Hello,
I recently got a Tytn II and I am very happy with it, but I do have a problem which seems quite widespread. I did search these forums and the Web in general for a solution, but I found none and I'm here asking for your help.
Problem: I have over 1.000 contacts and jogdialing through them is out of the question. "Letter-pointing" (selecting say, "H" to see all the contacts starting with H) is similarly useless due to fat fingers
Commonly suggested solution: categorize your Outlook contacts, then apply a filter to list only a category at a time.
But this involves another problem: everytime you access Contacts, the filter is disabled. This forces you to use two hands to reselect the filter, which is undesirable (eg while driving or doing other complex tasks) and needlessly time consuming.
And this is where the forum threads stop, usually. BUT there are lots of Contacts Manager applications out there, and there MUST be at least one which:
- Allows a filter to stay put until removed
- Integrates seamlessly with the OS, without forcing you to launch the app whenever you just need to access your contacts
- (optional) has an Italian translation
Yet I have scoured the Web but I haven't found anything useful, apparently.
So here is the question: did anybody out there solve this problem, and how?
Thank you for your kind help,
b.
I solved the problem in the end. This is my solution, for anyone having the same problem.
* Install WM 6.5.3 (I don't know if 6.5.* has the same options)
* Launch Outlook on your PC and manually edit all your contacts (yes, it's a drag) putting your preferred group names *in the Company field*
* Synch
* Set Windows Mobile to display the contacts "by company"
Voilà! The filter will stay put. Just don't forget to "companize" your future contacts in the same way.
Related
Hi
I've done some searching on the forum but I haven't found anything about this (possibly lousy search strings).
I have this issue where the contacts are all there if I access them from the today-screen, but in the messaging application when I try to add recipent no contacts are visible and if I search it just searches forever and nothing happening. If I type in a number and choose "check names" it will find the correct name and number from the contacts database.
This issue did pop up after a while, both with the stock HTC ROM and Duttys 7 that I'm currently running. I haven't really installed many applications besides of what was in the ROM but KaiserTweak, SKTools, TomTom, Resco Explorer/Utility pack, IM+, Google Maps and Mobipocket and acbPowerMeter.
I have been playing abit with registry settings, but nothing that I can imagine would affect the contacts database in any way. I did run some of the cleanup-stuff in SKTools yesterday, removing some broken .lnks, emptying some of the cache/temp folders and optimizing the registry size.
Is this in any way a known issue and is there any solution? I'm running out of time before I have to go for christmas vacation, havent really got time to do a hard reset and set the device up again, especially since I'd be installing the same applications again I fear the issue would reoccur. I'm greatfull for any input on this.
/Mac
I've the same problem. My contacts are there if I access them through the Contacts application or the alias :CONTACTS. But if I try to add a contact in the SMS application no contacts are available when I click "to".
Hope someone has an idea how to fix it...
I solved with a hard-reset and new installation from start, because after an attempt of restoring a Sprite-Backup I still had the problem.
I am using an S730 since December 21st and after playing around I still have some issues unresolved, see if anyone has ideas.
1- How do I download multiple email account at the same time (manually) instead of having to open each account every time want to do this.
2- Bluetooth acts crazy sometimes, it take over my car stereo (Mercedes E-Class) by making the radio believe that it is making a call and mutes music, screen looks as if you were making a call but no call is made.
3- MEMORY, no matter what I do, SKTools or anything, memory does not let me use the camera. Only used it once, all other times it asks me to close programs even when none are open.
4- How do I input DNS, I have Wi-Fi conections that need me to input a DNS in order to pass through internet.
5- Windows Update never works.
Please coment and thanks for taking the time to read this.
J
3. There may be opened some unwanted processes on the background - close them using advanced task manager (which can handle processes - Celetask for example). Than just close processes like tmail, iexplore, rsshub...
4. Comm Manager -> WLAN Settings -> Connection Status -> IP Address -> Use specific IP address -> ... DNS
5. There are no available updates on Windows Update.
1) what do you mean? You want pocket outlook to not sync email for the mailboxes automatically, but want them to sync manually; but not do this from within pocket outlook? it can't be done without a program, and i've never seen one.
