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I'm sort of stabbing in the dark here, but my issue is this: When I open my received text messages, the peoples contacts that I have sync'ed with facebook should show their photo. This is how it worked when I first got my phone.
I have done a few factory resets since then, and yesterday loaded a new rom. I loaded my contacts that I had backed up to SD card.
For some strange reason ALL of my contacts have hiphens ( - ) in their phone numbers. I think this is causing some texts to not be delivered.
Also, when in the messages window, all of my contacts photos wont be displayed. But if I go to the people directory they are displayed fine.
Now, is there a way I can delete the cache or similar without factory resetting the rom?
I have rom manager, and I used this to reboot into recovery before loading a new rom. In there was options for deleting cache and things (to be honest I didn't know which was the correct one so I did them all before loading a new rom). Now when I go into rom manager it just loads a sign like this a!
so I cannot try that again.
Thanks for any help given!!
Why did you back up to memory card if they're going to be saved to the cloud via your Google account?
Otherwise I have no answer for your question.
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I had all sorts of problems with the facebook integration.
The magor one I had was that the phone would automatically use the facebook phone number and not the one in the phone which was very annoying when people put fake numbers in their facebook profile or don't update for their new number and also all the numbers had a +44 on them which meant my phone wouldn't dial them at all!
My advice is remove your facebook account and see what happens. The try adding it again. If the problems persist then keep it removed. Life will be easier without your phone and facebook contacts being merged and updated all the time... trust me!
Phil
Thanks for your replies.
Regarding the backing up of contacts, does anyone recommend a GOOD FREE app for backing them up? I simply do not wish to use Google to back up my contacts. They are personal, and I would prefer to keep them on the phone. Google contacts is pointless to me.
If you would like Google contacts I have no say but I would rather not have my contacts spread out all over the place, with different versions etc...
It's going to take me forever to edit everyones phone number, and each time I flash a ROM I'll need to do it again..
Worst still, since flashing PaYs ROM the Google sync actually worked for the very first time since receiving the phone - So, now Google contacts has all of my contacts but the phone numbers have dashes is ( - ) which is wrong. Like the person above me, us in the UK have issues when dialing strange numbers!
Google contacts is fine, means you never have to worry about them being backed up as it's automatic...otherwise you've gotta sync them with yur email client on your PC which is hassle...I was a stickler for backing up to Outlook but now use Google...
The dashes come up after restoring contacts from the SD card...don't know why it does it but it can't be removed (another reason not to back up to sd card)
while in the htc people app, just press menu button then you can export your contacts to your sd card, which you can then later on import again.
Flaggie said:
while in the htc people app, just press menu button then you can export your contacts to your sd card, which you can then later on import again.
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Can you please explain the point of this post? Is that a French flag?
dieselboy said:
Regarding the backing up of contacts, does anyone recommend a GOOD FREE app for backing them up? I simply do not wish to use Google to back up my contacts. They are personal, and I would prefer to keep them on the phone. Google contacts is pointless to me.
If you would like Google contacts I have no say but I would rather not have my contacts spread out all over the place, with different versions etc...
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You asked for a way to back up your contacts without syncing them with google contacts, I provided you with a way to save them without having to use any app.
(it's the dutch flag, just made the World cup soccer finale)
Flaggie said:
You asked for a way to back up your contacts without syncing them with google contacts, I provided you with a way to save them without having to use any app.
(it's the dutch flag, just made the World cup soccer finale)
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Fair play, but it is this way of backing up contacts that is giving us the problems as per post #1 and this discussion
I have done a few factory resets since then, and yesterday loaded a new rom. I loaded my contacts that I had backed up to SD card.
For some strange reason ALL of my contacts have hiphens ( - ) in their phone numbers. I think this is causing some texts to not be delivered.
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Congrats on the world cup. I have stopped paying attention since we lost.
sorry my bad, i'll let you guys get back at it
Try contact2sim
Limitation of course is the small sim memory for numbers only.
