Replacing the contacts app? - XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps

Hi,
Thanks to XDA and the very clever people here, my X10i is a much nicer phone than it was. I've ditched Mediascape and reclaimed Gallery, uninstalled unwanted tosh galore.
But there's one big bug-bear left: contacts and the way they are displayed. The tiny little lines for each part of an entry make it hard to select the right item from a list where a contact has multiple values - say email, 2 phone nos etc etc. Plus it's ugly.
Is there an app to replace it or another way of sorting this last dog's dinner out? This is my primary phone so I am not able or willing to change the whole ROM, I'm afraid.
Advice gratefully received
Cheers
MLH
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Try Phonebook 2.0 from the market. I used to use this as a replacement

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(App) Youlu Address Book

Hello everyone....
I spend a lot of time searching online for a different Dialer/contact manager until I founded Youlu Address Book I think is just amazing... That I wanted to share it.
My Device Description:
HTC Incredible
Senseless rEVOlution 2.0 Rom
ADW Launcher Ex 1.2.2
Description:
A smarter smart phone address book with more powerful contacts, call and messaging capabilities, and an amazing dial pad.
• Searching for contacts has never been easier or faster.
• Search by name, initials, phone number or other information.
• SMS now supported.
Make your smart phone even smarter!
Download Link:
Code:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/youlu-address-book/com.youlu
Code:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4xxl82umz73t13x
Note: If I'm posting in the wrong section or If it has been posted before My apologies...
I agree. This app is awesome. I don't use the dialer or the messaging replacement, but the contacts list is great and the favorites page saves me from needing a contacts widget.
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The updates ruined the app. They forced SMS integration which is a bad idea.
I used to like the app, now it is just plain annoying because its SMS app is not as good as others like Handcents or Chomp.
I like the dialer and the SMS.
Don't like that my contacts have no pictures.
Youlu address book surely is the best contact manager/interface, plus the sms feature is great. only thing wrong with it is the contacts pictures dont properly sync.
using google contacts as contacts, sync'd with facebook profile pictures or manually added in google contacts, displays pictures correctly in default contacts app. but they dont display in youlu. using x10 mini pro, android 2.1
i know its possible as hanscent sms got it right.
hope this gets sorted out sometime...
It doesn't seem to sync with Facebook is the big issue. If it did, I'd be all over it.
i've been trying it for a few days, it works like a charm and looks great. i've not sign up yet. have you tried its own services?
afaik, lacking of contacts pictures is not the dialers' problem. to see more pictures (much more, but not all of them unfortunately) you can use syncmypix, which can be found at the market as a freeware:
http://goo.gl/tUfyT
have you guys tried Go Contacts, the GoSMS and GoLauncher guys made it and it's AMAZING IMO. I tried youlu when it came out but always returned to Go?
i had tried gocontacts but i can't remember why i drop it. i'll try it again.
btw, an alternative tool to sync contact photos is Google Contact Sync:
http://heartofangel.com/google-contact-sync/
SomeGuyDude said:
It doesn't seem to sync with Facebook is the big issue. If it did, I'd be all over it.
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https://market.android.com/details?id=com.noshufou.photounlocker&feature=search_result
This isn't necessary if you're on a Sense rom, but it cures the no-Facebook-picture problem on AOSP roms.

[Q] Sort order of Gmail client...

Is this a setting somewhere? Fiancee swears she used to get newest messages at the bottom of the list (her preference) and suddenly it has changed so that newest messages are at the top of the list.
I've never seen a sort order setting and we looked high and low and cannot find one.
I'm tempted to go to her last full backup and restore to see...
I've never seen that option (I've checked again and found nothing).
Maybe she wasn't using Gmail application at the beginning? In the HTC stock mail application you can sort order of messages.
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[Q] I really want help with my contacts.

