I've been a big fan of Dialer One for a while now and have used it as my Phone app even since the developers stopped working on it and released 2GIS Dialer.
I much prefer the look and feel of Dialer One and all the options but have been having and issue that as Dialer One is my default phone app, I'm saving my contacts here and if a contact has what's app, it seems to duplicate their entry and then if I try edit/delete the entry through Dialer One, it won't do it properly as you can't get rid of the duplicate with the what's app number. I then need to go to the "contacts" app, where all the entries appear fine and make changes here. So it appears dialer one is the problem actually, but I'm wondering is there a way to solve this without getting rid of Dialer One, or all my saved preferences.
Of course, the best solution would be to find a better alternative that is up to date, supported and with the same functionality Dialer One had so if anyone has any suggestions, please share :fingers-crossed:
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Ok, so I can't seem to find anything on this. I had Sense UI on my old phone and I really liked how everything was consolidated within contacts. When you selected "contacts", you'd see their name and whatever their FB status was. Then when you'd click a specific contact, you'd have tabs for each communication method. You could easily click on call history, SMS history, emails, etc.
I can't seem to find anything like that for the Streak in an app format. There has to be something like that.
Is PhoneBook 2.0 something like what you are looking for http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.voxmobili.phonebook2
Close. Better than the stock contact app. No email grouping and you have to link one profile at a time to FB.
Like I said, better than stock, so I'll use that for a while. Thanks!
I think you'll struggle to find a home replacement with all the features of SenseUI.
Sense isn't just an .apk, it replies heavily on HTC's framework.
When Dell get off their arse and release the Kernel, we should be able to port over Sense to the streak
WHEN ???????????
Meltus said:
I think you'll struggle to find a home replacement with all the features of SenseUI.
Sense isn't just an .apk, it replies heavily on HTC's framework.
When Dell get off their arse and release the Kernel, we should be able to port over Sense to the streak
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I don't necessarily want a home replacement, just a better contacts/email/sms/info organizer. The link above is close. Another drawback I found, when you put a contact shortcut on the home screen, it opens the stock contacts and not the Phonebook app.
The contact app from 2.1 is much better, either wait for the upgrade or flash the leaked beta,
To direct dial a contact with a shortcut go to add /shortcut/direct dial
The icon will direct dial the number you choose.
No, I know how to do that. I mean, when I put the contact on the desktop (whatever you call it for Android ) it opens the contact in the stock contact manager, not PhoneBook 2.0 manager. When I use Handcent, I defaulted that as the SMS client, so now when I start a new SMS, Handcent pops up. I don't get that option with Phonebook, for some reason.
Can anyone please suggest a good dialer with address book..which has google and Facebook sync for CM7.
Tried youlu and contapps(uselessly using lot of screen area) but weren't up to the mark..
Please suggest one...thanks in advance ..
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hi there
I think you should try GO CONTACT,it has dialer that integrate your phone's contacts with your contacts from facbook google yahoo etc
I use GO Contact it is very good. It has features like quick search in the manufacturer HTC phone app. Unfortunately, it would prefer the original applications from HTC.
Don't know if you are facing the same issue..but go contacts always takes time in initial loading of contact list..any solution ...please suggest ...
Sent from my HTC Wildfire
vijaykirann said:
Don't know if you are facing the same issue..but go contacts always takes time in initial loading of contact list..any solution ...please suggest ...
Sent from my HTC Wildfire
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Yes, you are right about go contacts, try phonebook 2.0 on appbrain or market, it has nice UI and is faster than go contacts, I think.
Go contacts sucks, compared to the CM7 Dialer most dialers suck.
The only drawback I found in this rom's dialer is the fact that you cannot preview a contact when typing a part of that contacts number into the ,,phone" tab. ( like the sense dialer does for example )
Any ideas on how to enable that, as I am unable to find the option?
You can't on the Stock dialer, it's not supported, which is exactly why everyone is finding (Or rather, trying to find ) alternatives.
This feature is called Smart Dialing BTW, Just FYI.
I use TouchPal. It supports smart dialing and is much faster than Go Contacts.
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I use TouchPal. It supports smart dialing and is much faster than Go Contacts.
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Does that sync the FB contact details..
I use contapps, works pretty well.
Contapps use lot of screen space in case of wildfire
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Angel Dialer is the best
Personally I use aContact - skins, plugins, integrates Call History with dialer screen, smaller than GO Contacts & seems pretty quick.
