How can you do it? I can change it, but not unset it.
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efaden said:
How can you do it? I can change it, but not unset it.
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I'd like to know that as well. Somehow my wife's contact got set to her office number and I can no longer call her cell from the quick contact thing - it just dials her office automatically. Really annoying, and so far, I've found no way to change this, other than setting her cell as the default. It used to have NO default and would give me the option each time. I'd really like to have that back.
Unset Default Number for Contact
Go to your contact list. Long press on the contact. Cselect "Set default action" and choose the phone number you want to set as default.
Pdblue said:
Go to your contact list. Long press on the contact. Cselect "Set default action" and choose the phone number you want to set as default.
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We don't want to change the default number, we want NO default number set.
I just checked comparing this on Sense and CM7. In Sense, I click to call a contact and it automatically dials the default number. On CM7 if I do the same thing, I get a list of that person's various numbers and can choose which one I want to call.
This is really useful when you have, for example, someone's home, cell and work number in their contact. I don't want ANY number to be the default if I might be calling them at any time of the day and not only when they're likely to be reachable by one particular number.
Maybe Sense was never able to do this, I've switched back and forth between Sense and AOSP so many times I don't recall but I thought it could.
ChrisDDD said:
We don't want to change the default number, we want NO default number set.
I just checked comparing this on Sense and CM7. In Sense, I click to call a contact and it automatically dials the default number. On CM7 if I do the same thing, I get a list of that person's various numbers and can choose which one I want to call.
This is really useful when you have, for example, someone's home, cell and work number in their contact. I don't want ANY number to be the default if I might be calling them at any time of the day and not only when they're likely to be reachable by one particular number.
Maybe Sense was never able to do this, I've switched back and forth between Sense and AOSP so many times I don't recall but I thought it could.
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Yep. That's the feature I was talking about
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Just a thought- you might could clear defaults under contacts or contact storage in settings>applications>manage applications>contacts/contact storage>clear default
Pdblue said:
Go to your contact list. Long press on the contact. Cselect "Set default action" and choose the phone number you want to set as default.
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Follow this instead of choosing a number choose view contact. That way when you click the contact on the widget, it will bring up their contact card with all points of contact instead of just number. That's the way in Sense anyway. The Sense widget has to set something for each contact.
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I have assigned a primary number to a contact and I want to remove that without anything another primary number. I can only find a way to assign another number as primary. Is this possible?
WillJitsu said:
I have assigned a primary number to a contact and I want to remove that without anything another primary number. I can only find a way to assign another number as primary. Is this possible?
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Yes its possible, but if you have option "contact with phone number" on then you will not see that contact in you address book
Anku13 said:
Yes its possible, but if you have option "contact with phone number" on then you will not see that contact in you address book
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Where is the "contact with phone number" option? Also, how do I remove the primary number setting from an individual contact?
WillJitsu said:
Where is the "contact with phone number" option? Also, how do I remove the primary number setting from an individual contact?
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login into your gmail account, go to contact and remove it...
click menu on the address book
Anku13 said:
login into your gmail account, go to contact and remove it...
click menu on the address book
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Ok I think you are misunderstanding my question or maybe I wasn't clear. I do not want to remove the number from the contact. I just do not want a number set as a "primary" number. This contact has 2 numbers. When I click on the Person shortcut on my home screen, I want it to ask me which number to dial instead of dialing the "primary" number. If I view the contact details, I can clearly see that one of those numbers is set as the "primary". I just need to remove that "primary" setting from that number. How do I do that?
I have the same question for the exact same reason. Have you gotten an answer or figured this out yet?
Thanks,
John
jraggio said:
I have the same question for the exact same reason. Have you gotten an answer or figured this out yet?
Thanks,
John
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found the following on the google code site and it worked like a charm. Kind of obvious. Wish I thought of it.
If you would like no default number, follow rg94941 instructions above but first add a new number (to be deleted). Edit contact, add new number, enter any number (to be deleted), set default to this new number (see rg94941), then delete the new number. The shortcut will revert back to the multiple number option.
hey there,
would it be possible to add a toggle/shortcut to enable call and message forwarding? its a bit "complicated" to do it through the standard settings.
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There is a shortcut for Directdial. Is not that enough for you? I do not know if there is any shortcut for sms forwarding though...
directdial?
mh...a "toggle" would be really nice though.
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directdial?
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Create two new Contacts: one named Forward_On w/ phone number **21# and one named Forward_Off, phone number #21#.
you can pick other names if you like.
now, from your home-screen select
Personalize > Shortcut > direct dial > pick "Forward_On" > pick the item w/ **21# as number and repeat the same for "Forward_Off". Now you should have 2 Items on your homescreen which turn call forwarding on and off.
Finally (if you haven't done so already), set up the destination phone number by calling **21*0123456789#, replacing 0123456789 w/ the phone number you want to redirect all your calls to.
wow thats great
thanks a lot
is that possbile with message forwarding as well?
