(29 September 2009) iContact 0.95 - WM6.5 Start Menu Avatar Edition

[supbro]

September 29, 2009: New version! 0.95

A new edition of iContact is ready for download, v0.95, which fixes a few bugs, and also adds a couple features, most notably for those who have WM6.5, and choose to "create shortcut" for a contact, your buddy's picture will now show up in your start menu, in high resolution!

Here's the full list of improvements:

[+] Added "Remove Shortcut" button to details screen if appropriate
[+] Added "createshortcut" and "removeshortcut" to language file
[+] Added contact shortcut icons to start menu shortcuts for Windows Mobile 6.5
[+] Added ability for hardware "*" key to favorite/defavorite a contact
[#] Fixed outgoing calls to numbers with no name displaying [null]
[#] Hid SIP button being displayed by iContactAE

I've worked really hard in my nights and weekends to bring you these new updates. If you like them, please consider a donation via my web site (http://supware.net/iContact). As a thank you, I will give donors access to beta versions of iContact.

Please see my website (http://supware.net/iContact) for more details.

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GPL'ed Source code is available at my site: http://supware.net/iContact

http://www.supware.net/iContact/iContact0.95-1.png
http://www.supware.net/iContact/iContact0.95-2.png

Everybody be sure to thank larna for the original source.

Download here (http://supware.net/iContact)

[gullum]

looks realy good
May I use it in my roms?
it's simple and fast

[supbro]

May I use it in my roms?

Sure! Let me know if you need any help.

[ov2rey]

0.7 look weird... 0.6 got a ABC bar on the right side below got all the letter A,B,C,D,E,F,G but 0.7 no more.. i like that menu... click on G it will go to G..


but 0.7 don't have...

[lepsyfou]

Sure! Let me know if you need any help.

thank you very much for you work :D

[wearefree]

Quick feedback:

1. Voice mail icon doesn't work on my tmobile wing (open touch v4 black lite rom)

2. Call history is buggy - sometimes it can't scroll, and some of the lines are wider than others. However this is a very good and welcoming idea. Also could use smaller fonts for dates - the word "yesterday" is too big and won't fit in the screen.

3. Edit: just found out indeed I can scroll the right side of the screen, kinda like what is used in pocketcm. Good job!

All in all this is going to the right direction, just a few bugs. Definitely keeping up the good work!

[Taninpv]

delete..problem solved.

[supbro]

0.7 look weird... 0.6 got a ABC bar on the right side below got all the letter A,B,C,D,E,F,G but 0.7 no more.. i like that menu... click on G it will go to G..


but 0.7 don't have...

You can touch on the right-hand side of the screen, and use that like a scroll bar. That even saves one click! I debated showing a light gray "ABCD..." down the side of the screen, but I like it better without it.

[ov2rey]

i wish u add a option Exit.or a icon for exit..

always have to press top right to go back to today screen then have to press close.. for icontact..

[killi]

You can touch on the right-hand side of the screen, and use that like a scroll bar. That even saves one click! I debated showing a light gray "ABCD..." down the side of the screen, but I like it better without it.

So there is no option to go directly to a letter? you can only scroll? I agree, that without the ability to be able to go directly to a letter, i just cant upgrade to this beautiful version. otherwise i would be scrolling forever to get to the bottom of my 250+ contacts. let us know if you decide to add it back in, or an option.

great work though otherwise

[supbro]

Quick feedback:

1. Voice mail icon doesn't work on my tmobile wing (open touch v4 black lite rom)

2. Call history is buggy - sometimes it can't scroll, and some of the lines are wider than others. However this is a very good and welcoming idea. Also could use smaller fonts for dates - the word "yesterday" is too big and won't fit in the screen.

3. The initial letter selection is gone. Initially I though it's the keypad but the keypad brings me the phone pad. I have lots of contacts so scrolling without initial letter selection can be painful.

All in all this is going to the right direction, just a few bugs. Definitely keeping up the good work!

1. What registry entries do you have under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail ? It's strange that it's not working... it looks for HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail\PhoneNumber1, then HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail\UserProvidedNumber1, then as a last resort looks up your own phone number.

2. It's working flawlessly for me... I'll see if I can get it to break. Can you post or send me the names & numbers of the entries that aren't being displayed properly? I can shrink the font too, just forgot about that.

3. You can use the (invisible) scroll-bar. I found this was easier than the using the popup keyboard.

[supbro]

So there is no option to go directly to a letter?

You can click half-way down the screen on the right side, to go 1/2 way through your contact list... to get all the way to the bottom, click the right-hand side of the screen, just above the icon bar. Just like the iPhone :)

[killi]

ok ill give that a shot. if this is doable by finger/thumb, then that wont be that bad at all. the beauty of the 0.6 was it didnt require a stylus and was super fast to get a call made.

[wearefree]

1. What registry entries do you have under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail ? It's strange that it's not working... it looks for HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail\PhoneNumber1, then HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail\UserProvidedNumber1, then as a last resort looks up your own phone number.

2. It's working flawlessly for me... I'll see if I can get it to break. Can you post or send me the names & numbers of the entries that aren't being displayed properly? I can shrink the font too, just forgot about that.

3. You can use the (invisible) scroll-bar. I found this was easier than the using the popup keyboard.

1. Under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Vmail I have two entries: PhoneNumber1 and PhoneNumber2, both empty. I guess this is the reason the voice mail icon isn't dialing anything because there is no number to dial...

2. The names are short names (less than 10 letters, such as xxxx xxx, or xxxxxx xxxx, or xxxx xxxx, sorry I can't post the detail), and the numbers are standard 10 digit numbers in US (1-###-###-####). The thing is some entries having the same name and number have different line width, and if I navigate away to contact then come back sometimes it displays totally normal.

3. Sorry I kinda jumped into conclusion before I mess with it more, now I found out the scroll-bar and it's very sweet! I have also changed my previous post.

One more thing, could you also make this change theme based on time (like being white during the day and dark during the night) and auto close when making phone call/text message? Kinda like what is presented here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=383109&page=15
post #144

[supbro]

ok ill give that a shot. if this is doable by finger/thumb, then that wont be that bad at all. the beauty of the 0.6 was it didnt require a stylus and was super fast to get a call made.

If it's not wide enough, I could put the scroll bar width in settings.ini. Let me know.

[shadowmike]

I would like to announce what I have been working on for the last month or so, since I found larna's open-source iContact... A NEW version of iContact! I've added the following features:


Added skin and color scheme support
Made app "full screen" with titlebar matching A_C's S2P and S2U2
Added call log
Added quick scroll-to support
Tied favorites to built-in categories
Added .cab installer for easy uninstall
Fixed icon to a proper transparent one

Source code is available at my site: http://supware.net/iContact


Everybody be sure to thank larna. Thanks A_C, for help with the registry.

This is a very nice app. and it runs smooth on my t-mobile shadow smartphone. but since its not a touch screen i am limited to the contact list and pressing the left dpad button to get out of the contacts info.

Is there anyway to program the keys.

dpad up works, moves up the list
dpad down works, moves down the list
the center button in the middle of my scroll wheel already acts as a finger press so thats fine but


left dpad to move the bottom menu to the left (Recents, Favorites)
Right dpad to move the bottom menu to the right (keypad, voicemail)
right softkey(#2) to open any menu that you may have in the program
left softkey(#1) to open any menu you have in the program

also my phone has a back button. when in your program it doesnt funcion at all.
also my home button does not function at all.

like i said this is a smartphone i installed this on, and if this was changed it would work on all phones running wm

[killi]

ok i tested it. it is not very user friendly for finger thumb quick dialing. Even if you widen the scroll bar part, after you touch a scroll area, it almost always opens up a contact in that new letter area before you get to look for your target. but as it is, the scroll bar hidden area is only reachable consistently by stylus. great app for stylus driven contact searches if you fix somehow the autoselect after scroll bar tap. ill have to stick with 0.6 (using the night/day 0.6 by uiskibum)

i really like the icons and screen selections though. keep up the good work.

[psullivan44]

Great work on this update. Works great on my mogul. Just one thing, on long email addresses the .com is truncated and the word "E-mail" is added to the end when it goes to a new email message. Otherwise great work looks really clean.

[HaiLe512]

Thanks for the update. I like this...but do miss the ABC screen.

Thanks for sharing your works.

