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    ldog
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    I just upgraded from a Kyocera Soho to a Motorola E815 and I find the manual very brief--to be polite. I'm pretty basic on my cell phone knowledge as I've only had a cell phone for a year and that was the Soho (no bluetooth, no camera, I didn't text message, all I did was make and take calls). I need some help. Here are three questions in order of importance.

    1. I had hoped with BlueTooth that I could manage the phone list on my BlueTooth enabled laptop PC. After 2 nights of playing with it, it seems all I can do is send one contact at a time to or from Outlook Express. I'm disappointed. I'd hoped to send all the numbers from the pc to the phone. Is there software that would let me transfer the whole contacts list from and to the phone? I don't use Outlook so I'd be open to another contact manager on the phone. I just want to enter the numbers on the pc using a normal keypad and transfer them all to the phone than the frustrating process of entering them on the phone.

    2. On my Kyocera I was able to make one entry for PersonA and put 3 phone numbers under that entry denoting which was home, work and cell and choosing one as the main number. In the contacts list I could arrow down to that person who showed up once with the main number displayed. I then right or left arrowed to move through the numbers before pressing send. the E815 seems to show the person 3 times in the contact list making for a very long contact list. Is this the way it's got to be????

    3. On my Kyocera the 3 or 4 most frequently called numbers moved themselves to the top of the list automatically. Any ideas on making folks easier to find in the E815's contact list?


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    Re: Help with E815

    Quote Originally Posted by ldog
    2. On my Kyocera I was able to make one entry for PersonA and put 3 phone numbers under that entry denoting which was home, work and cell and choosing one as the main number. In the contacts list I could arrow down to that person who showed up once with the main number displayed. I then right or left arrowed to move through the numbers before pressing send. the E815 seems to show the person 3 times in the contact list making for a very long contact list. Is this the way it's got to be????

    3. On my Kyocera the 3 or 4 most frequently called numbers moved themselves to the top of the list automatically. Any ideas on making folks easier to find in the E815's contact list?
    Hello - I'm not an expert but I have only had motorolas and it does seem that the several listings for one person is the setup for the motorola.

    But you can choose to change the setup on the contacts to list by the speed dial number rather that alphabetically and you can choose to give your favorites the first numbers.

    I know the manuals have some "holes" in some of the information. I am going through that myself in trying to figure some stuff out.



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    Re: Help with E815

    Thanks TA206. I made some progress yesterday. I had a chance meeting with a fellow who also has an E15 and he wanted to know how to find names easier. We started looking and he noticed when contacts are showing that the # and * keys toggled between contacts lists/categories (they have one contacts list called contacts--it shows all #s). Then they have a General, Personal, Business, and VIP category list. I'm sure you've seen when you add a number how you can assign it to one of these categories. Whatever category was last displayed is the one that is displayed when you go to see the contacts list the next time. It'll make more sense when you look at it on the phone.

    The speed dial idea is a good one. I'll work on that.

    I figured out the bluetooth transfer from windows address book to the phone but I must say it's not bullet proof. I found out the name the phone uses for the # is a combination of the first and last name fields in the windows address book--so when your adding contacts to the address book don't get fill in the display name 'cause the phone will get the number but not the name. To make it worse I believe it says it's receiving, and give the name but then doesn't assign it if the name is only in the display name field. It's too complicated to explain. Lastly while in the address book I could select all the names and say send to the phone the phone has to approve each one and save it and this causes the program to many of the entries saying the phone is busy. So I'm basically forced to send the entries one at a time. Finally the phone will duplicate entries if they are sent again so you can't just "refresh" all the numbers to get a few that are added.

    All this seems way to complicated. I think all cell phones should include software to create a spreadsheet type of phone book with a send button that'll copy them all to the phone refreshing the ones that are there instead of duplicating them. The phone should have an option to send it's complete list of numbers back to the program again updating any that are already there. I don't like windows address book cause I'm always having to click to another tab and then another field to enter a different piece of information--it'd be so much easier to enter in say excel.



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