[Q] Dialer contact search - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

[Q] Dialer contact search - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, I can't find a way to search contacts while typing their name or number in the stock dialer.
I mean, if I type the first two digits of my gf number in my old i5500, it showed her name. Is it possible on this device to do the same, without resorting to external apps (like I'm doing right now with aContacts)?
Thanks.
My Nexus S, for your info, is a i9023 SCLCD, rooted, using NSCollab.

There are few dialer apps on the market that do this. Dialer one, Go Contacts and dialer 2 are 3 that I have used. Also do a search for T9 Dialer. Enjoy, cheers.

wild1z said:
There are few dialer apps on the market that do this. Dialer one and dialer 2 are ones I have used. Also do a search for T9 Dialer. Enjoy, cheers.
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Yeah, I know. Did you actually read my post?
I'm using aContacts, I was just wondering if it was possibile to do this in the stock dialer, or there was a modded dialer apk, who knows

Sorry I did it but I guess I read it too quickly or you edited it while I was typing. Hope you find an answer.

wild1z said:
Sorry I did it but I guess I read it too quickly. Hope you find an answer.
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No problem Thanks for the help anyway!

You can hit the search key when on the contacts tab, but that's as close as you'll get without using a 3rd party app.

I see. That's funny, because a low-end phone like the i5500 had this really useful feature integrated in the OS. Go figure.

Yeah, I don't get it either.
I've become quite fond of GO Contacts, though.

I just tried mydialer, it is smokin fast. I like go as well. Bummer that GB doesn't have this as stock.

Go Contacts is better than aContacts, thanks It's even better than default contacts

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2.1 Messaging App Facebook Status on Froyo

Hey all,
I really liked the fact that i could see the facebook status of the person that i was texting at the top of the thread in 2.1. Is there anyway that you could get that same functionality in Froyo?

haha i just noticed its not there! LOL nice catch. Bump to this

i still have it

Would porting the messaging app from 2.1 to 2.2 be the only way we could do this? Would this even be possible? Because i know a lot of people use Handcent but the reason i dont use it is because i like being able to see the persons most recent facebook status at the top of my thread

aad4321 said:
The new messaging app is stupid
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The new messaging app is better.

uberingram said:
The new messaging app is better.
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Why is it better?

Can anyone confirm it's not there anymore?

Android Touch said:
Can anyone confirm it's not there anymore?
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Not there just checked.

I hate the new messaging app. So cluttered and messy with pictures for EACH message. Not to mention the gray box for me!

torchedlh said:
I hate the new messaging app. So cluttered and messy with pictures for EACH message. Not to mention the gray box for me!
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It's a gray box for you because your sim doesn't list your number. If you see your number under Settings -> About -> Status. If it lists your number under My Number you can just add yourself as a contact with a picture and it will show up. Otherwise there are some phones that allow you to add the number. I personally used a simcard-reader/writer for my computer.

Yeah i have seen the messanging app on my freinds phone and i dont really mind the fact that there is a picture for each message, but I would really miss seeing the persons most recent facebook status because I might not necessarily see thier status on my news feed. The lack facebook status on the messanging app is the only reason I havent flashed the froyo test build

Bump for help/info

StaitEdgetEdge said:
Bump for help/info
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What info or help do you want? It's gone.

Idk maybe some info on a possible backport? The new messanging app is not as clean as the old one in my opinion

blunden said:
It's a gray box for you because your sim doesn't list your number. If you see your number under Settings -> About -> Status. If it lists your number under My Number you can just add yourself as a contact with a picture and it will show up. Otherwise there are some phones that allow you to add the number. I personally used a simcard-reader/writer for my computer.
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I know, but thanks for your help. I had to use an old SE phone to change my SIM number. But seriously this is a really large oversight on Google's part. Like I am suppose to make a contact of myself just so I can have a picture there?? That's ridiculous.

Is also like this. Much prefer the messaging app from cyanogenmod /:
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torchedlh said:
I know, but thanks for your help. I had to use an old SE phone to change my SIM number. But seriously this is a really large oversight on Google's part. Like I am suppose to make a contact of myself just so I can have a picture there?? That's ridiculous.
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No it's not and I've been making self contacts on my phones for the better part of a decade.
You people ***** about the stupidest things lol.

Well my friend tried yesterday to simply uninstall the 2.2 messanging app and to simply install the 2.1 APK using ASTRO and it failed to install. Im not sure if pushing with ADB will work but just trying to simply delete and install definitely didnt work

Why should I use Dialer One?

Okay, so I have installed and uninstalled Dialer One more times than I can remember. Everytime I migrate over to an ASOP rom I get reminded in a thread that the stock dialer can be upgraded easily upgraded to Dialer One. This is one of the common replies to sense lovers complaining about ASOP.
I don't get it, why is it better than the Froyo dialer? It seems to be pretty much the same layout... am I missing something? The only differences I can find are the ability to change colors and themes.
Anyone want to chime in on why they have to have Dialer One?

Basic stock dialer doesnt have whats called "Smart Dial" basically, doesnt have the "type name" and get the number quick feature like Dialer One does, or Sense for that matter.
I think I explained that right... lol

It has predictive dialing so you don't have to remember numbers.
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NovaFox238 said:
Basic stock dialer doesnt have whats called "Smart Dial" basically, doesnt have the "type name" and get the number quick feature like Dialer One does, or Sense for that matter.
I think I explained that right... lol
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This, for me is essential. I still use it on sense just because I like how it looks and the white dialer buttons are so bright sometimes, and I'm too lazy to theme it.

NovaFox238 said:
Basic stock dialer doesnt have whats called "Smart Dial" basically, doesnt have the "type name" and get the number quick feature like Dialer One does, or Sense for that matter.
I think I explained that right... lol
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Thanks, I just installed it.

[APP] Youlou Address Book (Not My App)

http://androinica.com/2010/11/02/yo...-new-favorite-dialercontacts-app-app-reviews/
Check the market for it. It's all kinds of awesome. Ignore the fact that the market description is in Chinese, it's very cool.

Been using Youlou since upgrading to 2.1 a few weeks ago. I must say it's a really slick address book.

this is way faster then stock froyo address book ...just missing option to create shortcut for direct dialer

looks good. i think i will try this one

How can I use this app as default dialer? I need it because I want to see the counter for missed calls?

I love this app too. The widget shows missed calls BTW the widget is awesome.
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It's frustrating, this app.
It's rad, the UI looks awesome. It pretends to be so functional... But it's so far from it.
No * or # key, really? I get that it's chinese, but come on. How many users have to request it in the comments before you just add the damn things?
I don't want to have to add a widget to homescreen. There isn't room for it. Make the app fully functional without it (aka show missed calls).
Doesn't sync with facebook.
Doesn't thread together contacts (like say if you had a regular phone and a google voice phone already in your contacts... in the default I can just thread the two together, in Youlu I have to delete one and then add the other to the contact manually)
Pictures are sometimes there for my favs, sometimes not. I even re add a picture or change the picture. It sometimes takes the app opening closing like 5 times before it appears, and then it can leave just as easily.
After all that I'm still struggling to remove it from my phone, but being realistic, this thing isn't a dialer. It's just not. It's a cool UI that pretends to be one, while missing a half a dozen key components.
Sometimes I wonder if the stock dialer was something that was actually ****ty, and then the current stock dialer came out with a hip name and was third party, how crazy would people go for that? It has everything.

irish22022 said:
It's frustrating, this app.
It's rad, the UI looks awesome. It pretends to be so functional... But it's so far from it.
No * or # key, really? I get that it's chinese, but come on. How many users have to request it in the comments before you just add the damn things?
I don't want to have to add a widget to homescreen. There isn't room for it. Make the app fully functional without it (aka show missed calls).
Doesn't sync with facebook.
Doesn't thread together contacts (like say if you had a regular phone and a google voice phone already in your contacts... in the default I can just thread the two together, in Youlu I have to delete one and then add the other to the contact manually)
Pictures are sometimes there for my favs, sometimes not. I even re add a picture or change the picture. It sometimes takes the app opening closing like 5 times before it appears, and then it can leave just as easily.
After all that I'm still struggling to remove it from my phone, but being realistic, this thing isn't a dialer. It's just not. It's a cool UI that pretends to be one, while missing a half a dozen key components.
Sometimes I wonder if the stock dialer was something that was actually ****ty, and then the current stock dialer came out with a hip name and was third party, how crazy would people go for that? It has everything.
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I have no choice but to completely agree irish22022 it's a very nice looking UI and I enjoyed it quite a lot until I was trying to get in touch with customer service (*611) or check the balance on my phone (#BAL) it's extremely frustrating to be missing these two key digits, almost a showstopper however I keep using it hoping they will eventually add what we need. As far as for only allowing one account that doesn't bother me so much because I have all of my contacts backed up to one Google account which only made sense to me, so that doesn't bother me so much. However the * and # issue really needs to be corrected.

has the inter-grated sms thing still there, i can t get rid of it!

ballubas said:
has the inter-grated sms thing still there, i can t get rid of it!
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you can open the sms client in the app drawer that appears after installation, go to settings, and disable everything.
It's still ridiculous that they install that on your computer along with the address book. Should definitely be a seperate app.

Just update is now acceptinf # &*

It has been the fastest smart dialer for me-even faster than dialer one. I would still like it if you could search within the call log and/or the contact list as well.
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Unfortunately the last version also installs a default SMS app which is worse than Handcent....

whipping said:
Unfortunately the last version also installs a default SMS app which is worse than Handcent....
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Agreed. I don't like the fact it installs an SMS client, as I already have and prefer Handcent. At least you can disable it.

saltorio said:
Agreed. I don't like the fact it installs an SMS client, as I already have and prefer Handcent. At least you can disable it.
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Can you explain me how?? I didn't find any option!

Doesnt work for me on my x10!:-(
irish22022 said:
you can open the sms client in the app drawer that appears after installation, go to settings, and disable everything.
It's still ridiculous that they install that on your computer along with the address book. Should definitely be a seperate app.
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ballubas said:
Doesnt work for me on my x10!:-(
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are you at least in the sms client? it looks nothing like the phone book. If it's not in your app drawer, open up the dialer, go to contacts, click on a contact, and click the envelope rather then the dialer (if you don't see the envelope, then go to settings and look for the option to include a text shortcut for your contacts). This defaults to youlu's sms client. From there, hit the menu button, click settings and disable notifications.
You can't uninstall the sms app, but you can silence it so you don't know it's there. And you also can't change the default sms app within youlu phone book, it will always open up their sms app.

irish22022 said:
are you at least in the sms client? it looks nothing like the phone book. If it's not in your app drawer, open up the dialer, go to contacts, click on a contact, and click the envelope rather then the dialer (if you don't see the envelope, then go to settings and look for the option to include a text shortcut for your contacts). This defaults to youlu's sms client. From there, hit the menu button, click settings and disable notifications.
You can't uninstall the sms app, but you can silence it so you don't know it's there. And you also can't change the default sms app within youlu phone book, it will always open up their sms app.
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isnt work step by steb but is no such a menu

stock sensation dialer/contacts - garbage

is it just me or is it complete crap?
to look up a number in contacts requires several screens/button pushes - this is majorly annoying
once a call is connected you have to hit a button to then hit the speaker - why not put that on the connected call screen?
slow
laggy
i came from a n1 with cm7 on it.

qwyjibo said:
is it just me or is it complete crap?
to look up a number in contacts requires several screens/button pushes - this is majorly annoying
once a call is connected you have to hit a button to then hit the speaker - why not put that on the connected call screen?
slow
laggy
i came from a n1 with cm7 on it.
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dude you must be high if you go in the app drawer there is a contacts icon thats it not seven screens, and if you in the dialer just hit menu at the bottom and theres a peoples icon with all your contacts not seven screens. you obviously dont know how to use the phone lol......also you can turn speaker on before the call even connects wich is also on the connected call screen

Also you can just go to phone and start typing the person's name.
So 326 would bring up all starting with "dan"
If you don't want to call the primary number just tap the contact details icon then tap the other number you want.
It's probably the best dialer I've used, so quick and easy.

qwyjibo said:
is it just me or is it complete crap?
to look up a number in contacts requires several screens/button pushes - this is majorly annoying
once a call is connected you have to hit a button to then hit the speaker - why not put that on the connected call screen?
slow
laggy
i came from a n1 with cm7 on it.
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Try touch pal dialer from market. It is much better, and free.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.cootek.smartdialer&feature=search_result

It's the best dialer I've ever used, and so is the People app Love it. This is why I love Sense. Dunno what drugs you've taken

Nah, i'm in the same boat as the OP.
the n1 dialer was better, more efficient. The sense dialer has too much to scroll through.
Maybe after I get used to it , it will get better.

mrbkkt1 said:
Nah, i'm in the same boat as the OP.
the n1 dialer was better, more efficient. The sense dialer has too much to scroll through.
Maybe after I get used to it , it will get better.
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You SCROLL through the dialer? Why?

This thread is so funny to me because I use the Sense UI for the dialer alone, it is superior to the AOSP dialer in every way.

Indeed this dialer is a much requested feature in other roms. Haven't used a faster one, and I came from cm7
There's absolutely 0 reason to ever scroll through anything in it

xaccers said:
You SCROLL through the dialer? Why?
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Exactly.. I don't know how much easier it can get than opening the dialer and hitting the first letter or 2 of the persons name you are calling...
Every stock ROM I use I always download TouchPal dialer because of it's sense-like features. I hate having to scroll through the contacts to find the person i'm trying to call with the stock dialer.
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I love the Sense dialer/contact apps. I wish those and the sense lockscreen will be ported to CM7 when it is released.

xaccers said:
You SCROLL through the dialer? Why?
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Its cause I usually hit the contacts shortcut as opposed to the phone shortcut.

mrbkkt1 said:
Its cause I usually hit the contacts shortcut as opposed to the phone shortcut.
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Well don't
Ok say you prefer the people app to the dialer, once it's open, select the search bar at the top and tap out the first few letters of the contact you want, select it from the list and dial from there.
No scrolling.
Or just get used to using the phone dialer as you're meant to. The people app is really meant for managing contacts.

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Its cause I usually hit the contacts shortcut as opposed to the phone shortcut.
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I hate the sense dialer/contacts also and prefer the AOSP version however with either dialer you can just type the person's name and the contact will appear....scrolling is for old people....

phonegod said:
dude you must be high if you go in the app drawer there is a contacts icon thats it not seven screens, and if you in the dialer just hit menu at the bottom and theres a peoples icon with all your contacts not seven screens. you obviously dont know how to use the phone lol......also you can turn speaker on before the call even connects wich is also on the connected call screen
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I agree with you. Though for me, it's not the dialer...it's the seemingly random way that the phone will store a saved number...sometimes to the phone, sometimes to the SIM, and sometimes completely hidden and not able to be found until you start manually typing a number into the dialer, at which time it shows you that it *does* know the contact you're trying to reach, it just won't let you find it any other way.
Then there's the joy of syncing, especially with multiple gmail accounts, and having 3-4-5 copies of the SAME CONTACT and having to manually delete them all. I think my monochrome Nokia 3310 had a better contact interface.