In "Messaging", how do I get my own photograph to display with the "Me" messages? I would have thought it would read the picture under "Own Number" in contacts, but it doesn't.
And "Me" is rather childish, is there a way to change it to my actual name?
Yeah the only way to get the pic to show is to use the "Me" contact. Id like to know how to change to actual name too
ok this is tricky. the "Me" contact works IF and only IF your SIM card knows its own phone number. which generally does not. to check this, from home, goto
menu / settings / phone info (latest choice) / Phone status (2nd choice)
you should see somewhere in this page your own phone number.
- if you see it you simply create a "Me" contact with your own phone number, gather some picture somewhere and there you go.
- if you don't see your number (most likely you will see an entry like "MSISDN = Unknown") you have to teach your sim card its own phone number.
to do so you will need an (eeeek!!!) iphone, or a winMo phone, or some really really really old phone from the days when Snake was like angry birds. you will then have to fiddle with the settings (this is the trickiest part. i guess your best bet is googling something like "write MSISDN on SIM with <phone name>"). for Windows mobile phones, for example, you open the Sim Manager program and it's there somewhere.
remember to write your number with the +xx international dialing code.
then you can proceed to creating your "me" account and up and running you are!
I insrtalled dutys turbo on my touch hd - had htc sim manager did the job.
prior to that I went fro 345 back to 318 to get at dell streak simmanager. reflashed 345 but could not get the simmanager fro 318 to install. any idea how to install dells simmanager on 345? just wondering if that would do as good as old htc phone n manager
I've tried the iPhone fix, no ball, I'm not sure, but I think there's something about my telco's SIM's that don't have this feature, although the best I can get out of an aussie telco is "it's nothing I've heard of so maybe it's a handset feature, call DELL."
Gah, I hate it when I know better than the dolt with the buttons…
Does anybody know of any other ways to write a MSISDN number to a SIM card?
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Hi all I've tried PPC2003 from Jeff Summer Kitchen with 4.00.11.eng ver Rom basic. After I tried to install several software back I notice it is quite a lot of nice software won't work normaly in PPC2003PE. Because I'm only a regular user I just want to share several story of my own. And Tips from all of you guys if you have the problem solver.
1. Caller2Picture: Can be installed, but won't wok with all contact. Very strange only several contact work with this software
2. Omega baterry pack 2003: Can be installed, work well. But if you select the mode tap 'x' direct close program and do soft reset after it the software will crash. You will get back only untill first bootdisplay and nothing happen after all.
3. Pocket Plus: Can't be installed in PPC2003PE at all.
NB: I think menu for direct close program with tap 'x' icon very usefull for us. Because it reduce the risk of run out memory in our device. But as far as I get there is NO other alternatif software that can do this in PPC2003PE. If anybody could give me a tips I'm very thankful.
1: Caller2Picture only works if the caller is sending his/her ID along.
2: Don't use this.
3: A 2003 update of PocketPlus is out and works fine.
Wow...., thanks Leo.
But Imean the bug from caller2picture is you only can assign picture and ringtone to random contact name only not all from contact name means that if you try to assign the picture and ringtone to certain contact the "caller2picture" couldn't recognise the contact that we have. In the name bar will appers none and contact number blank. Not as usual, the contact name automaticly appears on the name and the contact number will show all, if we have more than one phone number for the contact in our list.
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That what I was mean
Blackcatz said:
2. Omega baterry pack 2003: Can be installed, work well. But if you select the mode tap 'x' direct close program and do soft reset after it the software will crash. You will get back only untill first bootdisplay and nothing happen after all.
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My experience exactly. I'm a fan of several battery pack features. I use the PocketNav available on the Kitchen to replace some of the menu/program closing utility of Battery Pack, but still liked Battery Pack better overall.
Clearly there's a conflict if you have both PocketNav and Battery Pack 2003 installed at same time... Tried this and they both occupy the same space on the menu bar and fight with each other for control. Are you running both, or did you find that Battery Pack did not work, even in the absence of PocketNav?
