I've noticed on several ROMS that I've tried that the contact list is a bit wonky. There are long white lines and such, and overall it's not appealing. Is there a way to change that? I'm using aContacts, but I'm more interested in either fixing the stock contact list or replacing it.
Thanks
Hey All,
It is almost 10 months I am using this LG-P970 phone, but until now I've seen nothing but a headache, does anyone else agree?
My main problem (besides the bad performance) is the incident of losing my contacts.
It has happened to me 4 times until now under Froyo, Gingerbread and even Zeus 7 (the most recent incident 2 days ago).
Simply it happens when I open the contacts list, I see that all my contacts are erased in addition to the call log, and I am very aware it is not a matter of contacts display setting as some people might suggest.
The first time this happened to me my contacts were not even synced with Google because I didn't know the contact type should be "Google Contact" in order for it to be synced, and every time I want to create a new contact I have to change its contact type before saving it (I know how to convert existing contacts but please tell me if there is another method to automate the process for new contacts).
I don't know what you think of this phone, but I am pretty sure that my new mobile phone won't be related to the LG family.
Cheers all!
i've never experienced data loss with any of the ROMs
recl said:
i've never experienced data loss with any of the ROMs
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Inviato dal mio LG-P970 con Zeus V6.39
All of the described below seems more than an user problem than your phone, btw, I never lose contacts or data
ErnuB said:
All of the described below seems more than an user problem than your phone, btw, I never lose contacts or data
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You seem to have a good control of your P970, can you expert explain to us how data loss can be a user problem?
Well the best solution is to NOT sync your contacts with Google.
It can either delete new contacts when you restore, or it restores deleted contacts, personally it's crap lol.
Just save them all on your SIM!!! If ever you lose Sim contacts like that. then it's your SIM which is damaged.
I NEVER experienced such problem.
And just to say, Optimus Black is not a crappy phone at all! Mind the way you define it.... Not because you are having contacts problems that it's a crappy phone... It may be an app causing this problem, your SIM card which is damaged, or whatever else.
Yes it's a user problem, we don't know what are your settings after a full wipe and whatever you do wrong or what applications you install that wipes the contact list.
From the first android phone that i had years ago, g1, copied the sim numbers to phone and after adding the google account, google synced it automaticaly and saved all my contacts to google account.
Since then i've added/deleted several contacts, changed several phones (at least 10 with android), and every time i added in the google account to it the contacts where synced.
I think i flashed over 100 different roms, never bricked a phone, even though i used several methods to root and flash recovery, hardest method was on g1 and i think it was the most inteligent one, if any of you had one
Now i'm on zeus 7, so it must be your fault
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no need of google syncing or SIM backup.
contacts -> import/export ->export to sd card.
now u have a [email protected] card. just back it up on your computer or online storage and restore as many times u want. no tension.
in case of newer saves, just delete the old vcf and redo the process or just save normally. (the vcf's will be named progressively, 000,001,002...)
hope i helped.
regards,
achyut.
If your coming from somewhere else where you don't have contacts backuped on sd and only on sim.
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The contacts should be stored on your google acc.
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You seem to have a good control of your P970, can you expert explain to us how data loss can be a user problem?
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No need for sarcasm, I just don't find that annoying chosing google when creating a contact, a small fee for the great service i get in return
Thank you all for your participation .
Maybe "crappy" is not the right word to describe a P970 here as I have seen it has many fans (I did not mean to be offensive), and maybe you have a point if you never had any bad experiences with your devices, but what happened with me was annoying!
I would like to assume that I did something wrong with the phone the first three times I lost my contacts (it also happened when it was brand new - no flashes done or ROMs installed), but do you think the following is too wrong?
1. installed a clean Zeus 7 after multiple wipes/restore factory settings and cache wipes (using cwm in a patched V20B software version)
2. the ONLY apps that I installed were :whatsapp, viber, facebook, google translate, french language pack for the keyboard, and google maps
3. randomly I unlocked the phone once to see that my contacts were lost
As simple as that.
My OB sometimes clean my sms box... but i think it's related to OC and UV... when i set for example: [email protected] and [email protected], after some time my smss are gone, and it's almost as plain as the nose on your face (in my case).
I use titanium backup to save them and restore after loosing them, but after seting my cpu to stable config, sms are where they should be.
i've had a small problem with the p970 but that was a google problem.
i had my contacts stored on my google account, but wenever i made a new contact it wasn't stored in google.. so when i flashed a new rom the latest additions to my contacts were gone.
but as most of the people allready said, do not sync your contacts but export them to your sd card. works flawless..
but i never experienced the problems you have, performance is realy good with the great custom roms we have here at xda.
i have my p970 for 6 months or so and i'm very happy with it.
