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How to Switch to Dialer App Faster?

Hi guys,
I am currently using the latest CyanogenMod (have been for more 7 months). I have found that it takes about 1 full seconds (at times maybe more) to load the Dialer app when I press the "Call" button. I would like to find out how can I speed up this function, as for me, the phone dialer app is the MOST crucial function for a PDA phone.
I find that it is much faster for me to get to the "Home" app after I have enabled "Home App in Memory" using "Spare Parts". Is the reason why the dialer is slow due to it having to load up every single time? Can we run "Dialer" the same way as "Home App in Memory"? Going back to the Home screen takes less than a second from any app that I may be using, at any time. Can you guys help me to make the same happen for Dialer? Ideas?
Thanks! Hope I am not the only one with this minor quirk.

The problem is that Wysie's Contacts (which is used in most of the roms out there) takes so long to load it's ridiculous. The only permanent fix would be to extract the original contacts app from one of the stock roms and push it to your phone. Of course you may lose certain features in the process.
That is to the best of my knowledge, anyway.

Try clearing your call log.

r4d14n7 said:
The problem is that Wysie's Contacts (which is used in most of the roms out there) takes so long to load it's ridiculous. The only permanent fix would be to extract the original contacts app from one of the stock roms and push it to your phone. Of course you may lose certain features in the process.
That is to the best of my knowledge, anyway.
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Ah, so it's Wysie's contacts app that is slow right? Hmmm... is there an .apk file for the original stock app? I think speed really is very important in this sense. I do not have to have all the fancy stuff if it slows down my ability to phone another person. Thanks for your suggestion.

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Try clearing your call log.
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It works, but for a while only (when the log grows longer then the lag comes back again). Thanks, this would be a temporary 'fix'.

It has to do with the gruoping. I don't have root any more so I can't check. See if you can turn the grouping off or if there is a way to auto clear the log. There are a lot of great features in that contact apk that make it a must.
Damn, I wish I could get root so I could have it back.

Blacklist shortcut CM 4.x, 5.x

Hi, I somehow added a number to the blacklist in my cyanogen 5.x rom without even knowing that I did it and without going to settings to do it manually. Does anyone know the 'shortcut' to put a number in the blacklist? I spent two days trying to figure out why this person was getting hung up on but everyone else was fine.

Bump. I find it extremely hard to believe that no one knows how to add to the blacklist! (without going to the settings explicitly)

Used to be a way in Contacts, but I can't find it anymore.

i saw a dialog come up momentarily today that said "add to blacklist" but i dont know what made it come up. i would really like to be able to add to blacklist from the call log.

the number has to be in your list of contacts (ie. you must have added it as a contact)
if you then long press on the contact from the list, you can add it to the blacklist

It's actually very easy to add someone to the blacklist, maybe even too easy - when you're getting a call and instead of accepting or rejecting it you press the menu button, you'll see a popup with "add to blacklist" button. Or at least that's how it looks like in SuperD roms. But as far as i know they're using the same dialer, so it should be the same on cyanogenmod.
Adding someone to the blacklist by accident happened to me as well. Took me a while to figure out why one of my friends couldn't call me even though still could text me

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It's actually very easy to add someone to the blacklist, maybe even too easy - when you're getting a call and instead of accepting or rejecting it you press the menu button, you'll see a popup with "add to blacklist" button. Or at least that's how it looks like in SuperD roms. But as far as i know they're using the same dialer, so it should be the same on cyanogenmod.
Adding someone to the blacklist by accident happened to me as well. Took me a while to figure out why one of my friends couldn't call me even though still could text me
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Yes, this is true for all ROMs that use that particular phone modification.
As for a shortcut, just go to settings if you want to add one instantly without them calling. It doesn't take that long.

Hmm, I did think that I saw something for a split second right when I tried to answer the call that I blacklisted. Pressing menu doesn't do anything though.

[Q]Google talk layout on Galaxy S

Im having problems with Google Talk on my phone.
Normally, if u start a chat. and the other person is talking back, u should see the txt under your own txt. But i only see it as a balloon in my top-tray of the phone and do not see the txt written by the other person in the chat overview.
Anyone knows how to solve this?

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Im having problems with Google Talk on my phone.
Normally, if u start a chat. and the other person is talking back, u should see the txt under your own txt. But i only see it as a balloon in my top-tray of the phone and do not see the txt written by the other person in the chat overview.
Anyone knows how to solve this?
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My gf and I also have Galaxy S phones. Her device is running on I9000XXJFB firmware, mine is on I9000XWJM2. Shes having kinda like the same problem with GTalk: the screen is splitted to 2 sides (top&bottom), instead of how mine works (the good old conversation-look, when A-B-A-B persons messages follow each other).
Maybe its firmware-dependent? I did not find any option to change the layout in the settings menu.

