I dunno about you lot, but I find it a real pain when members of my contact list have their display name as some random quote or statement, but don't actually tell you their name. I found it frustrating having to right click and look at their email address every time they signed on or changed their name while I wasn't looking.
So to combat it, I sent everyone on my contact list that had these types of names (about 30 of them) here, and it worked, almost all of them changed their names No more right clicking for me!
Perhaps I'm turning into an grumpy old man though, perhaps these things shouldn't bother me. Have I have been unnessecessarly rude to them? Or did I have a point?
If it bothers you too, spread the word. Maybe we could change the world....
kool!
Timmeh - maybe you are right; or maybe I'm a Grumpy Old Man myself.
I do have sympathy with your viewpoint.
Thanks for the link. Ready-made sarcasm is a valuable commodity.
Cheers and good luck!
but I like h4x0r text
I know what you mean tho' - with MSN its a pain when people keep changing their name - I just have everyone blocked - and then when they get online I unblock them if I want to speak to them
I usually have my names as ScreenName - message
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I just have everyone blocked - and then when they get online I unblock them if I want to speak to them
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I would have done that, except I would have spent half my life right clicking to look at their email address to decide if it's someone I want to talk to.
Ok I can live with h4x0r text I suppose, as long as it's not too obscure.
I have not tried MSN Plus for a little while but that used to allow you to change your contacts name to a name of your choice so it did not matter if they changed it.
http://www.msgplus.net/
I may be adding it again i was just waiting for MSNM 7 final.
Be carefull to pay attention when installing as it has adware packaged that you can untick but it can easy to skip the screen.
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Keep seeing references to SIP, in ClearTemp there's a setting for it, seen references but have no clue.
Any help?
Alemaker
google "what is sip?"
roverman said:
google "what is sip?"
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BAD ADVICE !!!
your advice returned -->> Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Meanwhile .... when it comes to PDA ... it is actually means --->> SIP (soft input panel) --->>> onscreen input keyboard
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From google query of "What is sip?":
Web definitions for sip = a small drink
Sorry, couldn't resist!
No need to be an asshole just because you know more than him and think noobs don't belong here. You could have just answered something like:
"The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an application-layer control (signaling) protocol for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with one or more participants.
You can find more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
Have a nice day bla bla"
Instead, you just said "google "what is sip?"" like "this is no place for stupid questions goddamit get out".
Show us a little kindness here.
Ps.: I also didn't know what SIP meant. And it in the end it wasn't what it really meant..!!! lol.
Oh well, I tried it b/c I didn't know either. Of course my SIP didn't make much sense to me either...but heck I'm just a GIT (geek in training). Thanks for the correction.
And sorry Alemaker for the misdirection-although with your name, maybe a small drink is the def. you were looking for, LOL
UnicornKaz said:
Meanwhile .... when it comes to PDA ... it is actually means --->> SIP (soft input panel) --->>> onscreen input keyboard
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Thx- but now why would there be references I see, like in ClearTemp where there is a Dead SIP item? is a Dead SIP a bad contact point?
For PDAs, SIP can be either Soft Input Panel (soft keyboard) or Session Initiated Protocol (for VOIP calls).
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No need to be an asshole just because you know more than him and think noobs don't belong here. You could have just answered something like:
"The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an application-layer control (signaling) protocol for creating, modifying, and terminating sessions with one or more participants.
You can find more information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
Have a nice day bla bla"
Instead, you just said "google "what is sip?"" like "this is no place for stupid questions goddamit get out".
Show us a little kindness here.
Ps.: I also didn't know what SIP meant. And it in the end it wasn't what it really meant..!!! lol.
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Actually didn't think it was unkind. Actually, it was quite motherly given other responses on this forum. I could have copied and pasted what I read on google or let him/her read as much as he wanted or was interested in reading on google. Sheesh.
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roverman: If your going to flame someone on their due diligence make sure you don't look stupid and do yours.. or actually know WTF your talking about... think before you flame at least he says hes a noob.. whats your excuse?
google "define pocket pc sip"
Alemaker:
google "ClearTemp sip"
"I've also added a new entry named "Dead SIPs". Sometimes, certain SIPs are not removed from the SIP list properly upon uninstallation. This is where this feature will be helpful. ClearTemp helps you to remove the registry key that is associated with the uninstalled SIP(s)."
http://mobile-sg.com/simpleblog/archives/post.asp?id=1216
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Alemaker:
google "ClearTemp sip"
"I've also added a new entry named "Dead SIPs". Sometimes, certain SIPs are not removed from the SIP list properly upon uninstallation. This is where this feature will be helpful. ClearTemp helps you to remove the registry key that is associated with the uninstalled SIP(s)."
http://mobile-sg.com/simpleblog/archives/post.asp?id=1216
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did see that from the cleartemp site and that's what got me asking to begin with-what's the context here? Is his reference of SIP to an installed VOIP element-or is this something to do with the touchscreen?
