Hey guys,
Whenever I am trying to enter information into forms (like adding a new contact, adding a phone number...) when I click on a field, the software keyboard pops up. When I start typing on the hardware keyboard the software keyboard hides away and everything is fine.
The problem is when you type on one of the bottom one or two fields and the screen has to scroll when the software keyboard comes up. For some reason when you start typing on the hardware keyboard, the field loses focus and you can't type. I hate having to use the software keyboard to type stuff. Does anyone know how to fix this?
To reproduce this go to People Tab > All People > New (add new contact) > Add Number (I know there is a text field there but sometimes you want to change the type of the number) > then try typing the phone number into the phone number box with the hardware keyboard.
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Here is my problem: let’s say that I want to save a new number to an existing Contact. And let’s assume that that new number is in my Call History (i.e., the usual give me a missed call so that I have your new number thing that we all do). Now, if I select the number from my Call History, right click on “Save to Contacts”, the keyboard does not seem to work properly. Other than the keys that have numbers on them (i.e., the keypad letters), the remaining keys do not seem to respond to enable me to find the existing contact. I have to scroll through my contacts to find that person, which is a pain.
For example, let’s say that the contact’s name begins with the letter H. I won’t be able to find her by pressing the “H” key because there would not be any response. However, when I press the letters “W, E, R, S, D, F, X, C, V, Z, or A, I am able to select contacts with such letters appearing in their name. The rest of the keys do not work.
Any tips on where to go in the registry to get this fixed?
I have this problem.
I have a contact. He has two mobile numbers. I add both numbers to this contact.
I cannot seem to be able to send a message to the secondary number . It just will not show up when I type the "Name" in the to: field when writing a new SMS.
It only displays numbers marked as "Mobile"
The secondary one is marked as "Home"
I have options for: home, company, work, car.. etc, none of them work.
I cannot send a message even from the contacts screen..,,
How do I resolve this???
I just checked. It totally works fine. Send a new sms. put your cursor where you would type the name and press enter. you get the contact list. select contact and number voila.
next time, it is already in your messages.
yes, saved my day, just checked myself, never thought of pressing enter with the "to:" field empty.
still it should have had an option for setting a secondary mobile.... maybe some registry hacking????
I also noticed this barf today. If you type in the beginning of a person's name to the "TO:" field, it autofills it nicely, but automatically assumes the "Mobile Phone" number field will be used and there's NO way to change it.
The alternative way (press ENTER in the empty TO:-field) works, but again is an extra step too far.
The Windows UI guys really need to get their act together (maybe a bit those TF3D guys too). I'd expect this from a designer temp for his summer job, but not in a mass-market v.6 release in 2009!
I always have this problem,
Pressing ENTER works fine I see. I usually started up a new SMS, then went to "Menu > Add Recipient" and then the contact list is openend too ...
I have the same problem with two persons with alike names:
For example:
Tom Vaan
and
Tom Vaander
In the To: field I type Tom and only get the "Tom Vaan", no way to change it to "Tom Vaander"
vasra said:
The alternative way (press ENTER in the empty TO:-field) works, but again is an extra step too far.
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You can also tap on the "TO:" text.
I have most of my contacts with their area code even if they are the same as mine.
My issue is that when I go to dial a number and put in the first few digits it doesn't find the contact I'm going to dial unless I put in the area code first.
I'm coming from the MotoQ and it would display both contacts matching the digits for the area code and also the first 3 digits of the phone(not counting the area code of course).
Is there anyway to have the phone do this b/c inputting the area code when dialing is a little of a hassel and its that or spell out the name at this point.
If you are using sense ui you can just tap out the first couple letters of their name instead of their number.
So mark smith
6275
And mark will pop up. It works with less input and will narrow the list down as you type more.
Yeah iI know you can do it that way but on my MotoQ it would do that too and also i'd be able to search via entering the 3 digits after the phone number and it would pull those up too. The Evo seems to not do this and will only do it by name or area code. My Q would skip the area code, do the name, and also show ones that matched the area code too.