DN41
No, you cannot do message forwarding this way. (Call forwarding is a gsm-feature which is configured using the codes I mentioned. That means, once you activated this feature, your service provider will do all the forwarding for you, your phone doesn't do anything to forward a call. Message forwarding on the other hand is a sense-feature. Thus it cannot be set up with a gsm-code and you will have to use another method.)
you might want to try an app like Any Cut or BetterCut but I don't think your chances are too great...
ok, but thanks a lot for those informations.
i'm gonna ask the dev of widgetsoid, if he could do such a toggle.
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llama-power said:
Create two new Contacts: one named Forward_On w/ phone number **21# ...
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This should be "*21#" on my carrier, fwiw
llama-power said:
Create two new Contacts: one named Forward_On w/ phone number **21# and one named Forward_Off, phone number #21#.
you can pick other names if you like.
now, from your home-screen select
Personalize > Shortcut > direct dial > pick "Forward_On" > pick the item w/ **21# as number and repeat the same for "Forward_Off". Now you should have 2 Items on your homescreen which turn call forwarding on and off.
Finally (if you haven't done so already), set up the destination phone number by calling **21*0123456789#, replacing 0123456789 w/ the phone number you want to redirect all your calls to.
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Wow. U are great
Is there a way to change the order in which contacts are listed? For example, I have Work, Mobile, and Home for some people. I'd like it so that Mobile was listed first since that is the most often called number.
I can't figure out how to do this. I've tried setting default numbers as well as changing the order on my Google account, adding then deleting, changing names of numbers back and forth, etc. It doesn't seem like it's alphabetical either because for one contact it goes A..., Mobile, S...; and for another contact it goes Work, Mobile.
Is there anyway to fix this? It may seem minor, but it's annoying to have to it listed in the order of Rare Work Location 1, Mobile, Rare Work Location 2.
It displays them properly, but only in contact app, I just tried to long press set as default and that number jumps in the first position.
But when you are in phone app, I think number that you dialed the most comes up as first etc, not sure thou
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As a workaround, have you tried putting the number you want to come up first in the "main" number field of your Gmail contact list?
setting one as default always have worked for me? When I call that person any way that is the number dialed.
Nope, no luck with the "Main" thing or setting as default within the People app, even though set as default does swap the listed order within the People app. I am now almost positive that the phone app is organizing them based on the phone numbers themselves, which makes no sense.
Contact 1:
Mobile: 1248...
Home: 1734...
Contact 2:
Home: 131373...
Mobile: 131380...
Contact 3:
Work: 12486...
Mobile: 12488...
Hi all, just a strange issue I am having I hope you can help me. I noticed when dialing by name when new, this phone kept wanting to bring up the home number when I want to dial the mobile by default. So, I headed into the contacts and discovered I could set the "default" number by either long pressing the desired number and selecting "set default" which then puts a blue check mark next to it, or I could be in the contact, press menu, then "mark as default" which opens a window where I can select the default email, phone number, etc which also will put a blue check next to the number.
Now then, all my contacts are stored on Google, nothing on the phone or SIM itself. For some reason, the default number for one of the most frequently called people in my address book will not "stick". I mark it as default, I can dial by name and it shows up correctly, but then the next time I go to do it (sometimes even 5 minutes later), it will be back to having no default number set and gives me the home number instead of mobile.
Oddly enough, the three other numbers I marked with a default number never do this to me and work every time, only the one contact entry doesn't work. I can't think of any other reasons why this is happening. My ONLY thought was that for some reason when syncing, Google keeps over-riding the marked default number. But why would it do it for JUST this one contact and not the other 3?!
Any ideas? Looking forward to thoughts. Kind of an embarrassing problem since it's so simple, but I can't figure it out...
www.google.com/contacts
Do you have more specific of a suggestion than simply giving me the site which I have already been to a couple times? The Google contacts interface doesn't seem to support "default numbers" and there is no way I could find to set a default number via the web interface. I believe the default number is an "on phone" setting. Thus, I am confused why it works on some contacts and not all.
Update: I noticed this same contact also won't upload changes to phone numbers, addresses, etc made on the phone for some reason, so this could be more of a Google sync problem. Again, it's only this one contact.
If I make changes to other contacts, they are reflected on Google's servers correctly. If I make a change to the phone number of this specific contact, after a few minutes, it goes back to what it previously was. It seems it's always pulling down from Google's servers and replacing the changes I made on my phone. It's like somehow only this contact was set to only pull down information, not upload it also. I also could not find any settings for changing the location of the "master" when there are changes or conflicts or anything like that on Google's website.
Anyone else have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Bump to the top, still have this issue.
Not much help here, as I'd love to know how to do this at a higher 'Google' level than just on my phone too. Are you syncing contacts with any other applications? For example, Facebook?
No, it's a stock Galaxy S4. Although you bring up another question I have had. When I have my contacts on Facebook synced "only with existing contacts", friends on Facebook still show up when I try to dial by name even though they do NOT show up in my address book. What's up with that? Is that the fault of Facebook? I seem to remember my HTC phone doing this as well, so I disabled syncing with Facebook contacts completely.
