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[ronaldheld]

I also want to know how to download a ringtone attachment and use it.
Is there any way to avoid having the screen not reilluminate after a call is completed?

[jordn613]

But seriously...can everyone test their text messages (not emails) and see if its autofilling the recipients box? This is a pretty primary feature of texting, and I'm trying to figure out if this is a bug or if im doing something wrong...

[Primetime21]

Can anyone tell me how to quickly turn on speakerphone for music and such? Just cant get my music to play through speakerphone for some reason.

[smckellop]

No, e-mail, SMS, and MMS notifications just in general. The sound played when you get those. Right now all I can do is select from the list of stock notifications. My previous phones allowed you to use your own audio files for these too. Thanks for trying though.

I am also having a problem with this. Anyone in the "know" have any directions?

[Humpa]

Can anyone tell me how to quickly turn on speakerphone for music and such? Just cant get my music to play through speakerphone for some reason.

Unplug your headset, or turn off your bluetooth headset. It plays from the speaker if nothing is plugged into the headset jack and no Bluetooth headset device is connected.

[Humpa]

I am also having a problem with this. Anyone in the "know" have any directions?

This has been posted.
Put them in a folder on your SD called "notifications". There is info on subdirectories of the "notifications" folder, something about "alarms", "alerts", and something else? Not sure if those sub-directories matter, but this thread is not so huge yet that you can't quickly find that post.

EDIT: the info about the sub-directories is not in this thread (I just looked), but apparently all you need is that "notifications" folder.

[Humpa]

But seriously...can everyone test their text messages (not emails) and see if its autofilling the recipients box? This is a pretty primary feature of texting, and I'm trying to figure out if this is a bug or if im doing something wrong...

email and text work the same for me. It finds the contact based on the characters I type in the "to" field. It seems to do it in an odd way, but it does work. I do not know which field(s) in the contacts it is searching for this feature though.

EDIT: I was wrong. I posted again below. Text "to" field only searches phone numbers, it seems.

[jordn613]

email and text work the same for me. It finds the contact based on the characters I type in the "to" field. It seems to do it in an odd way, but it does work. I do not know which field(s) in the contacts it is searching for this feature though.

I'm wondering if this is a bug then. Did you post your phone's specs somewhere? I'd like to compare.

[Humpa]

I also want to know how to download a ringtone attachment and use it.
Is there any way to avoid having the screen not reilluminate after a call is completed?

Using email, I found no way to save the mp3 attachment.
But if I instead send the mp3 to phonenubmer@vzwpix.com I can press and hold on the message and I have an option to save attached to SD card. I did that but I still dont see it as a ringtone option. Perhaps the SD card just needs to be remounted for it to show up in the ringtone list.

[Humpa]

I'm wondering if this is a bug then. Did you post your phone's specs somewhere? I'd like to compare.

Crap, I'm sorry. I was wrong - I forgot about that. I cannot search for contacts from within the messaging app - when you type in the "to" field, all it searches is phone numbers.
I forgot about that bug - I am already used to initiating a text from contacts instead of messaging (unless I already have a thread going with that contact).

[SlowMotionKarma]

When I go through "Messages > New Message" and start typing into the "To:" field it drops down a list of options from my contacts list.

[eldorito]

Is there a way for the phone to read out txt messages? Also.. is there a "notepad", "wordpad", or anything where i can take notes?

[sdchips]

I am on a normal, Select calling plan only (without email feature; pay for mobile web per megabite). I was wondering if I'd be allowed to use the Droid on my current plan WITHOUT having to add the email/web feature for around $40 more per month? (I'm up for my NE2 next week) Any help/insight would be great, thanks in advance!!

[Pexeter]

When I go through "Messages > New Message" and start typing into the "To:" field it drops down a list of options from my contacts list.

Wow, im like the guy above, it is not bringing up my contacts as I type..nor is it if I try their number instead of name...

[Humpa]

When I go through "Messages > New Message" and start typing into the "To:" field it drops down a list of options from my contacts list.

right, based on numbers only ... if you type "972" (or "wpa", which is "972" in T9) it lists all contacts starting with "972". It ignores letters, it just trasposes letters into their T9 equivalent number.

EDIT: wait a minute ... now it is searching my contacts based on name/letters. wtf?
Maybe it works sometimes and not other times?

EDIT2: it seems it will search names, but only names that have a number in the "mobile" number field.