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Default to Business instead of mobile number

Does anyone know if it is possible to have the phone default to the business number instead of the mobile number of a contact?
This can save me quite some usage costs.

How is it you are calling people? Do you use the default WM6 contact's list?

I type in some of the keys of the keypad until the right contact is found and the press the green button to call the person.
This takes the mobile number as default.

Got it...
I'll explain step by step what i did, just so we know we're on the right page...
Pressed Green Phone button
Typed in name using On-Screen Button's (I typed in Kenny, so dialled 5 3 6 6 9)
When Kenny's name appeard, I pressed and held his name, so a menu appeared from my stylus
I selected "Work"
I immediately hung up (cos i didn't actually want to call him, just test this theory )
From then on, whenever I dialled Kenny, it would default to his work number.
Try this and see if it works, I know it's not an ideal solution, but let me know how you get on...
EDIT: Alternatively, I've just found out you can use the D-pad to change the default. SO step by step again...
Press Green Phone button
Use on-screen dialler
when your desired contact appears, press down on the D-Pad untill you highlight them
When highlighted, press right on the D-Pad to change the default number (for reference; h = home, m = mobile, w = work)

That seems to work.
The problem is however that it takes me to remember I actually called this person before.
The trouble is that I have 700 colleagues with a short (cheaper) business number and a mobile number.
An alternative I tried was to switch the business number and the mobile number in the contacts, but the I get in to trouble when I want to send an SMS.

Thanks for letting me know about the PAD
I was actually calling people and hanging up all over the place until I realized through Your note that I can just go into contacts and while scrolling down the contacts with the nav-pad change their default number by pressing the nav-pad sideways... No need to call people hanging up on them

That sounds excellent.
I tried it and it works for me.
Thanks for the tip.

Carrier Notification popups... Isn't there any way to get rid of them?

Hi
Well, basically my problem is as explained in the topic.
Here in Portugal, Vodafone sends a message after a call (if you initiated it that is) with your account balance, total call time and cost.
I spoke with them in order to remove that message but it seems that its hard coded for my subscription plan and they can't remove it. I would have to migrate to a monthly contract which doesn't have those messages. The problem is that my current plan offers me free sms, phone calls, video calls etc so I'm not interested in migrating.
Isn't there any way to just hide those notidications? Its because the "ok" button is so small that many times I have to get the stylus out and press on it because my fingers are too large.
This popup appears after the call is terminated from the top screen (not the same as when you recieve an SMS... in the latter case the popup appears on the bottom and is removed easily).
I searched through the forums but without any luck. I also tried (as suggested on another thread) to remove notification on connection close but that doesn't solve it.
Any help truely appreciated.
Thank you
Tony

Just press the middle button of the D-pad instead of taking the stylus out to press OK?

[REQ] Rom (or program) with different phone dial

I love the HD, one point that I GREATLY miss is a phone dial menu with the old behaviour TAP and HOLD and choose which phone number to dial.
In my contact list most of my contacts have multiple phones (Home, Office, Mobile, Home2 etc .. etc ..). With the HD in order to change which phone to dial you have to swipe left or right in order to get the right number to call (home instead of office for example). Sometimes I need to swipe 3/4 and 5 times ... very time consuming.
I find the "old" system much more quick, reliable (with "new" phone dial often instead of swiping I accidentaly dial the wrong number) and efficient.
Any way to replace the new phone dial program with a different one with "old" behaviour?
Thanks and happy new year!!

Can I disable one-button calling?

I have a 4550 with the factory HTC (unbranded) original ROM.
I have a reoccurring problem with the "favorite people" screen--in that I don't use it, and don't want it there at all.
When I try to press the "home" button, I accidentally hit the "favorite people" button, and then it puts a contact into that button and calls them.
So basically--I don't want the whole "favorite people" thing there, or I don't want any of the buttons to work at all.
How can I disable it?
Alternately, is there a "fake" contact entry or phone number I can place into the contact list and assign to all the buttons, that won't really call anyone?
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Dialer - any app to force hard key press?

Does anyone know a dialer app that can force you to press the hard key dial button before actually making a call?
I have inesoft dialer and I like the contacts and favorites interfaces, but I have made so many calls by accident that I have lost count. This one-key dialing is much too troublesome.
I want an app that when I touch my contact/favorite it will prompt me and wait for me to press the hard key. This seems a very simple way to avoid accidental dialing, but I can't find any app that does it.
Thanks for any info.

Lock your phone .

I somehow got an entry for my wife on my favorites screen twice this afternoon. I thought it seemed reasonable that I should delete the second entry, so I tried. I dialed her three times unintentionally because every time I touched the damn entry it dialed her number.
She is still in there twice.
Locking the screen might prevent pocket dialing, if I really wanted to deal with some stupid unlock screen every time I pull the thing out to check work messages, which I don't.
How about I just have my valet carry the phone and do all the dialing for me.