I am just getting used to this phone but am running into a couple of issues
1) When I try to lookup/dial a contact from the dialpad it only seems to search/recognize first names? In other words if I have a contact John Smith I have to look it up by dialing 'John'...is there a way to set it to search based on last name
2) when there are multiple numbers for a contact it shows you the number but does not indicate if it is a mobile, office etc...very hard to know which one to select
Thanks in advance.
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Hi Guys,
Just a quick question regarding contacts. I sync with my outlook contacts at work, when i try and send a sms i press the contacts button. The thing is, it shows me an entry for each type of number
ie
Ali 07833454543
Ali +442078763345
Ali [email protected]
so thats three entries for one person !... as you can imagin it makes the list very long.
is there anything i can do, so that it just shows one line for each person, but when you select it, it shows the other numbers?
thanks
Ali
any ideas chaps?
a no would do :roll:
Mine does the same mate - don't know how to resolve it, SMS Name doesn't fix it that's for sure, and I've loaded SER 1.2 now... I guess it's 'cos you're using multiple service types, you have to see the different addresses (POP3/SMS)
in outlook, are your contacts displayed correctly?
What would be REALLY intelligent would be some way to have a shortcuts or "speed dial" list for SMS addressing. I only send SMS to a half-dozen people out of my 225 contacts. It would have been smart to allow you to address an SMS with the speed dial contact or some other list.
Any developers want to create some software for this? Guaranteed I'll buy it.
sms
its a lot easier with ppc 2003
regards kevin
Kevin
Kevin
Bring forth your findings then.
Don't dangle the carrot like that !!!!
ppc2003
hi
in ppc 2003 you dont have to find the contact by pressing the contacts iclon you just type there name in and it gives you options on the name also it has a character counter so you know how many you have typed. it also seems to run faster and my battery seems to last longer. i havent set the internet up yet but i will this coming week.
regards kevin
ppc2003
hi
in ppc 2003 you dont have to find the contact by pressing the contacts iclon you just type there name in and it gives you options on the name also it has a character counter so you know how many you have typed. it also seems to run faster and my battery seems to last longer. i havent set the internet up yet but i will this coming week.
regards kevin
I just received my SGS2 and I'm trying to get to grips with it..
I'm on Villain ROM 2.4.2.
My question is about the smart dialling feature. It appears to find the contact that I want ok, the problem here is that it will only allow me to choose the first number that is saved under the contact and offers no way to access a different number for the same contact.
I have many contacts that have a home landline number as well as a mobile telephone number and in the majority of the cases, it defaults to finding the landline number and doesn't let me choose that contact's mobile number instead or any other number I might have saved for that contact.
I know that there is a little arrow/drop list option next to the found contact's name but it just brings up other possible matches to different contacts - not any other numbers?
I hope that makes sense! Does anyone have a solution for this?
I think I know what you mean and if you press the little arrow and you see the list of possibles you need to click the contact for the person you want and it gives you a further list of all the numbers stored for that contact.
You have to be careful though because you mustn't first press your desired contact on that first list or will "lock in" the first number stored for them.
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks for that. I'm sure I tried doing that but now you've described it better, it definetely works. Would much prefer it if they could just list all the numbers straight off..
(This is for non-cyanogen roms) This is about shortcut for dialer tab under phone application -
Its annoying sometimes the default behavior of 'Phone' icon. It will launch the call log always and what I have observed that the call log takes much time to open. SO in situations like you are taking a phone number, you will launch phone application then you have to wait for some time till call log opens and then go to dialer tab to type a number...(meanwhile friends will laugh at you for the speed). LauncherPro has the shortcut for direct dial but we may not always use LauncherPro. Well, for all users facing similar problem, here is solution -
Create a temp contact with some minimum number. ex. you can create a contact named 'dummy' and number as 0 or +91 which is applicable for every number you dial in india. Install DesktopVisualizer. then create its widget(1x1) and ask it to launch shortcut of type 'direct dial', select above created contact as target. Now, DesktopVisualizer has a limitation that from a wodget, it can not directly dial a contact instead it will launch dialer tab with that number typed in there. We can use this limitation to solve our purpose. Check check box that says launch dial pad blah blah. and done. this widget click will launch dialer tab for you. the number we gave is 0 or +91, so it dose not affect dialing any number ahead.
