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Batch fixing 'First Last' <-> 'Last, First' saving manner in contacts

There is possibility to change manner of saving contact name to 'First Last' <-> 'Last, First' etc. in each of the contacts separately. But I'm looking for a solution how to do it on all contacts at once, but without using Outlook or any other computer software (directly in the device).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions...

Please search the forum, I am sure I answered this questuon about a year ago. It involves downloading a few cab files, which give you that option in the context menu. I no longer have the files ( did not need them), but there is still a link floating around here somewhere.

Koksie said:
Please search the forum, I am sure I answered this questuon about a year ago. It involves downloading a few cab files, which give you that option in the context menu. I no longer have the files ( did not need them), but there is still a link floating around here somewhere.
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Thanks, I'll do that.

Ive searched quite a few times for this in the past, tagging this thread to remind me to check it, if you manage to find these cabs and get it running Eva, post back in here

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Ive searched quite a few times for this in the past, tagging this thread to remind me to check it, if you manage to find these cabs and get it running Eva, post back in here
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I've found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=966683&postcount=3
But not tested yet. Paul from MoDaCo also suggested using WebIS Toolbox for that.

Those are the .cab files I meant. Install them on your device, then select all your contacts (there is a separate .cab for that as well, not available in that thread, you have to search for it, it provides an option in your context menu) and then bring up your context menu. Then select the way you want to store your contacts. Worked on my Hermes, not tested on my kaiser

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Those are the .cab files I meant. Install them on your device, then select all your contacts (there is a separate .cab for that as well, not available in that thread, you have to search for it, it provides an option in your context menu) and then bring up your context menu. Then select the way you want to store your contacts. Worked on my Hermes, not tested on my kaiser
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'Select all contacts' would be the secret then, as it's not possible to select multiple contacts by default...

Correct, but I found a .cab file around that period that makes it possible. It only works once though, after selecting all contacts once, only a soft reset would enable you to do it again, some kinda bug I think. But that file was posted here at xda or at modaco, it worked for me.

check out this tool @ http://www.shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact. it's worked for me without issue...

cortezzi said:
check out this tool @ http://www.shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact. it's worked for me without issue...
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Thanks - it looks very promising, and I'll test it later in the evening

You need no .cabs to change the way the contact names are displayed on your WM6 Kaiser. Just select a contact and select edit then scroll down till you come accross "File as" click the drop down box and this will give you several options by which to list your contact. For example: John Smith, Smith John or Company Name (Even By Nickname). Try this out.. And hope it helps.
Yeah, sorry read your question wrong...Sorry don't think there is a built in option to change whole list at once. Better stick to those .cabs
Am I Bad!?

No one seems to have a good answer for this. Can you help?

How can I place a shortcut for a new text message in my HTC Home Plugin menu? I used to have this and when I did a hard reset to my phone it is now gone.
Thanks,
Chris

Start Button> Settings > Today > Items
Click the Messaging box.
This info qualifies as User Interface 101... plz don't ask us to tell you how to use your device in the future. Use the search functions of the site.

If you'd rather use a button, not an icon... try this thread my post on page 4 is just about new txts, but the whole thread is really helpful (if you want to have an icon on the screen to podge with your finger, then dont bother reading it tho)

Nick Collision said:
Start Button> Settings > Today > Items
Click the Messaging box.
This info qualifies as User Interface 101... plz don't ask us to tell you how to use your device in the future. Use the search functions of the site.
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Actually this is exactly what I don't want. Please read the question more closely so you can try and give a correct answer. I am looking to have one of the 6 icons be a blank text icon. I have had it before so I know it can be done.
Thanks

I dont use the HTC plugin... so i cant give explicit instructions, however - if you can add a shortcut (not an exe unless you can edit the command line) try the link in my previous post. If it doesn't help then i'm afarid i cant help as i've decided that 1 hardware button is better than podging the screen! (although the link will help if you want to add the podge to something like resco today - i'm assuming HTC today is similar.....)

cjk5wf, you can create the shortcut to tmail with the following parameters :
"\Windows\tmail.exe" -service "SMS" -to "" -body" ""

Change View of Contacts - AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!

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??

adam-silver said:
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 ?

adam-silver said:
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?

Thom4s said:
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

FIX:Calendar month view default!!

