So...I have a contact named Iris. I pin Iris to the home page. Fine. Now when I go into her contact I have the option to link her to another. Fine. I link her to David. I back out to the homepage. WTF?...Iris is now David?..Ok what and why has my Iris "pane" changed to David? I dont understand this. Not only that but if i search my contacts for Iris that name no longer shows up.
Very odd and I really hate this.
Is there a solution?
Hi,
I use the link option only to join together 2 entries in my contact list for 1 person.
For example, I have a friend in my contacts called Jim but his facebook contact name is James, i can link these 2 together to have just 1 entry in my contact list. I think I know what your trying to do - mabye link together a husband and wife or something, I'm not sure if you can do that?
If you unlink your contact you should get both back.
Hope this makes sense.
Hi there,
The link contacts feature is more for linking the same contact but from different sources together.
Say you have Iris on Exchange, the same Iris on FB but with slightly different info including differing email addresses, and say you have the same Iris (but spelt Irisss) in Live. The Link feature enables you to join all these sources together in one view.
Please remember though that this is a "view" and not a single physical contact. All three contacts will remain as they are in their respective areas in the cloud. There is no auto update or merging of data. I've asked this question on another forum and as yet, no response.
dov74 said:
If you unlink your contact you should get both back.
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Our posts sort of crossed and I forgot to put in what you mentioned above
Yeah! I think yours makes more sense tho lol!
I understand what you guys are saying but if u select links from your contact it suggests names that you should link to...which results in the original contact name disappearing
harsaphes said:
I understand what you guys are saying but if u select links from your contact it suggests names that you should link to...which results in the original contact name disappearing
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They are only suggestions and you don't have to link to those. You can continue to search for them.
Funnily enough..... I have a contact for myself on the phone for when you could send your details as a BT transfer or over SMS. Used to use that alot. I'm also on Facebook, but the phone only shows my contact on the phone not the FB contact as well to link too. In fact I cant search for my self either lol.
chubnut said:
They are only suggestions and you don't have to link to those. You can continue to search for them.
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Yes I know you can search for anyone but what I'm pointing out is that it presents itself as being able to link to separate contacts and that when you do that the original contact "disapears". The way it presents itself isn't the way it works.
it does not disappear only one of the contacts would be showed and the other contacts details is merged in the contact you linked in.
If you want Iris to show than first unlink the contacts and then select David and link Iris...
No it doesn't disappear but if you search for that contact name it doesn't show up any longer.
chubnut said:
Funnily enough..... I have a contact for myself on the phone for when you could send your details as a BT transfer or over SMS. Used to use that alot.
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Is there any way at all to send contact info to a third person via vcard, sms or anything? No cut and paste either - so, do we really have to write it down on paper, then enter it into an sms?
harsaphes said:
Yes I know you can search for anyone but what I'm pointing out is that it presents itself as being able to link to separate contacts and that when you do that the original contact "disapears". The way it presents itself isn't the way it works.
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You're missing the point.
The suggestions are there because the OS thinks that the contacts are the same person. This might be because of similar name, similar E-mail or whatever. Personally it has never suggested the wrong people before.
The original contact doesn't disappear, linking is done to link accounts of the same person together. The reason why your original person "disappeared" was because you linked 2 people together who weren't the same person.
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I have an exchange account that I linked with my Tab and I have been looking for the contact's birth date... which I haven't found in the contact application
Probably haven't looked at the right place. Can someone help me and tell me where it can be found ?
Than you
Anyone has the same issue ?
Alcibiade said:
Anyone has the same issue ?
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Do you press the "More" button at the bottom of the contact info?
If it's not showing up automatically then Exchange may not be synchronising that information. If that's the case I'm not sure how you'd force it to do so.
knightnz said:
Do you press the "More" button at the bottom of the contact info?
If it's not showing up automatically then Exchange may not be synchronising that information. If that's the case I'm not sure how you'd force it to do so.
