Droid Incredible Functional Question

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thePITman
Posts: 3,867
Sep 1, 2010 1:25pm
I have posted on DroidForums.net with no good response yet. Here is my issue:

I now have 3 contact groups I send text message updates to (used to be 2, but now max contacts per text is 10 with Froyo 2.2). When I am editing a group and I go to add contacts, I can search for a name, then tap on the name to add that person to the group. Or if I'm editing a person's contact, I can choose the appropriate group from the Group drop-down menu, and it adds that person to the group.

HOWEVER, it does not give me the option to select which contact ENTRY for that person I wish to use on that group. When I got to send a text message to the group, if that contact has a mobile phone number and an email address, it sends the person an email instead of a text message. The contact has "Call mobile" set as Primary as well as "Send mail" set as Primary (yes, there are 2 Primary's). The other option NOT set as Primary is "Send message" which is what I want.

How do I set "Send (text) message" as the Primary contact method for a contact? Also, is it possible to set this as the default setting for any/all contacts? If I am viewing a contact, I press and hold on Send message like I've read, but nothing happens. If possible, I would like to remove Primary from the email and change the other Primary to "Send message".

Please help. I need this fixed by Friday. Thank you.

(Another issue: My Twitter widget no longer lets me log in after installing Froyo 2.2. It says incorrect user name or password, but I know they are correct. Help!)
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RedRider1
Posts: 3,850
Sep 1, 2010 2:03pm
Not very "incredible" is it?
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thePITman
Posts: 3,867
Sep 1, 2010 2:39pm
I think this is one thing the Droid "does" NOT do!
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wes_mantooth
Posts: 17,977
Sep 1, 2010 3:08pm
Buy a mac.

I have an incredible, but I am pretty useless when it comes to your questions....but I may tinker around and see what I can do.
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GoChiefs
Posts: 16,754
Sep 1, 2010 3:10pm
wes_mantooth;468383 wrote:but I am pretty useless when it comes to your questions

Gonna have to disagree. You're pretty useless just about all the time.
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wes_mantooth
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Sep 1, 2010 3:19pm
haters gonna hate
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thePITman
Posts: 3,867
Sep 1, 2010 3:23pm
mantooth, if you find a way to do this (select which of a contact's entries to add to a group, or to make it send text instead of email), please post directions on how to do so. Thank you!
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thePITman
Posts: 3,867
Sep 2, 2010 7:55pm
I got my 2.2 update yesterday. It looks like this may have been resolved with version 2.2. It is sending text messages to a mobile number. If there is more than 1 mobile, it's sending to the Primary mobile (which is easy to set, as long as there's more than 1). One thing I read about was doing the following: Open the Group. Open a contact. Tap Menu > More > Set widget action. When doing this, you can select a specific contact entry. However, what "widget" does this refer to? I got the 2.2 update AND did this for each contact on my groups, and it is working like a charm! I'm not sure which actually fixed it, the 2.2 update or picking the widget action for each contact... but it works now.