every time I want to save a phone number, the default storage is the SIM card. But i use my google account. so I have to change it but some times I forget to change it. Do anyone knows how to change this?
I've been trying to do this since the phone updated itself to the new android version with no success. It is really annoying ...
I was hoping to get an answer in here.
I checked my Contacts app just now. But its default storage is device storage. Not clear why they are different. It's a pity that I failed to find any setting options for the default storage.
This is happening in my mother's P30 and sister Mate 20 Lite.
It's a real bummer, I probably would have decided on another brand if I had known they would have to select their google account for each new contact.
I really think it's impossible for a brand in 2019 to publish a software where the default storage setting is the SIM card.
I have done this on a Mate 20 pro and it works. There is no place to change or set a default location to store contacts - what you do is when you create a contact select the storage location you want to be th edefault. This then becomes your default for the next time you create a contact. It's a bit of an issue if you keep changing where to store contacts, because each time the last change become the default.
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I've been finding this annoying hoping to find some answer.
Whenever I add a number to the phone, it doesn't get formatted.
ie, I enter "1234567890" I see it as "(123) 456-7890" on the display, but as soon as I save that number to a contact, it turns back into "1234567890" not as "(123) 456-7890". hence I'll need to navigate through the symbols menu and format it myself manually.
Is there a way to fix this?
This doesn't apply if I add a contact from outlook and sync, they're all formatted nicely. Only when adding number on the phone.
and I'm using WM6.1 by Gonzo.
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The same for me but in reverse, I want "12345678" in contact but outlook let me done
That is easy
in windows xp
Go to the control panel in the option Calls and Modem and edit MY PLACE chooses the country INTERNATIONAL PHONE SERVICE FREE
sorry for translation my english is sux and i use xp PT Br
I'm just wondering if it's just me, or does everybody's Vox behave the same as mine?
Wondering if it's because of the custom firmware, or has this behavior been there for all the different Windows Mobile.
inoutlook theres an optionfor autoformating
dont know where but ive had s.th like this already go for google its an outlookproblem!
just trying to reel this thread back to the original topic...my problem isn't with outlook, it's with saving number with formatting on the phone by itself.
a "(123) 456-7890" number as seen on the display when I enter a number on the phone gets saved as "1234567890" when I choose save to contact or save to new contact, which I'll need to manually format it myself to "(123) 456-7890".
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jasonchewy said:
just trying to reel this thread back to the original topic...my problem isn't with outlook, it's with saving number with formatting on the phone by itself.
a "(123) 456-7890" number as seen on the display when I enter a number on the phone gets saved as "1234567890" when I choose save to contact or save to new contact, which I'll need to manually format it myself to "(123) 456-7890".
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I have the same issue as you. But the path of least resistance is the outlook suggestion above.
Here's what happens. You set the locality in windows to international; sync your phone to outlook, take out the dashes and parenthesis in outlook; sync with the phone; and all the numbers are displayed 1234567890.
I've searched for a way to configure it in the phone itself to no avail. I've searched through several forums and this is pretty much the only solution. Think some info in the setup VoIP/SIP threads maybe helpful. But this is a much faster solution.
If you find a way to do it, post it here bro.
I can't find the answer to this questions anywhere, so I thought the good old xda community could help.
I have two exchange accounts set up in my phone and no Gmail accounts. Before I was able to add contacts as "phone only, unsynced". Now that I have the exchange accounts whenever I want to add a contact I have to choose one of those two accounts but there is no option to save "phone-only".
Question: How can I add phone-only, unsynced contacts?
Thanks in advance for any insights!
Try turning off sync temporarily on both email account under Setting-->Accounts then add a contact and see if that gives you the unsync option back when adding contacts. Let me know how it goes
Sync is off in both accounts. I only receive email through push. Thanks for suggestion though! Any other ideas?
Any ideas on this? Appreciate any help!
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Sorry for reviving such an old thread but I had this problem and while I was searching for a solution this came up so for the sake of completeness here is a possible answer.
There is an app that allows you to import appointments from iCal files now while that is not you issue to do this the app creates a dummy account on the phone that is unsynced and from my experience you are able to add contacts under that account.
So hopefully this works for you.
Also just to mention this app is not mine nor have I had any input into it.
The app page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905213
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Hi, I'm looking into upgrading my Motorola Atrixand in the meantime decided to update android. Immediately following the update (to 2.3), I realized that my old SIM contacts were missing. However, I noticed the missing contacts, although deleted from my SIM were somewhere on my phone. Ex. in my text history, the names were still there. I could click on a contact and when in edit mode, it read: unsynced contacts from att address book. I found no solution on android forums, etc. So I logged in to att.com and performed a search. It lead me to instructions on how to migrate contacts from 1 phone to another. I know I'm only referring to the same phone, but I tried it anyway. It worked!!
