menu: contacts/more/settings/sort by-
is missing on my phone. stuck on default of sorting contacts by first name.
I aint no teenager with just 10 contacts really need to sort by surname
Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks
I find this annoying too, would love to change it
btw: I think that a teenager has even more contacts...
Bright.Light said:
I find this annoying too, would love to change it
btw: I think that a teenager has even more contacts...
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This perplexed me also but I found that this and other old (and usefu) favourites have been moved to Settings.
Go to Settings / Applications / Contacts and the Sort By option is there along with Name Format and others. ?
Kjr. Thx, but tried that already. On my phone 'sort by' is missing from there too.
Samsung Honk Kong have replied stating that there is no way to sort contacts (other than by the default first name) on this model.
Wow! Very basic function that has been available on smartphones (and their predecessors for more than 10 years).
Can users with other variants of the S7 please confirm that they can sort their contacts?
Thanks
CompleteIdiot said:
Samsung Honk Kong have replied stating that there is no way to sort contacts (other than by the default first name) on this model.
Wow! Very basic function that has been available on smartphones (and their predecessors for more than 10 years).
Can users with other variants of the S7 please confirm that they can sort their contacts?
Thanks
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Hi CompleteIdiot, my model is an SM-G930F, and for Europe according to the papers that came with it. I can confirm, as you will have inferred from my earlier post, that it has Sort Contacts and other options.
It seems perverse to me that Samsung have release a phone that for one regions where these options are disabled but available in another. Hopefully, they will see the error in their ways shortly.
KJR said:
This perplexed me also but I found that this and other old (and usefu) favourites have been moved to Settings.
Go to Settings / Applications / Contacts and the Sort By option is there along with Name Format and others. ��
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Indeed this works, but what an aweful place to hide the settings!
That's what IOS does
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Hello all,
I hope I'm not infringing on some forum rules by asking/posting in this format.
I am looking for a Social centric phonebook much alike the one found with HTC sense or other customized interfaces.
To be clear I'd like to find all information attached to a particular contact in 1 place. So if I get to Mr X, i'll see all text messages ever exchanged with him, his facebook, twitter, what have you page and call logs.
I've seen Phonebook 2.0 www [.] voxmobili [.] com / phonebook / which looks just about right except it appears it hasn't been launched yet.
So is there anything right now that could do the trick.
Note: My nexus is 1 week old if even and I'd rather not root for now but I'd be glad to hear about apps that'd require rooting, for future reference.
Many thanks
www.getaddressbook.com
does what you wwant, but its not perfect. Hopefully it will improve.
That's definitely a good start thanks. I see that the latest version has FB disabled though, I'm not a big user but most of my contacts will be from there so I'm pondering a bit on whether I'll wait or install right away
Airbag888 said:
That's definitely a good start thanks. I see that the latest version has FB disabled though, I'm not a big user but most of my contacts will be from there so I'm pondering a bit on whether I'll wait or install right away
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Are you sure? This appears to be the same version I used to use... You have to install the 'mix-ins' seperately comprende? Or did you do that and it still didn't work? If you want, you can ***** at the dev here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623851
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Are you sure? This appears to be the same version I used to use... You have to install the 'mix-ins' seperately comprende? Or did you do that and it still didn't work? If you want, you can ***** at the dev here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623851
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Actually I read on the changelog that FB was disabled and on market people were complaining about FC's. But I installed it and it works
Will Mango fix the basic functions that were missing when released?
None of the recent reviews seem to address this..
1. Can you listen to movie audio via bluetooth headset ?
2. Can you prevent sms notifications appearing - especially on the lock screen ?
3. Is there now a detailed CALL History ?
4. Can you delete history of recent people, photos, music etc ?
5. Can you forward emails and text messages ?
6. Any sign of SMART Dialing ?
7. Can you SMS to a contacts 2nd mobile number ?
I am sure there are other small things I cant think of...
3. Is there now a detailed CALL History ?
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Call history has been beefed up quite a bit. Not sure exactly what you are looking for though.
5. Can you forward emails and text messages ?
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You have already been able to do this with emails & text messages/mms.
Not sure on the rest, I haven't been specifically looking for those though with the exception of smart dialing, which I do not think is in Mango.
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Will Mango fix the basic functions that were missing when released?
None of the recent reviews seem to address this..