2) looking on the htc e-club, which has updates for the phones, a few other phones had strange bluetooth issues, and were issued updates. i'd say that htc is on the case, but give them a call anyway.
1. jdr1000 doesnt mean syncing mails with Outlook. When you set several email accounts in the messaging application you have to hit Send/Recieve and wait untit this operation is finished and then you can sync your next account. There is no Sync all option (as far I know). (At least there is Automatic Send/Recieve feature)
Thank you all for taking your time to help.
1- moneytoo is "on the money" that is what I want to do, it's like running 5 or 6 or X ammount of connections at the same time. It is one internet connectio after all.
2- I installed the fix for the vox and it happens 10% of the time.
3- Ok, I will look fo this.
4- How can I do this for a specific wi-fi connection and not for all of them, since this only happens when I am at work, all the other time it is ok if everything comes from the APs.
5- Ok. Thks
J
I just installed emoze, which I finally managed to get working well, but it automatically configured itself to call the mailbox "emoze", and I would like to change this. I searched all over the registry, but was unable to find this.
Does anyone know where WM6.1 or TF3D store this information, so I can go in there and change it (the way emoze installs itself on the device you cannot go in and edit this setting via the WM interface).
Thanks!
Hi Diplomate,
emoze uses a special API to set the account name, changing it will result in emoze not functioning at all.
Gilirock.
I finally gave up on emoze!
In the end, I had to give up on emoze, as it has a couple of very annoying bugs:
First, any calendar event which recurs yearly gets added multiple times back into the Outliik calendar (using the PC client), but I was not able to figure out the logic there: some where added 5 times, other 12, others 13. None were touched/edited/open on either the device or Outlook, as they were set months in the future... a reat PITA to clean-up!
Second, emoze seems to ignore the "File As" field when importing contacts into the diamond, so all your contacts revert back to the default "lastname, firstname" display order, regardless of how you have them set in Outlook. As this sort order cannot be changed in TF3D, you are SOL!
Basically, a great idae/product if you could configure it to only take care of e-mail, and let ActiveSync take care of your calendar/contacts, etc. But this is not possible - apparently emoze wants to only do it all, so...
Too bad! I loved the push e-mail!
Hello,
I am looking for a contactlist/phonebook editor (windows xp) to edit the phonebook of the diamond touch ( including the pictures )
I know of the xml backup, but it dumps all contacts separate.
Is anyone working on a easy to use editor ?
thanks in advance.
If you use ActiveSync, the default application is Outlook's address book I believe. It's pretty convenient and has support for editing photos and all different kind of information fields on your contacts.
aye - you get a free outlook with the thing - use it. If you already have outlook running even better.
I just couldnt figure out how to have it sync only a specific category of contact. I know you can do it, i just cant find the setting.......
you can do all your editing on the phone through the menu.
I sync mine through Lotus Traveler only problem is it keeps listing them Surname, Forename instead of the other way around - I keep having to go into each contact individually and change it around after each new ROM install.
Hey,
I'm having issues syncing my Google contacts. Apparently, it syncs EVERY contact I ever use in gmail.. All used email-addresses are in there, and some names pop-up multiple times.
This issue only appears in the messaging dialog. My phone-book is clean, I only selected 'my contacts' there & those are the wanted ones.
I've already encountered many topics on this, but none had a working solution. I'm not sure if it is something typically 'samsung' or if it appears on all devices (a friend of mine's HTC is OK)
How do you work around this?
- am I somehow able to tell google only to sync 'my contacts' instead of 'all contacts'?
- am I somehow able to filter the contact-list in the messaging dialog? (like the normal phone-book)
- do you guys simply use an other messaging app, that use the default phone-book?
- do you guys use some kind of specific syncing tool?
- .. ?
Thanks guys!
Sven
I notice you can 'solve' it, by removing those 'all contacts' so that only 'my contacts' remain (quite logic I think ). You can then go to your settings in gmail, and disable the 'auto add to contact' feature.
WARNING: by doing this, you will not see those other 'unsaved' email-addresses when you simply want to send an email! So, only do this if your contact-list is up-to-date. I just disabled that feature, hope I won't miss it too much..