[Solved] Replacement for Contacts App

[Janine Belle]

Hi all,

As the stocks Razr i contacts app allows the user only to save the contacts on the SIM-Card or Google Account (which I don't have and don't want),
I wanted to ask if there's a good replacement available?
to allow the saving of contacts on the phone.
(Omars Rom had one, but I'm currently using the in my opinion much faster Pi-llama Rom and it has the stock contacts )


[Solved]

 

[dagoban]

Hi all,

As the stocks Razr i contacts app allows the user only to save the contacts on the SIM-Card or Google Account (which I don't have and don't want),
I wanted to ask if there's a good replacement available?
to allow the saving of contacts on the phone.
(Omars Rom had one, but I'm currently using the in my opinion much faster Pi-llama Rom and it has the stock contacts )

why not replace the contacts apk manually?

 

[St.Noigel]

Hi all,

As the stocks Razr i contacts app allows the user only to save the contacts on the SIM-Card or Google Account (which I don't have and don't want),
I wanted to ask if there's a good replacement available?
to allow the saving of contacts on the phone.
(Omars Rom had one, but I'm currently using the in my opinion much faster Pi-llama Rom and it has the stock contacts )

Did you try this?

 

[Janine Belle]

why not replace the contacts apk manually?

How does it work and where can I get the .apk or flash file from?

Did you try this?

I already tried Contacts+, but when adding new contacts it refers to the stock contacts app that can only use the SIM-card (or google) - [Contacts+ is just a nice interface, but not an independent addressbook]

 

[dagoban]

How does it work and where can I get the .apk or flash file from?

Download Omar's rom, unzip the contacts apk file, copy it to your sdcard, open root explorer, go to system apps, mount r/w, rename your current file to have it as a backup, copy omars apk to the folder.

 

[Janine Belle]

Download Omar's rom, unzip the contacts apk file, copy it to your sdcard, open root explorer, go to system apps, mount r/w, rename your current file to have it as a backup, copy omars apk to the folder.

Thank you, it worked! :good:


Here are instructions for those who want to do the same:
Requires Rooted Device with Root Explorer
0. Backup your contacts

1. Download the two attached contact files [from Omars Rom].
2. Delete the old ones in /system/apps .
3. Then insert them change to rw-r--r, and mount, restart the device

Now you can have an unlimited number of contacts on your phone storage. :angel:

Edit:Attached the files

 

[dagoban]

Sorry I didnt point out the exact file names, I was not 100% sure which of them are the ones that needed to be overwritten.