All you need to do is go to contacts, menu, export to sd card (hopefully your phone supports external storage). Then import from sd card. All my contacts are back. I first tried to export to SIM card, but It didn't work (however, this is where I could visually see my missing contacts as it allows you to select - I have over 800 contacts so I dont have time to go through the list) - I'm guessing this issue occurred to people whose complete contact list would not fit on the SIM. Probably if your contact list did fit on the SIM you did not experience this issue. If it happened to you and you do not have external storage I guess you could still use the SIM option by selecting a few contacts at a time - if you maxxed out the SIM storage you would need to delete them from SIM before copying more.
Anyway, once you do this it adds all contacts to the Google address book so you're now good to switch phones and get them just by adding your Google acount.
Hope this helps some folks - I was feeling desperate without about 150 of my oldest contacts.
So I have 2 problems with the contacts:
1) When I go in messaging and then add a contact, all are doubled. Doing some research it seems the messaging application displays all contacts, in my case phone + sim. Now one of the solutions would be to delete the contacts from the sim, but then there's the other problem.
2) For some strange reason I cannot edit or delete contacts from the sim. I used to be able, but then I suddenly couldn't anymore. Then I did a factory reset (because of another small problem) and I was able to edit contacts. After some time it didn't allow me to do it, again...
Any ideas as to why? I don't use any third party application and don't have a google/facebook/whatever account connected. Galaxy 3 updated to Froyo.
3) I currently have a SanDisk 4GB class 2 card. It's quite old (3-4 years) and it has been formatted a couple of times. I also need more space so I'm planning to buy a new card.
I know our phone supports up to 32GB but that is really too much for me, so I was thinking to buy a 8/16 GB class 6/8/10. Any particular suggestions (brands, sizes, speeds)? I'm buying on Amazon UK.
Thanks for any help.
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So I have 2 problems with the contacts:
1) When I go in messaging and then add a contact, all are doubled. Doing some research it seems the messaging application displays all contacts, in my case phone + sim. Now one of the solutions would be to delete the contacts from the sim, but then there's the other problem.
2) For some strange reason I cannot edit or delete contacts from the sim. I used to be able, but then I suddenly couldn't anymore. Then I did a factory reset (because of another small problem) and I was able to edit contacts. After some time it didn't allow me to do it, again...
Any ideas as to why? I don't use any third party application and don't have a google/facebook/whatever account connected. Galaxy 3 updated to Froyo.
3) I currently have a SanDisk 4GB class 2 card. It's quite old (3-4 years) and it has been formatted a couple of times. I also need more space so I'm planning to buy a new card.
I know our phone supports up to 32GB but that is really too much for me, so I was thinking to buy a 8/16 GB class 6/8/10. Any particular suggestions (brands, sizes, speeds)? I'm buying on Amazon UK.
Thanks for any help.
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huh...well...for contacts: just delete them all
that are on phone...backup the ones you need with any app capable of backup contacts...then only import the ones you want from sim...and restore the ones that were on phone before & aren't doubled...
for sdcard:
i personaly use Verbatim 8Gb class 10...it's great sdcard...
what is above 8Gb...on our phone takes long time on boot up for media scanner to scan if the sdcard is filled a lot...
anyway...i'm more than happy with this one i've bought from some Slovenian online store....
I hope that helps a bit
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Thanks for the reply.
What I would like to do with the contacts is edit the ones in the sim, but as I said I can't.
As for the SD card I went ahead and bought a Samsung 16GB class 10 card. It has a good price and positive reviews.
About the media scanner taking long, it shouldn't be a problem since I add only music to the card and I do it only once in a while.
My suggestion would be to open a google account.
And never worry for your contacts.
Registering takes just a couple of minutes.
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There's also one another solution if you want to hide double contacts.
Go to more from the menu option select display option. open up the drop down list of sim..uncheck "all contacts."
You are done.
Also If you want to backup all your contacts select Import/ Export--> export to sd card..
You have backuped all your backups in your sd card as a vcf file.
Whenever you format/factory reset your phone and want your contacts back..go to import/export--> import from sd card .it will automatically search for vcf files in your sd card and you are done
For editing purpose you will have to use kies if its working still after flashing or else try my phone explorer its an app that will backup messages, contacts, menu, call logs etc
Hope it helped.
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as already said:
open a google mail account, store your contacts online at google
-> no need to worry about loosing the contacts at next format/wipe!
For speed and classes, please have a look here.
no real need for fast and expensive cards.
Taken from this thread.
The choice is yours.
Cheers
qaysed
Thanks guys for the replies.
I will probably link it to my google account.
Regarding the memory I already suspected it but I use my card on a card reader so class 10 makes a difference.
I have moved contacts from SIM to phone, added contacts over time, and before changing phones, moved all contacts to the SIM creating duplicates. Some I think are from facebook and have no numbers. Some I have up to 5 duplicates.