Astro file manager has some backup capabilities. HTC sync....
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I just noticed that people/contacts can only export 50 contacts from my phone. I noticed this because i saved the same number many times an upon exporting it gives me the 1/50 until it reaches 50/50 contacts exported to sd card, i also created dummy contacts to see if they get saved but they didn't, they showed on phone but trying to export they never show up. Ive lost several numbers that way thinking i was saving them then resetting my phone then importing them back in only to find out never got saved besides the original 50.
I have no clue right now where to start to fix this any one had similar problem that can help?
It may not be the answer or resolution you are looking for but I would highly recommend just syncing your contacts with google. Then you don't even have to worry about it because once you sync them, google will save and restore them with no need for interaction. Automagically if you will
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elegantai said:
It may not be the answer or resolution you are looking for but I would highly recommend just syncing your contacts with google. Then you don't even have to worry about it because once you sync them, google will save and restore them with no need for interaction. Automagically if you will
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Thats what the sprint rep told me. Rather save personal things offline to do myself. Really thats just a cop out with the price of the phone and its stature of a super phone.
Imagine the 1st landline phone people used and it gives you problems, you write to the company and they write back saying hey at lest you can scream out your window and they will be able to hear you.
he also told me to take it into a sprint store for them to trouble shoot. Now i have to root the phone back and put stock. major hassle. Unless there is a solution i can take to avoid all that. After that most likely i'll get new phone with stock 2.2 that cant be rooted as of yet.
I can tell you that i have never seen your problem before. I'm a tech at Sprint and i have done many contact export and imports, sometimes several hundred contacts and never had a problem unless it was the sd card.
You said that you might take to a Sprint store but will have to unroot and flash to stock first. Before taking it into Sprint, try going back to stock and see if that fixes the issue. Could be a rom issue that no one else is noticing or not reporting with whatever rom you might be running.
Also, thats not really a cop out when people suggest using google to backup your contacts. Thats how the phone was designed to work. If you must have that physical backup, then just backup your contacts to google, then import to outlook. Not the solution you wanted to hear I'm sure, but it's another alternative.
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Thats what the sprint rep told me. Rather save personal things offline to do myself. Really thats just a cop out with the price of the phone and its stature of a super phone.
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Also, thats not really a cop out when people suggest using google to backup your contacts. Thats how the phone was designed to work. If you must have that physical backup, then just backup your contacts to google, then import to outlook. Not the solution you wanted to hear I'm sure, but it's another alternative.
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Also, if you just sync with Google, you can export straight from Google into a couple different formats.
thx
stillryan said:
I can tell you that i have never seen your problem before. I'm a tech at Sprint and i have done many contact export and imports, sometimes several hundred contacts and never had a problem unless it was the sd card.
You said that you might take to a Sprint store but will have to unroot and flash to stock first. Before taking it into Sprint, try going back to stock and see if that fixes the issue. Could be a rom issue that no one else is noticing or not reporting with whatever rom you might be running.
Also, thats not really a cop out when people suggest using google to backup your contacts. Thats how the phone was designed to work. If you must have that physical backup, then just backup your contacts to google, then import to outlook. Not the solution you wanted to hear I'm sure, but it's another alternative.
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Thank you will do. Will try that 1st.
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Also, if you just sync with Google, you can export straight from Google into a couple different formats.
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Thanks never synced anything with Google before and didn't know it had different options to export, was thinking of the issue at hand never thought of an interim in the mean time until i get the solution fixed. thanks.
Ill post back here of/if any solution.
zer0-1ne said:
Thanks never synced anything with Google before and didn't know it had different options to export, was thinking of the issue at hand never thought of an interim in the mean time until i get the solution fixed. thanks.
