When You are searching for a contact in your car the contact are so small you can hardly see anything. Is there something to find contacts easier?
For example A-- B--- C-- D-- (alphabet) whenn searching?
the same as in TOMTOM?
If U Aim Well Into the search box (Find a Name) and Have The onscreen Keyboard On BIG Letters then ya Shouldn't Have a problem Aye!
This is a simple sollution but when you are driving your car and you want to search a contact it still is not the best way. I need something for people how are for example blind! Searching in alphabet A and then For example D etc etc
If you're just using the standard Contacts application built-into the PDA, just open contacts, and scroll down with your directional pad. After a little bit of scrolling, the letters of the alphabet will apper.
That what you looking for?
snorbaard said:
If you're just using the standard Contacts application built-into the PDA, just open contacts, and scroll down with your directional pad. After a little bit of scrolling, the letters of the alphabet will apper.
That what you looking for?
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hahaha, i didn't knew there was a function like that! but still hard to use when driving
Well, this might help: in Contacts, go to Tools, then Options, then put tick on "Use Larg Fonts".
This might help little bit!
If you are looking for a contact to dial then may I suggest you take a look at a program called FingerClix. Check it out at http://www.imaginet-software.com It allows you to type the persons name using a phone dialer style keypad. As the letters are progressivly typed the contacts matching are displayed. It also displays all number for the contact (mobile, home office etc.) and you can then press on the appropriate icon to make the call. It is a much easier single finger option for in car dialing.
Hope it helps.
Ed
Or do wat I did and nick windows voice command from a file sharing site and use voice commands to dial people
Or you could simply try this freeware found in the Kitchen.
http://phonext.oabsoftware.nl/
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Is it possible to dial using alphabets instead of only numbers in the phone application? I think this would be very useful for SIP calls given that Outlook contacts don't seem to support any fields for SIP numbers/address. (On the same note, has anyone managed to find any applications that extends outlook contacts to include sip addresses?)
Tried the following and don't seem to work:
Holding the numbers - bring me to speed dialing
Whipping out the keyboard and trying the keys - searched contacts instead.
Anyone?
I do this all the time. from the dialer use the thnumber pad as letter
I.E Alexander= 253926337
it works for me too, you only press the number once per letter of the persons name you are trying to spell, so even if you want the letter C you still press the number 2 once !
aussieak said:
I do this all the time. from the dialer use the thnumber pad as letter
I.E Alexander= 253926337
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Good man, exactly how HTC handsets have been working for many years now.
Isn't it amazing what you can find when you read the manual!!
No that is not what I meant. I meant instead of dialing "numbers", I want to dial alphabets.
I want to be able to dial "sip:[email protected]" instead of "112233445566" or whatever permutations that give me the words.
Ah....I see.
That would be a No then afaik. Not unless anyone has implemented this in a custom dial skin or shell replacement like SPB mobile shell etc.
Is there any way to switch the default method of sorting your top 15 contacts from alphabetically to an order in which you choose? The two people I call the most start with a high letter and it's really annoying have to scroll to find them. I much prefer the way contacts show up as multiple icons in the Manila 2D (or whatever it was called) version that I had on my Tilt
Thre things you might try:
1. You can put them on one of the speed dial buttons.
2. Or you can put an 'A" or "1" in front of their last names to make them sort to the top.
3. Or you can use photo contacts to dial by their picture.
Joe_PDA said:
Thre things you might try:
1. You can put them on one of the speed dial buttons.
2. Or you can put an 'A" or "1" in front of their last names to make them sort to the top.
3. Or you can use photo contacts to dial by their picture.
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If you do the above and sync to your desktop, your contact will not sort properly there where you probably do expect to see them in alpha order.
Just my .02
Joe_PDA said:
Thre things you might try:
1. You can put them on one of the speed dial buttons.
2. Or you can put an 'A" or "1" in front of their last names to make them sort to the top.
3. Or you can use photo contacts to dial by their picture.
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Speed Dial? I've missed that some where. How do you add people to speed dial?
just tried it - speed dials do not change the order
anyone solve this?
Why not put them in the "People" section?
I have about 10 contacts in there which I use regulary with specific numbers (i.e. text, work number etc) but you can open the contact to find other numbers.
Hope this helps?
GreenSaints said:
Why not put them in the "People" section?
I have about 10 contacts in there which I use regulary with specific numbers (i.e. text, work number etc) but you can open the contact to find other numbers.
Hope this helps?
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I believe this is what he is referring to. He wants to be able to sort the 'People' tab in TF3D to his own liking. I was also wondering if this was possible earlier today when I had to flip through 8 contacts to get to the person I call most. Haha.
There seems to be a problem with Finger Keyboard when I create new sms. If I try to type letters of someone I want to send message to, it does not automatically bring up list of contact names.
hawrai68 said:
There seems to be a problem with Finger Keyboard when I create new sms. If I try to type letters of someone I want to send message to, it does not automatically bring up list of contact names.
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It's the same for me with touchpal pro...