***edit 20/12/08*** As BlockbusterF writes few posts below there is a simpler solution than mine. I checked it myself and is working, so i suggest try his method and not mine. My method has some differences. It opens calendar in month view even if you have it minimized in other view eg day view.
For everyone who wants to use the more difficult method of mine this is it:***
After i have take many things from this site ,it is time to give something back!
I managed to make the calendar to open in month view, and not the default day view. I noticed that many others are trying to do this.
This is how i did it. I write a simple (one line) program in basic for ppc, which runs the calendar to month view. You can download ti here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/175093797/monthvew.exe
Is is only 36 KB. Now put it in any folder you want (even in internal storage)
Try to run it. You will see that calendar will appear but in month view. Even if you have already calendar running in the background on day view, by running monthvew.exe it will go to screen to month view.
So the only problem now is to change the link to manila so when you press the button of calendar on screen, not to run calendar.exe, but to run my program monthview.exe (Which will run calendar.exe again but in month view) So the final result will be by pressing "calendar" on manila to have again runing calendar but in month view this time. You can do this by SSMaPa . If you dont know the program read here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=407777
Be sure that you know how to use it, and you dont making anything wrong with this program (You can try to change the button of calendar to run another .exe to see that you have learn to use ssmapa, and after to make it run monthview.exe)
After all perhaps you will see that every time you press calendar ,it opens in day view and immediately changes to month view. If this happens it is because you have it opens by its settings to day view. Go to the calendar-- menu-tools- and from the list there set "open in month view"
Now everything will work ok and the calendar will opens to month view at once ..

Thanks for this...

finally

Thanks for your work!
But I have to say that it's already no problem to start the calendar in month view.
Just remove the "$" under parameters with SSMaPA and select "start in monthview" or something like that under extras -> options in calendar and thats all.
fRED

BlockbusterF said:
Thanks for your work!
But I have to say that it's already no problem to start the calendar in month view.
Just remove the "$" under parameters with SSMaPA and select "start in monthview" or something like that under extras -> options in calendar and thats all.
fRED
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I didnt know this. If you do a search in the forum, you will see that me and many others was searching for this, and noone give a solution .Also in all the Greek forums (I am Greek..) many searching and all writes that there is no solution . If what you write is working, forget my post , as it is simpler .

Very cool ;-)

BlockbusterF said:
Thanks for your work!
But I have to say that it's already no problem to start the calendar in month view.
Just remove the "$" under parameters with SSMaPA and select "start in monthview" or something like that under extras -> options in calendar and thats all.
fRED
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Wow this is great. It's amazing how small of a quirk can be so annoying.
Can you please tell me where to find these parameters/extras in order to remove the "$".
Can't seem to find this.
Thanks so much!

Ehm... I have done the same by setting it under Menu-Extra- Options- start in month view

Yes, but this only work if you start your calendar out of the startmenu for example.
Wenn you click on calendar in manila it normaly always start in agenda mode.
So you have to use SSMaPa to tweak your manila.exe.

band27 said:
Wow this is great. It's amazing how small of a quirk can be so annoying.
Can you please tell me where to find these parameters/extras in order to remove the "$".
Can't seem to find this.
Thanks so much!
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Download SSmapa from the link i give , save it in a folder in your mobile, run it.
In the first page check the box "extended init" and press "init". in the messegebox with a question press "no". Now you will see a list of aplications.
Press the first one "calendar.exe"
You will see a box "Arguments" with the value "$".
Delete the $
check the box "patch anabled and "press save.
Now go to the next page "deploy" and press "deploy patch". Restart manila.

Thanks sosimple for keeping so simple! Took me a little time finding that SSmapa but after that, it was so simple.

THanks sosimple for making this process so simple.

thanks

Thanks sosimple for making this process so simple!

Hey lads I'm running dutty's rom 3.6b and when you click the calendar tab on the manilla home screen it'll bring you straight to month view or whatever you happen to have chosen in the Calendar options. I believe its a feature of the newer versions of manilla. Before dutty 3.6b I was using a stock ROM and it always used to go to the day view.
Cooked ROMs are lovely.

Now you can do this, even in the original rom, with the trick i write ..

which manila file is ssmapa patching when you delete the $ sign from it? I would like to just overwrite the patched version after hard reset through autoconfig instead of running the program.

