There's a "me" contact register in People app.
How to edit it? Or how to merge it with my already existing "me" contact?
Not sure if there is a way to edit or merge it, but I renamed it to myself and signed into Google+ and then a few minutes later it had sync'd all my info over.
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Not sure if there is a way to edit or merge it, but I renamed it to myself and signed into Google+ and then a few minutes later it had sync'd all my info over.
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So the only way is creating a Google+ profile? I don't want to use Google+.
It paired with my G+ account automatically, otherwise just open it then go Menu>Edit and add some fields
Would be a lot easier if I could just merge with the contact I had already created with my information.
Besides, if I put a phone number in the "me" contact, would it go to Google+ profile?
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So the only way is creating a Google+ profile? I don't want to use Google+.
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Just delete that piece of trash Facebook account and get Google+. If you do understand it, you won't regret the change.
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Just delete that piece of trash Facebook account and get Google+. If you do understand it, you won't regret the change.
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And if I don't have neither Facebook nor Google+? I'm not really a social-network person...
If you inputted your name into the "owner info" during setup it replaces the "me" contact.
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Just delete that piece of trash Facebook account and get Google+. If you do understand it, you won't regret the change.
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The problem is none of my friends are on Google plus, which is kinda the point for a social network and since I rarely post but only stalk lol, G+ doesn't make a huge amount of sense for me at the moment besides keeping a barely there profile up.d
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And if I don't have neither Facebook nor Google+? I'm not really a social-network person...
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Fair enough. Before ICS, the connection between the Me contact on the phone could have been made to the "me" contact in Google Contacts from Gmail, if your phone number stored on your SIM card (check it in Settings-About phone-Status) is exactly the same with the phone number from the "me" contact in Google Contacts from Gmail.
Dunno if you followed me there, but if you did, give this a try. Also, you can change the phone number stored in SIM card by using some old Nokia/Samsung/LG phones that have this option in their settings. Just try on as many old dumb-phones as you can.
Why you need to edit yourself?
Its you with your number..why to change your own number to a wrong one!?
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Why you need to edit yourself?
Its you with your number..why to change your own number to a wrong one!?
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What? Maybe he wants it to say his name instead of "me"
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Fair enough. Before ICS, the connection between the Me contact on the phone could have been made to the "me" contact in Google Contacts from Gmail, if your phone number stored on your SIM card (check it in Settings-About phone-Status) is exactly the same with the phone number from the "me" contact in Google Contacts from Gmail.
Dunno if you followed me there, but if you did, give this a try. Also, you can change the phone number stored in SIM card by using some old Nokia/Samsung/LG phones that have this option in their settings. Just try on as many old dumb-phones as you can.
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Yeah, I'm following.
In fact, been there, done that. I had that problem of "telling" my Nexus S that contact "Thomaz" (this is my name) was me, so my picture would be shown in SMS app when I replied a message. Took an old Motorola V3, edited my SIM card stored phone number, and it worked.
I guess this would also work with Galaxy Nexus, but I was wrong.
I used to have a "ME" contact but its no longer required.
Now in the people app, there is a SECTION labeled "Me" with my name as the contact.
Just delete everything else and use it. FYI I do use Google+ so I don't know if it came there or not.
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The problem is none of my friends are on Google plus, which is kinda the point for a social network and since I rarely post but only stalk lol
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Facebook is for connecting to people you already know. Google+ is for connecting to people you should know. I hardly know anyone on Google+ and I've connected to people because their posts interest me. I don't wade through nearly as much "had xyz for lunch" posts on Google+.
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Yeah, I'm following.
In fact, been there, done that. I had that problem of "telling" my Nexus S that contact "Thomaz" (this is my name) was me, so my picture would be shown in SMS app when I replied a message. Took an old Motorola V3, edited my SIM card stored phone number, and it worked.
I guess this would also work with Galaxy Nexus, but I was wrong.
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Oh, okay. Sorry, couldn't have assume that you already knew that.
