Do you have a nickname field in your contacts? I am pretty sure that on different androids there is one, also my exDialer has a option to search in nickname field, but in my people app I cannot find this field. I have nicknames filled in my outlook, and I can't see them after the sync, nor edit on its own, the filed is just not in contact details.
Anybody know how to enable it or why this is happening?
Thanks
ArdW said:
Do you have a nickname field in your contacts? I am pretty sure that on different androids there is one, also my exDialer has a option to search in nickname field, but in my people app I cannot find this field. I have nicknames filled in my outlook, and I can't see them after the sync, nor edit on its own, the filed is just not in contact details.
Anybody know how to enable it or why this is happening?
Thanks
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Yes, I have many contacts with nicknames showing. If you enter them in Google Contacts, the field will appear. If you want to add to a contact on the phone, tap the contact, menu->edit, at the bottom there is a button "add another field". Nickname is there.
doogald said:
Yes, I have many contacts with nicknames showing. If you enter them in Google Contacts, the field will appear. If you want to add to a contact on the phone, tap the contact, menu->edit, at the bottom there is a button "add another field". Nickname is there.
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yeah thats where it should be! I have there under add another field: phonetic name, email, im, address, notes, website, internet call, events. But not nickname. I dont use google sync, but I am using outlook sync and I have the field correctly filled.
ArdW said:
yeah thats where it should be! I have there under add another field: phonetic name, email, im, address, notes, website, internet call, events. But not nickname. I dont use google sync, but I am using outlook sync and I have the field correctly filled.
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Boy, I haven't used Outlook (thankfully!) for years now. Maybe the sync doesn't support that field? As I said, it shows up in Google Contacts.
doogald said:
Boy, I haven't used Outlook (thankfully!) for years now. Maybe the sync doesn't support that field? As I said, it shows up in Google Contacts.
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it is really weird. I had google nexus before for testing and nickname was there. And I didn't sync that phone with anything...
EDIT: yeah, you are right. It is because I am using localaccount and not google account. Thanks for pointing this out.
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I have tried to find a way around, but could not. Google search didnt help either.
I want to go into contacts, and email a contact's details to someone. I cannot seem to copy/paste the phone nos from contacts to email page. any solutions?
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ashu9uf said:
I have tried to find a way around, but could not. Google search didnt help either.
I want to go into contacts, and email a contact's details to someone. I cannot seem to copy/paste the phone nos from contacts to email page. any solutions?
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In the contact list, tap and hold to get up the menu. Select 'Send Contact >' and choose your option from there.
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In the contact list, tap and hold to get up the menu. Select 'Send Contact >' and choose your option from there.
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its stuck in messages (sms) outbox even when the To: field has an email address.
Hi,
I see that the calendar that comes with the Note 10.1 allows us to add participants to our calendar events directly from our contact list. Lol, about time Google added that option.
Anyway, all of my Contacts are from my Google Account. I have hundreds of contacts yet when I click on the participants button only about 8 contacts come up. They aren't favorites or anything. They just seem random.
Anyone have any idea what is going on here and how I can set it to access all of my contacts? Thanks.
Ah, I think I get it. It only lists contacts that have email addresses. Hmm, I wonder if there is a way to make it list all contacts?
mitchellvii said:
Ah, I think I get it. It only lists contacts that have email addresses. Hmm, I wonder if there is a way to make it list all contacts?
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I suspect not. Isn't the idea that it uses the addresses to inform them of the event, changes etc.?
RikF said:
I suspect not. Isn't the idea that it uses the addresses to inform them of the event, changes etc.?
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Yes I guess but since there are many benefits to adding a contact to an event besides simply
emailing them would be nice to not impose that limitation. That if I wanted the contact there to call or navigate to an address?
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I have syncronized google contacts with my 8x but in my contacts appears only the name, not the number, am i doing something wrong? please help
htctouchelfin said:
I have syncronized google contacts with my 8x but in my contacts appears only the name, not the number, am i doing something wrong? please help
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You linked your google account to your phone? It should show practically all of the contact details. Do you have the phone numbers in a field that is not labeled "mobile", "work", "home", or "pager"?
