I've tried in the general and Q&A section about it, but no one is replying so I'm going to have to go ugly and hack the APK
In Android 2.1+, the stock contacts merge contacts with the same name, a few of my contacts have the same name but are different people (obviously) but because of the merge, I have 2 mobile numbers in 1 contact for 2 different people and I have no idea who I'm ringing.
Firstly does anyone know of a way to disable this ? (it doesn't merge online, just on the phone)
If not, who knows how to change the APK to stop the merge, is any developer willing to attach a Contacts.apk without the merge ?
Thanks
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Just trying to figure out how i am able to send a text message to all the numbers in my phone without having to select the 200+ contacts individually...
Can anyone help me out here? Does the 8525 even offer an option like that?
Please help
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hey that s called spam!
i m not sure but maybe you can create a group (like you do on outlook) and send the sms to that...
lol
well im in the promoting business and the majority of my contacts are those who attend my events.
Im not trying to go through outlook. I know in several other phones it gave you the option of selecting all or at least going through your contacts and checking all those you would want to send the text to. On this phone i cant seem to find any feature like that. I have to individually add EVERYSINGLE contact going from text to contacts list to text to contacts list. Its pretty ridiculous.
If anyone knows of how to select or send to all, i would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
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check the website on my signature, u will the req. software.
i have wm6 and that link in your sig. I downloaded the file and placed it in my docs but its always unsuccesful when i try to run it?
i downloaded teh frameworks 2.0.
any help?
does anyone else know of any application that would allow me to select groups of peope or multiple sets of people when texting?
please help
OK,
I managed to get my Slide Rooted.
The first thing I want to fix is the fact that contacts do not have the option anymore to select and display only certain groups (from Google account - I am not talking about types, aka: T-mobile, outlook, google-Type of contacts, I'm referring to Google-contacts = that is the only contacts I really care about).
Now, my question is: If I make a backup of the existing :
/system/app/Contacts.apk,
/system/app/ContactsProvider.apk
say to .apk.old
And copy these two apk's from an existing rooted eclair (say SuperBad 1.7) will this work?
Do I need to do anything else?
Are any other packages involved in this (not caring too much about the MyFaves interface, so if I break that, I will not cry).
Is there anything else I need to do to make this work and to get groups back?
Any ideas?
Thanks
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?
added in few hours
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?)
Hi everyone,
Sorry if I'm not posting in the right section...
Here is my problem: I love the MIUI rom, but I believe there is one major issue with this ROM: The Contact.apk because its entries do NOT match Google contact entries, in particular there is no separate fields for First and Last Names... which sucks because it means going through google contacts on the PC to tweak any new contacts entered with the phone.
I tried to copy CM's contacts.apk into my Miui Rom, and although I did not get any FCs, the UI was all messy and useless. Also, I love the MIUI UI, I just miss the google contacts fields... And I just can't understand why MIUI devs could not develop a contacts.apk that exactly matches google contact entries, since this app is meant to sync with google contacts, that's just so weird...
I'm no dev, so I don't know how to improve this app... but if some of you devs had an idea how to tweak MIUI contacts.apk (and add new fields to it) or how to port another contacts.apk better matching google's that would be so great!
Thanks for reading my request
Surfinette
I had asked this back in December in the general section, but I think this is where I should be asking this question. I was wondering if there is a way to edit all of the contact information similar to what is seen in the Gmail web interface? I have looked around, but haven't found anything. I know what comes standard, but is there an app that will plug into the Gmail interface directly so we can customize the labels of the numbers and address, or modify prefix/suffix information? If there isn't, would this be feasible to program, or is there no way to access the Google contacts in that way? I search the forums, but I didn't see much about contact editing.
Thank you, and have a great day!