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Of course I checked.... Exchange can synchronize birthdays on Outlook, pocket outlook, and some other softwares. From what I read around it seems Android doenst support this
Can you believe it ? The dumbest of my previous dumb phones support birthdays. My WM device did. And Android doesn't ? Honestly I am getting closer and closer to a deal breaker. A contact app without birthdays ? What's next ? A Phone without a dialer... ? I hope it;s not true
I have to check Touchdown, maybe it's available there...
Alcibiade said:
I have an exchange account that I linked with my Tab and I have been looking for the contact's birth date... which I haven't found in the contact application
Probably haven't looked at the right place. Can someone help me and tell me where it can be found ?
Than you
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You can define the birth date in the contact's device and then you can link that contact to your exchange's contact.
heru said:
You can define the birth date in the contact's device and then you can link that contact to your exchange's contact.
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Seriously... that sucks...
I have around 1,200 contacts... This is ridiculous... Android is still not ready for prime time in its v2.2
Anybody can advise an alternative contact app that can replace the original one and allows to see the birthday field ? (And modify it...)
I heard MIUI ROM allows it so maybe there is a way to extract its contact app (?)
Actually I may give "Go contacts" a try
Anybody has tried and can compare with Samsung's contact manager ?
How can you specify which Name should be displayed when linking contacts in WP7?
According to MS this should be possible (see ***.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/people/link-two-or-more-contacts.aspx)
"When you link two or more contact cards that have different profile pictures or names, you can choose which picture and name will represent the whole. To learn how, see Add a picture to a contact."
But there is only a description for the contact picture, not for the names...
Does anybody know how to do that?
Cheers
Meinrad
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How can you specify which Name should be displayed when linking contacts in WP7?
According to MS this should be possible (see ***.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/people/link-two-or-more-contacts.aspx)
"When you link two or more contact cards that have different profile pictures or names, you can choose which picture and name will represent the whole. To learn how, see Add a picture to a contact."
But there is only a description for the contact picture, not for the names...
Does anybody know how to do that?
Cheers
Meinrad
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Open the desired contact and then tap "edit" in the bottom bar. Right beneath the profile picture you'll find "name". Tapping that opens a form where you can enter first name, last name etc. That name will be displayed in your contacts hub according to the settings you made for how your contacts are shown (last name first and so on).
Thanks for your reply, but i doesen't quite answer my question. I know that I can edit this information, but thats not what i want.
I'll try to be a bit more specific:
I have a Windows Live contact with the name 'abcd' and an Outlook contact with the name 'Aaaa, Bbb'. On my phone i linked these two contacts (since they represent the same real person). But my phone always uses the name from the Live contact. When I edit the image, i can choose if i want the image from the Live account or from the Outlook contact (and from what i understand from the MS doc this should be possible for the name as well).
-> the only workaround I found so far, is to delete the name entry form the live contact. (Contact -> edit -> edit Windows Live -> delete)
Can't test it right now (on a different phone) but it depends on what linked profile comes first.
For example I link a Live and Facebook contact and to show the Live name, it needs to be the first one... if any of that made sense.
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Yeah,... I know what you mean, but the live contact is always the first in the list. It doesn't matter if I select the Outlook contact first and then add a link to the Live contact or the other way round.
Can you reorder them?
Something not quite right linking contacts.
Linking contacts seems only half implemented.Ive also had this problem,renaming the linked contact card only works sometimes, but always renames the first linked contact, I dont wont that.Also there does nt seem to be any logic to which name it chooses for the card.I ve stopped linking contacts anyway because in text messages you get several message threads from the same person with no idea of what number its from to text or call back ( if they have more than one mobile number ). Lastly I would like to be able to rename the catergory of the number ( Mobile,Company, etc ).Because I would like moblie 2 or Work Moblie.I Hated having to look at the phone numbers all the time to decide which one is right to use.
Call Mobile
**********
Call Mobile
**********
Call Mobile
**********
Text Mobile
**********
Text Mobile
**********
Text Mobile
**********
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Yeah,... I know what you mean, but the live contact is always the first in the list. It doesn't matter if I select the Outlook contact first and then add a link to the Live contact or the other way round.
