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Hey my contacts are listed last name 1st and i have no idea how to change the set-up so that i can have contacts that are first name first. On the cingualr 8125. It's horable for organization since its a sync and i only know the people by 1st name.

now this is where it gets tricky.. i dont know if there is a way to change them all at one time... but i do know you can open outlook, go to your contacts and open them one by one and choose the File As selection and change them...

after you do all of that you may want to go to outlook, then go to tools, options, and on the preferences tab click on the Contact options and choose the default choice for future add's. Unfortunately this does not change them all in there currently, i tried.
oh these are also in Outlook 2k3, not sure about earlier versions

hey thanks so much man it was killing me

Contacts -> Middle Name field

Hi,
I imported contacts from my old SIM card into the HTC Desire.
Many names were of this form: N John Doe - which is short for "company N, person John Doe".
It worked, because in Contacts I see: N John Doe.
Now I decide to edit this contact because there is so much to add. But this is what it shows in the Editor if I click to edit the name:
First Name = N
Last Name = Doe
...where has John gone??
All right... so I change First Name to "N John".
A while later I decide to export this contact using EasyShare (great app by the way!). I send it to GMail, and what do I see there...? "N John John Doe".
So apparantly Android has a Middle Name field somewhere... but I can't see, edit or erase it?
Is there a Contacts editor that supports the Middle Name field?

doggie123 said:
Hi,
I imported contacts from my old SIM card into the HTC Desire.
Many names were of this form: N John Doe - which is short for "company N, person John Doe".
It worked, because in Contacts I see: N John Doe.
Now I decide to edit this contact because there is so much to add. But this is what it shows in the Editor if I click to edit the name:
First Name = N
Last Name = Doe
...where has John gone??
All right... so I change First Name to "N John".
A while later I decide to export this contact using EasyShare (great app by the way!). I send it to GMail, and what do I see there...? "N John John Doe".
So apparantly Android has a Middle Name field somewhere... but I can't see, edit or erase it?
Is there a Contacts editor that supports the Middle Name field?
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i don't suppose you can try importing your contacts from your SIM to your phone memory?
this will provide you with many many more data fields because the sim memory is too small to store all of this.

Sorry for not replying any sooner, kinda forgot this thread existed
I did exactly what you are suggesting to begin with, because afterwards I had to put the old SIM back into my old phone which I still use for work. On my new SIM there are no contacts except the Vodafone ones (voicemail, emergency number etc).
So from what I can tell the copy operation from old SIM to Desire Contacts (in memory) caused the names to be split automatically into First, Middle, Last. And Middle Name is shown in contact lists and also while doing Export/Share, but the field seems to be missing from the Contacts editor. Unless somebody has a solution by now?

How to sort contacts by last name in Froyo?

Since Froyo came on Nexus everyone was saying that now you can finally sort contacts by last name. Where can I find that option on Desire since I haven't got any setting or options in "People" (contact) app.
Am I missing something obvious?

Mikeyy said:
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Am I missing something obvious?
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It looks like unfortunately, not.
There is no option to sort by family name. Even in a cooked sense-froyo roms, if stock contacts-dialer app is inculded, the sorting by family name and search fuction are just not working.
In this moment I've few soultoin (but I'm not satisfied eider)
1. Use one of AOSP cooked rom (e.g Opendesire)
2. install 3td party apps, like BetterConttact (payd), DialerOne (free), beside the Peopple app. (This 3 app's are doing aas I want, but only separately, so somitemes I need to use one and other times other )
3. Change display name in People app one by one
Currently I'm on 2. but as I mentioned, I'm not really happy with that.

I have about 600+ contacts which are growing daily, doing number 3 is out of question.

Mikeyy said:
I have about 600+ contacts which are growing daily, doing number 3 is out of question.
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I just measured that 23sec need to change one. So 600 contact changes takes less tha 4 hour. When I think about it, searching for solution have taken much more...
But agree, it's very booring task!

