Two quick questions/problems that i know are fixable - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've just lost track of the threads where they were resolved.
1) LED notifications (for anything) only lasting 5 minutes or so. I want my LED to keep flashing until i unlock the phone and clear the alert/notification. Thats how it was on my G1 on 1.6 and it was great. I'm certain i saw an app that could fix it somewhere, but i cant find the thread, and no searching for relevant seeming names brings anything up.
2) A bunch of unknown texts/network texts/various other oddities all being attributed to a random facebook/phonebook contact. I saw there was at least a partial solution for this somewhere, but once again, lost the thread
Thanks for any help you can give, really appreciate it.

1) Missed Reminder app does the trick.

I use missed call from the market for the alerts.
I think your sms issue is to do with facebook synching contacts that have odd phone numbers, or text where there should be a phone number. if I remember correctly you need to either delete those facebook friends, or stop the facebook contacts sync.

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Sense 2.5 Favorite People Disappear (Sync Issue?)

I was wondering if anyone is getting this same error, from time to time a contact or two from my favorite contacts tab just disappear. It gets quite frustrating and I'm not sure if it's my method of syncing or something else. I'm currently using NuevaSync to sync my Gcal and Gmail contacts. What's everyone else using if they're trying to sync multiple Gcals/contacts?
Very late to this thread, but yes...having the exact same problem. Sense 2.5/Nuevasync/Google Contacts. Favorite people keep going away. Did you ever figure this one out?
Same issue here... I've had this issue for a long time now. I've Googled the heck out of it, found lots of people complaining but no one offering up any explanation or solution.
i had a contact just dissapear. ive had the issue a few times before too. i just readd the person and it normally doesnt wig out again for quite a while.
It's like a game of "whack-a-mole" for me. One disappears, I re-add them, then two more disappear. Every day.
In addition to vanishing contacts, sometimes it will re-arrange my contacts. It will also randomly change information sometimes too. Once, it renamed one of my contacts to "Customer Care." All the other info -- picture, phone number, e-mail -- were unchanged. My guess is it is some sort of Activesync issue, but I don't know.
i had another one disappear today. weird.
I could be way off-base here, but it seems like it happens when I get an email from one of my Favorite contacts.

[Q] Keeps asking to link contact info

Hey,..
You know the icon you get in your notification bar when the phone found a link between facebook contacts and phone contacts and whatsapp contacts ect.,
Then you click link it or dismiss.
I like this and works well.
but the last couple of day its been failing and annoying me.
there are 4 contacts its keep asking me to link.
over and over again.
doesnt matter if i link or dismiss.
i went tot the user in my phone list and linked them, seems to be good.
and then some time later it asks me again..
everytime the same 4.
Anyone else have this or know what this might be?
Its really really really annoying!
Thanx m8's!
On my phone I notice it appears briefly then goes away again a second later, like it's loading the info. It's never really bothered me though.
Have you tried deleting the 4 contacts and then adding them again?
I had the same problem for weeks...I had o2 listed in my contacts with various numbers (customer services, top up, overseas cs etc etc)
bugged me so much as no matter what i did, dismiss or request link it would keep coming back listing the same contact multiple times...ended up deleting the contact and not replacing ...didnt happen again ..
same here... whatsapp repetatively notifies me of contact links although they are already linked and there - drives me nuts. what should I delete? the contact on the phone or the contact on whatsapp ??!?
supapawa said:
same here... whatsapp repetatively notifies me of contact links although they are already linked and there - drives me nuts. what should I delete? the contact on the phone or the contact on whatsapp ??!?
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Exact same issue for me. Have not found a permanent fix yet...
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Disappearing Contacts?

Has anyone have this happen? I have my contacts linked on my phone through my Google e-mail. Got my phone on December 18th area and haven't had any issues with it until yesterday and half of my contacts disappeared. I was texting my wife and her name was showing on the incoming text and there was a time where she sent two-three text messages before I could check them and I was looking at the text in quick reply as I scrolled through them I noticed the first text had her name and the two after had her cell number. I thought that was weird but didn't think much of it, then later that day I had a unknown number call me so I answered it and it was a friend I had in my contact list but rarely talk to. That made me suspicious enough to check my contact list and sure enough, like 90% of my contacts are gone. A few survived but I've messed with settings and re-synced my contacts but still no avail. Anyone else had this happen? Thanks
Hey I had the same thing happen. I literally just looked at my phone minutes ago and saw this... I now have 4 contacts left.
I'm not sure what has caused it, anyone else?
Yea I just tried removing the account and re-adding it and that made no difference at all. I also tried adding another account with a few contacts in it and it only brought in one contact from the account.
I done a quick search on Google and it seems to be a pretty common thing that "just happens so get used to it". I don't think we are getting our contacts back.
Fixed mine!
Go to your Google Contacts on the computer(I searched Google Contacts on Google Search and it brought it up) and you should see a restore feature on the main thing with your current contacts. I restored mine using the "last week" feature and it brought them up and they are back on my phone after I re-synced. Hope this helps you.
Awesome! That worked!
Ive seen this before too. Haven't found a perm fix yet.

