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I have gone into the contacts and set my sim contacts as inactive, yet when I open the contact list when creating a new SMS, all my SIM contacts are there... this is really really annoying. I can not for the life of me figure out how to disable this.
I've had a G1 for the past 1.5 years, rooted and running custom roms, so I know this has to be a snake in the grass waiting to bite me. Can anyone lend a hand?
Sorry if this is a bit hard to follow, long day
And yes, I have searched.. again, I know this is probably right in front of my face.
same problem here hopefully gets fixed in and update
same crap here another two annoyances from the stock sms app is no led and if text are sent in the same minute they get outta order
I cant stand how you can sync your facebook with only the contacts that are in your address book. But then when you go to text someone is shows everyone from facebook as a option to message. I just want it to show the people in my addess book. is there any way to do this. Have it sync just your contacts with facebook and not have everyone and their mother show up in the who to message list?
go into contacts and press the option menu,then view. disable the t-mobile one contacts too. because t-mobile keeps all ur contacts too...
i had a similar problem, hope this help tho...
blazegunz said:
go into contacts and press the option menu,then view. disable the t-mobile one contacts too. because t-mobile keeps all ur contacts too...
i had a similar problem, hope this help tho...
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it still ends up coming up when you search for the name in the sms app or other apps thats just to clear it from the phone app
This phone handles syncing strange. I cant wait till its rooted so i can put a Cyanogen rom on it. Even when i delete all the tomobile contacts. It finds a way of bringing them back.
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I cant stand how you can sync your facebook with only the contacts that are in your address book. But then when you go to text someone is shows everyone from facebook as a option to message. I just want it to show the people in my addess book. is there any way to do this. Have it sync just your contacts with facebook and not have everyone and their mother show up in the who to message list?
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This, 1000000000 times this. If I turn off veiwing facebook for mytouch contacts in the address book it still shows 100000 people form facebook in the sms part when i go to send a new message.
Yes... the syncing on this phone is indeed weird and annoying.. it was cool at first seeing everything pool in and popup without entering any info.. then it went awire , so I hit the killswitch on the whole operation. I know this isn't an answer to the problem, but maybe u can do without syncing until the froyo update comes next week (wishful thinking) ? Or do a hard reset and resync everything over slowly
No way I could find to not see all your contacts as is described in post #1. Dowload a full-featured sms app.
fl_jeep said:
No way I could find to not see all your contacts as is described in post #1. Dowload a full-featured sms app.
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Such as .... ? New to Android here.
BigFellor said:
Such as .... ? New to Android here.
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Handcent or Chomp. I prefer the former but have not used the latter much. For all new Android users reading this...please use androidtapp.com for reviewing apps. If they have reviewed the app, it is very thorough, including screen shots and an overall rating. This also gives you an idea of what the app can do, especially in comparison to a stock app so you don't have to frumpenuzzle with it yourself.
Just a word on handcent. I can not stand the way it looks. Its a blatent iphone look-a-like
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Switch the skin to the Hero skin.. I forgot it even came imitating the iphone since I always had it with the hero skin on my G1. When I installed it on the slide I was like aww wtf haha. I also have it with no bubbles or or handcent type bubbles.
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Switch the skin to the Hero skin.. I forgot it even came imitating the iphone since I always had it with the hero skin on my G1. When I installed it on the slide I was like aww wtf haha. I also have it with no bubbles or or handcent type bubbles.
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Ill check it out, after I installed it on my G1, I opened it up and RAGED cause it looked like the iphone and immediately uninstalled it.
Just got myself a GN and I was a bit disappointed with the dialer.
With my old phone I could just spelling the name of a contact and the dialer would list contacts.
GN just puts in the numbers no direct search ??
Is it some option or something I am missing or do I need another dialer??
Love the feel of it just wish I did not have to go to contacts to find a number...
The stock dialer does not support T9 Smart dial. Either use another dialer, or use the google search bar to search for the contact you want to call.
Or spend a minute amount effort and tap the search icon in the bottom left of the dialer then start typing the name. It's not really much time wasted...
