tmobile transferred all my contacts over from my old phone to new phone. all the contact are there but when you want to send a message they dont come up in a list under contacts, you have to type in names individually to come up. how do i sort this problem? thank you in advance
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Hi,
Im unable to add any contacts to my phone. I can go throught the entire process as normal, even confirm the save. I get no error messages but cant save contacts.
I thought I might have had too many, (Maybe a MDA limitation on number of contacts, or memory issue) and deleted them all off my phone after backing them up to my PC.
Now I cant add contacts via ActiveSync or by the phone.
Anybody else had this problem, or know of a fix?
Thanks in advance.
Mark.
Not sure I understand.
So you add a contact, and you get a confirmation. But then what? Can you go and see the save contact, or is it just not there?
Right, I'm at my whit's end.
I've added contacts to my new Desire, and managed to link them with their respective FaceBook profiles. The thing is, i now want to send a group text message, and the primary message method is via e-mail. I don't want to send an e-mail, i want to text their phone number. I can't seem to find anything which will change it so that an SMS is primary and e-mail is secondary.
Any ideas on that one? I know i can send a single message, but that isnt what i want to do, i want to highlight any contact i wish and have it automatically send an SMS, and not an e-mail.
Also, when sending a message, is there any way to filter the contacts down to just those with phone numbers OR e-mail instead of having a massive amalgamated list of Facebook, Twitter, Google and Phone contacts?
Any help will be hugely appreciated!
hi did you get anywhere with this - esp your last point - must be something obvious ?!
Nope, got nowhere. I can't find any option or anything anywhere to do this. Ive just decided to try and live with it.
If I understood well..when you type in a new message and click in recepients, then the list with your contacts pops up. But, in mine at least, every contact that has a phone number and an email, has 2 records, one with the mail and one the phone number, only to let you choose what you want. Although in contacts list, have one all together.
it shows me:
nikos <[email protected]>
nikos <+000>
etc...
I have the same system as well. The issue i'm raising is when you have say, 350 Facebook contacts and 200 Gmail contacts, and you want to send a message, you have to scroll through every contact to get to the one you want.
I want to know if there's a way to filter the contacts to say "Mobile Numbers Only" or "Email Only" when you're trying to select a (many) recepient(s) for a message.
Andrew.Gamblen said:
I have the same system as well. The issue i'm raising is when you have say, 350 Facebook contacts and 200 Gmail contacts, and you want to send a message, you have to scroll through every contact to get to the one you want.
I want to know if there's a way to filter the contacts to say "Mobile Numbers Only" or "Email Only" when you're trying to select a (many) recepient(s) for a message.
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Oh how I hope you get an answer, see my last point on the following thread...I feel yer pain bruv...soooo frustrating.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=667158
Hi,
I used to have a windows mobile phone I have just over a 1,000 contacts. I exported those into my gmail. I've tried loading the CSV and the VCard files into my phone. But for some reason it doesn't show them all. It seems like in some parts of the phone it shows them, but like if I compose a new text message it doesn't auto list their name. And it doesn't show the contact. It has some contacts listed but not all. Yet when I click on people and I have it view all it shows most of them but not all my contacts, then If I click on menu and then view it shows the right number of contacts.
I'm just really frustrated. Which is better CSV, or VCard? How can I get all my contacts into my phone so it's the same across the board? am I doing something wrong?
Also is there a way to have them automatically synced up with Facebook, or do I have to do each one automatically.
1 more question does it matter if in the contact I have a 1 plus the area code like 1-555-5555 vs 555-5555 would that make a difference?
Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!
Hey Guys
I recently exported some contacts from my old windows mobile phone into a vcard since this is what Google Suggests
So I imported the vcard file into Gmail, and somehow it's
it's put all the contact information into the note field. Perhaps it did this because perhaps at one time I had duplicates of them all and it merged the contact information?
Well all the contact fields are blank except the note field which looks like this
CreationTime: 7/15/2010 10:43:53 AM
FileAs: John, Doe
Importance: 1
LastModificationTime: 7/15/2010 10:44:12 AM
MobileTelephoneNumber: +15555555555
ReminderTime: 1/1/4501 12:00:00 AM
SelectedMailingAddress: 2
Size: 1576
Subject: John Doe
So the problem is when I sync up my contacts with my Evo only the names are listed because theres no phone number in the phone number field it's just in the notes field. And so when I compose a new text message and search for a contact none pull up. I can go into "people" and see the names but yea thats about it.
Please help I haven't searched diligently and I haven't found any solution to this problem.
Any thoughts or ideas on this would be greatly appreciated.
Why not just go through each contact and copy-paste the data into the appropriate fields? Sure, it'll take some time, but it IS Sunday...
I have over a 1,000 contacts :|
and when you go through the contacts through gmail
it's kind of laggy... even on a good connection
Hi, if i go into people all my contact are there how they should be but if i go in to messages & search all my contacts are duplicated, its a right pain when its showing 2 of everyone. When i go to people & view, only my google contacts have a green tick by them, even if i just tick sim contacts its still the same. The only way around it for me is to delete all my phone contacts & just use the sim ones but id rather use google as i can add photo's to the contacts.
is there a way around this ?
Are you sure its duplication and not simply showing you each number you have for a contact. E.g. you have say dad in your contacts and have stored his home, mobile and email address. This example would list dad 3 times in messaging but each would have a different number or address.
If this isn't it I did find my contacts got messy and deleted everything from phone and sim and now store and maintain my contact in gmail ONLY.
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Are you sure its duplication and not simply showing you each number you have for a contact. E.g. you have say dad in your contacts and have stored his home, mobile and email address. This example would list dad 3 times in messaging but each would have a different number or address.
If this isn't it I did find my contacts got messy and deleted everything from phone and sim and now store and maintain my contact in gmail ONLY.
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Yeh they are definitely duplicated, i like to keep my contacts as simple as possible i dont want e mail addresses or anything on there just my contacts. it looks like this.
(photo) other: allan 0187 ******
(sim) phone numbers: allan 0187 ******
(photo) other: david 0163 ******
(sim) phone numbers: david 0163 ******
its showing the sim even though ive not got it ticked in the view option. I know i could delete the sim contacts & it would look ok but thats not something i want to do as the battery is not the best on the desire & with the contacts on the sim ive always got that option to use someones else's phone in an emergency
Ah I understand what you mean. Must be a software bug then perhaps. All I can suggest is to get a payg sim store all your contacts to it and shove it under the back cover then just use google contacts only. Sorry I cant be of more help.