Are you syncing contacts with your gmail account?
If so this may be worth a try, assuming my memory isn't too addled.
When I first set up my phone I synced using active sync and my contacts where stored Surname, First Name. I later deleted my active sync connection and set up using the Gmail features and the contacts swapped to First Name, Surname.

kejaro said:
Are you syncing contacts with your gmail account?
If so this may be worth a try, assuming my memory isn't too addled.
When I first set up my phone I synced using active sync and my contacts where stored Surname, First Name. I later deleted my active sync connection and set up using the Gmail features and the contacts swapped to First Name, Surname.
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I synced my contact to my google account since half year with my winmo as well, with no problem. In my contact list in the filed first name there is a first name, in the field last name there is a last name.... so everything is fine.
The only problem that HTC does not think that sorting by Family name is important... You know in some langueges (like mine) are sorted it this way.

Mikeyy said:
I have about 600+ contacts which are growing daily, doing number 3 is out of question.
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After I bored about finding and waiting other good soultion...I just would like to let you know, I did it with all my contact (372) within 3 hours

[Q] Request: Change of Last and First Name order

I would like to have my Contacts ordered by Last Name. From the Contact manager it's possible to change Display Name from "Firstname Lastname" to "Lastname, Firstname". That is exactly what I'm looking for. But to do so I should do it with each Contact separately! Crazy job for more then 600 contacts.
I was told that RCMixHD or AuraxTSenseHD have this issue fixed. I don't know how,but I think there is posibility to change Display Name for all Contacts.
I wondering if anyone could help me and create fix just to go through whole Contact database to change Display Name to Lastname, Firstname order?

On DeFrost I choose menu.. display options..and change "view contact name as". Sort by is here too
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Moved to Q&A as not development.
Please do not make new threads in development for questions.

What is DeFrost? Is it something from new (developers) ROMs? I was not clear - I would like to stay on official 2.2. Is it possible to run DeFrost or something similar on official ROM?
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Well, I've found that DeFrost is quite famous ROM here with different Contact Manager. Does anyone know, if it's possible to use part of the code to solve my problem (change display name to Lastname, Firstname for all contacts?)

[Q] Samsung Phone T9 Search for Last Name field in Contacts

Hi all,
sorry if this has already been answered somehow, but how in the name of the Lord is this possible? Why is it that the Samsung phone application does not search in my address book also the LAST name of my contacts, but only the FIRST name?!?
I really fon't get it, why is it so difficult to make the search look in the LAST name field as well. It already checks the FIRST name, as well as the phone numbers fields, so why not the LAST name as well?
Can anyone answer to me, eventually give me a solution as well? And I mean not suggestions to use 1dial etc. I know about those ones..
Sorry if I missed something, don't start to throw rocks at me, I'm just very frustrated.
thanks all.

dont know if I understand what you want, but you can change the display settings in your Contacts (Menu > More > Settings > Order of display name and change to Last Name First Name), and then you can T9 search based on last name and phone number.

dopeee said:
dont know if I understand what you want, but you can change the display settings in your Contacts (Menu > More > Settings > Order of display name and change to Last Name First Name), and then you can T9 search based on last name and phone number.
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thanks a lot, this is what i meant. funny thing is that, in my case, even if i select order by last name, in the Phone application it still does not select persons from contacts based on last name field.
but anyway I wanted to be able to do the search based on all these fields, just like the HTC dialer, if you know. i guess that is not possible after all...

Hi
I'm on JM1, and the last name search works just fine on my phone. Maybe you just have to wait a while for the phone to index the contact list.

iamsatan said:
Hi
I'm on JM1, and the last name search works just fine on my phone. Maybe you just have to wait a while for the phone to index the contact list.
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im on JPK and it is not working, but even if it had been working, would still not have been sattisfied. I would like smth similar to HTC dialer. I don't see why would Samsung create such a stupid way of searching in Contacts list.
Not to mention that it would be useful to search in last dialed list as well, just in case you have dialed a number, not saved it and need it later and you only remember it started with 0722xxx, for example. HTC dialer had that as well.

Try StarContact, t9 search with nice large buttons, searches first and last name, can even search company name. I use it all the time, but especially when I can't remember someone's name but can remember who they work for.
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Use Dialer One - best T9 search. (Free on market)

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Use Dialer One - best T9 search. (Free on market)
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only the t9 search is there fine. but the rest of app is not really my taste ..
so, maybe on AOSP they can impelment that on phone app.