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How do I view a contact's full address?

This question has been asked before, but not answered. I'm posting it again in the hope that someone has figured it out. I want to view the full postal address of my contact, for example when addressing an envelope. I can view them on the computer in a web browser. On my Desire running Android 2.1 I only see part of the address. My only option is to click "View home address" which opens the map. That's not good enough, and because the addresses in my area are in a non-standard format the addresses fail to display. (Addresses here often are a name of a house or building, no number, so I need to copy the addresses exactly as I have them formatted). The question has been asked before here (xda-developers) and here (community.htc.com) with no valid answers so far. I know that when I use a standard USA address that is locatable by Google Maps, the address info is kept and displayed in the mapping program. This problem is limited to certain US and other countries' address formats that Google Maps won't resolve correctly. Anyone figure this out yet?

I just posted on the previous thread you linked but its impossible you need to download another addressbook app.

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Good enough, thanks!
I'd prefer to view it as I typed it, complete with the line breaks, but that works well enough.
I keep forgetting to use the trackpad...

Google Voice Actions - Your Experiences

How you all finding this?
It can dictate a text no problem, but doesn't seem to pick up the TO: field for me.
So if I say "send text to bob how are you" it will fill in "2 bob how are you" in the message field and leave the TO field empty. how are you getting on? It's still pretty cool. And you can say things like "call 08665242424" and it gets that perfect. Although when I say "call Joe" it just won't find the appropriate entry on my SIM card.

hey,
So far with the actions, i had a little bit of troubling getting it to call my contacts e.g. "call Paul C" an it suggests everyone else in my list with the surname C except "Paul C" also the text thing doesnt seem to work at all, but i have found it's very good at web searching and also when you have already entered the texting menu, i think once it gets the support for different countries it will be really good and fun to use.
At the minute its more of a novelty, but it could become very very useful.

We had a lot of fun earlier as what I said and what the phone thought I said was so different!
e.g.
Send a text to Teresa to say hello
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Send a text recycle au
I did manage to get the thing to give me directions to Skegness (although I was trying to call somebody at the time).
Maybe I need to lay on an american accent and try again

But... But... But... It worked so well in the little video!

Very hit and miss for me. If it works, it works spot on 100% and great. If it fails, it fails epically.

Same here. If it works, it works, if not, well I just hope I'm not showing it off to a friend as it can make an ass of itself.
The text action? Doesn't work for me at all. Neither does setting an alarm. Getting directions is perhaps the most reliable voice action of all. Calling people is hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't complete the action. I'll say, "Call Claire XYZ Mobile", and it displays a list of 'did you mean?' options. The top one is usually right, but when I click it it Googles it as a search term!

The Alarm is still in development

the fact it requires a data connection means its learning as it goes. Recording 10000s of new words per day and linking them based by region. In time it should be able to learn words with accents etc so well that its hard to fool.
at the moment it is certainly more novelty than technological wow. but.. I think it will get there. I wish you could "teach it" by sampling your address book. I mean you click on a contacts name and then say it 5 times and the google learns how this name is pronounced in your region. then it recognizes it next time. I think they'll get there. this is a good start.

If it learns as it goes, then all those who set theory phone to US English may not be helping out develop the software for their own language if each voice request is sent out with a language tag from the phone.
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How do I know what version of "voice search" I have?
I used the QR code from the google blog and and doesn't recognize some of them.
For example, it will recognize "note to self I am cool" but it will ask to do a search instead of noting to self.

It picks up very few words I say correctly. Usually "call" it always gets correct. Brilliant concept but not very practical for the masses yet.
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I've found this terrible so far, 0% success rate! Even speaking in most clearest English with no background noise.
Maybe you have more success with an American accent??

But the odd thing is that the previous "search by voice" and technologies such as Translate both recognise voice really really well.

As with most of you, no success at all.. another interesting thing is set it to US English and hold it up to your speakers and play the guy from the Youtube video talking and it fails to get correct anything he says as well so I would like to know how they got 100% success rate in the video.