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did see that from the cleartemp site and that's what got me asking to begin with-what's the context here? Is his reference of SIP to an installed VOIP element-or is this something to do with the touchscreen?
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In that instance it would be in relation to the SIP (Soft Input Panel). I guess sometimes they don’t uninstall correctly and that will clean the dead ones.
ok-well, that clears it up for me- I think
- lol
Thx
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roverman: If your going to flame someone on their due diligence make sure you don't look stupid and do yours.. or actually know WTF your talking about... think before you flame at least he says hes a noob.. whats your excuse?
google "define pocket pc sip"
Alemaker:
google "ClearTemp sip"
"I've also added a new entry named "Dead SIPs". Sometimes, certain SIPs are not removed from the SIP list properly upon uninstallation. This is where this feature will be helpful. ClearTemp helps you to remove the registry key that is associated with the uninstalled SIP(s)."
http://mobile-sg.com/simpleblog/archives/post.asp?id=1216
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Let's all take a deep breath here. I didn't flame him, I tried to help with a simple solution. Very sorry I didn't ask him how his family was and wish him a happy day. I considered cutting and pasting what I read on google, but thought better to not pretend I knew what I was talking about. I guess I could have explained all this in the first post, but didn't. I've tried to help noobs, being one myself, with posts before they get ripped on by the regulars. My mistake. And have a nice day.
Chill out guys.
TLAs and FLAs are a PITA as they are extremely context sensitive.
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Let's all take a deep breath here. I didn't flame him, I tried to help with a simple solution. Very sorry I didn't ask him how his family was and wish him a happy day. I considered cutting and pasting what I read on google, but thought better to not pretend I knew what I was talking about. I guess I could have explained all this in the first post, but didn't. I've tried to help noobs, being one myself, with posts before they get ripped on by the regulars. My mistake. And have a nice day.
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If you don't know the answer just be quiet, don't give advices!
Hey Everyone,
I am looking to send a single sms to specific multiple contacts. I understand that the sms feature in WM6 allows you to autocomplete a contact by typing theyre name as you go, I am looking for however a CAB file or something that will allow me to do something like tick the people i want to send to?
I hope they're is something like this out for WM6, otherwise its a long time sending about 200 mobiles a new number ha ha.
I'm not a often poster, but long time viewer, and i know you all know your stuff and i'm thankful for anything you can tell me!
Sean Saunders
In Duttys 6.1 rom there is something called groupsms, I dont know how/if it works...but I know its there , may be what you are looking for
SeanSaunders said:
Hey Everyone,
I am looking to send a single sms to specific multiple contacts. I understand that the sms feature in WM6 allows you to autocomplete a contact by typing theyre name as you go, I am looking for however a CAB file or something that will allow me to do something like tick the people i want to send to?
I hope they're is something like this out for WM6, otherwise its a long time sending about 200 mobiles a new number ha ha.
I'm not a often poster, but long time viewer, and i know you all know your stuff and i'm thankful for anything you can tell me!
Sean Saunders
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Don't know if you'd only be satisfied with ticking multiple names, but the auto-complete thing does allow you to type in more than one name. I assume you realized that? Alternatively you can just continually click on "add recipient" and select them all one-by-one, though that's a pain in the ass. I've found the autocomplete for multiple recipients to be pretty fast. Do you not find that to be the case?
I was chatting to a few people on palringo's MoDaCo group and one user suggested Jeyo Mobile Companion 2.0 Demo. It does exactly what i wanted to do on the phone but on windows XP!
I only really needed it as a one off but i would recommend it as a solutions especially if your going to use it reguarly
Thanks for your comments and suggestions though, your all good people!
Sean Saunders
you can try this software SMS Assistant from QimSoft
http://www.qimsoft.com/
After install, it will add one Menu item "Add Recipients" at the bottom of Menu
Click it then it allow you to multi select contact
yeah I use group sms as well you can find it in the development thread. didn't realize it was included in the 6.1 rom as well.