How come it doesn't work ? I tested it right now and it works. I cleared the cache for Contacts Storage and Google+, set Google+ to not sync contacts, then let the Contacts app sync with Google servers. After that, it showed Set up my profile under ME. I tested to see if I show up in SMS app, but a message pops up saying: The contact doesn't exist.
I put my name and my phone number EXACTLY as the number written on the SIM card and it worked. In SMS app, in a sms thread, if I touch the spot where my picture should be, a pop-up shows my name, picture and even my phone number. I assume that if I also put my email and other info, it will definitely show those too.
Checked again. Actually, even if I put only my name in the setup, it still shows from the SMS app, so I really don't understand where the problem is.
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Oh, okay. Sorry, couldn't have assume that you already knew that.
How come it doesn't work ? I tested it right now and it works. I cleared the cache for Contacts Storage and Google+, set Google+ to not sync contacts, then let the Contacts app sync with Google servers. After that, it showed Set up my profile under ME. I tested to see if I show up in SMS app, but a message pops up saying: The contact doesn't exist.
I put my name and my phone number EXACTLY as the number written on the SIM card and it worked. In SMS app, in a sms thread, if I touch the spot where my picture should be, a pop-up shows my name, picture and even my phone number. I assume that if I also put my email and other info, it will definitely show those too.
Checked again. Actually, even if I put only my name in the setup, it still shows from the SMS app, so I really don't understand where the problem is.
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Let's see if I get that clear: you put your name and phone number in "me" contact, exactly like it's written on the SIM card, and now this info is shown in SMS app when you touch the spot. But do you have a "lambda30" contact, or you had to create a "lambda30" profile under "me"?
That's the point: I haven't had to do that in Nexus S. When I edited the phone number on the SIM card, it found a contact "Thomaz" with that number, and it understood that "Thomaz" was me, nothing more. In SMS app, I could see the picture assigned to "Thomaz" (my picture, actually), could touch it to see my contact card and etc. No need for a "me" profile.
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Let's see if I get that clear: you put your name and phone number in "me" contact, exactly like it's written on the SIM card, and now this info is shown in SMS app when you touch the spot. But do you have a "lambda30" contact, or you had to create a "lambda30" profile under "me"?
That's the point: I haven't had to do that in Nexus S. When I edited the phone number on the SIM card, it found a contact "Thomaz" with that number, and it understood that "Thomaz" was me, nothing more. In SMS app, I could see the picture assigned to "Thomaz" (my picture, actually), could touch it to see my contact card and etc. No need for a "me" profile.
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No, it works with lambda30 name under Me.
Actually, I have observed that there are 2 different types.
1. In SMS app and Contacts app (non-Google apps), the info of your profile is taken from ME contact (which in my case is synced with Google+)
2. In Google apps, like Google Talk or Gmail, the info is taken from a separate contact from Google Contacts in Gmail (it is located in Other Contacts), which you can edit in Gmail.
It really is kind of stupid, but that's the situation...
LE: Also, in this situation, I think that the SIM card phone number doesn't even do anything... because like you said, on the Nexus S, the Contacts app would have automatically created your profile; which it doesn't here... So I think that the SIM card number is useless now.
So, if you want a ME contact that is uniformly seen throughout Android, you have to edit the ME account in Contacts and also edit your contact in Gmail in Other Contacts with the same info. But it still doesn't really do the trick, because the Gmail contact will not have a high-res picture of you. But, rather than having nothing, it's still good.
Along the lines of discussion here:
I'm looking for a way to BACKUP the "Me" contact. Because it doesn't seem to be sync'd via google sync / gmail - on restore of my phone to defaults, when google pulled down all my contacts, the "Me" one I had filled out wasn't there.
I use TiBackup - any idea of which file I need to backup to make sure I have that? Or a way to manually back it up?
Can any of you guys add twitter information to your "Me" contact? It seems like only Google+ works and you cannot "Join" any contacts to the "Me" contact.
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The facebook pictures for my contacts used to show up on the stock messaging app, but after restoring a nandroid it doesn't anymore. This is also the case with other messaging apps, so I don't think it's related to the app.
