I am using JB 4.3 Touchwiz custom ROM on S3. When I press phone dial pad keys, it searches contacts by number only and not by text. I want to enable both options. Which app/xml files are required to be edited for changing the contact search option (i.e. the way android search contacts when dial pad keys are pressed). SecContacts.apk or secphone.apk ?
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I have notes in a memo on my phone. They are codes I need to punch in when I dial a certain number. OK, so I open my memo pad. Then I start a phone call. Then I go back to the memo pad. But how the heck do I then bring up the dial pad again? I couldn't find a way to get to that menu screen once I was on a call and opened a different app mid call.
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1) opened memo pad to read memo
2) called a phone number
3) went back to memo pad to read numbers
4) no way to bring up the dial pad to enter these numbers
5) in frustration wrote the numbers on a piece of paper, hung up, and called back. I shouldn't have to do this...
I had to do this once a well. What I did was after looking at notes, hold down the menu button to bring up the recent programs list. From there, select phone.
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Use Notifications abr
Pull down the notifications bar. It should have a link to the phone call session.
Like the other poster mentioned, holding the home button is another option.
^what he said!
hkk said:
Pull down the notifications bar. It should have a link to the phone call session.
Like the other poster mentioned, holding the home button is another option.
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I'll try that next time.
i actually went to my home screen and clicked on 'phone" from the dock. I would have expected it to know I was on a call and give me the option to pull up the dial pad. it didn't...
I have a phone running Froyo that has a physcal T9 keyboard. When one of the T9 number keys is pressed while on the launcher screen, instead of launching the dialer as would be expected, the phone interprets the keypress as a text entry and launches the multi-search app instead. For example, if I press on the number '2' button, it interprets this as text input of the letter 'a' and opens the search app with the letter 'a' as the initial input.
I am trying to alter this behavior. I have tried picking through the framework files to try and find something that pertains to this, and even wrote my own app with the intents and intent filters set to the same as those of the search app, but cannot get anything to open with a number button press other than the damn search app.
Any suggestions on how to change this behavior are appreciated.
Hello all,
Is there a way to have the number pad maximized when the dialer is opened instead of having to click on the button for the num pad? I want to be able to hit the dialer app icon and start dialing the number.
Thanks.
bump.
Anyone?
I quite like the stock dialler, but how do you phone someone quickly? Currently I:
1) press the dialler icon
2) press the * icon
3) press the avatar for the person I want to call
4) click on the desired phone number (home, mobile, work etc).
Can I somehow skip at least step 4 and have a default number for them so that just clicking their contact photo phones them (and long pressing pulls up the other info, perhaps)?
1) press the dialer icon
2) start typing the name of the person you want using the dialpad (similar to T9)
3) Press the name and number you want to dial, it will initiate the call
se1000 said:
1) press the dialer icon
2) start typing the name of the person you want using the dialpad (similar to T9)
3) Press the name and number you want to dial, it will initiate the call
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That's another way to do it, certainly, but it doesn't seem to do very much towards reducing the number of keys I press!
poldie said:
That's another way to do it, certainly, but it doesn't seem to do very much towards reducing the number of keys I press!
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Stick the top contacts widget on the desktop and use that, two clicks, or click phone and make sure the top three people are one of the ones you want to dial, or scroll and the keyboard disappears to show call log. 2 Clicks.
Can't say there is going to be a much quicker way of doing it short of voice controls...
There should be speed dial settings but there aren't
You can put direct dials into a swipe launcher. You can call those wity one swipe. Smart task launcher for example has more than 700 spots, swipe pad is more user friendly.
I have used this widget on almost every android I have had in the last few years: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmail.yuyang226.contactswidget
I use Nova Launcher. Swipe up on the dialer icon means direct call to my wife ?
i use full keyboard for typing, but i want to use number pad like the one for phone dialing for typing numbers, is this possible? i used swype before and liked how you and change to number pad for numbers