Searching for people in HD7

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I find that I can search in people for a person's first name or surname, but I cannot search, for example for a company. Does anyone have a way of doing this, or is this another shortcoming in Phone 7?

Originally Posted by Hampshire PDA

I find that I can search in people for a person's first name or surname, but I cannot search, for example for a company. Does anyone have a way of doing this, or is this another shortcoming in Phone 7?

There is alot of small things missing and ther should be an update to fix this, however what day....anyones bet !!

I'm pretty peed of that my sim card contacts and my MSN contacts list is a right freeking mess...I have 2-5 names with email address in my people hub...not happy !!

Simply rushed platform....just have to sit on it and bite my lip and wait for them to fix it.

but overall...lol, I'm happy.....better than 6.5 by far !

Originally Posted by vardig

There is alot of small things missing and ther should be an update to fix this, however what day....anyones bet !!

I'm pretty peed of that my sim card contacts and my MSN contacts list is a right freeking mess...I have 2-5 names with email address in my people hub...not happy !!

Simply rushed platform....just have to sit on it and bite my lip and wait for them to fix it.

but overall...lol, I'm happy.....better than 6.5 by far !

have you tried going into you contact and linking all the duplicates together. for instance if i have a contact in facebook AND my contacts, i have them linked together.

I've just gone through my contacts linking them and it sure as hell cleans them up.

I selected it so it only showed contacts from Facebook I have details for already on the phone too, then went and linked all of their accounts...

Have to say, very impressed with how it looks once you've done that. It will allow you to sync your LIVE contacts as well...

out of the box, it's messy but once it's configured it looks great.

What really annoys me is the fact it seems impossible to remove an email account with re-setting the phone, now that is a FAIL! - if anyone knows if it is possible, please do let me know!

Originally Posted by xma1e

have you tried going into you contact and linking all the duplicates together. for instance if i have a contact in facebook AND my contacts, i have them linked together.

hey xma1e

I've cleaned up the list, however, I still have people on the list I don't really want.

1 ) I have my sim card contacts which I have linked facebook and hotmail with (perfect)

2) I have contacts from my hotmail contacts list which I dont want to show

On point 2. how do I remove Hotmail contacts from the people hub....I just dont want people from my HOTMAIL contact list appear. If you owned a HD2 , you would have the option to sync or not sync hotmail contacts which was PERFECT ! , on the WP7 OS you have no option unless you know how to resolve it

Originally Posted by vardig

2) I have contacts from my hotmail contacts list which I dont want to show

On point 2. how do I remove Hotmail contacts from the people hub....I just dont want people from my HOTMAIL contact list appear. If you owned a HD2 , you would have the option to sync or not sync hotmail contacts which was PERFECT ! , on the WP7 OS you have no option unless you know how to resolve it

I cant find a way to do this either. You have the option to disable contact syncing for gmail, but when you go into the email and accounts settings for windows live, it only gives you the option to disable the syncing of email. I dont want my contact list full of s*** from windows live.

Originally Posted by vardig

hey xma1e
On point 2. how do I remove Hotmail contacts from the people hub....I just dont want people from my HOTMAIL contact list appear. If you owned a HD2 , you would have the option to sync or not sync hotmail contacts which was PERFECT ! , on the WP7 OS you have no option unless you know how to resolve it

As far as I know, you cannot do this. The way Windows Phone 7 handles contact management is different than Windows Mobile 6.x. Windows Mobile 6.x and Windows Live (Hotmail) are separate components, so you could choose to not sync certain information if you wanted to (or remove Windows Live completely even).

Because Windows Live (Hotmail) is so tightly integrated with Windows Phone 7, it assumes that whatever Windows Live account you chose to apply to your WP7 device is your main account for your information (e-mail, contacts, calendar, etc.). So of course, because it assumes this, it's only natural that you'd want to always see and sync your contact list from Hotmail.

The only way around this at the moment would be to delete your contacts entirely from your current Windows Live account, or to link your phone with a new, empty Windows Live account that doesn't have any contact information (this would allow you to maintain your other account separately).