[T-mex]

I think it's just a matter of breaking old habits (ABC), but the scroll is nice! Thanks for continuing development!

[HaiLe512]

Supbro,
Can u give some info on how to change the color scheme?
thanks

[yogibear99]

the program shuts down whenever i click on the "recents" button

[im1badazchick]

Thanks Larna and Superbro...i love it...everything is working on my mogul...voicemail dials my voicemail andkeypad bring up my phone dialer...i was wondering if there's a way to make it actually close when you press for it to close..i am able to close it through quickmenu but would love if it did it by itself;)..have a great night guys and again superbro...great work:cool:

[dzelaya18]

Nice! It's just what I always wished PocketCM would be: A nice, scrolling contact application without all of the SMS stuff in it. Clean and simple...perfect.

I do miss the ABC though....and I can't figure out how to close it rather than minimize it...

[sathya]

I was in joy seeing ur update but Being a WM 2003SE user..hugely disappointed..i contact was the only scrolling contact application for 2003SE users but unfortunately we r not considered anymore..I really miss ur software.thanks for considering in ur previous releases.
I tried to install but it said "not a valid ppc application"

[ancola66]

Not EXIT button (Only Minimize):confused::(

[supbro]

Supbro,
Can u give some info on how to change the color scheme?
thanks

You'll want to modify theme.ini. Hopefully the names can explain themselves well enough... the color values are in rgb hex, like for web pages. For instance:

ListBackground=182633

This specifies that the background color for the list is Red=18, Green=26, Blue=33, (it looks like a dark blue). Here's a page that has a bunch of examples: http://www.pitt.edu/~nisg/cis/web/cgi/rgb.html

[johnnychimpo]

i wish u add a option Exit.or a icon for exit..

always have to press top right to go back to today screen then have to press close.. for icontact..

+1. A quite or close icon would rock.

[simoncc06]

any green version (just copy to starage card)?

i have some suggestions.
1. as ppl mentioned, a exit button would be fine.
2. abc button have it adv, becoz scroll on right hand size is not user friendly as abc. actually, is it possible to develop for user to select it in option menu?
3. again, i think the SIM card number is a issue. Any method to make it appear in contact list?
4. for keypad, is it I click the icon, a phone keypad will pop out for my usage.

I find there is many softward like iContact, e.g. FunContact and PocketCM. I think it can be used for reference.

[ancola66]

any green version (just copy to starage card)?

i have some suggestions.
1. as ppl mentioned, a exit button would be fine.
2. abc button have it adv, becoz scroll on right hand size is not user friendly as abc. actually, is it possible to develop for user to select it in option menu?
3. again, i think the SIM card number is a issue. Any method to make it appear in contact list?
4. for keypad, is it I click the icon, a phone keypad will pop out for my usage.

I find there is many softward like iContact, e.g. FunContact and PocketCM. I think it can be used for reference.
He he he:
*FunContact its not Free and heaviness soft
*PocketCM its Free but heaviness soft too and Load contact with unicode very slow.

[NotLutzik]

+1 for abc
Also make application to exit after use....very usefull! THX :)

[grzenio01]

is it support VGA screens?

[LivinOne]

+1 for Exit (maybe tie to HangUp hard button?) and ABC menu option (maybe add in as setting for display or not)

[twolf]

I was in joy seeing ur update but Being a WM 2003SE user..hugely disappointed..i contact was the only scrolling contact application for 2003SE users but unfortunately we r not considered anymore..I really miss ur software.thanks for considering in ur previous releases.
I tried to install but it said "not a valid ppc application"

Also desapointed here... This isnt a Larna software, it's some else's... It was just based on hers.
how about a wm2003 version, pretty please?
:)

[eboy44]

is there anyway to add an option to save the contact to the sim card?

[Christian72D]

any green version (just copy to starage card)?

Here you have it: Link (http://home.arcor.de/christian.laufs/temp/iContact.zip)

[Christian72D]

I switch back to 0.6 after 2 minutes. :(

For ME it´s much faster to have the ABC selection, i don´t like the scrollbar, it takes to long to scroll through a large list.

[voxid]

Me switched back to 0.6 too...
much more icontact-like...
and the abc button i like much more...
even the buttons on the bottom are to overloaded...
greets
voxid

[ancola66]

I switch back to 0.6 after 2 minutes. :(

For ME it´s much faster to have the ABC selection, i don´t like the scrollbar, it takes to long to scroll through a large list.
YES, YES, YES:)

[killi]

yea same here. great effort, just all the best parts of 0.6 were removed when the new features were added

[utak3r]

First: thanks for not letting this project pass away :)

Now, my two requests:
1. More important - the scrollbar on the right side should be much wider... take the phone in your left hand and try to use it with your left thumb. See? :cool:

2. Less important, but still... - I like to have photos in my contacts. If not in the main list, then on the contacts page - at least.

Keep up a good work!

[mailslot]

For ME it´s much faster to have the ABC selection, i don´t like the scrollbar, it takes to long to scroll through a large list.

For me too. My suggestion is to replace VoiceMail button with ABC selection and make scrollbar optional.
I don't think that VoiceMail is required for Contacts application. Close button would also be good.

Moreover ABC scrollbar is very buggy for me: very often when I release my finger after scrolling a contact (under my finger) is selected automatically.

P.S. BTW, thanks author for your work on a new version.

[ems275]

Glad to see this program resurected.

I have used most of all the other ver. without fail, but this new version won't run. When invoked it just blanks the screen and then goes back to the today screen and does nothing. I checked the task manager and its not even running. Any ideas on this??? I really love this program and want to use it. I have a HTC Touch running WM 6.0

Thanks

[JueLue]

For me too. My suggestion is to replace VoiceMail button with ABC selection and make scrollbar optional.
I don't think that VoiceMail is required for Contacts application. Close button would also be good.

Moreover ABC scrollbar is very buggy for me: very often when I release my finger after scrolling a contact (under my finger) is selected automatically.

P.S. BTW, thanks author for your work on a new version.

Its just exactly what I wanted to write...:)

[m00n61]

Thanks for reviving iContact, it's my favorite.
I will be, for the moment, reverting to 0.6 for the same reasons most of the other users expressed-navigation. When you have hundreds of contacts scrolling isn't an option. The ABC grid was the perfect (for me) balance between simple scrolling (useless) and smart search like in FFF(too complicated).
I secont the request to replace the voicemail button with the ABC and, if possible, use left/right dpad for page switching.

[eniway]

Thanks for reviving iContact, it's my favorite.
I will be, for the moment, reverting to 0.6 for the same reasons most of the other users expressed-navigation. When you have hundreds of contacts scrolling isn't an option. The ABC grid was the perfect (for me) balance between simple scrolling (useless) and smart search like in FFF(too complicated).
I secont the request to replace the voicemail button with the ABC and, if possible, use left/right dpad for page switching.

I agree 100%. The ABC grid is much quicker for going through a huge contact list.

[sudf]

hello,
all version of icontact are always compatible with VGA.
the first change in a new version by an other dev and this application is no more compatible VGA.
please think for the people who have VGA devices thanks for me and for us

[looking-g]

well i think when the abc button is added again i will switch to version 07 so +1 for abc button

[ogabriel]

Amazing...
very lightweight.... wonderful.
+1 for the ABC issue.(also agree with the voiceMail button)
And congrats for the development!

[ov2rey]

i wish u added exit and a ABC contact which is easy and fast.. i have too many contact... have to scroll down untill tomorrow.....................

[rwertz14]

Glad to see that development on this app did not stop. Just wanted to say you have done a wonderful job and this is exactly the direction I was wanting to see this go. Adding the photo for a contact is the only thing I feel that would make this perfect.

[MrDSL]

The biggest thing I use to love about this app is it was very lite and easy to get to a contact and call them fast..

Without having the ABC option just makes it that much harder and takes away the best thing about this app..Just my opinion but when you have a shit load of contacts to be able to hit the ABC button and just jump to where you need is freakin fast and awesome..

Without it I have to waste too much time scrolling up and down trying to get to the right contact etc..

Excellent work though but it seems to be going in the bloated pocketcm direction so I'll have to stick to version 6.

[simonte]

excellent update!
my congratulations...

is there any chance to have some contacts photo? or it would make more heavy the program?

the only think i dont like very much is the quality of the lower 4 buttons. i believe that you have shrink them very much in order to lower the kb size.

