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[Q]WM6.1 - Only one mobile phone number allowed in contacts?

Hello, everyone! I'm new to this great site, and would like to say thank you for so many inspiring posts.
I encountered a big problem --- perhaps it's been discussed before, but I cannot find the answer after trying to search the forum.
I've been a Symbian UIQ users for years. Just 3 weeks ago I purchased my first WM phone HTC Max4G.
For an elderly newby like me, I must confess that using WinMo 6.1 is a frustrating experience. I have lots of questions, but please allow me to bring up the biggest one:
I realized that in one contact only ONE mobile phone number is allowed....?! It's hard to believe! Many people have several mobile numbers (dont' you?) In UIQ you can add as many numbers as you want, and for all types of numbers.
Would you please tell me how to solve this problem?
Or, is there any program to replace the WM6.1 contacts?
(In UIQ3 there's a fantastic useful program called DreamConnect; worth every penny)
...I bought this new phone only for sake of the cool big 3.8" display. Now I feel desperate.
p.s. English is my 4th foreign language. Please don't mind my grammar.

Begovaya said:
Hello, everyone! I'm new to this great site, and would like to say thank you for so many inspiring posts.
I encountered a big problem --- perhaps it's been discussed before, but I cannot find the answer after trying to search the forum.
I've been a Symbian UIQ users for years. Just 3 weeks ago I purchased my first WM phone HTC Max4G.
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p.s. English is my 4th foreign language. Please don't mind my grammar.
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first of all luck you ... A htc max4g ... i'm sitting drooling here.
as far as your problem goes i believe the reason for that is because you are saving contact to sim and when a contact is saved to sim card only one number is allowed. Now if you created the contact on device memory you will be able to have mutliple numbers, picture, email address, actual address, etc etc. of that one contact under a contact
Hope this helps out.

It just works a bit differnt in WM.
Just like in Outlook itself, you can add a HOME PHONE#, a BUSINESS PHONE#, a MOBILE PHONE#. This has to do with synchronization.
If you need more than 1 MOBILE PHONE#, simply add the contacts main mobile number under MOBILE and all others under OTHER NUMBER's - you still can pick them when writing SMS or when calling, they are just not labeled MOBILE ... that's it.
I hope that helps?
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If you have 'lots of questions' and you can't find the answers, please combine as many questions as possible in 1 single post - that helps keeping the forum clean and reduces the amount of threads.

Junner2003 said:
It just works a bit differnt in WM.
Just like in Outlook itself, you can add a HOME PHONE#, a BUSINESS PHONE#, a MOBILE PHONE#. This has to do with synchronization.
If you need more than 1 MOBILE PHONE#, simply add the contacts main mobile number under MOBILE and all others under OTHER NUMBER's - you still can pick them when writing SMS or when calling, they are just not labeled MOBILE ... that's it.
I hope that helps?
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If you have 'lots of questions' and you can't find the answers, please combine as many questions as possible in 1 single post - that helps keeping the forum clean and reduces the amount of threads.
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This isn't all completely true.....
If i were to enter a number into work i couldn't choose to send a text message to it from the "contacts" page.

Thank you, thesire, junner & joel,
Indeed I save all my contacts on device memory, not on SIM card.
Yes, after synchronization from my UIQ3 phone to Outlook, all the HOME MOBILE numbers are lost... (cry). I have around 1800 contacts and I don't know what to do now.
Yes, these days I try to manually move some numbers from SE P1i to HTC Max. It is soooooo inconvenient not able to distinguish HOME MOBILE# from OFFICE MOBILE#. (scream)
I have to move some mobile# to other cells as you mentioned, but quantity of those cells is also limited, isn't it?
Some of my contacts have more than 10 mobile# since I include numbers of his, his wife, his driver and his secretaries altogether, for whom I don't want to create separate contacts. Symbian has no problem with this at all. Symbian also allows me to add comment after the telephone numbers.
WHY is Outlook & WinMo so idiotic???
I will post other questions later within this thread, in order to keep this forum clean. Thanks for any help!