Now I have three joined contacts for each contact. One is Google, the others are two phones. Each phone number has two numbers (from importing my contacts, apparently), one with dashes and one without. When I send a text message manually, it displays everyone's name three times - annoying since the text message display window is 3 panes long, so it is absolutely ruined.
I have NO IDEA how to do this anymore. How do I clear my contacts? How do I restart this whole nonsense? All I want is one contact. It always pulls my SIM contacts, as one. It pulls my Google contacts, as another. When I import/export them to my phone, that's a third. Why is Android so backwards!? Is there ANY solution to this? Does ANYONE know anything? Can someone PLEASE help!
Seriously, is this a section of XDA I should even be bothering with? No one seems to have any advice for this. Or even reply with a "this bothers me too" post!
Had same problem. 8of the same contacts linked. Goto Google account -contacts and select merge.
It should merge duplicates
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Edit: you can either use card to back up.ie manually.or use Google for all.for card i suggest unchecking Google backup or same problem will occur. I'd just do Google for contacts
Any luck?
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ClickCal

I've been working on this app for some time. I'm aware of the risks in using non-public API parts eg. Android calendar, but I needed the app features myself and so did many of my friends. So I've published it as a free app on Android market and it's been well received, but every now and then I get another error message. As I don't have any information on the phone or OS in question it's really hard to figure out what could be wrong. I typically test apps on 3 phones that I have readily available (HTC Hero, LG Optimus, SE X10 Mini Pro) and with Android 2.1 & 2.2. It would be great to hear if this app works as it should on your phones and if it breaks where/how it happens.
Your app looks quite useful.
Here's a clickable market link.
Do you mind adding some screenshots to your original post so we can get a better picture (pun intended)?
Edit: In case you don't add pics yourself, I've attached three from your market entry.
Edit 2: Here's the market description (for the lazy)
Android Market Description said:
ClickCal is a perfect blog tool, personal, family and work calendar app that allows you to create events and tasks by taking photos and/or via voice recording. No typing is required to create an event. Snap a photo of a document and save - your event is ready. Use your phones built-in camera to scan your paper invitation, dentist appointment note, screen of an e-mail/web page and your event is ready. You can record a voice message to add to the event as well. Optionally you can select event type, choose the calendar, set date and time, and if you really want to type you can add a description and location.
Adds an icon that allows to quick add an event from the desktop.
Syncs with Google calendar. Note: event images and audio can not be viewed in other calendar applications as they do not support this feature.
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The background of creating this app is that I got really tired of trying to manage our kitchen bulletin board. Full of paper docs of kids school stuff,sports events & other activities and naturally no sync with phone or other calendars. Typing in the info sounded like a nightmare. So I was thinking how I could get those digitalized easily. ClickCal solves that problem. Later a friend asked how she could handle taking notes of customer meetings while driving back from the meeting. I proposed adding an audio recording feature to ClickCal. Next feature coming up is being able to log the GPS/Wlan -based location with the event.
But I've been having some issues with sporadic error reports coming in - and I can't reproduce the errors as the app works fully on my 3 phones.
I installed it to my epic 4g but will not open, say that i need to setup my google account (which i have) on my phone before using Clickcal???????
Oh, and as a side note, I have featured this nice app on the XDA home page.
I'm getting error messages a couple of times per week. Previously they were usually caused by Motorola having a different calendar provider address. Took me a while to figure out that they changed it back to the standard one when they moved from 2.1->2.2. That was finally solved with ClickCal version 1.6.2.
Samsung with 2.2.1 not working is news to me. The error message is probably caused by the app not finding Samsung's calendar provider. Haven't been able to test on 2.2.1 yet. So there's clearly more to the story. App testing is really the biggest issue with Android - many phones with variable screens and OS-versions.
Thanks for the testing. One step ahead.
Just got an idea: some phones like Samsungs come with the manufacturers own calendar app. They might not be 100% compatible with the Google Android calendar.
Was the test with the pre-installed Samsung calendar or the Google standard one?
Thanks - but a little bit too soon I'm still trying to figure a couple of reported issues.
HTC Thunderbolt, 2.2 Stock