Contacts automatically joining in a wrong manner

Hello,
I have freindcaster and whatsapp. When I sync my contacts on my nexus, it automatically joins several contacts according to its name. The problem is, its doing it in a completely wrong manner. It's joining people that have nothing to do with each other (dont even have similar letters in their names!). It's even joining wrong whatsapp contacts with my normal contacts.
My question is, is there a "Separate All" button, so I can actually do it manually ? I know its a horrible task given I have hundreds of contacts but I'd rather spend a week on this, rather than have my contacts completely mixed.
Is there any smarter software for joining contacts in the market? Thanks for your help
is there any way to separate (unjoin) all contacts so I can join them manually?
PeritoX said:
Hello,
I have freindcaster and whatsapp. When I sync my contacts on my nexus, it automatically joins several contacts according to its name. The problem is, its doing it in a completely wrong manner. It's joining people that have nothing to do with each other (dont even have similar letters in their names!). It's even joining wrong whatsapp contacts with my normal contacts.
My question is, is there a "Separate All" button, so I can actually do it manually ? I know its a horrible task given I have hundreds of contacts but I'd rather spend a week on this, rather than have my contacts completely mixed.
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Did you ever get a response to this issue? I have a similar issue on an i9100 Galaxy Sii.

[Q] several new issues on AOKP milestone 6

okay, i posted a thread a few weeks ago on some issues with AOKP milestone 6 on htc wildfire.. now, after fine tuning several aspects of the phone i ran into more issues, that i do not know how to solve.....
1. an incredibly annoying lag when receiving call... first comes the ringtone, then, about 4-5 seconds later, the screen turns itself on, and only then the in-call image appears, with an option to answer/decline a call. i managed only to reduce the lag a bit by managing several profiles in SetCPU app, but the problem persists no matter what i do....
2. battery life and occasional twitching when flipping through home screens/ app drawer - this issue got solved pretty easily by removing non-essential apps from system/app using root explorer, and properly setting processor frequencies in profiles with SetCPU. The phone now is fast, snappy, and the battery has almost 3 days of autonomy with quite a lot of background processes
3. Contacts search/suggestion problem - now this one is truly annoying, and i can't seem to figure out the reason why this is happening. it didn't happen at the beginning. now here's the deal: whenever i want to send a new message, and type the name of the recipient, the phone does not recognize/suggest the name (or can't find it in the phonebook). the only way is to type in the FULL number (with + and prefixes), and only then it will recognize the recipient and show his/hers name. the other method is to search for the contact in the phonebook and then chose an option to send a sms/mms. i imported my contacts list from google, the same i did with previous roms and after resetting the phone, and never had such a problem.... the other part is opening people app, i.e. the phonebook. when scrolling through contacts, all are there, visible and accessible, but when trying to search for a specific entry (i have over 300 entries, so search option is truly a must-have), it only finds some contacts, but not all. and i do not know the solution for these problems. i tried meddling with which entries are visible, checking and unchecking all google contatcs, but the problem is still there...
does anybody have an idea? i tried googling for this one, but it seems i don't even know what keywords to use since this specific problem wasn't addressed in any of the AOKP or CM-related threads
neverone said:
okay, i posted a thread a few weeks ago on some issues with AOKP milestone 6 on htc wildfire.. now, after fine tuning several aspects of the phone i ran into more issues, that i do not know how to solve.....
1. an incredibly annoying lag when receiving call... first comes the ringtone, then, about 4-5 seconds later, the screen turns itself on, and only then the in-call image appears, with an option to answer/decline a call. i managed only to reduce the lag a bit by managing several profiles in SetCPU app, but the problem persists no matter what i do....
2. battery life and occasional twitching when flipping through home screens/ app drawer - this issue got solved pretty easily by removing non-essential apps from system/app using root explorer, and properly setting processor frequencies in profiles with SetCPU. The phone now is fast, snappy, and the battery has almost 3 days of autonomy with quite a lot of background processes
3. Contacts search/suggestion problem - now this one is truly annoying, and i can't seem to figure out the reason why this is happening. it didn't happen at the beginning. now here's the deal: whenever i want to send a new message, and type the name of the recipient, the phone does not recognize/suggest the name (or can't find it in the phonebook). the only way is to type in the FULL number (with + and prefixes), and only then it will recognize the recipient and show his/hers name. the other method is to search for the contact in the phonebook and then chose an option to send a sms/mms. i imported my contacts list from google, the same i did with previous roms and after resetting the phone, and never had such a problem.... the other part is opening people app, i.e. the phonebook. when scrolling through contacts, all are there, visible and accessible, but when trying to search for a specific entry (i have over 300 entries, so search option is truly a must-have), it only finds some contacts, but not all. and i do not know the solution for these problems. i tried meddling with which entries are visible, checking and unchecking all google contatcs, but the problem is still there...
does anybody have an idea? i tried googling for this one, but it seems i don't even know what keywords to use since this specific problem wasn't addressed in any of the AOKP or CM-related threads
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If I'm not mistaken you're already allowed to post in the developing section? I'd suggest you better post those ROM related stuff directly in the ROM thread - most likely people using that ROM (those who probably could give some answers) will follow that thread even if they rarely visit XDA. Furthermore other users may have similar issues and could find this stuff more easy
eventcom said:
If I'm not mistaken you're already allowed to post in the developing section? I'd suggest you better post those ROM related stuff directly in the ROM thread - most likely people using that ROM (those who probably could give some answers) will follow that thread even if they rarely visit XDA. Furthermore other users may have similar issues and could find this stuff more easy
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it seems i am... thanks for the suggestion! i just posted in the thread you suggested.. . hopefully that'll do

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