hello everybody,
i'm loharisan. i got a big Q for all of u that has used X10. Actually i've been using Windows Mobile 6.1 for almost 4 years till today. The most helpful and utilitarian function in WM 6.1 is contact searching mode at dialer.
i.e
if i'm gonna call 'JAMES' in my phone book directory, i just have to hit '5,2,6' at the T9 dialer pad then the contact no of james will appear without having had to search or browse for 'JAMES' in full contact list.. then by clicking at the contact appeared on the dialer screen i can directly call the person.. it is really helpful btw.
now after looking review at youtube and reading i notice that there is no explainantion about the capability of doing so in most recent reviews. actually i'm planning to get x10 this week.
so the question is, does android/ X10 is able to that? just as simple like WM6.1?
please comment and mail me at [email protected]. your kind help is very much appreciated. tqvm
I feel your pain. AS far as I know it doesn't, unless of course, you can find a dialer in the market that implements that behavior.
If you want a 1 click dialer you can try "MeContacts". "Any cut" is also nice if you want a shortcut for a direct dial in your desktop.
After the update to 2.1 in September you can use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=637852
Guys.. I have the answer for you.. found it a while back and have been using this as my dialler ever since.. it's called "superdial" by Episode6
You'll love it.
im_iceman said:
Guys.. I have the answer for you.. found it a while back and have been using this as my dialler ever since.. it's called "superdial" by Episode6
You'll love it.
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Seam pretty good! thanks
The app aTakePhone has that function too.
Ok, so I am starting a new thread as I didn't find any answer, neither have received a reply previously in other threads (Specific roms threads)
In custom roms such as Cyanogen's and [email protected]'s - no Sense roms - the Dialer is very basic.
Actually, it is impossible to get a contact filtering when entering numbers (what T9 does in SMS/Messages apps... Ok, I don't know how to explain that in a comprehensive sentence, but I hope you get it)
I played with a rom that a friend of mine installed on his Galaxy S, and the Dialer is pretty much the same, such as Google phones with basic android software, no additional features,... But that one has the predictive thing....
Is there a way to implement this feature within the phone (Dialer) apk of custom roms?
Thank you guys for ... Well, first, trying to understand what I wrote, ... and then for your answers!
Try Dialer One
take phone dialer
Thank you guys, for answering.
I know Dialer One, but don't like it, ... Have to discover TAKEPhONE dialer...
However, I wanted to know if it was possible to add the feature in the original phone application for Legend, as it seems to be implemented in the dialer from the custom rom for Galaxy S... (I assume it is...)
Because that app, the original phone app above mentioned, is pretty much the exact same app than the one for our Legend, except it has the T9 filter feature.
Thank you guys, anyway !!!
thank you for your effort
Hi everyone,
I hope to consider this post in the good section, because I think this problem could be solved by a developer.
So, what's about?
I'm coming from a WM device (HTC Touch HD) and, having a huge amount of contacts, I discovered a problem with the stock dialer.
In my old phone dialer, when I searched for (by example) letters JO it returned all the contacts containing these string in name, surname or company name, like this:
Doe, JOhn (Acme Inc.)
JOhannes, Mike (McNeill Co.)
Power, Paul (JOss Ind.)
In my SGS2 (as well as in the Galaxy Tab) stock dialer, the results returned are only the contacts where the name starts with JO: JOhannes, Mike.
Also, the stock dialer isn't showing the company name and, because I have more persons with the same name, I often make confusions and call the wrong person.
Question: can anybody correct this problem and/or modify the stock dialer in order to return all the relevant results?
A related problem is with the anwer screen where only name and surname are shown. Will be great if could be shown the company name also.
P.S. there is a dialer who already can do a real K9 search and snowing all the relevant results: aTAKEphONE. But I prefere to add as less as possible other application to my phone. Also, the above mentioned dialer does not make video calls.
So, what do you think guys ?
Could we have a real K9 serch in our stock dialer ?
Regards to you all !
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
Same problem as you mate, the dialer sucks due to this fact. I went for go dialer instead. Works well and has video call (i think...?) And nice grouping of contacts if you have lots...
At least it gives the correct search if nothing else
I'd too stick to the default dialer if it actually worked.
Good luck, and please post here if you find a hack for it.
-E
if you mean t9, try dialer one from market.
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Yes, sorry...
I wanted to say t9
To reply to the other posts, neither GO contacts nor Dialer One fits my needs. I've tried almost dialers...
And want to have the t9 for the dialer section and not for it's contact section.
So, I also hope that some skilled developer will find a solution for us.
I'll keep posting any news anyway.
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I'm curious but what about dialer one isnt meeting your needs? It searchs first and last name and by number, in both contacts and call logs, all similtaneouly. Brings most often contacted to the top, etc. I'm wondering if its the company name? Not sure as that gets included in the return as I have my contacts set up by name except where then company is the name itself and then I have different numbers set up under that contact. Just curious as I'm always looking for a better mousetrap. I'm sure someone will be along to point at that requests do not belong in this section as stated in the faq above.
