Good day, dashers!
Situation:
Someone sends me a text message.
I click on their number and add them as a SIM contact.
Problem:
When I go my picture folder and try to associate a pic with the contact, the contact doesn't appear in the pick-list.
If I go find them in Contacts, associating a pic or an icon with that contact isn't an option.
Any ideas?
Should I save them as Outlook contacts instead of SIM contacts? Won't that upload them to my work Exchange address book when I sync up at the office?
Thanks in advance!
-GoJ
Contact needs to be on phone memory not sim
Thank you for half-way answering my question! {/light-hearted sarcasm}
It is possible to move them to phone memory now that they are SIM contacts?
When I open Contacts, am I only seeing SIM contacts, then, or all contacts?
What am I seeing when I click on a picture and try to assign it to a contact?
-GoJ
Don't have my Dash available but i always use Dopod SIM Manager to copy sim to phone.. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=487920
The viewing of SIM contacts, phone contacts, will depend on settings, i think as default you see both if you just want to see phone after copy you can use XDA SIM Show Hide
Hope that helps
Thanks stylez.
Hmmm...when I try to save a contact my only choices are Outlook, SIM, or Windows Live.
"Phone" is not an option.
Ghost of Jaco said:
Thanks stylez.
Hmmm...when I try to save a contact my only choices are Outlook, SIM, or Windows Live.
"Phone" is not an option.
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Save to sim copy to phone with the above sim manager
Thanks again!
It actually is Save to Sim, go to Sim Manager, open choice then Save to Contacts.
Open Contacts, open THAT Contact, and then it can be edited to include a picture and much more. After that I've been deleting the SIM contact to save space.
Thanks again, stylez!
Contact must to be on phone not sim, transfer them first and it will work
if u jus choose outlook option insted of sim then u dont need to go through copying it to phone... for showing n hiding sim contacts open setting - phone- call options- show hide sim contacts
Ghost of Jaco said:
Good day, dashers!
Situation:
Someone sends me a text message.
I click on their number and add them as a SIM contact.
Problem:
When I go my picture folder and try to associate a pic with the contact, the contact doesn't appear in the pick-list.
If I go find them in Contacts, associating a pic or an icon with that contact isn't an option.
Any ideas?
Should I save them as Outlook contacts instead of SIM contacts? Won't that upload them to my work Exchange address book when I sync up at the office?
Thanks in advance!
-GoJ
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if u dont want them to b uploaded then u can open active sycn-menu-option and remove the contact option...it will not sync or download contacts with pc.. gud luck
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when i open the contacts app, all my contacts are duplicated, one whit the SIM symbol and another from outlook.
1- how can i make that the contacts stored in the SIM card stop apearing in the contact app and the phone list?
2- how can i delete a lot of contacts fast and easy? not deleting one by one
thanks!!!!
ricm said:
when i open the contacts app, all my contacts are duplicated, one whit the SIM symbol and another from outlook.
1- how can i make that the contacts stored in the SIM card stop apearing in the contact app and the phone list?
2- how can i delete a lot of contacts fast and easy? not deleting one by one
thanks!!!!
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Check out Schaps Advanced Configuration Tool. It has an option to not show the SIM card entries in Contacts.
hide sim cab
Like Dr. P mentions often, this is one of the cab I keep on my storage card
Someone called me, and I didn't have that number, I wanted to save it to existing contact, but when I clicked on save to existing contact, none of my sim contacts appeared. There wasn't a way to get to it either. I load all my contacts directly from my sim. Is there a way to move sim contacts to phone? or save current number to existing sim contact?
any good app to manage and sync phone contacts?
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.
Something that I thought should be simple but strangely (for Android) it's not.
If you get sent contact details in a vcard, it gets saved to the phone memory. I still can't see how to save that vcard info to my Google account.
Anyone got any ideas? A feature I've missed? An app? I use Handcent but that's a bit poo for vcards so I have to go back to the native Messages app to even view vcards.