Is there any way I can make messaging apps show contact pictures again? (the contact pictures are still there btw - checked the dialer)
Have you checked if your FB account is still linked and set to sync? If yes, try removing & re-adding it. If all else fails, try linking contacts manually.
I'm not sure about the stock app, but is there a part in the menu that you need to tick to show contact pics?
You could also check your accounts and make sure that the facebook sync is turned on etc. I'm just throwing ideas out by the way, I'm not really sure lol.
Edit: beaten to it by John!
socktug said:
I'm not sure about the stock app, but is there a part in the menu that you need to tick to show contact pics?
You could also check your accounts and make sure that the facebook sync is turned on etc. I'm just throwing ideas out by the way, I'm not really sure lol.
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Steve, actually. That's why it's crammed in between John and Doe.
JohnSteveDoe said:
Steve, actually. That's why it's crammed in between John and Doe.
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Deepest apologies. lol.
JohnSteveDoe said:
Have you checked if your FB account is still linked and set to sync? If yes, try removing & re-adding it. If all else fails, try linking contacts manually.
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socktug said:
I'm not sure about the stock app, but is there a part in the menu that you need to tick to show contact pics?
You could also check your accounts and make sure that the facebook sync is turned on etc. I'm just throwing ideas out by the way, I'm not really sure lol.
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Ah, I didn't try the obvious one. The account was still linked and was set to sync, but I deleted and re-added my facebook account and now it's working.
Thanks for the help guys . I should have tried this before posting a new thread here, my bad!
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Deepest apologies. lol.
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Apology accepted.
Glad we could help!
Thanks
I thought this was going to be a more serious problem but all I had to do was re add my facebook account thanks for the help!
thank you so much. I was searching for a while, but turns out to be a simple fix.
i had the same problem and i have managed to fix it by this way, thanks.
however i have another similar issue which i couldn't fix until now. even if sender's facebook or profile picture seems, my own picture doesn't seem at the conversation.
is there anyone who managed to overcome this problem??
I'm having this "odd" problem too.. however I do have facebook sync-ed (similar to leventmann i guess)
The problem appears to be that the messaging app thinks the contact comes from the SIM (thus lack of profile pics).
Short of deleting the contact form SIM, i've managed to 'trick' the phone into using the facebook/google contact by fiddling around with area codes.
However, whenever I have the contact pic, I then get this "ugly" extra (M <mobile numb>) appended to the name:
ie.
John Doe (M 1234567890): blah blah blah
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Which I guess is 'ok', but it just takes up so much space in the message itself (even more so with the new Sense 3.0 messages having an iPhone-like look with messages being left/right speech bubbles)
At first I thought it was because the contact had 2 mobiles associated with the account, so removed (unlinked) one of the mobiles, but problem still exists.
Any ideas on how to keep the contact pic but remove (M xxxxx) ?
Also, is there a way to get the original htc messaging style back? (Sort of like the one you see if you go to "Persons -> <contact> -> Messages"; a basic list of the messages where sender/recipient avatars are on the left...)
I've got a bunch of my contacts "linked" to their FB accounts, but for some reason their pics are all pixelated, I'm currently using RCMix's ROM.
When I was using SGBS ROM the pics weren't all pixelated.. anyone else have this problem?
I don't think it's specific to the ROMs mind you.
hmm, no dno't have problems with pixulated FB pics, when I do manage to get the to display they display fine.
Small update...I've noticed something that may be part of the cause of my problems... in the "People" application the SIM numbers/contacts are not shown (I chose to not view them). However, when I open 'Phone' (to dial someone) I see the SIM numbers/contacts!!!
I vaguely remember seeing this in another thread (shall go digging for it later) but wondering if anyone reading this thread knows how to fix it?
Thanks!
RealyPssd said:
I've got a bunch of my contacts "linked" to their FB accounts, but for some reason their pics are all pixelated, I'm currently using RCMix's ROM.
When I was using SGBS ROM the pics weren't all pixelated.. anyone else have this problem?
I don't think it's specific to the ROMs mind you.