downloaded, installed, opened-- "No Calendars Available. No google calendars were found on your phone. you need to setup your google account on your phone before using ClickCal". application then closes. can't get past that text box.
i have at least 8 Google Calendars & have been using this phone since launch day 3 weeks ago, so my gmail account is setup on the phone successfully & all calendars can be viewed on the phone through the stock Calendar app.
Dev, please fix--i'm pretty curious about this app & its capabilities.
Ok, thx for the feedback. Will work on this over the weekend. I was wondering that the retention rate was pretty low for an app I consider useful. Not wondering anymore if it doesn't even start up on some phones...
Anyway, I'm happy I found this site - without it I'd still be deep in the woods.
If you need note taking with the camera and/or audio recordings, but without the calendaring part I've also published ClickNote on android market. Based on the same principles, but no calendar. I haven't had any issues with ClickNote so far from any users.
The Samsung calendar
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I'm getting the no google calendar message then its exiting too.
On sony Ericsson x10.
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Ugh - Sony Ericsson as well. I've actually developed this app for the SE X10 Mini Pro.
Ok, but based on the feedback on this board and a little more research I think I've discovered the problem. It's due to the manufacturers eg. built-in calendar which is not 100% compatible with the standard Android calendar. Now I can finally fix this issue. I'll develop a check for the calendars on the phone to test that they function correctly with ClickCal. On some phones it will probably mean that ClickCal will only work with the Google calendars.
Here is the logcat from my xperia x10. Hope it helps.
Finally got it! Thx for the X10 logcat output you sent. It showed that ClickCal was considering your phone as having Android 2.1.
Since the calendar provider is different (calendar vs. com.android.calendar) between 2.1 and 2.2 I'm doing a check on the OS version of the phone. Well my nice version string match was against "2.1". I think 2.2.1 might also match this
Just published version ClickCal 1.7 on Android market. Several fixes, but most importantly should work with Androdi 2.2.1 and hopefully Samsung stock calendar setup.
spfoo said:
Just published version ClickCal 1.7 on Android market. Several fixes, but most importantly should work with Androdi 2.2.1 and hopefully Samsung stock calendar setup.
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Don't have time to test it fully at the moment but i have installed the update and it recognises the google calendar and appears to work properly. I'll test it over the weekend fully hopefully.
Thanks for your quick response.
Ok i have tested it now ... i have a couple of things.
It only shows the main calendar that i have on my phone, not my holidays or birthdays calendar (these are both listed on the dropdown list at the top) it just doesn't pick up any appointments from them.
Is there a way to get it to add and appointment by long pressing at the correct time? I can't get used to having to go to the top and click new event.
Also can you get it to swipe left and right for next/previous day in the day view and not just the monthly view?
Also i know this is minor but can you move the save button to the bottom of the page? Or change its colour slightly? It is really hard to see.
Other than that i really like the app.
THanks
indesisiv said:
Ok i have tested it now ... i have a couple of things.
It only shows the main calendar that i have on my phone, not my holidays or birthdays calendar (these are both listed on the dropdown list at the top) it just doesn't pick up any appointments from them.
Is there a way to get it to add and appointment by long pressing at the correct time? I can't get used to having to go to the top and click new event.
Also can you get it to swipe left and right for next/previous day in the day view and not just the monthly view?
Also i know this is minor but can you move the save button to the bottom of the page? Or change its colour slightly? It is really hard to see.
Other than that i really like the app.
THanks
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Are those holiday/birthday calendars internal phone calendars or google calendars? If you can do a few selections on these calendars and send me the logcat I can check what's happening.
Long-click to add event is a good idea - was thinking to enable long-click from the monthly view eg long click on a day to add event. But it's trivial to add to the day/agenda views as well. It may be hard to hit the exact right time though - the rows are narrow when there are no events on them.
Swiping to move days back/forward on day view is in the plans.
The Save button is on the bottom on some phones, but not all. Depends on screen sizes. I tried to optimize the view for the smallest screen eg the X10 Mini Pro. Perhaps a good idea would be to make the button full width and change the color?
Thx for the feedback. Will look into those items for the next release. Priority on the missing calendar data.
I have one google account with multiple calendars.
I can see the calendars etc but it only give info from one.
I tried to swap between them here. (logcat added)
Hope this helps

