Comments on: Is this the Droid you’re looking for? http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/ Doing the Right things for the Right Reasons! Helping companies use New Media and Technology the right way. Social Media & Digital Marketing. Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:34:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Fred von Graf http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1190 Fred von Graf Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:44:08 +0000 http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/#comment-1190 That's funny, the guy that got the picture must have been surprised ;) I like how the community pools together when there are problems like this and help to solve them.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-1190">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> That’s funny, the guy that got the picture must have been surprised ;) I like how the community pools together when there are problems like this and help to solve them.

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]]> By: Fred von Graf http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1189 Fred von Graf Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:42:12 +0000 http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/#comment-1189 Great minds and all... I exported my gmail contacts and cleaned them up in Excel. Thanks for the tip, it will hopefully help others.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-1189">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Great minds and all… I exported my gmail contacts and cleaned them up in Excel. Thanks for the tip, it will hopefully help others.

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]]> By: Brian http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1188 Brian Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:39:13 +0000 http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/#comment-1188 Hey Fred, I don't have a script, but you could do a simple export to csv and do a find/replace.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-1188">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Hey Fred,

I don’t have a script, but you could do a simple export to csv and do a find/replace.

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]]> By: raiden http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1187 raiden Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:43:51 +0000 http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/#comment-1187 Yes, I had the same issue. I sent a few picture messages to a friend with a different area code than mine. A few minutes later I got a text back from someone with the same number in MY area code, telling me I had the wrong number. The even worse side to this story is, my buddy and I were just messing around while testing, and the picture I sent was of him flipping me the bird. So the unfortunate receipient in the other area code got that photo. I had to chuckle. I eventually figiured out that it must have been a "contacts" issue, and removed the parentheses. As it goes, I also needed to remove the 1- from in front of the area code as well. After that things started working better. I haven't had a chance to test it with all of my contacts, but the results so far seem better.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-1187">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Yes, I had the same issue. I sent a few picture messages to a friend with a different area code than mine. A few minutes later I got a text back from someone with the same number in MY area code, telling me I had the wrong number. The even worse side to this story is, my buddy and I were just messing around while testing, and the picture I sent was of him flipping me the bird. So the unfortunate receipient in the other area code got that photo. I had to chuckle.

I eventually figiured out that it must have been a “contacts” issue, and removed the parentheses. As it goes, I also needed to remove the 1- from in front of the area code as well. After that things started working better. I haven’t had a chance to test it with all of my contacts, but the results so far seem better.

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]]> By: Fred von Graf http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1185 Fred von Graf Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:40:27 +0000 http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/#comment-1185 Turns out that if you import your contacts from say Outlook or another phone that uses parenthesis "(" and ")" around the area code, the Droid is unable to handle this, but ONLY for MMS messages. So now since I imported all of my Outlook (defaults to parenthesis) contacts in to gmail, which syncs with my Droid, I have to go and manually edit hundreds of contacts. Anyone know of a parenthesis removing script for gmail?<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-1185">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Turns out that if you import your contacts from say Outlook or another phone that uses parenthesis “(” and “)” around the area code, the Droid is unable to handle this, but ONLY for MMS messages. So now since I imported all of my Outlook (defaults to parenthesis) contacts in to gmail, which syncs with my Droid, I have to go and manually edit hundreds of contacts.

Anyone know of a parenthesis removing script for gmail?

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]]> By: Peachespie http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1184 Peachespie Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:05:06 +0000 http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/#comment-1184 Hey, thanks for the heads-up on FxCamera! I haven't tried to send any photos yet, so have not experienced the probs you're having. Maybe I'll experiment with that tomorrow. My techie buddy at work, who owns an iPhone, would be happy to help me troubleshoot (he LOVES this kind of thing), if I get the same error...especially because the boss will be away for 10 days starting tomorrow. Par-tay!! LJT<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-1184">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Hey, thanks for the heads-up on FxCamera! I haven’t tried to send any photos yet, so have not experienced the probs you’re having. Maybe I’ll experiment with that tomorrow. My techie buddy at work, who owns an iPhone, would be happy to help me troubleshoot (he LOVES this kind of thing), if I get the same error…especially because the boss will be away for 10 days starting tomorrow. Par-tay!!

LJT

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]]> By: Cat http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/comment-page-1/#comment-1183 Cat Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:41:24 +0000 http://blog.vongraf.com/2009/11/10/is-this-the-droid-youre-looking-for/#comment-1183 Grats on your new phone and thanks for the review. Can you believe I am a geek and have never owned a data phone? tho in terms of MP3 (and video) player, I'm pretty happy with my Creative Labs Zen. I am thinking about jumping into the 21st century tho, and am currently drooling over the Nokia N900. I'll just have to wait until it gets a lot cheaper! I'm still on the fence about whether I really need such a thing tho. I don't see myself twittering while driving or out and about, or checking email on ski lifts and what not, or being plain rude and dive in my phone while in social environments... maybe because I'm a geek who spends most of the time at a computer, I enjoy the freedom from those things while I"m away...<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-1183">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Grats on your new phone and thanks for the review.
Can you believe I am a geek and have never owned a data phone? tho in terms of MP3 (and video) player, I’m pretty happy with my Creative Labs Zen.
I am thinking about jumping into the 21st century tho, and am currently drooling over the Nokia N900. I’ll just have to wait until it gets a lot cheaper!

I’m still on the fence about whether I really need such a thing tho.
I don’t see myself twittering while driving or out and about, or checking email on ski lifts and what not, or being plain rude and dive in my phone while in social environments… maybe because I’m a geek who spends most of the time at a computer, I enjoy the freedom from those things while I”m away…

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