In display options I have "Only contacts with phone numbers" unchecked with everything below also checked. A particular contact has 6 entries. A couple have numbers, most are empty and one facebook. When I select show only contacts with numbers I get 2. When I go to SIM management to export to SIM I see 6 again. There is no way to distinguish which has a number or any way to filter. All there is, is a checkbox and a name 6 times. I even merged the 5 of them and when I went to export to SIM I saw all of them separately again.
I can't write all 800+ to the SIM so how can I only transfer the ones with numbers attached??? The only way I can delete the contacts without numbers is to open the contact, see if it has a number and delete. I seriously don't want to do that 500 times.
Is there a smart way to write only the contacts with numbers to the SIM? I surely would appreciate the help!
Running 2.3.6
Why are you saving to sim card? Just manage them in contacts app and they sync with Google account between devices. There's an option in Google desktop contacts to merge duplicates.
BTW, sim contacts are stored as one contact per number. So a phone contact with 2 numbers will actually create 2 separate entries when exported to sim card.
I'm looking up Google Contacts and it has been discontinued. I found Google Desktop, but then started running across all these plug-in and fixes for different problems of mismatched databases...
I write them to the SIM so I can switch it another phone and have them all. It's just how I've been doing it since before any back-up capabilities. I suppose I need to open a new email account that doesn't have a couple of hundred email addresses to deal with and no phone numbers. Facebook contacts got copied as a name only because they were an entry I guess. No email address or anything.
I do need to find some way of merging all the duplicates. Do you have another suggestion that's not going to require me to read and dig up a discontinued program that I can continue to use? lol
I'm referring to the contacts in your Google (i.e. Gmail) account, certainly no discontinued and no plugin required, just log into it from a browser and go to the contacts tab. All of your contacts should be synced from your phone and you can find duplicates and merge there, which will then sync back to your phone.
Guess I'm making the assumption that you have a Gmail or Google apps account, which is almost a necessity with an Android device.
^ what he said. Its much easier to manage contacts in Gmail and have it sync over. If you change number or lost your phone no need to ask people for their number ever.
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I agree that it's easier to maintain it how you say.
That was nuts! I thought they were already synchronized with gmail, but I guess not. I went through and deleted what I wanted in gmail, then everything in my phone. I went to sync bac and it said it couldn't becuase of too many deleted contacts. I thought, yes, just delete them. Then I watched all my contacts disappear from my gmail account on my PC. Gmail has a cool feature to resore contacts as they were minute by minute. Eventually I got the whole list back and on my phone.
Thanks for the help! Saving them to the SIM is old school now...
I rooted my phone last night and thinking about installing ICS, the second leaked version UCLD2 because I'm not liking the lock screen on 2.3.6. I want to find a setup for my Skyrocket that people are liking, but that's kind of hard.... Hey, here's a great ROM. Camera is broken, WiFi has issues, screen gets stuck in wrong orientation... but it's great! Does't seem to be much out there for the Skyrocket. I was looking in the forum here under my correct phone type. Suggestions? I know, wrong thread, just asking a BTW...
ROM
check out skyrocket Android development for Listing of Roms. I'm using SKYICS
I think that's where I got the UCLD2. I don't like it at all. I don't know if apps don't work because they're not ready, of if it's this version of ICS. People say it sucks for the battery and it's because messaging sits there and uses 90 of the cpu even in my pocket and the phone gets hot for no reason. I'll look up yours. Thanks Raven
Just click menu and merge with google
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I just got my Note 5 today and I was working through setting it up. I was able to setup a new default ringtone just fine. But, I have a different ringtone I use for my wife so that I know when she's calling. I've looked through all the settings and seem to be unable to set a ringtone specific to that contact. Anyone else having this issue or is it just me?
On the Note 4 I did this by editing the contact & there was an option to assign a ringtone. It doesn't seem it's anywhere to be found on the Note 5.
You have to hit edit and then add another field then ring tone
I tried that, but didn't see the option there. This is all I see when I try to add a new contact field.
I do have the option to assign Ringtones just like the other guy said. Works fine... Click on contact.. Click edit.. Click add... Click assign Ringtone
This might not work if you have your wife's number saved to your SIM card.
I figured out the problem. I use Card-dav to store & sync my contacts (I don't use Gmail or Google contacts), and for whatever reason they Note 5 is not setup to allow custom ringtones for those contacts (even though it did just fine on the Note 4). So, I just created a device contact & set the ringtone there, then linked the two contacts together. A bit cumbersome, but it'll get the job done since it's the only contact that requires that kind of work.
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I figured out the problem. I use Card-dav to store & sync my contacts (I don't use Gmail or Google contacts), and for whatever reason they Note 5 is not setup to allow custom ringtones for those contacts
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That's a bit dissapointing. I use card-dav as well. Thank you for figuring this out.