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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sciclunam:
Great software ... it's a pity I wont' be using it simply because of the very small alphabet letters on the left? Could they be at the top grouped 3 letters, 3 letters like the default contacts of windows... [abc] [def] etc...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PianoSam:
A really great program but it seems to devour memory like a whale devours krill.

latest version improves initial list creation which used to fail in the last version if memory was low.

I have a touch and it is almost the perfect application.

T H A N K Y O U

just need to stop the continued loss of memory by the megabyte.

Sam.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PianoSam:
Just a couple of other thoughts too:

Is it possible to have a couple of icons....one for the app in the start menu and two for the cube?

Is it possible to have the program cab install the program to run from the storage card?

And finally, is it possible to have the program launch from within the SMS/OUTLOOK interface when choosing to add a contact?

Did I mention that Tene is a visionary!

Sam.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jac:
Found The Problem Why I Can't View All My Contacts!

The problem stems from pictures in the contacts.

~When I remove the 2 pictures from the contacts (Starting in the "D's" & the other in "H's") I can view all my contacts!

~If I take the picture with the phone and add to the contacts, ContactManager 0.11 works great! Except I can't sync properly with those pictures.

~If I use pictures form my PC, and add to my contacts with in Outlook 2007 sync via my SyncML application. I'm not able to view any contacts after and including that contact.

~If I find a solution to the problem I will post...

So for now will have to go without pictures on my contacts for now because I like this application so much!

PS: If someone has a solution please let me know!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Flip78:
Thanks Tene

This app is just great !

I am using it since the beginning and I enjoy each new release.:)

If Microsoft would care about HMI, tene would be rich (might be the case anyway, don't know how donations are ...) !

Keep going.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cspannos:
I hate to be a pain, but tene do you think this is a feature that you might add at some point in the future? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Why can't you still use one hand? If you can cantrol the D-pad with one hand, can you not simply use the same hand to select the contact on the screen? Then the number you want to dial?

I only use one hand with ContactManager, scroll, use the index, select a contact, dial, etc.

I'm just trting to understand the problem as right now it's unclear why you need to use both hands.

Regards,

G
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Woife:
I've made another skin for a friend. Maybe someone can use it, too.

Kind regards,

Woife
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] blazemanner:
You probably already know. but. ?

There is no way to reach the options setting in the original contacts app.

Some reason my local phone prefix was set wrong before installing your awesome program (I love it). Every time I add contact info it automatically entered 425 instead of 423. I uninstalled contactmanager changed it in settings, reinstalled it imediately, solved my problem. You may want to look in though.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
CRASH BUG

Tene,

Major Bug where ContactManager just goes away.

-Select any contact to go into detailed view.

-Tap on contact image area to bring down the dropdown list

-Tap on Edit contact

-Click/Tap on Right Softkey "Menu" to open menu

-Click/Tap on Right Sofkey to close menu

-Click/Tap on Right Softkey "Menu" to open up menu again

Contact Manger shuts down and dissapears at this point.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vivi:
I like this program much,but it will be nice if there are click and break sounds like Touch Flo.

Could you please make it to have these sounds?

Attached sounds.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] agovinoveritas:
Just for the record I do like it silent. Less battery usage. Besides, it is cooler that way. But I could see why some would like it with sounds.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Hi,

You're missing the point: press the finger, move your finger to the right letter, release the finger. It's NOT like most of the other interface that trigger the action on press, I trigger it on release. This way you can be very precise, while keeping the full possibility of A-Z index. Note that if your phone has a keyboard you can also press the keyboard button.

Yeah sure.. send me some icon, I'll add them.

what happens if you tell the installer to install it on storage card?

To my knowledege it's not. If somebody ever saw an application doing that?

First of all, thanks for this investigation, if more users were like you, our applications would be less buggy :p

Could you drop me a mail, I'd like to send you a test version that could help us track the issue.

Also what's your syncml application?

For info, donation are not great. Some people donated, and I thank them, but only a few... If I want to make some money, I'll definitly have to change my business model.

I can't reproduce it :s Drop me a mail, I'd like to send you a test version, maybe I know what's wrong.

Well two things:

1. I hate sounds, that's probably the first thing I turn off.

2. Tick sound on Touch is triggered on each contact... but it's not smooth scrolling, the first contact is always fully visible... so the question would be when to trigger the sound?