I have had limited success with it set to US english, one big problem is the "listen to" command, it insists that I need to install a music player, I have spotify installed (which is on the approved list) but voice action does not appear to recognise that it is there.

thejinx0r said:
How do I know what version of "voice search" I have?
I used the QR code from the google blog and and doesn't recognize some of them.
For example, it will recognize "note to self I am cool" but it will ask to do a search instead of noting to self.
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It is looking for the nearest psychiatrist, as it has deduced you are in urgent need thereof

Like the previous voice to text, it mainly accepts US english inflection, for the moment being.
However in my fake mafioso-US-english accent I could manage to type some emails, but I couldn't, for the hell of it, make it recognize the 'to' field most of the times. I think you really have to speak it all together "send email (no pause) to xyz (pause) how are you ?"

Too many "SERVER PROBLEM" .... not good.

OK, I've figured it out. It works and works just as accurate as in the Google vid. You just have to speak at your normal pace and the phone no more than around 6 inches away.
I can use US and UK accents to get it working. I've moved around enough to know them well.
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I have tried it for directions, navigation, voice dialing good.text message no go on generic htc sense 2.2.
Northern irish accent.
Just saying one word searches for pizza, thai, pubs god tho.bruins up google search entries by location.plus point
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Bing Maps frustrations

So last week I went to stay in a condo with some friends. They texted me the address and it conveniently created a link that took me right to Bing maps. I was a half-hour late because Bing Maps dropped me off THIRTEEN MILES AWAY from the actual address. This is fully the THIRD time that I've been late or completely missed an event because Bing maps couldn't get me to the right place. Worse, every time someone asks why I was late and I respond "my phone took me to the wrong place," they ask what I'm using. When I reluctantly admit that it is Bing, I always get something to the effect of, "oh, THAT'S why."
In the end, I used the gMaps app to get to the right place. The weirdest thing is that when I went to Bing Maps on a browser at the condo, it GOT THE ADDRESS RIGHT! It's only the Bing Maps on my phone that dropped me off far, far away.
Try it for yourself on your Windows phone "Maps" app, on Bing Maps on a browser, or on Google Maps:
4010 Silverheels Dr, Silverthorn, CO 80498
(I know "Silverthorne" is misspelled, but that's how it was in the text message, so I'm leaving it as-is for troubleshooting reasons.)
WHY?!?!?!?

Interesting. Maybe it's whatever certain APIs are exposed to the mobile Bing app? Clearly, the web version has some kind of auto correction the mobile version doesn't/can't access.
Btw, how come you didn't question why it was placing the marker on the green side of a mountain?

I can not verify this. I typed in the adress just as you specified, and this is what it came up with. I checked in google maps and bing maps. Bing maps is identical google maps is ~500 feet west of the spot, so practically the same.

in my city some zip codes are wrong!

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Btw, how come you didn't question why it was placing the marker on the green side of a mountain?
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lol...my wife was navigating from her Focus. I never saw the thing. Even then, I probably would have believed it, as I've been up many crazy mountain roads in this state, and it wouldn't have surprised me at all if the condo had been 13 miles out of town on a mountainside.
Localhorst86 said:
I can not verify this. I typed in the adress just as you specified, and this is what it came up with. I checked in google maps and bing maps. Bing maps is identical google maps is ~500 feet west of the spot, so practically the same.
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Weird. Apparently ScottSUmmers gets the same result I do. What your screenshot shows is where I was SUPPOSED to be. I wish I could take a screenshot to show you what I'm seeing. Thanks for checking!

Localhorst86 said:
I can not verify this. I typed in the adress just as you specified, and this is what it came up with. I checked in google maps and bing maps. Bing maps is identical google maps is ~500 feet west of the spot, so practically the same.
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PS: Google maps would still be more accurate based on your screenshot, as the actual address was no more than halfway down that street, not all the way at the end.

I think the misspelling is the key. If I put the address in my phone exactly as shown (without the 'e') it is way wrong. But if I add the 'e', it goes to the right spot.
When I use the web version of Bing Maps, it tells me that the city is spelled incorrectly, and auto-corrects it. That seems to be the piece that is broken/missing on WP7.

