Default WM6/6.1 contacts app - Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Themes and Apps

I was wondering is it possible to make default contact app more "Scrollable"?
Registry edit or something...?
I really do like regular contacts but even with touch flo on the Tilt they do not seem to be easily thumb scrollable.
I have set my device text to Largest and in contacts I use option to display contact name only so the fields are rather big, but still best scroll action is achieved using scroll wheel.
It would be nice to have it scroll smoother - ideally like iContact (and that thing is by far the best I used but it still needs some tweaks...)
I tried every single 3rd party app for contact management that I read about here on the forum, and eventhough they offer more visualy pleasing experience they are very slow in execution and free ones like PCM contacts and iContact are somewhat buggy.

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I used that too however alphabet sidebar is very small (actually it is not much bigger then regular scrollbar) and somewhat picky about letter selection...
Very good idea but with maybe slightly larger alphabet bar...

Try out Spb mobile shell, their contacts are way better than MS built in contacts.m6
Hate to use 3. party apps, as the phone slows down, but untill WM6.1 is ready from HTC for my danish TyTN II they have to make do

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Try Finger Friendly Friends...here take a look here: http://www.jotto.no/fff/

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if you couldn't find it tell me to upload it for u

PocketCM, highly skinnable with touch/rolling gestures, is the best for me...
PocketCM

Hello,
I installed iContact but it's not the default contacts application.
Is there a key to set it as default?

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Simple speed dial application to put on pocket plus tab?

By any chance is anyone aware of a SIMPLE speed dial application (with large buttons) that normally would reside on the today screen. Something along the lines of a picture speed dial or something that takes the name of the contact and makes it large (i.e. finger friendly) and just lists like 5-10 contacts. It has to be an application that normally is a today screen plugin. My goal here is to have a tab within pocket plus that contains this today plugin.
Thanks for the help guys. I've been searching, but have yet to find anything short of a total today screen replacement (which I DON'T want).
quick dialer
Plus has a photo contact option within it. You can set up a tab just for your photo contacts and put whatever photo contacts that you want in it. You can spread them out for whatever spacing you want. That is what I have in one of PP tabs.
By any chance can you point in the right direction to this application (Quick Dialer)? I didn't a forum search, but can't find it readily.
Thank you.
birdheh said:
Plus has a photo contact option within it. You can set up a tab just for your photo contacts and put whatever photo contacts that you want in it. You can spread them out for whatever spacing you want. That is what I have in one of PP tabs.
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Anyone else know where I can get this "Quick Dialer" the previous poster alluded to?
Thank you.
I use SPB mobile shell and their today plug-in. Pending how you set it up you can have two dial tabs with 5 contacts each. Finger friendly and practical.
tyguy said:
I use SPB mobile shell and their today plug-in. Pending how you set it up you can have two dial tabs with 5 contacts each. Finger friendly and practical.
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How about this I attached a pic of the tab with 15 tabs for picture tabs for easy finger access.
-McMex
mcmexican,
That's nice. Not quite what I'm looking for though.
The closest thing I've found to what I'm looking for is actually the Treo 700W speed dial cab (which allows you to select Pictures, or text buttons). I like to use the text buttons (but wish they were a bit bigger), but I wish when I hit the button it asked me if I wanted to send an SMS or call a different number.
Anyone else have any suggestions? Can anyone point me to the app the birdheh mentioned (Quick Dialer)?
Thank you.
By the way... here's a picture of my current speed dial/weather tab illustrating what I like:

Quick contacts in TF3D is pure rubbish...