I don't know yet how to play sound in .NET CF and how it affect perf...I'll look at it when I'll find some time.

I think that's all, sorry if I miss some post.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mkmonkey:
Wow , that's a great app !

However , I would like to ask if there are any chance to make a rename-able "folder" for different group ?

Say , a folder called "Workmate" and put all the phone number of my workmate and "Schoolmate" for my school mate , etc ...

Hmmm , a locked folder would be nice too ... can't imagine if my phone has a folder called "girlfriend" but lots of different name in it ... (though it is not a necessary feature) .
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PhilippeTrinity:
Is there a way to have only one number by name on the list ?

Or a line in the settings.ini to add to prevent multiple contacts with the same name

Now I have several lines for one contact and it's pretty annoying

I guess it does that because for one mobile phone number wm5 & wm6 has two lines on the contact list,one for call number and the other for sms number

Anyway great job on this program !

Thanks in advance,

Philippe
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I'm not sure I understand can you send a screenshot? one contact with multiple number should show once.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PhilippeTrinity:
All my contacts are shown twice on the list

I thought it was because in the contact details I have for the same number : call number & sms number

But I just checked and it does that for all my contacts, they're all shown twice

It's pretty annoying cause it doubles the length of my contact list :/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PhilippeTrinity:
I found out my problem, it wasn't related to this program...

Sorry for inconvenience...

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cspannos:
Hello,

Actually I use one of those hard aluminum cases that covers my screen... so when I'm driving, I really can't fuss trying to open the case to get to the screen to select a contact. I usually just use one hand to hit the right softkey for contacts and scroll with the D-pad to navigate to the contact and number I need to dial.

It was just a suggestion, though... I guess I can stick to MS Voice Command when driving...

Would anyone else be interested in the feature, or is it just me?

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] blurv:
bug with sms text

When I try to send a text from cantact manager I get the error message: Send with invalid address? but the message goes through fine. Anyone else experience this?

BlurV
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] agovinoveritas:
I am not sure what you are saying either, but if you are talking about that fact that if you enter someone's "cell phone" number into a contact when you go that contact you will have to options to click. One to call and one to send SMS. Unlike when you enter someone's number under the "home" tag.

But that makes sense since it gives you the option to SMS that person as well as to call them. It would be silly to take that option away.

Since you are taking away functionality.

Same would happen if you have an email attached to that contact. The program tell you if you would like to call the cell, SMS the person or email them. I think that is a lot better than just having the one phone number button.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rawbanana:
Full D-pad navigation?

First, this is by far the best contact list manager I have come across so far!

Just missing one thing in my opinion. Full D-pad navigation so that I dont need to touch the stylus/screen to select/dial a number. Hopefully this isn't just a problem with my phone. Works pretty well on my 800x480 resolution otherwise.

I would suggest just simply allowing the D-pad "action button" on the main list to highlight the contact in the middle of the screen to be selected. Pressing the D-pad *action button* again will open the contact. Once inside the contact, allow the D-pad to select which number/option to dial.

That would be great!

I'd definately be willing to give a donation for a perfect program! Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] corranq:
Actually BlurV, I get this problem all the time and it started around the time I installed FlexMail 2007 - basically, I think that whenever a program that handles your messaging differently than outlook gets installed it screws up the standard settings or reads the phone numbers wrong.

Just edit the phone number in your text message when you open one up to send one to not include any of the following symbols and it'll work: ()- or spaces in some cases.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] StevenK:
I deinstalled version .11, because of 2 problems and an annoyance:

First, trying to call someone resulted in an error message (kind of general protection fault). Secondly, the quick-select has to be calibrated: I first have to go to the 'A', before it works.

Apart from this, I really mis the option of searching by entering a few characters.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] larna:
Isn't point of donations to give developer more resources to get the program to the perfection? :)

larna
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Does it happen to anyone else?

I'm not following you.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dancer_69:
Quote:

Originally Posted by StevenK

First, trying to call someone resulted in an error message (kind of general protection fault).

I have this error, see my post in this page:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1368526#post1368526
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
And you're using a phone or just a pda?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cspannos:
That makes two votes... :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] StevenK:
I'm using a phone (Qtek S200) and it's an entirely different message.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] StevenK:
The alphabet-function does not work correctly at first; when I open contacts and I select for instance 'R', it will go only down to 'M' or 'N'. However, when I first go to 'A', then it will work OK.