1. Can you listen to movie audio via bluetooth headset ?
2. Can you prevent sms notifications appearing - especially on the lock screen ?
3. Is there now a detailed CALL History ?
4. Can you delete history of recent people, photos, music etc ?
5. Can you forward emails and text messages ?
6. Any sign of SMART Dialing ?
7. Can you SMS to a contacts 2nd mobile number ?
I am sure there are other small things I cant think of...
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1) I think so, not sure.
2) -
3) yes
4) -
5) since lauch
6) -
7) Yes and this is already possible. Just create a second contact and link them together. Kind of hacky true, but it works.
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Will Mango fix the basic functions that were missing when released?
None of the recent reviews seem to address this..
1. Can you listen to movie audio via bluetooth headset ?
2. Can you prevent sms notifications appearing - especially on the lock screen ?
3. Is there now a detailed CALL History ?
4. Can you delete history of recent people, photos, music etc ?
5. Can you forward emails and text messages ?
6. Any sign of SMART Dialing ?
7. Can you SMS to a contacts 2nd mobile number ?
I am sure there are other small things I cant think of...
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Ι am sure that you never had an WP7 device for everyday use ...
I think you just play with one for while ..but not for every day use
ebzrascal said:
Will Mango fix the basic functions that were missing when released? None of the recent reviews seem to address this..
................
I am sure there are other small things I cant think of...
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Ι am sure that you never had an WP7 device for everyday use ...
I think you just play with one for while ..but not for every day use
@colossus_r what is your POINT !!!!!!!!!!
I`ve had a Samsung Omnia since October and carry it everyday along with my Blackberry for work.... but I dont have time to f%%k about trying to work out things that are not obvious!!! My phone is pre-nodo btw if that makes a difference..
About Question 5
Now I am looking at a text message on the phone I press the three dots (...) and the options are send (which just does a reply) and attach. Exactly how do I forward to a different person as it does not seem clear...
About Question 7
Also how would I know that to sms to a 2nd number in contacts I would have to create a 2nd contact for the same person and then link them!!!
Questions were aimed at people who have used the Early Mango Build
Thanks to those who have answered so far
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@colossus_r what is your POINT !!!!!!!!!!
I`ve had a Samsung Omnia since October and carry it everyday along with my Blackberry for work.... but I dont have time to f%%k about trying to work out things that are not obvious!!! My phone is pre-nodo btw if that makes a difference..
About Question 5
Now I am looking at a text message on the phone I press the three dots (...) and the options are send (which just does a reply) and attach. Exactly how do I forward to a different person as it does not seem clear...
About Question 7
Also how would I know that to sms to a 2nd number in contacts I would have to create a 2nd contact for the same person and then link them!!!
Questions were aimed at people who have used the Early Mango Build
Thanks to those who have answered so far
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Come on, jam. Calm down, everyone entitled to their opinions, if you dont like it ignore it.
ebzrascal said:
@colossus_r what is your POINT !!!!!!!!!!
I`ve had a Samsung Omnia since October and carry it everyday along with my Blackberry for work.... but I dont have time to f%%k about trying to work out things that are not obvious!!! My phone is pre-nodo btw if that makes a difference..
About Question 5
Now I am looking at a text message on the phone I press the three dots (...) and the options are send (which just does a reply) and attach. Exactly how do I forward to a different person as it does not seem clear...
About Question 7
Also how would I know that to sms to a 2nd number in contacts I would have to create a 2nd contact for the same person and then link them!!!
Questions were aimed at people who have used the Early Mango Build
Thanks to those who have answered so far
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Come on, jam. Calm down, everyone entitled to their opinions, if you dont like it ignore it.
If you youtube the windows phone mago review you will see some of the features in action which could help some of the questions you havent asked.
Press and hold on a msg, you will see the option for forward. Its pretty easy to find out. That's why the other guy was questioning if you have used a wp7 phone on a daily base. Yeah, you do need to calm down a bit. If those features were important to you, a quick search would have solved your problem.
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ebzrascal said:
Will Mango fix the basic functions that were missing when released?
None of the recent reviews seem to address this..
1. Can you listen to movie audio via bluetooth headset ?
2. Can you prevent sms notifications appearing - especially on the lock screen ?
3. Is there now a detailed CALL History ?
4. Can you delete history of recent people, photos, music etc ?
5. Can you forward emails and text messages ?
6. Any sign of SMART Dialing ?
7. Can you SMS to a contacts 2nd mobile number ?
I am sure there are other small things I cant think of...
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In my opinion, NoDo fixed the basics. WP7 was horrid before NoDo. Mango is supposed to go beyond the basics with added features bringing WP7 up to the level of other smartphones.
what about contact search in mango? anybody has info on whether we can search by company or still by name only?