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I also wish the T9 dialer was built into stock Android as it is with HTC Sense, Touchwiz and MIUI.
If you would like Google to change this, star the following threads in the Android issue tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...t9&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...t9&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...t9&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
While it may not be much more effort, it is quite clear that this feature is available in other stock dialers, then why not in google's own?
I also store my contacts on the sim card and if anyone has noticed, then you cannot import all contacts into phone at once. You have to manually go through all contacts which again is a sore point.
I think that is a valid point to expect in the dialer, not whether searching seperately is an option or not!
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While it may not be much more effort, it is quite clear that this feature is available in other stock dialers, then why not in google's own?
I also store my contacts on the sim card and if anyone has noticed, then you cannot import all contacts into phone at once. You have to manually go through all contacts which again is a sore point.
I think that is a valid point to expect in the dialer, not whether searching seperately is an option or not!
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Why not synchronise your contacts with google, so if you:
1. lose your phone.
2. Phone gets broken
3. Somebody steals it
it only takes 2 minutes before you have all your contacts again.
There are a lot of Contacts apps around on the market, and i bet even 1 of them supports transferring your sim contacts to the phone.
Earlier i used GO Contacts, but they don't support ICS yet. So for now im using DW Contacts (looks ok, only used it for an hour though).
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Why not synchronise your contacts with google, so if you:
1. lose your phone.
2. Phone gets broken
3. Somebody steals it
it only takes 2 minutes before you have all your contacts again.
There are a lot of Contacts apps around on the market, and i bet even 1 of them supports transferring your sim contacts to the phone.
Earlier i used GO Contacts, but they don't support ICS yet. So for now im using DW Contacts (looks ok, only used it for an hour though).
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Yes and accepted, but that behaviour has been standard all along. Rather than make me select one contact at a time from my hundred contacts, that one simple click would have been better. Anyways I prefer not to upload contacts into the cloud because
1. I may not have the consent of some of the ppl that I hold details for, e.g. bosses and they may not prefer it and
2. I personally do not know who or how this data is used/accessed in which case I would rather not. And personally judging by Google's appetite for gathering our personal data, I would rather opt out. Its just me....
Sorry OP to have hijacked your thread..
Correction - User error Apologies, I have just read the manual and it does allow for an 'import all' option to copy all contacts from SIM to phone.
To bad wish they would put that in its a very nice feature I seen no reason to be left out.
Anyone know a good dialer to use instead ?? Would love one with the same look if possible ???
Perhaps it is some sort of lawsuit infringement that prohibits them to build it into the dialer. I don't think Apple has this either, right? Maybe Microsoft has the patent on it.
3rd party dialers have this feature. In fact, I just install the MIUI dialer because it is just awesome. It is in the market and not listed under "MIUI Dialer" but "e9" or something. It works great.
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exDialer
https://market.android.com/details?...1bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5tb2Rvb2h1dC5kaWFsZXIiXQ..
Has a white and black theme.
Do you have the problem with it not clearing unanswered calls ???
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Do you have the problem with it not clearing unanswered calls ???
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I know from gingerbread that 3rd party apps can't clear unanswered calls. Some if the apps solves that by using the stock dialer list when selecting the notification.
Anyway its limitations in the OS and not the apps.
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Greetings. After testing the water with a GNex for a week, I was so impressed with Android I locked myself with AT&T for another two years and bought an S3. It's been almost two weeks with the S3. There are issues that I'm willing to overlook for the overall package, but there are three issues that are completely driving me insane that I might return the S3 for. I tried to post this in the mega S3 annoyances thread but I couldn't.
1. The S3 is auto-adding every single misspelled words into the my word list. The only way I find to stop it is to turn off predictive text, which turns everything off including basic spell checking.
2. I copy and paste a lot in the email app. The left text selection handle is upside down, so I can't see where my text selection begins unless I place my left thumb nearly upside down on the screen. It is the same way in the browser, but it's less of an issue in the browser since it brings up the magnifying glass. In the Gmail app the text selection handles are the way they should be.
