[android-developers] Re: Why is onActivityResult() called before onResume()

2009-06-17 Thread MrSnowflake
in) to do so. On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:32 PM, MrSnowflake mrsnowfl...@gmail.com wrote: I ran into a problem of resource allocation and release using the activity lifecycle functions when waiting for an activity to return a result. I suspected that onResume() was going to be called before

[android-developers] Re: How can I give my paid app away for free to some users?

2009-06-17 Thread MrSnowflake
How does you approach work when the users are offline? On Jun 17, 1:27 pm, bain ssbain2...@yahoo.com wrote: i use google appengine to host my license server (small servlet) use deviceId and check every time user launches your app you can give discount based on deviceId On Jun 17, 6:17 am,

[android-developers] Re: How to Start application On-Install

2009-06-17 Thread MrSnowflake
I think that's a very good reason not to send it to a newly installed app. Though you could give the user the option to start the app immediately after install, with a button for example. On Jun 17, 8:55 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: We deliberately don't send this broadcast to

[android-developers] Re: How can I give my paid app away for free to some users?

2009-06-17 Thread MrSnowflake
will be determined from the server On Jun 17, 7:34 am, bain ssbain2...@yahoo.com wrote: it does not On Jun 17, 7:31 am, MrSnowflake mrsnowfl...@gmail.com wrote: How does you approach work when the users are offline? On Jun 17, 1:27 pm, bain ssbain2...@yahoo.com wrote: b i use google appengine

[android-developers] Re: my app crashes when switching to landscape mode

2009-06-17 Thread MrSnowflake
Maybe you have different layout files for landscape and portrait and the button isn't up to date in one of the 2. On Jun 17, 8:26 pm, nEx.Software justin.shapc...@gmail.com wrote: I just started getting this too, except I am on a real device. This same application worked perfectly fine

[android-developers] Why is onActivityResult() called before onResume()

2009-06-16 Thread MrSnowflake
I ran into a problem of resource allocation and release using the activity lifecycle functions when waiting for an activity to return a result. I suspected that onResume() was going to be called before onActivityResult() but it's the other way around. Why is this? Isn't it more logical for

[android-developers] Re: Reusing code, multiple external namespaces

2009-06-15 Thread MrSnowflake
That's a topic I want some more info about too, the way I do it now is making symbolic links from these resources to different projects. I guess this would work on Windows too, as it too has symbolic links. On Jun 14, 8:49 am, xamar pablo.lopez.ja...@gmail.com wrote:     Hello.  * In short:

[android-developers] Re: Blue Screen problem

2009-06-15 Thread MrSnowflake
Are you using any OpenGL Extentions? Maybe the G1 supports some the Magic doesn't (although I would find this strange). On Jun 15, 1:59 pm, djp david.perou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, several users reported that after starting our application on HTC Magic it only shows a blue screen with

[android-developers] Re: How to compute the screen size before rendering objects?

2009-06-15 Thread MrSnowflake
The SurfaceView.Callback gives you the dimensions of the surfaceview in onSurfaceChanged(). On Jun 15, 8:35 am, javame_android su...@saltriver.com wrote: Hi Everybody, I want to render 3d object on the screen. Before that I would like to compute the screen so that the rendered object can be

[android-developers] Re: Using the touchscreen and trackball with the GLSurfaceView

2009-06-12 Thread MrSnowflake
20 ms would be 4ms too long for 60fps :). 16ms would be better, that's the time the device has to perform the rendering for a target of 60fps. On Jun 10, 7:20 pm, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: I actually do use the Thread.sleep as a hack (i don't like it, but it works...)

[android-developers] Re: How to go back to my apllication's home screen

2009-06-09 Thread MrSnowflake
Does your sollution pop all other activities from the activityQueue? On Jun 9, 3:29 pm, Bullo#88 bulonce...@gmail.com wrote: I found the solution: the FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP  flag has to be added to the intent E.g.                        Intent intent = new Intent(this, your home screen

[android-developers] Re: Releasing a Demo App from Paid App. Need to fork code? How do accomplish?