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I have changed my ROM from Starburst Froyo to Cool VisionS and i can see my own profile picture now after creating a Google profile with picture.
However now i have this problem above. Pictures are pixelated and i am not sure if it is because of ROM. Another suspicious point is : Before i had "Facebook for HTC Sense" in the settings for syncronization but now in this ROM i have only "Facebook" to syncronize. Do you think it can be related to one of these reasons?
Yes, i found the solution for pixelation problem (at least for my situation)
When i tried to add account for syncronization (under settings - accounts&syncronization) i noticed that there is also "Facebook for HTC Sense" which requires another login process.
Use this account for syncronization and remove simply "Facebook".
It fixed pixelation problem
That did indeed fix the pixelated picture problem for me as well.
The pictures for my contacts in the messaging app are missing though, aside from the few that I have setup to use a picture on my SD card.
have you ever done "fix permissions" from CWM?
permissions's related problem.
leventmann said:
however i have another similar issue which i couldn't fix until now. even if sender's facebook or profile picture seems, my own picture doesn't seem at the conversation.
is there anyone who managed to overcome this problem??
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I have exactly same problem. Any ideas how to fix this?
I've tried to save my own number to contacts and linked it to my own facebook, but the pic just wont show up? I'm using CM-3.7 rom.
I am experiencing the same issue under stock 2.3.3, from time to time (in a SMS thread, my contact's picture is shown as default). The only solution i've found for this is to open my contact's details and re-add my custom picture.
I can't even find my own contact profile from the phone? Is this someting to do with CM-3.7 ROM or am I just blind? In the stock ROM, it was first at the contactbook, but after I installed the ROM I haven't seen it anymore.
I have a weird recent issue where some contacts are showing up as '614...' rather than '04...' or '+614...', so they don't dial, even though the stored number is '04...' which dials fine. I noticed with one contact that if I de-lined Facebook it defaulted back to the actual stored number of '04...' - any thoughts? The Starburst ROM dev has not heard of this issue.
It's a known Facebook sync issue
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It's a known Facebook sync issue
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Indeed, try this...
http://androidforums.com/desire-sup...orrupting-email-addresses-outlook-2010-a.html
Thanks guys! The thread is about HTC Sync corrupting Email Addresses in Outlook 2010 though, I searched Android Forums and couldn't see one about Facebook sync error, do you have a link handy or is that actually the right thread?
It seems to effect some contacts with phone numbers in their Facebook profile, that over-rides my contact details with the '614...' number that doesn't work. So i have to de-link Facebook for those contacts.
message deleted, wrong thread.
DroidBois said:
Thanks guys! The thread is about HTC Sync corrupting Email Addresses in Outlook 2010 though, I searched Android Forums and couldn't see one about Facebook sync error, do you have a link handy or is that actually the right thread?
It seems to effect some contacts with phone numbers in their Facebook profile, that over-rides my contact details with the '614...' number that doesn't work. So i have to de-link Facebook for those contacts.
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Here is what I did, this is only a partial solution:
De link the accounts.
Now select the account on your phone which has the correct number and now link it to the FB account. I think the account which is chosen first overrides the info in the "linked" one.
OR
You have to do this everytime you have such a contact:
dial the number from facebook. hang up once the dial screen comes into play. Go to your "call history", long press the contact, select -- Edit number before call (I think this facility is only on sense based roms, correct me if I am wrong), punch in the correct number and now you can dial.
kinda sucks but this is my workaround.
sounds like I'm not alone. so first of parent account overrides?
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Tried going in to primary correct contact and linking, didn't work, will try the other way around.
edit, didn't work either, facebook always overrides.
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Try this, works for me (but not in the Sense Contact widget)
- Edit the contact in question
- Change the original number from mobile to fax
- Save the changes
- Back at the main contact view press and hold the 'fax' number and set to primary contact
- Edit the contact again and make it a mobile again
- Save changes
This should then show the correct format and allow you to ring the contact
If only Facebook would allow people to enter the number as they want, with or without international dialing code
Well as a workaround that actually works, thanks! At least I can hobble along now until this Facebook sync problem gets fixed. Any idea what's causing this or if it effects only some phones?
