I know this could be viewed as an app thread q, but still.
I liked my g3 as it could run roms that had baked in caller id. Besides the mr number style apps, and paying 3 a month for caller name id, what options are out there?
Thanks!
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I used to use whitepages, but over the last year or so i switched to truecaller.
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Is the what is referred to as HTC Super Caller ID or a different program?
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.innovamentis.supercallerid
If this isn't the right one talked about in the Froyo update then can someone point me in the right direction please
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That's not it. Essentially it shows the latest status update from Facebook and the birthday of the person calling. It's a gimmick.
so is this something that is built in to the new 2.2 android update or is it a seperate app that you have to install for this information to be displayed?
It's built into HTC's Sense UI with Froyo, yeah.
Not working on my phone for some reason.
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When someone calls you, assuming you've linked their account in your contacts then it should just pop-up.
steve228uk said:
When someone calls you, assuming you've linked their account in your contacts then it should just pop-up.
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Yeah their picture pops ip but their status and birthday doesn't, am I missing a setting somewhere maybe?
I'm interested in this as well as I have the same features as 2.1 when receiving a call.
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What are you guys going on about? This is an app called super caller id, it has nothing to do with htc, its a 3rd party app that shows the callers address and other info on the dialers incoming call screen, it only works in a handfull of contries atm tho
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As most of you know, Google stopped the use of static dial-out numbers which many of us made use of by putting such numbers in our Fave5 or equivalent.
Has there been any work on modding the GoogleVoice apk to operate as it used to?
Thanks a bunch in advance for any help or guidance that can be provided.
godhamba said:
As most of you know, Google stopped the use of static dial-out numbers which many of us made use of by putting such numbers in our Fave5 or equivalent.
Has there been any work on modding the GoogleVoice apk to operate as it used to?
Thanks a bunch in advance for any help or guidance that can be provided.
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When did they stop doing this?
This isn't an answer to your question, necessarily, but I set one of my "faves" to my own Google Voice phone number (set as my Sprint "Home" number, and one of my five faves on T-Mobile), they GV Callback routes all of my outgoing calls through my own Google Voice phone number. Also fixes the call log to reflect who I actually called. It's pulled from the market, but available on amazon app store if u want a link, or are unfamiliar with it.
I use the GV app for all of my sms (so I don't know the following): if they stopped using static dial out numbers, how does it handle received SMS though the stock messaging app?
Thanks for the suggestion. I have Xinlu's GV Callback - its still available on the Amazon Appstore - but its not as elegant I'd like, and I wondered if people had actually fixed the app itself. The last version of the Google Voice Apk which used the static dial-out is still available here, but its lacking in some of the newer features and smoothness of the more recent versions of the Apk.
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I use the GV app for all of my sms (so I don't know the following): if they stopped using static dial out numbers, how does it handle received SMS though the stock messaging app?
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If you are receiving texts to the messaging app, it's because you are using the feature of the Google Voice APK which tells it to pass the message to the native messaging app.
I guess GV Callback is the only real solution, though I'm surprised the enterprising XDA folk haven't yet figured this one out!
Man, I'm surprised too. I've been looking for good gv solutions since I was using grand central on winmo.. Lol.
Btw.. If u want a nice inverted GV app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12265200
/end shameless self promotion.
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Holy ****, that is smoking!
decalex said:
Man, I'm surprised too. I've been looking for good gv solutions since I was using grand central on winmo.. Lol.
Btw.. If u want a nice inverted GV app
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12265200
/end shameless self promotion.
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I use groove IP for calls thru WiFi. Signs into gv so number is the voice number
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I know that now it searches through nicknames and company also which I like. However, ever since stable release, if I don't have a photo associated with the contact it will look for the closest matching contact that does have a picture and display that contact first. It does this even when the contact doesn't match at all (neither name, company, or nickname matches)
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I do not have a problem with this. Also word of advice blur the phone numbers in the picture. In don't think your contacts would appreciate their phone numbers showing up in a forum.