I tried lot of Dialers and in my opinion the best are:
- aTAKEphONE (payed)
- Youlu Address Book (free)
For "best" I mean they are fast in smartdial and they are nice/fancy, plus they fit pretty well on the QVGA screen of our Wildfire.
I never tried Angel Dialer and aContact, so I'm gonna try them ASAP.
Bye
Marshall
pokey said:
Personally I use aContact - skins, plugins, integrates Call History with dialer screen, smaller than GO Contacts & seems pretty quick.
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Your phone is Wildfire? Install, go to aContacts, not see any contacts ...
Contapps is definitely has the best dialer, work smoothly and has so many extra cool stuff.
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Your phone is Wildfire? Install, go to aContacts, not see any contacts ...
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Should open to show the dialer - swipe right to see Contacts, swipe left for config screen to download plugins & set initial screen ... at least that's how it installed for me
+1 on Contapps, fastest dialer in the market, works great for me.
Hello,
before i use the Dialer of CM7 i used Youlu and last i prefer Go Contacts!
Hi All,
Before you say it, I know what I'm doing and understand how Google contacts work, I had a HTC HD2 (thanks Pongster and XDA!) and I am used to Android.
I know how Google contacts work, infact I submitted a bug fix to AweSync to fix up their syncing of Google Contacts with Lotus Notes.
Why does the Samsung Galaxy 1 (and 2!) show me _ALL CONTACTS_ when trying to SMS people? or when I try to save a newly dialled number into contacts, it shows all contacts?
I don't want to SMS an email address! I don't want to sift through 1,300 contacts yet this idiot phone is showing me them.
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It's listing email Address's in the SMS TO: field - yet I've CLEARLY unticked "All contacts" and I've made it only show contacts with a phone number.
What is wrong with this thing?
EDIT: also, forgetting my ring tone every time I reboot isn't impressing me either.
Okay, I can't answer all your problems, and I do agree that the management of contacts on this phone is pretty poor, but there's obviously ways round certain issues.
One thing that will immediately help you is to use the contacts app to send SMS, rather than the SMS app. Select your contact (filtered as shown in your post) and you can swipe them left to SMS or right to call. That's a pretty handy feature.
However, if you're sending a message to more than 1 person you're back to square 1. I'd strongly recommend getting GO SMS Pro and GO Contacts (both free) from the Market. They're excellent replacements and I'm sure you'll be a LOT happier with them.
Please use the Q&A Forum for questions Thanks
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Okay, I can't answer all your problems, and I do agree that the management of contacts on this phone is pretty poor, but there's obviously ways round certain issues.
One thing that will immediately help you is to use the contacts app to send SMS, rather than the SMS app. Select your contact (filtered as shown in your post) and you can swipe them left to SMS or right to call. That's a pretty handy feature.
However, if you're sending a message to more than 1 person you're back to square 1. I'd strongly recommend getting GO SMS Pro and GO Contacts (both free) from the Market. They're excellent replacements and I'm sure you'll be a LOT happier with them.
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Would go contacts solve my issue when saving a new phone number into my contactl ist?
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Would go contacts solve my issue when saving a new phone number into my contactl ist?
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It does what you describe above. I don't know what you expect it to do though. You dial a number, click "Add to contacts" or "New contact" to either list all your contacts or create a new one.
is there any solution to this, i quite like the messaging app, but find it quite annoying when i have to search through hundreds of contacts, or else exit out to the contact application to text some1 who's actually in my contacts list ....
Its not a deal breaker for me, i prefer the stock than go sms or handcent, or any alternative i've tried, so if there is no fix i'll grin and bear it but if there is please help out
.... its not that i prefer the stock to any other, its just that no other provides anything that makes me want to move from stock, and since both will be running anyways it seems pointless to be wasting battery .... also i found double contacts problems with other apps aswell
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is there any solution to this, i quite like the messaging app, but find it quite annoying when i have to search through hundreds of contacts, or else exit out to the contact application to text some1 who's actually in my contacts list ....
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It's just poor design by Samsung.
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It's just poor design by Samsung.
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Why? I think it is a good idea, since I very often MMS to email addresses! It is very handy to automatically downsize an image to MMS size when you are sending it to a person who you know will be looking at the email on their phone (e.g. my friend in Japan doesn't have MMS at all, over there nearly everything is email).
Been wondering about this too, i know the contact app you can customize what to show, which is fine, but the sms app show everyone you have been in contact with on google. Only "fix" i've found so far is to use another SMS app that can filter the contact list.
The solution is very simple. Just open display options in contacts and select only display contacts with numbers. Also untick everything that you don't want it to display. I don't save any numbers in phone or sim card so I save it to gmail account.
