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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bellfazar:
Great update tene, loving the way this app is moving forward.

I have a few bugs but I think most have been addressed already. I have the issue where if you click the filter button at the bottom then select any other button (like SMS or favorites) at the bottom it stays on the filter screen.

If I go to send a contact an SMS, there's a black bar that runs above the text area. I understand you put that in for a reason, but the send button has a gray bar above it. Odd coloring right there.

Also, I'm not sure if you've done this, but I'd love to be able to move around elements inside a box. For example, on the contact details screen contact_title_box contains the back button and the name. On the SMS screen it has the back button, the name, the mobile number, and the SMS character counter. I'd love to be able to move these around in the title bar. For example, instead of looking like this:

BACK NAME/NUMBER SMS COUNTER

I'd like to make it look like this:

NAME/NUMBER SMS COUNTER BACK

or any variation of that.

Hitting the back button in the SMS screen goes all the way back to the contact list. I can see why that might be preferable but it's inconsistent behavior from what a back button should be. Maybe consider making both a "Home" and "Back" button that are smaller and sit next to each other.

I think I've asked you this before, but is there any way to pin the dialing buttons (mobile, home, SMS, email) to the top of the contact_button_list_box? I'm not crazy about having them at the bottom because I can never tell if there's anything below it.

I'd like to be able to change the Send button in the SMS part. Can you make it a button/text so it's changeable?

Echoing what a few others have said, can you make it so the SIP minimizes when the text input box loses focus? That would make it much easier to read if you accidentally hit the input area. As it is, if you accidentally hit it, you have to hit the back button which goes all the way back to your main contact list and then you have to select the contact then SMS again. And there's no guarantee (especially on these tiny screens) that you won't hit the input box again.

I absolutely love the idea of making a tracking box on the A-Z index so you know where you are in the list while it's scrolling. Great idea that I'd love to see implemented.

You're doing an amazing job on this app, keep up the good work :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fuzzvirus:
A small defect

I did a mad clicker test. If I scroll too fast over the index I get the this(Attached). Won't go away. Can you make index bigger so that I can use my fat fingers over them.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] illcaptive:
on 12 i am having 2 main problems with a hermes running wm6:

1. even though it is full screen if you finger scroll to the top where a or # is it closes the app.

2. when receiving a sms the screen that pops up with pocket cm is not full screen and it cuts off the new sms with the windows start bar.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Avatar28:
Okay, maybe I'm missing something, but I had to hard reset my phone yesterday. I then reinstalled the latest pocketcm. For some reason my contacts are all organized by first name instead of by last name. How do I get it to sort last name first?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iggy:
create a txt file called settings.ini in the PocketCM folder and add this line to it

contact_sort_expression=%lastname %firstname

If you need to change anything else you can add more settings to the settings.ini file from the PocketCM website FAQ

http://pocketcm.com/phorum/read.php?8,174
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Reichi:
could it be, that contact_list_first_line does not work as expected?

at least i cant get my contact list to display the lastname first... and I REALLY hate having the first name in front :/
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Avatar28:
Thanks, iggy, I'll give it a shot. Has the default behavior changed in the recent version? It's never done that before.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Avatar28:
That seems to have done it, though it didn't recognize it until I rebooted, even after quitting the app.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] peterc_1:
great app! i love 0.12 with the full screen display and the smoothness of the scrolling is awesome on this version.

one thing tho, when I receive a new text msg, it seems to lag in the 'contact with SMS' for about 10 seconds or so.

Other than that, keep up the good work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pong38:
A great piece of software. Thanks for putting so many time in it.

Couldn't found this with the search option of the forum.

1) When I start typing a message with the Wing's keyboard the SIP keyboard pops up.

Is there a way to prevent this to happen ??

2) I have friends with multiple mobile numbers and those I have put all their numbers under 1 contact.

I.e. contact : Andre and I have "spread" the 3 mob numbs in the contact under : mob num, business num, home num.

Now the contactlist only give the option to send a sms to the mob num.

Which is perfectly understandable but is there a way this program to make it possible to send an sms to whatever num and wherever it is located in the contacts ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
http://pocketcm.com/phorum/read.php?8,174

read completely the 1st post.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anheuer:
Think i found a bug...

When i call someone

he/she answeres

hang up

then i get the screen about the call i just had,

i close it, and for some reason pocketcm apears,

then i close pocketcm, and i get into the screen where i see the contact i just called, i close that, and then pocketcm apears again.

then i close it and it stays closed.

had it two times now..

using your latest version.

on a touch
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Flintz:
I don't know but I am having the same problem, its a bit annoying.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] twitism:
hi there

i've been using your great program ever since it was first launched and am absolutely loving it.

