Hi Guys,
Was wondering if there was anyway to adjust the format of numbers.
For example when you type a number it formats it XXX-XXX-XXXX
The problem with this is that Australia formats numbers differently.
Our cellphones are formated (on business cards etc.) as XXXX-XXX-XXX or for land lines XX-XXXX-XXXX
Obviously everything still works, but analysing numbers is quite difficult.
Hoping to remove the -'s all together, or just tweak it accordingly?
Any ideas?
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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?
Dear friends,
most of the last Chinese Android Dual SIM Phones have the ability to record phone calls on both lines.
It is usually necessary during the call, press the soft key "menu" and choose to start recording.
The file - usually in .amr - is saved on the SD, in a path that is not modifiable and with a name that generally only contain the time and date of registration, but not the called number.
Understand very well that with these assumptions, this function is practically useless.
The problem is that with these telephones is almost impossible to find a third-party software able to operate automatically and well on both lines.
I saw that in the Forum are developed specific phone.apk able to solve these issues, but they are all device dependent works.
Someone would be able to find a general solution?
Thanks in advance.
Pietro from Italy
Call Recorder | Total Recall / Killer Mobile
Pressa said:
Dear friends,
most of the last Chinese Android Dual SIM Phones have the ability to record phone calls on both lines.
It is usually necessary during the call, press the soft key "menu" and choose to start recording.
The file - usually in .amr - is saved on the SD, in a path that is not modifiable and with a name that generally only contain the time and date of registration, but not the called number.
Understand very well that with these assumptions, this function is practically useless.
The problem is that with these telephones is almost impossible to find a third-party software able to operate automatically and well on both lines.
I saw that in the Forum are developed specific phone.apk able to solve these issues, but they are all device dependent works.
Someone would be able to find a general solution?
Thanks in advance.
Pietro from Italy
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Hi Pietro. This app (name on title of this post) record the call, wiht the date, contact name, number and other things but I don't know if it works on dual SIM phones. It saves the recording file in AMR, WAV, 3GPP and MP4. Ciao
I've found other threads about a similar issue, but not for the SG III
The character limit in Android contacts notes field, THAT CAN BE EDITED DIRECTLY IN THE PHONE seems to be about 1000, (968 according to some users)
This also seems to be related only to SAMSUNG version of contacts.
Has anyone found a workaround to this limit?
The bad news are that if you sync with Outlook, you may end up with a loss of information.
I know, I know: 1000 is a lot, contacts is not a CRM program, etc, but any help will be really wellcome.
Regards.
Contacts notes field character limitations
This issue of a limited notes field in the contacts app - while it seems like such a small one to most people - greatly affects many of us who utilize the contacts in our Gmail accounts to store a great deal of information (usually, I have found, due to the kind of work we do). Frankly, for me the limitation is important enough that it has affected and continues to affect which phones and tablets I purchase.
There are only a few Android phones that do not have this limitation. Fortunately, the HTC One M8 and M9 don't have character limits in the notes field of the contacts app. (If you've stood in a store and copied and pasted many times over to test this, you'll want to know that there's a simple tell I've found - the name of the contacts app. If it's called "People," as is the case with the Samsung phones, so far everyone I've tested has had the limitation. If, instead, it's called "Contacts," as is the case with the HTC phones, then there's no limitation.
Some have theorized to me that the phone manufacturers include this limitation knowingly in order to keep phones from being overburdened by data. I have a difficult time believing this, partly because I have approximately 10,000 contacts, and in the accompanying notes fields I store everything from copies of correspondence to research to articles related to the contacts. I've never come close to any data storage space issues related to this particular issue. By the way, there's a bit of a work around with regard to this issue, though it's nowhere near helpful enough to change my feature priorities when looking for a new phone - something I do every six months or so. You can use a PC to do your major notes field creating and editing - and as long as you don't need to make any changes via your mobile device, you can get along OK. That is, while you can edit the notes field using unlimited characters space on your laptop, then read everything in the app on the phone, any editing on your mobile device done in notes which exceed the limit is limited by the character limitation.
I love my HTC, but I probably would be using a Samsung were it not for this issue. I've spent some considerable time - and many different times - on the phone with people at Samsung about this issue. Most of the time, after lengthy back and forth conversations (most people don't fully understand the issue initially; then, once they do, their usual responses range from some level of disinterest to judgments about why no one should ever need to reach much less exceed the maximum), I rarely can get anyone in either support or development to even agree to mention the issue to the development teams with which they at least share company benefits.
