I recently purchased a Droid X and transferred in my contacts. They all show up alphabetically by first name. I'd like to change that globally to alphabetically by last name. How can I do that?
With the stock dialer this isnt possible, you can not sort the contacts list.
I'm not sure what you mean by a "stock dialer." I don't want to sort the contacts; I just want to have them listed alphabetically by last name instead of first name. Is there no way to change the contacts to list by last name short of reentering all the data on the new Droid X? Thx.
The contacts are listed under the Phone Dialer and this is the stock dialer, also if you want to list the contacts by last name you want to sort the order by last name...... And as posted this can not be done, this has been asked a number of times and it has been determined that this isn't possible.
Wildman wrote: The contacts are listed under the Phone Dialer and this is the stock dialer, also if you want to list the contacts by last name you want to sort the order by last name...... And as posted this can not be done, this has been asked a number of times and it has been determined that this isn't possible.
Hey, Wildman, how's things?
I see this topic popping up and I got curious while I'm doing my usual surfing before the day cranks up...I looked at my Google Contact Manager and there's a tab that says "More Actions", in that drop-down menu at the bottom, there's an option to sort the contacts by either first name or by last name. Would that selection either way affect the sorting order of the contacts in the phone? I know that the phone updates its contacts when I make changes the contacts online?
(EDIT). I forgot to mention that I'm ASSuming that the user would have their contacts set to sync with Google Contacts. After trying several other options, I can't see why anyone wouldn't want to. Just the back-up aspect of that is worth using it. No Back-Up Manager for me!I'd try it this morning, but with the day I have coming up, I don't need any un-necessary curve balls tossed at me...
Geri O
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Wildman wrote: "And as posted this can not be done, this has been asked a number of times and it has been determined that this isn't possible."
Wildman, you could sort contacts by last name in 2.1, so CLEARLY it is possible. Why would they ever remove important functionality like this when doing a software upgrade.
So, Verizon, how about a committment to fix this (restore what you took away) in a future upgrade?
Gerio, I have my Google contacts listed last name first on line and my contacts on the X are still listed first name>last name.
One solution is the Better Contact app. It claims it will sort by last name. It costs $2.63 though.
