name (or middle name or last name). Look here for Contact Changer. You run it once and 1 second after, all your contacts are sorted. The downside is that it doesn't change standard setting of the program, which means that the default order will still be LAST NAME first. But since the application is free and quick... You could run it everyday.
Happy new year mate
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Thanks man, it works a treat
Happy new year

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Is there anyway to change the view, when in all contacts so that peoples first names and listed first?
thanks
and a happy new year!
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Yes, it's a built-in function. But you have to go right to the bottom of the edit screen for the entry and select it from 'others'.
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Just installed the Contact_changer_v1.3.cab. via file explorer on my HD2, but no joy. Restarted it and checked my contacts, still showing as Last, First.
Am I missing something?
Cheers

Ibb1982 said:
Just installed the Contact_changer_v1.3.cab. via file explorer on my HD2, but no joy. Restarted it and checked my contacts, still showing as Last, First.
Am I missing something?
Cheers
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I think restarting resets it

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Is there anyway to change the view, when in all contacts so that peoples first names and listed first?
thanks
and a happy new year!
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Ye if you select a contact, then go to edit. Scroll to the bottom and select "more". This brings up the standard WM contact editor. Then in the box "File As" Select the "First, Last" option. This is long winded but it survives soft reset.

optiknerv said:
Ye if you select a contact, then go to edit. Scroll to the bottom and select "more". This brings up the standard WM contact editor. Then in the box "File As" Select the "First, Last" option. This is long winded but it survives soft reset.
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cool thanks ill do that on a rainy day

You can do that within Outlook, that's probably more convenient than on the phone.

freyberry said:
You can do that within Outlook, that's probably more convenient than on the phone.
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Thats true. I dont use outlook anymore now that there is "my phone" might look if there is the same option on the web site.

Contact_changer_v1.3.cab did the trick for me, thanks guys.
I used the app, I then set the contacts in my outlook to be First:Last and now each time I sync the names are they way they should be as opposed to Last:First. So no need to use the contact changer app on the HD2 anymore, but I'll keep it on there just incase it reverts back to Last:First.
Thanks again

I tried going to edit contact -> More but when I scroll down I don't see "More", just the entries like birthday, spouse etc. Am I in the wrong place?

ftr2k8 said:
I tried going to edit contact -> More but when I scroll down I don't see "More", just the entries like birthday, spouse etc. Am I in the wrong place?
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The bottom 3 data fields are Birthday, Anniversary & Link (for facebook). There's a "More" button below that.

Ah, thats in "people", not "contacts". "More" takes you to the edit menu for contacts - I see the option now.
If you go to contacts, just go edit and it's a few lines down

my god, what a long winded way of doing this !!!!!
I've emailed HTC through their support page, to see if they can release a hotfix or advise a registry tweak, to enable you to select the default contacts display option, without having to edit each and every contact !!!
I imported my contacts from my SIM card.... due to limitations on SIM memory, the names were merged into the Lastname field only, which was fine... in AllPeople they appeared listed correctly
But when I spent 3 hours manually editing every contact in my phone using the inbuilt MyPhone feature (I don't use Outlook on any of my home or work computers), and synched the phone, they all appeared lastname, firstname.... VERY frustrating
And there was NO field or setting within the MyPhone service website (that I could find anyway) that allowed me to set the correct default name-display.
VERY f**ing annoying, as now I have to go through the phone manually and adjust every single contact again !!!!
Come on HTC..... the phones advertised/marketed as being user-friendly.... more-so than other phones.... how about fixing the little name-display issue
Other than that, I don't want to use the cab file listed above, as I really dont want to keep adding new programs to duplicate existing ones that don't quite work the way they should...... and I don't want to have to keep running it every day...... does anyone know if there is a simple quick registry tweak/setting, whereby I can permanently set the default display as First Last ? I'm NEVER going to want my contacts displayed any other way than this.....