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Yeah. Google recently changed their whole contacts page, but just go to contacts > More actions > Export... and then just choose all contacts, and the format:
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Google CSV format (for importing into a Google account)
Outlook CSV format (for importing into Outlook or another application)
vCard format (for importing into Apple Address Book or another application)
This has been asked in a few different forums but I was hoping someone with some developing/coding knowledge may be able to help..
Is it possible to change the gmail account associated with the market on a phone WITHOUT doing a factory reset?
Hoping someone with knowledge of the OS may have a little more insight!
Looks like the 1st account you set up cannot be removed without a reset, at least from what I've tried.
Even if you add a second Gmail account, you can remove the 2nd one, but not the 1st or primary account.
I know that, I was thinking perhaps there is a file somewhere buried on the phone that contains this info that can be edited and pushed back onto the phone after you edit it, if you have root
you can not change the email w/o a factory reset.
doing that will let you change the email associated with the market/phone
(primary email account), but you will loose
all purchased market apps, there is currently no way to do that.
Google knows this is the case.....unless its changed when i checked 2 weeks ago
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you can not change the email w/o a factory reset.
doing that will let you change the email associated with the market/phone
(primary email account), but you will loose
all purchased market apps, there is currently no way to do that.
Google knows this is the case.....unless its changed when i checked 2 weeks ago
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Like I said, I know thats the standard answer, but the gmail account has to be stored in a file somewhere on the device, I thought maybe a dev knew where it was and/or how to edit/changes it without resetting....
DroidHam said:
Like I said, I know thats the standard answer, but the gmail account has to be stored in a file somewhere on the device, I thought maybe a dev knew where it was and/or how to edit/changes it without resetting....
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Not necessarily. Could be stored in the cloud and linked to your device ID. Don't know for sure, but it's possible.
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PonsAsinorem said:
Not necessarily. Could be stored in the cloud and linked to your device ID. Don't know for sure, but it's possible.
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Maybe, that's why I asked =)
Apps are tied to your account, not your device.
I don't believe there is a way to transfer account details between email address. This is something that would reside on google's end, not on your phone.
JCopernicus said:
Apps are tied to your account, not your device.
I don't believe there is a way to transfer account details between email address. This is something that would reside on google's end, not on your phone.
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I dont believe this is at all what the OP was asking, he just wants to change his primary gmail account linked to his android without doing a wipe. i dont recall him asking about any "apps" other than the market itself
as far i know, this is not posible. i would recomend using an app like titanium backup to backup all your programs and then do a reset, and restore the apps.
good luck, i hope you find the answer your looking for
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Why do you want to do this? If we know that, we might be able to offer an alternate solution.
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Why do you want to do this? If we know that, we might be able to offer an alternate solution.
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Some people use more than one gmail account, if you enter the wrong one in the setup process you are stuck unless you do a factory reset. I think that's why he's asking.
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I dont believe this is at all what the OP was asking, he just wants to change his primary gmail account linked to his android without doing a wipe. i dont recall him asking about any "apps" other than the market itself
as far i know, this is not posible. i would recomend using an app like titanium backup to backup all your programs and then do a reset, and restore the apps.
good luck, i hope you find the answer your looking for
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Uh...what do you think the link between the market and the gmail account is for?
"his gmail account linked to his android"?
You gmail account isn't linked to any physical device.
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Some people use more than one gmail account, if you enter the wrong one in the setup process you are stuck unless you do a factory reset. I think that's why he's asking.
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If you accidentally entered the wrong info during setup, just wipe and start over right away (it's not like you're going to lose anything).
larsrya8 said:
If you accidentally entered the wrong info during setup, just wipe and start over right away (it's not like you're going to lose anything).
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Some people don't realize this until they are into the setup a ways. It's a reasonable question, just don't think there is anyone out there that knows where that info would be. It has to be stored on the phone or a factory reset wouldn't fix it. Although i think this might be in the wrong forum
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Some people don't realize this until they are into the setup a ways. It's a reasonable question, just don't think there is anyone out there that knows where that info would be. It has to be stored on the phone or a factory reset wouldn't fix it. Although i think this might be in the wrong forum
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Possibly, but I thought if ANYONE would know where it's stored it would be one of these devs who have gone through the whole filesystem... maybe one of them could jump in?!?