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I'm curious but what about dialer one isnt meeting your needs? It searchs first and last name and by number, in both contacts and call logs, all similtaneouly. Brings most often contacted to the top, etc. I'm wondering if its the company name? Not sure as that gets included in the return as I have my contacts set up by name except where then company is the name itself and then I have different numbers set up under that contact. Just curious as I'm always looking for a better mousetrap. I'm sure someone will be along to point at that requests do not belong in this section as stated in the faq above.
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Yeh Dialer one searches business name and just about everything in the contact info. I wouldn't go back to stock even if it did search properly, even though that is why I left it. I personally don't see whats missing in Dialer one either so curious what the topic author finds is missing.
Edit: Except he DOESN'T want T9 when searching contacts and only in the dialer. Not sure of the reason for this but hey. He could always use the stock contact manager still and only use the dialer for making calls.
Oh, I assumed he was using T9 search. I dont even have a contact shortcut on the home screen. A lot of people don't realize its actually less clicks to get to a number through T9 on the dialer than any other search method.
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Oh, I assumed he was using T9 search. I dont even have a contact shortcut on the home screen. A lot of people don't realize its actually less clicks to get to a number through T9 on the dialer than any other search method.
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I agree. Pretty much all contact methods are easily accessable in Dialer one by entering just a few numbers for detailed t9 prediction then clicking on their contact photo choose call, sms, email, video call, full contact info, facebook, google maps.....
Jus thought I'd say I have no affiliation with Dialer one, just a happy user
I hear you. The stock dialer is woefully inadaquate in terms of enhanced functionality and search. Was used to much better before I got to android. Like I said though, always looking for a better mousetrap or just learning something new that makes things either easier or faster.
I have been using Rocket Dialer. its the best i saw amongst all T9 dialers
Guys,
First of all, this post was intended to rise a challenge for developers for finding a solution to have a real T9 search on the stock dialer.
Second, I agree that there are many other dialers out there, most of them better than the stock dialer.
Third, Dialer One does not show the company within the returned results. So, if you search JO and you have more "Doe, JOhn" you will see these results without knowing who-is-who. Will you going to open each one in order to find the right John that you want to call?
Anyway, the discussion slipped to a discussion about different dialers, as I can see. All right, maybe this could give ideas to a good developper for implementing the best funtions in a new dialer... or to modify the stock one.
Keep posting, maybe will improve our Android smartphones.
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try youlu address book from the market... its has the best t9 search and interface.
stefanjadex said:
Hi everyone,
I hope to consider this post in the good section, because I think this problem could be solved by a developer.
So, what's about?
I'm coming from a WM device (HTC Touch HD) and, having a huge amount of contacts, I discovered a problem with the stock dialer.
In my old phone dialer, when I searched for (by example) letters JO it returned all the contacts containing these string in name, surname or company name, like this:
Doe, JOhn (Acme Inc.)
JOhannes, Mike (McNeill Co.)
Power, Paul (JOss Ind.)
In my SGS2 (as well as in the Galaxy Tab) stock dialer, the results returned are only the contacts where the name starts with JO: JOhannes, Mike.
Also, the stock dialer isn't showing the company name and, because I have more persons with the same name, I often make confusions and call the wrong person.
Question: can anybody correct this problem and/or modify the stock dialer in order to return all the relevant results?
A related problem is with the anwer screen where only name and surname are shown. Will be great if could be shown the company name also.
P.S. there is a dialer who already can do a real K9 search and snowing all the relevant results: aTAKEphONE. But I prefere to add as less as possible other application to my phone. Also, the above mentioned dialer does not make video calls.
So, what do you think guys ?
Could we have a real K9 serch in our stock dialer ?
Regards to you all !
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
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dialer from ZSKF4 has that feature. perhaps you can try flashing that rom. bear in mind that's an Asian rom.
stefanjadex said:
Third, Dialer One does not show the company within the returned results. So, if you search JO and you have more "Doe, JOhn" you will see these results without knowing who-is-who. Will you going to open each one in order to find the right John that you want to call?
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Ahh so you want to show the company name in in the results. Now I re read your message its pretty obvious now I think of it... Ooops.
I agree maybe we should list things that people like from all dialers and maybe some devs can add these functions to the stock dialer.
I thought you meant search say "Nike" and show all people who work for Nike.... of which Dialer one does but it will also show your best mate "Nikelodeon Smith" as well... but will not show the company name in the search names....
Thank you for your suggestion. Can you try please to post a screenshot with a search result ?
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I'm glad that you saw the point. Where I want to arrive is: using our Android handsets also for business, not only for fun.
This is mean that they really should be SMARTphones, helping us to use them better and faster.
Ar regarding your suggestion, let's do it!
I'll start a new post for that purpose and I'll post the link here.
Meanwhile, everybody is welcome to post here their suggestions.
Stefan
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stefanjadex said:
Hi everyone,
I hope to consider this post in the good section, because I think this problem could be solved by a developer.
So, what's about?