Any ideas???
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I too need it, by far couldn't succeed that. It would be the best way to keep your contacts with details that sim cannot store.
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This is the response I got from HTC when I asked for any method they know to get contacts from the phone to the Google account:
I would advise you to savbe the V-Card to your phones memory, so that it show in your contacts. Then in the People app, press Import/Export then Export to SD card. Choose the contact you wish to export. We have now exported a copy of that contact to the memory card. Now.. We are going to import it back into the phone as a Google contact, so, From the People main screen, press Menu, Import & Export, Import from SD card, choose as 'Google' contact. This will now have made that V-Card a Google contact. If you then Sync your phone to your Google account by going to Menu, Settings, Accounts & Sync, tap 'Sync All' this will send the new contact to your Google account. Then you will be able to see this new contact in your Google Mail - Contacts section.
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The only problem I had with these instructions is that I found exporting contacts is all or nothing. You can't pick and choose. Luckily for me, all my contacts are on my Google account so it was only the one vcard sent by MMS that I wanted to transfer over.
HTH
Looking to see if I can solve some issues with my phone without havign to do a fatcory reset,
1. At first the phone wasn't showing contacts from the sim card. So I imported them, but now it appears the phone is reading them as I have duplicates for a lot of the contacts. How do I delete the ones off my phone.
2. I have FB on my phone, but contacts unsynced. When ever I get a txt it comes through with their facebook account name and sometimes their picture. It even happens when they call me. How can I stop this from happening?
Basically how can I use only the contacts on my sim card? Don't want the phone using any others!
Thanks,
First install "go contacts" from market. In its menu options, you can batch delete all contacts. Do it. Then go to settings in your phone( before Google or Facebook sync the contacts again), then go to accounts and sync. You may see you online accounts there like gmail,facebook etc. Click on every account you have and untick sync contacts( if you want to avoid any others like sync Calender/ mail etc, you can untick it too) . Done fb or gmail will never sync contacts till you tick it again and do a sync.
Now go to contacts in your phone( if you are done with removing contacts, you can uninstall " go contacts". I do the same with it on my cm7 rom, as the stock contact application does not have a batch delete option . If you can find any other application which can do the same batch delete , u may use it insted of " go contacts ") now in contacts click menu and it have an import/ export option. Use it to copy contacts from sim to phone.
Remember to take a backup of all you contacts to SD card using the import/ export option. In case you may delete phone/ sim contacts. Pls note that phone contacts load much faster than sim contacts. So just copy it to phone memory. And use it.
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simple.....!!
see first of all keep the facebook for android" app on internal memory...its important othewise you will have to sync every time after the boot...to sync all your fb contact with phone.or to have all your FB contact on your phone you just have to go to settings of the Facebook app...press menu on the primary facebook page..and then select settings and their you'll find an option to sync your contacts...just select "sync all"... an their you go....DONE!!
and yes dont forget to join your existing phone contacts or gmail contacts to your FB contacts it can be done by open the contact you want to join/link > select editing contacts from menu > now again go to menu and their you will see option to join. and in the edit menu u'll also find NICK NAME bar just fill your friends nick name their and it'll be shown in every call/msg to you...
anmol, thats how to sync FB contacts. I wanted to do the opposit.
So I deleted all contacts. Including sim card ones =[
How can I add a conact to sim card for the phone to view them? I can only see the option of my google account of phone only, unsynced.
I prefer to keep all my conacts on my sim card, if something happens to my phone atleast I have the sim card!
CM just seems one big pain after an other!
Remb you have an sd too, back up contacts to sd. I think default contact manager on cm7 have no option to copy contacts to sim.
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Cm7 does have import/export contacts to SD, I had to do the wifes the other day.
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Aye thanks guys, noticed that it didn't actually delete the contacts off my sim card. Sure I tried to import off sim, either phone was having a hissy fit or I was being an idiot.
Got it all sorted now though!