BTW, I'm running it on a Qtek S200 with ASERG 3.13 AKU3 ROM.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Could it be that the contacts are still loading and haven't loaded everything yet?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
I'm experiencing the exact same thing. (In fact, I was just about to make a post about it! :) )

I thought that first going to 'A' would help, but found that method to be unreliable too.

I found the way to fix it (on my phone) is to open ContactsManager, then hide it. Next time you open it, the alphabetic index works as is should.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
So if you want it to be fixed, don't you think it maybe useful to send me the message?

Regarding your index issue, it's because your contact aren't loaded yet. This application is designed (like most mobile application) to be started, then stay in memory. This way the next time you go to the app, it's already loaded.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Tene,

I would REALLY, REALLY love settings for scroll friction and speed.

The more and more I use your wonderful app, the more I wish I had those settings.

So what do ya say, would you consider it?

Thanks again,

Dax.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
I would REALLY REALLY like to invite my wife in a very good restaurant with your donation, so what do ya say, would you consider it? :p

Seriously, wait a little, something is coming ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Tene,

Is there a setting to change the color for the contact detail font?

-Greg
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Hi,

For now it's same color as the font used in contact list.

I can think about adding something there.

regards,

Quentin
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dvd107:
HELP!! I've removed contactmanager but can't access the default WM6.0 Contacts program.

The short cut has disappeared.

Can someone go here: KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\Rai\:M SCONTACTS

and tell me what registry settings there are?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
:MSPOUTLOOK

Note: it's also in the FAQ.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dvd107:
I did this. Yet it still does not open.

String 1 is set to :MSPOUTLOOK
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Myster:
Has anyone tried the localized versions ??? I cannot get it work :(

Also i did not understand if localization applies only in UI and dialogs or INDEX Letters as well

Can anyone explain ?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
The index is not (yet) localized.

Other labels are localized. You need to have a lang.[ISO language name].ini file in your contactmanager folder.

(replace [ISO language name] with your iso language name of course).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Myster:
Thanks for quick reply tene

I already did that ( greek File from your site ) but it does not work ... Anyway this is not important since what matters the most is Index Localization. I hope you implement this soon :)

I also hope you find a way to retain both Latin Index and a Localized one because i think is most usefull

Thanks a Lot
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pharaoh:
Anyone know if I can change the alignment of the address display to right align or center align?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] StevenK:
I'll reinstall; hang on.

The error is in Dutch and it complains that it can't find the file or assembly Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Telephony,Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35

The strange thing is that everyting on my device is in English...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PianoSam:
Installation Issue...with .11

I selected a storage card installation running the .11 cab file and installed the cab onto two PDA's.

Both times the installation installed into memory on the PDA.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Tene is still the main man though as the app is just getting better and better.

Sam.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dancer_69:
The greek translation file works ok for me.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Cavey.co.uk:
I'm really impressed with this. Good work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alanderego:
Hi,

Is it possible to change the soft keys?

I like "favorites" and "hide", but I like "new" that the original contacts had.

Thanks,

Alan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lpreagan:
Hi, just a cosmetic question for this great app:

on the contact info page, I think the parentheses should be removed, because it causes a double, it looks like this on my screen Mobile ((750) 555-1212), which looks silly
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] noahv:
FR: Category Filter

tene - fantastic job. It just keeps getting better. My vote would be to include a Category Filter in CM so that I only show contacts that have a given Category tag (e.g. Work, Personal, etc.). Basic WM6 Contacts app has this ability - that would make this app kick serious BOOTAY!

thanks in advance!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] freeyayo50:
How about creating an options menu inside the app so we dont have to keep modifying the .ini file.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] greg3d:
Yes, you can create a localization file to do this. By default, CM has an internal English setup, it's not an external localization file like the other countries.

However, I made one for English that gets rid of the parenthesese, and also allows you to change the text associated.

I'm, attaching it here, just copy it into the same directory as Contact Manager.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Good work Greg from the 3rd dimension!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] WizeMan:
Dude I love this program for the simplicity and the gui. What if you make the scrolling effect to slow down progressively like the iContacts?

And 2nd, i like the localitation thingie, what about the Letters of the phonebook? I mean the main program, what can I do to make them greek?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bowlopho:
it replaces my orginal contact shortcut in my start menu.

I like to use the original windows contact program to edit contacts. Is there a way to get my shortcut back?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] daxliniere:
Yes, read this thread.

