- 07-15-2007, 12:16 PM #1Newbie
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I want to get the Samsung Sync SGH-A707. My parents got it yesterday and I like it except for one thing... the damn 6 or 7 contacts that you can't delete from the address book. They are cingular service numbers such as 'check my minutes,' 'MusicID,' 'Mobile help' or whatever else. Those arent exactly them but if you have this phone you know what i'm talking about.. that makes me furious i cant delete them
Can i hack the phone or something, how can i remove them?
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- 08-11-2007, 12:48 AM #2
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Re: Removing the @#%*ing locked cingular service contacts from my address book (A707)
- 08-19-2007, 01:47 AM #7Newbie
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- 08-19-2007, 02:47 PM #8Newbie
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Re: Removing the @#%*ing locked cingular service contacts from my address book (A707)
Ok, I've found where the contacts are stored on the phone but can't yet seem to get rid of them.
They're in /User/Ct/Readonly.dat
I tried changing the file, I even deleted the file, and still the contacts persist (even after power cycling my phone). It did say something like "Initializing address book" after I cycled, so I'm guessing there's a backup somewhere. After the deleting the file, cycling the phone, and seeing the contacts are still there, the readonly.dat file is still deleted, not rewritten. Odd.
On a happy note, I also found where the locked browser favorites are stored, and got rid of them.
They're in /User/Br/bookmark.xml
You can just delete the entries you don't want and after cycling the phone they'll be gone. I tried setting the "lock" flag to 0 but still couldn't delete them through the phone interface, so I deleted them altogether.
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