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Moto phone annoyance - addressbook only accepts one letter for search?

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Todd H. - 29 Jan 2007 22:02 GMT
Howdy,

This seems to be a Motorola anoyance I've seen now on the Razr and an
older V7xx something.

Is there any way to coax a Moto phone to behave like Nokias do when
searching your addressbook?  

When you are browsing the addressbook after hitting the down arrow, on
the Moto, if you type a letter you go to the first entry with that
letter (which is fine, and intuitive), but, when you then type a
second letter, on the Motorola phones, it doesn't refine that search,
but rather jumps to the first entry with that _new_ letter.  

When you have a bunch of folks entries who start with, say, D this
means you end up scrolling a lot more than if you could refine to "Do"
as you can on Nokia.   What was two keypresses on the Nokia becomes
5-7 on the Motorola.

I've searched the menus and not found anything relevant to change this
behavior?

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Todd H.  
http://toddh.net/
SMS - 29 Jan 2007 23:31 GMT
> Howdy,
>
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Is there any way to coax a Moto phone to behave like Nokias do when
> searching your addressbook?  

Unfortunately, Motorola lags Nokia in the user interface department. I
have the same gripe about my Motorola phone.
John Navas - 30 Jan 2007 03:15 GMT
>This seems to be a Motorola anoyance I've seen now on the Razr and an
>older V7xx something.
[quoted text clipped - 15 lines]
>I've searched the menus and not found anything relevant to change this
>behavior?

On some, not all, Motorola phones, multi-key search can be enabled with
a SEEM edit.

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karlkrandall@sbcglobal.net - 31 Jan 2007 10:45 GMT
>>This seems to be a Motorola anoyance I've seen now on the Razr and an
>>older V7xx something.
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
>On some, not all, Motorola phones, multi-key search can be enabled with
>a SEEM edit.

A typically useless Navas post.

For SEEM edits start here:

http://www.xlr8.us/hofo/
John Navas - 31 Jan 2007 15:12 GMT
>>On some, not all, Motorola phones, multi-key search can be enabled with
>>a SEEM edit.
>
>A typically useless Navas post.

A typically nasty and childish attack.

>For SEEM edits start here:
>
>http://www.xlr8.us/hofo/

Totally unhelpful to the question at hand.

Better to use Google; e.g.,
<http://www.google.com/search?q=motorola+phone-book-search+multi-letter+seem-edit>
First link.  

Actually _not_ a SEEM edit -- a firmware update -- so I stand corrected.

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