3. Getting and syncing new email in the email app is horribly slow. Typically it would sit there with the spinning circle for a minute (or longer) before new messages come in. Half the time it would look like it finished syncing but no new email is there, but I would have 3 new messages in my inbox. The other times I would read and reply and delete an email, but on my computer that email is still unread on the browser. This behavior is not consistent as there are times syncing is instant. Gmail does not have this problem. And somewhat related, sometimes the new email notification doesn't automatically clear up after I read a new email, this happens on Gmail as well.
I really love this phone, but these three issues are absolutely driving me insane and I'm ready to pack it up and return it. Please someone tell me these issues are because I don't know what I'm doing :crying:
1. Use any alternative keyboard - Swype, ICS, Swiftkey etc
2. Use alternative Email app, or forward all your email to Gmail account.
3. See 2.
Do quick reading in general - you'll find many interesting things.
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Greetings. After testing the water with a GNex for a week, I was so impressed with Android I locked myself with AT&T for another two years and bought an S3. It's been almost two weeks with the S3. There are issues that I'm willing to overlook for the overall package, but there are three issues that are completely driving me insane that I might return the S3 for. I tried to post this in the mega S3 annoyances thread but I couldn't.
1. The S3 is auto-adding every single misspelled words into the my word list. The only way I find to stop it is to turn off predictive text, which turns everything off including basic spell checking.
2. I copy and paste a lot in the email app. The left text selection handle is upside down, so I can't see where my text selection begins unless I place my left thumb nearly upside down on the screen. It is the same way in the browser, but it's less of an issue in the browser since it brings up the magnifying glass. In the Gmail app the text selection handles are the way they should be.
3. Getting and syncing new email in the email app is horribly slow. Typically it would sit there with the spinning circle for a minute (or longer) before new messages come in. Half the time it would look like it finished syncing but no new email is there, but I would have 3 new messages in my inbox. The other times I would read and reply and delete an email, but on my computer that email is still unread on the browser. This behavior is not consistent as there are times syncing is instant. Gmail does not have this problem. And somewhat related, sometimes the new email notification doesn't automatically clear up after I read a new email, this happens on Gmail as well.
I really love this phone, but these three issues are absolutely driving me insane and I'm ready to pack it up and return it. Please someone tell me these issues are because I don't know what I'm doing :crying:
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When I was using stock keyboard it wouldn't add my words to the dictionary unless I swiped upward on the word that I wanted to add. If I just tapped on the word it would add it to the text but not to the dictionary. Just hitting space would use the predicted word.
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When I was using stock keyboard it wouldn't add my words to the dictionary unless I swiped upward on the word that I wanted to add. If I just tapped on the word it would add it to the text but not to the dictionary. Just hitting space would use the predicted word.
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Hitting space or selecting the word (misspelled or not) from the predictive text area will both add that word to the my word list. I kept wondering why some gibberish made its way into my composed messages, and one quick look in the my word list my jaw was on the floor.
Maybe I'll look at other keyboard as bravo suggested. But I'm still kind of in shock at this behavior - why would it auto add every misspelled word into the list? Why have a spell check at all
I personally uninstall Samsung keyboards from all their phones and use the aosp/aokp keyboard. Its much better IMO. As for email, I've never used a stock email app ever. I've used K9 pretty much since I got my Captivate. Backed it up with TiBu, moved it over to my S3, and everything just worked.
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I personally uninstall Samsung keyboards from all their phones and use the aosp/aokp keyboard. Its much better IMO. As for email, I've never used a stock email app ever. I've used K9 pretty much since I got my Captivate. Backed it up with TiBu, moved it over to my S3, and everything just worked.
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I just installed ICS Keyboard from the Play store. Wow it works so much better. The first thing that I noticed when I got the S3 was the lag on the keyboard compared to the GNex. With the ICS keyboard on the S3 it feels exactly like it on the GNex. All the more shocking how the Samsung keyboard can be so horrendous. However, this is a security hole as the keyboard naturally captures every single keystroke. I'm not comfortable with the idea of installing a keyboard from an unknown source.