RoboDad said:
I think the misspelling is the key. If I put the address in my phone exactly as shown (without the 'e') it is way wrong. But if I add the 'e', it goes to the right spot.
When I use the web version of Bing Maps, it tells me that the city is spelled incorrectly, and auto-corrects it. That seems to be the piece that is broken/missing on WP7.
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That was also my experience. Strange, since there's not two similarly-named towns out there or anything. How one letter could confuse their system so much I have no idea. I'm waiting for an address for my wife so I can demonstrate one of the other two times Bing has steered me way wrong.
Maybe it's just my state, but if I can't trust Bing, then I can't use Bing.

weird, though. I left out the "e" as well on my phone, it still found it...
EDIT: I just realized this. I typed it without the "e" and it showed up as "Silverthorn" in the destination entry. But as soon as I hit enter to calculate the route, my phone would automatically change the town to "Silverthorne". I cannot at all search for "silverthorn"

13 miles is nothing, try 8668 miles. see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wNQVTjw4vU
I get the same results every time.

drokkon said:
So last week I went to stay in a condo with some friends. They texted me the address and it conveniently created a link that took me right to Bing maps. I was a half-hour late because Bing Maps dropped me off THIRTEEN MILES AWAY from the actual address. This is fully the THIRD time that I've been late or completely missed an event because Bing maps couldn't get me to the right place. Worse, every time someone asks why I was late and I respond "my phone took me to the wrong place," they ask what I'm using. When I reluctantly admit that it is Bing, I always get something to the effect of, "oh, THAT'S why."
In the end, I used the gMaps app to get to the right place. The weirdest thing is that when I went to Bing Maps on a browser at the condo, it GOT THE ADDRESS RIGHT! It's only the Bing Maps on my phone that dropped me off far, far away.
Try it for yourself on your Windows phone "Maps" app, on Bing Maps on a browser, or on Google Maps:
4010 Silverheels Dr, Silverthorn, CO 80498
(I know "Silverthorne" is misspelled, but that's how it was in the text message, so I'm leaving it as-is for troubleshooting reasons.)
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It is probably because Windows phone doesn't force autocorrect. (instead suggests unline the iphone for example and others) it underlined it as possibly wrong on mine with correct suggestion (when doing search in bing maps on phone) Bing maps on the pc just assumes you ment the correct one and takes u there.

I was driving to the airport one day and decided to use map on my HTC HD7. I don't know if its my phone company's fault or my phone.
1)The refresh rate on my phone was so slow i couldn't even see where im going on my phone
2)For some reason when I enabled always facing where my car is facing the Map app on Wp7 doesn't work at all
3)The voice which is suppose to help you doesn't work at all.
I gave up using the map app on my phone and switched to Outdoor navigation instead

Same here, some street numbers are inverted... almost missed a meeting...

I've had a long list of experiences where bing maps gave the wrong street, city, ghost locations, etc and I have come to the realization that I can't trust it... I use it for directions in the city (nyc), and you would think that businesses would be well mapped. Oh well... maybe ovi maps can step up to google maps :/

searching "fedex drop off location" took me to dairy queen last night. needless to say, the package was late, but, i got an oreo blizzard. so i'm torn with bing maps right now. yes, i missed my shipment, but, i got a blizzard...
it was like, "sorry i screwed you up, here's some ice cream to make you feel better... by the way, you got $2.99 i can borrow?"

Count yourself lucky if Bing Maps or Local Scout actually works in your country. They're *still* broken in most regions of the world.

Happens to me all the time. Even if I type it right into the map search.
That's why I always find it on google maps on a desktop first, then crosscheck it with the Bing result. I don't trust it. Probably never will.

Yeah typing the full address is usually important but I tend to leave out the city and state and just do 4010 Silverheels Dr 80498 reason being is there are sometimes cities or sub divisions near eachother that contain the same name and can have the same street name. This is why UPS/FEDEX/USPS don't give a hoot about your city name (that is really just there for you) they like to use zip or even better zip + 4.
Now it sounds strange but look up your friends address http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_0_results.jsp here at the USPS. It dosent exist!
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Ok so now this is funny. Go lookup "80498" in google maps. Now look it up in Bing. Now with yahoo.
They all place 80498 in roughly the same place.
You will notice that that center is over 25 miles away (via roads) to the city you were looking for. 80498 shares the same zip as Heeney, CO.
I would consider 80498 as a rural area and therefore the single zip code covers a very very big area. Bing's Default search radius is somewhere between 5-15 miles. There definately is a bug in how Bing Mobile resolves a typo (yeah if you typed it right you would have gotten there right away).
The way Tom Tom (for example) looks up address is in logical order:
State -> City -> Street -> Building Number.
GPS' have to do this so they give you context and a filtered view. Imagine if you started typing 4010 how many address would popup!
Anyways...just submit a bug report by clicking the address in the map clicking the "..."'s and then clicking suggest changes. They will change it for you.
Don't think that Bing is the only one that screws up however, I've seen Google, yahoo, mapquest (yeah remember them?), Waze, TomTom, and garmin all give me wrong directions.