[The Reaper]

Works great on my TYTN 2..great job..:)

[ogabriel]

So..
i´m veryone is complaining about the exit button...
but its just me, or if you tap the right up corner... the program cloes (as if there´s a X button)?

[xxza]

excellent!! Thank you.

could you add a button (could replace the voice mail button) for viewing categories? because of so many contacts, i used categories to sort them. Thanks.

[dogbeef]

Awesome app, 2 questions:

i'm on a sprint Mogul, running no2chem's latest build, when i click on the email address it takes me to the screen where i chose which email address to send with (i have 2, work/personal) but when I click on either it just takes me to the inbox instead of new message.

If i can fix the first issue, how do i make this the default contact application, so that i can access it from within the dialer by pressing 'contacts' or from the today screen by pressing 'contacts' on the bottom right of the screen?

[Darkchaser]

RECENTS doesn't work for me. Everytime I select it, iContact exits......other than that so far so good.

I'm using a Hermes/8525 with Schap's WM6 ROM if it helps.

[deedee]

"Recents" doesn't work for me either and can i add another +1 to the "Bring back the ABC grid".

[nir36]

+1 from me too.

[mailslot]

RECENTS doesn't work for me. Everytime I select it, iContact exits......
But it works as the Close button that a lot of people wish to see. :)

So the only thing remained is just take skin.png and draw Close instead of Recents :D

[2manyphones]

I agree the ABC button was what made icontact different and I like that.

Issues:
On my Touch XL, when I use the right side to scroll to a letter and let go, it selects the contact that my finger was on. Meaning I just want to go to the "N"s but it will open a "M" contact because that was where I let go. Not like the iPhone, PocketCM or even Random Access.

When using the right side scroll, after you let go and it selects a contact, the big letter stays in the middle of the screen.

I have one contact that will not remove itself from the Favorites. I figured out the + and - to add or remove from favs, but this one contact stays in favs even with the - in the contact.

For closing or minimize, I would suggest pressing the battery icon to close the app and pressing the end key to minimize. This would be consistent with most other WM apps.

I REALLY like the look beter than V6 and the ability to customize. Nice job adapting from the orriginal. Maybe a V.7.2 of your work would be perfect. :)

[j.a]

Great work on the app! Love the "snappy feel" of it now.

The downside for me is the removal of the ABC Grid, imo that was one of the best parts of the app.
Also using the "scroll" get kind of bugging especially when scrolling the letters from z to a (bottom up). It/I always seems to mis-click on contacts.

+1 to Bring The Grid Back!

[simonte]

any simple, white theme?

[l3v5y]

Looks great! Can I also use it in my ROMs?

[MrEous]

Good job! Good to see someone taking it upon themselves to update the program. Thank you.

[pauldgroot]

I would love to theme it only I also would love to have the ABC back otherwise it aint no use to me.

[nir36]

it would also be great if we could modify it to change it's theme between day and night.. like the modified 0.6 one.. and to close after placing a call.

[l3v5y]

Couple of things!

I've noticed the language part of the "theme.ini", but would it be possible to add something for the "Add New Contact" for localisation?

Also, any chance of AppToDate support? I will happily help on that front, but since this appears like it's actively going to be developed, it would be a great way to roll out updates!

http://www.modaco.com/content/apptodate/267098/developers-how-to-include-apptodate-support-basic/

Anyway, thanks for updating this app! :D

I'm loving the letter of the block of names being shown at the top of the page!

EDIT: Is there anyway of changing the size of the text under the recent calls tab? When it pops up with "Yesterday" it's far to big for the screen! Also more on the development side, (not sure about C++ at all) would it be possible to include a dialpad purely for this program? Perhaps change what it's linked to to my own, dialer (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2230491&postcount=1) to suit the finger friendly ness of this app?

EDIT2:
In this, the names are cut off at the end, when there is more space towards the left... Is this editable?
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg59/l3v5y/iContact.jpg

Edit3:
In landscape mode, the text is cut off at the same point, and (unlike the top bar) the bottom bar of buttons is not drawn to fit the width...
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg59/l3v5y/iContact2.jpg

[lamandrion]

a wm2003 compatible version would be cool!

[TacoLoco]

+1 for the abc bar and for a vga compatible version! the 0.6 version scaled up on my vga device but this doesn't.. but it loads a lot faster and I also like the top bar very much.. so please please :D

[WildSioux]

For me too. My suggestion is to replace VoiceMail button with ABC selection and make scrollbar optional.
I don't think that VoiceMail is required for Contacts application. Close button would also be good.

Moreover ABC scrollbar is very buggy for me: very often when I release my finger after scrolling a contact (under my finger) is selected automatically.

P.S. BTW, thanks author for your work on a new version.

+2 that is what I wanted to say :D

- ABC selection icon to replace voicemail (I can access voicemail on the dialpad by holding 1).
- Keep the ABC scrollbar but fix the time limit (or whatever) it takes to click on a contact as it opens one when I release. It is very buggy.
- Give an integrated menu option to change the background to a user selected picture (see current ThumbCal for this).
- Not only does it need a method to close (tap top right to close, or a menu option to exit). But it also needs a way to automatically close after making a call or clicking on SMS to send a text. There is no reason to have it remain open after.
- Show contact pictures.

Thanks again to the developer for continuing this great software.

[NiteStalker]

I would like to announce what I have been working on for the last month or so, since I found larna's open-source iContact... A NEW version of iContact! I've added the following features:



Although its a nice release, has alot of eye candy, it is not "iContact" you have gone a separate path from the original author. You should have renamed it, technically its not "iContact 0.7" since you didn't actually Develop the other versions, you started a variation.

As you may have noticed in some of the previous posts people are addressing feature issues like you originally created them, then removed them (i.e. sorting/browsing keyboard).

Also by naming it "iContact 0.7", you have basicly taken the project form "larna" so that he would have to rename his next version so as to keep it from being confussed with yours.

Larna was nice to make his sorce code available, but I doubt he excpected to have his project taken from him like this.

Just my thoughts on this.

[Splal]

I have multiple email accounts that I would want to send from, can you make an email select when you click on an email address.

[gman8966]

+2 that is what I wanted to say :D

- ABC selection icon to replace voicemail (I can access voicemail on the dialpad by holding 1).
- Keep the ABC scrollbar but fix the time limit (or whatever) it takes to click on a contact as it opens one when I release. It is very buggy.
- Give an integrated menu option to change the background to a user selected picture (see current ThumbCal for this).
- Not only does it need a method to close (tap top right to close, or a menu option to exit). But it also needs a way to automatically close after making a call or clicking on SMS to send a text. There is no reason to have it remain open after.
- Show contact pictures.

Thanks again to the developer for continuing this great software.

+1 to basically everything that he pointed out

[Trekvogel]

I liked 0.6 but it still had some things I missed from PCM Contacts. This version does all I want. It's fast and just does what it should do, great work!

[supbro]

For me too. My suggestion is to replace VoiceMail button with ABC selection and make scrollbar optional.
I don't think that VoiceMail is required for Contacts application. Close button would also be good.

Moreover ABC scrollbar is very buggy for me: very often when I release my finger after scrolling a contact (under my finger) is selected automatically.

P.S. BTW, thanks author for your work on a new version.

That scrollbar bug is fixed in my working copy... I'll try to get it published as soon as possible.

[supbro]

excellent update!
my congratulations...

is there any chance to have some contacts photo? or it would make more heavy the program?

the only think i dont like very much is the quality of the lower 4 buttons. i believe that you have shrink them very much in order to lower the kb size.


Someone please send me better icons! I'm not an artist. I will gladly replace what's there, as long as it matches the "HTC Style" theme.

[curious george]

will there be a sort by category in any future realease or contact pictures?

[TacoLoco]

is it much work to make this vga ready? i'm also willing to help cause the 0.6 is starting very slow on my device..

[supbro]

Awesome app, 2 questions:

i'm on a sprint Mogul, running no2chem's latest build, when i click on the email address it takes me to the screen where i chose which email address to send with (i have 2, work/personal) but when I click on either it just takes me to the inbox instead of new message.

If i can fix the first issue, how do i make this the default contact application, so that i can access it from within the dialer by pressing 'contacts' or from the today screen by pressing 'contacts' on the bottom right of the screen?

