IPhone 4S Contacts search

All of a sudden my iPhone 4S search function seems not to be functioning correctly. I start typing in a contact name but names and surnames that do not start with the letters I type into the search field appear as well?
Please help!

I just realised the search also picks up the address of the person so when I start typing the 1st few letters it searches all my contacts including their addresses, surely I should be able to change this somewhere?

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Try This...
Close All Open Apps... Sign Out of your Account... Perform a Reset... Try again...
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Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Release the Buttons.
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I cannot make or receive calls - my phone constantly says searching. Any ideas what's wrong?

I am sure by now you have sorted your problem but if not I think I can help. For the last three weeks I have been pulling my hair out trying to solve the same problem. I tried refreshing the network connection several times. I tried a reboot by holding down the home button. I tried turning on and off airplane mode but still my iPhone 4 kept searching. It sometimes made a connection but soon lost it again. I contacted my service provider EE and after several attempts to solve the problem they sent me a new sim card but the fault was still there. Today I THINK I HAVE FIXED IT after reading the help line I connected my phone to iTunes, backed up my information on my PC then used the iTunes option to RESTORE my phone. It took ages to do and even when completed the phone still seemed to have the fault but them like magic I again reset my network connection again and hey presto since then my phone has had a constant connection. I know its early days it is Seven o'clock at night and I only did this this afternoon but I am keeping my fingers crossed. I was getting to the point where I wanted to throw my phone in the bin but now it has a new lease of life and hopefully it will last until I get a look at the new iPhone 6. My faith, at least for the moment, has been restored(quite literally) in Apple. Good luck with your problem to anyone who reads this.RB

Contacts search function

Any idea when contact search will be available? It would be great if one could search contacts as easy as in Address Book.

Good Idea! But Apple may never hear of it unless you submit it!
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
P.S. Remember, Apple dosen't look at these forums, so make sure to submit ideas to the above link!!
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I've been searching for a solution to my issues but haven't been able to do so, neither on any forums or anywhere in the internet.
I've got iPhone 4 iOs 5.0.1, Mac OS 10.5.8 and Address 4.1.2 and I have 2 problems;
1) Whenever I try to rearrange the fields of one my contacts in the Address Book, I can do so during "Edit card" mode. As soon as I hit "Save", everything is back to square one.
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2) When I sync my phone via iTunes, things get even more complicated. My phone rearranges the fields with different templates and they vary from contact to contact.
I must say that the main problem is with phone numbers as I only have Work & Home for the address fields and they just work fine.
However, with the contact numbers, instead of the mixture described above, I'd like to have a standard template in the same following order such as;
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mobile
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