You need to sync your contacts to.
Not just save the on your phone.
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When we save a contact name with 2 mobile nos. (mobile contact and home contact).
When trying to save to SIM those contact.....saving is done only mobile contact.....the remaining is not saving...any solution..
I know about saving in vcf file...But I just want to know saving in SIM multiple nos with a single contact like vcf file..
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When we save a contact name with 2 mobile nos. (mobile contact and home contact).
When trying to save to SIM those contact.....saving is done only mobile contact.....the remaining is not saving...any solution..
I know about saving in vcf file...But I just want to know saving in SIM multiple nos with a single contact like vcf file..
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SIM cards have relatively limited storage capabilities. They can store a contact and a number in each memory slot (I don't know if there is another piece of information that can be stored) but definitely it can't store two numbers for the same contact name that's why you see "X (home)" and "X(mobile)" for example as two separate entities.
I have the same problems with op - it has erased my contacts randomly 3-4 times in my 16 months of using it. Unrooted - official roms (2.2 and 2.3, various firmwares).
And a couple times sd card was 'destroyed' - losing everything stored there. Of course after reformatting sd card was fine....
I understand it is not a common issue - else more noise would be made around this issue, but something must be wrong with some batches.
A real disappointiment this phone.
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I know about saving in vcf file...But I just want to know saving in SIM multiple nos with a single contact like vcf file..
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It is simply not possible. The form of storing contacts data on SIM is rather ancient but it is industrial standard.
All I can say is the hardware is not at fault for the problems OP has listed in his post, it's a software thing.
Let's say it is possible to switch to a non-Google ROM. say Windows Phone 8 which doesn't sync with Google for its contact, the contacts will likely stay intact.
edit - Of course before anyone start jumping over Windows Phone 8 on our phones, no it's not happening and I'm using an easier example of switching OS to demonstrate that the hardware has nothing to do with software issues.
Hello everyone!
My father owns a Galaxy S plus, but he was not able to see the small text in some of his apps, and it was not adjustable through the settings. Reading a guide on this website (cant remember the link, sorry), I was able to change the Pixel Density by editing a file called Build.Prop present in /system. The text became larger now.
You can see the 12th line, I changed it from 240 to 280: i.imgur.com/tw5wc.jpg
Now the first and really annoying issue is its phone pad: i.imgur.com/TZNhL.jpg
As you can see if you type a wrong number you will have to exit and open it again, no option to erase and also there is no option to call, you have to add it to contacts first and then you will be able to call them.
When you open contacts, everything is normal, why is this only in the phone pad?
The lock screen of the current OS (2.3.5) on that phone is different from that of 2.3.6. Now when you want to directly open messages or see missed calls, you know that you have to move a part to the empty space to complete the "puzzle" and it will open it. Now you will have to move it below that empty part to open but it is tricky.
When it comes to calculator, I solved the issue by installing a 3rd party program and completely removing the stock one. It had a similar issue to the phone pad. Anyway I backed up the stock one in case anything happens.
I guess that Samsung did not optimize them to work with these changes, do you think the same way?
Can you please help me solve this issue?
SudoHalt said:
Hello everyone!
My father owns a Galaxy S plus, but he was not able to see the small text in some of his apps, and it was not adjustable through the settings. Reading a guide on this website (cant remember the link, sorry), I was able to change the Pixel Density by editing a file called Build.Prop present in /system. The text became larger now.
You can see the 12th line, I changed it from 240 to 280: i.imgur.com/tw5wc.jpg
Now the first and really annoying issue is its phone pad: i.imgur.com/TZNhL.jpg
As you can see if you type a wrong number you will have to exit and open it again, no option to erase and also there is no option to call, you have to add it to contacts first and then you will be able to call them.
When you open contacts, everything is normal, why is this only in the phone pad?
The lock screen of the current OS (2.3.5) on that phone is different from that of 2.3.6. Now when you want to directly open messages or see missed calls, you know that you have to move a part to the empty space to complete the "puzzle" and it will open it. Now you will have to move it below that empty part to open but it is tricky.
When it comes to calculator, I solved the issue by installing a 3rd party program and completely removing the stock one. It had a similar issue to the phone pad. Anyway I backed up the stock one in case anything happens.
I guess that Samsung did not optimize them to work with these changes, do you think the same way?