Another one here with the same problem. It's so damn annoying!
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Another one here with the same problem. It's so damn annoying!
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Facebook sync?
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Does it rescan everything upon startup? Does it rescan photos when you take a picture? How do you put music on the phone if you can't drag-and-drop MP3s?
When you click the share button, does it still give you a list of 90 apps that are open?
If you have SIM Contacts hidden, when you SMS someone, does it show the SIM Contact and the Google Contact? When you send a SMS to more than one person, does it still make a group SMS, or does it text each individual person and update their message threads?
On Google Contacts, currently, my Contact Photos can only be as big as thumbnails. If ICS uses high-res, big Contact Photos, how does that work? Does Google Contacts have updated Contact Photos for you? Did it make you get rid of your old Contact Photos?
Thanks!
Wow a lot of questions I see there.
I can answer a few for you.
1. It does rescan everything on startup. Also checks for updates.
2. It updates you photos like if you take one it goes straight to gallery but doesn't do a full scan again. As far as I'm aware.
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
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Wow a lot of questions I see there.
I can answer a few for you.
1. It does rescan everything on startup. Also checks for updates.
2. It updates you photos like if you take one it goes straight to gallery but doesn't do a full scan again. As far as I'm aware.
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
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How much it cost u? And is it worth it?
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NatTheCat said:
3. Unless I'm missing something you can drag and drop music, photos, and media into folders that you select.
You have to select the option in settings to camera (ptp)
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Less worried about this one now, since it's a Galaxy Nexus-specific issue. But thank you for your answers!!
xile6 said:
How much it cost u? And is it worth it?
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Upgraded from IPhone 3gs. On 24 month contract. Then since then I've had 4 Android phones and never looked back.
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Anyone else care to take a shot at the remaining questions? Does anyone keep their contacts on their SIM Card anymore?
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Anyone else care to take a shot at the remaining questions? Does anyone keep their contacts on their SIM Card anymore?
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Hopefully not. The SIM storage is very basic and I wouldn't recommend it as anything but an extra backup.
I keep my contacts on my SIM as an extra backup, but that doesn't stop Android from putting them in my message contacts regardless of their display settings.
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I keep my contacts on my SIM as an extra backup, but that doesn't stop Android from putting them in my message contacts regardless of their display settings.
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I wouldn't recommend relying on storing SIM contacts.
Why not just use the Google contacts for your phone (and general backup) and then also export them as a csv file (from google contacts) and store on your computer/dropbox/flash drive? You can have good backup without duplicate contacts on your phone.
I also have few questions as I`m looking to switch from iPhon 4 to Galaxy Nexus after volume bug is solved.
1) Can ICS push emails directly on the screen so I don`t even have to unlock the phone? Liks in iOS5 - I don`t need to pick up the phone or unlock screen, I can see first few lines of the email.
2) Can you set custom ringtone for incoming emails?
3) Is it possible to change how fast LED blinks and what colour for sms & emails?
4) I`m using TomTom, but Android doesn`t have TomTom. Is there turn-by-turn SatNav for Android?
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The high-res contact photos is still NO go if you are syncing with Google Contacts (GMAIL contacts) only.
If you do it this way, you will receive low res 96x96 pixels contact photos.
I know, this is ****. It's been ages we have requested this to be fixed.
But, apparently, Google won't listen.
NOTE: I read that if you synced with Google+, you will receive high-res photo from Google+. But, not all my contacts are in Google+.
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I also have few questions as I`m looking to switch from iPhon 4 to Galaxy Nexus after volume bug is solved.
1) Can ICS push emails directly on the screen so I don`t even have to unlock the phone? Liks in iOS5 - I don`t need to pick up the phone or unlock screen, I can see first few lines of the email.
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Mmm no. You can access the notifications area from the lockscreen so that you can see who its from and click into the gmail app, but it doesn't show the first lines.
2) Can you set custom ringtone for incoming emails?