Also, search "Soft key app"
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] The_Steph:
Thank you

The two problems I had are gone: no more problems with "Mobile2" phone numbers are a way to localise it.

Simply wonderful.

The_Steph
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RRibeiro:
I have a strange problem.

I edit the registry by and to use ContactManager 1.1 with my left softkey. Then I softreset and all is fine, but when I make another softreset, I lose my softkey configuration and I heve to edit the registry again.

I'm using:

Qtek 9000

Latest WM6 PDAViet Rom

Thanks for any help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rll410:
I have a NOOB question sorry.

I downloaded the cab file and transfered it to my wing.

But i cant install it the only file in there is a setup file which takes me to internet explorer when i click it please help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jorge_culv:
Scroll with slider?

This app is fantastic! Definitely improving the way we interact with our phones. Any chance you might consider adding a new feature in future releases? With Wizards, many of us use a utility called SmartsKey to scroll through lists of data--it remaps the volume slider on the left of the phone to act as up/down arrow. I noticed I could use the up/down dpad to navigate your app, but the slider (with Smartskey running) had no effect. Something to consider. Thanks again
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paalkr:
Hi!

You are not to extract the cab file and run anything in it, but run the cab file itself, on the device. The cab file is the install application.

Regards,

PK
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Rll410:
Hey man thanks alot i appreciate it . On a side note if i ever wanted to delete the Contact manager from my phone how would i go about doing that
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sjetha:
Excellent App! But Some Suggestions...

I was wondering if you could remove the () around the phone numbers in the next version. Also, I have a bunch of codes and names that are written in the various non standard fields (ie. in the address feild, etc) simply due to fact that it would be all on one screen with the regular contact display. Is there a way that your next version can show all data that is present on a contact?

For example, I may something like this in the contact:

Company: Door 12345 4567 locker

Department: y room 12345 + d room 34345

business #: Lynx 12345

and so on.

Shows in index as:

Lync (door 12345 4567 locker)

If I go into the contact it shows:

Business (Lynx)

nothing else.

The rest of the codes/info is only viewable if I go into the edit contact feature. Can you please fix this for the next version?

Also, another feature that would be great is the search. I like the left index, but sometimes I forget what John Doe last name was, as I have twenty johns in my contacts, but I do remember the first three digits of his phone number. So if I could search the whole contacts for all the john's that would be great.

I delete key with confirmation for those unwanted contacts would also be appreciated.

Speed....known issue of taking some time to index the entire contact list...aka as soon as start it it will only go up to C, then D, F, P, etc if I keep pressing the S on the index. Once indexing is complete, the program flys correctly to the right letter.

I am not sure about this one since I use x button to close apps (that might be the problem), but once I exit the contacts, the program needs to re-index each time I use it.

The speed issues might be easily resolved once the program is complete and the instructions/code can be incorporated into the ROM.

I love this program, and find it to be superior to the stock contact manager of WM6. You are doing a great job, and would love to see the changes made to make completely perfect. I have installed the cab version. :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Hi,

Sorry for not taking the time of answering everything. You should definitly have a look to the "settings.ini" file, it contains lot of settings, you should be able to do what you want.

Regarding speed and optimization... working on it...

Regarding search, I'm also thinking about it, but I can't imagine a good way to deal with it yet.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] RoachForLife:
Great product, wondering if any registry tweaks to make loading faster? Just put WM6 on there a the htc home plugin and thats it but when Im running and have to put up the contacts it seems to take a good 5sec or so to load. Not sure if normal

Thanks for the help
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alanderego:
tene,

I looked in the settings.ini and I can't find anything to change the settings when you view the contact info.

Am I looking in the wrong place?

I managed to change the contact list, now I need to customize the contact info.

Thanks again for the great program...

Alan
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
You have to change contact_detail_formatting

By default:

contact_detail_formatting=%homeaddressstreet\n%homeaddresspostalcode %homeaddresscity\n%homeaddressstate\n%homeaddresscountry
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
I also have a Wizard with the same setup as you do. However, Smartskey doesn't make the volume slider emulate a D-pad up and down, but it emulates a page up and down. CM scrolls down a page upon a D-pad down, that's why the volume slider has no effect with CM. I do agree it would be nice (perhaps TyTN owners with a scrollwheel would be helped, too, but I'm not sure). But on the other hand, it's very device specific, something I'd try to avoid when developing an application like this.