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Todd H.

2007-01-29, 10:33 pm


Howdy,

This seems to be a Motorola anoyance I've seen now on the Razr and an
older V7xx something.

Is there any way to coax a Moto phone to behave like Nokias do when
searching your addressbook?

When you are browsing the addressbook after hitting the down arrow, on
the Moto, if you type a letter you go to the first entry with that
letter (which is fine, and intuitive), but, when you then type a
second letter, on the Motorola phones, it doesn't refine that search,
but rather jumps to the first entry with that _new_ letter.

When you have a bunch of folks entries who start with, say, D this
means you end up scrolling a lot more than if you could refine to "Do"
as you can on Nokia. What was two keypresses on the Nokia becomes
5-7 on the Motorola.

I've searched the menus and not found anything relevant to change this
behavior?

Best Regards,
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Todd H.
http://toddh.net/
John Navas

2007-01-29, 10:33 pm

On 29 Jan 2007 16:02:09 -0600, t@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote in
<84ac014hlq.fsf@ripco.com>:

>This seems to be a Motorola anoyance I've seen now on the Razr and an
>older V7xx something.
>
>Is there any way to coax a Moto phone to behave like Nokias do when
>searching your addressbook?
>
>When you are browsing the addressbook after hitting the down arrow, on
>the Moto, if you type a letter you go to the first entry with that
>letter (which is fine, and intuitive), but, when you then type a
>second letter, on the Motorola phones, it doesn't refine that search,
>but rather jumps to the first entry with that _new_ letter.
>
>When you have a bunch of folks entries who start with, say, D this
>means you end up scrolling a lot more than if you could refine to "Do"
>as you can on Nokia. What was two keypresses on the Nokia becomes
>5-7 on the Motorola.
>
>I've searched the menus and not found anything relevant to change this
>behavior?


On some, not all, Motorola phones, multi-key search can be enabled with
a SEEM edit.

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karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net

2007-01-31, 7:33 am

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:15:41 GMT, John Navas
< spamfilter1@navasgro
up.com> wrote:

>On 29 Jan 2007 16:02:09 -0600, t@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote in
><84ac014hlq.fsf@ripco.com>:
>
>
>On some, not all, Motorola phones, multi-key search can be enabled with
>a SEEM edit.



A typically useless Navas post.

For SEEM edits start here:

http://www.xlr8.us/hofo/
John Navas

2007-01-31, 10:33 am

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:45:00 GMT, karlkrandall@sbcglob
al.net wrote in
< 6os0s2pml3th7flch63f
irgo3q8lnjei77@4ax.com>:

>On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:15:41 GMT, John Navas
>< spamfilter1@navasgro
up.com> wrote:


>
>A typically useless Navas post.


A typically nasty and childish attack.

>For SEEM edits start here:
>
>http://www.xlr8.us/hofo/


Totally unhelpful to the question at hand.

Better to use Google; e.g.,
<http://www.google.com/search?q=moto...etter+seem-edit>
First link.

Actually _not_ a SEEM edit -- a firmware update -- so I stand corrected.

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