Begovaya said:
I will post other questions later within this thread, in order to keep this forum clean. Thanks for any help!
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You should ask Microsoft . For me the system is good enough, but maybe you are searching for an alternative to Outlook. There are several applications doing just this, maybe you will find a better one. I think the term for such applications is "PIM".

johnpatcher said:
You should ask Microsoft . For me the system is good enough,
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So you're saying you don't have problems with single mobile number?
johnpatcher said:
but maybe you are searching for an alternative to Outlook. There are several applications doing just this, maybe you will find a better one. I think the term for such applications is "PIM".
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Yes, I guess that is what I need. Would you please give more clues about the PIM? I googled "PIM Windows Mobile 6", and got many... too many results. Please enlighten me on this. Thanks

you can use bluetooth to send contacts directly from p1i to max i believe, that would be better and faster solution

Inesoft phone
xiux said:
you can use bluetooth to send contacts directly from p1i to max i believe, that would be better and faster solution
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Thank you. I tried this... it doesn't help.
For example, I have one contact who has about ten numbers, among them 4 mobile phone #. After beaming to Max, only one mobile phone# remians. Obvious the idiotic WinMo contacts program decides that it doesn't need the other 3 mobile#.
D--n!!
Has anyone used Inesoft phone program?? Can it solve these problems?
http://www.inesoft.com/eng/index.php

Implementing a phone number search box, like in the SMS app

Hi XDA,
I'm writing my first Android app, an open source webtext client for Irish mobile networks. The current version of the project can be found here: https://code.google.com/p/webtextr
There's one thing I'm having trouble with though. I'd like to implement a ‘recipient’ text box, where the user can start typing the name of a contact, and after each letter is pressed, it searches their contacts database and provides a drop-down list of suggestions. Then the user could click on a name and it would insert their number into the text box. This would be just like the way it works in the stock SMS app when you go to compose a new message.
Does anyone know how to implement this? I've been looking through the source code of the stock SMS app here https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_packages_apps_Mms/tree/froyo/src/com/android/mms/ui. But... it's *very* complicated and not especially well commented.
Any help would be massively appreciated. Once this is added, the app will be fully functional and perfectly usable.

Bump? Anyone?
I've figured that I should use an AutoCompleteTextView. But any examples I've found online have been broken in some way, and seem to use the deprecated People class.
Is this really as hard as it seems? I'm suprised Android doesn't provide an easy way of doing this...

Can someone with a One S help me out please

I'm running the latest ICS leak for the rezound which is based off the ICS for the One S. There is a problem with weblinks opening up in the browser instead of apps (such as YouTube/Play Store) since HTC added a new setting called App Associations.
I posted all over the place and didn't get any help, so I emailed HTC but instead of Rezound, I told them I have the One S. They finally replied, but now they want a crapload of information about the One S that I don't have. I don't know what to do about the device information they need.
Anybody want to help?
Congratulations on your HTC One S! I know how handy it is to open links with their associated applications and I will be happy to assist. I am seeing the same behavior on a device in the office so I would like to escalate this issue for tracking purposes. This won't get us an immediate resolution but it is just a way for us to let the right people in HTC know what kind of issues you are experiencing.
xxx, our escalations team would not call you back for this particular issue unless they needed to gather extra information for their report - but it will be taken as a serious report. So I can submit this escalation, please reply with the following information and I will send the ticket up:
· Mobile Phone Number:
· Alternate Contact Number:
· Your Time Zone:
· Preferred Contact Time: (preferably a 2 or 3 hour block you in which you would like to be called)
· Device Serial Number: (available from Settings>About Phone>Phone Identity).
· Your address or the address of a nearby intersection (sometimes this affects issues we investigate):
· Name of your cellular carrier:
· How often does the issue happen?
· The name of any third party apps installed on your phone while you tested:
· Do you use any apps installed from outside the Play Store?
If you were to tap the following link on your phone from an email or text message does it open the play store or the browser?: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana
And finally I'd like to grab some software numbers on your device. To do this let’s go to Settings>About phone>Software information. Please advise of all of the information you see here. Be sure to tap the option for more information as well.
Thank you for being a part of the HTC family. I hope you are having a wonderful afternoon!
Let me know if I have successfully answered your question, please click here to complete this.
To send a reply to this message, please click here.
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I'm in the process of talking with HTC about this issue. Essentially they had to remove the option of having a dialog popup to allow you to go into YouTube because of an Apple lawsuit.
All American ROMs from HTC have this limitation, but hopefully they'll find some kind of a workaround. I have a phone call scheduled with them tomorrow.

