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Can i make Contacts the default when I phone?

if i press the Phone button it takes me to the dial keypad with the Call History in the background. Is there a way to make it default to Contacts instead as this is nicely sorted into alphabetic order?

If they are contacts you dial often, they will be the first results that will appear when you start to type either their name, initials or number.
Otherwise leave the people app on your home screen and use that.
I don't know of any option to do what you want unless its through root which I haven't done.
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[Q] How do i take down a number during a call?

Had this problem with my hero as well.
How do you take a number down if you are on a call?
ie if on a call asking for a number from the other person how do you write it down and use it for next call?
On nokias, the number you input stays after you hang up, so you can call, save etc.. But on Android, when you hang up the number you input disappears too!
AM i missing a way to do it (short of saving it to contacts (which i might not want to do), or dialling and hanging up)?

you can tap the number you enter which will dial the number you entered followed by immediately ending the call which will store it in your call history and return you to the original call all in about 2 secs. Not exactly elegant but works.

thats pretty much what i do, but its so silly to do it that way I thought ther MUST be a better way. I mean its not exactly a rare or unusual feature to need, is it? ;-)

I normally use a pen......Have done for a while now and it never fails

This applies to the stock dialer - don't know if it works like this on Sense.
Press Add Call, enter the digits. Now long-press the entered number. Select cut or copy. Then back button to cancel Add Call. After the call is over you can paste it back into the dialer the same way or into a contact.

Just tried, didnt work, no long press, any press just dials the number...
Now you've reminded me of another question:
The software usuuuaaaallly recognises number formats in emails or texts, and hyperlinks them to the dialer. HOWEVER Ive never been able to PASTE a number (copied from somehwere that the software didnt recognise as a number) into the sense dialer. Anyone can confirm this is not possible?

I'm unable to paste too on FroYo.
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Ah, well it was worth a shot. I haven't spent more than a few minutes on a Sense phone so I'm not so well-acquainted with how the dialer works. I can confirm that the stock dialer of both Milestone's Eclair and N1's Froyo has an editable text field, in which one can long-press to get the "Edit Text" popup.
Can a Sense Android use an alternate dialer app?

there are thousands of notes apps thats what there for lol i think even htc has a notes widget for sence (i cant remember) neway yeah use your apps

There is an app which specifically does what you want. It's called Number Saver and it shows up in the notification bar whenever you make a call.

cool, will check it out!
Always weird that someone has to come up with an app for some function that should have been there to begin with, oh well!

Ec05 stupid question adding a contact. Gf having trouble

I'm not at the same place as the phone so bear with me. How do you add a contact in ec05. I could figure it out in seconds if i had the phone in my hand so i'm operating blind. The obvious of go to contact program them hit menu key then add contact, she says there's no option to add contact. She's used to di18 way of doing things. Did it change?

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I'm not at the same place as the phone so bear with me. How do you add a contact in ec05. I could figure it out in seconds if i had the phone in my hand so i'm operating blind. The obvious of go to contact program them hit menu key then add contact, she says there's no option to add contact. She's used to di18 way of doing things. Did it change?
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May have to re-sync her accounts. I saw someone else post that after the update they had to re-login to their Google account.

Already been done.

When you placing a call you can save it right before you hit call
also after call is ask do you want to add as contact
or go to call log press on that number dialed and at the bottom it ask "add to contact"

All she has to do is go to contacts, and next to the search there is a + button. Tell her to press this and that's how to add a contact.
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Yeah, she finally figured it out. Kinda wierd for it to not be like the old one of go to dialer and enter phone number. Right above that it says + add contact. I will have to look at it later but she said you can't bring up contacts program then menu key then add contact. That makes no logical sense to me.

The plus sign mentioned above is one way but also on mine with EC05 I pull up the dialer and enter a number and directly below the number just entered is a bar that says "add to contacts"

[Q] How to send an SMS through Contacts app?

If I click on the photo (or the default icon) while on the contacts list, a small window pops up with a few communications options depending on the stored contact information (Call, Gmail, G+...etc).
However, I can't find any way to sms a contact either while in Contacts list or after I open the contact item even though the phone number stored in that contact has been set as Mobile.
The only way to sms someone is through the Message application.
Am I missing something?

There's the pic that looks like a text bubble on the right hand side of each phone number when you hit the contact pic. That's to sms the person. If you have more than one sms program, it'll ask you to choose a default one first. At least that's what I got. Hope this helps.

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There's the pic that looks like a text bubble on the right hand side of each phone number when you hit the contact pic. That's to sms the person. If you have more than one sms program, it'll ask you to choose a default one first. At least that's what I got. Hope this helps.
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Now you just confirmed what I was suspecting. I think I have set the "Call" action as the default.
I just went to Settings->Apps and found out that only the "Phone" app has "clear default" option. I cleared it but it didn't solve the problem. Whenever I click that little icon, the phone dials the number right away.

So when you tap the icon in my pic, your phone calls the number?

There used to be another way, allthough I'm not sure wether it was Samsung-, or Android related:
Open the contacts-app.
Scroll to the contact you need.
Put your finger in the (horizontal) center of that contact.
Slide slowly to the left and the sms-option will appear.
Slide to the right and you can make a call.
I hope it works for you.

[Q] Messaging adding 1 to 10 digit number

I am having a problem with messaging (texts) in that if I type in a 10 digit number, when I try to send the message, it is adding a 1 to it and so the text fails. This only happens on numbers I input manually. It is not happening to contacts I have, or to folks I have already sent/received texts.
This happens whether I am using the stock Messaging app or Chomp or other messaging apps.
The error I get is: Error Invalid Number. Please re-send using a valid 10 digit mobile number or valid short code
I am typing in a valid 10 digit number, i.e. 512-555-1212, but when it sends it is attempting 15125551212.
Any help would sure be appreciated.

Go to your messaging app and hit the munue button. There should be an option in that menue to take that off

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twanskys204 said:
Go to your messaging app and hit the munue button. There should be an option in that menue to take that off
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There is no option in settings for this, not in Chomp or the stock Messaging app - at least not that I have found.

K I think I found it.. go to dialer, press menu button then press additional setting then find this toggle.. give that a try

twanskys204 said:
K I think I found it.. go to dialer, press menu button then press additional setting then find this toggle.. give that a try
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Tested this, it's not it.
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