SeanSaunders said:
I was chatting to a few people on palringo's MoDaCo group and one user suggested Jeyo Mobile Companion 2.0 Demo. It does exactly what i wanted to do on the phone but on windows XP!
I only really needed it as a one off but i would recommend it as a solutions especially if your going to use it reguarly
Thanks for your comments and suggestions though, your all good people!
Sean Saunders
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Don't worry mate there is an ultimate solution for GRoup SMS... Although i already answer this query in this forum before but anyway...
You definitely need a RJV SMS SCHEDULER OR SHUBAROO'S GROUP SMS 1.4.4 ...
just goto www.freewarepocketpc.net and search it there
cheers...
Hi Guys
Im loving my XDA Ignito (removed o2 Rom, now just like a HTC Diamond)
The contacts are displayed "surname, first name" this is soooo frustrating !! Please please could somebody help me convert my contacts to "first name, surname" I have roughly 220 numbers.
Thanks
Adam
Change the "File As" field in each contact. You might be able to do this in Outlook too.
umm... why is this such a problem?!?
are people too stupid to remember a surname?
my friend, when you only have 10 friends, as you must with responses like that, it probably isn't.
On the other hand when you have several Samantha's and such on the phone it can be.
So I would still appreciate some help please.
Cheers
fair enough, but i find it easier to go by surname (and i have many Chris' for example, and it is easier just to go to the one person with that one surname than scroll thru loads of Chris' to find the one with the right surname?!!?!?!?!
i think you will find that ur answer does not make sense.
and on this n00bish argument, there are fricking hundreds of threads about this, so sorry if i'm starting to get pissed off with the question.
Just use the smart dial feature, i have exactly the same problem as you, but i cannot/will not sit there and edit, in my case 286 contacts because microsoft is stupid.
i mean really, if they can file them the wrong way round, surely there is an option to file them correctly, i have been saying this since WM5!!!
NOTHING WILL GET DONE, and i dont think it will
Sorry, guess with frickin hundreds of threads on this there must be frickin hundreds of other people who aren't quite as clever at remembering surnames as you.
Thanks for the help.
Am I talking to myself? Edit the contact and change the File As. All my contacts are firstname lastname.
indeed.
there is no answer to this, most people with technology are used to it.
only Nokia 3310 still have first name first.
why dont u just type the name in one line?
Ruffage, I did try this but unfortunately "file as" only give me one option, i.e. "Smith;John/1"
mugglesquop - Have you nothing better to do than waste my time & yours by writing useless sh*t... F*ck off
usless sh*t??
i told you there is no way of changing them all (AFAIK, and i have read a lot of threads on this)
i also told you a way of storing contacts in the way that you want for future use.
useless?
There must be a way of doing this!!
Also if I do what you said for the future, then I would have half my contacts "firstname, surname" & half "surname, first name" how confusing would that be??
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Ruffage, I did try this but unfortunately "file as" only give me one option, i.e. "Smith;John/1"
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Hmm your contacts are messed up then. I get the choice of both ways to display. Perhaps the name is in one field only in Outlook? Can't check here as I'm not at home atm.
When i go to the properties of the contact, there is only a "Name Field" not a First & Last name field.... hmm ?
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When i go to the properties of the contact, there is only a "Name Field" not a First & Last name field.... hmm ?
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It displays like that by default, but there should be a drop down arrow at the right hand side of the Name field and, if you tap that, it'll pop up a further box which shows how the name is actually formatted with the fields Title, First, Middle, Last, Nickname and Suffix.
I changed all my contacts such that only the First name field was populated and had their entire name in there (i.e. "First: John Smith") and that means they all come out as you want with their first name displayed before their last name. That doesn't really help you too much though because you'd have to manually reformat all your contacts which is annoying I know.
Medulla, thanks for that!
I suppose I will just have to spend an hour doing it...
use smartdial or use contact search! why would you want to scroll through a 200 people contactlist?
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use smartdial or use contact search! why would you want to scroll through a 200 people contactlist?
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to show off that he has sooo many contacts apparently
i have to use the recent call list far too many people otherwise
This isnt just me showing off how many people i have in my phonebook (as you say) its obvisouly a common problem otherwise there wouldnt be so many posts about it.
Anyway, it was my old phone what f*cked it up, instead of "first" or "last" name it only put it under "name", so spent an hour or so editing them... now spot on. Also under stand the "file as" now too.
Thanks for all your help (or not for some people)
Cheers
Adam
Hello,
At my HTC diamond contact list, my contacts are listed by lastname (like: lastname, firstname) How can i change this, its a little annoying.
