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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greeek:
There is no puzzle.

Someone asked for help - and I answered his question, both by acknowledging what the problem was due to, and by providing links to get his problem resolved.

Thats kinda the purpose here...

Now, seeing as though you opted for the term "re-reading" it sounds as though you are trying to tell me that you have infact read the entire thread... which you obviously haven't.

I'll explain one of the points that was bought up for you, so you don't have to do all that pesky reading.

People argued that he was using XDA's site as a free service for him to better his product etc, which he shouldn't be doing anymore now that he is charging for it... which is probably why he no longer posts.

This may be a fair point, I see both sides though.

Now, before you go on about milk and attorney's etc (???), I have never dealt directly with the developer, either within the XDA, or out of it. I know nothing about the guy.

I have seen your mentality many many times on this site... the whole "I'm so hard done by", "They owe me" etc etc

While the developer is doing actual work on the software, you claim to be helping him so much and going out of your way to assist him blah blah...

Truth is, thats not what 99% of people that used the beta version used it for... don't get beta and freeware confused.

Beta testing is important, don't get me wrong... but I'm sure those that actually worked towards helping the developer were rewarded.

BUT.. just because someone installed it, had a problem and reported it to the guy so he could fix it doesn't mean they are entitled to free software.

They simply wanted it to work on their own device - thats all.

Should you wish to make any other claims, I ask that you read the thread first, like I said - In it's entirety .
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hrb:
Hehehe

How about stopping this "Kindergarten"-Bullsh..t ?

It's a great app, I don't even care if it's not developped further.

Present version good enough for me

If you're really short of funds, you can get it thru wrz

Cheers

hrb
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greeek:
Yeah... warez. Great recommendation clown.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] samy.3660:
I now doubt your behaviour....
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greeek:
Are you serious??

Because I don't condone getting a cracked copy because he "doesn't want to pay for it"??
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] CorruptedSanity:
No body owes me nothing. I have money and have paid over 400$ in applications alone.

Im just pissed that he quit updating the application as soon as he got his money. Thats how it seems at least.

Im not going to justify freebies, I was providing a compromise for xda members and the developer. He sells but at a discount (to those that helped). I personally do not care since I paid in full.

Any how, does anyone know if he plans on updating it?

Its great but could use stuff like "send mms" or stabilize the location of "return to search".
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greeek:
According to his site, 1.01 is the current version, and there's a 1.1 Alpha1 available for testing....

I tried to explain as to why I don't think he posts here though.

Have you tried to actually contact him?

Not trying to open the whole debate up again, but It's worth a shot I would think anyway...

There's a few small improvements I'd love to see, but generally it looks great.

I'd love to have that keyboard available on it's own for use in other apps as an alternate input method. That would be handy - If it can hold up to isolating the correct word from an near entire dictionary compared to simply someones address book.

If it could, that'd be real nice...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ceevee369:
Alternative ; SPB Mobile shell

I tested the FFF for 5 days to compare with the SPB contacts under the SPB Mobile Shell (V1.5 still)

I uninstalled FFF as I was not impressed compard with SPB (bigger buttoms, same concept)

Besides 15 USD for FFF vs. 29.95 USD for SPB is too expensive.

Advice: Compare SPB 2.0 (end of feb) with FFF.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] omaralt:
wow ha i gues i opened up some old wounds. i tried the software, loved it, and thought that what he was charging was fair so i bought. however, its retarded that ever time i flash i have to contact him so i can get a new license key? ha ppl here flash multiple times a day! i emailed yesterday before i even posted here, still havent goten a response...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Restorer:
No, the licence is tied in with whatever name you had in User Information when you registered. You just have to fill that in again.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] omaralt:
u cant just do that... from what it seems once u flash a new rom, you have to buy a new license key, which is ridiculous... i emailed him, he responded telling me to go on his website and look at the faq's, (he obviously didnt even bother reading my problem) and then i replied again with my problem ~4 days ago and he still hasnt responded...sux that i paid $15 for this program and i cant use it.. good thing i paid with my american express, gonna see about getting my money back... for the first time in my life i feel justified going the warez way....
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greeek:
So I'm assuming you had a look at the faq's?

That page seems to deal with your question exactly... then links you to:

http://www.jotto.no/fff/ordering.html

Which explains that it is just based on username, and what to do if it doesn't work.