However, there seem to be a bug (probably) in 0.12. For some reason, i was able to use the program without fail the first few times. But suddenly i wasn't able to access the sms page as the program juz crash and exits itself after showing the 'loading sms' page for a while.

Any ideas what's happening? I'm using HTC Trinity for your info.

Thanks a lot and keep up the great work!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] variosteph:
:( Same problem here! don´t know what we´re doing wrong
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Qasani:
Is it possible to ad "delete conversation/message" to the drop down box when you are reading a sms? or did I miss the delete function some where? Also, what about a "x" button to close the program?

Thanks,

!Q!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] raymondu999:
Another suggestion, if I may. Shave off the top and bottom bits so that the status bars can show. This way, everytime there's some new notification, our phones don't have to redraw those bars, eating up loads of processing time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pong38:
Thanks Q but unfortunatley it doesn't help me.

I can't find an answer on both my questions. But you are more in to it and maybe I am too dumb to found the answers myself ;)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
# coma separated list of phone number prefixes that will be considered as mobile

# even if they're not in the mobile field

# for instance, in belgium, every cell phone start with 047, 048 or 049

# so the settings is:

# sms_prefixes=047,048,049,+3247,+3248,+3249

sms_prefixes

did you read this?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chymmylt:
On that note - a warning would be nice on the remove picture. I can be clumsy sometime when hitting buttons and have on more then one occasion deleted the contact pictures. It would be great if when you hit delete picture a confirmation screen would come up [Delete photo? Yes/No] - I think this would be nice for preventing accidental deletions and I don't think people delete photos so frequently that the extra step would be an inconvience!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pong38:
Thanks Q

Yes I read all of it but I guess my English wasn't good enough to find it myself.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] variosteph:
i found the reason why this wasn´t working for me,

just be sure that the settings.ini isn´t saved like this:

settings.ini.txt - my work computer saved the file with a hidden *.txt!

now it´s working perfectly!

Thank´s to tene for this great programm!:)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anheuer:
i found two more bugs..

The bugs i found when using live messenger..

1. i made a rule in the settings ini that i will only see contacts with a number,

but when i use live messenger, a view (not all) of the messenger contacts are shown.

when i then completely close pocketcm, and open it again there gone..

but it happens every time again when i use messenger live..

the second one was when i was typing a message in messenger live (with the pocketcm keyboard).

for some reason when i was typing a message, the keyboard layout disapeard and the bottom part of the contact messenger was shown.

then i completely closed the contact manager again and then it worked fine.

btw... i also had that the contact manager shifted down, you could see the "taskbar" on top and the CM was pushed down a bit, had to completely close it and start it again to fix it.

but i can remember when exactly it happened.. sorry

(using htc touch and latest version of pocketcm + pocketcm keyboard)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pilotbrille:
hallo guys! i made it trought some pages.... but i have a problem with contactCM.....

installed it and it works really fine on my htc herald!

but it is normal that there was no contact in it???? do i have to add my 100 contacs again or is there a problem with my devise that is didnt added all contacs from my "contact list"????????????????????????????

please help me, but the ContactCM is so fantastic good, really like it but cant use it when i have to add my 100 contacts again.... i have them on sim card and on the htc herald!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] toblo:
For the moment PocketCM can only access contacts which are stored in Pocket Outlook. It can't access the contacts in SIM card yet. Last time I read, there's no plan for it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] duke_stix:
Hi

Wondering if the developer/s of this program could consider making a 'finger friendly' menu manager?

bloody great app by the way!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pilotbrille:
thx for the fast replay..... i have the herald for 2 days now!

do you know, or is there a option do copy the sim contacts in pocket outlook?????i just want to copy all contacs from my sim card to the htc herald store!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Cobra2:
Go in the SIM Manager, there u'll see all ur's sim contacts... Menu --> Select All --> Menu again ---> Save to Contacts --- > Restart your PCM and there u go, u should now see all sim contacts in the PCM :) :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] amanakbar:
i'm having a problem where when i'm tapping the htc phonepad to reply to a sms in pocketcm, and in the same time i received a new sms from another contact, pocketcm would stop responding for quite some time (text doesn't register from phonepad, back button not working, can't scroll the threaded sms
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
A little issue & request

Hi tene,

Thanks for your great app. Just found a very little issue in 0.12 - when it's in "Favourite" view; select one of the favourite contact; remove it from favourite; go back to "Favourite" list; the just removed record is still on the list; go to "All Contact" view then "Favourite" again; the list will be refreshed correctly.