2009-06-04 Thread MrSnowflake
You could also use a scheme like preprocesser directives in C. Define a static final bool FREE and do a lot of if(FREE) to check which build you are on. The downside is you still need to do manual work. But the best approach is using ant for this, at least I think this stuff is possible using

[android-developers] Re: How can I use my own color instead of default orange color for selection

2009-05-24 Thread MrSnowflake
1) Why would you want to do that? Applications looking different from the systems default most of the time look cheap and don't integrate well in the system. I suppose Google doesn't like that either, as the encourage everyone to be as consistent with the platform as possible. Also if you are

[android-developers] Re: whats wrong with my EditText to int

2009-05-24 Thread MrSnowflake
May I suggest instead of using catch(Exception ex) you should catch more specific exceptions. As now every exception will get caught by your catch, so even very unsuspected exceptions can get caught and still your app will keep running. The exception thrown by Integer.parse () is

[android-developers] Re: How run a apk in the app

2009-05-24 Thread MrSnowflake
Apk files are like installers and cab files on Windows Mobile, they are not the applications it self, but a mechanism to install the application (task) they contain. On May 23, 10:51 am, Mark Murphy mmur...@commonsware.com wrote: iou200...@gmail.com wrote: I want to know ,too. On May 6,

[android-developers] Re: Is there an easy way to make EditText look like TextView but still behave like EditText?

2009-05-18 Thread MrSnowflake
Might be: style=@android:style/Widget.TextView Otherwise, make a TextView and an EditText and change the GONE state of them. On 18 mei, 19:33, Raphael r...@android.com wrote: Try this:         android:style=@android:style/Widget.TextView R/ On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Nikola

[android-developers] Re: Blocking UIThread till the .mp3 file completed in the b/g

2009-05-04 Thread MrSnowflake
Why would you want to block the UI thread? A better sollution would be to open a ProgressDialog (with the rotating line), and have that setCancelable(false). On 4 mei, 15:17, Asif k asifk1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all,   Is there anyway to block the UI Thread till the .mp3 file completes (or

[android-developers] Re: What is the correct way to refresh UI when I use android:configChanges=keyboardHidden|orientation

2009-04-27 Thread MrSnowflake
You don't have to load and save that stuff, you can put references to your runtime data in a custom class and return that in Activity.onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() (http:// developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ Activity.html#onRetainNonConfigurationInstance()) and get it in

[android-developers] Re: What's the proper way to share data between lite and pro versions of the same app?

2009-04-27 Thread MrSnowflake
Iirc you can make the 2 version of the app use the same userId on the phone, that way you have full access to the lite data from the pro application. On 27 apr, 10:56, jarkman jark...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if this is the *proper* way, exactly. We copy the SQL data, with the Pro using

[android-developers] Re: build JNI C code fail ???

2009-04-27 Thread MrSnowflake
Probably because JNI is not supported. On 27 apr, 03:33, Keroro huo.kuangt...@gmail.com wrote: build JNI C code fail ??? Why build error? build and Error Message: .../mydroid$ make libmax target thumb C: libmax = development/max/max.c development/max/max.c: In function

[android-developers] Re: How to mix 2D graphics with layouts

2009-04-27 Thread MrSnowflake
I imagine this working (never used FrameLayout before, so I'm hoping :) ): Use a FrameLayout and have the 2D graphics view behind some other layout, and to the latter you add your EditText and other Views. On 26 apr, 15:20, Christian S. schrott...@gmx.de wrote: I'd like to build an activity

[android-developers] Re: c++ on android

2009-04-27 Thread MrSnowflake
Officially JNI is not supported, so you probably can't distribute it through Market. Though I have the impression the text2speech lib in Market does have a lib. But then again, that app is probably powered by Google too. On 26 apr, 16:42, julian qian julian.q...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,     right

[android-developers] Re: Regarding Device level APIs

2009-04-27 Thread MrSnowflake
A device driver should be written in C, but then you need to do it in the source of android and build your own Android. You can't write device drivers(/modules) using the Android application SDK. On 25 apr, 10:37, GKM kalaimani.kaliaperu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am new to Android. Please

[android-developers] Re: Optional API - What happen if there is no ...