Did you do what it says to do?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] omaralt:
thats exactly what i did... this works if u uninstall it and then re-install it. not if u flash a new rom or hard reset. if anybody has flashed a new rom and got it to work, let me know asap plz, i only got 2 days left on my free trial!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Restorer:
I did a hard reset on mine. I just had to re-enter Username in the Owner Information section of the phone and the key worked fine. Are you certain you have the Username *exactly* as it was when you registered the program?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] NiteStalker:
Maybe he has an extra space in his name somewhere, at the end seems to be common for that hidden space
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] SacTilt:
I have flashed a new ROM about a dozen times since purchasing this product, and hard reset a dozen or so more, and never once had a problem with re-entering my owner information and then the license key. Works flawlessly every time.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaMonster:
Very nice program - kudos !!

Just found and downloaded it and work like a charm ! :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] boboduck:
nice app but apart from the send position bit doesnt do anything that sunnysoft contacts cannot do. also more professional and polished imho.

info here - http://sunnysoft.com/software.php?idarticle=296
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] AcIDx0:
New feature badly wanted

Hi Jotto,

I purchased a license and I like the program very much. There is one thing that I don't like and its very annoying - when I find a contact and call it - clear the search! because after an hour I wanna call someone else, but instead I need to press OK and CLEAR, which is 2 more things to do and ruins the point of fast use. If you want make this option configurable.

I'd really appreciate if you implement it.

Thanks.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nickster248:
Nice application, but the one drawback...and a serious one...is that the Program will only show one phone number per contact, unless I am missing something. Most all my contacts have a business number, home, cell, etc., but FFF will only allow me to choose whatever one number appears. Is there any way to choose one of other phone numbers attached to a contact?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nickster248:
Sunnysoft has exactly the same problem as FFF in that it only list one of the phone numbers per contact. If the home phone number appears with the Contact, how on earth do you choose the mobile phone number instead:confused: I have not found a way to do that in either Sunnysoft or FFF.:eek:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] VietNinjaXTC:
^^ I just downloaded v1.0.1 and when you tap on a contact's name in the list...it brings you to the "What do you wanna do?" page where you can send SMS, send Email, Call, etc. On this screen you have the option to "Call Mobile", "Call Work", etc. as long as you have those numbers programmed for the contact.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lastnikita:
Hi, I've tried your app for a few days, and I find it great :)

I would consider buying if it was a bit improved so that it's effectively faster than other method. Sorry if I missed something in the thread, please tell me:

Please add an option to set the actual size of the "selection panel" (the yellow box when you hit the keyboard). It's almost only the size of 1 single key on my (VGA) device now, so almost useless :)

Please make it compatible with threaded-style sms from WM6.1 (now the sms button brings us to the default compose box, not the chat dialog)

Please allow to call directly from the list (if one number it calls directly, if not it brings us directly to the call page). A hold action (~700ms seems fine) will do the job.

At last, an option to have it return to the list when it is "started again" (well, restored since I keep it in memory)

Up now it stays on the last contact detail page, or call page, and you have to go back to start using it again.

Thanks and keep up the (very) good work dude :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] chnzshyguy:
any updates on this? is there a startup parameter we can use to simulate this behavior?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Scann69:
VGA Support

Any chance of this FFF program being updated to support VGA resolution? I've been using FFF for so long, i still prefer this compared to others :p

Or anybody knows how to make a skin that works on VGA as i'm now using the Touch Pro.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] evilc:
+1 for VGA support - the program is utterly pointless in VGA at the moment as the DRMWYT square is hard-coded as a certain pixel size, so only encompasses one letter in VGA :(

[Edit] The new version has VGA support - confirmed working great on Raphael. Thankyou!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] bonsaiboyz:
Is this dead

Tried the developers site and it seems to be gone. I am using version 1.1 (bought and paid for :) )which as far as I know is the most up to date.

I love this wee app but I have one small problem. The text on the results screen (the one after the search screen) is a bit small. If anybody here knows of a fix or possibly a way of contacting the dev I would be very grateful
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] CorruptedSanity:
Seems he is no longer interested in developing the app. Even with simple needs like increasing the font.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hungarian:
Hi

I am testing the app for 3 days now, I admit its handy, but 15€?

Man that rather expensive.

I personaly would ratjher pay double and get spb, at least you get regular updates and if anything goes wrong you get help.

Just my 10 cent

Cheers

H
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] CorruptedSanity:
I think I paid 15$ not Euros. But you're right its not worth it. I stopped using it months ago. Text was too small and SPB mobile shell has the same exact option.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] levi02:
I am impressed! What a great program. I will say the same things that has been said, make a keyboard! I would put your keyboard up to any others! The FFF program is amazing! I have a problem with paying for programs, I would pay for a keyboard version. I find myself responding to emails and messages from work as I drive. I need something quick and fool proof like this! Keep it up!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] stradet:
what a brilliant app! :D

my only question is: how do I replace the default contact app so that this one is assignable to softkeys or buttons? I cannot seem to find a way to launch the app without digging around in the Programs folder.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jomo25:
Umm, see post #16 in this thread.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] CorruptedSanity:
2 Issues:

- names are not complete. In my contacts app the name Saeed Mubarak AlMazrouie is displayed fully, in FFF its displayed as Saeed AlMazrouie.