With the stock Samsung keyboard, is it *supposed* to auto-add every misspelled word in the my word list? If it is then what is the point of having spell check
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I just installed ICS Keyboard from the Play store. Wow it works so much better. The first thing that I noticed when I got the S3 was the lag on the keyboard compared to the GNex. With the ICS keyboard on the S3 it feels exactly like it on the GNex. All the more shocking how the Samsung keyboard can be so horrendous. However, this is a security hole as the keyboard naturally captures every single keystroke. I'm not comfortable with the idea of installing a keyboard from an unknown source.
With the stock Samsung keyboard, is it *supposed* to auto-add every misspelled word in the my word list? If it is then what is the point of having spell check
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You are just seeing the Android warning all the keyboards show. lol
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I just installed ICS Keyboard from the Play store. Wow it works so much better. The first thing that I noticed when I got the S3 was the lag on the keyboard compared to the GNex. With the ICS keyboard on the S3 it feels exactly like it on the GNex. All the more shocking how the Samsung keyboard can be so horrendous. However, this is a security hole as the keyboard naturally captures every single keystroke. I'm not comfortable with the idea of installing a keyboard from an unknown source.
With the stock Samsung keyboard, is it *supposed* to auto-add every misspelled word in the my word list? If it is then what is the point of having spell check
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I can't stand Samsung keyboards. One of my least favorite "features" of touch wiz. Something like swift key is just so much better I can't believe people use the stock keyboard. Hell, the JB keyboard is excellent, and Samsung goes out of their way to remove it.
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I just installed ICS Keyboard from the Play store. Wow it works so much better. The first thing that I noticed when I got the S3 was the lag on the keyboard compared to the GNex. With the ICS keyboard on the S3 it feels exactly like it on the GNex. All the more shocking how the Samsung keyboard can be so horrendous. However, this is a security hole as the keyboard naturally captures every single keystroke. I'm not comfortable with the idea of installing a keyboard from an unknown source.
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All keyboards capture your keystrokes. That's what they are for.
Also, just about everybody uses third party keyboards because the manufacturer keyboards suck. SwiftKey, Swype, perfect keyboard, and 8pen are some of the common ones.
On to the other issues, use a third party email app. I use K9. Just don't forget to disable sync and notifications from the stock email app.
Just about everybody uses third party email clients too.
Finally, try using different browsers and sms apps. Try dolphin or chrome for browser and handcent or go sms for texts. Good luck to you.
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Hitting space or selecting the word (misspelled or not) from the predictive text area will both add that word to the my word list. I kept wondering why some gibberish made its way into my composed messages, and one quick look in the my word list my jaw was on the floor.
Maybe I'll look at other keyboard as bravo suggested. But I'm still kind of in shock at this behavior - why would it auto add every misspelled word into the list? Why have a spell check at all
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Hmm, every-time I would try to type "ya" it would come up with something else and if I hit space or on "ya" the next time it would do the same thing until I finally tried swiping up on the word I wanted to store and it worked.
SwiftKey is the best keyboard around you should try that.
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Thanks for all the replies and suggestions everyone.
My problem with the very slow Yahoo mail syncing appears to be ONLY on my main Yahoo email account. I tried another Yahoo account as well as a new outlook.com address on it and the syncing is immediate. So problem solved, I'll likely be switching over to the new Outlook.com service.
So issues 1 and 3 are solved/worked-around, that leaves #2 with the upside down text selection handle. I've attached a screen shot to show you what I mean. I tried K9 as suggested and yes the handles are as they should, not upside down like the stock email app. What is up with that Samsung :silly:
I am still dumbfounded as to how/why the default Samsung keyboard adds every misspelled word into the word list. This is with all factory default settings, no settings were messed with.