Not sure, but there are groups anyway, so you could set up business groups.
To the original poster...
1. Dont know, hope so.
2. Dont know again, doesnt really bother me, though, just swipe to the right and it disapears.
3. Yes
4. Dont know, wouldnt use it, so havent looked.
5. Both availble since launch, just hold on the text and click foward (three dots wont work, because how the hell is the phone supposed to know which text you want to foward.) Email just press the lower left icon and it says Reply or Forward, choose forward... Incredibly simple.
6. Dont know, hope so.
7. If there is a second number in your contact you can just do it from the people hub anyway.
Company search for Exchange 2007/2010 always worked always worked I think ...but Exchange 2003 company search (GAL) was enabled in NODO
Thanks to all for answers and appologies if I have offended anyone I am a bit peeved with Microsoft, Orange and Samsung and this non update on my Omnia 7 issue......
Anyway
Email - I just realised that I actually did know previously that you could forward email but forgot as I have been mainly using Company Blackberry for email for a few months now...
SMS - I agree I didnt think it through properly and didnt think about the conversation mode would mean requiring a long press... looked a few times and tried short presses but just assumed it was a missing feature.
Thanks again feeling a bit think now
There is no smart dialing in the beta I'm using
joseph.sapri said:
what about contact search in mango? anybody has info on whether we can search by company or still by name only?
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When I start typing something in the "People" application, it finds it whether it's in the name, company or notes field of my address book. Google apps synced account, if that's of any interest, but I see no reason it wouldn't be global.
I just searched the entire forum for Sensation questions about this.
Anyway its my first Android Phone and so far my experience is really good but for 2 issues.
After I made a master Reset because for some reason after the update from HTC to 1.35.401.1 just so you know I am on this update now the issues where there before this update.
Anyway my first issue or question is with the Calendar and its damn reminder/notification option, I just came from Sony Ericsson Satio/U1i where when I have created the event and go to remind/notifies me I get following options: Date and Time where I can set it to remind me of this even at the date and time I want. Where in the Calendar on HTC I only get the option of X Minuts/Hours/Days/Week preset by Google or HTC not sure who, no 100% free customization is there a Fix for this or something, I have searched the web and the market for anything that could do what I needed, but so far come up short, I normally demand my events to tell me the day before at 6PM that I next day have something planned, and atm I can trow this phone and all the apps and calendars I found into a wall and tell it to well never come back. Its the worst useless Calendar i ever seen. Anyway Anyone know a fix for this or a app I have missed that give me 100% customization over this?
My second issue or Question is for some reason when I wanna make a phone call or makes a new text/mms and wanna find the person to call am I showed both my phone Contacts and my Sim contacts even tho I told under persons to hide my Sim contacts, is there no way to make sure it do not show the damn sim contacts without having to delete them?
I hope you can help and I'm truly sorry if I missed anything that answer this but I searched Sensation department for it and found nothing giving me this answer.
calendar: can't you just download another calendar app that works how you want it? it's not the worst calendar you've ever seen just because it doesn't do 1 thing that you want it to do
contacts: people still have sim contacts? since android, i have found it far more convenient to just have all my contacts set up as google contacts, and just sync that...maybe you can set up your sim contacts as a 'group' and then only view specific groups when you want them?
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calendar: can't you just download another calendar app that works how you want it? it's not the worst calendar you've ever seen just because it doesn't do 1 thing that you want it to do
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I know my writing in English is not that good because its not my main language and also because i have a mild dyslexia, but I did write in the Calendar part that I have since I found out of this issue tested many if not every single Calendar APP I could find. I also tried APP's that claimed to improve on the original Calendar yet non did what I needed, Either there where no option to set a Reminder/Notification or if there where it used the build in version = UTTER CRAP. Hence why I ask here in hope someone know something that could do it, I have not tested the ones you have to buy as I have no refund chances in case it does not work well those I found has not and Google confirms that, so since I can't read anywhere they have it will I not waste my money on it just yet.
And Yes it is the worst Calendar on the fact no Company like Google who claims to make something for everyone including BIG BUSINESSES, would in their right mind send out something That do not allow for 100% customization over the reminder/notification in it like this, No wonder Google keeps scoring low in making good products for Businesses in this area. Had Google not claimed to make something GOOD and something that everyone including big businesses could use then I would agree then its just a stupid move and sad move.
n7of9 said:
contacts: people still have sim contacts? since android, i have found it far more convenient to just have all my contacts set up as google contacts, and just sync that...maybe you can set up your sim contacts as a 'group' and then only view specific groups when you want them?
