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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/

6Tab HTC Homescreen plugin: unable to assign specific phone# in favorite people Tab

I downloaded and installed the '6 tab' version of the HTC Homescreen onto my At&t Tilt and it looks slick, especially using an HTC black background theme.
The only problem I'm experiencing is when I select the 'fav people' tab (second tab from the left) which brings up 9 (with pic icons) people called by simply tapping their pic, I'm not able to assign 'WHICH specific telephone number (home, business, mobile) is called.
It appears from my brief trial/error testing, that if more more than one telephone number is included in a person's contact, only the person's mobile number gets assigned. How can I re-assign it to a person's other tel number (home, business) instead?
Thanks in advance for all help offered.
Jazz

off the top of my head just in case your also using something like voice command would be to add a new contact with a false name (so that you don't have to worry about voice command using that one by mistake)but with the pic and phone number you want to use.Not a great solution but a very easy to use work around.

Sneakyp86,
Since you suggested a workaround, can I assume that you too aren't able to get the 9 favorite people 'Touch Pic calling feature' to call anything other than the number in the contact's 'mobile phone' field?
I'm now wondering if this problem might be only limited to the (6-tabbed) version of HTC home plugin I installed: here
Anybody here with contacts that have multiple telephone numbers able to successfully assign their HTC Home screen's : 'touch pic-calling' to call another number other than only the contact's 'mobile phone number'? If so, please provide a download-able link to the HTC Home screen plugin version your successfully using.
Thanks
Jazz

You could try manually editing the number in registry. Found in HKLM/Software/HTC/Contacts/ They're numbered from 0-8, just look for the right one, change it, see what happens.

Re-installing a newer version of HTC Home (version 2.0814.722 by Shen) fixed the multiple telephone number problem allowing you to choose from: a contact's multiple telephone numbers. HTC Home works perfect and looks terrific now.
Jazz

WM6.1 Contacts - How to search for telephone number?

Hello,
WM5 supported looking up contacts by telephone number.
WM6.1 doesnt.
In WM5 you have "Enter a name or number..."
In WM6.1 it is "Enter a name..."
Anybody know, how to enable search by telephone number in WM6.1?
BR Robert

i am havving the same issue here as well, any idea? do i need to enable the voice command calling to enable this feature or soemthing?

Looks like its possible still to search for a number by entering telephone mode with green key and enter number there.
Can anyone approve this?

Rob2222 said:
Looks like its possible still to search for a number by entering telephone mode with green key and enter number there.
Can anyone approve this?
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yep, WM6 seems to have this feature, although it seems not to have any logic.. when i know, my girlfriends number is like xxx-xxxx and it's saved there in the memory, it doesn't bring it to me when typing the number.. instead it shows some other contacts..
i mean.. what? does it except only first five digits and shows the results of first three contacts in alphabetic order that has those matching five digits..? please advice..?
EDIT: the best way would be, if man could simply search with a number straight from the contacts. just like in WM5.

I got it, the number can be searched on the Telephone mode by entering the EXACT number.. This means Country Code aswell!.. Boaargh...

Just use the search in start menu. It was there since wm2003. You can search with any data in a contact; name, TP#, email, address.......

shiranmotha said:
Just use the search in start menu. It was there since wm2003. You can search with any data in a contact; name, TP#, email, address.......
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You can also search within messages.

shiranmotha said:
Just use the search in start menu. It was there since wm2003. You can search with any data in a contact; name, TP#, email, address.......
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Great! Thx. Didn't knew that.
BR Rob

Contacts tweak in TF3D?

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.

Dialer, that rules 'em all

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