- cant use it in landscape mode.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] lukeap69:
that's nice to hear.

actually, i have installed it into my universal. it's okay except the size of the keyboard letters. this might be only skin issue.

great app.

cheers
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] raymondu999:
Stupid question, sorry. Mods, please delete.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] qntos:
Problems with Wizard?

Seems like a great app, did any of you get it to work on a Wizard? I installed it from .cab and get the message: "The file 'FingerFriendlyFriends' cannot be opened. Either it is not signet with a trusted certificate.....". Any ideas? I'm running WM5 AKU 3.3 Clean Rom (posted on this forum).
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ParrotSquawk:
I did that yesterday:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Today\Keys\113]

@="Contacts"

"Open"="\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Finger-Friendly Friends.lnk"

Great APP!!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ParrotSquawk:
iPhone Envy

I showed FFF to my Dad and his friend at lunch (iPhone users)

They said "our phones do that..." then they proceeded to hunt and peck on the iphone keyboard.

All I had to be was close!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thomassster:
wow...i love this forum. I'm going to try this app when I get home. So many people saying what a great app. Gotta get it now, before it becomes warez.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] :
Great application

Brilliant!

I concur with others that if it could pick up the company names that I have as contacts, it would be perfect.

Well done. I have mapped my "contacts" soft key on my Today screen to FFF already.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greenbep:
Great app - thanks! One issue -- it seems to take a very long time for the app to load. I mapped it to a button, but it can take between 15-20 seconds for the application to load after the button is pressed. Anyone else having this problem?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] johanromijn:
No, don't have this problem.

It takes 2 seconds at most to load. (When not running in the background)

Do you have a Kaiser, or another device?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greenbep:
I have the Tilt.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jahnotto:
Is your device connected to your PC when you start FFF? I've noticed that my TyTN is dead slow when ActiveSync is running.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] moorekyl:
Absolutly wonderful, i have mine set as the right soft key behind the stock "Contacts" button. this app is quick on my tilt, no delays, something i really like is that it stays with my current search if the focus of the screen gets moved to something else.

Only recomendation is with the help menu, maybe include a discription of gestures and features.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] roverman:
I love it, it's the most professional looking add-on on my tilt right now. I just wish it had the 'scroll through the names before searching' feature like the stock one. That would seal the deal in resetting the hard button to it. Right now, I use it as a secondary contact search in my start menu.

Also, if you could use the D pad to scroll through the contact search results...that would be the BOMB.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] FoneJunkie:
I found another interesting thing while using the FFF contact/dialer app. It appears that you are only looking at a concatenation of the First and Last name fields.

The entries that I mentioned earlier (Z-xxxxxxx) uniformly have NO first/last name. In all of those cases, the contact name is in the COMPANY name field.

If my assumption is correct, I think it would be helpful/necessary to also search the company name.

Outlook has a field called FILE AS which is either the first/last name combo OR company name... could you build your index of contacts off of THAT field and then search accordingly?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] shadowace:
Cool little app for sure, very usable.

I concur with populating all contacts then "narrowing" down from there with search, as well as allowing scrolling through list with pad from start to finish if you choose.

I have been promptly installing this and mapping it as my left contacts button as soon as I flash one of dutty's great ROMS. LOL
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] moderateinny:
This should be the standard contact app on HTC phones - it is very nice!

A couple of issues I have are:

1. It doesn't seem to recognize contacts that I've added in Outlook and then sync'd up via Exchange Activesync. The new contacts were in the standard contact DB however I had to uninstall and reinstall FFF in order to get it to recognize new contacts.

2. I agree on the speed issues. I've updated my Tilt with a Helmi ROM. But FFF takes a good 5 seconds to load for some reason.

I think I'd prefer to see the contacts fully loaded as well and then the list narrowed. But that is a minor matter as the app just works so well already I hate to see it get cluttered with new features.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] rocho:
Greate Application, the default contact display into pocket pc are one of their main faults on my personal opinion.

This is a greate program! Thanks to the maker!!!!

May i suggest an "ALTERNATIVE OPTION" to visualize a BIGGER QWERTY ??? its kinda complicated look and touch while you driving :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] xfive420:
I think it's awesome.

Things I'd like to see:

1. Tie this thing into the system instead of making it load as a separate app. For example, the smart contacts manager as part of SPB Mobile Shell. That thing is similar (yours is better), loads in a fraction of a second, and doesn't even appear in task lists. It's worth checking out their free trial to examine the functionality.