There is nothing "quick" about it, and the whole point of quick contacts is being able to find a few people very quickly.
With SPB Mobile shell, all you have to do is 2 clicks and you're at your contact (one click for quick contacts, and another click to enter your person).
With TF3D, You have to do one click in order to get into quick contacts, and then painstakingly slide your finger on the small slider, until you hopefully reach your desired contact at some point. This is so fricking dumb. It should be the definition of form over function. It's almost unbelievable that HTC used this total disaster to serve as the most recognized picture of the touch diamond (smiling Grace Fuller).
Is there any way to replace this horrendous quick contacts tab with something more efficient (ala SPB MSII) ?
you can also move quickly through your contacts on the right side of that screen, goes pretty fast.
Hi after a sync my quick contacts is missing and i cant put it again? I only can put the new contacts and the old whose missing i cant put it again?
Have any of the tweakers put some thought into expanding the maximum number of quick contacts?
you can also move quickly through your contacts on the right side of that screen, goes pretty fast.
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I *was* talking about using the right slider of that screen. The thought of having to look at the faces of my contacts, one at a time, in order to reach the desired one, never even crossed my mind.
Have any of the tweakers put some thought into expanding the maximum number of quick contacts?
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If you are willing to sacrifice just *a little bit* more function, you can simply put your contacts at the "Photos and Videos" tab, then you can browse through an unlimited amount of your friends faces.
Noam23 said:
I *was* talking about using the right slider of that screen. The thought of having to look at the faces of my contacts, one at a time, in order to reach the desired one, never even crossed my mind.
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Sorry, misunderstood you then. Maybe assign one of the softbuttons to 'contacts'? I have PI8 assigned to where "phone" was I believe.
Anyhow, I agree that it's more visual than functional. For calling one of my contacts i still prefer the old way of pressing phone button (hard button) and type first letter of my contact.
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There is nothing "quick" about it, and the whole point of quick contacts is being able to find a few people very quickly.
With SPB Mobile shell, all you have to do is 2 clicks and you're at your contact (one click for quick contacts, and another click to enter your person).
With TF3D, You have to do one click in order to get into quick contacts, and then painstakingly slide your finger on the small slider, until you hopefully reach your desired contact at some point. This is so fricking dumb. It should be the definition of form over function. It's almost unbelievable that HTC used this total disaster to serve as the most recognized picture of the touch diamond (smiling Grace Fuller).
Is there any way to replace this horrendous quick contacts tab with something more efficient (ala SPB MSII) ?
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I agree too. I think it's just the choice of form over function. I must say that HTC home older versions were better functionally . Just 2 clicks dialing as well. I am also not using them anymore. It's better to use the quickdial feature on the phone instead
Anyhow, I agree that it's more visual than functional. For calling one of my contacts i still prefer the old way of pressing phone button (hard button) and type first letter of my contact.
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Still, if you have a small group of people you are in very frequent touch, it is much easier to have them on speed dial.
It's better to use the quickdial feature on the phone instead
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Can you send an SMS using the quickdial ?, after I find the person in quickdial, all I can do is call him...
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Can you send an SMS using the quickdial ?, after I find the person in quickdial, all I can do is call him...
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You can start a new sms and when typing in the To field the first letters of the contact it shows.
i totally agree.
i would love to have contacts, messages and emails to be shown in an ordered list-style like the recently discovered call history. touchflo3d itself is really nice with this sliding-thing but these three tabs are indeed more visual than functional. hope someday someone will discover how to add third-party plugins...a vga-version of icontact integrated would be awesome.
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Well, partly agree with this thread, I agree totally that it isnt the fastest way (for exemple HTC home contacts on my tytn were much quicker)...
But then comes the issue, Is it really QUICK contacts or is it favorite contacts, I have to admit i pretty much like the interface, and navigating on the right side goes quite well...
So no, it isnt the quickest way, but much faster than the standard program, and besides that with a very nice interface..
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There is nothing "quick" about it, and the whole point of quick contacts is being able to find a few people very quickly.
With SPB Mobile shell, all you have to do is 2 clicks and you're at your contact (one click for quick contacts, and another click to enter your person).
With TF3D, You have to do one click in order to get into quick contacts, and then painstakingly slide your finger on the small slider, until you hopefully reach your desired contact at some point. This is so fricking dumb. It should be the definition of form over function. It's almost unbelievable that HTC used this total disaster to serve as the most recognized picture of the touch diamond (smiling Grace Fuller).
Is there any way to replace this horrendous quick contacts tab with something more efficient (ala SPB MSII) ?
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But it looks darnnn nice, specially if you assign cool avatars to your contacts!
hey if u want to quickly call a contact, why go to touchflo3d at all...the fastest, and i mean really fast...method is to press the call button on the phone, and use the T9 dialer to bring up the contact (provided u know the name of the person ur dialing )
this works pretty fast...coming from an HTC touch (elfin), where the dialer lagged a lot, this one is blazing fast!! try it out
and yeah...that quick contacts thingie is purely for cosmetic purposes...useful only for showing off to your friends!
using the dialpad is the only way to use the 'phone'
The thing I hate about 'quick contacts' is how it displays the full name from my contact, instead of using the 'display as' field to get the name.
Oh well, more disappointment from my most disappointing phone ever.
an123 said:
hey if u want to quickly call a contact, why go to touchflo3d at all...the fastest, and i mean really fast...method is to press the call button on the phone, and use the T9 dialer to bring up the contact (provided u know the name of the person ur dialing )
this works pretty fast...coming from an HTC touch (elfin), where the dialer lagged a lot, this one is blazing fast!! try it out
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this is what i do, and for SMS i strt the message click contact and hit the 1st 3 letters of there name. i have removed the quick contacts tab not because its slow but because there is no need for it to be there at all
dutch64 said:
Sorry, misunderstood you then. Maybe assign one of the softbuttons to 'contacts'? I have PI8 assigned to where "phone" was I believe.
Anyhow, I agree that it's more visual than functional. For calling one of my contacts i still prefer the old way of pressing phone button (hard button) and type first letter of my contact.
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I've the softbuttons mapped to Contacts (left) and Camera (right), so getting to the contacts list is a single click, and then scroll or press the letter on the right column. I think is quite fast.
Quick Contacts is purely for quick access to your 'favourite' contacts, and it serves that function well for me: it is not laggy and provides a quick means of me contacting my top ten or so contacts with my fat thumb to hand. I see no problem with it. with a tap on the contact you can Email, SMS or call them. It's pretty sweet in my estimates.
As for the Diamond being disappointing = each to their own I suppose, but for me it's the best phone I've ever owned lacking only a decent camera and (less importantly) an expansion slot. It also scuffs too easily, but aside from that it does me proud every day and I love the weather and contacts tabs especially.
And quick contacts are not only for calling, but also for choosing which number to call, to geolocalize them, write mail, etc.
But I agree to the fact that when you scroll on the right, HTC should have skipp the transition between pictures... It's way to slow for quick-supposed contact browsing. I figured a way to make things better, just wait until somebody finds out how to program TF3D tabs-plugins.