This is extremely annoying when you use Google Sync. In order for it to work, you need to edit 1 contact, switch to ActiveSync, press Sync, then go back and edit another.
If you edit more than 1 contact at a time between syncing, it reverts everything back except the last change.

poedgirl said:
This is extremely annoying when you use Google Sync. In order for it to work, you need to edit 1 contact, switch to ActiveSync, press Sync, then go back and edit another.
If you edit more than 1 contact at a time between syncing, it reverts everything back except the last change.
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just came across this while browsing and remembered you had said something about googlemail
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-smssyncup.html
Havent checked it out but maybe its of some use to you

installed contact manager (for .99$) all problems sorted out, after retart also remains the same.. thx for the info..

anyone has the old .cab that is free??? would it be possible to upload here?
thanks in advance,

This seems to be another thing that I used to have on the Hong Kong rom (which was on the phone when I got it second hand) and has now disapeared once I have flashed the O2 uk Rom onto the phone.
So so far by putting the o2 UK ROM on the phone my contacts wont sync with FB, no contact images are being imported against the names. The sync all contacts with FB function has gone, so I have to do each one individually, and now I realise the first name second name thing.
Going to try and find the Hong Kong rom off the net and load it on again to see if all this comes back again. Still has the English keyboard so isn't really any different.

[unresolved] Mass link contacts to facebook

Is there some sort of application that allows me to link contacts to facebook pages from my computer, and then somehow mass updates the contacts on the phone? The link to facebook is just some XML in the contact notes, so in principle this should be possible.

The same question has been asked here yesterday - i can't post the link as there is a restriction from doing so *rubbish* but it's topic id is 636175 and isn't too far down the forum...
Anyways, it apparently works with myphone, but I don't seem the XML that everyone else does for some reason and so my facebook links don't save

wingm4n said:
Is there some sort of application that allows me to link contacts to facebook pages from my computer, and then somehow mass updates the contacts on the phone? The link to facebook is just some XML in the contact notes, so in principle this should be possible.
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when you sync back your contacts after a flash/hard reset, the data to link them to their facebook equivalents should already be there. However, the links won't start to work until you have reassigned your 'me' contact card to your facebook account. When you do that, you should find the facebook links are restored. (not the facenbook app)

i'm afraid that's not what i'm looking for, myphone backs up my contact facebook associations just fine, i'm just looking for a simpler way to create those associations in the first place, preferably through the computer

Sorry if I misunderstand you, but doesn't the people/facebook app pop up and say 'click here to associate your contacts' and most of them are already pre-checked?
Note I'm NOT talking about the one on an individual person's page, but the one on the 'all people' list.
In the two seconds that process takes, 80% of my contacts were covered. The other 20% being people who I have as 'Jon XYZ' but they are 'Jonathan XYZ' on FB (or vice-versa.)
Or are you one of those people who doesn't do first name/last name and is looking for a way to get around that?

that's exactly what i need! it didn't do that with me, is there a way launch that synchronization manually?

I'm... not sure. I'm sure there is but I don't know how.
Just to make sure you're not missing anything obvious:
Go to the People tab
Click All People at the bottom
You're now at the "All" tab within a new screen -- you should see your fb contact as "Me" listed as the second contact -- do you see this 'link your facebook contacts' around here? (If it exists on this screen, it'll be one of the top three contacts.)
If not, use the slider on that same screen to scroll over to 'Updates and Events'. You'll see yourself at the very top here, and I'm almost positive that it was on this screen where it had 'link your contacts.' It wasn't in a menu or anything, it was very prominently displayed as one of the top items.
When/if you can find that screen, it's basically a dumb match that looks for Contacts(First Name,Last Name) = Facebook(First Name,Last Name). I'm not sure if it pairs on email address, but AFAIK it needs the full name to be exactly the same.
HTH.
**This all assumes you entered your facebook credentials when setting up your phone (or from the data sync menu under the settings tab afterwards) - completely separate from any fb app you may have on your phone. I'm pretty sure you have done this since you mentioned the XML in the contacts but just to be absolutely positive.