I guess they must have fixed this, I got linked to this discussion from another thread, yet when I tried it on my HD7 (TMOUS 8107), it automatically corrected it for me from the bing maps search and showed me the same thing the web app does (although it didn't warn me like the web app that it was corrected). Just for giggles I emailed the address to myself to see if it was a link related thing and got the same correct result. I noticed how old the thread is but just wanted to say that it looks like it was fixed at some point (which is an assumption since I never got to see it broken). Perhaps the partnership with Nokia included address resolution logic changes?
4010 Silverheels Dr, Silverthorn, CO 80498

My list of Bing Maps frustrations:
- It doesn't map a route from one country to another, otherwise everything works well.
Wouldnt it be fab if Bing can actually route directions from your location to another, worldwide? Like with public transits included from and to.

[Q] Google Search Assistant - Does it work out of the USA?

I've been trying Jelly Bean on my GN for a couple days now and, while the whole experience has been awesome, there is a particular feature announced at I/O that does not work: the Search Assistant. You know, those Siri-like cards with info that show up after you perform a Google search while a voice reads them out.
Is that working for you guys living in the USA? What about those who, like me, live abroad? Does it have a geographical restriction? Is it just still not live yet?
Would welcome some help about this.

one of the option in the google now/voice thing is "use google.com instead of localised google". If you check that as 'yes' then you would get the cards with pics how up, but if you say "what is the weather" or "what is the time" it would always default to Washington DC, USA no matter where you are outside USA (And other issues like "what is the weather in waterloo shows me waterloo, USA instead of waterloo, canada).
that being said...
the voice search works fine otherwise with localised search. As much as it bugs me to not have those cards with the pic show up after a voice search, its mosly a "for looks" thing. voice search assisstant works perfectly however, it also shows cards (just not with pictures) for results as it should.

TjPhysicist said:
one of the option in the google now/voice thing is "use google.com instead of localised google". If you check that as 'yes' then you would get the cards with pics how up
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Not in my case. I asked it to use google.com, disabled using my location and even changed the language to US English, but to no avail. Maybe it just also works in Canada?

frandavid100 said:
Not in my case. I asked it to use google.com, disabled using my location and even changed the language to US English, but to no avail. Maybe it just also works in Canada?
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try turning it off and back on, or erasing data/cache for that app, sometimes resetting it does the trick.

Hm... no, no dice. What I would really like is to know if this is also happening to other folks in Europe.

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Hm... no, no dice. What I would really like is to know if this is also happening to other folks in Europe.
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Works "alright" here in the UK. I can set alarms, send texts and if I say "weather" it brings up the weather in my location as well as speaks it back. Also works for weather in other locations. Cards with images and data DO pop up, but it is a bit hit and miss. A lot of the time you just get a google search. However, the navigation if I have just searched for a place on Google works well. I done a search for an address earlier to see where it was in relation to me, 30 seconds later I had a navigation card informing me of the route a possible delays. I'm happy with it, when it works (which is most of the time) its a fantastic addition.
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If you are still having trouble, you may want to check out this tutorial which made it work for me in Germany: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28043720&postcount=1
Interestingly, after I had google.com set as search engine, Google Now always thought I was in Washington and thus only showed Washington-based Information to me. Thus I switched back to google.de, now getting local information about my actual location. Google Now still works for me without having the search engine set to google.com
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Google maps home\work location