Firmware is probably a good bet. If you want to hold off, have you tested to see what happens if you turn the setting balloon top-tray setting off? Would you see nothing at all? Or would it populate the message how it should.
You probably want the best of both worlds, it's worth a quick test if you have any reason to delay upgrading firmware.

disabling the notification button in the toptray would be a bummer anyway because then i wouldnt be notified if somebody is messaging me.
i downloaded a beta version of Hi GTalk from the market. which is working as it should work so i guess my problem isnt solved with Talk it self, but with installing an alternative app.

i think you'd still receive the sound notification. As long as you are going an alternative app route, i'd. consider uninstalling and reinstalling GTalk, it might just be corrupted.

good point. i will uninstall it and reinstall.
[edit] hehe i cant uninstall it. its "in the factoryrom" so i see. i dont see it at the installed programs list..?

gtalk still problem
Hi, I have the same problem with gtalk, also after upgrade to Froyo any ideas ?

solution
Solution:
Change time zone to the right location unbelievable, but it works !!! layout is dependent on internal time zone.
Good luck

GO Dialler/Contacts annoyances. Best alternative?

I've been using Go Dialler/Contacts for well over a year, previously on my HTC desire and it had the same issue back then where it wouldn't register the cleared missed calls, so if you got a missed call, it would say 1 missed call, then you would check the missed call and the notification would go. Then if you got another missed call (and only 1) it would then say 2 missed calls, this would go on and on until you restarted the phone. On the desire I solved this by putting the app in system/app with root explorer.
Another annoyance is that when you dial or try to save a number, it automatically puts spaces between digits where country/area code are. I like to keep my numbers all in the same format, that means no spaces or anything, so just +XXXXXXXXXX
I use my phone for business so save a lot of numbers, this is going to be a pain to have to edit each number while saving a contact.
So just wondering, since go dialler/contacts hasn't been updated since nov '12, is there any newer and better alternatives that work the same way with the dialler predictions (and having latest dialled show up smartly when composing new message in GO SMS also - this is handy!) but which don't have the annoyances?
Any feedback appreciated!

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I've been using Go Dialler/Contacts for well over a year, previously on my HTC desire and it had the same issue back then where it wouldn't register the cleared missed calls, so if you got a missed call, it would say 1 missed call, then you would check the missed call and the notification would go. Then if you got another missed call (and only 1) it would then say 2 missed calls, this would go on and on until you restarted the phone. On the desire I solved this by putting the app in system/app with root explorer.
Another annoyance is that when you dial or try to save a number, it automatically puts spaces between digits where country/area code are. I like to keep my numbers all in the same format, that means no spaces or anything, so just +XXXXXXXXXX
I use my phone for business so save a lot of numbers, this is going to be a pain to have to edit each number while saving a contact.
So just wondering, since go dialler/contacts hasn't been updated since nov '12, is there any newer and better alternatives that work the same way with the dialler predictions (and having latest dialled show up smartly when composing new message in GO SMS also - this is handy!) but which don't have the annoyances?
Any feedback appreciated!
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I am new to the world of Android, having previously been a RIM and iOS user. However, since coming over to Android and seeing the open nature of the platform...loving it. Anyway, back to the matter in hand....Contacts+ works brilliantly, I would suggest giving it a look :good:

I use 'ExDialer & Contacts' app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5tb2Rvb2h1dC5kaWFsZXIiXQ..
Very simply themable dialler and contacts app.

Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know what this means?
"This is a trial version with 7 days trial period. When the trial period expired, you will be asked to buy PRO version. You can still keep trying if you haven't decided to buy"
So is it free to keep using or what? Do they keep bugging you to upgrade/pay?

I don't have experience of it,but I would guess you will get nags to upgrade, although with what frequency I couldn't say. I think that is one of the reasons I stuck with contacts+...it's free! That and the integration with FB, it's merge facility etc
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Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know what this means?
"This is a trial version with 7 days trial period. When the trial period expired, you will be asked to buy PRO version. You can still keep trying if you haven't decided to buy"
So is it free to keep using or what? Do they keep bugging you to upgrade/pay?
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Going to try out exdialer first I think, seems to have a lot of recommendations from what I've seen, first impressions are good anyway and it's solved the issue of the number having the spaced put automatically. I think the missed call issue might be in every dialler so I might have to put it in system app

cormie said:
Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know what this means?
"This is a trial version with 7 days trial period. When the trial period expired, you will be asked to buy PRO version. You can still keep trying if you haven't decided to buy"
So is it free to keep using or what? Do they keep bugging you to upgrade/pay?
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Is free but every 7 days when you next open the dialler it will show a screen asking if you want to buy the full version.
Very easy to ignore if you don't want to pay for the full version.
Sent from my Motorola Razr I using Tapatalk 2

thanks, every 7 days, so 52 notifications a year, hmm, seems a bit much

It used to come up daily but i think the developer changed it to 7 days because too many people complained!
Sent from my Motorola Razr I using Tapatalk 2

Thanks, I'll give it a trial anyway and see how it fares.

