I'm searching my contacts for a specific contact. I find that he's not in my phone, rather I found him in my company's Exchange directory.
I'm clicking everywhere, but I can't anywhere in the Xperia Contacts UI the button of function to add that specific contact to my local directory.
Any idea how to do this? Every other Android phone I've ever owned has this option.
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I'll answer my own question. I added my Exchange account using the GMail app. I just erased that account, added using the native Exchange ActiveSync UI. The "add contact" icon is now present.
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I have two e-mail addresses, both with comcast. I've added both to the atrix but can only seem to access one of them. The only way for me to switch in the e-mail app is to change the default mail client (which is really annoying). Does anyone know how to select the e-mail accounts without having to change the default, exit the app and come back in?
Thanks
For some reason Motorola decided to be special, what you need to do is actually click on the messaging app. There you will see both your accounts and can fully access them. The email app will only give you the email account that you set as default. Hope it helps. Cheers.
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I can't believe i missed that
Wow. I can't believe i missed that....
you can also create a shortcut by selecting activities and scroll to universal inbox and select universal inbox.
I've more than 1500 contacts on my gmail contacts and when I bought the phone added the gmail account and sync'd everything.
Also there are about 500 phone contacts on my phone (with phone numbers) and nothing else since the last phone I used was a basic phone.
Now i've disabled the sync and disabled google contacts from displaying in contacts app.
Now when I get a call from unknown number and I try to add to an existing contact, I get to see 1500 google email contacts + 500
Phone contacts which is a big pain to search.
Is there anyway to circumvent this and display only phone contacts in all places or remove google contacts from without deleting from gmail.
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Also the problem exists when I try to text someone. Instead of displaying only phone contacts, the phone displays all the email (gmail) contacts as well
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Did you also turn off the phone contacts in the contacts app under desplay? Make sure nothing is selected except the sim card contacts. That should take care of it.
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not sure I entirely understand... but...
you know you can edit whats viewed in contacts by Menu > Display Options right?
That can then be expanded for a lot more options.
I wrote a guide a long time back on cleaning up google contacts and removing phone contacts... you may find it searching, may be helpful.
You can also press the search button to jump to contact faster
Yea if u go into Display options in settings while in you're in your contacts list you can customize what you see. Or just go online to your gmail account and play with your contacts.
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I've more than 1500 contacts on my gmail contacts and when I bought the phone added the gmail account and sync'd everything.
Also there are about 500 phone contacts on my phone (with phone numbers) and nothing else since the last phone I used was a basic phone.
Now i've disabled the sync and disabled google contacts from displaying in contacts app.
Now when I get a call from unknown number and I try to add to an existing contact, I get to see 1500 google email contacts + 500
Phone contacts which is a big pain to search.
Is there anyway to circumvent this and display only phone contacts in all places or remove google contacts from without deleting from gmail.
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I suggested this for a friend of mine who had an equally ungodly amount of contacts in his regular gmail account, so it may be worthwhile for you to consider.
Consider.....using another gmail account....one you use for your PHONE and only your phone. This in no way limits you from checking mail on your primary gmail account, and allows you to control which contacts end up on the phone.
It sounds to me you're merely annoyed with the ungodly amount of contacts to deal with if you use this as the phone's primary gmail account....so just don't.
@dan @s15274 @bobb
The display options work only in the main contacts . (home screen - contacts)
None of the selected options work in two scenarios.
1. when you type in a message and select contacts to select one and send a text.
2. In the call log when u try to save a number to an existing contact.
@master you got the problem. I'll try removing my gmail account.
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anytime i sent an email using my gt 10.1, it creates a "sent" label.
How do i change that setting? I know with outlook or thunderbird you uncheck "save sent mail", but as far as i know there is no such setting for the gmail app.
I thought google would build their app so that it works flawlessly with their own products. I would expect a competitor to have such an issue
I'm running warm, so I'm trying to figure out if this is a Rom issue or a EVO 3d issue. When I create an event on my phone calendar there is no option anywhere to add guests, or even see the guest list. My tablet and girlfriends EVO shift both have this option.
For those who don't know, adding a guest basically puts said event on their calandwr as well. This is a great feature and I'm hoping I can figure out how to get it to work on my phone as I don't carry my tablet everywhere with me.
Anyone able to help?
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When trying to create an event on the calendar, the application is tied to a an email account gmail or other ( imap, exchange or pop), this invokes the ability to add attendess or invite other people. Which type of email account is linked on this device?
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When trying to create an event on the calendar, the application is tied to a an email account gmail or other ( imap, exchange or pop), this invokes the ability to add attendess or invite other people. Which type of email account is linked on this device?
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Gmail, just like all my other devices
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I don't recall this being a problem on my previous android devices.
Calendar entries made online in Google Calendar sync back fine to my phone. However, if I create an appointment in my GN2 calendar, it doesn't sync back to online google calendar. I thought maybe it was just the calendar app problem, but I installed Jorte calendar and it behaves the same way? Am I doing something wrong? I can't find any settings to speak of in the calendar app.
When you are creating your appointment, are you choosing your Google calendar at the top of the page?
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When you are creating your appointment, are you choosing your Google calendar at the top of the page?
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Ouch, I didn't know that you had to do that when entering appoints directly into the phone calendar app. What a Gomer I am. Tried your fix and it works fine!
Thanks!
By "your Google calendar", do you mean any google acccount [email protected]? I am trying to work with the stock calendar, and DigiCal.
I am having similar issues, can't sync back to the PC with events entered on my Note 2.
I notice that the account I think I should be using has a long random (not mine) string of characters like [email protected] as the adddress. Is that normal or a sign that something is screwed up?
I just want to sync event to my PC calendar from my phone.