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Sort Contacts By First Name?

Hello guys. it may be a simple question but I cannot find an answer for this.
I only have the option to sort it by last name.
how can I change to first name listing?
thanks alot!!!

I got the same problem (I used to sort my contact with first name too...)
but seems wm doesn't give any options how we can sort the contact.. sigh...

I think that the only way is to reverse the surname with the name tag in Outlook, at least I have done so.
Full name, I put them in the same field as if it were a composite name and I left blank surname, then if you want the last name first, just invert.
Other methods I have not found for the diamond, there was p3600 shows by name or surname

I found a way.
At Leas on my mac.
I tried 2 softwares to synchronize my Contacts with Diamond..
*SyncMate
- Syncs all goo but no option to sort First Name.
*Missing Sync
- Perfect. Lots of options including sort First or Last Name.
iCal sync, tasks, everything you would expect and more.. it goes even further providing SMS/MMS syncing, itunes, iphoto...
incredible.
If you are like me and uses your HTC Diamond to sync with a Mac for me there's no better choice!
http://www.markspace.com/missingsync_windowsmobile.php

Search for the tiny program called "Contact Changer" This does what you want

Hope this helps.
sync the Diamond to the Outlook on your pc.
In Outlook, select the display method as First Name, Last Name.
Sync again to get the sorted contacts back to the diamond.
or..
change the FILE AS field as required (will take time as this has to be done one by one)

[Q] Showing particular contacts(Groups) from Gmail account.

hey. was just wondering if there's anyway to sync selected groups of contacts instead of every damned one on my list.
reason is that i don't want hundreds of e-mails clogging up my contacts list.
sure, i can show only contacts with numbers. but there are some contacts which i only have their e-mails.
thanks!

i'm looking for something similar myself
i got several email accounts (more than 15) that i sync with and you can imagine the huge mess of contacts i have in my phone when i pull up the list to search for an email or phone number
i'm trying to find a way or something to organize all that
also to sync it all across all the accounts
or something along the line
just to clean them up and make it easy to the eyes
i have no problem finding the number or email of the person i need to contact
it just eye soring to see over a 1000+ contacts when you bring up the list to pick from the list.
good lord Android came with an awesome search build in, else it would have been a major pain in the arsenal as it was with Windows Mobile and PalmOS and every other smartphone i've ever had before, even Blackberry sucked at contacts handling

ah well. looks like for now i have to show only contacts with phone numbers. and add some random numbers for the important contacts that i only somehow have their e-mail addresses. bummer.

Addressbook and rSAP

I've paired my Incredible S (stock with Sense 3.0) with my Audi MMI system and it works fine to place calls but I have an issue with the way the address book (People) is synced.
Firstly is that the stupid car do not honor the first & last name setting so all entries are on Last name, First name.
Secondly, and more annoying, is that for some reason the directory starts with a lot of blank lines. I believe it's where "linked" entries from Skype, Twitter, FB, Google+, etc (yes, I am a social networking addict) don't have proper contact cards - since I can't see the entries on the Incredible S I don't know which I need to add..
Do any one know of a way of configuring the rSAP profile to swap first, last name and filter on which parts of the adressbook to sync?
Any advice (that don't ask me to change car or phone )?

uswe said:
I've paired my Incredible S (stock with Sense 3.0) with my Audi MMI system and it works fine to place calls but I have an issue with the way the address book (People) is synced.
Firstly is that the stupid car do not honor the first & last name setting so all entries are on Last name, First name.
Secondly, and more annoying, is that for some reason the directory starts with a lot of blank lines. I believe it's where "linked" entries from Skype, Twitter, FB, Google+, etc (yes, I am a social networking addict) don't have proper contact cards - since I can't see the entries on the Incredible S I don't know which I need to add..
Do any one know of a way of configuring the rSAP profile to swap first, last name and filter on which parts of the adressbook to sync?
Any advice (that don't ask me to change car or phone )?
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Uninstalled Skype which cleaned up most of the blank lines, but not all.
Anyone managed to figure out how rSAP can be setup?

[Q] where are the Contacts databases?

Hi folks. I'm struggling with my droid 3 and it's contacts upload to my car (VM bluetooth system). The contacts that are uploaded don't match those that exists in my contacts - some are missing, and there are some extras in the list. The contacts view on my phone shows only those contacts that I've defined in my google account.
Is there a contact list somewhere on the phone that's different than the one that is sync'd with google? I've tried to "un-verizon" the phone as much as I could, but I wonder if there's another database that the bluetooth passes to the car - perhaps managed by the blur update agent?

Contact Madness and Duplicate Hell

I have a VZW Moto X now running 4.4.4. Every sense the upgrade my contacts lists are now a mess. I have hundreds of quasi duplicates. It appears that my contacts app is drawing it's info from Google/Gmail the phone itself, my Exchange server, Facebook, LinkedIn, Waze? and others. I only want to use google or exchange. Both are synced and have the same info so either will do on my phone. Because of this I have many duplicate names listed that no information other then the name. No phone, no email just the name and I can't tell the source. I can limit to only working with one contact list by telling the phone to only display one list but that doesn't work for searches which give me 5 or 6 of the same name and only way to find the correct one is click on each one. This is making contacts useless. It use to work so how do I fix this? Were is the merge command that was in older versions of Android!
THanks,
Nathan Williams

nlinecomputers said:
I have a VZW Moto X now running 4.4.4. Every sense the upgrade my contacts lists are now a mess. I have hundreds of quasi duplicates. It appears that my contacts app is drawing it's info from Google/Gmail the phone itself, my Exchange server, Facebook, LinkedIn, Waze? and others. I only want to use google or exchange. Both are synced and have the same info so either will do on my phone. Because of this I have many duplicate names listed that no information other then the name. No phone, no email just the name and I can't tell the source. I can limit to only working with one contact list by telling the phone to only display one list but that doesn't work for searches which give me 5 or 6 of the same name and only way to find the correct one is click on each one. This is making contacts useless. It use to work so how do I fix this? Were is the merge command that was in older versions of Android!
THanks,
Nathan Williams
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Can you not go to people (open the app). Settings (...) Contacts to display : select just what you want?

Yes but it does not work in search. If I do so I get results from all of the contact sources. Which defeats the point of limiting the lists in the first place.

Never mind. I have deleted the contact storage data and let it rebuild. Problem appears to be corrected.