Thanks!
I think you have to edit each contact and change the "File As" setting.
Thanks, but that a lot of work. There must be an other way, isnt it?
OMG... HOW MANY TIMES ARE PEOPLE GONNA POST THIS QUESTION?!?!?!?! grrrr...
use the bloody search.
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OMG... HOW MANY TIMES ARE PEOPLE GONNA POST THIS QUESTION?!?!?!?! grrrr...
use the bloody search.
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Hmm i guess a couple times more
Eeehm can i give you a little advise: keep youre bloospresure low
Edit: I used the search.. and guess what.... i came out in the topic! isnt it cool?
For the people who are useing the search to and come out in this topic: http://www.shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact
On my telephone it only changes 1 contact at the time, but i clicked very fast 100 times at the "change" nutton and almost al my contacts where changed.. thats alot less work than changing it at the windows way (file as...)
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For the people who are useing the search to and come out in this topic: http://www.shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact
On my telephone it only changes 1 contact at the time, but i clicked very fast 100 times at the "change" nutton and almost al my contacts where changed.. thats alot less work than changing it at the windows way (file as...)
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Wow, I was just wondering the same thing... Low and behold, its on the first page. Thanks all!
A hell of a lot easier than going through and doing 259 contacts individually!
Works great!!
Now, if I could get the pictures embedded into my contacts so that I don't have to reapply them. Oh well!
I was wondering if it was possible for anyone to make a dialer to replace the existing one that looks like the Dial Home Device seen on the television show Stargate SG-1. I noticed that there is an iPhone app and was hoping that maybe someone could make one, since I haven't the clue as to how they are made. Any responses are appreciated. Thanks.
Can you get a picture? It may just be a matter of skinning the default dialer.
Obviously the number of symbols is > 0-9 on a regular number pad. I could be cool, but I don't know if it is possible software wise. If someone knows it's physically possible, PM me and I could contribute some art. I would just need the specs because I've only made icons for the g1.
Here are the pictures
This is the one from the iPhone. The first one is when you're dialing. The second one is when you press send to connect the call and is active. The stargate in the backround has the wormhole active. I don't expect the background to do that like it does on the iPhone, but if it was somehow possible, that would be awesome. Hope this helps. Thanks once again.
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Can you get a picture? It may just be a matter of skinning the default dialer.
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Oh yeah, that's a good idea. Pics are now posted. thanks
This sounds like a great idea..
Looks nice, but seems a little crowded to place all the numbers side by side like that, but maybe it will work.
I only mention it because I sometimes mis-dial with the current keypad, which only has 3 numbers across.
: )
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Looks nice, but seems a little crowded to place all the numbers side by side like that, but maybe it will work.
I only mention it because I sometimes mis-dial with the current keypad, which only has 3 numbers across.
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I haven't had that problem with the dialer. I have with text messaging. But i don't think the numbers will be smaller than the letters on the soft keyboard. I would be fine with that. I just want something different from what most have. And I love stargate and when I saw that I just had to have it, but I don't have a clue how to do it, so that's why I ask for help
So...
Does anyone even know if something like this would be close to possible?
Yeah something like this is possible, I bet it would take a while to render the wormhole unless it used the openGL api. You just have to find a dev willing to put in the time for it. Maybe you can ask a dev in the marketplace that already does custom stuff with the dialer (ben or dan, MGeek, ZacCom)
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Yeah something like this is possible, I bet it would take a while to render the wormhole unless it used the openGL api. You just have to find a dev willing to put in the time for it. Maybe you can ask a dev in the marketplace that already does custom stuff with the dialer (ben or dan, MGeek, ZacCom)
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Thanks everyone I appreciate all the help. I will see where I can go from here.
Tools needed?
Ive been looking at this idea too.
Basically, as having the phone make chevron dialing noises is mostly for the novelty of watching people around you giving you weird looks, im going to see if some of the 'simpler' programming tools programs for WM/Android (as a friend has a Dream) to chuck togheter a "select person, then just make dialing sounds" (simple-er) or a "select person, then highlight in an order a bunch of chevrons to hit based on a person name -> numbers formula" (interactive)
I dont really mind having a complex dialing tool, only something that makes it look like you are hitting a whole bunch of chevrons and sounds, with the end result being someone dialed.
I'll have a screwaround in the not so distant future and see what rubbish i spit out; if it turns into anything usable i guess extra complexity can be added.