[Q] Question about custom phone number labels

dandrumheller

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Jul 10, 2010
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I've been hunting around here and various other places trying to find a straight answer to this question, and have had no luck so far. Hoping the community here might be able to straighten me out. Also, Mods, I'm not sure if this issue is specific to the Aria, or my Aria, or if it is more general - please feel free to move this if there is a more appropriate location.

The issue:

while test-driving Attn1's CM6-Liberty ROM, I happened to note the option for custom labels for phone numbers in my address book (apparently I missed this option previously). There were a couple I wanted to change, so I made the changes, and they synced up to my google contacts just fine. After switching back to Liberated Aria b005 ROM, I realized there were a couple of other numbers I'd like to change. I went back into contacts and selected the custom option - however, the edit field window blinked closed, and the phone number label remained the same as was previously set. No window opened up to enter a custom field label.

I was able to find instructions on a workaround used by exporting google contacts, editing the CSV fields, and then re-importing. I made my additional changes this way (though in one case in which I named a phone label "Google Voice" the re-import process changed it to "grandcentral".)

I would like the ability to make these changes on the device...just wondering if this is an error happening on my device, or a feature that only works in Android 2.2+, or a limitation of HTC Sense?

Thanks,

DD
 
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