Start-up settings for XDA Orbit - P3300, MDA Compact III General

I have installed Pocket Informant 2007 and set it as my PIM, however when I do a soft rest or turn off the phone the contacts page opens before I can type in my SIM card pin code, so I have to close PI Contacts to get at the keypad. This is only a minor irritation, but an irritation all the same, has anyone else come across this and how do I stop it?
Another thing that I would like to sort out is transferring my SIM contact numbers to my PI Contact list. I have numbers on the card that I don't have in the sync-able contacts and I want to update this list without having to retype all the numbers. Any ideas?
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Fucawi

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Issues with WM6, Activesync, and contacts.

Recently I had some issues with my exchange server account and ended up having to manually enter all of my contacts all over again. No big deal. I go into exchange and type them all in from my computer.
Now when someone calls, it no longer displays their name. The contacts are in my phone, saved with a 10 digit number including area code, but when they call, it's as if it's a number that's not saved as a contact, ie, just the number shows up.
I've tried messing with the number formatting (Including parenthesis and dashes, omitting them, adding a 1 in front of the number, excluding it), and nothing seems to help. If I save the contact from the phone, it shows up when they call, if I don't, it doesn't.
Any ideas? I really don't want to go back and enter all my contact on my thumbboard...
Device is a Cingular 8525 running WM6 Black Dymond 3.5.

SIM Contacts in contacs

Hello,
I noticed that after upgrading, all SIM contacts are also present when
viewing contacts. I also noticed that it is now possible to synchronize
the contacts with the SIM contacts.
Contacts > Menu > SIM Manager > Menu > Tools > Contacts to SIM
Currently, my SIM contacts were added manually on the card.
If I were to remove them all from the SIM, and set "contacts" to
synchronize to the SIM, will the SIM contacts still show up in the
contacts list (or does it know they are synchronised, so it doesn't repeat
them)?
(a downside I see to this is that the SIM contacts can only be 14
characters in length, so the mark for home/mobile/work won't show up for
the majority of contacts; whereas I can force this when managing the SIM
contacts manually)
If they still show up, is there a way to only show contacts present on the
phone (not those on the SIM)? I gather it is possible by adding all
contacts to a group, and filter on this group; but is there an easier way?
Thanks!
Jörg
V J said:
If they still show up, is there a way to only show contacts present on the
phone (not those on the SIM)? I gather it is possible by adding all
contacts to a group, and filter on this group; but is there an easier way?
Thanks!
Jörg
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I remember with HTCustom 1.7 from Shadowmite, you can find here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=307873, you can disable the SIM contacts even exsits on the SIM, so you only see your PDA contacs.
Regards.
Hey VJ,
Before I had my Hermes I always used the SIM contacts. Now I have push e-mail with my company's exchange server I only use my exchange contacts.
I have read a thread of a guy who is selling for 20$ an exchange account on his own server.
Maybe this is an solution for you.
I have past week flashed my device about 6 times. In each case I'm up and running with all my settings in about 5 minutes. And thats because I'm not so fast.........
So the exchange push mail/contacts is working perfect for me!
Regedit this mate (taken from wiki):
Show/Hide Sim Contacts:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Phone]
"ShowSIM"=dword:00000001 ->0 to disable, 1 to enable
The rest of the wiki's reg tweaks are on the same page. http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Registry Enjoy.

how to hide sim contacts in contacts

hey guys, just a simple question, i finally backed my contacts up on my sim card but now they are showing up on the contacts as well as the original contact entry. how do i disable sim contacts from showing up? many thanks.
holla
I had the same issue.. I noticed that on the kaiser advanced config tool, there is an option to "hide contacts". It actually worked a couple of times for me but I eventually just deleted my contacts off of the sims card and started syncing via exchange server or windows PC. You may want to give it a try though. The cab was called "Advanceconfig.cab" If anyone else wants to add something please do. I would be interested in hearing more as well. I was just disappointed that you cannot back up all your information such as E-mail addresses to your sim. That is why I started using Exchange.
shaps advanced config tool has option for you
I belive that is the program that I have used. It is a great all around congig tool in my opinion.
Show SIM Contacts
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone" name="ShowSIM
0 = No
1 = Yes
miffymiffy
Thank You it works

Is there a quick way to tidy up the presentation of phone numbers?

I've worked out why my car kit doesn't like to retrieve the numbers out of the phonebook.
It will display them but fail to dial, because it sees spaces in the phone number, and it fails to dial them (dumb car kit...)
Is there a quick way to go through and remove these and reformat these numbers besides going through my phone book one by one and doing this?
I had similar issue with "+" sign in phone numbers. I'm syncing my phone book with MS Outlook, then I export it to excel. Then you can rearrange in any way you like, i.e. removing spaces. When you done, import back to Outlook and sync back to phone.
Should I be putting 44 in front of all my numbers?

contacts duplicated

Hi, if i go into people all my contact are there how they should be but if i go in to messages & search all my contacts are duplicated, its a right pain when its showing 2 of everyone. When i go to people & view, only my google contacts have a green tick by them, even if i just tick sim contacts its still the same. The only way around it for me is to delete all my phone contacts & just use the sim ones but id rather use google as i can add photo's to the contacts.
is there a way around this ?
Are you sure its duplication and not simply showing you each number you have for a contact. E.g. you have say dad in your contacts and have stored his home, mobile and email address. This example would list dad 3 times in messaging but each would have a different number or address.
If this isn't it I did find my contacts got messy and deleted everything from phone and sim and now store and maintain my contact in gmail ONLY.
jamesmcuk said:
Are you sure its duplication and not simply showing you each number you have for a contact. E.g. you have say dad in your contacts and have stored his home, mobile and email address. This example would list dad 3 times in messaging but each would have a different number or address.
If this isn't it I did find my contacts got messy and deleted everything from phone and sim and now store and maintain my contact in gmail ONLY.
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Yeh they are definitely duplicated, i like to keep my contacts as simple as possible i dont want e mail addresses or anything on there just my contacts. it looks like this.
(photo) other: allan 0187 ******
(sim) phone numbers: allan 0187 ******
(photo) other: david 0163 ******
(sim) phone numbers: david 0163 ******
its showing the sim even though ive not got it ticked in the view option. I know i could delete the sim contacts & it would look ok but thats not something i want to do as the battery is not the best on the desire & with the contacts on the sim ive always got that option to use someones else's phone in an emergency
Ah I understand what you mean. Must be a software bug then perhaps. All I can suggest is to get a payg sim store all your contacts to it and shove it under the back cover then just use google contacts only. Sorry I cant be of more help.

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