Been a long time user of HTC devices. Sense phone and contact management seems much better than Samsung's stupid setup.
I seriously cannot stand how the system manages contacts on this Galaxy Note 2.
On the HTC, in dialer... I can use smart dial by spelling the name out. I can also click into the profile and call secondary phone numbers. But on this Samsung device, smart dial only shows the phone number, I can't go into the contact profile easily. I can only dial the main number.
Also, in the Samung contacts, it displays multiple duplicates of several contacts that I have. One HTC devices, it would automatically group these duplicates together so I can't have multiple useless contacts in the phone book.
Any alternatives to fix this issue?
Yeah, return the Note and get the Evo LTE or a DNA.
There are differences to each UI. Thats why they are named different. Sense vs TW. I personally like TW better then Sense in almost every aspect.
As for a fix to duplicate contacts, log into google.com/dashboard and clean up duplicates that way.
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Dialer search matches numbers in contacts and call logs along with contacts
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<!-- Dialer / Logs -->
<CscFeature_Dialer_PhonebookNdigitsMatching>true</CscFeature_Dialer_PhonebookNdigitsMatching>
You may have to optionally add this line too.
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<CscFeature_RIL_CallerIdMatchingDigit>8</CscFeature_RIL_CallerIdMatchingDigit>
No Limits on joining contacts together. # Removes the existing Limit of 5 contacts
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<CscFeature_Contact_SetLinkCountMaxAs>999</CscFeature_Contact_SetLinkCountMaxAs>
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if it were me i would try that from here :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2033894
or just use go contacts or something like that although i haven't tried it in a while
This is my first non-htc phone since 2004 and I'm finding several things that are taking a while getting used to in addition to the contacts. The lack of proper text wrapping and clunky scrolling are other examples. This phone is awesome so I'm sure I'll look past these things. It makes you appreciate the little details that HTC got right all these years though.
twe90kid said:
Been a long time user of HTC devices. Sense phone and contact management seems much better than Samsung's stupid setup.
I seriously cannot stand how the system manages contacts on this Galaxy Note 2.
On the HTC, in dialer... I can use smart dial by spelling the name out. I can also click into the profile and call secondary phone numbers. But on this Samsung device, smart dial only shows the phone number, I can't go into the contact profile easily. I can only dial the main number.
Also, in the Samung contacts, it displays multiple duplicates of several contacts that I have. One HTC devices, it would automatically group these duplicates together so I can't have multiple useless contacts in the phone book.
Any alternatives to fix this issue?
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From the Note 2 dialer you can search by name from the <Contacts> tab. If by smart dial you mean contacts widget, you most certainly can dial alternate numbers. You touch the contact you want, which brings up the primary number and then touch the space above the primary number to access alternate numbers. I've had 6 HTC phones myself from the original Touch to the EVO LTE and find the differences insignificant as far as contacts are concerned. I also had duplicates in HTC phones as well, but linking the contacts solved that problem. With the Note 2 you can eliminate duplicates by joining them. But I also avoid duplicates by only syncing with my primary Google email account.
I too did not like the dialer coming from the EVO.
I put EXDialer on it for the dialer and contacts, and havent looked back since.
Use that as the default action and you're all set.
Try it and you won't be disappointed.
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From the Note 2 dialer you can search by name from the <Contacts> tab. If by smart dial you mean contacts widget, you most certainly can dial alternate numbers. You touch the contact you want, which brings up the primary number and then touch the space above the primary number to access alternate numbers. I've had 6 HTC phones myself from the original Touch to the EVO LTE and find the differences insignificant as far as contacts are concerned. I also had duplicates in HTC phones as well, but linking the contacts solved that problem. With the Note 2 you can eliminate duplicates by joining them. But I also avoid duplicates by only syncing with my primary Google email account.
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xKrisx said:
Yeah, return the Note and get the Evo LTE or a DNA.