2009-04-27 Thread MrSnowflake
Then you are coding wrong! You should check whether location hardware is available before using location api calls. So you should never be in the situation where you use the Location api on a device without location hardware. LocationManager (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/

[android-developers] Re: can't play wma file on a server

2009-04-27 Thread MrSnowflake
Because wma is not supported by Android (the G1 has wma support, but that's because htc has to pay licence fees to Microsoft). (http:// dev.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html) On 25 apr, 16:07, Tiger lxy...@gmail.com wrote:         The code following is from ApiDemo.         path =

[android-developers] Re: Framerate killed by onTouchEvent spam

2009-04-27 Thread MrSnowflake
Is this slowdown 'solved' when using the new GLSurfaceView? On 27 apr, 16:28, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.com wrote: One work-around works rather well if you do the onTouchEvent handling in the main GUI-thread and drawing the screen in another (background) thread. In your handling

[android-developers] Re: android 1.5: How do we use the AudioTrack class?

2009-04-26 Thread MrSnowflake
You can play from a stream if you capture the stream in your program and stream the audio to the mediaplayer. There is no direct support of audio streams, execpt directly from server. This sollution is somewhere in the docs... On 26 apr, 18:27, Moto medicalsou...@gmail.com wrote: Help?

[android-developers] Re: How to draw a rectangle on screen using layout.xml file

2009-04-26 Thread MrSnowflake
Color isn't a class, so, ofcourse, you can't instantiate it from xml. The way I see this happening would be Implementing your own View: RectangleView. Have it extend View and have it draw a rectangle, using the settings from the xml. Or you could extend a ViewGroup and implement your own, so

[android-developers] Re: optimization problem

2009-04-24 Thread MrSnowflake
If you really want to use a for loop (for maintenance point of view, somewhat, as TextView1...10 aren't very clear) you need to use reflection which is a lot of work for this and it's slow. For your purpose you should consider creating your layout fully in code. On 24 apr, 14:30, Mark Murphy

[android-developers] Re: What is the correct way to refresh UI when I use android:configChanges=keyboardHidden|orientation

2009-04-24 Thread MrSnowflake
Why do so much people avoid the destoying and recreation of Activities on orientation change. It's there to make the switch to a different orientation easier, because it automatically loads the correct resources. To be honest, I don't fully understand the whole recreation of Activities neither,

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-15 Thread MrSnowflake
You do realize that if you had developed this game for the iPhone you would have payed $99 to register and that there is no other mainstream way to get your app on the iPhone (as opposed to Android, which allows you to install apk's from websites). So at a point you are correct: paying for free

[android-developers] Re: Support from Developers

2009-03-15 Thread MrSnowflake
People should only be allowed to vote on an app, if they have used the app for a sufficient amount of time. Consumers tend to be people who want everything to work exactly as the whish it would. Though their reasoning is solid, it just doesn't work that way, even with cars, the car doesn't work

[android-developers] Re: Internet Permission crashes my app

2009-03-15 Thread MrSnowflake
Have you registered the permission at the correct spot in the manifest? On 14 mrt, 09:38, The Savage Killer thesavage.kil...@gmail.com wrote: When i add internet permissions to my manifest file my application refuses to even start and i get this in my console: [2009-03-13 20:06:17 - Funny

[android-developers] Re: I must pay 25$ to distribute a FREEWARE on Android Market

2009-03-15 Thread MrSnowflake
Yeah, and not a $99 per app fee (*cough*Microsoft rip off store*cough*) On 15 mrt, 19:03, Romain Guy romain...@google.com wrote: Also remember that it's a *one time* fee only. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 4:06 AM, MrSnowflake mrsnowfl...@gmail.com wrote: You do realize that if you had

[android-developers] Re: Where can I get com.google.googlenav Package

2009-03-13 Thread MrSnowflake
You can't use Google Maps for turn-by-turn navigation. It's supposed to be in the Maps licence. On 11 mrt, 18:07, jenny jenny...@msn.cn wrote: Hi everyone,    I am working on a GPS navigation App. I notice that com.google.googlenav Package is available in Android SDK-m5,but in the source

[android-developers] Re: Switch the language of all app dynamically!