bsuhas said:
(This is for non-cyanogen roms) This is about shortcut for dialer tab under phone application -
Its annoying sometimes the default behavior of 'Phone' icon. It will launch the call log always and what I have observed that the call log takes much time to open. SO in situations like you are taking a phone number, you will launch phone application then you have to wait for some time till call log opens and then go to dialer tab to type a number...(meanwhile friends will laugh at you for the speed). LauncherPro has the shortcut for direct dial but we may not always use LauncherPro. Well, for all users facing similar problem, here is solution -
Create a temp contact with some minimum number. ex. you can create a contact named 'dummy' and number as 0 or +91 which is applicable for every number you dial in india. Install DesktopVisualizer. then create its widget(1x1) and ask it to launch shortcut of type 'direct dial', select above created contact as target. Now, DesktopVisualizer has a limitation that from a wodget, it can not directly dial a contact instead it will launch dialer tab with that number typed in there. We can use this limitation to solve our purpose. Check check box that says launch dial pad blah blah. and done. this widget click will launch dialer tab for you. the number we gave is 0 or +91, so it dose not affect dialing any number ahead.
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Hello, thank you very much about the info. I just came to know that DesktopVisualizer is the one preventing me from direct dialing out from the the directdial shortcut widget.
My question might not be relavent to this topic but could you please give advise on how to get rid of the desktop visualizer and allow me to use direct dial again.
I have tried using DialerOne app and it gives the same result, redirecting me to stock dialpad with number... i wish i can dial it out right away.
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
I wonder if anyone has a solution to the following:
My colleague syncs their contacts with MS Outlook to her Galaxy S3 and keeps numerous additional details regarding their clients in the 'notes' field of each contact.
I have attached a screen shot of a similar situation using an HTC One X. Where the additional information contains a telephone number - the number itself is automatically highlighted and one touch loads the telephone number into the phone's dialler.
However, with the Samsung, all the information, including telephone numbers is in plain text and you can't load numbers to dial from there. A long press offers to copy the text - but only the entire 'notes' field!
This may seem insignificant but when the phone is used for business and for professional purposes you use the 'notes' field of a contact to keep lots of ancillary information which may include other telephone numbers it seems like a significant oversight. You suddenly find yourself one handed, trying to find a pen to copy down information on paper that should be easy to load with a single touch.
It works if numbers are sent as an sms to the phone so I don't see why it doesn't work within a contact's notes field like in the HTC.
If anyone can suggest a way around this I'd be very interested to hear and also if you think it's worth contacting Samsung themselves?
Many thanks in advance.
Honestly after about 5 minutes I hated this phone and now 3 months later i'm considering giving up completely as I find it horrendous to use.
I have changed my default Dialler as the standard is horrid yet every incoming call still doesn't use the app I have chosen.
My issue is, if I have a contact saved as ABC LTD, then multiple custom numbers under the contact as Bob Mobile, Matt Mobile, Service etc.. when incoming calls come in it just shows ABC LTD then 'United Kingdom'... I don't care that its United Kingdom I want to know if its Bob Mobile, Matt Mobile etc! I have to take a guess at remembering the last three digits of the mobile or landline number to try and ID who it is.
Do find this such a simple feature yet so annoying it doesn't appear.
If i was to then go into the app I have downloaded for Dialling, then it can show me it was Bob etc... but NEVER on incoming.
If I remember well, my ex Samsung S8+ did the same when multiple numbers are stored into the same contact, only the phone number was displayed, no accessory information or notes about the calling number.
But in my case I'm using the internal phone contact list, not Google's.
I think what you are describing is stock Android behavior and not something specific to Huawei--if you have multiple numbers saved under a single contact the dialer will only display the contact name.
What phone did you previously use that showed the specific caller ID rather than the saved contact? Or were you relying on a third party dialer to perform that function for you?
And if it's so vital that the identity of each number shows up separately why do you have them all saved as a single contact in the first place?