Is it just me or does the search only ever search apps and the web? I've added a bunch of other stuff, including my contacts, but unless I specifically search contacts, the "all" search setting still only searches apps and the web.
Hm?
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Go to Settings -> Search -> Searchable items , and then thick what do you want to be searchable.
I hope this helps.
aca_coa said:
Go to Settings -> Search -> Searchable items , and then thick what do you want to be searchable.
I hope this helps.
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Yeah, I said I've already added a bunch of other stuff including contacts, and they are searchable if you change the search from "all" to "People," but the contacts (and messages, and mail, and essentially every HTC app) are not searchable under "all."
Does this happen for you? When you type one of your contacts in the search menu on the "all" setting, does their profile appear?
For me, it works perfectly. I don't have to change anything.
I click on SEARCH, than type "birth", and I get all calendar events for birthday.
When I start to type someone's name (and that name is same for something I searched over google), I get as result my google search, and that contact from phonebook.
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Hi there,
After finally getting the Android Stock Contacts app on my Desire, I'm finally able to use the "Sync Group" option to only show one group (let's call it "cormie) in the phone book. This is all fine, I have ticked off all other groups and only "cormie" is ticked on. It displays the "cormie" contacts and the contacts on the SIM (I can delete them off it later I guess) but the main objective is to just use the "cormie" contacts and nothing else.
However, when I go to add a new contact and save it, when I sync it to Gmail, the new entry doesn't show up in "cormie" but only in "all contacts" and once the contact is saved on the phone, it doesn't appear in the phone book because I'm only showing "cormie" contacts and it's not there To see the entry I have to go back in and to show all contacts, then I see it.
This puts a great hindrance on the purpose of the Sync Group option. The guy in post 10 here seems to have got it going, but as you can see in my reply, post 11, it's not saving to the desired group for me!
I'd really appreciate if anyone has a solution for this and could explain how to get it working properly. Or is there an alternative contacts program that will do it? Also, if anyone knows how to not display SIM contacts in the phonebook please share too
Any feedback appreciated at all!
Brilliant! I think I got a workaround
When I first started using the phone after rooting it, I selected "contacts" to be the default for all the options and it actually turns out that the Sense "people" app allows you to save a contact to a group even though it doesn't allow you to "sync groups", choosing which groups you want to sync only, so I needed to get the "people" app to be the default for adding contacts.
What I had to do was go to the main menu > settings > applications > manage applications > scroll down to contacts > and press "clear defaults"
This clears "contacts" as being the default for all the phonebook related actions. If you go back to the home screen and click "phone" you can set "contacts" as the default for this, but then when you go to add a new contact in contacts, it will ask what app you want to add a contact with, click set as default and click the "people" app. Now all "add to contact" actions will be carried out using "people" app, here you can select the group you wish to save it to and then it will show up perfectly in the "contacts" "contacts" menu and will be synched correctly to the chosen group on Gmail!
I think, after 18 days of buying it, I'm finally ready to put my normal sim card in the phone and start using it as a phone! Finally!
I realize this is WAY later than the original post, but have any of you found a solution to not being able to add a new contact to the group you want to add it to? I'm using an HTC Hero (cdma) that I Froyoed with aospmod 2.2.1, so I cannot use the htc "people" app - at least I read that. Sorting by groups is mucho importante to me and I find the default contacts app built into aospmod lacking in this area.
Thanks if you even reply to this!
Is there an APP that will search out a business, store, service, ect. that can accurrately save it to your contacts. I have tried White Pages, Yellow Pages, Tel Nav, Google, and others. I search for the contact, it gives me the correct result, and the option to save the information to my CONTACTS. But when I choose to save it, the information does not go into my contacts correctly, specifically the address. Live Search on my Vogue never gave me a problem.
You say you've tried "Google"--whatever that means. Have your tried the native Google Maps app. It supposed to be able to do this.
Search > Type business Name > Touch the one you want on the map > Add as a contact > Press Save
EDIT: I just tried this and it does exactly what you want. Any/all info aboiut a company gets saved to the correct field, properly formatted into your contacts. just click Save
NOPE .. Tried Google Maps, Google Maps Contacts also. Everytime I choose save as contact, the entire address including city, state, and zip goes into the first line of the address, leaving the city, state, and zip fields blank.
in Contacts, some names don't show up, even in Search.
But if I search from the Phone app, they do.
Any idea why this is or how to fix?
figured it out by accident.
If a contact is grouped in "My Contacts" on the gMail/Contacts page, then it will show up in any search of Contatcs on the phone.
metropical said:
in Contacts, some names don't show up, even in Search.
But if I search from the Phone app, they do.
Any idea why this is or how to fix?
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Hi,
When you first open contacts,it asks where to get contacts from.
Phone,sim,google etc.
Make sure you tick or untick the ones you want.
Can someone show me how to only display contacts with numbers? It was really easy to do it on the M7 that I came from, but I don't see the option on the opo. I tried looking at all the menus on the phone and tried searching on the forums but could not find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.
quiet_kisho said:
Can someone show me how to only display contacts with numbers? It was really easy to do it on the M7 that I came from, but I don't see the option on the opo. I tried looking at all the menus on the phone and tried searching on the forums but could not find a solution. Any help would be appreciated.
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Free up! Cuz i'm looking for a solution aswell. I have like 400 contacts from gmail without a numbre. It's kinda messy
l3viz said:
Free up! Cuz i'm looking for a solution aswell. I have like 400 contacts from gmail without a numbre. It's kinda messy
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For now, what i do is select edit for a contact with a phone number. Scroll down to the "group" field. Add a new field and name it "my phone", for example. Select that group for your contact.
Then go back out to your list of contacts, in settings select "Contacts to display", select customize, select the drop down menu from your gmail acc, then only check the group named "my phone" box. If you go back to your contacts list, you will see only that contact. Now, the tedious part is to go into all your contacts that has a number and putting them into that "my phone" group.
Dispaly only phone contacts in one plus one
Hi,
Go to contacts, then go to "Contacts on Display" then go to customize ..... click the drop down of gmail account where you can deselect the contacts .
with this you can only see phone contacts when you open the the contacts app.
Hope this helps you guys.
tulipdulip said:
Hi,
Go to contacts, then go to "Contacts on Display" then go to customize ..... click the drop down of gmail account where you can deselect the contacts .
with this you can only see phone contacts when you open the the contacts app.
Hope this helps you guys.
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It kinda did. But for some reason I need some of those contacts. It is weird that Android doesn't have a natural way of joining same contacts together. I used an App for it once, but that made a mess.
Hi
On my Android phone I am trying to delete all of my google search history.
- I've done it in chrome and deleted everything possible
- I've gone into settings, then chrome and deleted everything from there.
Then when i open chrome everything is gone as i want it.
However when i sign into my account some of my search history returns so when i start typing in the address bar, old history is shown.
To confuse matter further i've gone into my google account using a PC and viewed the 'my activity' section, when i search for the entries showing up on the phone none are shown. Also within my account i have tried deleting all search data
Does anyone know how on earth i can delete the search/browsing history properly from my account??
You've deleted your browsing history not your autofill suggestions. So if you type "Planes Trains and Automobiles" into your search bar you'll get a result, then you click on the link that takes you to facts about the movie. When you delete your search history the page with facts about the movie is gone but where you entered PT&A into the search bar remains. So if you begin to type PL... it will still have that suggestion in there as something you searched once before. You have to delete your Autofill history. Click the Chrome toolbar and select Settings>Show Advanced settings>Passwords and forms>Manage Autofill. Here you'll be able to selectively delete entries or all entries.