Wow. For a platform mainly targetted at the mobile phone device the deafening silence on accessing the SIM is truly amazing.
On Sep 1, 8:57 am, William Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone? One of the Google engineers perhaps? > > On Aug 30, 7:37 am, William Ferguson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I have some code that manipulates the Contacts database via the > > Contacts Provider (ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI), so I can > > add/edit/delete my Google contacts, Phone contacts and the Sim > > contacts cached there. > > > Changes to the Phone contacts are immediate, changes to the Google > > contacts are synced to my Google account, but changes to the SIM > > contacts only affect the Contacts DB and aren't persisted to the SIM. > > > Ie while I can delete the SIM contacts from the Contacts DB, once I > > reboot my phone the SIM contacts get repopulated into the Contacts DB. > > > The IccProvider (accessed via content://icc/adn) seems to be a way to > > directly access the SIM contacts. The source code seems to suggest so > > and there is annectdotal evidence that this works, but it is an > > internal Android API and it doesn't work on my Galaxy S in any case. > > > So, does anyone know a definitive way of modifying/deleting SIM > > contacts. > > Or failing that, a way to stop the SIM contacts being reopulated on > > reboot, though this seems less satisfying. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
