Hi,
The Google or stock dialer are crap, have no dual sim support to remember the default sim for contact. I previously was using Zenfone and thought the dialer would work for Lineage. Installed it from Play store and tried to set default app for phone from settings, but the options show only contacts app but not the phone app of ZenUI dailer & contacts. when i go ahead and make the contacts app default for phone, I would endup in a situation where i'm unable to make and receive calls. There must a way we can get this to work, ZenUI dialer and contacts app is quite user friendly, it would be great if someone gets this to work for Lineage OS.
Regards,
Sid
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Hello Frnds,
Recently I rooted my phone as I wanted to remove my stock SMS app due to missing functions as described in my previous post and also to remove the stock contact app as there is no provision to add birthday. After rooting, I removed these two apps and some of unwanted apps provided by SE. I installed new phonebook app and Handcent SMS app and I was happy unless I needed to add a new contact to my phonebook. When I click on add new contact , it showed me an error message saying application not found to handle this. When I again reinstalled the removed Contacts app back and click on add new contact from my new phonebook app, it opened the add new contact page of the Contacts app i.e. without Birthday entry. I was so annoyed to see that I landed up on the same path from where I had started.. Can anyone tell me how can I chagne the default link so that I can use the Add Contact funtion of new app Phonebook and not of the Contacts app.
Most of such replacement apps, especially messaging ones, need to work along with the corresponding default one. As far as I know, only GO SMS can work individually, but again, it's not recommended to uninstall such vital system apps because they are deeply integrated in stock ROM.
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Thanks for ur reply.. But as u must know that there is not provision to add birthdate in the stock contacts app and even if I add some other app from market which has provision to add birthday and click on add new contact, it again opens the same stock contacts app's add contact page...
mandarjoshiin said:
Thanks for ur reply.. But as u must know that there is not provision to add birthdate in the stock contacts app and even if I add some other app from market which has provision to add birthday and click on add new contact, it again opens the same stock contacts app's add contact page...
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That last part is the third-party app's issue.
See, there are three elements in a Contacts app: the dialer, the contact list and the contact viewer.
Some apps include only the first two, thus when you open a contact, stock app (and more specifically InfiniteView) appears.
As for birthdays, if you sync your contacts with Facebook inside Xperia, you'll get them.
Or you could add a note to each contact with their birthday.
Anyone got the Stock Lollipop dialer and contacts working with the 551 that come with Nexus devices or CM?
I have ripped GoodleDialler and GoogleContacts apk from my old Galaxy S4 Google edition rom and made a flashable zip.
Flashed it in recovery and than froze default Asus Dialler.
Seems to be working, but its bit weird.
When you open dialler it's minimized (you can see strange recent calls log screen). At the bottom there are minimised Speed Dial , Recent and Contact Tabs. I need to swipe up to see them
Also when searching contacts the Google id search thingy is not working (like you type pizza and it should find closes pizzas places based on your location...)
And contacts photos are not right - first 30% of photo is ok than its distorted.
I have received and made phone calls fine.
Moto g4, lineageos 20180509, opengapps pico installed
Using any 3rd party dialer from the play store, like drupe, just gives me a black screen on incoming and outgoing calls. The apps work fine, they have their permissions, I've set them as Phone App in the settings, they record me missing calls, they can draw over other apps and on my lock screen... Just whenever I receive or start a call, I get a non-responsive black (off) screen.
Is there a typical cause for this? Does lineage or a moto g4 not play nice with custom dialers? Do they have implicit dependencies?
Thanks for any help
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The stock lineageos phone and contacts apps are still installed, but I've removed bloat like audiofx, clock, wallpapers, etc that I have my own apps of choice for (the stuff listed here). I've not touched important things/system components though, like an app that had a name something like inCallUi, and ones like simtoolkit.
I've always had the impression dialers need much deeper system integration so the odds of them working are lower. Much more complicated than sms apps and such anyway. Most apps like galleries work well through the service provider/interface implementor broadcasting system android uses to link app functionality regardless of exactly which apps they are, but dialers and such seem to pretty integrated into the core system... Lineageos' phone app can't even be removed, for starters.
