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Samsung Android / Re: samsung vibrant: contact ringtones
« on: October 01, 2010, 09:30:39 pm »
Hello, I'm new as well and I find the same 'feature' quite annoying.
Ringdroid doesn't work - it will allow you to select a contact and apply the ringtone but the phone will ring with the default ringtone.
Currently importing contacts to the phone isn't only highly inconvenient, but can also prove to be quite confusing. Especially if you have lots of contacts. Not only will some info. 'duplicate' and double up under the contact (birthdays, addresses, etc.) but you also lose grouping from Gmail contacts.
This means that if/when you change your phone - should you have decided to make use of the group options in the Samsung Vibrant, you lose ALL of that if you go to a different phone. This makes the cloud backup of Gmail contacts essentially no longer as useful as it was on say, the G1 - which downloads and sets your contacts up on your phone as they are setup online.
-quirks:
You lose groups (so if 100 people are listed under Family and 10 under Coworkers and 50 under Friends and another say, 200 under Facebook - they all become smooshed into 1 contact list in Gmail contacts without labels/folders)
You lose nicknames and filing preferences - so if you want to refer to 'Joan Hatchett' as Mom or 'Jason Maldorn' as Champ, you can't.
You'll have to PAY attention so you add info to the gmail contact part of your new linked contact list, or your information won't be saved to gmail contacts online. If you accidentally add 2 numbers and 2 emails to the phone section and you switch phones or format - you lose that information. Sure you can backup in Kies or on the Phone but then you run the risk of reimporting old/non current information should you not micromanage.
This isn't just about individual ringtones, believe me - this 'must import contacts to phone to assign pictures and sounds to them' is a much bigger inconvenience than people realize. And the fact that the Samsung UI doesn't respect the gmail contact labels/options means that it's no longer a 1 step process to switch phones. Before it was pretty much "sign into your google account" and you'd be set with your contacts.
People who've owned G1s and Nexus Ones etc. are going to find themselves peeved at this little requirement.
Ringdroid doesn't work - it will allow you to select a contact and apply the ringtone but the phone will ring with the default ringtone.
Currently importing contacts to the phone isn't only highly inconvenient, but can also prove to be quite confusing. Especially if you have lots of contacts. Not only will some info. 'duplicate' and double up under the contact (birthdays, addresses, etc.) but you also lose grouping from Gmail contacts.
This means that if/when you change your phone - should you have decided to make use of the group options in the Samsung Vibrant, you lose ALL of that if you go to a different phone. This makes the cloud backup of Gmail contacts essentially no longer as useful as it was on say, the G1 - which downloads and sets your contacts up on your phone as they are setup online.
-quirks:
You lose groups (so if 100 people are listed under Family and 10 under Coworkers and 50 under Friends and another say, 200 under Facebook - they all become smooshed into 1 contact list in Gmail contacts without labels/folders)
You lose nicknames and filing preferences - so if you want to refer to 'Joan Hatchett' as Mom or 'Jason Maldorn' as Champ, you can't.
You'll have to PAY attention so you add info to the gmail contact part of your new linked contact list, or your information won't be saved to gmail contacts online. If you accidentally add 2 numbers and 2 emails to the phone section and you switch phones or format - you lose that information. Sure you can backup in Kies or on the Phone but then you run the risk of reimporting old/non current information should you not micromanage.
This isn't just about individual ringtones, believe me - this 'must import contacts to phone to assign pictures and sounds to them' is a much bigger inconvenience than people realize. And the fact that the Samsung UI doesn't respect the gmail contact labels/options means that it's no longer a 1 step process to switch phones. Before it was pretty much "sign into your google account" and you'd be set with your contacts.
People who've owned G1s and Nexus Ones etc. are going to find themselves peeved at this little requirement.