Hello XDA community
Long time lurker first time poster lol
I have searched for this and haven't found much.
What I would like to do is have the contacts list on my Galaxy S2 display the Organization field when I am scrolling through it, for example:
First Name Last Name Organization
Jack Smith Samsung
John Smith XDA Developers
Anyone who has used an iPhone will know what I mean.
I've tried GO Contacts and there was no option I could find to do this either.
Any ideas?
electric_hollow said:
Hello XDA community
Long time lurker first time poster lol
I have searched for this and haven't found much.
What I would like to do is have the contacts list on my Galaxy S2 display the Organization field when I am scrolling through it, for example:
First Name Last Name Organization
Jack Smith Samsung
John Smith XDA Developers
Anyone who has used an iPhone will know what I mean.
I've tried GO Contacts and there was no option I could find to do this either.
Any ideas?
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That is a feature for up-comming versions.
Just post your idea to Google and Samsung.
Meanwhile you can "mis-use" the group to get your contact sorted by "Organization".
Enter the organization into group field and use the Groups view to scroll through your contacts.
EDIT:
Alternatively you can use the search on top of your contacts to search for a special organization name.
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hi, xda`lers
i have a question... a week ago i sortet all my contacs in my contact book by putting the first name in the first name box and the last name in the last name box, so that the built in facebook stuff recognizeses the names and links them to there facebook picture and so on, like it should be
my question is now.. now that i put the last name also in it , the contacts are sortet by there last name first meaning, that some random guy called brad pitt , instead of being in the categorie of "B" now is unter the category of "P"
sure i could link the fb accounts manually, but i flash a lot, and to do this every time would be a timekiller
so?, someone knows, how to sort all the contacts by their first name?, would be awesome
thx for the help Jur1nator
Jur1nator said:
hi, xda`lers
i have a question... a week ago i sortet all my contacs in my contact book by putting the first name in the first name box and the last name in the last name box, so that the built in facebook stuff recognizeses the names and links them to there facebook picture and so on, like it should be
my question is now.. now that i put the last name also in it , the contacts are sortet by there last name first meaning, that some random guy called brad pitt , instead of being in the categorie of "B" now is unter the category of "P"
sure i could link the fb accounts manually, but i flash a lot, and to do this every time would be a timekiller
so?, someone knows, how to sort all the contacts by their first name?, would be awesome
thx for the help Jur1nator
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Well, are these contacts synced with outlook? If so, you can change the sort settings in outlook and I believe they may be seen differently on ur phone. Also push this to the XDA_UC experts who probably can build some kind of registry setting wherein those fb settings remain constant in case of new ROM update.
http://shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact
dont forget that even after you have changed all your current ones, when you add a new one it will still save last/first unless you go all teh way to the bottom of the new/edit page, click more and change teh displa as
Hey guys,
Just changed to the S2 after years of iPhone use. Found it a little tricky, but these forums are great and have solved loads of my questions.
The only thing I can't seem to find the answer to is a problem when opening Word Document Email attachments in K9 or Improved Mail. If I click 'Open' at the bottom of the email, it just says "This document cannot be opened". If I hit 'Save' and find the attachment in My Folders, then it opens up no problems using Polaris.
Have tried a few other Office Viewers, but the formatting doesn't work anywhere near as well as Polaris, so I'm hoping there's some hidden setting I'm missing in order to allow it to open straight from the email.
On the upside, I'm loving the S2 compared to my iPhones!
Thanks in advance for your help
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.
I apologize if I'm posting to the wrong forum... but I was hoping someone knew if there is a way to transfer the "title" information which is in the address book for blackberry phones. I performed a google sync to get all my contacts to my Note but it left out the "title" information. Thanks in advance.
pj737 said:
I apologize if I'm posting to the wrong forum... but I was hoping someone knew if there is a way to transfer the "title" information which is in the address book for blackberry phones. I performed a google sync to get all my contacts to my Note but it left out the "title" information. Thanks in advance.
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Matter of fact I do know how to do this
1 put both phones side by side ensuring a clean view of each screen
2 open the contacts on the blackberry
3 open the contacts on the note
4 find the first contact you are looking to transfer
5 get to typing on your awesome note one contact at a time :-D
Lol sorry couldent resist, I am not sure if there is a way. Good luck though!
I feel like a complete tool/noob asking this but I cannot seek to figure it out nor find an answer.
I have my contacts sync from various accounts(facebook, gmail). However I cannot assign them to different groups ( ie. Friends, family)
Do I need to make a separate phone contact for each and join them all or am I missing something very easy?
Thanx in advance for any help with this utterly ridiculous question.
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