I've turned off the Touchflo interface on my HTC TP2 because I dont like the
Vodaphone theme and I dont want to change the rom.
I actually prefer the native WM6 interface, but I have an issue with the
contacts display. As all my contacts were imported from my SIM when I
changed phones they now appear twice in the list and I cannot see a way to
tun this off. With TFlo2 on there is an option to only view outlook contacts
but can it be done without Tflo?

Thnx

At 20 Sep 2009 10:42:54 -0700 Ed Hansberry, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices wrote:
> "gjb" <gjb@gjb.gjb> wrote:
>
> >I've turned off the Touchflo interface on my HTC TP2 because I dont like
the
> >Vodaphone theme and I dont want to change the rom.
> >I actually prefer the native WM6 interface, but I have an issue with the
> >contacts display. As all my contacts were imported from my SIM when I
> >changed phones they now appear twice in the list and I cannot see a way
to
> >tun this off. With TFlo2 on there is an option to only view outlook
contacts
> >but can it be done without Tflo?
> >
> >Thnx
> >
>
> You should remove them and purge them from the SIM card. I always
> use Outlook on my desktop to house and transfer contacts. Now,
> you can use the MyPhone backup service from MS to do that. Having
> contacts on the SIM is only really useful if moving between a
> bunch of phones with different operating systems, but even with
> that, syncing with Google Contacts (as most can now do) is better
> than what a SIM card can do.


While I essentially agree with your premise that the SIM contact has
outlived its usefulness, I still find it annoying that many newer HTC
phones seem to lack the facility to hide SIM contacts "permanently." My
old Wizard allowed you to hide them via a reg edit, and while my TyTn II
uses the same edit, it resets itself to reshow SIM contacts everytime you
restart the phone.


Now I just use the SIM to hold the network-specific "star code" numbers
that only work from the mobile phone and don't want/need to sync with my
desktop's Outlook, like my operator's customer service number, the number
to get my minute balance, etc.