2009-03-12 Thread MrSnowflake
Try saving the locale some way, make your own implementation of Application and change the locale in Application. Then when the users wants a new locale, restart the activity/task. On 12 mrt, 04:22, Stephen Le yangle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all: I must change en_US Locale into zh_CH

[android-developers] Re: Touch *extremely* expensive performance-wise

2009-03-11 Thread MrSnowflake
But won't it affect other Activity stuff and life cycle functions and such? On 10 mrt, 19:48, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: sure, it should work - I think someone has already done that On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:26 PM, MrSnowflake mrsnowfl...@gmail.com wrote: I have

[android-developers] Re: How to explicitly launch the system's Home application by code?

2009-03-11 Thread MrSnowflake
Nice, thanks! On 11 mrt, 19:14, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: Query the package manager for all home activities, and pick the one that has the SYSTEM flag set. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:26 AM, MrSnowflake mrsnowfl...@gmail.com wrote: But using CATEGORY_HOME won't solve

[android-developers] Re: Change height of notification?

2009-03-11 Thread MrSnowflake
On 11 mrt, 21:30, Marc gram...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, that should probably be documented somewhere (i.e. that you can use a custom view, but it's restricted in that way...) If you'd do that, you would have to document everything you can't do, which would be the wrong way around, I believe.

[android-developers] Re: Custom icon on notification

2009-03-11 Thread MrSnowflake
On 11 mrt, 21:49, Wesley wesle...@gmail.com wrote: So, are the resource ids unique across all applications on the phone ? Probably not, but does it matter? The NotificationManager probably gets the drawable from the context it got called and used from. What about new applications being

[android-developers] Re: Risk of upgrading to 1.1?

2009-03-11 Thread MrSnowflake
On 11 mrt, 21:59, Jean-Baptiste Queru j...@android.com wrote: Well, there is a risk that a bug in 1.0 that would have been fixed in 1.1 could be hit by your application. I'm not explicitly aware of such situations, but that's definitely possible in theory. A very valid situation. But does it

[android-developers] Re: Is there a large efficiency difference between Canvas.drawBitmap or OpenGL?

2009-03-11 Thread MrSnowflake
I think it probably would speed up your drawing, but OpenGL probably also uses more battery because it needs the hardware gpu to be enabled too. On 11 mrt, 16:46, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: What is it that you are drawing, how are you drawing it, have you profiled your code?

[android-developers] Re: Touch *extremely* expensive performance-wise

2009-03-10 Thread MrSnowflake
I have a question about this: While sleeping the ui thread works, would it also work to wait() the main thread and notify() it when the new frame 'starts'? On 20 feb, 10:41, suhas gavas suhas.ga...@gmail.com wrote: hi zombies and robots, plz let me the solution to improve touch event

[android-developers] Re: How to make surfaceview insensitive to touch Events

2009-03-10 Thread MrSnowflake
How about setClickable(boolean)? On 10 mrt, 14:19, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: Can't you just handle and ignore them? On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Nithin nithin.war...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When i am running mediaplayer, i want the surfaceview to be insensitive to

[android-developers] Re: How to explicitly launch the system's Home application by code?

2009-03-10 Thread MrSnowflake
As I said on Anddev.org earlier: Intent myIntent = new Intent(); myIntent.setClassName(com.android.launcher, com.android.launcher.Launcher); startActivity(myIntent); On 10 mrt, 14:18, Stoyan Damov stoyan.da...@gmail.com wrote: I can't help you with this. Tough luck - I'd assume that when an

[android-developers] Re: How to explicitly launch the system's Home application by code?