1. The email account setting is in settings.ini, and it's case sensitive.
2. The .cab installer should have made the program the default contacts program. It's just a couple registry settings.

[supbro]

For those of you who want ABC back... what would you suggest it display when you are looking at call history?

+---+---+---+---+
| a | b | c | d |
+---+---+---+---+
| e | f | g | h |

..etc for contacts is fine, but


+---+---+---+---+
| today
| yesterday
| wednesday

doesn't work so well...?

[WildSioux]

For those of you who want ABC back... what would you suggest it display when you are looking at call history?

+---+---+---+---+
| a | b | c | d |
+---+---+---+---+
| e | f | g | h |

..etc for contacts is fine, but


+---+---+---+---+
| today
| yesterday
| wednesday

doesn't work so well...?

Hmm, not sure how the coding works for this program. Would something like this work:
^ = Today
< = Previous day
> = Next day

So instead of having what you have for "today," "yesterday," "wednesday" etc... We could just click on the arrow that I am suggesting to go to the corresponding day, etc... The < = Previous could tap on and would go from today, to "wednesday," next tap to "Tuesday," etc...

EDIT: also, aren't the horizontal +---+---+---+---+ separator lines missing from the day portion like the abc... has?

[rwertz14]

I would love to theme it only I also would love to have the ABC back otherwise it aint no use to me.

I sure would love for you to apply a diamond theme to this app. With the excellent job you have done with the Minimal Dialer and Throttle Launcher, I know you could do something awesome for this app as well. I hope to see it soon. :) Also if you could look at doing some sort of diamond theme with ThumbCal as well would be great.

[nir36]

supbro, can you please refer to the changing of the skin according to the time of day.. and the closing of the application after a call is made?

[tft]

uhm selecting ABC is way faster to find a contact. you must only have like 20 contacts that you didn't seem a need to include ABC selection menu. who wants to scroll thru 300 contacts?

there is plenty of space on the right side to add a ABC menu, i don't see why you would need a scroll bar anyway, thats what touch flow is for.

and maybe you should put the default tel phone number below their name and make the name font smaller, it will still be finger friendly..

if you aren't interested in any of this then maybe give the user some options in a menu..

just some suggestions and take them with a grain of salt!

but i'll stick with the other versions of contacts for now.

[wim26]

i also like the abc keypad. +1 abc

[JNasty]

ABC menu is a must have. It was extremely finger friendly and much much faster than the new scroll feature. Bring back ABC or at least have an option for it.

[faymus]

hate to jump on the bandwagon but thats what switched me from pocketcm the abc feauture. I installed this one and its nice, but had to go back to the previous one bacause of the abc. Thanks for picking up the project though.

[santocha]

For me ABC menu is the best. For call history I don't use it much.

[Khmer123]

Where can i download ABC keypad at?

[ov2rey]

Where can i download ABC keypad at?

0.7 don't have... unless u go back to 0.6

[dreshah]

hello,
all version of icontact are always compatible with VGA.
the first change in a new version by an other dev and this application is no more compatible VGA.
please think for the people who have VGA devices thanks for me and for us


also scrolling is very slow on my device..

[Draqula]

Tried the 0.7 - the first iContact experience for me and yes - ABC grid or ABC.. on the right side is really missed. For now I returned to HTC Random Access.

Hope to see alphabet selection back in some future release, because other than that, it's great and really fast on my TyTN II with WM6.1.

[larna]

Hi people,
Doug asked permission to use the name iContact in his release and i allowed him of course. I won't be releasing new versions anymore as i don't have ppc device anymore (i'm using iphone now).

As from screenshots, i think iContact looks better than ever (great work Doug) and i'm sure Doug will reimplement "ABC grid" feature, couse there are so many requests for that.

I would actually suggest setting up a SVN repository on ProjectLocker so more people could contribute to it.

larna

[darota]

I´m back to 0.5, i really like the 2 features in this version

1. tab on unused space to go back
2. ABC pad

The first one is really comfortable.

[eniway]

- Not only does it need a method to close (tap top right to close, or a menu option to exit). But it also needs a way to automatically close after making a call or clicking on SMS to send a text. There is no reason to have it remain open after.

I agree that it needs a button to exit the app but not automatically close it. What if you want to send another sms to a different person? Maybe an option perhaps whether you want to have the app automatically close after a call or sms.


- Show contact pictures.


I agree 100%

[pierre duras]

I´m back to 0.5, i really like the 2 features in this version

1. tab on unused space to go back
2. ABC pad

The first one is really comfortable.

+1

I'm back to 0.6 for ABC pad, add contacts and option favorites.
It would be better with the option "tap on unused space to go back" because it's easy when you're in free hands in your car to navigate in the menus.

Hope god will hear us. Nice work on design of version 0.7, keep efforts, it's marvelous.

[nir36]

the scrolling and kinetic response of 0.7 is better than 0.6. also, the response to a click.. is much smoother. when you clicked a contact in 0.6 it would have had to be a percise click or it would just center the list.. now when you click anywhere on the contact it would open the screen. thats a VERY VERY important upgrade due to comfortability issues.

again i implore you, besides than adding the ABC grid, to add the options to close iContact after placing a call, and having an option to change the theme according to the time of day. those 2 options might just be the reasons, for me, to switch from 0.6 to 0.7 indefinately.

thank you. GREAT work.

[rwertz14]

Lets give Doug some time to get the ABC grid implemented back into the program. This was his first releasse and it looks great. This is the direction I was hoping this program would go once someone took it on. And I personally think he is doing an awesome job with it.

[ndininno]

Request:

Ability to remove a favorite from the favorites screen.
Resize for sliding mobile widescreen devices (ie. Samsung i760)

[l3v5y]

I got a bit bored, so here is an xml for ATD support!


<application>
<name>iContact</name>
<version>0.7</version>
<description><b>iContact</b><br />A new implementation of iContact by supbro building on the source code release by Larna, with aditional features including Full screen, and a top bar based on A_Cs S2 series.
<br />
<br />
Check http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2245963 for more info!
<b>Change Log:</b>
0.7
<ul>
<li>Added skin and color scheme support</li>
<li>Made app "full screen" with titlebar matching A_C's S2P and S2U2</li>
<li>Added call log</li>
<li>Added quick scroll-to support</li>
<li>Tied favorites to built-in categories</li>
<li>Added .cab installer for easy uninstall</li>
<li>Fixed icon to a proper transparent one</li>
</ul>
0.6
<ul>
<li>Initial release of Source Code on xda-developers</li>
</ul>
<b>To Do:</b>
<ul>
<li>Make keypresses work better</li>
<li>Fix virtual scrollbar</li>
<li>Try to debug voicemail (see forum)</li>
<li>Try to debug call history (see forum)</li>
<li>Add option for exit</li>
<li>contact photos</li>
<li>AppToDate support</li>
<li>"Add New Contact" localization</li>
<li>re-implement ABC</li>
</ul>
</description>
<versionurl>http://www.supware.net/iContact/iContact.xml</versionurl>
<caburl>http://www.supware.net/iContact/iContact.cab</caburl>
</application>
You'll need to host this XML and the cab in wherever you point the "VersionUrl" to for the XML, and "caburl" for the cab. You'll need to include the XML in the cab...

[peterqoo]

Could it support wvga?

[PoohBear88]

Hehe... i like the contact names you had your contact lists when you took your screenshots :)

I posted your software here (http://www.wm6software.net/windows-mobile/action/download_page/id/248) if you want to keep track of feedback from your installers.

[nhao]

For me ABC menu is the best. For call history I don't use it much.

+1, but it's a great update, and good job!!!

[leojai]

I choose and love icontact because of ABC screen.
I want ABC screen and Exit button.:)

[adrat]

0.7 look weird... 0.6 got a ABC bar on the right side below got all the letter A,B,C,D,E,F,G but 0.7 no more.. i like that menu... click on G it will go to G.... but 0.7 don't have...

IMHO it's a bad decision to cancel that important menu. Now there's no reason for me to upgrade. I've too many contacts for scrolling over. Please bring that little feature back !

[l3v5y]

IMHO it's a bad decision to cancel that important menu. Now there's no reason for me to upgrade. I've too many contacts for scrolling over. Please bring that little feature back !If you had read the page linked to in the first post, supbro has said he will bring this feature back.