Wild contacts scrolling?

I've done a search but I'm not quite sure what to call the problem, so if I missed a thread please link me
The problem is, when I scroll contacts, I brush my finger downwards, and the contacts fly past, and fly past, and fly past until it reaches the last contact.
Its really hard to stop it where you want it to stop, since it just whizzes past in a blur.
'All programs' used to do the same, but "Boinger66 diamond advanced config v .51.cab (95.3 KB, 3541 views)" solved the problem on for programs.
Anyone got any suggestions, is this a common problem with a simple fix?
Using a stock UK 1.37 ROM from orange.
thanks
simple fix: dont use contacts lol
What you should do is use the smart dialing feature, where you go to 'phone' and then dial in your contacts name on the keypad (a bit like T9 texting on a classic phone keypad) as your typing in the name it will show the top 2 matched contacts in real time at the top of the screen, when you find the one you want, press the call button
also set up the people tab for frequent text messaging contacts.
Thats a good tip, thanks
I kept on digging and found this as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=406206&highlight=contacts+scroll
So if anyone finds this thread with the same problem, the above link will show you how to set up your circle 'zoom' wheel as a scroll wheel that works in contacts, it makes life soooo much easier <3

Contact app for Fuze

Is there a good iPhone-like contact app out there that is smoothing that the built in one?
I know there have been some in the past like iContact and PocketCM, do these work good on the Fuze (TP)?
Is there a better one?
iContacts don't work quite well yet with Raphael devices as it require advance graphics that VGA screen can't handle very good.
You should try O3Touch that is a very nice dailer that has realy cool way to find contacs.
www.O3Touch.com
icontact burt edition seems to work better than supbro's version...while its not as smooth as it is on qvga...its acceptable
u just have to change the qvga skin to a vga skin
iContact burt 6.45 works flawless just load a VGA skin.
Is there a way to when you choose "all people" in TF3D that it goes to iContacts?
@supermiah
... all people ...
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AFAIK some rather complicated reg hack to do this. Why don't you assign it to the left or right softkey via reg edit
Search for LSK or RSK - you'll figure out how it works.
supermiah said:
Is there a way to when you choose "all people" in TF3D that it goes to iContacts?
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You can use a program called SSMaPa to replace the standard contacts program called by TF3D with any other .exe you want. It can also replace calendar, mail, camera, etc... It's not real user friendly, but you shouldn't have too much trouble with it. Just make sure you disable touchflo when you're changing the settings. It's not a big deal if you forget, but you'll get an ugly looking error and have to do it all over again.
Making Contacts better
I solved the problem with contacts by just simply making the horizontal scroll bar wider so it can be used with fingers If not mistaken the valu e was something like 60 I guess helps also in programs list to scroll down without accidentaly selecting a program or as in contacts list calling someone you just do not want to . Only slight drawback is that in last call list the time gets slightly behind the scroll bar and in appointments also the time miute digits are halfway behind the scroll bar otherwise just fine

A FEW Questions about my HTC DIamond *Sprint* (SPB Mobile Shell 3.0)

Ok I am making this thread because I cannot seem to locate a thread that will help me with what I am trying to do, I have a few questions about getting my HTC Diamond Tweaked in such a manor, lets begin.
1. I would like to change the default email program from whatever it is now to something that will allow you more than 5 email addresses like q3mail (I have 10.....mostly work related). Now I ask because I need something that works in real time, I tried forwarding emails but they work when the server feels the need to check and there is no way to change that on my end. Also anyone knows how to set up q3mail or whatever that program is that seems like my best bet.
2. I want to change the contacts list and dial screen from the default one to iContact and iDialer or something better than the default one.....
3. I would like to change the photo viewer from the default picture viewer to Rescos Photo Viewer
Now when I say I want to change it from the default I mean that I want to keep the same icon etc etc but when I click on say contacts or dial screen it brings up iContact/iDialer instead of the default one etc etc...
Also side note, .NET 3.5 seems to mess with my phone, it makes all ringtones silent no matter what the setting is, as well as messes up some of my app icons...like MP3 Trimmer looks all weird like the colors are off.....or sometimes you just dont even see an icon (I have tried a hard reset and install) and I cant seem to figure out why is that
As a matter of fact dont even worry about the contacts list app because I am using SPB mobile 3.0 and the contacts in that will do....but I do need a better dialer
ive been lookin everywhere to change the default contacts to icontacts as well.
Cant find anything.
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