I have a problem that maybe could be yours.
None of my contacts sync with Gear if I had chosen a Custom Label for it, and all my phone numbers are customized with the name of cellphone's operators. I noticed that only the contacts with standard labels like "mobile", "work" etc... will sync with gear.
Does anyone know how to fix that?
thanks,
oh, can anyone else confirm it? i haven't noticed this on my gear before i returned it, but it sucks big time.
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Ever since I factory reset my phone contact names are not displayed on the car when someone calls. It just shows the number instead of the name. Even before there was some contacts that did not show the name and some that would. Anyone know why this happens and how to solve it ?
linkness said:
Ever since I factory reset my phone contact names are not displayed on the car when someone calls. It just shows the number instead of the name. Even before there was some contacts that did not show the name and some that would. Anyone know why this happens and how to solve it ?
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do you have any numbers in your cars "phone book"? I know on my car (2011 Subaru Outback), it only displays the number, but I haven't tried to set up any phone book contacts yet. It's only a small scrolling screen. I can't recall what it's like on my wife's 2010 Mazda 6 with the LCD display screen.
radar5 said:
do you have any numbers in your cars "phone book"? I know on my car (2011 Subaru Outback), it only displays the number, but I haven't tried to set up any phone book contacts yet. It's only a small scrolling screen. I can't recall what it's like on my wife's 2010 Mazda 6 with the LCD display screen.
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I'm not sure if it stores any contacts in the phone book. What happens is everytime I turn the car on it connects to the phone and then it transfers contacts to itself. Which is where it should be pulling names from. It worked fine with a very old dumb phone don't see why it would not work with the SGS.
Where do you have your contacts stored on your phone ??
If in Google Contacts, maybe they need to be on the phone itself ?
JaGuR said:
Where do you have your contacts stored on your phone ??
If in Google Contacts, maybe they need to be on the phone itself ?
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Ya I was thinking maybe that was it but I remember before it was working with google contacts. Also to note is that when I try to voice dial out through the cars system I can use (google) contact names just fine. Almost all my contacts are stored in google don't really want to make duplicates if its possible to get it working with google contacts which I know there must be because it worked before with them.
Hello, does anybody found out how to sort contacts in iDrive system by last name? When I synchronized contacts from HD2, they were listed as Last Name First Name, but when I did it with HD7 they appear in opposite order.
I tried to change these settings in people hub, but it didnt help. It changed in HD7, but in the car it is still the same. I have BMW 730d E65.
Couple of days later, and I am still stucked in the same situation. Anybody could help?
Is it related to the "File As" in the contact? If not, then I would imagine that it's purely down to how the iDrive system interprets it.
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Hello, does anybody found out how to sort contacts in iDrive system by last name? When I synchronized contacts from HD2, they were listed as Last Name First Name, but when I did it with HD7 they appear in opposite order.
I tried to change these settings in people hub, but it didnt help. It changed in HD7, but in the car it is still the same. I have BMW 730d E65.
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Yes, I would contact BMW, it seems the way the Idrive reads the data is why this is happening, have you ever synced any other phones?
On HD2, the phone did not allow you to sort list by names, we had to dl an app to control that, I prefer to view my contact by first name rather then last name.
I know that in Idrive there is a view settings on how its vied but not sure how to access.
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Yes, I would contact BMW, it seems the way the Idrive reads the data is why this is happening, have you ever synced any other phones?
On HD2, the phone did not allow you to sort list by names, we had to dl an app to control that, I prefer to view my contact by first name rather then last name.
I know that in Idrive there is a view settings on how its vied but not sure how to access.
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Hi, I have synced with my HD2 and it had sorted the list by Last Name, but with the HD7 it is sorted by First Name. I have tried to change the settings in People hub, but it did not help. In iDrive menu its not possible to change anything regarding phone. It just shows the list of the synchronized items.
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Have you got the solution?
In my car is the same problem, but I have Touch HD. I'd like to view the contacts in order "lastname, firstname". I think it would be anything with bluetooth transmitting procedure of the different phones. Maybe the HD and HD7 synchs the contact name other as HD2. It must be a setting for that anywhere on the phone by Bluetooth, but I don't find it. Maybe a registry tweak...
