This question has been asked before, but not answered. I'm posting it again in the hope that someone has figured it out. I want to view the full postal address of my contact, for example when addressing an envelope. I can view them on the computer in a web browser. On my Desire running Android 2.1 I only see part of the address. My only option is to click "View home address" which opens the map. That's not good enough, and because the addresses in my area are in a non-standard format the addresses fail to display. (Addresses here often are a name of a house or building, no number, so I need to copy the addresses exactly as I have them formatted). The question has been asked before here (xda-developers) and here (community.htc.com) with no valid answers so far. I know that when I use a standard USA address that is locatable by Google Maps, the address info is kept and displayed in the mapping program. This problem is limited to certain US and other countries' address formats that Google Maps won't resolve correctly. Anyone figure this out yet?
I just posted on the previous thread you linked but its impossible you need to download another addressbook app.
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Good enough, thanks!
I'd prefer to view it as I typed it, complete with the line breaks, but that works well enough.
I keep forgetting to use the trackpad...
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When linked to my Exchange server. It's strange though, since my Htc Hero has no issues whatsoever with this. I can begin to type any name in the To: field and it start suggesting receivers. Now with the Desire, I get no name completion/suggestions whatsoever. It does however work in the recipient fields in for example the SMS application.
Anybody else experience this?
Running 2.1-update1 as is.
Thanks in advance.
Hi jivebunny,
Mine suggests names just fine (from history usage or from my contacts). What is does not do is to suggest names from the full corporate directory (this could take a lot of network/time if you have a big corporate directory). If you want to do that, click the little person icon next to the "to:" list and you can search your corporate directory.
John
Hi John,
Thanks for the reply, this is what I also found, yet how do you control these settings? I've synced my contacts onto the phone through activesync (or does it not work like that anymore?), yet it will suggest nothing when it comes to emails. If I indeed press the little contactperson I get corporate contacts as base, and clicking that again leads to device contacts. Is there a way to change the default setting for that?
I'd rather it not search through the corporate list, since it's big and slow indeed.
I searched and tried a lot of things, but no option found for this.
Thanks again!
Hi, anyone know how (is it possible?)
I just want to view an address for a contact (so I can write it on an envelope) I know, I know, but I do need to send people snail mail occasionally!
In the People app you can view the address in google maps, but I just want to see it written out... and if you edit the contact it only shows it in a tiny one line input field
Pauly
For me, it's shown immediately below the "View home address" text.
I only get 1 line of the address displayed there and even then it runs off the side of the display rather than wrapping, so it may show street address but not town, postcode...
The people app will only ever display one line of the address, its impossible to display more than one line and there doesnt seem to be able setting to change this. I have not tried any special chars but one would assume it cannot be done.
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Ah.... thanks, that helps a lot! Been driving me nuts!
Next problem is how to stop addresses being truncated when syncing.... you can put a full length address in on phone, and it remains on sync, but when re-syncing the address is truncated
Some sort of character limit in HTC sync I guess
P.
Can't help with that one, haven't used HTC sync yet.
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I have been trying to figure out a way to send an address via sms/mms that will do the following:
appear as an address to the reciever
be a clickable link that will open in google maps allowing the reciever to get directions
Is there a way to do this that I am overlooking?
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I have been trying to figure out a way to send an address via sms/mms that will do the following:
appear as an address to the reciever
be a clickable link that will open in google maps allowing the reciever to get directions
Is there a way to do this that I am overlooking?
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I was thinking about the same thing a few weeks ago. Hopefully someone knows.
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This is actually done automatically based on the recipient's phone. Test it out yourself. Send yourself a text with an address. When you receive it, you'll be able to click it, and your phone will either automatically search it in Google Maps, or it may ask what you want to do with it, such as store it to a contact etc. This is a per-phone feature though. Many of the Nokia's I use to use had similar features. On our phones, it will also do the same for email addresses, web addresses, and phone numbers that it detects.
Now if you're using a custom rom, this may not happen automatically as it is based on which Messaging app the rom is using. I am using TeamFenix, and after just testing it, it did not recognize the full address, only the ZIP code, and therefore tried dialing the 5 digit number. But I think this did work on the stock messaging app.