DroidHam said:
Possibly, but I thought if ANYONE would know where it's stored it would be one of these devs who have gone through the whole filesystem... maybe one of them could jump in?!?
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It's on the device, but probably encrypted. Why do you want to find it so badly?
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Uh...what do you think the link between the market and the gmail account is for?
"his gmail account linked to his android"?
You gmail account isn't linked to any physical device.
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thats odd, i seem to have issues when trying to login to one gmail account from multiple android devices. after it is synced with one device, and i add it to another, the first device will not sync...
I know any paid apps are linked to the gmail account used to purchase them. Nowhere has the OP said anything about apps, paid or otherwise. The question was simple;
Can I change my primary gmail address my phone is syncing with, and do it without doing a factory reset?
now others have for some reason been compelled to start telling the OP what he can and cant do with apps linked to the gmail account
thats like going to a mechanic and asking him what the sound your breaks are making means, and the mechanic saying "well if you drive into something your airbags are gonna go off"
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now others have for some reason been compelled to start telling the OP what he can and cant do with apps linked to the gmail account
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The OP won't tell us why this is so important. Backing everything up with Titanium Backup, wiping, setting up with the correct account, and then restoring would have taken less time than this thread has existed.
The only explanation I can think of is that the OP is trying to keep paid apps from the current account. There's no other reason to be going through all this hassle.
Following from this (completely reasonable) assumption, people feel compelled to inform the OP that this won't work, since the paid apps will be tied to the previous account. Google's new licensing system is going to make this even more difficult.
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thats odd, i seem to have issues when trying to login to one gmail account from multiple android devices. after it is synced with one device, and i add it to another, the first device will not sync...
I know any paid apps are linked to the gmail account used to purchase them. Nowhere has the OP said anything about apps, paid or otherwise. The question was simple;
Can I change my primary gmail address my phone is syncing with, and do it without doing a factory reset?
now others have for some reason been compelled to start telling the OP what he can and cant do with apps linked to the gmail account
thats like going to a mechanic and asking him what the sound your breaks are making means, and the mechanic saying "well if you drive into something your airbags are gonna go off"
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Is it possible to change the gmail account associated with the market on a phone WITHOUT doing a factory reset?
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Market=apps
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thats like going to a mechanic and asking him what the sound your breaks are making means, and the mechanic saying "well if you drive into something your airbags are gonna go off"
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But if you do drive into something, most times your airbags will deploy. I think the mechanic is making a valid point and merely trying to warn you.
I saved my contacts to google before I switched over to my refurbed replacement epic and formatted the sim card to keep the new phone isolated from the old one. I ended up loosing all of my phone numbers but retained the email contacts. I logged onto g mail on a computer but I see no phone numbers on that page. Is there a way to see them or should I just thank the sprint tec for screwing me. maybe i screwed myself trusting someone that does phones for a living with my data. any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I saved my contacts to google before I switched over to my refurbed replacement epic and formatted the sim card to keep the new phone isolated from the old one. I ended up loosing all of my phone numbers but retained the email contacts. I logged onto g mail on a computer but I see no phone numbers on that page. Is there a way to see them or should I just thank the sprint tec for screwing me. maybe i screwed myself trusting someone that does phones for a living with my data. any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Sounds like the phone numbers were saved to the phone and not your gmail account. When you add a phone number or a contact you need to make sure that you choose save to gmail account when prompted. then when you sign in on a new phone or after doing a factory reset you will get all your numbers back. Do the same for calendar events.
Sprint reps/techs sometimes act like they know more than they really do.
When you have the option to save , you have to try and save to both then? how do you save the existing contacts then not saved to google?
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When you have the option to save , you have to try and save to both then? how do you save the existing contacts then not saved to google?