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You can set a specific ringtone for each e-mail account.
3) Is it possible to change how fast LED blinks and what colour for sms & emails?
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There are certain apps that let you customize the use of the LED.
4) I`m using TomTom, but Android doesn`t have TomTom. Is there turn-by-turn SatNav for Android?
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YES. GOOGLE MAPS!!!! Its included and knocks the socks off of everything out there. (and yes it does turn by turn voice navigation).
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Mmm no. You can access the notifications area from the lockscreen so that you can see who its from and click into the gmail app, but it doesn't show the first lines.
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When I drive and my iPhone is in windscreen holder, its very safe as I don`t have to take my hands off steering wheel to check who is this email from and what about.
I thought ICS was them listening! So the contact has to be stored on the phone to get high-res photos? So that means I'd have the whole SIM card contact/Google Contact/Phone Contact deal all over again? It's like they don't know how to design a phone OS sometimes...
And what's unreliable about SIM Contacts? I trust Google Contacts completely.
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I thought ICS was them listening! So the contact has to be stored on the phone to get high-res photos? So that means I'd have the whole SIM card contact/Google Contact/Phone Contact deal all over again? It's like they don't know how to design a phone OS sometimes...
And what's unreliable about SIM Contacts? I trust Google Contacts completely.
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The problem with SIM contacts is that the SIM is very specific in what it can store. A UMTS sim can store 2 numbers per person and type (I dumped my SIM with a usb sim-reader). The is no way to store a picture and all the other things Google allows you to store and sync. Sure, they could keep different databases just for the stuff the SIM doesn't support but that would just result in more problems in general and you would have a hard limit on the number of contacts set to 250.
Summary: SIM contacts are too limited to be useful today. It's only decent as a backup in my opinion.
Why are you so against having your contacts on Google contacts or just as a vcard locally? To me, Google contacts is really great as I can change my contacts from anywhere and I always have them backed up. It also makes it extremely easy to setup a new Android phone and allows me to export them to a number of formats if I need it.
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The problem with SIM contacts is that the SIM is very specific in what it can store. A UMTS sim can store 2 numbers per person and type (I dumped my SIM with a usb sim-reader). The is no way to store a picture and all the other things Google allows you to store and sync. Sure, they could keep different databases just for the stuff the SIM doesn't support but that would just result in more problems in general and you would have a hard limit on the number of contacts set to 250.
Summary: SIM contacts are too limited to be useful today. It's only decent as a backup in my opinion.
Why are you so against having your contacts on Google contacts or just as a vcard locally? To me, Google contacts is really great as I can change my contacts from anywhere and I always have them backed up. It also makes it extremely easy to setup a new Android phone and allows me to export them to a number of formats if I need it.
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1. It'd be a hassle to delete all the numbers off my SIM. It also should be unnecessary. There's no reason why Android should be looking at my SIM after I told it not to.
2. I am not against having my contacts on Google Contacts. I have them on Google Contacts. I used to have them on Google Contacts AND my phone, but all that did is have Android list each contact three times. A nightmare!! All I am saying is, don't look at my SIM card if I say not to, or be smart enough to not list duplicates because THE CONTACTS ARE MERGED.
I have some issues with the address book after installing [BETA 0.11][03.06] ICS for Desire[ALL HBOOTS][4.0.4].
I am unable to add new contacts and cannot add a number from call history to people.
This is what happens:
Add New Contact
Click People icon from the main menu.
Click the + icon at the bottom Right Corner
That gives me an option of adding the Contact to my Gmail Or Hotmail that I have configured. But does not give me an option to add it to Phone Address Book.
Add from Call History
Click the Phone Icon to go to Call histoty.
Press on the number I want to add to People.
Gives me three options, Add to Contacts, Call Number, Send Message.
Select Add to contacts.
That gives me an option of adding the Contact to my Gmail Or Hotmail that I have configured. But does not give me an option to add it to Phone Address Book.
