Why can't it search contact?

[640k]

If you have two contacts with the same phone number, why not have separate contact info for each anyway? what if you get each of their email addresses? how are you going to store that?

i never combine contacts. it's bad practice.

[isitkiller]

W..w...what? I wish people read properly. Searching NOTES in the
contact has no issue of "two names with same phone number"?

And why is not that possible? I want to have wife name appear
in the list when I have 2 Gregs in my contacts and I want to differentiate.

[640k]

so have greg and greg's wife as two contacts? not sure what your beef is. what is it in your notes that helps you search your contacts? can you manage your contacts better than recording notes?

why not use last names? that will help with confusion too.

help us to understand your requirements and maybe we can help you with a better solution.

[isitkiller]

Thank you very much for your interest to help 640k.

OK here is what my issue. I volunteer at a non-profit org and come
in contact with lots of people that I do not meet regularly.

I am surrounded in the community where I have about 500 contacts with exact same last name and other 500 with lots of same last names.

I can't remember everyone's names; sometimes I remember wife name, sometime husband's. In order to ease my search (so far with every devices but DROID) I put first name as "Husband / Wife".

So whichever name I remember, I can search.

I also come into contact with a lot of people that I have to
carry their info with me for future reference. I can not recall their
names so i need to search them by what I can use these people
for (either profession, speciality, hobby whatever that can help
this non-profit organization). I put all those keywords in the
NOTES section of the contact. Sometimes I remember their kids
names, so i include their kids name in the NOTES section as well.

Later (sometimes year(s) later), when need arises, I search based
on the need and I find the person. Which can not be done here with
DROID now.

I was hoping that this would work without me going through each
contact and introduce some change in order to achieve this.
In the worst case, I can do that also.

[640k]

yeah i got nothing on that one. company name seems to work, but address doesn't.

[Backnblack]

I just must not understand how, why, and what that "Master Droid" title is, and where it came from.

Simple...Title depends on Amount of Posts......

[vrrm]

@isitkiller: I know your frustration. I use the Contact's Notes section extensively too. Not only does the Droid not search the Notes, it only displays about 8-10 lines. If you want to view the rest of the Note, you have to go to Menu -> Edit contact to view it. This is the first smartphone OS I've used that does this poorly.

BTW, I'm pretty agnostic with smartphone OS. I've used Palm (remember the Treo 270?), Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, iPhone, and now Android.

In my experience, the iPhone 3GS has the quickest search function.

[village]

I love my Droid and I love Google's products, that said, I believe the droid search (and the google contact search) need some serious help. Droid's contact search is worse than google's contact search. The two searches are not consistent with each other.

Rather than restating the case, I would like to encourage you all to log in and vote for this android code issue by clicking the star to the left of the word ISSUE at the following address:

Issue 3732 - android - [Search] Improve contact search - Project Hosting on Google Code

Please do not add comments to the issue, unless you are helping to resolve the code issue. If you agree that the issue should be addressed, then simply click the star, do not, I repeat do not, add comments unless they contain technical help to resolve the issue. Thanks for starring it and moving it to the top of the list!

[chdundrwd]

@isitkiller I found an app that says it can do what you are wanting it is called Contact Search+ it is 99¢ in the market it is made by gnugu. I have never used it but the description describes what you are looking for. Hope it helps.

[tranz]

I bought Contacts+ yesterday, and it'll search anything and everything. It's pretty wierd getting my Droid to use it and do better searches, but it can be made to work. It's worth at least the buck I paid for it!

I'd like the people that wrote Contacts+ to be well paid for their work, but I still hope that Google improves their searching under Android in the next updates. It's not possible for a 3rd party app to integrate a vastly improved search into a native app like this one. Android isn't owned by Google, but it's influenced and controlled by them almost totally, wouldn't you say? Just like Google is more than just searching,,, theoretically. Everyone I've spoken to, and probably all consumers with any knowledge and experience with both PDAs and data search engines expects a bit better.