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When saving check the do this by default box and save to google. The only ways I know to get them to google is export them to sd card (you dont have a sim card btw) and them import them back to phone. Go to contacts hit menu then import/export and do your thing. Or go to your gmail on web and add them directly to you contacts there as long as you sync it will add them. Might take a bit if you do it that way unless you manually hit sync, go menu , accounts and sync , tap google account you want, hit menu then sync now.
I did manually sync like you told me to but all of my phone numbers dont go to google. I got 1 contact to google by saving to google though but not the rest. actually i did exactly how you said to sync to google before the phone swap, but I havnt saved to google and thought i was saving them to google by manually sync. (problem is I thought) just like the sprint repair guy.
I need to know how to get them to google before I start rooting my phone the correct way, I thought it was simple in the beginning but now not so simple. I have no idea how I mixed up sd and sim card because I never had a phone with a sim sard ever.must have been a solar flare or something LOL.
wolffer0 said:
I need to know how to get them to google before I start rooting my phone the correct way, I thought it was simple in the beginning but now not so simple. I have no idea how I mixed up sd and sim card because I never had a phone with a sim sard ever.must have been a solar flare or something LOL.
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Export contacts to a .vcf file.
Directions if jumping from Epic to new/refurb Epic with contacts in the phone, rather than Google.
On your phone with your contacts:
Contacts shortcut > Menu button > "More" > "Import/Export" > "Export to SD card"
Within Google Contacts webpage:
"Import" (blue bar, near top right of screen) > Browse to the file, either on your SD card or where ever you placed the export on your desktop (if you moved it from your phone.) > Choose which group to import them to. > Import button
After you get this done, anytime you want to create a contact in your phone--just use:
Contacts shortcut > "Create contact" button > Select "Create contact" (You may have this additional step here if you have a 3rd party email app that handles contacts too, like a corporate email client. Otherwise this step is skipped.) > Select "Google" instead of "Phone"
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I did manually sync like you told me to but all of my phone numbers dont go to google. I got 1 contact to google by saving to google though but not the rest. actually i did exactly how you said to sync to google before the phone swap, but I havnt saved to google and thought i was saving them to google by manually sync. (problem is I thought) just like the sprint repair guy.
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Manual sync will only work if they are saved to google, Thats why I said go to google on web and add them there then manual sync them to phone should double the contact name i.e. you have joe saved to phone and joe saved to google not joe saved to phone AND google. If you still have an old phone with the contacts on it you could take it to sprint and have them transfer them over for you. When I did that it automatically saved them to google.
EDIT: Sounds a bit dickish didnt mean it that way sorry
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I need to know how to get them to google before I start rooting my phone the correct way, I thought it was simple in the beginning but now not so simple. I have no idea how I mixed up sd and sim card because I never had a phone with a sim sard ever.must have been a solar flare or something LOL.
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It happens
Ok its confirmed. I screwed myself. It has been a hard lesson because now I have to wait for everyone to call me to make a new contact. And it seems like I will have to back up my wifes and my contacts with the sv file thingy. Thanks for the info and if anyone sounded like a **** I can shop talk all day long but I am trying to stay on track these days because starting wars does nobody good. Thanks for the patience and great answers that are simple but not really taught to well in the book
Ahhhh I feel for there no spare phone is a bummer I always keep my old one with contacts in it for just such a thing. Sorry I couldnt be more helpful on this.
Export contacts to sd card. Then go to new phone that yu have the gmail account on and import tem. Choose the location as google and it will save your contacts to gmail.... the tech isn't responsible for making sure that you properly back up your contacts. If you say yea I did that's all he is goin to worry about...
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Really I was straight forward with the guy and told him I didn't know squat about it. This is the first android phone and am new to it . I will know better next time.
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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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?
thehyecircus said:
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.
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There are certain apps that let you customize the use of the LED.
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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.
thehyecircus said:
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.
blunden said:
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.