2009-03-10 Thread MrSnowflake
I have to say, I don't think this method will keep working in future versions as the package and class name of the launcher might change! On 10 mrt, 19:40, MrSnowflake mrsnowfl...@gmail.com wrote: As I said on Anddev.org earlier: Intent myIntent = new Intent(); myIntent.setClassName

[android-developers] Re: ProgressDialog in Thread stopps when closing G1

2009-03-07 Thread MrSnowflake
Also using showDialog() and corresponding onCreateDialog and onPrepareDialog() will have dialogs survive configuration changes! (and it's a lot easier :)). On 6 mrt, 13:36, Manfred manfred.fettin...@gmail.com wrote: For all who have the same problem, this helps: Override this method:        

[android-developers] Re: Suggestion for Android Market

2009-02-09 Thread MrSnowflake
And be able to have a link to the market from the website (much like iTunes) would be great too. On 9 feb, 15:56, Teo teomina...@gmail.com wrote: I think each app should have a link to its website in Android Market, as other gadget platforms have. Users can find out more about the app

[android-developers] How to do a ScrollView in a LinearLayout correctly

2008-11-26 Thread MrSnowflake
How should we correctly use a ScrollView in a LinearLayout, where I want a static LinearLayout at the bottom of the main LinearLayout (let's call it layMain, the ScrollView just scroll and the bottom layBottom). An example (it's not a valid layout structure, only for demo):

[android-developers] Re: Push Notification Techniques: Discuss

2008-11-26 Thread MrSnowflake
What about a IMAP IDLE style of pushing. It too is real pushing, except your phone needs to keep the tcp connection alive, sending a NOOP every minutes or so. You could also use xmpp. On 26 nov, 20:06, Mark Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G wrote: What are some techniques that could be used

[android-developers] Re: How to do a ScrollView in a LinearLayout correctly

2008-11-26 Thread MrSnowflake
I've found it. In my case the ScrollView as actually inside a ViewAnimator. So, I set the layout_weight for this ViewAnimator to 1 and it was solved :D. On 26 nov, 20:44, MrSnowflake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How should we correctly use a ScrollView in a LinearLayout, where I want a static

[android-developers] Re: Push Notification Techniques: Discuss

2008-11-26 Thread MrSnowflake
Mark, yeah, I missed that part in the OT, but Windows Mobile uses it for it's exchange push mail. And Google probably also uses it for the GMail and Calendar. And most I always have my connection open on my phone (a HTC Wizard for the record), probably like most people with an unlimited data

[android-developers] Re: Push Notification Techniques: Discuss

2008-11-26 Thread MrSnowflake
such a standardized system too: it requires the phone to only have 1 service running for possible dozens of tasks. Actually I was hoping (since this first SDK) we could use the xmpp (GoogleChat, or what was it called) for this purpose. Tom. 2008/11/26 Mark Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] MrSnowflake

[android-developers] Re: G1 linux

2008-11-19 Thread MrSnowflake
Then why don't you make if for Symbian/iPhone/Windows Mobile? They support bluetooth and Android will too, in a couple of months. Hacking bt in will render your app useless for other phones, and a system update could break your app. On Nov 19, 12:22 am, Rui Freitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hum,

[android-developers] Re: Windows driver for HTC G1 phone

2008-10-08 Thread MrSnowflake
For mp3 storage you can put the phone in mass storage mode or something like that. Then your phone appears as an external drive. On Oct 7, 6:08 pm, marstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you need the driver for? I could think of * seeing the file system and being able to copy MP3 files and

[android-developers] Re: How to make an application icon its name invisible in menu list.