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Hmm yes I know I could delete my Sim Card Contacts I just hoped to avoid it as I kinda like it you know Nostalgic? I mean I still have a Commedore 64, Amiga, Nitendo and so forth just because I love the nostalgic part in it .
About Ring Volume...
Hi guys,i would like to ask is there a way to increase the ring volume on stock Sensation,cause it's really too low,but the option volume is on hightest level? Best regards,thanks in advance.
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Hi guys,i would like to ask is there a way to increase the ring volume on stock Sensation,cause it's really too low,but the option volume is on hightest level? Best regards,thanks in advance.
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Get the app Volume+ from here. Mess around with the settings but be careful. It helps a lot.
Thank You!
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Anyone with ideas/help for my Calendar and SMS/MMS/Phone Call issues?
Well, as the name of the thread explains quite well, my dialer is not searching in the contact names. It only searches the numbers.
The phone is pretty new. Bought it last week while travelling internationally. Didn't use the phone features till today when I got back. I have downloaded and installed a lot of games so I don't want to factory reset it.
Any ideas?
PS: Tried searching through XDA and Google for a solution. Didn't find anything that could help me. Don't bash me if I missed something.
SOLUTION:
Delete google account and re-add it.
Couple things I can think of.
1) Have you got your contact sync on?
2) dialed enough numbers? Think you need to dial 2-3 before it shows last I tried.
3) what FW you using etc?
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radicalisto said:
Couple things I can think of.
1) Have you got your contact sync on?
2) dialed enough numbers? Think you need to dial 2-3 before it shows last I tried.
3) what FW you using etc?
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1. Sync is on.
2. Made enough calls but I don't see how that should affect searching.
3. PDA: N9005ZHUBMI7
PHONE: N9005XXUBMI5
CSC: N9005ZZHBMI7
Ah One of the firmwares doesn't do the number prediction on dialling. Can't remember which one it was, but I've seen threads about it before. But it is possible it's your region
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radicalisto said:
Ah One of the firmwares doesn't do the number prediction on dialling. Can't remember which one it was, but I've seen threads about it before. But it is possible it's your region
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Oh. That's surprising.
Bah, will download another version tonight. Slow download speed here. Would report tomorrow.
Thanks.
Had that with the s4. Just restart the phone.
tclocki said:
Had that with the s4. Just restart the phone.
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I really did try that before asking for help, man.
Update:
I had installed whatsapp (finally) and noticed that smart dialling started working after that.
But it only searches in the names of contacts who are linked to whatsapp. The ones who are linked only to my google account are still not searched.
This is the weirdest bug I have ever encountered in any phone/ROM.
FeralFire said:
Update:
I had installed whatsapp (finally) and noticed that smart dialling started working after that.
But it only searches in the names of contacts who are linked to whatsapp. The ones who are linked only to my google account are still not searched.
This is the weirdest bug I have ever encountered in any phone/ROM.
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Hmm that is bizarre. open dialer > hit the soft key > settings and choose contacts to display? maybe it's not set to default (All) - or like I said previously, could be the firmware (cannot find the thread that mentions about it now )
FeralFire said:
I really did try that before asking for help, man.
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I see, thought it was gonna help. That happened to me right after I upgraded my s4 to 4.3 in october. It really annoyed me. Hope you get it sorted out soon.
radicalisto said:
Hmm that is bizarre. open dialer > hit the soft key > settings and choose contacts to display? maybe it's not set to default (All) - or like I said previously, could be the firmware (cannot find the thread that mentions about it now )
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tclocki said:
I see, thought it was gonna help. That happened to me right after I upgraded my s4 to 4.3 in october. It really annoyed me. Hope you get it sorted out soon.
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Solved it by deleting the google account and readding it. DOn't know why I didn't think of it before.
Thanks for the help guys.
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Any chance to get searching on Hong Kong firmware?
Smartdial (pinyin only) doesn't work on latest stock firmware (6.0.1) for Samsung Note 4 Duos, too.
Latin etc alphabetic languages OK.
Strange, because in stock contacts app, hieroglyphic names are grouped to the correct pinyin's first letter!
So the hieroglyphs are rendered to pinyin by system internally, but it's not used in the dialer.
Hi everyone !
