I'm running 6.1 MR1 and sync my contacts with an Exchange Server.
I have a number of contacts that have the same office phone number, and I'm trying to figure out if there is some way to specify which contact info is displayed by Called ID when there is more than one person/entity with that phone number in my contacts.
For example, say I have individual contacts for the ABC Company, John Doe and Jane Smith. All three have the same work telephone number. When I get a call from that phone number, it could be John Doe, Jane Smith or anyone else at the ABC Company calling. Let's say that in this situation, my caller ID display always shows the incoming caller as John Doe. Is there any way to tell Windows to display the caller as the ABC Company information when it receives a call from this number instead.
I've embarrassed myself too many times thinking one person was calling when in fact it was someone else!!!
Thanks!
I've love to be able to do this too.
My problem is that I have a shared address book with all workers at my business with home as well as work numbers. My name and number are obviously in there. In a different book I have my wife's name and our home number. Whenever she calls, my name, as it's alphabetically before here, shows up first. I've tried putting a period or space before her first name hoping that it would move her up on the list, but it moves her down to the last spot of people with the same last name, and I can't change my name in the shared book.
If you're working off personal address books, I'd see if you can fudge the names so that the one you want to appear shows up alphabetically first. Then I think that's the one that gets grabbed with Caller ID
the other option. if you can edit your contacts. Would be to remove the work phone number from the individual contacts. That way it only shows for 'ABC' Company.
Thanks, Nec . . . I've removed the work numbers for the individuals as a half-baked work around. The problem is that some of them are favorite contacts (Spb Shell), so if I want to call them at work, I have to go through the directory instead of just using the picture shortcut.
In the Sim manager there is an Edit Group but I cannot find anything that will let me add a group, is there anything that will let me group contacts?
My purpose is to be able to just select the group when I am sending an SMS and it will send the SMS to all the members of that group instead of me selecting all the contacts.
Thanks!
Someone has mentioned about PowerSMS on another forum but it is not free, anyone who has another suggestion?
TIA
Inesoft Phone
Dialer
Dialer makes the usage of the main phone features easy and quick: dial a number, send a message, search a person or add a new contact to your address book. Save your time using Inesoft Dialer on your Windows Mobile phone.
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One touch
Buttons are big enough and the interface is designed so that you could type with fingers and not to use stylus. Make a call, send a new SMS, add any information about the contact in one touch
T9 Search
If you have a lot of contacts, use the search feature to quickly find a certain person. The information is searched through all the main info fields and through the comments or notes. That's why it is very easy to find a contact when you remember information partly
Visualization
Upload a photo for the each contact in your address book. The photo will be displayed when you receive or make a call. Photos will be also displayed at your Favorite list, after the successful search of the contact is fnished.
Connection notification
Making a call your phone will give a light vibro-signal, notifying you about the successful connection. Thus you do not need to look at the display and check the connection. Double vibro-signal will let you know that the number you are trying to reach is busy.
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Don't just purchase the software because I referred this application, take the trial. I haven't fully tried this application in regards to categories...
I use GroupSMS, which is free:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=354164
Works great on the Xperia. You determine the people in a group by editing their contact details and selecting their 'categories'.
You can't do this from manilla if you use it, you have to go to the old windows mobile contact view.
I've had my HD2 for about 2 months now and have just come across these two "issues".
1. Is there an app or a hack to have a group contact as a favourite/quicklink? I would like to have all my co-workers (group name work) on the home screen quicklink or favourite to have instant access to any one of them instead of going to contatcs>groups>work>select person.
2. When I try to make a phone call that has a similar phone number it tries to dial it all the time. So I had to add another contact with just that same number. For example I have a co-worker with a number 123-456-7890 ext 0987 in my contact but I want to call my main work number of 123-456-7890 which I don't have in my contacts. Yet it calls the co-worker. It doesn't give me the option of not calling anyone from my contacts or call history.
Hope someone can help and this all makes sense
Anyone?
try dialer one app
Hi Guys.
I have a sugession and request as well. There is something very important missing in Manila Dialer screen.
When call comes, in Tytn II, it shows Caller Name, Number, His Company name and Designation (if stored with name). But in manila, this is missing.
I request you, if it is possible to make something in that way. I have several contacts with the same name from different companies and when a call cames I never know what person is really calling. It would be great if we can have a dialer screen with Picture, Name, Company name and number.
I have searched and searched and I could not find what I need.
Thanks & Best Regards
nfreire said:
Hi Guys.
I have a sugession and request as well. There is something very important missing in Manila Dialer screen.
When call comes, in Tytn II, it shows Caller Name, Number, His Company name and Designation (if stored with name). But in manila, this is missing.
I request you, if it is possible to make something in that way. I have several contacts with the same name from different companies and when a call cames I never know what person is really calling. It would be great if we can have a dialer screen with Picture, Name, Company name and number.
I have searched and searched and I could not find what I need.
Thanks & Best Regards
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I don't believe this has anything to do with manila but with the phone canvass or dialer.
Whether or not this can be added I don't know.
Thanks for your reply.
Any ideia how to change canvas or dialer? I think I can only change colors and fonts on the dialer.
Any possibility to change the fields that are displayed and add the company name too?
The incoming call screen in Phone Canvas displays whatever you have the name filed as in your contacts. Why not file it differently? You know, you can add a company name to a contacts information and have the company name display in parentheses right after their name. That way, it will display in that format in your calls too. Just a suggestion...