[SOLVED](kinda) Issue with contacts duplicating

On top of my issue with swype I now have another issue & a question.
I used HTC Sync to sync my Outlook contacts to my phone. It seems that my phone has duplicated a bunch of them since then. I started out with 117 contacts & it's now at 285. The phone will just pop up with new contact link suggestions out of nowhere & it'll have 1-5 copies of the same contact trying to link together. It did this even after a hard reset. Any ideas on what is causing this & how to stop it?
Solution: seems to be an issue with HTC Sync & contacts with Notes. See second post for MyPhoneExplorer for better sync.
Also, in my calendar app I've set it to not have a default reminder, yet it automatically puts it at 10 minutes no matter what. WTF?
Lastly, is there an app that'll toggle the Auto-brightness for the phone? I now there are widgets that'll change the intensity, but I'm looking for one that'll toggle just the auto-brightness on/off. Comes in handy when I'm at home or at night & don't want a bright screen.
Solution: Found a fix for the auto-brightness through reddit! Use Brightness Widget
thanks for any/all help
Did some more research & found out that HTC Sync doesn't play well with contacts that have notes attached to them. Switched over to MyPhoneExplorer & it's much better: wifi syncing!
Market:
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.fjsoft.myphoneexplorer.client
Developers site for PC client:
http://www.fjsoft.at/en/
Still can't figure out Calendar or Swype issue though
Regarding your reminder question, that is the default reminder if no reminder is set or for a new event. There are still reminders server-side.
hah2110 said:
Regarding your reminder question, that is the default reminder if no reminder is set or for a new event. There are still reminders server-side.
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thanks for the info. Guess I'll just have to remember to always deselect that since I don't like reminders.
my contacts are being duplicated also. When I open a new sms and type the first letter of the name I want to txt that name is listed multiple times
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Five0nIt said:
my contacts are being duplicated also. When I open a new sms and type the first letter of the name I want to txt that name is listed multiple times
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Are they people that you have called? Under SMS settings there is an option to show entries from the call history. I consider it a bug that it shows a contact entry that you have called while it fetches from contacts and call history.
those were annoying so I disabled call & sent history & just have email addresses show up.
hah2110 said:
Are they people that you have called? Under SMS settings there is an option to show entries from the call history. I consider it a bug that it shows a contact entry that you have called while it fetches from contacts and call history.
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Yea I tried that, same thing.
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It split up 6 or 7 contacts by breaking off one email address then askedme to link them.
GorillaPimp said:
It split up 6 or 7 contacts by breaking off one email address then askedme to link them.
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when I did it through HTC Sync it duplicated everything, some more than others
Ya know I had a huge issue with that when I picked up the myTouch 4g. I ended up returning the thing, but the duplicate contacts almost made me throw it at the wall. I was getting 3 - 5 instances. I know the myTouch has tmobile flavor of sense, but it's probably the same issue. I recall being able to fix it by merging all the contacts, but even after doing that I still had to do some manual adjustments. Very frustrating.
I won't have the Sensation in my hands until next week thanks to the retards the T-Mobile store messing up my g2x return, but i'll post on this thread when I get it if this issue occurs for me.
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Ya know I had a huge issue with that when I picked up the myTouch 4g. I ended up returning the thing, but the duplicate contacts almost made me throw it at the wall. I was getting 3 - 5 instances. I know the myTouch has tmobile flavor of sense, but it's probably the same issue. I recall being able to fix it by merging all the contacts, but even after doing that I still had to do some manual adjustments. Very frustrating.
I won't have the Sensation in my hands until next week thanks to the retards the T-Mobile store messing up my g2x return, but i'll post on this thread when I get it if this issue occurs for me.
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just save yourself the hassle & sync with the MyPhoneExplorer app. with the HTC Sync I'd have duplicate contacts within an hour. It's been about 8-10 now with MPE & no issues.
I had problem with hundreds of duplicate groups and contacts outside of Android and used this to fix it http://scrappydog.com/GoogleGroupCleanup/publish.htm
Maybe it can help someone else

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