I've used google to store all of my address book details since back in the day when I was on a blackberry. When I switched to Windows Phone, I had to go through and correct a lot of contacts that had their numbers stored in the work field to the mobile field since Windows Phone is persnickity about sending SMS to any number other than mobile.
Not sure what you could have done wrong. Could you provide more details?
When I attempt to "share" all of someone's contact information with another person, only the phone numbers were copied over. This is what I did: I clicked on "People", then I clicked on the "contact" that I wanted to "Share". The "info" page came up and I clicked on "Share Contact". When the "Share contact via" window popped up, I hit "Go SMS Pro". This takes me into my text messaging app, but only copies over the two phone numbers, not the address. How do I "Share" all of a contacts information?
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When I attempt to "share" all of someone's contact information with another person, only the phone numbers were copied over. This is what I did: I clicked on "People", then I clicked on the "contact" that I wanted to "Share". The "info" page came up and I clicked on "Share Contact". When the "Share contact via" window popped up, I hit "Go SMS Pro". This takes me into my text messaging app, but only copies over the two phone numbers, not the address. How do I "Share" all of a contacts information?
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Guessing this may be something to do with Go SMS because when I try this with a different app, e.g. share to Gmail, the entire contact is put in a .vcf format contact email attachment including phone numbers, emails, addresses, web site, and photo.
U will Send by the sms.
alistairs1 said:
Guessing this may be something to do with Go SMS because when I try this with a different app, e.g. share to Gmail, the entire contact is put in a .vcf format contact email attachment including phone numbers, emails, addresses, web site, and photo.
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When I try to share contact information, there is no "gmail" option in the "Share contact via" window.
Wergin said:
U will Send by the sms.
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Looks like I need to install a different SMS app (I did not like the Hangouts app).
When defining relationships within contacts, I can never pick my own contact. When editing my own contact, I can not even add a relationship field. I can define relationships between other contacts, but can not define anything for myself.
How can I define my own relationships? I know I can use Ok Google to chose contacts to call when telling it to call my spouse for example, but how can I actually store that information within her profile like I can for all other contacts other than my own?
What relationship do you have with yourself? Friend? Spouse? Family?
It's you, you do not have a relationship with yourself
The reason you can add relationships to other contacts is because that field is what relationship YOU have with them
So for wife you would put "Spouse" as that is your relationship with her
You would not have anything to add to your own contact unless you married yourself
The reason you can add relationships to other contacts is because that field is what relationship YOU have with them
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But that would mean that I would have to be able to select myself in that list when defining relations - and that's not possible.
So all I can do is define relations between other contacts. For example I can edit my spouses profile, chose father and select my spouses fathers contact and that will work.
So for wife you would put "Spouse" as that is your relationship with her
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Simply chosing spouse without entering any name does not work - and my own contact is not available to select.
Am I missing something here?
Btw, I am using the default Samsung Contacts, not Google Contacts if that makes a difference.
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But that would mean that I would have to be able to select myself in that list when defining relations - and that's not possible.
So all I can do is define relations between other contacts. For example I can edit my spouses profile, chose father and select my spouses fathers contact and that will work.
Simply chosing spouse without entering any name does not work - and my own contact is not available to select.
Am I missing something here?
Btw, I am using the default Samsung Contacts, not Google Contacts if that makes a difference.
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Sorry yes you are right (partially), I remembered it wrongly, you can choose a contact to add as a relationship to another contact, but you can also choose yourself as that contact
I've just added myself as brother to my brothers contact, and also spouse to my gf's contact
It did however use my Gmail contact, not the one I have saved as my own main contact on the phone
Try adding yourself as a contact to your Google contacts first
(Also using Samsung contacts app)
When in my own main contact for myself, it has an option "My Relationships" under the main picture, with a + in a circle to add people to, I have added my gf as spouse to my own contact and it works fine, when you hit the + to add more, it opens your contact details where you can add multiple relationships
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It's you, you do not have a relationship with yourself
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I agree with Detection, all of your contacts orbit around you. You define all other contacts in your universe and how close an orbit they have near you. You are the center of the universe. You are the all important one. Your contacts bow to your omnipotent awesomeness.
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