I'm coming from a WM device (HTC Touch HD) and, having a huge amount of contacts, I discovered a problem with the stock dialer.
In my old phone dialer, when I searched for (by example) letters JO it returned all the contacts containing these string in name, surname or company name, like this:
Doe, JOhn (Acme Inc.)
JOhannes, Mike (McNeill Co.)
Power, Paul (JOss Ind.)
In my SGS2 (as well as in the Galaxy Tab) stock dialer, the results returned are only the contacts where the name starts with JO: JOhannes, Mike.
Also, the stock dialer isn't showing the company name and, because I have more persons with the same name, I often make confusions and call the wrong person.
Question: can anybody correct this problem and/or modify the stock dialer in order to return all the relevant results?
A related problem is with the anwer screen where only name and surname are shown. Will be great if could be shown the company name also.
P.S. there is a dialer who already can do a real K9 search and snowing all the relevant results: aTAKEphONE. But I prefere to add as less as possible other application to my phone. Also, the above mentioned dialer does not make video calls.
So, what do you think guys ?
Could we have a real K9 serch in our stock dialer ?
Regards to you all !
Sent from my GT-P1000 using XDA App
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Did you ever get any solution for this very annoying problem?
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Did you ever get any solution for this very annoying problem?
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Are you referring to searching for company names too in the dialer?
After reading this post I found this app that does it well - Eir Fast Dialer.
You do have to go into the settings to enable company names though but it seems to work well after that.
jjdoctor said:
I have been using Rocket Dialer. its the best i saw amongst all T9 dialers
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It consumes memory heavily
Hi guys.
My Motorola Milestone had a call button beside each contact on the stock Contacts app. The Xperia neo doesn't have such a thing (if I click on a contact, it takes me to a contact page where I must then click on the phone number to start the call).
I thought that button was standard on the Android Contacts app. Perhaps not. Anyway, is there a way I can have button like that on the neo? Perhaps installing an app or something...
You are correct, direct phone button is there when you are in Android default rom (like those in CM rom).
In my opinion, Sony make it much more beautiful, and convenient in integrate with facebook, twitter etc, but sucks in its original function - dial - and don't have T9 search which already found in many old phones, some will say there is a search there, but it can only search by name.
But still, you can install thirty party app, GO dialer, dialpad, etc, just search in Market.
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You are correct, direct phone button is there when you are in Android default rom (like those in CM rom).
In my opinion, Sony make it much more beautiful, and convenient in integrate with facebook, twitter etc, but sucks in its original function - dial - and don't have T9 search which already found in many old phones, some will say there is a search there, but it can only search by name.
But still, you can install thirty party app, GO dialer, dialpad, etc, just search in Market.
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All contacts app substitutes from the Market are flawed in something, and even the best are badly translated to portuguese.
Because it's so simple but useful I'd suppose someone had already added this functionality (call buttons on the contacts) on the regular app using... umm... maybe another app. I don't know, I'm just a user with a problem really, like most people.
clik on the contacts photo, a pop-up will come with call and text button.
Yes I noticed this problem with the Pro too, not intuitive at all, when I first tried to call someone I was stuck looking at their contact details with no way to know how to call someone, dam stupid! -1 for Sony for that!
i figured it out accidently on my Neo V.tap the caller image(even if it is not assigned) and you will find your solution.hope it works on Neo as well
greatpcfan said:
i figured it out accidently on my Neo V.tap the caller image(even if it is not assigned) and you will find your solution.hope it works on Neo as well
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Yeah it does, just tried it on my original Neo.
I have spent the last three days searching my brains out and have not found an answer to my question.
I recently installed the backside rom in my OV and love it (many thanks) but the stock voice to text feature in messaging included with the virgin mobile rom is no longer there. The feature is gone and the little mic icon on the keyboard is gone. Is there a way to bring it over on the sd card when I install the new rom and then add it back in? Does someone know where to get the files to install back in?
I have tried several market apps but none of them function quite the same or as well as the factory app. I don't want to go back to the stock rom but this feature may be the deal breaker.
Thanks in advance for all your help. love the site.
Download Voice Search from market and welcome to the forum
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Download Voice Search from market and welcome to the forum
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I appreciate the response and thanks for the welcome but that app is just not quite the same and I do not think it adds an icon to the keyboard when attempting to text.
I would like to now if the original equipment feature is able to be added when flashing the new rom.
thanks again.
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I appreciate the response and thanks for the welcome but that app is just not quite the same and I do not think it adds an icon to the keyboard when attempting to text.
I would like to now if the original equipment feature is able to be added when flashing the new rom.
thanks again.
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Yes this is the solutin, voice search is responsable for all voice input; in-app and on keyboard..
Rores said:
Yes this is the solutin, voice search is responsable for all voice input; in-app and on keyboard..
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Thank you for the reply but I am not looking for an alternative solution I am looking for information on re-installing the original app that comes installed in the phone.
The original function is very user friendly, requires no setup and minimal input to use. Voice search is just not the same. However, if someone knows if Voice can be setup "exactly" like the original app I am all ears.
Thanks again.