Exchange, Activesync Issue

Recently, my phone won't automatically retrieve my emails from the Exchange server. I have everything set correctly (including schedule and to receive every 5 min) but I have to manually retrieve my email. Also, I noticed that Activesync is not running. Isn't that required for Outlook email to function correctly. If I load Active sync and click sync, it loads new email. However, once I navigate away from Activesync, it does not show up in Task Manager.
Currently using Romeos' latest ROM but the issue is the same with other ROMS. I've retrieved my email on my phone for three years and have loaded many ROMS, so I'm 100% confident I'm setting up everything correctly.

yes you need active sync open to recive email. when you navigate away are you clicking the close at the top right (the x) if so check your settings in task manager
start > Settings > system tab > task manager > button tab > make sure 'end programs by tapping x' is not ticked if it choose the other option and problem solved.

Same here... No solution yet...
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yes you need active sync open to recive email. when you navigate away are you clicking the close at the top right (the x) if so check your settings in task manager
start > Settings > system tab > task manager > button tab > make sure 'end programs by tapping x' is not ticked if it choose the other option and problem solved.
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I have the same issue... Taskmanager is configured correctly, AS is configured correctly, but still;no automatic sync... However, it does work when I have the "as items arrive" configured. I want my battery to last as long as possible, so I don't really like this workaround...
Any ideas?

2revup said:
yes you need active sync open to recive email. when you navigate away are you clicking the close at the top right (the x) if so check your settings in task manager
start > Settings > system tab > task manager > button tab > make sure 'end programs by tapping x' is not ticked if it choose the other option and problem solved.
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Thanks for the advice but my Task Manager is set to close apps by 'holding x'. Besides, even if I press the home key, Activesync disappears (i.e., it is no longer shown running in task manager).

Please post the required information when asking for help. Have you searched active sync? If you have you would have seen 100's of threads and post concerning it. What build of Rom are you using or is the chef using? there is a well documented problem with some of the builds and data connections and or active sync issues. Did you see those post? Have you tried flashing an older ROM to see if the active sync issues are gone?
Finally, this information should have been addressed in the thread where you got the ROM (Romeos). If no one else is having the issue in there, then it must be some other application you installed or your IT department has set up some new security procedures. I have posted a fix to the active sync issue in three threads if yours is in deed the same. One is a cab the other is aregistry edit. It has worked for some. You should search for it and you will find it.

Search
Yes, I searched (here and Google) and didn't find anything. I posted in the ROMeo thread with no luck. I always attempt to find info before I ask. You could have been a little nicer and posted your threads which present a fix. Have you "ever" asked a question and was told to go search. Does it really even matter? Why does it bother you so much?

And
I even attempted a search for posts by 'you' concerning 'active sync' and got nothing related. The vBulletin message board is not one of the more friendly boards to search. Most of the time it is like finding a needle in a haystack. The returned results are usually numerous, provide links which have nothing to do with the keyword searched. Most people don't have time to filter through 1000 messages to find an answer.
Test (of many): I did a search on outlook, email, automatic, http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=21868332
The result I got is one link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=444784&highlight=outlook+email+automatic
No where on this page is the word 'Outlook', 'email' or 'automatic'. The word 'automatically' exists. This is how flawed vBulletin search is. And you wonder why people ask the same questions again.

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I even attempted a search for posts by 'you' concerning 'active sync' and got nothing related. The vBulletin message board is not one of the more friendly boards to search. Most of the time it is like finding a needle in a haystack. The returned results are usually numerous, provide links which have nothing to do with the keyword searched. Most people don't have time to filter through 1000 messages to find an answer.
Test (of many): I did a search on outlook, email, automatic, http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=21868332
The result I got is one link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=444784&highlight=outlook+email+automatic
No where on this page is the word 'Outlook', 'email' or 'automatic'. The word 'automatically' exists. This is how flawed vBulletin search is. And you wonder why people ask the same questions again.
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In the wiki it tells you to search via google and have it search XDA for the information. Here is the link to Google...
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=+site:http://forum.xda-developers.com&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all
Thanks you for editing your post from what I first read this morning....since you changed it look here...There is an issue with some of the newest builds that Chefs are using...the 21018 is just one of the builds having problems...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3425596&postcount=43
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3431655&postcount=1150
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3425604&postcount=105
This is starters....there was a cab posted in those threads please read search the threads you will find the cab,...However, as stated before it doesnt work perfect....the best thing to do is to switch roms...most chefs have done this including NRG and RRE....try one of those ROMS they changed their builds..

Great
This is good information. I've made the registry change and it seems to work. Thanks for the help.