But Imean the bug from caller2picture is you only can assign picture and ringtone to random contact name only not all from contact name means that if you try to assign the picture and ringtone to certain contact the "caller2picture" couldn't recognise the contact that we have. In the name bar will appers none and contact number blank. Not as usual, the contact name automaticly appears on the name and the contact number will show all, if we have more than one phone number for the contact in our list.
That what I was mean
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Dear,
I found similar symtoms mentioned. Here is what I did to get around the problems
1. Try alter some details in the contact that the program does not recognize (i.e. shorten the name of the contact, etc.)
2. Ignore the "None" sign and manually type in the phone number of the contact yourself. This has limitations, though works pretty well with the incoming calls that normally not supported by the prog. That is you cannot work with more than one number/contact.
Anyway, I always prefer the second getaround. It works pretty fine except for the shortcoming mentioned
HTH
Ken
MS Money 2003 doesnt work on WM2003, I find that kind of funny.
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I have no problems with omega one battery pack 2003...
but there isnt any sound heh...
I dont have pocket nav installed... prefer batterypack mucho
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MS Money 2003 doesnt work on WM2003, I find that kind of funny.
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Dear,
If you wish to use MSMoney on your wm2003 platform, here is my recommendation
1. After the installation, your device will show "incompatibility" sign, do NOT press ok at the warning sign
2. Use your Pocket Explorer to locate the .CAB file of MS Money (can either be in the device or in SD Card, depending on what you choose in the first place)
3. Use .CAB installer to install MS Money onto your device
4. After the installion, press OK at the waring sign.
5. Here you go
HTH
I tried that, but when I try to run the cab file I get an error message telling me it cant find the file. I know its there because I just clicked on it.
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MS Money 2003 doesnt work on WM2003, I find that kind of funny.
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- yeah, that was talked about on the other PPC boards...appearently MS wants you to wait to get Money 2004... :roll:
I've searched around and couldn't find anything that does what I'm going to describe.... I think it would be usefull and if any programmer who can do it I would pay for a copy...
Is there a program or other method to put multiple display items on one line and have it scroll or flash between them... for example I bought a program called Hudson Phone dashboard... it flashes between displaying the various items I wanted status info on like minutes, used sms sent, last call..etc ...
I was wondering if you could have a line on the today screen that toggles between say messages... live messenger... e-mail... battery... memory.. or anything else I'd like to put in there... you know those items that you want to see but really don't want it to take up a line per item... this would save a ton of Today screen real estate.. and items would be selected like HTC PLUS! does...
Is this possible???
i think ive seen a today plugin that did all that and showed stock points too, it only took about 1 line on today screen and would run through all the stuff you mentioned...toobad i cant remember the name of the app
yeah and its called battery status. use the advanced version and it has basically endless capabilities.
thanks I'll look for it
I've been hunting around here and various other places trying to find a straight answer to this question, and have had no luck so far. Hoping the community here might be able to straighten me out. Also, Mods, I'm not sure if this issue is specific to the Aria, or my Aria, or if it is more general - please feel free to move this if there is a more appropriate location.
The issue:
while test-driving Attn1's CM6-Liberty ROM, I happened to note the option for custom labels for phone numbers in my address book (apparently I missed this option previously). There were a couple I wanted to change, so I made the changes, and they synced up to my google contacts just fine. After switching back to Liberated Aria b005 ROM, I realized there were a couple of other numbers I'd like to change. I went back into contacts and selected the custom option - however, the edit field window blinked closed, and the phone number label remained the same as was previously set. No window opened up to enter a custom field label.
I was able to find instructions on a workaround used by exporting google contacts, editing the CSV fields, and then re-importing. I made my additional changes this way (though in one case in which I named a phone label "Google Voice" the re-import process changed it to "grandcentral".)
