Change default contact filter

[Touxe]

Hello,

Is it possible to change the default filter in the contact list ?
By default this filter is "All"; I'd like to set it to "personal"

Thank you for your answers.

Regards,

[friguy33]

been looking all over and cant find anything for this. it would be great though!

[Aero]

Edit a contact, go to the categories and change it to personal.

The personal will appear at the filters, if you edit another contact and change the category to work, work will also appear in the filter.

Try it out.

[friguy33]

we know how to create filters...the problem is, when you open contacts, there is no filter, you see all the contacts. we want to have it so when you open contacts it is already filtered, say the last filter you picked or a default filter like personal or work. going to filter and changing it everytime i want to see a number is annoying

[Touxe]

I have already put categories to all my contact.
The only thing I want is to see only personal contact when I open the contact list.

I searched in the registry but i found nothing ...

[Touxe]

Nobody can help us ?

[friguy33]

sadly i think nobody cares about this pain in the ass problem :( keep looking...

[gezzaboy]

Yes, please, please, please.... Can anyone shed any light on this?

I too am frustrated that WM6 does not seem to have the ability to "save" the previous filter, or to let the user choose which filter to have as default (rather than having "all" as default, then requiring a manual filter each time)

It is REALLY frustrating :mad: having to trawl through ALL the contacts each and every time.

I have many contacts because I work in a few countries, and have categorized my contacts according to country. It would be super if I could "lock" the filter to a category (in my case country), so when I'm in a particular country, I can just view contacts from that country without trawling through all contacts from all countries.

Is there a fix for this? In WM6 itself? In reg? With a .cab? With a third-party software?

Can anyone help? It would be much appreciated.

[da_17]

I would like to have a default filter too... By the way, I am using WM5 (P3600/trinity), and it also shows everything when you get into the contacts. What I do for the time being is put the contacts I want to see everytime in the quick numbers list of the phone.

[blue_94_trooper]

I know this thread's a couple of weeks old but I've been searching XDA for a solution. The weird thing is that Windows Mobile had the ability to retain a filter (at least until you rebooted) in Windows Mobile 2003. I had this feature on my Audiovox SMT5600 (HTC Tornado, I think) over 3 years ago.

[Ka1N]

Old thread I know...

Now that its getting close to 2009... anyone find a solution to this problem/annoyance?

Thansk

[avathar]

i am sick of this, i have wm6.1 and there is still same story, filter is returning to all mode...grrr
in lates version is still same thing ?
can anybody help please.....

[Pabst]

is there still no solution?

[navyn]

i've cracked everybit till now and havent yet found how to set up a filter to choose only contacts with email addresses - but no success yet.
i recently imported my gmail contacts on my phone and want to send out an invite to all my friends - unfortunately unless i type a contact name, i wouldnt know which other contact exists there.
its getting be a pain..

[BRISTOLMAN]

Hi All

Sorry to bring this back, but is there a fix for this yet, i too find it a pain, would be much better if you could choose a default filter and not All.

Tom

[tunekas]

I'm looking also for a sollution, but Microsoft it's sleeping and dont do nothing about this filter problem... all this years and wm it's the same shit...