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Originally Posted by Steini

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

Originally Posted by Steini

@fcrochik:

Hey, thanks for your reply.

I use this "http://wiki.maemo.org/Bluetooth_PBAP" app, and my car is a vauxhall - insignia. It goes directly in via bluetooth.

I use this since 14 days. Before there was no way to access the phone via car. (I used a other phone for this, which was only in the car).

I tested this app for 2 days and everything worked fine. I couldn't find any problem. - Do you think this app makes the trouble?

Than I found your app and installed it.
3 days later I tryed call someone in my car and noticed the problem.

Originally Posted by Steini

..."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."...

So if I ad a lastname to the nicknames, than the problem with the sorting is away?

Originally Posted by cards531

ty love the app. ? how do i donate?

Originally Posted by fcrochik

It is probably on of the "most requested" features but I still haven't figure out a nice way to implement it. I am hoping that the developers of FastSMS, VertSMS or any other alternative-SMS applications would implement the feature and I would just change my contacts to send a DBus signal to them with the list of phone numbers.
I would suggest you (and everybody else interested on this feature) to contact your favorite SMS application's developer and suggest my approach. I will gladly work with any of them to make it happen.

Originally Posted by bennypr0fane

To my knowledge, development of FastSMS has ceased, I tried to contact the developer and didn't get any response. The current version of FastSMS is also not very easy to use.
VertSMS has no T9-replacement, which makes it really not a good option for me. I haven't found any other apps for writing sms on the device - please tell me if you happen to know about them.

I don't know what a DBus signal is, but package overview of VertSMS says that SMS sending was changed from DBus to Qtmobility. Don't know if that might have any impact on your development plans...

Originally Posted by uvatbc

qgvdial supports sending SMS across DBus. I'm waiting for Felipe to make Mycontacts use it.