Read on some other forum that, the work around for this is to Press and hold the unknown number. A menu will pop up allowing you to send a text to the number, edit it, save it to contacts But here also the same, Can add it to Gmail or Hotmail. Not Phone Contacts.
I'm on another ICS ROM: BCM 3.7U0 and it's the same. I'm guessing this is how the ICS built in People app functions.
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Hi
It seems that Google with ICS have removed the feature of storing contacts on locally on the phone:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1582586
Taken from the above thread:
Originally Posted by kafepuya
If you have ICS, you know that it is not possible to store contacts on the phone per-se, and rather ICS forces you to store them in one of your Google Accounts.
I'm still not a fan of this fact. I rather liked having them separated so that I could leave business contacts on the phone (actually the SIM, i didn't save any contacts to the phone itself) but ICS killed that. I'm not talking a backup to SIM, I didn't want the business numbers in my google account, period.
As to the question at hand, I leave it to Google and the account I made just for the phone, they already have hundreds of copies of the contacts on multiple servers. Anything else is going to be prone to error, incompatibility, corruption, etc. Also, google does the restoring & updating all on its own, no thought needed.
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Alien2653 said:
I'm on another ICS ROM: BCM 3.7U0 and it's the same. I'm guessing this is how the ICS built in People app functions.
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Go Contacts EX from Google Market, solved my issue. I can now store contacts on phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jbapps.contactpro&feature=search_result
so when I changed out my sim card for new sg3 at tmob store, guy told me to import google contacts even though I explained they were on old phone only. Afterwards some contacts now have like 4 contact listings. Kind of a pain...so my question is how can I get my phone to not display my google contacts...I see options for sim only etc...but like i said my previous phone stored them on the phone not the sim. I'd like to not have google contacts showing then somehow move phone contacts to sim card.. Right now I'd have to move all contacts (including google to sim) which I don't want to do for reasons stated.
thx in advance
Select all, deselect the ones you want, delete. That's the fastest way I found. You coulda been done in the time it took to post.....
Go to your Google account settings on the phone and uncheck sync contacts
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Over even just go to the settings of the contacts and change what contacts are displayed.
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bfranklin1986 said:
Go to your Google account settings on the phone and uncheck sync contacts
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thank you for posting
so i did that--and should help in the future- but now when i say display contacts on phone they have all already been imported i guess and are still displaying
DinoSoup said:
Over even just go to the settings of the contacts and change what contacts are displayed.
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He said he already tried that.
OP seriously... just select all and unselect the ones you don't want to delete. I don't understand waiting days for a solution instead of just taking a few minutes to do it.
androidcactus said:
thank you for posting
so i did that--and should help in the future- but now when i say display contacts on phone they have all already been imported i guess and are still displaying
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That would only happen if you for some reason also copied them to the SIM card. When using smart phones and you have a data plan, I find it incredibly dumb to use only the SIM for contacts... why not just add your SIM contacts to Google, hide SIM contacts and display/sync Google contacts? Contact info on SIM cards is completely archaic.
fermunky said:
That would only happen if you for some reason also copied them to the SIM card. When using smart phones and you have a data plan, I find it incredibly dumb to use only the SIM for contacts... why not just add your SIM contacts to Google, hide SIM contacts and display/sync Google contacts? Contact info on SIM cards is completely archaic.
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I would have no issue using google contacts as opposed to the sim card, but google seems to import EVERTHING! So an example is say Joe Smith, I have Joe Smith cell#, home # etc, and email in my contact for him. Then google creates a second contact which shows Joe Smith email, then a third one for an old Joe Smith email, then a fourth one for Joe Smith biz email.
Thats my issue. So when I go to call Joe Smith, I open one of the listings, ok nope not the one, open another etc...
psykhotic said:
He said he already tried that.
OP seriously... just select all and unselect the ones you don't want to delete. I don't understand waiting days for a solution instead of just taking a few minutes to do it.
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I hear you with the select all then deselect ones I need to keep. Problem is, google imported like everyone I ever emailed, and each different email address for a person is now listed as a separate contact under the same name..The one I need is not always listed first...(see my previous reply for some color on it)