Contact Sorting 6.22.81.105

This may have always been present in Skype, but I noticed the sorting by contact should use a different set of sorting parameters used when "Hide offline contact" is enabled. It looks like it just sorts by online -> offline then alphabetically even if you don't show the offline contacts which makes it kind of worthless in that particular case.
Basically, my contact list should look like the following if "Hide Contacts who are offline" is enabled and "sort by contact status" is enabled :
[Online, green] User A
[Online, green] User B
[Online, green] User G
[Away, yellow] User C
[Away, yellow] User E
[DND, red] User D
[DND, red] User F
Alternatively, the default implementation is the following:
[Online, green] User A
[Online, green] User B
[Away, yellow] User C
[DND, red] User D
[Away, yellow] User E
[DND, red] User F
[Online, green] User G
Is this something that has been considered already? Thanks for you time.

This is how it should work but it is not!
Clearly a bug in the sorting code.
The feature "is there" in the menu (Contacts - Sort Contacts - Sort by Online Status) but it does not do what it says on the tin.
Amazing that people do not care or do not see this.

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Dear friends,
This is probably a silly issue but still, I can't find a solution... I have upgraded my aging Nokia E66 RM-343 to 400.21.013 (this version was suggested by the Nokia Suite and it keeps telling me that this is the latest version). After the upgrade and restoring the phone settings, I am having problems with the contacts sort order when choosing recipients for an SMS message.
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Best regards,
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bearone21 wrote:
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eero

hi..jain...
ROLE MERGING
If you want to assign two roles to a user but dont want them to appear as two roles,
you can use the concept of Merging of Roles.
Here,one can allow the user to see only that role in the top level navigation,whose
priority has been set as low.Although the contents of the other role are visible too,
but only n the second level navigation,with the contents of the higher priority role.
This is done by setting the merge-id of the two roles as one string(e.g. merge), and
then setting the merge-priority of the role you want to be visible in Top level navigation
as 99,while setting the other role's priority as 100.
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SORTING is...
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thanx..
rewards points if useful..

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Yours,
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Contacts Sort Order

I have recently moved from a Windows Mobile 6.5 device to the iPhone 4 and am struggling with getting my contacts to work properly. (I am having the same issue on my iPad, so I assume it is an iOS issue that I don't fully understand).
On my computer, my contacts are all entered properly in the proper fields of First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Suffix and so forth. In Outlook and Google Contacts, they all sort properly by Last Name, First Name.
When I sync across to the iPhone, they sort Last Name, First Name UNLESS there is an entry in the Suffix field, in which case it sorts Suffix, First Name!!!
I thought I was missing a bunch of contacts. For Example, all of my P.Eng. (Professional Engineer) contacts were filed under "P" on the handset instead of their last names.
How do I fix this? Short of deleting all of the Suffix fields, I can't seem to figure it out.
Thanks,
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Mike:
Have you solved this problem? Mine is almost exactly the same.
I have a new iPhone 4. Using iTunes, I imported my Outlook Express contacts to the phone. Separately, I imported my Outlook Express contacts to Gmail.
Then I decided to utilize the Microsoft Exchange feature on the iphone to automatically sync my Gmail contacts to the phone.
It seems to have all worked correctly EXCEPT for the sorting function.
More specifically, the sorting function seems to work, but the contact first, middle and last names and suffix fields have been rearranged.
As a result, the sorting is wrong.
As you stated, my Gmail contacts all appear correct.
The problem started with the Microsoft Exchange feature. Previously, when my contacts were imported using iTunes, all the contact name fields were correct.
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When creating a new contact, in "Additional fields" there is for example "Phonectic first name" and "Phonetic last name". This would be used if a name is pronounced differently than how it is written or if a name is difficult to pronounce one could put in an easier name here.
My contacts are sorted by last name. Now for example I enter the following new contact:
First name: Margaret / Last Name: Baumann / Phonetic first Name: Grit
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I just started using the phonetic last name field in Contacts in order to make dialing by voice a little more intuitive. Almost right away I thought my phone was deleting my contacts, they were disappearing.
After a bit of digging I realized that the list was now sorting my contacts by their phonetic spelling, not the real spelling. So if I wanted to find someone whose name begins with J, but the sound is a Y, I would have to look in the Y's. It looks something like this:
Yeager, Tom
Jesus, Phil
Young, Sam
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Does anyone know how to make it stop doing this? It is almost like a bug... I mean, who sorts a contact list phonetically? Is there a way to report this to Apple?

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Ive just got this phone and wondered why the sender's name did not appear in thread message mode. this is the best answer since it solves everything and is nothing to do with your providor or the phone its purely in settings! Best answer. Now the name appears. thankyou.

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