Hy guys,
Tought I'd post this as help to those who need it (like I did..)
I'm using google now and liking the location and weather cards, I followed this simple explanation by H3g3m0n :
To set Home/Work on Android (It's kind of hidden):
Start Maps
Tap on your icon (The blue dot on the map, this should have your contact photo on it not just the blue arrow. You can pull it up by turning on the Latitude option.)
Tap on your name that appears above it
Tap location History
Tap the menu dots down the bottom right
The you get the Change home/work location options
this is a brief how-to on how to set home and work locations in google maps so that google now will know where i live and work and start giving me cards about that info.
But after I did that I learned that google now will automatically learn where I live and work and that sounded really cool and so I wanted to delete the information I specified in order to let google now figure it out for itself.. I couldnt find any way to delete that information.. until I logged into google maps from my desktop, and had been given the option to delete home and work locations. today is the first day I went to work with the JB and google now updates so I'm gonna let google now figure it out for the next couple of days and see what comes out GOTTA LOVE GOOGLE!

Thanks for sharing the tip but I am curious - why would you want to go back and let Google Now figure it out if you were already able to specify home and work locations yourself?

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Thanks for sharing the tip but I am curious - why would you want to go back and let Google Now figure it out if you were already able to specify home and work locations yourself?
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Well first of all I wanted to see how google now learns my locations by itself, sounds pretty cool
And second - lets say I specified a street name and number and the gps\wifi detects that my home is one street number off (my street is smll and numbers can be as close as 20 meters) then it won't know I'm at home, I guess I didnt want to restrict an address to a certain street number but rather give google now the oppertunity to learn where I live on a larger radius

Erase job?
I can't seem to erase my job. I was laid off a month ago and Google now is a glaring remind every time I open it when it tells me how far I am from my old office. Kinda depressing lol its like you have to have an address there. I've cleared my work location on Google maps but Google now just doesn't get it.

dwreck420 said:
I can't seem to erase my job. I was laid off a month ago and Google now is a glaring remind every time I open it when it tells me how far I am from my old office. Kinda depressing lol its like you have to have an address there. I've cleared my work location on Google maps but Google now just doesn't get it.
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Did you try logging in to Google maps from your computer? there is an option there to see your places (home and work) and edit\delete them.
p.s Sorry to hear about your job situation, good luck

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Well first of all I wanted to see how google now learns my locations by itself, sounds pretty cool
And second - lets say I specified a street name and number and the gps\wifi detects that my home is one street number off (my street is smll and numbers can be as close as 20 meters) then it won't know I'm at home, I guess I didnt want to restrict an address to a certain street number but rather give google now the oppertunity to learn where I live on a larger radius
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Google has always done a pretty good job of knowing where I am all the time and deciding where is work and where is home. Years ago my roommate and I would use Latitude to keep tabs on each other. Google Now kind of tapped into what google already knew. Having your wifi on helps Google determine your location, especially if you have wifi at work/home, but even if you don't.

omricn said:
Did you try logging in to Google maps from your computer? there is an option there to see your places (home and work) and edit\delete them.
p.s Sorry to hear about your job situation, good luck
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lol thanks, yes, i went to the site but removing the entry says "invalid location" so i just put my home address in there (lol) and it shut up.

dwreck420 said:
lol thanks, yes, i went to the site but removing the entry says "invalid location" so i just put my home address in there (lol) and it shut up.
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Hope you'll put something else there soon..

i want to set my home location but it always force me to enter the address and my home is not near any addresss how can i menually edit or point on map to set my home location?

nicholes said:
i want to set my home location but it always force me to enter the address and my home is not near any addresss how can i menually edit or point on map to set my home location?
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Just right click on your desired location, then click on "what's here" (last option down the box) and your coordinates will be displayed in the search bar, just copy them into the address box.

omricn said:
Just right click on your desired location, then click on "what's here" (last option down the box) and your coordinates will be displayed in the search bar, just copy them into the address box.
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Well it gives right position in my computer but when I see maps in my mobile it gives almost 1 kilometer far from my position what I save in computer. Is this some kind of bug?
EDIT: it saves what ever address is near that position and assume it as my home. and nearest address is
Manik Bagh Over Bridge, Nandanvan Colony
Indore, Madhya Pradesh 452014, India ‎ 385 m NE
and my home is almost 1km far from here
i dont know how to set my home location in google maps> please help me