[supbro]

ABC is coming, I just need to do some more testing. Someone should tally the "+1" score for ABC :)

[curious george]

ABC is coming, I just need to do some more testing. Someone should tally the "+1" score for ABC :)

Will there be picture support and category sorting support?

[supbro]

I got a bit bored, so here is an xml for ATD support!

...code...


You'll need to host this XML and the cab in wherever you point the "VersionUrl" to for the XML, and "caburl" for the cab. You'll need to include the XML in the cab...

thanks! you saved me some time

[l3v5y]

thanks! you saved me some time
I even did a change log! How nice am I :D

If you want any more info on it, I've made so many of the damn xmls for my own needs I should be able to help...


ABC is coming, I just need to do some more testing. Someone should tally the "+1" score for ABC :)Including those who haven't posted it, but have read the thread and thought it, I reckon at least a couple of hundred... I'm watching you :p

[Daring]

Glad to hear the ABC button will return! Love much of what you've done with the app and really like that you use built in categories to define favorites. That said there is a problem that if you add a contact as a favorite it will remove any other categories that the contact may be in. Favorite selection should not affect other categories.

Also on my wishlist:
Close after dial option
Show regular top and bottom bar (non full screen)
Filter by category

Thanks for all of your efforts!

[robsno]

As with some of the previous requesters can you do a version compiled with wm2003 compatibility please. There are still a large percentage of us who have not upgraded to WM 5 and 6 for cost or speed reasons. many thanks in anticipation

[HaiLe512]

You'll want to modify theme.ini. Hopefully the names can explain themselves well enough... the color values are in rgb hex, like for web pages. For instance:

ListBackground=182633

This specifies that the background color for the list is Red=18, Green=26, Blue=33, (it looks like a dark blue). Here's a page that has a bunch of examples: http://www.pitt.edu/~nisg/cis/web/cgi/rgb.html

==

Thank you. It is now grey and white that goes well with my diamond theme.
thanks. Great job...

Cant wait to have the ABC back...thank!

[m.schmidler]

great work, and good to hear the ABC button is goin to return.

Though there are two things I´d really appreciate:

1. Contact Pic Support in Detail mode, maybe an option to turn this on/off, there are definitely people who don´t want such a feature.

2. When I click a contact and I want to close it, I barely reach the return button as quickly as I´d like to.

I suggest to switch the position of the return and "mark favorite" button. so I can close it much more easily. On the other hand, lefties may hate this...but I think there is a need for improvement and maybe someone here has a better solution.

regards,
Martin,
Austria

[Taninpv]

Could it be that I tested PocketCM, PrimeContact and among other contacts programs that screwed up my Touch? I can't run ver .07 at all. I keep getting a screen flash(like the program is starting), and then nothing would come up.
I am running v.06 without any problem, but can't run v.07. HELP!!

[ptfdmedic]

is the time still forced 24hr mode or does it default to the format on the phone. I really want the 12 hours clock????



Thanks for the update....

[laserbeme]

So a couple of bugs...

1) when the list "scrolls" after I let go... I can't stop the "auto" scroll by tapping the screen (it just opens up the contact that I tapped)... it should stop the movement when I tap the screen

2) when I email someone, it appends "EMAIL" to the end of a contact's email in Outlook... for example xxx@xxxx.com comes up as xxx@xxxx.comEMAIL

Can't wait for the fixes... .6 until then.

[LGSilva]

How dificult it would be to have an option to use it with a smartphone (no touchscreen)?
Just using the d-pad (up/down) to go through the options?

:D

[yrsmart]

Request:

Ability to remove a favorite from the favorites screen.
Resize for sliding mobile widescreen devices (ie. Samsung i760)


Second it.

For some of my contacts I have address listed but I dont see it showing up, in this software even though it is there for the default software.

[topache]

Hi, Finally decided to try this after seeing it for awhile.

Very nice, a few fixes and this thing would be perfect!

Rather than bringing stuff up that already has been brought up how bout this one.

Is it only me or can you not delete a contact? The only way i figured out how to do it was to uninstall and go back to my regular contacts then delete then re-install.

Thanks

[wearefree]

You can't delete in icontact. However if you choose the contact you wish to delete, click it as if you're going to edit the contact which will bring to the standard wm contact entry, then you can select delete contact from the right softkey.

[mozillaxom]

Nice...
But, does it support picture contact?
Thanks...

[topache]

Hi Thanks for the response. I have tried that but there is no Delete Contact. I have right softkey that says menu and in the menu options there is no Delete. I can clear cancel, but if I remove the name then it's filed under unamed.

Also just found another issue as well. It appears that icontact doesn't bring up all the phones number associated with a contact. ex, work2 or company telephone doesn't show up after selecting a contact. you have to select it again to get all the choices. it would be nice to have all the numbers on the first screen.

It would be nice too, to have it display the time in 12 hour clock rather then military time and the date to read m/d/y instead of y/m/d

fyi: phone xv6700 running wm6.1

[ssturb]

One more request:

Show whether the calls are ingoing/outgoing/missed in the recents tab.

[wearefree]

@topache:

Right after you choose the contact from icontact before you hit edit, the right softkey should bring a menu for Delete Contact.

[topache]

well i'll be damned. there it is.

- Thanks!

[cttwarnock]

How do I import my contacts from my sim to the icontact program? Ive got a wing btw

[wim26]

How do I import my contacts from my sim to the icontact program? Ive got a wing btw

if you use WM6: programs --> sim management.

[cttwarnock]

if you use WM6: programs --> sim management.


Thanks man

[chuma]

Very nice! Good job... but...

Please in next version can you change the voice mail batton to ABC button or create customized buttom buttons (i think IContact must be more customasible - for example - .ini file)?

Idont need favorites and voice mail, But ABC table is nessisary. And exit button.

go back to 0.6... sorry =(

[black_shadow69]

I like this one....:)

[madsurfer1]

The iContact0.6 worked on wm2003se, any possibility to get this version to work on wm2003se also?

Regards

[pafimal]

Very nice! Good job... but...

Please in next version can you change the voice mail batton to ABC button or create customized buttom buttons (i think IContact must be more customasible - for example - .ini file)?

Idont need favorites and voice mail, But ABC table is nessisary. And exit button.

go back to 0.6... sorry =(

i agree with this:rolleyes:

[supbro]

Well I've been hard at work the past few days, and am proud to announce a new version - 0.71. I've tried to address most of your comments. A couple notes:


If you've modified theme.ini or settings.ini, make sure to do a backup before installing the new version. It will overwrite your existing ones. I don't know how to fix this, sorry...
Clicking anywhere in the titlebar will minimize the program. Or if you enabled it in settings.ini, it will exit the program. w00t!
The reason why iContact no longer supports WM2003SE is because of the cool new graphics effects (the transparency and stretching). I could probably make psuedo-transparency, like Larna did for the old keyboard in 0.6, but I don't know how to support both versions with the same code base. I'll try to figure it out. If anyone knows, please let me know!
For those of you for whom the program just crashes, I don't know how to debug that... it's most likely an easy bug fix but I don't know how to enable debug logs or whatnot. If anyone knows this, please let me know too! If you could run the source code from VS2008 on your device, it will tell you why your program is crashing and at what line. So I'd be able to fix that. Otherwise, for me, it's just a shot in the dark.


Here's my todo list for 0.71++. It probably won't come as fast as 0.71 did... 3 days was some hard work!


More support for other devices (landscape, WM2003SE, keyboard).
Categories
Improve speed
12/24 hour clock

[pauldgroot]

Well I've been hard at work the past few days, and am proud to announce a new version - 0.71. I've tried to address most of your comments. A couple notes:


If you've modified theme.ini or settings.ini, make sure to do a backup before installing the new version. It will overwrite your existing ones. I don't know how to fix this, sorry...
Clicking anywhere in the titlebar will minimize the program. Or if you enabled it in settings.ini, it will exit the program. w00t!
The reason why iContact no longer supports WM2003SE is because of the cool new graphics effects (the transparency and stretching). I could probably make psuedo-transparency, like Larna did for the old keyboard in 0.6, but I don't know how to support both versions with the same code base. I'll try to figure it out. If anyone knows, please let me know!
For those of you for whom the program just crashes, I don't know how to debug that... it's most likely an easy bug fix but I don't know how to enable debug logs or whatnot. If anyone knows this, please let me know too! If you could run the source code from VS2008 on your device, it will tell you why your program is crashing and at what line. So I'd be able to fix that. Otherwise, for me, it's just a shot in the dark.