Thanks for your suggestion, but I use my phone mainly for business and I need to file name and company in diferent fields. I really need a company field on dialer screen so I can quicly identify who is calling me. I have 912 contacts and isn't easy to remember where each contact works.
Hello everyone,
I've used Samsung's Smart Switch several times, to transfer my data from one phone to another. But Smart Switch always fails to transfer my call blocklist, so I have to type the list by hand all over again.
Is there a better way to do this? Via an android app, or even via adb commands? Without root of course.
Thank you.
sam_son said:
always fails to transfer my call blocklist, so I have to type the list by hand all over again.
Thank you.
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i edited my quote to show just the part that makes me believe that you dont have these phone numbers saved as contacts on your phone. If that is the case, then android doesnt know to transfer the fact that you blocked those numbers not associated with an entry into your contact list over to a different device. Im betting that if you add a single contact on your old phone and then tack all the blocked numbers on to that number, then itll work. You might have to add a few new contact entries as im unsure about how many phone numbers you can add to each contact, but im sure you get the idea.
also, if youre blocking phone numbers of people who youd rather not see their name on your phone, you can make a contact called whatever you like such as "mortuary" or "FBI 'nobody wants' list" and add whatever numbers you need on to that contact
First of all, thanks for taking the time to answer to my question.
Indeed you are right, I am not talking about the Contacts. This is the blocklist in the Phone app. (in older devices it was called Auto reject list, now its called Block list).
Adding phone numbers in the block list does not require a Contact to exist. Adding numbers in the block list is easy, during an incoming call the "block" button adds the incoming call to the list and rejects the call at the same time.
Unfortunately, Smart Switch does not transfer this list, hence my post.
I will try what you suggest and create contact that contains blocked numbers, though I'm not sure how to transfer them from the Phone app to the Contacts app. Lets see...
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First of all, thanks for taking the time to answer to my question.
Indeed you are right, I am not talking about the Contacts. This is the blocklist in the Phone app. (in older devices it was called Auto reject list, now its called Block list).
Adding phone numbers in the block list does not require a Contact to exist. Adding numbers in the block list is easy, during an incoming call the "block" button adds the incoming call to the list and rejects the call at the same time.
Unfortunately, Smart Switch does not transfer this list, hence my post.
I will try what you suggest and create contact that contains blocked numbers, though I'm not sure how to transfer them from the Phone app to the Contacts app. Lets see...
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once you have the contact stored, youd just export the vcf file to wherever it needs to go. also, i know the blocked call feature is pretty nice, i rarely use it, but im betting samsung overlooked the passing of blocked caller info with smartswitch. One would have to imagine that the blocked numbers list gets stored somewhere on the phone. Hopefully its not in a root protected folder. Best of luck!
Interesting... the vcf export file is missing some information from my Contacts, like the associated image (the one in the vcf is a small thumbnail only). Seems like this method is even worse than Smart Switch.
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Interesting... the vcf export file is missing some information from my Contacts, like the associated image (the one in the vcf is a small thumbnail only). Seems like this method is even worse than Smart Switch.
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i cant say that im at all familiar with the contents of the VCF file itself. I would have thought that the VCF file was pretty basic as its been the standard for a decade
Well, version 4 of the standard (RFC 6350) clearly states the use of a URI which may be a remote URL or a base64 encoded string, but does not impose any resolution limits.
For whatever reason, Samsung hides the Contacts high-res photos within a root-accessible directory and the exported VCF file contains a small thumbnail as a base64 encoded string. Of course there is a big loss of other data as well. For example historical logs of all the Contacts. I'm guessing VCF export is not a real solution for moving to a new phone, but a solution for sharing contacts.
Maybe "adb backup" is more effective? hmmm... food for thought
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First of all, thanks for taking the time to answer to my question.
Indeed you are right, I am not talking about the Contacts. This is the blocklist in the Phone app. (in older devices it was called Auto reject list, now its called Block list).
Adding phone numbers in the block list does not require a Contact to exist. Adding numbers in the block list is easy, during an incoming call the "block" button adds the incoming call to the list and rejects the call at the same time.
Unfortunately, Smart Switch does not transfer this list, hence my post.
I will try what you suggest and create contact that contains blocked numbers, though I'm not sure how to transfer them from the Phone app to the Contacts app. Lets see...
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I didn't migrate for me as well.
I have tried adding the blocked number to my contacts, but it it not migrated to the blocked list on my new phone. Have you managed to migrate it?
JP
Unfortunately, even the latest Smart Switch, does not support migration of the block list
So far, I haven't found a way to backup the list, it has to be done manually.
jpp604 said:
I didn't migrate for me as well.
I have tried adding the blocked number to my contacts, but it it not migrated to the blocked list on my new phone. Have you managed to migrate it?
JP
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search for "Meus Bloqueados" on play store
App: My Blocked
Used it today. Worked great.
ThePieMonster said:
App: My Blocked
Used it today. Worked great.
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Yep, I used this too! Works good to backup and restore your phone block list.
https://encrypt-the-planet.com/backup-export-import-your-android-phone-number-block-list/
pooyab said:
search for "Meus Bloqueados" on play store
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Thanks. I had 470+ numbers, and it would not have been easy to type each one out. I exported and imported. Took 5 minutes in total with every task done. Thanks again.
It doesn't work anymore as it says it's for old android version and doesn't let us download it.
Is there an alternative?
vdbhb59 said:
Thanks. I had 470+ numbers, and it would not have been easy to type each one out. I exported and imported. Took 5 minutes in total with every task done. Thanks again.
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