There are differences to each UI. Thats why they are named different. Sense vs TW. I personally like TW better then Sense in almost every aspect.
As for a fix to duplicate contacts, log into google.com/dashboard and clean up duplicates that way.
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Lol. Agreed.
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I was with HTC since 2006 and swore I'd never switch however I got the note 2 and have never looked back idk how you could complain about anything with this phone
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I was with HTC since 2006 and swore I'd never switch however I got the note 2 and have never looked back idk how you could complain about anything with this phone
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camera sucks compared to the EVO LTE. That's my only other complaint.
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camera sucks compared to the EVO LTE. That's my only other complaint.
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Personally, I much prefer the camera on the Note 2 than the EVO LTE. Both cameras are good, but there are more options available on the Note 2 to assist in better photos.
I was with Galaxy before this new HTC.
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I too switched from HTC to Samsung. Samsung dialer blows - At least on my Note 3.
Here is an example of the Dialer problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v29crpAAEfQ
It is actually worse than the video in that it often defaults to "other." Now I must second or third tap on the screen to open the contact and select the appropriate number. On my EVO LTE, the contacts related to my entry were presented above the dial pad, where I could quickly see my choices without the need for extra taps and searching. One other thing worth mentioning, the call log and dial pad were on the same screen for quick redials to recent numbers - not so on Samsung.
I tried EXDialer but prefer Go Contacts Ex. both are a remedy to the not so smart Samsung dialer.
Unless I'm missing something looks like Verizon disabled it? . Can't find it anywhere in settings
I don't see it either.
It's not there, Verizon probably disabled it to promote their own cloud service.
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Verizon disabled some of the best services to promote their own.
-Samsung Cloud to promote their stupid Verizon Cloud
-Samsung's caller ID (based on white pages I think) that identifies span caller and text messages - to promote their $3 a month caller name ID (I believe that's what they call)
-Samsung's more advanced texting features (sprint phones still have this features, pretty much like iMessage) - to promote their stupid ugly Message+ app
And I'm sure there are some more removed features for no good reason
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le0.br4zuc4 said:
Verizon disabled some of the best services to promote their own.
-Samsung Cloud to promote their stupid Verizon Cloud
-Samsung's caller ID (based on white pages I think) that identifies span caller and text messages - to promote their $3 a month caller name ID (I believe that's what they call)
-Samsung's more advanced texting features (sprint phones still have this features, pretty much like iMessage) - to promote their stupid ugly Message+ app
And I'm sure there are some more removed features for no good reason
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Yep, pretty sneaky, sis... Err I mean Verizon I actually like their message app, though I don't use a lot of SMS or MMS, most of my messaging is done through Hangouts.
https://youtu.be/9KsfiqAdSW0 I was 10 when this commercial came out in 1981.
californiarailroader said:
Yep, pretty sneaky, sis... Err I mean Verizon I actually like their message app, though I don't use a lot of SMS or MMS, most of my messaging is done through Hangouts.
https://youtu.be/9KsfiqAdSW0 I was 10 when this commercial came out in 1981.
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If Verizon's text message didn't look so awful. I wish it had more of a clean material design... Idk I hate Verizon lol so it's hard for me to like their stuff lol
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Yeah VZW disabled Cloud. TMO has it. Sucks.
Does anyone know if AT&T disabled it as well? Can't find any info on their subforum
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The cloud is on the phone in the background but with no physical access to it for general purpose as far as I can tell.
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Unless I'm missing something looks like Verizon disabled it? . Can't find it anywhere in settings
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You may have already seen, but there's a thread on how to get it up and running. As the previous post mentioned, it's there but Verizon killed its shortcut.
http://goo.gl/MLHo5p
If you have Nova Launcher, just set up a gesture for it, after you select the gesture, choose the shortcut tab (far right) > activities > scroll down to Samsung backup and restore, open it and choose the Samsung Cloud Icon labeled app.ui.scloudactivity. Get that free 15GB!