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What are these “Complete action using” dialogs ?
How do I find a contact or dial a number (the Find/Dial tab) ?
Searching in 'Company' and/or 'Notes' fields
Adding a number to an existing contact or creating a new one
Dialing favorite entries from the main screen
How do I use favorites (the Favorites tab) ?
How do I use the call log list (the Call log tab) ?
Filtering call log by date or by text (name)
To allow for the best user experience, aTAKEphONE replaces some of the built-in actions:
aTAKEphONE is launched when you press the CALL button.
aTAKEphONE is launched when a call ends.
aTAKEphONE is launched when you start typing letters or digits using the hardware keyboard from the “Home” screen.
Whenever the Android detects such an action, and finds out theres a new application wanting to handle this action, it prompts the user to select which application will handle it:
If you check the bottom check box and then select aTAKEphONE, this dialog will not be displayed again, and aTAKEphONE will always be used. To reset this selection (and show that dialog again) you can go to the system “Settings” (from the menu in the “Home” screen), select “Applications”, then “Manage applications”, then select “aTAKEphONE”, and tap the “Clear defaults” button.
One more note about this: returning after calls end also means aTAKEphONE will be launched when you select the “Missed call/s” notification from the top status bar (the built-in dialer applications raises a “missed calls” icon there whenever you missed a call). So if you drag the notifications screen down and select the “Missed call” line, aTAKEphONE will launch showing the call log screen. Problem with this is aTAKEphONE can not (due to restrictions in the Google SDK – software developers interface) turn the missed calls icon off in the status bar, so it will stay on. We hope we can resolve this in future versions of the OS.
As a workaround, we've added an option in the menu of aTAKEphONE “Call log” screen to “Go to system call log”, so it will clear the missed calls notification.
Please note – pressing the CALL button while in the system call log screen will initiate a call and NOT return to aTAKEphONE ! To return to aTAKEphONE – either press BACK or press the HOME button, then the CALL button.
Allows you to search/dial using large on-screen buttons (for stylus-free / one-hand operation). When using this mode, you can search for contacts a lot faster:
Tap the text you want to search for using the on-screen keypad. To lookup "John" you do NOT need to tap the "JKL" button once, then “MNO” 3 times - only tap each button once. All combinations of the letters will be looked up.
To add more flexibility to the search, you can tap & HOLD the “* ...and...” on-screen button to divide the search string into two, so that both the sorted fields can be used in the search.
Example: Say you want to locate “John Doe”. You tap “JKL”, and find out you have too many “John”s in your address-book. All you need to do is tap “..and..” + “DEF” + “MNO”, and the software will search for a record containing BOTH the combination “JKL”, and the second combination “DEF”+”MNO”, which will surely lead to a close enough match.
Tap the “BkSp” button (top-right one) to backspace, tap and HOLD it to clear the whole search string.
You can configure the search to search within words, and even search the company fields – see the settings section below.
Once you find a contact, tap and HOLD on a contact from this list to start a call to its default phone number (on how to select the default number – see below).
If you tap a short tap on a contact in the list, it will open its “Details” screen, where you can see all its details (phone numbers, email addresses, URLs, mailing addresses etc.) and act upon them (call, SMS, email, browse, go to mapping applications etc.).
To SMS a phone number – tap on the icon on the right-hand side. To call it – tap in the middle.
You can tap the buttons at the bottom for more actions like viewing all previous calls to this contact (Hist), Scheduling a call to that contact in the Calendar (Sched), Sending the contact via SMS as a vCard (requires another ShSh software application – vCards), deleting the contact or opening it in the built-in Contacts application (tip: tap and HOLD the Open button to edit the contact record).
If you tap and HOLD on a phone field, you will see a popup menu, allowing you to select that phone number as the contact's default phone number, or add it to the favorites list.
One of the most powerful new features in aTAKEphONE is the ability to search in the company (aka organization) and/or Notes fields. You can turn these options on in the find settings (see below). Some things to note about these options:
Turning this option on may slow down searches.
To make company searches faster, aTAKEphONE uses an indexing database to associate company names with contacts. This is a must cause of the way the contact databases are structured inside the Android OS. To create this indexing database – tap the “Update companies index” option in the settings.
To make your company search accurate – be sure to update this database periodically (or whenever you change/add/remove a company in a contact).
You can also use the “Find/Dial” screen to call a phone number directly – just tap the number you want:
You can also select the Paste option from the main menu – you can cut/copy a phone number or contact name from any other application, then launch aTAKEphONE and paste it into the FIND screen for dialing or searching.
Then you can tap the top line (with the number) or press the hardware Send/Call button (green) to start a call, or tap any of the actions below: SMS to that number, create a new contact with that number, or add that number to an existing contact (see below).
If you tap & HOLD it for more options: start an SMS, create a favorites from it, view calls history to/from this number, schedule a call to this number, or add this number to an existing/new contact (see below).