Would someone with the US version look at the version number of the default phone app and tell me what it is. For some odd reason I don't have it on my phone so I installed version 3.0.20.25 from apkmirror and I just want to check if that's the latest version. I said US version because I don't know if the version numbers change according to country. I only discovered this when I was trying to test the sensors and the access codes wouldn't work with the Google dialer. I also don't have a clue as to why it wasn't installed on my phone.
Thanks
The dialer app is actually called "Contacts"
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The dialer app is actually called "Contacts"
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That's what I figured but there was no option in my contacts app to access the dialer. If I didn't dial a contact, there was no other option...weird. I was trying to avoid a reset just for that so that's why I went to apkmirror. I'm pretty sure contacts had the dial option when I got the phone and I did install the Google dialer because I like it more but I can't see why that would affect the Contacts dialer. BTW, I did uninstall the Google dialer to check if that was disabling it somehow.
EDIT: What version of Contacts do you have? This is turning into one big mystery that has me puzzled.
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That's what I figured but there was no option in my contacts app to access the dialer. If I didn't dial a contact, there was no other option...weird. I was trying to avoid a reset just for that so that's why I went to apkmirror. I'm pretty sure contacts had the dial option when I got the phone and I did install the Google dialer because I like it more but I can't see why that would affect the Contacts dialer. BTW, I did uninstall the Google dialer to check if that was disabling it somehow.
EDIT: What version of Contacts do you have? This is turning into one big mystery that has me puzzled.
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Mine is 3.8.20.11
The dialer part is just a small hovering circle icon with the number pad image on it at the lower right side of each part of the contacts app
You just press that and the dialler slides up, there is no actual dedicated tab for it
My guess is that the contacts app was no longer set as default for dialler because of the Google one
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Mine is 3.8.20.11
The dialer part is just a small hovering circle icon with the number pad image on it at the lower right side of each part of the contacts app
You just press that and the dialler slides up, there is no actual dedicated tab for it
My guess is that the contacts app was no longer set as default for dialler because of the Google one
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All I have is the plus for adding a contact. It is still the default phone app also. I guess for now I'll leave the Samsung phone app installed and use that. Thanks
EDIT: My version of contacts is 3.8.01.20 and that has to be what came on my phone. I tried to install the version you have but it wouldn't install over the system version I already have.
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All I have is the plus for adding a contact. It is still the default phone app also. I guess for now I'll leave the Samsung phone app installed and use that. Thanks
EDIT: My version of contacts is 3.8.01.20 and that has to be what came on my phone. I tried to install the version you have but it wouldn't install over the system version I already have.
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Yea since Oreo you can no longer manually update system apps
There are 3 "phone" apps too if you enable "Show system apps" in Settings > Apps, one is the contacts app for some reason now called phone, and the other two are probably needed for the dialler I would assume
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Yea since Oreo you can no longer manually update system apps
There are 3 "phone" apps too if you enable "Show system apps" in Settings > Apps, one is the contacts app for some reason now called phone, and the other two are probably needed for the dialler I would assume
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Yep it's a mystery. ? I'm doing a complete restore now but I'm still on that older version and still no dialer symbol after the restore. I do have the three phone apps also.
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Yep it's a mystery. ? I'm doing a complete restore now but I'm still on that older version and still no dialer symbol after the restore. I do have the three phone apps also.
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The app version will differ with different firmware, I'm guessing yours is a snapdragon, mine is the Exynos with O2U CSC firmware
Might be able to fix it by just flashing the same firmware over the top though, no data loss and "should" repair system files
In Miui 11.0.4 we got this very bad and ugly google contact app. I installed another app got my contacts in there and it is working fine BUT. other apps that need my contacts can not find them because they are connected to the default google contact app. How can i change that?
I know that i can change default app in manage apps and three dots menu. Problem is that there is no contact app to change.