Can you please help me solve this issue?
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u cant change that and excpect it to work perfectly,just put it on 240 again or 250
Dialer Problem solved
I solved the dialer problem by installing a 3rd party one, called as DW Contacts & Phone Dialer (Developer: DWP). It works very well with the dislay settings I changed. But using a 3rd party dialer can be a worry sometimes.
I am having some of the callers pictures taking the whole upper screen (from left to right side) and some pictures are as they were on GB - just a small one in the center of the upper side. Anyone knows what is it based on, as I just synced everything with exchange server? Thanks
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I am having some of the callers pictures taking the whole upper screen (from left to right side) and some pictures are as they were on GB - just a small one in the center of the upper side. Anyone knows what is it based on, as I just synced everything with exchange server? Thanks
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What Android version are you using?
Are you rooted and got CWM recovery?
What rom are you using?
For rooted devices which got CWM recovery theres a flashable patch for AOSP which you can download and flash, but only for AOSP and not for Samsung/TW based roms.
Which you could edit to specify a max. vector .
Why some are small and some are bigger probably has to do with the source of the image.
I would think all of the google contacts have the same size image as they get capped by the server [I'd think], as where other contacts which got imported from 3rd party apps [skype, whatsapp, so on..] get the images from those apps which may provide images in all sorts of formats.
So the only way to get around it is specifying it.
A couple of days ago i came across a thread for AOSP [android without the samsung malware] for which he made a zip that capped the size to half the screen. I reckon editting that would allow you to specify the borders, so search around if you can flash zips and have an aosp based rom.
Good luck!
Thanks for your answer, I am on LSZ which is 4.1.2, rooted, stock rom with TW. Actually, at the beginning all the pictures were side-wide which I considered as a nice new feature of the new rom. But reading your comment I realized, that I did some changes and updated pics in the PC Outlook, which were then back sync to my Note. Today I tried to pick some other photo from device gallery for the given contact and then when received the call, the side-wide picture was back. So it looks like Outlook somehow diminished or set different picture size. Anyway, it is solved for me now .
As the subject says, I keep losing all my contacts on Kitkat 4.4.4 (Unofficial Beanstalk ROM). This happens after the phone is left idle for extended periods (ex. overnight).
I was running build 23/06/2014, P880-devs (grouper blobs) when I first noticed the issue.
Then I updated to build 14/07/2014 (also P880-devs) along with iodak v10 CM kernel, and still, the issue exists.
I still lose my contacts after a while of inactivity, and have to re-import my contacts.vcf (saved on the root folder /data/media/0)
I cannot seem to find a way to intentionally duplicate the issue. For example, I reboot the phone but the contacts will remain there. It only does it when left idle for several hours or more.
I made sure I did a factory reset & wiped cache from CWM recovery before flashing both ROMs. The only thing I did not do is wiping dalvik cache. Could this be the reason why?
I tried to search to see if anyone else had this problem but
My baseband is v20c (UAE) if that matters.
Edit: to clarify further, the contacts were always imported to phone memory only (have not chosen to sync with google).
Also using pa_gapps-modular-mini-4.4.4-20140708-signed.zip
tamer7 said:
As the subject says, I keep losing all my contacts on Kitkat 4.4.4 (Unofficial Beanstalk ROM). This happens after the phone is left idle for extended periods (ex. overnight).
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This never happened to me, although I'm running the CM-based version (latest version).
One thing might be a conflict with your Google account contacts. May be the phones syncs an empty Google address book down to your phone?
Hth,
Christian
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This never happened to me, although I'm running the CM-based version (latest version).
One thing might be a conflict with your Google account contacts. May be the phones syncs an empty Google address book down to your phone?
Hth,
Christian
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Thanks for your reply Chris. This sounds plausible as I remember the last time the "all contacts" appeared empty, the "people app" was showing about 60 out of the 83 contacts that i had originally imported.
I'm a bit dissatisfied with the KK dialer and the "people app". I find them a bit limited. For instance, the inability to edit numbers directly from the dialer, the inability to selectively remove certain contacts from the speed dial list, etc.
The settings are no different. The only semi-relevant setting I can find is through the people app -> accounts -> auto-sync app data (checked by default, and lists my google, whatsapp and facebook accounts).
May I ask why you chose the CM-based version over p880-dev? is there an up-to-date pros and cons list on both?
Cheers
Issue seems to be solved by itself
Strangely, the issue hasn't reoccured since my original post. But, I can't complain