[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Address Book & PPC Phone Edition

[Dave Koziol]

On Jun 5, 2004, at 3:56 AM, Jamie Pride wrote:

> I have found the application that is populating that field. I use 
> fonix voicedial, which is a voice dialing application. It puts a "last 
> dialed number" flag into field 0x4011001f of the contact database on 
> the PPC. It appears that this is the field you are mapping over into 
> the phonetic last name in the address book on the mac. I guess the 
> only solution to the problem is to not map the field, or for me to 
> stop using the voicedial application. Is the japanese phonetic last 
> name mapping really required for the english version of missing sync? 
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as I would love to use 
> missing sync and my regular PPC applications.

Glad to hear you figured out what was going on.

 From a code perspective, there aren't english/japanese versions of 
Missing Sync.  There is just one version version which loads different 
strings based on user preferences.

It would seem to me that the best thing is actually for the fonix 
voicedial folks to stop storing anything in field 0x4011001f which is 
used by Microsoft for Yomi Last Name.  I'll drop them a note, and maybe 
their be able to make that change.

That said, I've logged this issue in our bug tracking system, and I 
think we should be able to work around it in our next release.  As soon 
as you see the next public beta, please download it and let us know 
either way what the status of the issue is.

Thanks again for letting us know the details,

Dave Koziol
Mark/Space, Inc.

> On 04/06/2004, at 12:41 AM, Dave Koziol wrote:
>
>> On May 31, 2004, at 6:43 PM, Jamie Pride wrote:
>>
>>> I am experiencing an interesting thing when syncing my O2 XDA with 
>>> address book.  The first 32 contacts in the address book are out of 
>>> alphabetical order. The reason for this is because the phonetic last 
>>> name field is being populated with the text "(1) last # dialed". To 
>>> me it looks like PPC Phone edition uses this field to store last 
>>> dialed number, and missing sync is mapping this field into phonetic 
>>> last name in address book. Is anyone else out their experiencing 
>>> this problem, or using missing sync with PPC Phone Edition?
>>
>> Is anyone else using a PPC Phone seeing this problem?  Not seeing 
>> this problem?  If you have a PPC Phone, send me a private email and 
>> let me know if you are seeing this problem, and which phone and 
>> carrier you are using.
>>
>> Missing Sync is trying to map the Japanese phonetic last name field 
>> on a PPC to and from the phonetic last name field in address book.  
>> This field should only exist on a Japanese device, yet it would 
>> appear there is some other data in the field on Jamie's XDA.
>>
>> Jamie, what additional programs have you downloaded onto your XDA 
>> that involve either contacts or phone calls?  Maybe one of these is 
>> putting that information in this field.