[REQUEST]Porting a decent Contacts.apk to the MIUI rom - Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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

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thegregbradley said:
1. In my "contacts" section, I am missing three people (my girl and two close friends). Discovered pretty quickly that they are in my "favorites" section in the stock CM7 dialer. The strangeness comes when I remove them from my favorites, they don't return to my general contacts listing. I don't want to make a new entry for these people and have hella doubles in my synced google contacts, am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug of some kind?
2. I can't seem to find a way to "link" contacts like I used to be able to in Sense, but perhaps that was just a nicety of Sense. If there's no way, I'll just have to do some painstaking contact maintenance and clean it up for good.
Thanks in advance for the help
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AWESOME. I kept searching in "settings," completely overlooked display options as if it weren't even there! Thank you, all problems solved!

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could try downloading TW4 to get the Facebook SNS
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-Sent from my Random Epic.

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