Honestly I'm a huge fan of the ICS keyboard. Here is the APK pulled directly from the GNex. Simple, functional, clean. Just move this apk to the phone and install. You will need to go into settings and check to allow installation of unknown applications since this is not coming from the market. Enjoy.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gq1giqc2yg3uqdr/LatinIME.apk
Like stated all your issues are with the software not the phone. Get a different app. This is why people stick with iPhone. It's just easier
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SwiftKey is the best keyboard around you should try that.
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SwiftKey has been my go to for the last 6 or so months.
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Halmo said:
Hmm, every-time I would try to type "ya" it would come up with something else and if I hit space or on "ya" the next time it would do the same thing until I finally tried swiping up on the word I wanted to store and it worked.
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I just tried it again, just now, just to confirm I'm not hallucinating. As soon as I press space that word is added into the my word list. I now have a bunch of dkdk dkdkdk dkdkdkdk in there after the previously emptied my word list.
On the Gnex with the stock keyboard, the only way it will add a word is to press that word in the area above the keyboard, then it will prompt touch again to save. If I don't touch it again it and just press space it doesn't add it.
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Like stated all your issues are with the software not the phone. Get a different app. This is why people stick with iPhone. It's just easier
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Yes absolutely. The software matters as much if not more than the hardware itself. I stuck with iPhone for the past 3 years because no Android versions or devices had the smoothness in the UI that I demand. Believe me I have no love for Apple or any particular brand; I spend my money on the devices that work for me, simple as that. Now that Android has matched the smooth UI experience, I dumped the iphone real fast. The GNex running Jelly Bean feels smoother and faster than the S3, goes to show software matters more.
I used to use Emoze (http://www.emoze.com) on my S4 for my work email because I loved how it didn't make me password the phone with the ridiculous exchange requirements set by my employer, and it also automatically put my appointments and conferences on my main google calender without me having to do a thing.
Apparently this app is dead and the developer is long gone though so I am looking for a replacement.
So far everything I've found either costs too much, doesn't have the calender function like I want (Touchdown puts things in its own in app calender for example), or just doesn't push email notifications well.
Anyone have a good suggestion that suits my needs? My email is really not confidential at all and I don't want to put a stupid password with a capital letter AND a symbol on my phone every time I open it lol.
edit: On my GS4, someone modified the samsung email app to not require a password. I wonder if anyone has done the same for the LG default email app. That would work too.
The stock app is not bad, though it does not thread and is not as pretty as the Kitkat stock. Of course, the Kitkat stock does not work with Exchange, courtesy of Google dragging their feet for at least six months. There are some rumors that the problems have been fixed in the recent releases of ASOP and Cyanogen, but I have not confirmed that.
As for a password, you have an easy solution - install the XPosed Framework and then add the module "Complete keyguard disabler". Presto, keyguard lock gone. You need to be rooted for this. You can even install a module to hide the fact that you are rooted from your company's administrators, should they be so anal as to check for that.
Am I blind, or did they actually leave out contact specific notification tones option they've always had? Took the Oreo update last night and noticed the one person I want a different tone on changed to the default tone and there's no option under edit contact page. Kinda bummed about that and definitely feel like the phone isn't as snappy as it was on 7.1.
Same thing here.. I looked around on a few sites and notice a few threads.. the idiots have seemed to removed the option. There are a few other chat programs that do it... I also am very pissed at this moved.. Reluctantly I moved to the Verizon Messenger + app. It does allow you to assign specific tones. I hated the interface but once you customize it ..it is ok... I was just so use to the stock android messenger.. and now this bulls**T. Maybe they will bring it back in the next update...
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Same thing here.. I looked around on a few sites and notice a few threads.. the idiots have seemed to removed the option. There are a few other chat programs that do it... I also am very pissed at this moved.. Reluctantly I moved to the Verizon Messenger + app. It does allow you to assign specific tones. I hated the interface but once you customize it ..it is ok... I was just so use to the stock android messenger.. and now this bulls**T. Maybe they will bring it back in the next update...
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I hope so too. Is your phone noticably slower? Many of my apps take 3-4 times longer to open and a few like my adt app and Chase app take 5-10 seconds to load the login screen.