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B.
have you tried changing the sort order on the phone? go to settings, applications, people and change whether to sort/ display by first or last name
Yes, I tried that. It is no matter, how is the order on the phone.
But I found an application, Jetware is the name. This application can manipulating the bluetooth hands free setting, right the name's order through a synchronisation.
Now it is almost perfect, just by the names where it's only a firstname in the phonebook, shows now before a "(null)". E.g. on phone is there only a Joe, then on the display of the car it is "(null) Joe"...
ok so I know the captivate won't allow me to choose which gmail contact groups to sync (although other phones do, wtf), and I've told it to only display contacts with phone numbers, and I've also chosen to display only a certain group.
my problem is when choosing a contact to send and sms to it shows ALL contacts so I have a bazillion sale****@craigslist.com to sort through... using the search allows me to find what I want, but as a bit of a perfectionist it bothers me that this one little hiccup is left in my setup.
is there anything to be done about this? I'm ok using a different contacts program, or even a different sms program, so long as this issue is resolved.
I want to sort out my phone contacts so it only displays people who have phone numbers and not people I just have an email address for. Is there any way to do this? Thanks.
Zammo76 said:
I want to sort out my phone contacts so it only displays people who have phone numbers and not people I just have an email address for. Is there any way to do this? Thanks.
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I suppose you could create a group with all the people with numbers and chose to display just those. I don't know how else to do it. The option to choose what groups to display is in the settings of the people app. Settings > contacts to display > customize
Yeah might have to do this. Its strange why they wouldn't.include this as an option. Also I find it a bit of a pain that you dont have the option to quickly scroll to a contact by clicking a letter to display all contacts beginning with that. Maybe there's a third party contacts app with these features.
Is it possible to display only contacts with phone numbers? I have contacts with only emails I don't want visible..
TIA
contentryder said:
Is it possible to display only contacts with phone numbers? I have contacts with only emails I don't want visible..
TIA
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Unfortunately this is one of the few bad things about Lollipop. The ability to display only contacts with numbers was removed.
These are the only options I've been able to find of what contacts to display
I had this option in my Note Edge, but in S6 I don't see it.
I was looking under phonebook, contacts etc.
Where is this option? Is it really gone?
Make Galaxy 6 ONLY display contacts with phone numbers
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Unfortunately this is one of the few bad things about Lollipop. The ability to display only contacts with numbers was removed.
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I found a way to fix this but it takes a bit of savey but this is a developers forum...
Export your google contacts (csv)
Sort your contacts by the phone number (there's 4 fields there, I sorted all 4 type/number) since I wasn't entirely sure the mobile 1 is really always there or not if there is a mobile 2 (1 is primary) but regardless I just wanted to separate the entries with phone numbers and those that didn't.
After sorted I deleted everything without a number.
I went into gmail and made a Phone contact list (if you want you can make an example entry so you know what it looks like I guess) but I could tell it was like * something:::* All Contacts in the one field, I just changed this to * Phone:::*All contacts
then I wrote out the file
Unfortunately even thought it's a CSV it tab delimited it vs comma (this may have been the libreoffice)
so i edited with vi and substitute all tabs with ,'s
s/(control-v)(tab)/,/g
when I did this is also had three "blank" lines at the beginning with all ,'s so I just deleted those to get the titles on the top.
I then went back into gmail contacts and imported this file
It populated all those entries in my Phone contact list
I then went to the phone and told it to only display entries from my Phone contact list and ...
PRESTO - I see only the entries with numbers now
Everything else is there but I don't see it in my phone when i want to select someone to dial!
Personally I think this is BS to have to do this but I just don't think there is another option.
Solution
A simpler solution is by going to Contacts - Settings - Display preferences - Hide incomplete numbers.
Im running MIUI 7 Lollipop
Luqman82 said:
A simpler solution is by going to Contacts - Settings - Display preferences - Hide incomplete numbers.
Im running MIUI 7 Lollipop
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Doesn't work on EMUI 4.1 on Huawei Honor 8.