I've been looking at this problem since you first posted, and the main problem I see is that I can't see a way to un associate the me contact from face book (in order to re associate so that the contact association screen comes up)
dashed annoying!

i see what you mean, i'm going to look for a way to do that

Have you tried Fonebook!
http://www.developingtrends.co.uk/Software/Facebook/Fonebook/Default.aspx
I can do all the sync with facebook and Outlook. Give a look at this!

samsamuel said:
I've been looking at this problem since you first posted, and the main problem I see is that I can't see a way to un associate the me contact from face book (in order to re associate so that the contact association screen comes up)
dashed annoying!
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I think you could momentarily switch off the Facebook connection altogether do accomplish that. It's under "Data services" (on the settings tab).

Robrecht said:
I think you could momentarily switch off the Facebook connection altogether do accomplish that. It's under "Data services" (on the settings tab).
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Yea, thanks, that got it, however when i logged back in (through 'me' contact card) it doesnt ask about associations as when you do it the first time. Oh well.

i just found an option do associate the contacts for you! if u scroll to the contacts tab in HTC sense then scroll to updates and events (its the picture of the person with a clock next to their head) i had a button at the tob which said 'Associate contacts: XX new associations found (xx being the number of new associations)' tap this and select the contacts you want to update (by default it selects all) then tap ok. it will create the associations for any contacts that arnt associated. it will also set the default contact picture to the facebook profile. it will make your contacts lag a bit while it downloads the info but after that it runs fine
if it helps im running 1.66 official hd2 rom from HTC, with radio 2.08

mazzarin said:
Or are you one of those people who doesn't do first name/last name and is looking for a way to get around that?
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Sorry to reopen this thread, but I'm one of those people! I would also be interested in finding a way to add/backup my fb associations on the PC as MyPhone does not seem to sync them for me I get the fb id's in the <sn> field but not in the <facebook> ones =/

Linking facebook contacts with phone contacts but keeping phone name?

Hard to explain in one line but is there any way to link a contact saved in the phone with a contact from facebook and keep the phone name, a lot of my friends, i know them by their nicknames but when i link a contact with facebook it changes their names to their first and last names, some wont but some will, when i go into edit the contact it gives me what is saved in the phone which is the nickname but that is not what shows up. Some will stay the name entered in the phone but vast majority change.

I tried everything to get this accomplished, but in the end I figured once they are linked the synced contact becomes the default. If youre doing this for contact pics I would suggest linking the contact then pulling/saving the pic by dl'ing it from the media section in your contacts.
Catchin' the VIBE on the XDApp

If you long press a contact, and choose 'Mark as Default' you should be presented with the name formats of your linked contacts, and choose the one you wish to see in the contact list..

if you are in the contact, hit menu, then "mark as default" -- it will let you choose which contact is the default of those that are linked (and therefore, choosing which name to use)

moonrock said:
if you are in the contact, hit menu, then "mark as default" -- it will let you choose which contact is the default of those that are linked (and therefore, choosing which name to use)
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FYI sometimes it takes a couple of times to make that work, but it does work.

[Q] Facebook Profile Pics in Contacts

Hi
Does anyone know how I can use the facebook profiles pics as my contact pictures instead of the default ones i have?
This is easily possible in HTC phones.
but when i synced the facebook on my SGS2, it made 2 different contacts with 2 different pics, and if i try to join them, it keeps the default pic and ignores the facebook pic.
ANY IDEAS??

Please move this thread to Q&A section...
Did you try joining the other way round?
Separate the two entries... select the FB contact and then join the other entry to it

Already tried that... doesn't help.

GOT IT!
OK I got it...
open any contact that you have joined with all other available ones for the same> press menu> select "mark as default" > then just select your preferences... VOILA!!

Good One... Thanks !!

Haha I had the same issue but magically found the option too after mashing a few buttons here and there

Active Directory contacts & stock dialer

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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