I have the same issue, I never get prompted to "complete action using" the browser always opens the mobile site instead of the app I have called htc and t mobile to no avail.
Sent from my HTC using XDA

sherifone said:
I'm in the process of talking with HTC about this issue. Essentially they had to remove the option of having a dialog popup to allow you to go into YouTube because of an Apple lawsuit.
All American ROMs from HTC have this limitation, but hopefully they'll find some kind of a workaround. I have a phone call scheduled with them tomorrow.
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I was wondering if that was the issue. Wow Apple ia seriously desperate to destroy Android piece by piece... So much for innovation Cupertino!
Posted with my HTC One S (US)

Go to settings>app associations. From there you can set what app opens with actions. I notices this was absent in the EU based roms, but us roms should have it.
Sent from my HTC VLE_U using XDA

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This seems to have been solved: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1657319 (see post #7). I tried this and it worked perfectly for me with the link you posted above - I was given the choice of which app to use to open the link.
This fix creates a new problem, however -- it breaks QR code scanners... Looks like this isn't a complete fix, after all.

[Q] T-Mobile Name ID at all possible?

Is it possible- at all to add this feature to stock or a custom ROM? Google Caller ID is NOT the same. There are plenty of calls that come in that Google does not show me the name of the caller. This is a feature my company pays for and worked really well on my old, T-Mobile branded HTC One. Most ALL calls that came in had a name associated with them. I did find some old, outdated, threads with a "T-Mobile Name ID" apk to install or zip file to flash and while the app itself seems to work the actual Name ID (or caller ID) does not. Any help would be appreciated.

bump.

been a few weeks so bumping...

Blah, no need to bump. Sadly, it appears that CNAP is half-baked on the Nexus 5. As reported in this very aged issue (sorry, can't post a direct link till I rack up 10 posts, so you'll need to reassemble the link below):
code google com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3796
the Nexus 5 apparently only displays the CNAM in the notification shade, which of course vanishes once the notification is dismissed. It does not appear while the phone is ringing, or after the fact in the dialer's call log.
Given that CNAP is an integral part of the GSM spec, and not some carrier-specific bolt-on, I'd hope that Google would be more uniform in its implementation. Unfortunately, given the age of this outstanding issue, I wouldn't hold my breath.

[Looking for] Incoming call app with customizable info

Hi guys,
I recently started a new job which will require me to receive calls from many different people. Each of these will be from a different company and I will have talked to them about a specific product or a specific application/problem they had.
So I was wondering if there is an app that allows me to add info for each contact so that when I receive a call from John, there is a pop-up or a string that tells me who John is and what he might want from me.
Hope that's clear!
Thanks in advance, looking forward to your answers!
Mario

Something either as a phone app or a pop-up that can show notes on a contact, maybe recent interactions, subjects, etc.
I have heard of an app that does this but I don't remember what it was called. It was meant for business interactions with clients. If I find it I'll update my post.
Edit:
I believe what you want might be a CRM app, what a quick search found was a few that may match your needs.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nimble.client
Or possibly
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netmine.rolo.crm
I haven't used either one but it gives you an idea of where to look possibly if these aren't for you.
Hope it helps!

shadowline said:
Something either as a phone app or a pop-up that can show notes on a contact, maybe recent interactions, subjects, etc.
I have heard of an app that does this but I don't remember what it was called. It was meant for business interactions with clients. If I find it I'll update my post.
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I believe what you want might be a CRM app, what a quick search found was a few that may match your needs.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nimble.client
Or possibly
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.netmine.rolo.crm
I haven't used either one but it gives you an idea of where to look possibly if these aren't for you.
Hope it helps!
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That's exactly what I was looking for! I had no idea it was called CRM! Thanks a lot! I'll try these two, if I find anything better I'll update it for future reference!
If anyone else has anything similar to reccomend, I'd gladly check it out!