I was just about write Rozental (the autor) about it. Still you have an easy workaround - type one more character and then delete it. And you get the list of addresses!!
Type the name and del one letter...
This workaround works for most keyboards, but don´t work for TouchPal. Any ideas?
I cannot believe there is not a program similar to the windows program "Keyboard Express." If it is useful on a computer it should be doubly so for a smartphone. I am really tired of typing out my email addresses for starters. I am not part of the texting generation typing with thumbs at 100000 keystrokes a minute. Swype is ok, but it would be nice if I could program long strings as a custom gesture or something. Also program macros that could launch programs in batches or with custom parameters. Find it amazing with all the apps out there that I couldn't find one that does this obviously useful function. Maybe I searched for the wrong thing?
I use an app called inserty. It's not as convenient as if it were built in to the keyboard, but it's very flexible, allowing you to insert canned text like email addresses and passwords or text with fill-in fields like the current date and time, your GPS location, etc.
The way it works is that it's a keyboard replacement. To insert something with Inserty, you long-press in the text you're writing, pick "Input method", and pick Inserty. That pops up a list of all your canned phrases; tap on the one you want and then it prompts you for which keyboard you want to go back to. The selected phrase is inserted just as if you had typed it manually, and you're back to your email or SMS or whatever.
As I said, it's not the most convenient mechanism you can imagine, although it certainly beats typing in my longish email address, but I don't think Android has the hooks to do anything less clunky.
The other thing I should mention, since you're a Swype user, is that the SlideIT keyboard has an abbreviation facility that you can customize. For example, you could associate the abbreviation EML with the text [email protected]; every time you trace "eml", one of the words in the suggestion bar will be that abbreviation (abbreviations are shown in green, IIRC), and selecting that entry will insert [email protected] into the text you are writing.
I use Clipper+
It's a clipboard manager. I have mine set easily access via the notification bar. The Snippets feature is what I use the most.
I can easily paste my 18+ character email address, login credentials, short phrases.
Check it out the free version http://market.android.com/details?id=org.rojekti.clipper
Thanks for the replies, I am exploring the programs mentioned. They might not be very direct, but useful.
I ended up using Clipper, it serves the function, albeit awkwardly.
Cubeology said:
I ended up using Clipper, it serves the function, albeit awkwardly.
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Just want to say thanks for the thread....solved my long entry problems.
Macro Keyboard
Cubeology
You may try the 'Macro Keyboard' , which allows to define aliases
for arbitrary text. Texts can even be parameterized.
Have a look on the Android market. I am not allowed to post a link here yet
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Hey.
So I've been looking or a dialer that basically supports all the features that Sense's one does:
- searching by name/surname/phone number
- displaying photo/facebook photo/gmail photo not just photo as most of available dialers do.
- scope through contacts
The one that almost supports all of them is TouchPal, but it seems that it does not show contact avatar from linked facebook account :?
Do you have any alternative?
I like GoContacts
Try Youlu Address Book..
Very nice dialer application...available free on Market
I tried them all, and none of them are perfect. They always miss one key aspect that Sense dialer handles very well and it's the only app I'm missing to switch to CM7. They either:
1) are terribly slow with T9 search through contacts or going through log or don't have scrolling handles to quickly scroll to certain letters
2) cannot search phone numbers
3) cannot search with accented characters and spaces
4) cannot search in the middle of the names
5) duplicating the output, if contacts have more phone numbers
Eddie1506 said:
I tried them all, and none of them are perfect. They always miss one key aspect that Sense dialer handles very well and it's the only app I'm missing to switch to CM7. They either:
1) are terribly slow with T9 search through contacts or going through log or don't have scrolling handles to quickly scroll to certain letters
2) cannot search phone numbers
3) cannot search with accented characters and spaces
4) cannot search in the middle of the names
5) duplicating the output, if contacts have more phone numbers
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Try GoContacts, as Fizzler73 suggested. Works very nicely for me since the post
Can search with accented character and spaces, middle names too and phones too
btw. I prefer to have duplicated contact when multiple numbers are present - that way I can tap on number I want to dial and I'm ready to talk. No additional selecting needed.
travikk said:
Hey.
So I've been looking or a dialer that basically supports all the features that Sense's one does:
- searching by name/surname/phone number
- displaying photo/facebook photo/gmail photo not just photo as most of available dialers do.
- scope through contacts
The one that almost supports all of them is TouchPal, but it seems that it does not show contact avatar from linked facebook account :?
Do you have any alternative?
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TouchPal actually supports facebook profile pictures, Since Android 2.2 the option to make data become private was added and facebook in it's never ending quest to annoy it's users marked ALL of it's data as private, so only stock apps ran by user 0 can access it...
this however is easily fixable all you have to do is modify the contacts table to not restrict fb contacts, here's the post with instructions.
Try Angel Dialer/Fast Dialer/Dialer One
i currently use Angel Dialer, but i have been using Fast Dialer for some time. its fast and works perfectly on CM7 Nexus One