Here's my todo list for 0.71++. It probably won't come as fast as 0.71 did... 3 days was some hard work!


More support for other devices (landscape, WM2003SE, keyboard).
Categories
Improve speed
12/24 hour clock


ah, nice..

My que to go skinning..

[l3v5y]

Yay! More ATD funness, and some nice upgrades :D

Have you compressed the cab? It seems to have gone on a diet :D

[HaiLe512]

Supbro...
Thanks for this new version....VERY NICE....EXCELLENT RELEASE....

ABC is back ....hooray.....!
touch empty space in contact detailed page to go back....GREAT...no more trying to reach for the little arrow key....COOL!

Thank you...GREAT JOB :D

[yrsmart]

thank you.

[dzelaya18]

Yes! ABC and the ability to close. Very nice, using it again now.

[kasperok]

welcome back "abc" :)
great work!

Thank You.


Bye
KK

[lepsyfou]

thank you for your this release 0.7.1

[pauldgroot]

Just busy skinning and I found out it is not possible to change titlebar text color and the titlebar signal indicator, is this correct?

[supbro]

Just busy skinning and I found out it is not possible to change titlebar text color and the titlebar signal indicator, is this correct?

It would be relatively simple to add "TitlebarText" and "TitlebarSignal" to theme.ini. Next release.

[topache]

Great job on the new updates, and you did them so fast! props to you!

Do you know if this is a known issue or is being looked at at sometime.

I noticed that when selecting a contact if that contact has phone numbers in work2 or company telephone fields they do not show up after selecting the contact. You have to actually select the name of the contact again to bring upu the original contact list to see all the numbers.

Thanks again for a great program!

[dens78]

i use v0.71 and i think it's much better from 0.70. but i still confuse how to exit? is that any additional setting in .ini file?

[wearefree]

So nice... Definitely a keeper. A few suggestions though:

1. The ABC grid is much slower compared to what is in 0.6 version, also the display is different. In 0.6 the letters that do not present in my contacts will not show up; this one has full 26 letters. Is there a future performance optimization for this?

2. The "invisible" scroll bar for history is gone :( Besides, it is possible to group the history with names (like pocketcm and pointui does), and when I select the person who maybe called me 26 times then there is a list of those 26 calls placed with time and duration. My call history is fill with calls from my wife (she's in a different city) so it's hard for me to find another number I called/received. This is where pointui call history really shines, because pocketcm call history won't allow direct call back.

All in all, great app. Will be looking forward for the next better one. Thank you for your hard work!

[supbro]

i use v0.71 and i think it's much better from 0.70. but i still confuse how to exit? is that any additional setting in .ini file?

Yeah, the setting is in settings.ini: change ExitOnMinimize=1

Then clicking on the titlebar anywhere closes the app instead of minimizing it.

ExitOnAction=1 will make iContact exit any time you perform an action,such as dialing a number or sending SMS, etc.

[supbro]

So nice... Definitely a keeper. A few suggestions though:

1. The ABC grid is much slower compared to what is in 0.6 version, also the display is different. In 0.6 the letters that do not present in my contacts will not show up; this one has full 26 letters. Is there a future performance optimization for this?

2. The "invisible" scroll bar for history is gone :( Besides, it is possible to group the history with names (like pocketcm and pointui does), and when I select the person who maybe called me 26 times then there is a list of those 26 calls placed with time and duration. My call history is fill with calls from my wife (she's in a different city) so it's hard for me to find another number I called/received. This is where pointui call history really shines, because pocketcm call history won't allow direct call back.

All in all, great app. Will be looking forward for the next better one. Thank you for your hard work!

#1a. I'm working on making it faster.

#1b. It always contains all 26 letters: If I get used to the location of a letter on that grid, I will be able to click it without even reading the grid... I know that "G" for instance will always be at position 2,2. Otherwise it takes longer for my brain to figure out where "G" is on that grid, could be in the first row, could be in the 2nd. Since speed is what the keyboard was designed for, this is better than the old method of v0.6.

#2a. Whoops, I didn't mean to get rid of that. I updated how the scroll bar works for the contact list (giving all letters of the alphabet an equal portion of the scroll bar), which stopped it from working for the other two screens. I'll bring it back in 0.71++.

#2b. I don't know about "threaded" call history. I think it would be a major update to how the list data is stored. It does seem a lot more user friendly though. I have the same situation with my wife and voicemail taking up the majority of list entries. I'll think on it.

[ancola66]

Good for update :)but still without X button :(

[tft]

Good for update :)but still without X button :(

exit setting.ini

change ExitOnMinimize=0 to 1

it still would be nice to have an option for abc on right side, for one tap access... but i guess beggars can't be picky!

[dens78]

Yeah, the setting is in settings.ini: change ExitOnMinimize=1

Then clicking on the titlebar anywhere closes the app instead of minimizing it.

ExitOnAction=1 will make iContact exit any time you perform an action,such as dialing a number or sending SMS, etc.

thats work, it can exit now. good job, nice work and thanks.

[dinco]

thank man!!! u're genius...

[killi]

great update, prolly keep it from here out. agree on the ABC speed, also cant figure out how to edit a contact like change/delete a number once in it's entry

[Bassist]

what `bout russian? ABC keyboard has only eng ABC.

[madjokeer]

i tried lots of contact apps.. and this is the simplest and most efficient one. good shyt y0!
bug report: when you go to history, it flashes "today" when u scroll to all the calls today and when you scroll to the call for yesterday the "yesterday" label is larger than the screen.

[bdaher]

thank you very much

[nir36]

this is faster.. and nicer.. but still missing other languages in the ABC keyboard.. only english is there. in 0.6 there were hebrew letters.. for instance.

THANK YOU! :)

[Meuterich]

Hei,

thanks or new version, works great, but what i miss is the fast shortway to select direktly letter. Ok, that feature is implemented, but it works very very slow. It is not useable for me at my Herald. I hope you can speed up the short letter selection and upgrade it to letters like ÜÄÖ like Larnas iContact :) So long i use the older version.
Hm, but what i find really nice is the marc a contact as favorite, it is eassyer as iContact :D.
What you should set to your ToDo: ;)
-suppourt for other alphabets like german öäü or hebrew letters or russian letters or ...
-speed up the ABC keyboard

cheers :D

[deedee]

CallHistory just closes iContact for me.

[Pisca]

I like Icontact a lot, but there's something that I cannot figure.

When Icontact is installed, tooks over WM5 Contact app. this means that if I call Contacts app., Icontact pop's up

Something wrong being done, or Icontact just works like this ?

I forgot, to mention, nice Update, thanks

[ov2rey]

going to test...

[ov2rey]

where got

Added option for exit on close
Added option for exit on action

??? where is the option on the screen???

i didn't see any.. close..


still the same as 0.7

but the ABC is laggy not as smooth as 0.6

[pafimal]

many many thanks for the new version:cool:

[chiekh]

thanks for the update now is better and i suggest to implement a param in the setting file to change scrolling speed. thanks again.

[m.schmidler]

Hi,

much better with ABC now, thanks.

There´s a little bug: when I click on the call history icon, the app exits...(btw I use a O2 Orbit2 / HTX Touch Cruise)

Another thing I really don´t like is the way I can close the app. The title bar is even smaller than the WM taskbar and I really can´t manage to close the app by hitting the title bar. I thought about some solutions for this. Either theres a close button in the bottom-bar or you make the title-bar bigger and probably add an exit-button.

On the other hand: iContact just needs about 1MB of RAM..

regards,
Martin

[chuma]

Wow,

only English alphabet on ABC button???
Bad... =(

National symbols supported need.

[star-star]

very slow:(

[Simon_Warner]

Thanks for this. What is the best dialer that fits this design and the A_C designs?

[Baaschan]

Well done.

Some Ideas for the next release:
- The Keyboard is to slow. Speedoption in the ini-file?
- A Highlightcolor for the Keys (of the Keyboard).

And if you change the System-Font-Size the Call-History is cuted on the Top.

[zoro007]

Thanks a lot !
This is the best contact manager I've seen.
The only thing i'm misssing is VGA support or is there a setting for this ?

[rwertz14]

Great job with this, thank you for all your hard work and the effort you have put into making this app even better.