2. Include contacts photos in the results.

Separately: A DRMWY-Touch keyboard input panel. Sweet!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] pauljohn54:
Excellent, Thank you.

Just one small point. Is there a way to make the fonts of the phone numbers bigger after you select the right name. You know when it says call mobile, send sms or call work. Guess I am getting a little old as I find it hard to read.

Once again thanks.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jahnotto:
Not at the moment, but it's on the todo list!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ericb:
I have mapped FFF to the using soft key.

It works great ... however

It appears as Finger -Frien.... as there is obviously a character limit.

Can I change it to FFF?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] SteRo:
great work!

This really works well, thank you! Have only tested it for a short while but it's flawless. One issue:

issue: I read the same in a few other posts, but starting the app seems to take a while. For about 5-8 secs nothing happens (so it seems like the app is not starting), then suddenly it's there.

Not a big deal, but nevertheless. ;-)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jahnotto:
That's odd. Some (including me) are reporting a startup time of 2 secs or less, while others experience 5-8 secs. Do you have HTC TyTN II or Tilt? Are you using the stock ROM, or have you flashed it? Is your device connected to your PC when you're starting it?

By the way: did you install FFF in the device's main memory or on the storage card?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] CorruptedSanity:
Sure, you can change it to anything you want. I have it saved as Clientele :D

Just use Soft key changer app!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ericb:
CorruptedSanity

Thanks, sorted.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] nispen:
Very VERY nice app! I would like to make a suggestion to make it even better. What I really like about the (new version of) the regular WM dialer is that you a can search on first AND last name like this:

few-letters-of-first name SPACE few-letters-of-last-name.

Suppose you know many guys called John, and many people called Smith. Then searching John is going to give you a long list of names, with the one you happen to be looking for naturally way at the bottom and off screen; and searching for Smith will do the same. However when you type "Jo Sm" chances are you will narrow the search down to just John Smith and Joan Smorgasbord.

FFF does not have a space button, so I cannot use the above method. So I guess I am saying I would like a space button.

Once again: GREAT prog.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greenbep:
I'm using AT&T ROM on the Tilt. It is not connected to the PC when I'm starting the app. I installed in main memory. It can take up to 20 seconds to load.

Hope this helps troubleshoot. Thanks again for all your hard work.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] roverman:
ATT rom on tilt, installed on storage card and pasted shortcut in start menu. Takes about .5 secs to load. Maybe try uninstalling and installing again?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] moderateinny:
I'm running my locally (not on SD card) with an AT&T Tilt, Tilt keyboard fix, and Helmi Kaiser ROM.

I wonder if the keyboard fix is the cause? I may try and uninstall it and see how FFF runs thereafter.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] greenbep:
FWIW, I just uninstalled, did a soft reset and reinstalled first thing. Same delay problem. I guess it's conflicting with something, but I'm not sure what.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thaihugo:
I love this app. I hope you will keep it fast and do not add to much function,as it might become bloatware as pocketCM and other PI.

I have tree suggestion to improve it:

- Add a way to go back from a contact to the first keyboard page using a bigger button. Right now, I have to click the OK button, which kind of defeat the point

- Search contact using accented caracters. For example, an "e" should search contact with "é" or "è"

-Search company names. I sometimes take longer to remember the name of a contact than it's company name.

Thanks again for this great idea.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jahnotto:
How big is your contact list?

You can reply to me in email (jotto@jotto.no) if you want to. I'd really like to sort this out.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jahnotto:
Thanks for your suggestions. You can click the "ok" hardware button on your telephone. Don't you have it?

A customizable keyboard is on the todo list (although automatically matching accented letters would be better).

Search in company names has been requested by many users. It's on the todo list!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Dwimmerlaik:
By far the best contact app I've seen developed for Windows Mobile yet. A couple of suggestions:

Allow for scrolling via TouchFlo when there are more contacts that match the search criteria than those displayed on the screen (i.e. the same condition that results in the "more" at the bottom right).

Definitely enable a setting or make it a default function for the installer to modify the registry to make this the default contact application. I don't mind tweaking the registry, but not everyone is comfortable with that.

You have a function to send current GPS location to a friend, how about doing the opposite and have a function to obtain directions from Google Maps

from

your current location to the Home or Work address of the contact?

In the same direction as #3, I would suggest adding two additional icons to the screen that are labled as "Home Address" and "Work Address". I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to locate some icons that would match the current default set. Clicking on either would display the address and then provide an option to obtain directions to that address from your present location.

Other than those suggestions,

great

application and I'm looking forward to watching its development. I love it!