Hi,
firstly, let me introduce myself:
My name is Tony and from my signature and amount of posts, you can see, I am a very active XDA user and used to do a lot of first and second level support for the blueangel and the blackstone and today my SGS2 arrived, which is my first native android phone. As soon, as i figured out all the tiny beginner's questions, i will start supporting this awesome device for all you fellow users out there.
But for now, excuse me, that I have to ask a few stupid questions that I encountered while setting up the device:
1. My phone is set to English (US) and my keyboard and voice input options are set to German (so that writing or voice inputting sms and german addresses are easier). However, Vlingo does not exactly support the dual language and sometimes produces problems when reading out english information, anybody else experiencing mixed language problems there? any advice?
2. i decided to set my up contacts from scratch. i put in all the correct formal names for my contacts, but when i connect these users to their respective facebook accounts (who are sometimes based on nicknames), the display name automatically changes to the facebook name, while i prefer the formal name. is there a way to change it?
3. contacts allow me to add several im accounts, e.g. ICQ. when i click the icq# of a user, it opens up im and states that only windows live, google talk and yahoo are supported. is there a way to either connect that to the official icq for android, or add other messengers to the stock im? if not, why bother inputting all the information, if one cannot use it?
i wonder why nobody else seems to experience problem #2.
i found it again here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6067
apparently, when you connect contacts through one or more platforms, like facebook, twitter, last.fm, skype... and there names vary, your contacts app will always prefer the last name with the latest letter in the alphabet. in my case, there is one contact first name r. last name b., but one facebook, he goes by another variation of his name, "zu b.", so contacts prefers the facebook name, as z is greater than b. there is no logical reason why facebook names should be preferred to the phone's own stored name. after all, i entered those names because i wanted to find the contacts by that name. why does the phone tell me, my choices are no good and facebook's are better?
strike issue #1 and #3, i will find a workaround some time, but it would be extremely nice, if someone could check if this contacts issue is present in their device and firmware?
i have ke7 dbt (latest german stock rom).
My nexus one does the same thing. If I sync contacts with Facebook it changes to their Facebook displayed name. I'm still not clear on exactly how it does it too.
i tried several ways of bypassing the issue, starting by assuming the sorting of contacts would be determined by the regular ascii order of letters, or linux's, so i tried renaming every contact to minuscules, so R.B. -> r.b. which didn't help and i wouldn't even bother starting any contact with z or any symbol, as that would render the letter navigation bar on the right useless.
so the only way i could bypass the issue was to sort and display contacts by first name. after many years of windows mobile use i'm having trouble getting used to it but apparently, there is no other way so far.
if anyone else has trouble with this, please go to http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6067 and star the issue and post your experiences.
Hi there, I'm now working over CM 7.2 for Atrix 4G, here's the thing... I'm tryiing to get email sync native, as it is in CM9, but I'm not sure of what shall I modify... there's the option of adding a "work account" and add an e-mail this way but it's kind of frustrating... not very friendly for what I'm trying to do...
So resuming, I would like to integrate the e-mail sync option in CM 7.2 the way it is in CM 9...
Any ideas?
Thanks you all guys
PS: Sorry about my english
noone? basically what I'm trying to do is:
In CM9, when you want to add a new e-mail account from setting, it just asks you for e-mail adress and pw.
In CM 7.2 it asks (work account):
*e-mail adress
*pw
*domain/user name
*pw
*server
So I want CM 7.2 adding e-mail account settings yo be just as simple as tey are in CM9
is there a way? or just keep adding it from e-mail app?
Don't quote me on this but I believe the newer exchange apps have code that does much of the work for you by querying the Exchange server and figuring out the domain being used as well as the username from your email and password. That is why they probably don't ask you for the extra fields.
If this is true, you might need to look into how the Exchange apps accomplish this and see if you can somehow make modifications yourself.
I am not near my dev machine and so I don't remember if the android source contained the relevant code for Email.apk. You will have to check.
Cheers!
I'm actually thinking on that but it's quiet annoying to compare line by line apks...anyway tonight think I'll do that...tweeted turl to see if he can help me with this stuff...but I'm starting to believe it can be so much work for a simple stuff like it actually is...the problem is mail.apk may have some sync issues the way it's now done
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Hello everyone
I hope someone can help me with this.
I have just moved to android from ios and hopefully i'll stay on android because of the fact that it can customize everything on it.
I have a question regarding some apps at the moment.
Does anyone know any good app for hotmail that allows to see all the folders.
At the moment the native app it makes it very hard to browse through my hotmail account where I need a few steps in order to switch folder and in addition it doesn't tell me which folder has emails unless I go in it.
On the iphone I was greeted with all the folder as a root window and each folder had a notification showing how many non read messages were in each folder so browsing was easy.
I've tried hotmail seven as well but the problem with the folder is the same unless I need to do something with the settings,which I don't have any clue about.
If someone has used hotmail and know what I'm talking about then please let me know if you know about any app.
Secondly: I wanted to know if there's an app that allows me to receive notifications about messages, emails etc but without showing the contentn of the message and that gives me also the ability to put passwords on messages so that it can't be accessed without it.
and finally: I'd like to know if you guys are aware of a good contacts manager that allows to keep contacts private so that names and similar stuff is now shown in the incoming and outgoing calls.
Sorry for the many questions but will appriciate if you can help.
Thank you
What I do to find all this information is go on Google and type in (example) best hotmail app for android and read the post.
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I've done so,that's why I mentioned hotmail seven ad it was considered one of the best but it doesnt have those features that I mentioned,reason why I'm asking if people used different hotmail clients and wheter they found better features in them
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Hello,
Is there any possibility to access from my own android application downloaded emails from Exchange account?
I need to filter them by subject and parse.
I can't find any info or tip how to do that.
Best Regards:
Chris / Weedget
Hi,
First excuse my english which is not my natural language.
I have a serious issue to resolve.
I would like to know if my daughter use a second and secret Facebook account on her smartphone (with the Facebook app). I have an access to this smartphone, I can switch it on. I know her main account, but i suspect her of using a second account to talk with a radical person, maybe a dangerous person.
Is there a simple way to know if there is a second account used on the smartphone, ans if so, its login (not the password, i don't want to see private conversations) ?
Thank you so much,
Bob