This issue is one of several that restrict the phones I buy. Unlike many (I'm guessing, based on the number of phones built with the relevant specs), a micro SD card is important to me. The importance to me of that one feature narrows the phones in my market considerably. In fact, based on very unscientific research, I believe my desire/need for a phone with a micro SD card and unlimited space in the notes field of the contacts app limits me currently to precisely two phones - the HTC One M9 (my current phone) and the Sony Xperia Z. As to high-end tablets, I own a Google Nexus 7 because it doesn't limit the notes field, but I just bought a Sony Xperia z2 tablet (because it also has a micro SD card).
Fortunately for me, both the HTC One M9 smartphone and the Sony Xperia z2 tablet are top-notch pieces of hardware. I used to own a Motorola Droid Razr M - when it included an SD card - because it, too, didn't limit the notes field. But it no longer has an SD card.
Surely there is some way for the phone manufacturers to get rid of what seems to be a spurious limitation. I know, for me, at least it would give me the opportunity to purchase from a less limited market.
Thanks
Thanks so much for your comment that I absolutly agree with.
My Contactc list is about 5000, with the same issues and use as yours.
I'm also commited to devices supporting external SD cards, it has saved my day a few times already
Just to be fair, I've to comment some "news" on the issue.
I'm actually on LG band (LG G-III to be more precise) and It's both a capable and excellent performer, with less limitations tan current Samsung devices (not to mention the iPhone-likes S6 family)
Regarding the notes field, LG (Or KitKat/Lollipop, not sure) has a different approach, though a bit cumbersome:
When you open in your device an existing contact from your Contacts list, in the Notes field (NOT created by default on new contacts, you have to manually add it) the number of characters SHOWN is limited to about 1000 characters.... this limit applies ONLY to how many characters are DISPLAYED.
BUT if you enter the edit mode inside the contact ... .¡THERE IS NO LIMITATION! NO LOSS OF INFORMATION EITHER IN THE PROCESS OF SYNCING. you read/edit the NOTES field in FULL with no limitations.
As soon as you "Save" or "exit" the edit mode, you are back to the restricted character display, but the "rest of the info" is there.
IN SHORT: The LIMIT is in the number of characters displayed NOT in the STORED info.
It may help you broaden your device buying options as it did with mines.
I don't know if this applies to other devices.
Give it a try if you like.
Regards.
Simpler problem for my s4 is not enough characters in the contact name field...only 17 characters doesn't cut it. Also curious why I don't have the plus/minus symbols for adding another number to a contact (say they had home/office/fax/etc). What did I turn off that affected the plus/minus symbol?
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Simpler problem for my s4 is not enough characters in the contact name field...only 17 characters doesn't cut it. Also curious why I don't have the plus/minus symbols for adding another number to a contact (say they had home/office/fax/etc). What did I turn off that affected the plus/minus symbol?
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Never heard of such a thing, it has to be a different issue. Maybe you should reset your device to get a fresh Contact manager start-up.
Sorry not being able to help.
Regards.
In the SD card one gets to see the 'nmstracking' folder. Anybody has any idea about what the folder is? The folder is full of innumerable .log files. What are these? There functionality? I'm kinda confused as deleting them causes no effect to my phones functionality. The .log files keep coming back. Any basic idea anybody?
I opened one of these several files using notepad and it shows random data aligned to the left. The data also consists of my mobile carrier name, manufacturer name, model number, and time zone etc. Can anybody elaborate what these files are?
Thanks
Hello,
I've been looking for this but no success. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
I'll explain the system for the complete picture:
We've built a system for a healthcare organization which uses a SMS server, if a person pushes a button on an (wifi) alarm unit in his/her room a SMS is sent to a Samsung Xcover2 phone, a specially written app 'catches' this special SMS before the stock android SMS app will get it, diplays the room that made the alarm and from there the user of the Samsung Xcover can make a one-touch operation to make a direct connection to this room so you can speak to that person in the room. From the phone the call can be closed and the alarm unit in the room will be reset.
So far so good. We deployed a pilot project and it works really well.
Except for the Samsung Xcover. We used them straight out of the box, set the settings (no google account, wifi is not used) but from there the user is able to change ANYTHING.....and they do; different sounds, fonts, backgrounds, they make pictures......basically they make a mess of it.
And since we use a Private GSM system with nano cells there's no internal number displayed on the screen so we use a personalised wallpaper with our company's logo and the internal number (they are also used as normal internal phones for in- an outbound communication). They keep changing the wallpaper so phones get 'lost' since they can't see the number anymore.
What I'm looking for is something that basically lets us control what the user can or can't do. Preferably with the stock ROM, rooting and loading a custom ROM is an option but time consuming.
Anyone with a suggestion??