I would like the ability to make these changes on the device...just wondering if this is an error happening on my device, or a feature that only works in Android 2.2+, or a limitation of HTC Sense?
Thanks,
DD
On 1.83, a Contact will show as many phone numbers as I entered for it.
But on 2.3.4, if one of the numbers is non-standard, like "*82-1-800-555-1212" (entered without the hyphens, of course), it doesn't show up under that contact. It still stores it, but I can't use it, can't dial with it, etc...
Is there any way around this bug?
Edit: It shows up okay, if it's the *only* number for that Contact. But if there's another one (formatted normally), the non standard one doesn't show.
Can anyone duplicate this issue?
Here's how you can test it...
Try making a contact like this (obviously, don't enter the hyphens):
Phone1: 1-800-555-1212
Phone2: *82-1-800-555-1212
Now, try and look at that contact. You'll see the number in standard format, but not the other.
And for what it's worth, my contacts are created as part of the Google group, not the Motorola.
I can confirm that a phone number like your second example isn't displayed in the list of numbers for the contact, though it's still present if you select Edit.
Hmm...
OP, are you using a custom ROM or stock? I'm using piCRUST v0.6 and under Contacts > Display Options > Choose contacts to display > Google, I have three checkboxes, and one of them is not labeled. Also, when I first checked this area, none of these checkboxes were checked, but all my contacts were still being displayed - except for the test contact I created to investigate the bug you reported.
Thank you for confirming that I'm not the only one seeing this!
To answer your question, it's a Fruitcake build.
And while this is definitely a bug that did not exist in 1.83, I just saw a Motorola rep point out that there is an acceptably easy workaround, which is to add a pause (comma) between the star code and the phone number (e.g. *82,1-800-555-1212)
I can confirm that that works. Whew!
Thanks again for confirming this for me.
Anyway, back to your question... try inserting a Pause or Wait after the initial (carrier and country code) digits in your second example. This will make the number appear in the list of numbers for the contact.
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I just saw a Motorola rep point out that there is an acceptably easy workaround, which is to add a pause (comma) between the star code and the phone number (e.g. *82,1-800-555-1212)
I can confirm that that works. Whew!
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Yes, you beat me to it.
Here's another oddity with Contacts - actually, definitely a bug: numbers that include * or # (e.g. USSD numbers for getting billing info, etc.) will have those characters stripped out when you do an Import from a previously Exported .vcf file. This bug is present in both Froyo and Gingerbread (stock) and has nothing to do with custom ROMs.
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Here's another oddity with Contacts - actually, definitely a bug: numbers that include * or # (e.g. USSD numbers for getting billing info, etc.) will have those characters stripped out when you do an Import from a previously Exported .vcf file. This bug is present in both Froyo and Gingerbread (stock) and has nothing to do with custom ROMs.
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Fortunately, I don't need to work with vcf's - but that's really good to know. Thanks!
Here's a problem - adding the comma as a pause lets the number show up - but the phone won't dial it properly. It simply stops at the comma, so if we are dialing *82,1-800-555-1212, the phone will only dial *82.
[Q] Old SMS "simbackup.dsb" from early android, need to read them, no idea which app!
Long ago (2008 ish) I got my first android, a T-Mobile/Google/HTC G1 "Dream", I think. It had a sim backup function, or maybe an app I downloaded that did SIM backups, can't remember which. It may have been an integrated function within Android, from memory, accessed via import/export. But that's a very vague memory, quite possibly wrong.
I just now found some old contacts weren't ever moved to my current phone. I'm pretty sure the phone numbers were originally from messages I received at that time, so the sim backup files I have from those days (10 of them dated 2008 - 2009) should contain either the contact details, or SIM messages originally containing the phone numbers.
But does anyone have an idea what app might have created these, or what app might be able to read them? I have no idea the format used, it seems to be not plain text but I can't tell anything else.
A quick google search suggests "Sim Manager" but apparently that was on Windows Mobile only, and I've only ever had Android.