Even if I select only gmail it shows lots unnecessary contacts. So I went to gmail on my laptop and opened the contacts (phone book or something like that. Its been over a year so I don't remember)
I created a new category (u can choose an existing one) and transferred every single contact that I needed under it.
And thats it. Everytime I format my phone I just go to contact display settings on my phone and only choose the category that I made. And it only shows the contacts that I need.
It works also if u want to save a contact. I chose to save contacts to my gmail account when it asks. And everytime u save it saves it to the category that u choose.
I have been using this over a year and work flawlessly. I remember beig sick of choosing amongst 1000s of contacts.
I tried to explain as I could. If there is a problem ask me I will try to help.
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I realized this doesn't answer ur question about sms. This doesn't fix that SMS list behaviour.
This seems to be an issue with TouchWiz specifically, I've flashed AOSP roms and the phone app's contact list shows the appropriate list without opening a separate app.
I've tried to find other answers to this issue, but nothing was found that could really answer my question.
I understand this is an issue with the horrid TouchWiz UI, I'm perfectly comfortable making changes to apks or roms as needed, but there are some elements of TouchWiz that I'd like to run without this annoyance.
The phone app, when going to the contact list within that app will open the contacts app instead of displaying a list of contact pulled from the contact database.
In 4.1+ AOSP, the contact list does not open a separate app.
My question:
Would it be feasible to replace the stock TouchWiz phone.apk with an AOSP phone.apk and have it work properly or is there a functioning TouchWiz phone.apk that doesn't open a separate contacts app to just scroll through a list?
It's not easy to exactly describe what it is doing - but I know when I exit the phone app, my recent apps list shows both phone and contacts opened, while an AOSP rom only shows phone. The people app doesn't have to be opened separately for the phone to scroll through contacts.
Thanks for your help.
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Hello,
Hope someone can help with a fix.
I googled this so many times but still didn't find a solution.
When I use the T9 to search for a contact in the dialer, the contact shows up but the number under the contact is duplicated .
However when I open the same contact in the contacts all there is only 1 number and no sign of any duplicates.
I have checked and I have no duplicate contacts at all in my contacts.
I have also used the filter to only show contacts from my Gmail account.
But still same issue persists.
Second, can anyone confirm whether I can get the notifications on my lockscreen to be kept hidden until I use face unlock and then their content becomes visible without exiting the lockscreen?
Lastly, does anyone have any idea if it's possible with any app or mod to have horizon lights keep on blinking rather than just blink once when notification is received?
Appreciate any input, thanks
zidane said:
Hello,
Hope someone can help with a fix.
I googled this so many times but still didn't find a solution.
When I use the T9 to search for a contact in the dialer, the contact shows up but the number under the contact is duplicated .
However when I open the same contact in the contacts all there is only 1 number and no sign of any duplicates.
I have checked and I have no duplicate contacts at all in my contacts.
I have also used the filter to only show contacts from my Gmail account.
But still same issue persists.
Second, can anyone confirm whether I can get the notifications on my lockscreen to be kept hidden until I use face unlock and then their content becomes visible without exiting the lockscreen?
Lastly, does anyone have any idea if it's possible with any app or mod to have horizon lights keep on blinking rather than just blink once when notification is received?
Appreciate any input, thanks
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1st. Same here with me.
I tested & founded that the duplicate number is WhatsApp contact & not going away even if we choose only to show contact from Gmail account.
2nd. I don't think it's possible right now
3rd. Users submitted feedbacks on OnePlus forums & they said they are working on it.
Thanks for the feedback.
Yeah I read somewhere it's got to do with WhatsApp.
They suggested to remove all spaces from phone numbers in contacts, I tried with one and it worked !
But I have way too many contacts to do it manually for each one.
Looking for an app or some fast way to do it in bulk.
zidane said:
Thanks for the feedback.
Yeah I read somewhere it's got to do with WhatsApp.
They suggested to remove all spaces from phone numbers in contacts, I tried with one and it worked !
But I have way too many contacts to do it manually for each one.
Looking for an app or some fast way to do it in bulk.
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Export it from Gmail and then you can work on the .xml file in a file editor. Find & Replace [space] with nada
Then import it back on.
@zidane
Read this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80137416&postcount=201
and this:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=80152234&postcount=203
thanks @kemoti & @yourmate
i'll go ahead with find and replace in excel.
the apps didnt fix spacing issue.
thanks @kemoti & @yourmate
i'll go ahead with find and replace in excel.
the apps didnt fix spacing issue.