But SMS/MMS is pretty limited as it is a strict standard. There are no tags etc that can be added that will be interpreted by a phone differently. That is why it is up the the recipient's phone to simply have it built in to recognize different address and phone number types.
very helpful reply. I found a way to attach a map point, but its not very exact in that it will not let me enter where i want the map point to be. I will figure something out, this phone has a lot of features and I am sure this is one of them.
Its funny you mention that. My friend sent me his address this weekend via sms and included a google maps link and it worked flawlessly, was able to "click" it and it launched maps right to his address. Not sure if me manually put the link in the sms or if the phone did it...
In my contact manager, I often include some descriptive text in the phone number field to differentiate one "Work" number from another.
For example, I have two "Work" numbers for Verizon. In the phone number field, after the actual number, I'll enter "Tech Supp" for one and "Billing" for the other. On my phone, it looks like:
Work: (800) 555-1212 Tech Supp
Work: (800) 555-1213 Billing
But dialers convert that text and dial it as numbers. Dialers I have tried will dial the above numbers as:
800555121283247877
80055512132455464
Is there a dialer that will ignore text that appears in the field with the phone number and/or simply dial the first ten digits??
Thanks.
Jace
I've never seen such a dialer, especially since some letters are actually used for things like a 'hard pause' and 'wait'.
There is a cleaner solution however, but it'll take a bit of work on your part.
If you use Google Contacts as your primary contact list (and I highly suggest you do for all sorts of reasons), you can actually change the text displayed next to any phone or email simply by clicking where it says Home/Work and selecting CUSTOM. Name it whatever you like and that label will carry over to your phone in the S3's default address book.
For example I have a few listed as:
Work - Direct (Line)
Work - Main (Company)
Note: I had an issue with a previous phone where not all the letters showed up so I tried to keep the names shorter by omitting the parts you see in ().
It works great however and it's quite easy to set up on a PC when on the Google contacts page. (I'm not sure if you can set custom on the phone directly).
Good luck
Thanks. I'd always heard that the characters for pauses and waits were "," and ";". but a little Googling reveals that "p" and "w" are used as well. You learn something every day, eh?
I use Microsoft Exchange for my contacts and sync w/ my phone because the contact list is shared with other people. Calendars too. I'll look into syncing with Google Contacts, but am a little leary of putting all that data in the cloud with reports of all the breaches occurring these days. Still, if Google Contacts can sync (two ways) w/ MS Exchange and with our phones (also two ways) so we are able to edit data on the phones and have it sync back to MS Exchange (through Google Contacts), that would be a workable solution.
Thanks again for the input.
DroidGnome said:
I've never seen such a dialer, especially since some letters are actually used for things like a 'hard pause' and 'wait'.
There is a cleaner solution however, but it'll take a bit of work on your part.
If you use Google Contacts as your primary contact list (and I highly suggest you do for all sorts of reasons), you can actually change the text displayed next to any phone or email simply by clicking where it says Home/Work and selecting CUSTOM. Name it whatever you like and that label will carry over to your phone in the S3's default address book.
For example I have a few listed as:
Work - Direct (Line)
Work - Main (Company)
Note: I had an issue with a previous phone where not all the letters showed up so I tried to keep the names shorter by omitting the parts you see in ().
It works great however and it's quite easy to set up on a PC when on the Google contacts page. (I'm not sure if you can set custom on the phone directly).
Good luck
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And yes you can do the same thing from the phones contacts list.
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I don't see how to edit the label from the phone itself, if that is what you were referring to, neither from the stock Contacts app, nor from Touchdown (which is what I currently have all my contacts in).
jrgreenman said:
I don't see how to edit the label from the phone itself, if that is what you were referring to, neither from the stock Contacts app, nor from Touchdown (which is what I currently have all my contacts in).
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It was started above already
In the stock contacts app
Edit contact
Next to the number should be a label
Click it scroll down to custom and change it.
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ZiggSVO said:
It was started above already
In the stock contacts app
Edit contact
Next to the number should be a label
Click it scroll down to custom and change it.