BTW, could the letter index be moved from left to right? Maybe I've missed something in your configuration list... With the current layout I think it's most suitable for left hand operator. For me, when I try to locate a "letter" with my right hand, the feedback letter window is always blocked by my right hand...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Simply try to use the right side... it does work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] paalkr:
Hi!

You can move your finger at the right side also, even if the index letters is on the left. In the settings file you can specify the number of pixels on the left and on the right side of the screen that shall react to index scrolling.

Regards,

PK
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] A_C:
Thanks tene & paalkr for the quick response... the right side does the trick!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] keishou:
Great contacts app! I love the layout of .12, but have small issues with it... Being full screen, it's sometime hard to access the # or A line since it's so close to the edge of the screen... Also, there is no spot to bring up the on screen keyboard... thus went back to .11 In the next release of the full screen version, can you have a spot to bring up the on screen keyboard?

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
Tene, how about making the full screen thing optional?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] sheltem:
I have the same problem. PocketCM seems really slow when pulling up an incoming SMS.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] maevro:
I liked this program on all of my HTC phones but it doesn't work with my Ubiquio 503g. Too bad.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] PES13:
Since few days, with .11 and .12 too, when I launch CM, it's closed automaticly juste after the first display of the contact list.

I've tried to uninstall and install again, soft reset, same think ..... an idea ?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] raymondu999:
If only PocketCM could replace the built-in SMS just like the Contacts(if you use CAB) is replaced. Only a covered solution, not an actual replace, but then it makes things so much easier. Also, we wouldn't have to switch back and forth all the time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] GeoffM:
had to go back to .10 - only way to exit was to go to the running programs and tell PCM to stop
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
Well I totally disagree with you... I myself want to decide if I close an application, NOT Microsoft... (especially if it isn't that small).

The way you tell to close program is way too difficult: first minimize, then use a taskmanager. So I'd really like to have a normal close button.

Still: a very nice application!

For now back to 0.11
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] umirza85:
The sms threading takes a reaaaaaly long time to load, somtimes i can leave it for 5mins and nothing happens. this is for a large lot of sms's. also making the full screen thing optional sounds good. i like to close pocket cm with x-button so that when i recieve an sms it doesnt automatically open pocket cm.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] simonte:
hi there!

m almolst sure thatsomebody has asked the same question but i cant find it.

How to sort contacts by Last Name in pocketCM ?

thanks in advance!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jrproulx:
Here is what you do:

If you have not already set up a settings.ini file than do so now.

Next add these lines to the file:

contact_sort_expression=%lastname %firstname

That will sort the contacts list by last name.

I just did it and it works for me.

** Make sure you RESTART PCM for the changes to take effect..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iggy:
Well if you have a program like SPB Pocket+ or HTC X button you can set it to close apps then assign your PPC OK button to that app and it always closes apps. Thats what I did with SPB+
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] petervbeck:
wow

Such a big thread for such a small program....somehow i can't understand it.

I'm using PocketCM and PocketCMKeyboard since early versions and i'm just happy with it.... :) Hey, it's just a keyboard and a contactmanager...

If you would bomb Microsoft with so much mails you wouldn't have to wait so long for their new OS.... and they are all well payed for their job...

IMHO it's unbelievable, i am post 773!!! No wonder that Coolgadget has left

Hey Tene, you are doing a great job !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] SH4YD33:
Is it possible to have the letters across the top like the original contact manager? I cant even press the letters on the elft side without a stylus...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Andre Koster:
I once wanted to file a bug in the linker of MS VC++ 4.0, but I had to pay US$200 for the priviledge! Bombing M$ can be expensive...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pietrucci:
That's the problem: I have HTC X-button, but can't close the program because there's no x-button on the screen anymore.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Bellfazar:
Use index_right_border_width. You can adjust it (I have it set to 50 pixels) so that I can run my finger up the right side of the screen and it works the same as if I were using the left.

Use smartskey.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] g35driver:
Is there any way of stopping this program from coming up when receiving a text message? I like all the features I just would rather text using the normal program.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jrproulx:
I was just wondering if there was a setting to make pocketcm minimize after you have placed a call through it. What happens is I go to contacts through pocketcm, choose my contact, select number to dial, then the phone pad opens. Once the call is done and I exit the phone pad, pocketcm is left up and i have to do the additional step of minimizing it. I would rather once you dial from pocketcm it would minimize itself. If this is something I can accomplish through a settings command could you please let me know. If not I guess this would be my suggestion for a future version.