I just use aContacts and go to the alphabetical search as the default window. Better than having 10 possible contacts pop up.
Another option is Gesture Search. I put a shortcut on my home screen and find myself using it more than anything else.
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Samsung Focus 1.3
Mango RTM
I have a contact with a Mobile phone entry under "Mobile" and his Work Cell phone is listed under "Work"
When you go to Messaging and hit the plus sign to create a new Text then start typing the name. The Work number doesn't show in the type ahead.
So for me to create a multi party text I have to hit the plus sign across from the TO: and navigate to the contact and select that number. Very annoying.
That's not a bug, a work number by default is a landline phone for cell phones. You dont often send texts to land lines so they dont have the option there. If it's a mobile number set up a second mobile option.
If you create a second contact entry just for your friend's work cell phone, and then link the two contacts together, both numbers will be available to select from the list when you type the name. It isn't a perfect workaround, but at least it works.
z33dev33l said:
That's not a bug, a work number by default is a landline phone for cell phones. You dont often send texts to land lines so they dont have the option there. If it's a mobile number set up a second mobile option.
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In Windows Phone 7 that may be the case. The reason I feel that it is a bug is because I can select the contact manually and the option is there to text the "Work" number and when creating a blank text I can hit the plus sign and when I go to that contact I can select the "Work" number.
For the type ahead function the "Work" number isn't populating. That to me is a bug when its selectable in other parts of the OS.
Also what Cell Phones are you talking about? Try this on a iOS or Android device and the work number will come up as selectable when using the type ahead.
Right now this is just a minor annoyance(yet extremely irritating) to a platform that I love.
hwalker84 said:
In Windows Phone 7 that may be the case. The reason I feel that it is a bug is because I can select the contact manually and the option is there to text the "Work" number and when creating a blank text I can hit the plus sign and when I go to that contact I can select the "Work" number.
For the type ahead function the "Work" number isn't populating. That to me is a bug when its selectable in other parts of the OS.
Also what Cell Phones are you talking about? Try this on a iOS or Android device and the work number will come up as selectable when using the type ahead.
Right now this is just a minor annoyance(yet extremely irritating) to a platform that I love.
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I think the logic is that, the mobile number would be the primary method of communication because generally most people have one cell number they associate for friends and family.
The thing that gets me is that the threaded messages for the same contact with different numbers doesn't get grouped together despite the OS recognizing they belong to the same contact and that you can use the switch button to text to the different number
Hi All,
I am a big fan of the auto complete feature of the numerical pad on my M9.
For those that are not familiar with the feature you simply start pressing the key pad numbers that correspond with a contacts name.
Each character has letters associated with it, e.g.: 2 - ABC, 3 - DEF, etc; so if I want to call 'Adam' I start by typing 232...
The only pain point with this excellent feature is if I accidentally press on the CALL button, rather than the contact details then the literal number that I have typed will be called, i.e.: in the case of the 'Adam' example above the number 232 will be called.
This fact unto itself is not a game changer, however every time that I accidentally click on CALL, and a literal number is called it makes it harder to bring a contact up. So once again using the 'Adam' example; when I type 232 - instead of seeing contact details for Adam I instead see 232! The only way around this is to type the fourth character for the contact, e.g.: instead of 232 I now need to type 2326.
And of course if I accidentally click on CALL when 2326 is entered then it is even harder again to bring up my 'Adam' contact; I then have to start typing a surname as well as a given name!!!
This has made it impossible to use the handy feature on some of my contacts. I have tried deleting the cache for the 'Phone' app in the hope of clearing the call history / memory, but this didn't work.
Is there any way to completely erase the key pads history?
Any help would be fantastic.
Kind Regards,
Davo
There's a tab called "call history" in the dialer app (unless you disabled it). There you can tap onto the three dot menu and choose "delete call history". The phone lets you chose which entries you want to delete, then.
Flippy498,
Your a CHAMPION!! Thanks so much
Kind Regards,
Davo