If you selected to add a number (either manually entered or from the call log), you will be taken again to the Find/Dial screen, but in “add to” mode:
you can find a contact the normal way, but when you select one – in stead of opening its details screen the application will add a new phone field to that contact, and display it for editing. To exit this mode select “Cancel add to” from the menu.
If you 'long tap' (tap & HOLD) the 1-9 buttons, you can use them for one-press calling right from the main screen. You can speed-dial the first 9 speed-dial entries right from the main Find/Dial screen by tapping & HOLDING the 1-9 on-screen buttons.
By default, the '1' button is assigned to calling your voicemail system, and the 2-9 buttons will call the matching favorite entries (note: you have to have the voicemail number setup in the system “Settings” under the “Call settings” section).
You can the “Long tap on '1': voicemail” option off in aTAKEphONEs settings to allow accessing the first favorite entry by 'long tapping' on the 1 button, in stead of calling (the hard coded) voicemail.
You can configure aTAKEphONE to display a line with the details of the last call whenever the search string (top line) is empty. This enables you immediate access to the last call made/received right from the main screen.
You can configure aTAEKphONE to display a strip of contact images for fast an immediate “dial by photo” access to favorite entries. This line will hold all favorite entries that are contacts with photos.
Tap an image to call that contact (default phone field), tap & HOLD to open the contact details screen to allow SMS-ing, calling other phone fields, etc.
aTAKEphONE manages its own favorites database, to allow more features. You can add favorites entry from the “Find/Dial” screen (contacts), or manually from this tab by tapping an empty button. To ease setting up your favorites list, you can select “Import“ from the menu to import the built-in favorites list into aTAKEphONE.
Tap a button to call its default phone number, or tap & HOLD for more options: Call, SMS, view all fields, Move the entry to another position, or remove from favorites.
You can turn an option in the settings to show images of favorite contacts that have photos.
The Call log tab shows a list of all calls. You can select to see all calls, or only outgoing, incoming or missed calls (by tapping the down arrow on the top-right corner).
Tap an entry to call it, tap & HOLD to open the call details screen, where you can do many things like in the contact detail screen (see info above):
Select “Purge” from the menu to delete call log entries – all records, or records older thana selected date.
You can select the menu in the call log screen for more option helping you to locate calls:
Select “Go to date” from the menu to view all calls from a specific date.
Select “Filter” from the menu to filter the calls list by text (name or phone) – so you can view all calls made to a specific contact. Select “Reset filter” to reset this state.
To access the application settings – select “Settings” from the main menu:
“Use skin”: select a theme for aTAKEphONE.
“Show contact photos”: show contact photo (if exists) in the search results list (slows down display a bit).
“Show speed-dial photos”: show contact photo (if exists) on the buttons in “Favorites” tab (slows down display a bit).
“Smart results sorting”: when ON, search results are sorted by frequency of calls with the contact. This improves usability considerably.
“Search within words”: select method of searching.
“Search notes”: search text in notes fields, too. This causes searches to be slower.
“Search company”: search text in company (aka “organizations”) fields, too. This causes searches to be slower. To allow for much faster search, aTAKEphONE builds its own companies indexing database. You have to create it when you turn this option on. Important: you have to update this indexing database whenever you change your contacts in a manner that affects the company fields. To do so – tap the following option line.
“Update companies index”: scans your contacts database, and updates the companies indexing database (used if you include companies/organizations in the search).
“Start search”: you can configure the application to start searching immediately when you type the first letter, or collect 2-3 letters and only then start a search.
“When launched, start in”: select the tab (screen) to show at startup.
“Call scheduling”: select default calendar used when scheduling calls.
“Sound on”: play blip or digit sound when tapping buttons.
“Vibrate”: haptic feedback when tapping buttons.
“Tap on a call entry”: select the action when you (short) tap on an entry.
“Tap and HOLD”: select the action when you tap and HOLD on an entry.
“Tap on a a contact”: select the action when you (short) tap on an entry.
“Tap and HOLD”: select the action when you tap and HOLD on an entry.
“Remember last search”: if ON, when you next launch aTAKEphONE, it will remember the last used search text or manual number. If you start typing a different number/search it will automatically clear.
“Auto-select single match”: if on and a search yields a single match the application will automatically open its “details” screen.
“When search empty show”: select what to show when there is no search – browse all contacts, show nothing, show “last call” line, show “i-Bar” line or show both.
“Long tap on '#'”: set the response when tapping & holding the '#' button – enter a “timed” pause (delay of ~2 seconds), enter a “hard” pause (wait for user response), or ask user what to enter.
"Long tap '1'”: set the response when tapping & holding the '1' button – call the system defined voicemail number (set in the system “Settings” under the “Call settings” section).
“Tap on a favorite entry”: select the action when you (short) tap on an entry.
“Tap and HOLD”: select the action when you tap and HOLD on an entry.
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