Is there a way to remove the contacts and do a new import All from SIM I pressed the import all a few times and now I have all my contacts three times
Niek On 6 April 2010 11:01, Helge Hafting <[email protected]> wrote: > Sebastian Spaeth wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I just upgraded SHR testing. I can actually enter new contacts now: >> >> - Open Contacts. Click new >> - Click on one of those ugly pencil icons (that look like a slider) of a >> field that is NOT currently selected (Yellow). Then click on the empty >> space to the left, and the keyboard will popup. >> - Enter stuff :). Remember that those things will not be saved on the SIM. >> >> I can also import ALL my SIM card entries into the opimd database now! >> :-), which makes my phone usable again: >> >> - Open shr-settings. Open "Other". Open "Sim Manager". One caveat: It >> currently does not check if your SIM card is ready yet and once it >> failed to import them, it will never try again unless you reboot. So, >> enter you SIM PIN, wait 2-3 minutes and then open the SIM manager. >> Thanks to Thomas Zimmermann (Heinervdm) for coding this up. >> - See all you SIM contacts. Press "import all". >> - YAY! >> >> Let me know about regressions. > > Not a regression, but a problem with this: > > Nothing seemed to happen. So I thought the touchscreen didn't notice my > finger, and clicked again. Nothing seemed to happened again, so I gave up. > > Going to the contacts, I noticed that everything had been imported twice! So > I had to delete all the duplicates. I pity anyone who press the key 4-5 > times and have hundreds of contacts... > > It'd be nice if the import utility don't create duplicates. If both name and > number exists already, don't create a new record. Also, it'd be nice > with status message such as "Imported 15 contacts, skipped 8 duplicates." > > One might also wonder what to do if the name exists but the number is > different: > * Add a new record? > * Update the existing record? > * Add the different number to the record, so that there is now > two numbers? > > Avoiding duplication of identical entries is most important though. > > Helge Hafting > _______________________________________________ > Shr-User mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user > _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