Can you reorder them?
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Sorry if I can't see it on my WP7 device atm, but I do remember being able to use the Facebook profile first and the Live profile came second.... have ya tried open Outlook contact, press link and then chose the Live contact ?
im not quite sure what u mean but here goes:
if you have 2 contacts. One is named ABC and the other one is AB. If you want to link them both but keep the ABC name, then you need to go to ABC and link it with AB.
Similarly if you want to keep the AB name, then u need to go to AB and link it with ABC.
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im not quite sure what u mean but here goes:
if you have 2 contacts. One is named ABC and the other one is AB. If you want to link them both but keep the ABC name, then you need to go to ABC and link it with AB.
Similarly if you want to keep the AB name, then u need to go to AB and link it with ABC.
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Unfortunatley that method dos nt work for me
I have the same problem, I want to view my contacts by the facebook name and I can't... :/
You'd think this would be a built in feature...I have a group of people I need to email on a regular basis, but the only way I can do it in the gmail app is by "Reply All" to a previous email and delete all the old email/subject...
Why in heaven's name can't I easily email multiple people from the app? I can do it online on my laptop...am I missing something here, or is this just a glaring oversight on Google's part?
Really? Nobody knows this?
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Oversight.
Best suggestion, as you've already figured out, is save a draft with the contact info.
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Oversight.
Best suggestion, as you've already figured out, is save a draft with the contact info.
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That seems like a pretty big oversight...what a bunch of goons. Thanks.
These are the same guys that omitted sending to groups in the text messaging program.
not to hijack, but how i can i get images to automatically display on my emails?
JCopernicus said:
These are the same guys that omitted sending to groups in the text messaging program.
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Ha, that's a very good point that I had forgotten...
Nothing chaps my ass more than little **** like that that's forgotten/omitted.
A year later, and those fools still haven't updated the app so users can send emails to distribution lists they've setup. Jerks.
A working solution
This method was described somewhere on these forums, and it works. I am just repeating what someone else discovered.
Make a new contact, using a name which is meaningful to you.
For the email address, build a list of the emails for everyone in the group, using this pattern:
[email protected]>,<[email protected]>,<[email protected]>,<[email protected]
NOTE the >,< between each contact, but nothing before the first email in the list, and nothing after the final email in the list.
This works around the missing group function.
Download and use ContactGroupU from the Google Play store.
on your computer go to gmail and add those contacts in some group and call it something for example "912dd" and go on the app and in the "To:" Area start typing the name "912dd" and select it when it shows up
Well, if you look at the third People Widget when you're trying to pick it, you see that the contacts are linked to Facebook. I understand how to do that, but when I do that, it changes their name to their Facebook name, instead of what I have under my Contacts.
For Example, my gf. Her name is *Jessica XXXXX*. In my contacts, I named her Babe. Once, I link her to fb to her contact her name now displays as "Jessica XXXXX*
How can I just link my friends to their facebook's, but still keep the name I gave them in My Contacts?
Thanks for any help!
Don't think you can, or if you can I don't know!
Could you create group in your contacts ?
(I think there is a problem about that)
The stock Android contacts kinda sucks. You can do groups online on your PC but you cant see or use groups on the phone. You will have to use a 3rd party app on the phone. I like RocketDial myself. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=intelgeen.rocketdial.trail
You can do it
Sadid1986 said:
Could you create group in your contacts ?
(I think there is a problem about that)
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I made it work on my wife's phone. I was confused at first until research showed that Android dropped the familiar group contact maker in 5.0 where it worked so well in Kit Kat. I went to make a new contact and on the name section, I typed the first name, made a space then typed all of the other names I wanted in the group. They were all pre-existing contacts and they stacked up very nicely. Save the contact and when you go back to your contacts, you will see it listed. I had some worries about whether all parties in the group would see all responses from the others and it worked just fine. It has been a while and the phone is down now with a mysteriously cracked screen but I think that is pretty much how to do it. Good luck.