Try Dialer One, a very nice app.

Thanks, it actually turns out that ex dialler doesn't solve the issue with numbers being automatically formatted with spaces etc also, the add contact screen is a bit messy of exdialler, I find go contacts better in that regard, go may even be slightly faster?
Would anyone know how to get around the auto formatting at all? There's an option in exdialler not to use area codes or something which I thought would help but it doesn't.

cormie said:
Thanks, it actually turns out that ex dialler doesn't solve the issue with numbers being automatically formatted with spaces etc also, the add contact screen is a bit messy of exdialler, I find go contacts better in that regard, go may even be slightly faster?
Would anyone know how to get around the auto formatting at all? There's an option in exdialler not to use area codes or something which I thought would help but it doesn't.
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I don't find a problem with the spaces in the numbers so can't help with that one!
Regarding the add contact, when I click on the + button to add a contact it takes me to my default Motorola add contact screen (which is also messy!) so I'm not sure there is anything I can do about that.
When you add a contact is it taking to you an ex dialler add contact screen?

Yes, I downloaded Ex Dialler and Contacts (I'm not sure if there's a simple "ex dialer" link without the contacts?) but now I can choose either ex dialer contacts or go contacts. Unless ex dialer is using the motorola contacts?

Have now tried dialer1 and contacts+.
Contacts+ is a bit overkill for me and not customisable to get rid of contact pictures, change font etc so it just looks too clunky for me.
I'm very happy with Dialer 1, but there's two things I miss from Go Contacts:
1) The ability to search part names, so say for example you had a contact saved with a long, easily forgetable name, something like josternberg and you could never remember it, but you knew part of his name was "stern", that if you type 78376 it would show up. Unfortunately at the moment it doesn't, but it does in other aps (Go Contacts/Dialer and Contacts+). This would be especially useful for anyone who has saved contacts without putting spaces between certain words. So imagine I had a few hundred android developers phone numbers and saved them as: androiddevappname, I could get to all dialer contacts by typing "342537" for dialer, even though it's surrounded by other characters.
2) Alphabet scrolling in the contact window. At the moment there's only a little green bar that can be scrolled down/up. In Go Contacts/Dialer, there was a permanent alphabet sidebar (small but capable) which you could hit any letter to get to that section of your contacts. I've over 1,000 contacts saved with a sequential first name code starting with VTA (for my business) and after saving a new contact, I used to be able to quickly to the letter "w" scroll up a step and check that the new contact I saved was there, two actions but without the alphabet bar it's going to take a bit of scrolling to get there.
Also waiting on the release of light theme

I am pretty sure you can enable smart dialing in dialerOne settings...

Thanks negus, yes dialer1 does have smart dialing, but will only work at the start of each name, so say if I had you saved in my phone as "xdaforum negus40", I'd be able to find you by numbering in N E G U S or X D A, but not by numbering in U S 4 0 or F O R U M. I sent the dialer 1 team an email which they replied to quickly saying they'll look into adding these functions

[Q] is this a bug?

Hi. first time in forums.
and my old phone had android 2.3, so this is my real first SMARTphone.
Its a first gen moto X, and i have a doubt.
First I open any application and I minimize it, so
When i am in any menu, playstore menu, whatsapp conversation (inside the conversation) , etc, and and I press 2 times followed the arrow "back"
before back to the app box, the las app (opened in the first step) opens and closes automatically.
if I do it slow, the problem disappears.
Sorry for my english, i have a video for better explication. In this time, the app chosed its Facebook. (sec 00:17 in the video).
you tube.com/watch?v=RwDn0RC2AJE
Thanks you.

Mine does this too, on occasion. It will "flash" or briefly show an app that I am no longer using. It usually seems to be a settings screen, but sometimes it's so fast I can't even see what it is.
It is probably a bug, but not one that really bothers me too much so I looked into it too much.

It's a bug but it's not specific to Moto.It's the misterious way android handles back button

Nicolae-Daniel said:
It's a bug but it's not specific to Moto.It's the misterious way android handles back button
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sorry, but how u know? do u have the same problem?

Yes,I do have it.Had it also on my Nexus 5 with lollipop.