Today I tried removing the Google account, clearing the data and cache for contacts and contact storage, then adding the Google account again and letting contacts sync. I then set default numbers for 5 phone numbers. 10 minutes later, all but the one contact I have had problems with still had the default number set. The one contact cleared the default number - again. I just don't get it...
02CWRX said:
Hi all, just a strange issue I am having I hope you can help me. I noticed when dialing by name when new, this phone kept wanting to bring up the home number when I want to dial the mobile by default. So, I headed into the contacts and discovered I could set the "default" number by either long pressing the desired number and selecting "set default" which then puts a blue check mark next to it, or I could be in the contact, press menu, then "mark as default" which opens a window where I can select the default email, phone number, etc which also will put a blue check next to the number.
Now then, all my contacts are stored on Google, nothing on the phone or SIM itself. For some reason, the default number for one of the most frequently called people in my address book will not "stick". I mark it as default, I can dial by name and it shows up correctly, but then the next time I go to do it (sometimes even 5 minutes later), it will be back to having no default number set and gives me the home number instead of mobile.
Oddly enough, the three other numbers I marked with a default number never do this to me and work every time, only the one contact entry doesn't work. I can't think of any other reasons why this is happening. My ONLY thought was that for some reason when syncing, Google keeps over-riding the marked default number. But why would it do it for JUST this one contact and not the other 3?!
Any ideas? Looking forward to thoughts. Kind of an embarrassing problem since it's so simple, but I can't figure it out...
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I have the same issue and it ticks me off every time, and it happens with any contact that has multiple numbers. There doesn't seem to be any way to choose the alternate numbers when you do search by name from the dialpad. you have to do it from the favorites or the contacts tab instead.
Does yours clear the default from EVERY contact that has multiple numbers? Mine only clears the set default number from ONE SPECIFIC contact, and I can't figure out what the difference between that contact and any other contact is. Or, if you are saying you can't figure out how to set the default numbers at all, I gave instructions on how to do it two different ways in the post you quoted.
As for selecting an alternate number from the dial pad, I figured that out too. So, let's say you want to call Mike. Dial 6453 (MIKE) and you should see the name pop up. To the right of the name is a down arrow with a number above it. The number is telling you how many contacts what you have dialed matches. Tap the down arrow and you will see a list of people and their numbers under them (or just the one person if that's all that matches). If you tap again on the name, you will in fact be given a choice on which number to dial (assuming the contact has more than one number saved for them).
So basically, it's a long annoying process that shouldn't have to happen, but it is possible to do it. You have to start dialing by name, then make a screen selection, then another selection, then another, then finally the dial pad is pre-filled with the number, but then you have to remember to hit the actual call button at the end of all that crap. I find it's easier to find a text from the person and swipe the screen to dial them that way sometimes (or from within the text tap the call icon), or from the call history tap the call icon. Or of course as you said, favorites or contacts.
My HTC used to just let you dial by name, tap the number you wanted, then it would start calling. Easy peasy.
Bump to the top again... Still trying to figure this out. So annoying.
Bump. I dial this number every day...
Some stupid questions: 1. Do you have more than one contact details of the same person? 2. Did you delete and re-add the contact. Also delete from all other syncs?
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The contact is only listed as a Google contact, and has no other links or connections from other sources. Facebook is not synced, nor is anything else. It's only Google contacts. I haven't tried deleting and re adding yet. I guess that's a simple thing to try, its just that there is a lot of info in there, haha.
Ok, via web browser on the PC I exported the contact, deleted it, and synced my phone. Contact was gone. I then added a contact via web browser, typed in all the same info, synced the phone, and the contact is back. I then selected the mobile number, marked it as default, synced the contacts again, and there was no longer a default check mark next to the mobile number.
I have at least 3 other contacts where I don't have this problem at all. They are all stored on Google, they are all friends on Facebook (even though they aren't linked to FB in the contacts because of the above listed problem where everyone on FB shows up when dialing by name), they are all in circles on Google Plus. I can't figure this out at all. What the heck...
My phone forgets "default" number setting for contact. This is very annoying. I suspect it happens when it syncs with Google contacts, which do not have notion of "default" number. Correct me if I am wrong.
I guess the best option would be to find alernative dialer app, which stores default number setting (at least for quick-dial contacts) in a way it is not lost during sync with Google. Any suggestions?
vzaliva said:
My phone forgets "default" number setting for contact. This is very annoying. I suspect it happens when it syncs with Google contacts, which do not have notion of "default" number. Correct me if I am wrong.
I guess the best option would be to find alernative dialer app, which stores default number setting (at least for quick-dial contacts) in a way it is not lost during sync with Google. Any suggestions?
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What do you mean by default number?
BWolf56 said:
What do you mean by default number?
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If contact has multiple phone numbers you can long press on one of them and in popup menu chose "set as default".
When in dialer app you swipe right on this contact it will call this number. If none set as default it will call first one.