I just would like to expose my solution about this problem. I have a Honor 9 with official firmware and this function worked like a charm for few weeks, but stop a day !
So to get back this function, I had to go to the contacts application, next click on "more", next "organize contacts" and finally "repair index data".
And it works !
So now if I want to make a phone call to "Sophie" for example, I can just type : "76" or "767".
My phone is in french. Application contacts, puis "plus", puis "organiser les contacts", puis enfin "Réparer l'index des données"
Hi udine1981!
I have the exact same problem with my Honor 8, but after I do reindexing, it only works for a few hours and after that I cannot find the contacts again...
Was reindexing once a permanent solution on your case?
Br,
Greg from Hungary
Hi,
just purchased this phone in UK and have noticed these problems in contacts:
I get this problem when receiving calls and viewing contacts, when I go into a contact it says contact name example:
'John Smith'
Mobile/Home 'Unknown City' Image below:
or
'John Smith'
Mobile/Home 'Chinese characters' like below: (please see images below)
when I try to edit a contact or create a new one there is no field about city or area location. When I receive a call it shows the contact name or number accompanied by either of the above.
There's not any option as far as I know to contact Lenovo support for smartphones, I've posted on Lenovo community awaiting response but thought I'd give this forum a try.
please can someone give me advice on this matter? This is great phone, I'd like to get this problem resolved if possible and don't want to return unless really necessary.
my rom version detail is: Baseband Version A850+. V1, 2014/01/22 19.57 Build number A850+_S118_140226
thanks in advance.
Seems like your contact apk is different form mine... which version of Idealfriend are you using?
I have some ways/solutions for your problems:
- If you have a google account conected, synchronize your contacts and then you can edit them online from here.
- Export your contacts to your SD open them with notepad in your PC and edit the contacts (the pattern/code is easy).
- Change Idealfriends with an other version (you can find a version here), back up your old version first
I hope you solve your problems...
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Seems like your contact apk is different form mine... which version of Idealfriend are you using?
I have some ways/solutions for your problems:
- If you have a google account conected, synchronize your contacts and then you can edit them online from here.
- Export your contacts to your SD open them with notepad in your PC and edit the contacts (the pattern/code is easy).
- Change Idealfriends with an other version (you can find a version here), back up your old version first
I hope you solve your problems...
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Thanks very much for taking time to reply but I have sent the phone back to seller, I believe the contacts application should work without my having to make the helpful modifications you advise. It's very unfortunate because apart from the appalling Lenovo contact manager, this phone is very awesome.
The phone had an updated version V3.0.286140630.c6ec4eb_hdpi installed, which when I updated thought would resolve the issues but in fact it made matters worse than original.
The version you recommend also has problems with caller id which is one of the other problems I was experiencing, I was prepared to live with that problem but not those being experienced with my car kit.
Solution
rincal said:
Thanks very much for taking time to reply but I have sent the phone back to seller, I believe the contacts application should work without my having to make the helpful modifications you advise. It's very unfortunate because apart from the appalling Lenovo contact manager, this phone is very awesome.
The phone had an updated version V3.0.286140630.c6ec4eb_hdpi installed, which when I updated thought would resolve the issues but in fact it made matters worse than original.
The version you recommend also has problems with caller id which is one of the other problems I was experiencing, I was prepared to live with that problem but not those being experienced with my car kit.
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The solution is in a bit of delay, but may help others.
Go to: Contacts > Settings > Location , Now press the settings button (The one that looks like a list beyond the screen), Settings > Disable all .
Hope that helps.
GreatApo said:
Seems like your contact apk is different form mine... which version of Idealfriend are you using?
I have some ways/solutions for your problems:
- If you have a google account conected, synchronize your contacts and then you can edit them online from here.
- Export your contacts to your SD open them with notepad in your PC and edit the contacts (the pattern/code is easy).
- Change Idealfriends with an other version (you can find a version here), back up your old version first
I hope you solve your problems...
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Well he has an exact same phone as me, A850 CN (probably, looking forward to install TWRP on mine after getting a good feedback).
I don't know about the location thing but the chinese-ish contacts, I have to bear with it.
Getting rid of Chinese Characters
samp01 said:
The solution is in a bit of delay, but may help others.
Go to: Contacts > Settings > Location , Now press the settings button (The one that looks like a list beyond the screen), Settings > Disable all .
Hope that helps.
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Thank you so much. I was trying to get rid of the Chinese characters appearing in the phone app and your solution fixed this too! Please give yourself a pat on the back. from me!