People Widget // Contacts - Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm thinking this is more of an issue with the People app than with the widget, but here is my issue.
Just rooted my wife's Hero from 1.5 and flashed Fresh ROM 2.3.3. Previously, in the HTC people widget she was able to add two different contacts for me, one to call work and one to call cell. I'm guessing she did this through adding both contacts to the favorites group that was used for the widget.
When adding the new widget there is only one contact for me, and when editing the favorites group there is no option to add a second entry for me with a different contact method.
Without adding a completely separate contact for me with the second phone # is there any way to fix this?
Thanks.

Check to see that the two Contacts of you aren't linked together as one. Sometimes the People app will automatically Link two contacts that have the same name, and you may need to go manually un-link them. Look at the very top right of the Contact screen

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Remove Favorites?

I am trying to remove a Contact from my favorites list. They are not a starred contact, but they are still in my favorites due to frequent calls. The problem is I don't talk to this person anymore. Does anyone know how to remove them from this list? I am using a N1 Froyo Stock. Thanks in advance.
long press -> remove from favourites ?
bcpk said:
long press -> remove from favourites ?
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Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I have tried that, but my option is add to favorites instead of remove from favorites. If I try to add to favorites it puts it at the very top, then when I remove it again it puts it back where it was to begin with.
Delete their info from your Google contacts online
Should do the trick
download "historyeraser" from the market. it gives you an option to delete contacts history (favorites) but it'll erase all favorites that are not starred.
Remove the person from the favorite group
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Help: cant get contact ringtones

I have them made from a previous Droid but how do I set them in the Captivate? I had an Epic 4G before this phone and it was simple. Go to contact, edit contact, assign ring tone. This phone dosen't have this option(at least the option dosen't show in the settings). Is it an AT&T vs Sprint thing or do I need my contacts in certain area?
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When you edit a contact, did you scroll down far enough? There is a field to change the ringtone.
ok...this is a bunch of crap...If I am doing this right...the only way to get a ringtone for a contact is for the contact to reside on your phone...not link to any other account....so, with that said, I reset my phone to factory defaults(had to in order to get rid of the Google linked account). Then applied ringtones to certain people just for a test. Presto...ring tones...Ok...now that that is done, I want to re-download my apps from the market. Guess what? You need to link your phone to Google to get them...so what happens?...all my contacts are now linked to Google automatically and can't assign ring tones again....Is this right...am I the only one?...I cant believe that Google and Facebook contacts take precidence over contacts that are directly on the phone?...is there anyone out there that can correct me if I am wrong?
From what I can tell you have to have the contact saved on your phone to assign a ringtone.
You can make a new contact on your phone and then link it to an existing Google contact. Then when you edit the contact you can set a ringtone. At the top of the Edit page there will be tabs to switch between the Google contact and the contact on the phone. You have to edit the contact on the phone.
There are apps that can export all of your contacts and save them as phone contacts. That seems to be the quickest way of doing this if you're going to assign more than 2 or 3 different ringtones.
Try it with one first to make sure it works for you.

[Q] filter sms contacts

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I am currently struggling with tasker. I have made a dozen of trials myself but can't get it to work so far.
I want the following to happen.
Whenever someone texts me, tasker checks if the contact is added or not (pretty easy: Does the contact have a name or just a number starting wiht a '+' sign?)
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I wanted to post to make them aware so they can patch these down the road.
You need to have a Samsung account that syncs to the Google account contacts.
There is some kind of issue right now - I had no problem for the past two years but their Contacts are not syncing as perfectly as before and it's driving me insane. I just made a topic on it in the Galaxy S10 forum if you want to follow that and see if anyone has an idea.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s10/how-to/samsung-contacts-google-contacts-sms-t3917970

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