[black_shadow69]

Nice..For the updates....:D

[Filou31]

Too bad doesn't work with WM2003SE :(

I stick with iContact 0.06

[ttherapon]

This is nicer.. but still missing other languages in the ABC keyboard, there is only english. In 0.6 there were Greek letters.

THANK YOU!

[oliolioli]

Hi!

pls. make 320x320 skin!I like this app!Thx.

[agentmikeyd]

hello - how does this compare to vito contact -- which is recommended?

[bos4xda]

Great contact manager - Thank you very much!

What is the function of the "+" or "-" at the right side of a name in detailed view?

[MrDSL]

Great contact manager - Thank you very much!

What is the function of the "+" or "-" at the right side of a name in detailed view?

add/del from favorites.

[Flip78]

CallHistory just closes iContact for me.

Yeah, same for me.

[simonte]

This is nicer.. but still missing other languages in the ABC keyboard, there is only english. In 0.6 there were Greek letters.

THANK YOU!

i also have this inconvinient...
call history closes icontact.
is it any possible to have a contact photo?

thanks again for the excellent job

[sathya]

Plz make it compatible for WM 2003SE..plz..This was the only scrolling application for Wm2003SE but now...Plzzz

[chiekh]

I suggest to Group call history by Contact so we will see only the last call.

[lamandrion]

Suggestion:
option that inverts the scroll function:
when you move thumb down, list goes down! (pointui-like)

[hubang]

Thnx, it's nice contact manager, but I'v tried on my O2 Atom Life with WM 6.1, It didn't work. Any suggestion?
.... back to ver 0.6.

[ems275]

Tried both .70 & .71 and neither work on my HTC Touch. very strange because .6 works flawlessly.

Anyone have any ideas why or figuired this out?

Help!

[l3v5y]

Couple of weird things...

At one point, if I tapped on a name, and selected the detailed info, it would give me info for the name two above the one I had seleceted! No idea why, and it seems to have stopped now ...

With the ABC implementation, in the original, it only showed letters that had contacts with them, and I think it got the letters from the contact names (hence support for other non Latin characters), in this version however, I get a letter for each in the Latin alphabet, and so have "Z" for which I have no contacts.

[HaiLe512]

I tested this 0.71 version and confirmed that it works fine with the following devices:

Artemis with Artemis Touch 4.01 WWE 6.1 ROM
HTC 3470 with original WM 6 ROM (6.1 ROM is not available yet...:p)
HTC Touch Cruise with Bepe 0.66 WM6.1 ROM

Thanks

[trapped.somewhere]

Nice application Supbro

But.. :confused:

Finger scrolling is a little bit slower & the ABC keyboard does not support Unicode characters as it did on Larna's 0.6.. that version supported Arabic characters and it was really fast...

Also the great thing about the ABC on Larna's, that it shows only the characters of the saved contacts!!

can you fix those in 0.72 ???

Hopefully :o

[nir36]

Couple of weird things...

At one point, if I tapped on a name, and selected the detailed info, it would give me info for the name two above the one I had seleceted! No idea why, and it seems to have stopped now ...

With the ABC implementation, in the original, it only showed letters that had contacts with them, and I think it got the letters from the contact names (hence support for other non Latin characters), in this version however, I get a letter for each in the Latin alphabet, and so have "Z" for which I have no contacts.

this is undoubtfully not comfortable.
there is a great need for other languages' letters.

[Lycox]

this is undoubtfully not comfortable.
there is a great need for other languages' letters.

I'm agree with that. Another hint from me is to put the translations in a separate file (language.ini) to separate the terms from the color definations. For me as a skinner it would be much easier to create skins.

[mikeeey]

does it support sim contacts yet:)??

[supbro]

Tried both .70 & .71 and neither work on my HTC Touch. very strange because .6 works flawlessly.

Anyone have any ideas why or figuired this out?

Help!

I found a bug that causes it to die when you have over 500 contacts (or to die when you click on logs and you have > 500 logs). It's fixed in the next version

[lupes5]

i love what you've done with the program, the skins support especially (i see lycox making some attractive skins)....however, this version seems to run slower than v0.6....the scrolling appears choppier, is anyone else having this issue?

im running 6.1 on my hermes

[stanglifemike]

No logo/button for Voicemail?? I really liked that on 0.7

[Lycox]

i love what you've done with the program, the skins support especially (i see lycox making some attractive skins)....however, this version seems to run slower than v0.6....the scrolling appears choppier, is anyone else having this issue?

im running 6.1 on my hermes

First thanks. :)

Okay, I've noticed the same problems but I guess supbro is workin' on that.

[windjohnson]

kinda laggy... I don't know...
Thanks you for your hard work, really!
but the only reason I love iContact so much and never used pcm is that it works really Fast...
not only pretty, it starts fast, searches fast, dials fast, fast fast fast, everything's fast
and that's what pcm can never keep up with
but not so much now...

[darebak666]

iContact is the best app I ever tried, and I have already tried many of them, the biggest plus is speed, it's so fast!!! but I found one "bug" which is annoying me..
.
when I want to call and I select number and confirm it using the HW buttons, it starts dialing and also messaging...But in case when I tap the screen it its OK.
It looks the HW button when pressed starts both, dial and messaging..
Does anybody have the same issue, or any solutions?
Sorry if something like this was already asked byt I have no time to read whole thread :D

[darota]

When tapping on blank space in an address the progam shuts down instead of going back to address list:(
Also the speed of the ABC could be increased.

It´s going to be the best (and fastest) contact-manager, very good work
:D

[elosogrande7076]

I have a sprint 6800 and for some reason .70 and .71 are not working where .6 was....on both versions it installs fine but when i go to launch it from my soft key its just blinks then goes back to the today page....any idea....im runnig No2chem's 5066 rom...thank u

[looking-g]

i have a touch dual and 1270 contacts 7.1 is not working when will the fix for over 500 contacts be ready cheers and keep up the good work

[Boudou]

thanks a lot for the good job
but one more request v0.6 was not fixed only for English letters at ABC (in my case greek) this version ignores all the non English names

[iggy]

Also just noticed that ABC and Scroll Leters do not work when using favorites.
Otherwise everything else works great.

[Lycox]

Also just noticed that ABC and Scroll Leters do not work when using favorites.
Otherwise everything else works great.

Not needed in my eyes or do you have 500+ favourites? :D

[mortenolarsen]

cannot make it work on my phone,program wont start,any advice?

[mcmike_cz]

This is simply the best (I made my own skin), but I wanna ask three things

1.) is there any way how to remove the separator?

2.) is there any way how to see contacs photos?

3.) is there any way how to see adress and contact notes in opened contact?

Thanks a lot for any answers

[l3v5y]

cannot make it work on my phone,program wont start,any advice?
Have you got .NET CF 3.5 installed? Does it give any errors, or just not launch?

[Lycox]

Nice work man... :)


1.) is there any way how to remove the separator?No, but you can set the color to your background.

2.) is there any way how to see contacs photos?Not implemented yet. It's on SupBro's ToDo-List.

3.) is there any way how to see adress and contact notes in opened contact?
No. This could be a feature request.

[Genius2000]

Nice work man... :)

No. This could be a feature request.

Hi Lycox, very compliments for iContact, is there any way to change font dimension, in opened contact?

Thanks, Andrea

[Lycox]

Hi Lycox, very compliments for iContact, is there any way to change font dimension, in opened contact?

Thanks, Andrea

Thanks but I'm not the author of this prog. :D:D:D
For now, it's not possible to change the font dimension.
IMO not very needed, it would just bloating this app.

[Genius2000]

Thanks but I'm not the author of this prog. :D:D
For now, it's not possible to change the font dimension.
IMO not very needed, it would just bloating this app.

Right, thanks for your skin :)
I know that now is not possible, but I hope it will be in a future version, I'm no longer so young and I have to often wear my glasses to see details :)

Ciao, Andrea

[Da9L]

Super app ! But it is a really shame that i can't see my sim contacts.. Why is that? It makes it unusable for me..

[l3v5y]

Super app ! But it is a really shame that i can't see my sim contacts.. Why is that? It makes it unusable for me..I think this has already been covered, but, the reason is that iContact interacts with poutlook directly. poutlook will not allow access to SIM contacts, so to get those requires quite a lot of extra code, and I don't think it's currently easy to implement, or that supbro has the inclination to set it up.

