View Single Post
fcrochik's Avatar
Posts: 722 | Thanked: 1,223 times | Joined on Apr 2010 @ USA
#471
Originally Posted by Steini View Post
Hi!,
At first, your program is really really cool. Keep on this good work.

But second, (I haven't read all the comments here, so I dont know, if the problem was posted before) - I try to tell you the problem:

I connect the phone with my car. There I can go to the phonebook, by clicking on "ABC", "DEF", "GHI" "JKL" ..., and so on, I can search the names.
Since I installed your program, the car takes the list in your application, which is - I think - not sorted.

Let me explane by an example:

Before installing your app:
I search for a name - like "Lisa", so I click on the button "JKL" and go manually down through all names beginning with "J", than "K" and than "L" - until "Lisa" is there. - Push the button - call starts.

Now since the installed app:
There is a new list under the existing list starting under the "Z" with names unsorted. Not all names of the phone book, but many.
(Its the same list which is shown in your app).
So I start searching again for a name - like "Lisa". I click on the button "JKL" and the cursor jumps not to the list which is in the ABC stile but goes directly to the new list beginning under the Z.
So I had to go manually all the way up through all the names until the "L's"- this is not handy. In the car there is not so much time to go through all the (in my case 350or more) contacts.

I tryed to fix this by uninstalling the app, but the list still exists.

So there are a few questions:

1) Is the app editing (and reformating) the existing phone-contactslist (forever) so the car cannot read it right anymore?
2) Is there a way to sort the names in ABC stile? (I think this fix all the problems)
3) Why are there some names not sorted?
4) How can I get my old list back (if point 2 cannot be made, and I had to uninstall the app forever)

sincerely,
Stein
Stein,
MyContacts does not change ANYTHING of your address book. It has only READ access to your address book and any other information (e.g. groups, ring tones, ...) is stored on a separate file exclusively for MyContacts.

In short there is no way MyContacts was responsible for any changes on the standard "contacts" application.

On the MyContacts application sometimes you will see the behavior you are describing because of how Qt Mobility Contacts sorts contacts without "first" and "last" name (just nickname). You probably would see the same behavior on any other application that uses the same library and doesn't "re-sort" the names.

The fact that MyContacts show the names like this doesn't mean that it changed how your contacts are stored or displayed on any other application.

I am not sure how your "car" access the phones. Have you installed any application for this? How did you setup? Does it use bluetooth?
__________________

My maemo work:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For Harmattan:
GeePS - native UI around google maps - GApp - access to optimized mobile "google apps".
Shutdown - shutdown and reboot with one click - QuickCall - one click call, skypeout and google voice integration using dial tones.
WakeOnLan - wake computers on your local network.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For Maemo/N900:
GApp - access to optimized mobile "google apps". - MobWebMail: browser optimized to access multiple gmail accounts
MyContacts: 75 Contacts on your desktop, ring tones per group and more - GeePS: native front-end for google maps
Macuco2 : web browser to access web sites optimized for the iphone - WakeOnLan: wake up computers on your local network
dbBrowser: Simple application to browse sqlite databases