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Jonjamesm:
ditto - it really lags!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CTSLICK:
At the risk of sticking my nose in too far here...perhaps maevro is saying between the two that he/she like .11 better? I only mention this because I have noted some other folks on different forums saying they appreciate the smaller size of PocketCM and the fact that its native BUT they like the interface of ContactManager 0.11 better.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itesla:
I use Google SMS to get the weather and I tried that from in PocketCM... now I am getting an SMS from google with the weather every 20 minutes or so :( Anyone else have repeated send problem? How do I make this stop, it will eat up all my SMS allowance for the month.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Is there anything in your outbox?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itesla:
no, nothing there, these don't show in sent either. calling att support now
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TalynOne:
Hide doesn't really hide the application as it did in ContactManager, it actually exits the application.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itesla:
Looks like it is probably a google issue...

http://groups.google.com/group/google-mobile-sms/topics

Hopefuly they straighten this out soon!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] itesla:
How do you get back to it then without re-executing the exe?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ThaiM:
I'm using 0.11 without .NET 2. Is that normal? It works great for me otherwise. I hate the memory hog .NET 2 and so far, programs that requires it has been working fine for me without it. Weird. I'm on VP3G's WM6.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] msm903:
I think WM6 ships with .NET2 preinstalled
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] :
Hey man!

for a long time i forget to check this session and now i find this!!

you do the best with the best app ever!

congratulations for all!

Some sugestions:

-Maybe now is time to do a separate app for config PocketCM (if you think that is possible and a good ideia i have goods sugestion for what put inside the config app)

-Back to cab install (substitute the default contacts for PocketCM)

-Translations was a very good implement os last contactmanager version, everyone love it!

About the App

-I love the new letter selection.

-Don't like the letters inside the contacts (is realy bad for someone like me who have only a feel contacts

-New trasaction efect! PERFECT!

-Something nice to do....maybe put some small arrow inside the contact for show that exist more buttons scroll donw..i need a long time to discovery this.

-Favorites screen will work? if not, is best remove the button ;P

for now is this..

if i find something more i will post here
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] mr.jcarter:
can somebody please help me? im trying to change the settings so that the scrolling friction is the same as contactmanager v.11, the index feedback letter is moved to the left a little (maybe centered) so that i can actually see it when im using my right thumb, and also to remove the contact separater line. do image that these are the settings:

contact_separator_line_color=-1

feedback_text_x_position=center

scroll_friction=1.03

i tried creating a file named Settings.ini and placing those three commands in there, then puttin the file inside the folder with the NativeContactManager.exe, theme.cmt, dict.txt, and dict.en.big.txt files, but all it does is make my background white. what am i doing wrong? are my commands even right?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Send me your settings.ini file I'll look at it. (shouldn't make your stuff blank)

Anyway, feedback_text_x_position is in pixel and only change the text position. If you want the image at another position: change the image (with for instance a bigger transparent border on the left).
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] tene:
Won't happen, too boring ;) But you can write one.

Yes once it's gonna be stable enough, I'm bored of getting mail about uninstalling correctly the stuff because it doesn't make coffee.

And it still does work, except you name the file lang.ini and not lang.[iso code].ini. Also index will be localizable in 0.6 (I hope ;).

What do you mean?

If you can send me picture of arrow, I'll think about it.

It should work now, what's not working?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] DvTonder:
Not displaying '&' in contacts

I may have stumbled on a problem:

I have several contacts where the names are listed in the format 'John & Jane' (with the & in between). PocketCM displays these names as 'John _Jane'.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wschom:
nice contact manager

This is very smooth and looks really good by default. I especially like the slide with the finger for the letter selections.

There is only one issue and that is the scrolling. The speed scroll to a position when scrolling is not quite right.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Carnivor:
Personally i think that is bad contact management, i always go by, 1 contact = 1 person, so john & jane is 2 seperate entries, even if you have to duplicate most of the info....

tene, couple of probs i cant work around on a wvga tosh g900, when pressing contact pic to reveal the menu, its 1/2 width like its still qvga, the sip also suffers from this. and the sms threading is chopping the date in half on each "bubble", other than that this is leaps and bounds ahead from ContactManager.

Your not just rewriting the contact list with this, its heading towards a full shell replacement!!! i love it