[Da9L]

I think this has already been covered, but, the reason is that iContact interacts with poutlook directly. poutlook will not allow access to SIM contacts, so to get those requires quite a lot of extra code, and I don't think it's currently easy to implement, or that supbro has the inclination to set it up.

Oh dear.. What a shame.. :(

[Da9L]

Is there anyway then i can move all my contacts from sim to phone?

[mike21pr]

awesome app!!! but when is it gonna display contact pics?? (im stupid if it already does lol)

[mcmike_cz]

Nice work man... :)

Thanks man... (all answers made me happy ;) )

[fishboy]

Not sure if anyone else has experienced this but clicking on the "Call History" icon just closes application. I have a XV6800.

[mortenolarsen]

no error message,just wont launch,haven't installed the .net cf 3.5 as far as I know

[mortenolarsen]

Have you got .NET CF 3.5 installed? Does it give any errors, or just not launch?

will
not launch,no errors,haven't heard about the .net program

[Lolento]

Hello,

Thanks for the great work on this.

Is it possible to have a version of 0.6 with just customizable colors?
Fullscreen and the four buttons at the bottom really have no use for me...

[piztol44pete]

awesome application next to live search i always put icontact on every pocket pc that i have owned, but i have to agree with alot of peeps on here. i really miss the ABC buttom 10x easier to find a contact. but i love the speed and the touch button feature with the last version i would have to double tap or tap hard sometimes with this version its very quick and easy, please bring back ABC feature...

[amitverma]

is there any way to show the contacts in FirstName LastName basis?

[TacoLoco]

awesome application next to live search i always put icontact on every pocket pc that i have owned, but i have to agree with alot of peeps on here. i really miss the ABC buttom 10x easier to find a contact. but i love the speed and the touch button feature with the last version i would have to double tap or tap hard sometimes with this version its very quick and easy, please bring back ABC feature...

Did you read the title of this post? I think not ;)

[l3v5y]

awesome application next to live search i always put icontact on every pocket pc that i have owned, but i have to agree with alot of peeps on here. i really miss the ABC buttom 10x easier to find a contact. but i love the speed and the touch button feature with the last version i would have to double tap or tap hard sometimes with this version its very quick and easy, please bring back ABC feature...
In 0.71, the "keyboard" button in the bottom left corner, it pops up the ABC button.

[deedee]

is there any way to show the contacts in FirstName LastName basis?

Boy is this a regular question.

Contact Changer (http://www.shubaroo.com/index.php?module=contact)

It is even stickied in the General - General section of this very forum Click here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269316).

[lamandrion]

is there something like contact changer for wm2003?

[iggy]

Not needed in my eyes or do you have 500+ favourites? :D


Yes I have a lot of favs and I would find it very usefull, plus it gives the program a better flow.

[supbro]

cannot make it work on my phone,program wont start,any advice?

Do you have > 500 contacts? that's a known bug

[piper_indebt]

After reading everybody's feedback, Im still stuck with v.6 and Still I couldnt load v.70 or .71 I have already 3.5 Net framework installed, I installed the icontacts v.70 and .71 in device, but when i execute the program, just flashes a while then back to the previous screen. I've seen some post before from this thread same situation but no solution.

Could it be Im using HTC touch Blue elves rom WM6.1 is the problem?:confused: would be nice to join you guys use this icontacts, I have used Funcontacts but it was really slow starting up and i love the v.6 version, so much more the .71 if i could make it work.

[parlato_edoardo]

Works great on my Wizard! Only a little bug... Keyboard pop-up it's quite slow, and sometimes letter press doesn't point to the right letter. Maybe will be fixed in next release.
Good job anyway!

[ruebyi]

I tested it, because Pocket CM is too slow on startup and I really like it!
I've got only one "Bug" or a feature request:
If I put a contact to the "Favorites" in iContact, why must there change the category for whole the contact? I'm using Outlook to sync my contacts, and this makes me furios, because my contacts are not whrere they should be!

[rohanmaini]

Do you have > 500 contacts? that's a known bug

Yup in excess of 800. Any resolution expected soon?

[shoong512]

anyway to assign it to right soft key?

[Lycox]

anyway to assign it to right soft key?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1327028&postcount=6

[leyto]

Hello supbro,

Thanks for this good app, but can you add an option for show windows takbar bar or not. With this the skin can match with iphone style or with wmobile style.

Thanks for your work !!!!
Leyto

[snw]

I asked the same thing in the iC v0.6 thread:

Could someone add a Grouping feature?

The idea is to be able to add your contacts to groups (pre-defined or custom made), not just in the favorites.
There could be a semi-transparent button on the bottom-left (similar to the one on the bottom-right for the letter shortcuts), which brings up the list of groups.

I don't know if this is too complicated, but it'd be nice, I think..

[bsinclair]

Nice one the 0.71 version. Quick question, as you are now overwriting the default contacts application, on iContact how can we edit a contact details?

edited: forget this one, found it

But, as said above, when adding a contact to favorites, you should NEVER replace the categories a contact was before, just add (or remove) favorites whitout touching the other categories.

[ovidio]

hello to all,
i was installed the version 0.6 of icontact and it was working very well.
then i have found the new version (0.7.1), i have installed it and don't work anything. the program is installed in "programmi" in main memory on device (HTC P3600) and it have created a link under "Programs".
when i tap the icon the program don't start. i have also unistalled it more time but nothing ... don't work.
Please any suggestion?
tank in advance and sorry for my bad english.
Ovidio

[bsinclair]

Some more comments:

1. When creating the links, instead of using %CE17%\Programs, use %CE11%. You are hard-coding for English. Mine, for instance, is called Programas. CE11 will deal with language differences.

2. Same problem, different area. Your favorites icon is coded for English only, mine is called Favoritos. Add a new entry on the theme.ini so we can deal with this.

Thanks and nice work.

[ovidio]

Some more comments:

1. When creating the links, instead of using %CE17%\Programs, use %CE11%. You are hard-coding for English. Mine, for instance, is called Programas. CE11 will deal with language differences.

2. Same problem, different area. Your favorites icon is coded for English only, mine is called Favoritos. Add a new entry on the theme.ini so we can deal with this.

Thanks and nice work.

sorry, the problem is not where i can found the link to start it (in "programs" instead "programmi") but that it don't stat in any way!

[bsinclair]

My comments are for the developer :)

Btw, I found number 2 on the setings.ini, you already planned for this, nice.

[wim26]

The new version works great, but i have one prolem. The exit button isn't really a exit button. The program will be active on background. Can this be fixed.

[Pasukin]

The exit button isn't really a exit button. The program will be active on background. Can this be fixed.You have to make the change manually. It's in settings.ini.

(I really wish people would read/search before asking the same questions over and over.)

[Smoky350]

I used a search option and couldn't find an answer for this: Is there any way to have this app open when I press on the history button on my dialer instead of the original history screen? Thanks in advance.

[supbro]

I used a search option and couldn't find an answer for this: Is there any way to have this app open when I press on the history button on my dialer instead of the original history screen? Thanks in advance.

That would be nice, anyone know if this is possible as a registry setting maybe?

[KBakker]

Is there a way to speed it up? the program is very slow on his buttons

[piper_indebt]

hello to all,
i was installed the version 0.6 of icontact and it was working very well.
then i have found the new version (0.7.1), i have installed it and don't work anything. the program is installed in "programmi" in main memory on device (HTC P3600) and it have created a link under "Programs".
when i tap the icon the program don't start. i have also unistalled it more time but nothing ... don't work.
Please any suggestion?
tank in advance and sorry for my bad english.
Ovidio

Hi Ovidio,

I have the same problem, What I did was, I did not uninstall 0.71 just let it stay in the folder, extract your icontact v.6 contents into program files/icontact and overwrite v0.71 and You'll be able to use v.60 while we wait for the next release that will work for us.

Good luck

[[kab]]

here is my small changes to iContact v0.71

changed:
ABC-search and sidebar-search now should be localized. at least for russian it's works.

to developer:
i attached changed and new source files, if you wanna add my changes to you project.

known bugs:
in ABC-search only first 30 letters is showed, if several alphabets is used.

attached:
icontact.zip - only rebuilded executable (overwrite original one)
icontact.cab - new CAB
src_changed.zip - changed and new source files from original program!

thanks to all for great program and to share src!