Sort Contacts by first name not last

**Young_breedent** · #1 (**permalink**) 01-13-2010, 02:47 PM

I have over 150 contacts and mostof them have both their first and lsat name. By default the contact manager organizes them by last name. You can go in and edit the file as to first name/ last name, but that takes entirely to long and doesn't stick after a hard reset even with backing up my contacts via myphone. Does anybody know of a way that i can organize them all at once??? Thanks in advance

SmknJoe · #2 (**permalink**) 01-13-2010, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Young_breedent

You can go in and edit the file as to first name/ last name, but that takes entirely to long and doesn't stick after a hard reset even with backing up my contacts via myphone. Does anybody know of a way that i can organize them all at once??? Thanks in advance

That's really strange. I recently took the time and re-org'ed all mine to be first/last - backed up, and even with a re-flash, the changed did stick.

i'm using Juicy R8 and can confirm this worked for my yesterday.

Previously, I was using Silence HDFL (worked) and Mighty's 1/9, which also worked..

Oh and i'm using microsoft myphone as b/up app.

YnYng · #3 (**permalink**) 01-13-2010, 02:56 PM

Heres a cab that u can run to fix ALL your contacts, i have to use it pretty much everytime i run google sync, its sucks

Hit thanks if i helped!

Oditius · #4 (**permalink**) 04-04-2010, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by YnYng

Heres a cab that u can run to fix ALL your contacts, i have to use it pretty much everytime i run google sync, its sucks

Hit thanks if i helped!

Worked great, you have been thanked!!

Anthony Franks · #5 (**permalink**) 01-23-2010, 04:10 PM

Bump because that program only did some of my contacts not all..

YnYng · #6 (**permalink**) 01-23-2010, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Anthony Franks

Bump because that program only did some of my contacts not all..

no idea whats goin on with you bro, it works fine for me

kaz8772 · #7 (**permalink**) 01-24-2010, 01:20 AM

You can also use TrineFix. It will fix duplicates as well as make all your contacts sort by First then Last names. And most of all - its free!

YnYng · #8 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 05:55 PM

yeah dude, i have to run it pretty much everytime i use google sync, i dunno how to get around it yet. i have seen no option in google sync to change that =(

**WhiteBlazer01** · #9 (**permalink**) 02-08-2010, 08:58 PM

Very stupid. I'm removing contacts from sync, just sync push e-mails. I'll keep using PIM backup for contacts.

#10 (**permalink**) 02-09-2010, 01:08 AM

Yeah, no way to change that from Google Sync. I noticed if I sync my contacts down with push NOT enabled, use the contact changer, then enable push - most of them will stay as first name last name. It really only works right off a fresh hard reset.

Oh, and shubaroo's contact fix is a paid app now, 99 cents. That's some ol' BS if you ask me, so I don't mind sharing it. It's been free forever, but the marketplace changed that. I keep a copy around if anyone may need. It's already been posted in the thread previously.

Edit: Apparently, BS isn't censored. Fixed that.