2008-10-02 Thread MrSnowflake
What menu list you mean? The launcher drawer? That's easy: just dont include this intent-filter: intent-filter action android:name=android.intent.action.MAIN / category android:name=android.intent.category.LAUNCHER / /intent-filter On 2

[android-developers] Re: Algorithm writen in C

2008-10-02 Thread MrSnowflake
It's not officially supported to use C code from android. But you could look around for JNI and android on the net. On 2 okt, 11:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello buddies!! I'm involved in a biometric project. I need to write an app for Android that must use an algorithm

[android-developers] Re: How to use findViewById(int id) out of onCreate() ?

2008-10-02 Thread MrSnowflake
Indeed seems to no problem at all. On the other hand, doing all findId's in the oncreate and put them in fields of the activity you're working with, would speed up the app. On Oct 1, 11:51 pm, Joey Yandle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to

[android-developers] Re: Call the default mediaplayer program in Android OS

2008-10-01 Thread MrSnowflake
I recon your could fire an Intent with VIEW and set the mime type to your video file. On 1 okt, 11:03, Baonq86 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know to built an application to call the default mediaplayer program in Android OS ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[android-developers] Re: Application for turning off mobile ?

2008-10-01 Thread MrSnowflake
What is your aim? I've written a simple service and config tool which switches your device to silent when you put it upside down in your pants: http://code.google.com/p/snowservices/wiki/GravityRinger To silence your device use: [code] AudioManager audioMgr =

[android-developers] Re: how to disable the back key for the phone

2008-10-01 Thread MrSnowflake
On 1 okt, 04:06, hackbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But keep in mind that the user can still get out of your application with the HOME key, and there is absolutely no way for you to prevent that. That seems to be true, but there is const: KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME. I have tried anything with this

[android-developers] Re: when will android support/have Speech Recognition System??

2008-10-01 Thread MrSnowflake
I believe someone was working on such a library, but I've read it a couple months ago, so I'm not sure how it was called. On 30 sep, 03:51, Wesley Sagittarius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, when will android support/have Speech Recognition System?? anyone have any ideas??? Wesley.

[android-developers] Re: Barcodes

2008-10-01 Thread MrSnowflake
it into the top 50, although it really had cool features (like finding the 3D position of a Moseycode in space in real time). Peli On Sep 30, 4:10 pm, MrSnowflake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/isa barcode (amongst others) reader. It is opensource and has a android

[android-developers] Re: KeyListener doesn't see enter key?

2008-10-01 Thread MrSnowflake
I haven't met your problem myself, but a possible sollution is extending EditText and handle the ENTER/RETURN in the onKeyDown/Up On 30 sep, 15:46, Christine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a KeyListener on an EditText. The only key I want to catch is the enter key, but that seems to be the

[android-developers] Re: Barcodes

2008-09-30 Thread MrSnowflake
http://code.google.com/p/zxing/ is a barcode (amongst others) reader. It is opensource and has a android client. On 30 sep, 01:50, Peli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you look at the OpenIntents list of applicationshttp://www.openintents.org/en/applications you will find ZXing which is a

[android-developers] Detect Emulator/Get phone info

2008-09-30 Thread MrSnowflake
Is there a way to detect wether a activity is running on the emulator or on a real device? And if so, can we detect what the name of the device is? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers

[android-developers] Re: Easter eggs

2008-09-26 Thread MrSnowflake
Another Easter Egg, as that's what I believe it is, otherwhise wtf... :) 'public static final String BRICK Required to be able to disable the device (very dangerous!). Constant Value: android.permission.BRICK' A BRICK Permission?!!

[android-developers] Re: Simulation of sensor events

2008-09-01 Thread MrSnowflake
It is possible: http://code.google.com/p/openintents/wiki/SensorSimulator On 26 aug, 19:38, Megha Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: its not possible to test any Sensor related code on emulator. 2008/8/26 mihai [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I simulate inputs from the hardware sensors, so that I

[android-developers] Re: I'd like to modify the Dialer program

2008-08-24 Thread MrSnowflake
I am interested in a dialer which finds contacts for me by their name by the number I enter (like the Windows Mobile 6 Dialer). I NEVER use the address book, I just type their names using the numbers which represent the letters in their name. On 21 aug, 21:55, towlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: