I 've seen it with a G1, that addresses and phone numbers form the web are highlighted and when you klick on them it opens maps.google.com or initiates a phone call. How can I have this feature on my new HTC Sensation. Which browsers support it? Thanks!
The stock browser ("Internet") allows you to tap on phone numbers in order to call them. They are however not highlighted. Try it. Not sure about addresses, but should be supported. I think I heard something like that in a HTC Tutorial ("Show me" app)
Yes, that"s right. When you tap on a phone number whithin Inernet Explorer it copies it to the dialer. It doesn't work with the addresses though.
If anyone knows about an app for that, please share.
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Hi there,
I am looking for a way to simply click on a phone number in a web app on my desktop and then initiate a phone call with my Trinity.
I am using the IE Skype plugin today, this will enable all numbers on a website to be clickable links and will initiate a skype-out conversation with these numbers. I am looking for something similar for the mobile phone to act like skype would.
Basically this app would have to scan a webpage for numbers of a certain minimum length, display them as links and would then hand the number with a dial routine over to the mobile phone, connected via USB/ActiveSync.
I am just to lazy to type all these phone numbers all the time...
Anyone any ideas?
Thanks a million
turtleman
(and no, I am not a developer, please don't post code suggestions for me, I wouldn't even know how to read it)
I've searched XDA high and low (and the rest of the interweb) and can't find anything that seems to answer my question....
I'd like to tweak the information that Sense displays for contacts. When I am in a person's contact screen, I can see all their phone numbers, email addresses, groups, but I particularly would like to see their company name. There are a couple of contacts for which I only have first names, and the only way to tell the 2 "Tony"s apart is by company name. As it stands right now, I have to click "Edit contact" and scroll all the way down to see the company name.
It seems like it should be pretty straight forward to get this information on to the contact screen.... I'm sure other people would like to see birthdays, or mailing addresses, without having to hit "edit contact".
I'd rather not use a 3rd party contact manager (although I guess HTC Sense technically is 3rd party), I really do like HTC Sense contacts.
Is this in the wrong forum? If so, please move it, mods... Thanks!
I've been wondering this too.
I've been looking for the same information too. On my contact list, companies don't even show up. They are listed as <Unnamed> on the list and I have quite a few of them, but since I don't have a Contact name associated with them, I don't even know whose number is whose.
If you find any mods that address this, let me know. I'll let you know if I do. Or if anyone reads this and has found a solution, please let us know!
Don't know if this helps but- for Windows Mobile Users
I have the same question, and am searching for an answer as well, however, if you use the WINDOWS contact manager, which is seperate from the SENSE manager, you will see the company names as well. If you want to access the Windows version, use the start menu, and select contacts.
you can accomplish this by changing the "file as" setting under the winmo contacts and then it will show up in Sense the way you want it. You have to edit the contact in the "winmo contacts" and select the name as if you are going to edit it to get the "files as" option.
I also found a simple utility called "fileaschanger" but cannot find the thread so I'm attaching the cab. It allows you to change the "file as" setting for ALL your contacts in one step.
There is also this other utility but I have not tried it yet. http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-contact-utilities-v1-0b.html
In addition to the company name, I would like to see the Notes field and fax numbers. I may be the only one but it annoys me that I have to hit "Edit Contact" to get more info. The should have just labeled this "More info"
Google is not making a Google Voice app for WM6.x, period. I don't think anyone can argue with that fact. After seeing how beautiful GV integrates with my wife's Samsung Galaxy phone, I decide to find ways to integrate GV with WM6.x. Here is what I have:
1. Make sure the contacts and email are synchronized with GV account. It actually saves major headache.
2. For dialing out using GV, I highly recommend iDialer + iContact. They can both be found under "Windows Mobile Apps" at http://www.supware.net/. The combination allows to dial any contact number using GV directly. And it's free.
Personally I use the "calling card" setup, which my phone calls my GV number first, then "2", then destination phone number (it's all done automatically using iDialer). It takes about 30 seconds before I hear it rings the destination phone so it's actually pretty quick, and almost guaranteed to always work as it doesn't depend on Google's server.
3. For SMS, there are many ways. EasySMS (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=604699) is pretty cool but I don't want to load another app. Here is what I have found out. Since I asked GV to forward all SMS to my Gmail as Email, I paid attention to the sender. It's always like this:
15551234567.16661234567.&#&#&#&#&#@txt.voice.google.com
15551234567 is my GV number, 16661234567 is the number where the SMS is coming from, &#&#&#&#&# is a unique ID for each phone number. I noticed this unique ID is always the same for that particular phone number no matter when the SMS was sent. Now things are simple, I save this email as the primary email address in the contact info. When I need to SMS someone, I just send an email from my Outlook to that Email address, and the other person will receive the body of the message as SMS (info in subject line is discarded automatically). In iContact, this is very convenient.
When they text me back, since my Gmail is "push" synchronized with my phone I get the message as an email immediately, and I may reply the message by reply that email.
4. For those contacts that did not SMS me in the past so I don't have this Email address available. So what do I do? Like the iPhone Google Voice interface? You can do it too from WM6.5! I use Iris browser:
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-iris-browser.html
I know it's discontinued but it still works well since it's HTML5 supported. After installing that browser, navigate to:
https://www.google.com/voice/m?uipref=1
Notice that "uipref=1" is the magic part. Without it, you see the old DOS style GV interface. With it, you have this full dialpad and everything iPhone browser would show you. Wait a minute, why do I still need iDialer if I have this? Well, the "Call" function actually is not recognized by Iris browser Besides it's 100 times faster to load iDialer on any device I owned. But the SMS function works very well. Again, once you receive the first SMS from your friend to your GV number then you may save the Email address to the contact info so you only use this occasionally.
If you don't care about the UI, you may use any other browser, just navigate to:
https://www.google.com/voice/m
Don't include the "uipref=1" part as those non-HTML5 browser won't render the page correctly.
The only reason I need the fancy UI is because that's the only mobile UI that would allow me to actually *delete* a voicemail or a text, instead of just archiving it.
I know there are many WM6.x users out there that would like to use Google Voice on a daily basis. Hope this helps someone down the line.
a small change since I posted this last time: I got rid of Iris. First I don't use the fancy dial pad since I dial from iDialer anyways, second Iris keeps crash with the slightest browsing and accumulate cache file very quickly (couple of min browsing could end up with a cache file of more than 30 Mb).
Here is the modified plan:
I still use www.google.com/voice/m in opera mini to access most of the important functions of google voice quickly. When I need to delete a voicemail, I use this address:
www.google.com/voice/m?uipref=1#~voice:s=inbox&l=inbox
Alternatively you may navigate to:
www.google.com/voice/m?uipref=1 then click "inbox"
Since I have opera mini memorized my login credentials it's easy to access the inbox thru the "fancy" interface and perform a delete. However since opera mini is not an HTML5 browser this becomes pretty much the only function it's good at.
This way I don't need to install a pretty much dead browser (Iris) on my phone and also have my password remembered by yet another browser. It's also very convenient too.
I would like to create a link on a web page that, when clicked, displays a name for the phone number along with the phone number.
For example, suppose I have the following link:
(555) 555-5555
I would like to display "My Company" when you click on the link in the phone dialer.
On WP7, for example, the above link would result in "Unknown Contact". However, I'm sure there's a parameter that we can pass to make this work, as searching using Bing for a local business will pass that business name to the dialer app even if the business is not in your contacts.
I'm wondering if anyone has a solution for this issue. This may be OS dependent... I've looked through the standard for the "tel" URI, but I couldn't find any info regarding this issue.
THanks.
Hy there,
I hope I posted where I should and if I didn't please tell me the correct section where I should do this. Also, I am not a developer, I do not have root on my phone. I do not want solutions that require changing XML files or anything. I am just asking about an app that I could find in the Play Store, or, maybe, and apk to download (this being the second option)
I have a problem with the messaging app since I left my HTC One S for the Nexus 5X in June 2016 and I did not find an app to replace that, not even on my current Oneplus 5T.
So, I have a contact in my phonebook saved with multiple numbers - work / mobile / home etc. and she texts SMS from either of the numbers (doesn't really matter because they are included in the carrier plan as unlimited). But my messaging app is sorting those SMS as different entries by phone number, and not by contact. So if we start a conversation in a chat window based on the home number, the answer may end up in a different chat windows (she has a dual sim phone so it depends on the settings on which is right now, and because the SMSs are "free", she tends to not look at which carrier is using, because, why would you if they are all free?), but this actually disrupts the logical flow of the conversation.
I know that a such app exists because I used it on HTC One S in 2012 and I was able to send SMS to which number I wanted to select (home / mobile / work of the same contact from the phonebook) and I had all the conversation in only one place, but after I changed on Nexus 5X and now on OnePlus 5T I can not find this feature in the installed app messenger (Google's or Oneplus's), neither on Google searches or specialized websites. I have tested some of the SMS apps, looked for settings, but all of them seem to show the SMSs based on the phone number, and not based on the contact entries.
Can someone suggest an app that could do that? Maybe I didn't search good enough.
P.S. The MMS option to send grouped messages is not an option because this means I will send the same SMS to multiple numbers, but those numbers are of the same person so there is no need to do that ...
Thank you very much for Your answer.