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Aha!! Got it. Thanks!
jrgreenman
I see someone gave you a solution to your issue, you should edit your title to reflect that it's been fixed or something along that line, I jumped in to suggest that same solution!
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jrgreenman
I see someone gave you a solution to your issue, you should edit your title to reflect that it's been fixed or something along that line, I jumped in to suggest that same solution!
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While the solution may be workable, it is rather brute force to edit the 4000+ contacts I have. Is it acceptable to leave the thread open in the hope of a more elegant solution?
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While the solution may be workable, it is rather brute force to edit the 4000+ contacts I have. Is it acceptable to leave the thread open in the hope of a more elegant solution?
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of course it is, you're the OP, it's your thread!
Wow that's a lot of contacts!
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of course it is, you're the OP, it's your thread!
Wow that's a lot of contacts!
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A lifetime's worth. And growing every day.
Thanks for the confirmation. Wasn't sure if I was on the edge of a forum rule or something.
Hi guys,
I am thinking of buying a Pixel XL. I played with one today at the store and I found a disturbing issue to me. If I add a contact it only gives me one line for the address. Exactly the same BS like on the web portal of gmail.
Usually, you can click somewhere and expand the address field to more but single fields for street, city, country and so on.
This one line might work just great if you use only US addresses, but as soon you get into international addresses from countries around the world. Google can't handle the input anymore and gets confused what is what.
Was I just to blind to see how to expand the field or is it really that bad? Now I would need to install a second contacts app with this option. Great job Google!!!
Not sure if this a feasible work around but you could possible try a differnt contact apps?
See here: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Contacts&c=apps&hl=en
Scott said:
Not sure if this a feasible work around but you could possible try a differnt contact apps?
See here: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Contacts&c=apps&hl=en
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That was my thougt too. but thats stupid. Esepcially if its just used to add addresses. So far I havent seen a phone which doesnt have the expandable address field except the PIxels
Snake-Plissken said:
Hi guys,
I am thinking of buying a Pixel XL. I played with one today at the store and I found a disturbing issue to me. If I add a contact it only gives me one line for the address. Exactly the same BS like on the web portal of gmail.
Usually, you can click somewhere and expand the address field to more but single fields for street, city, country and so on.
This one line might work just great if you use only US addresses, but as soon you get into international addresses from countries around the world. Google can't handle the input anymore and gets confused what is what.
Was I just to blind to see how to expand the field or is it really that bad? Now I would need to install a second contacts app with this option. Great job Google!!!
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I may not be understanding correctly, but I just tried adding a new contact and I was able to add a multi-line address. I just hit enter after each line and a new line appeared.
Eg.
1234 Street name
City
Province
Postal Code
Is this what you meant, or did I misunderstand the problem?
As I'm German and only save German, a few French, Danish and some addresses from Luxembourg I too don't see the problem.
As mentioned above you can always hit enter for another line but even if you don't and write it all in one line Google is always smart enough to know where to navigate me.
Correct me but if you have saved a contact with an address and you hit it you get directed to maps, maps searches instantly for the address and it doesn't even matter if postal code, town or even country is missing.
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As I'm German and only save German, a few French, Danish and some addresses from Luxembourg I too don't see the problem.
As mentioned above you can always hit enter for another line but even if you don't and write it all in one line Google is always smart enough to know where to navigate me.
Correct me but if you have saved a contact with an address and you hit it you get directed to maps, maps searches instantly for the address and it doesn't even matter if postal code, town or even country is missing.
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I tried to do the same before in the web portal of gmail. No matter if i enter everything in one line or hit enter. Google got confused. I dont remember what addresses gave me problems. I think one was Butan, Kazachstan, Peru and Chile I believe.
Also if i view the entry from the web portal on my mobile (galaxy note) and I go to edit contact. The address is completly mixed up. In the city field is the street, street is country and so on. It was a big mess up. I dont know if Google already improved that. I stopped using the web portal and entered the addresses on mobile where I had the actual fields for City, Street, ZIP and so on...
I dont have a Pixel yet so cant try a lot. I played with it in a Verizon store....