Speed Dial on Home Screen

This is a question/suggestion I think. I don't believe there is any current way to put contacts on the home screen as a speed dial button, if I am wrong, please correct me with instructions on how to do so. If I am right, however, I think a nice feature Apple should consider in putting in a future software update for iPhone would be to make contacts available as speed dial buttons on the home screen.

Follow these instructions to put a custom icon on the home screen. It's not speed dial exactly, but it's fun.
1. Go to http://webclip.us on your computer (not on your phone) and click on "create now".
2. In icon label, type what you want to call your icon.
3. In URL, type either the URL of the website you want to link to, or for a phone number link, type http://##########.tel.QLNK.net (where ########## is the 10 digit phone number you want). You must enter the http:// - it won't work otherwise.
4. In "icon file", click the arrow to browse to the photo or image on your computer that you want the icon to display.
5. Enter the security code shown, then click "upload now". You will get a "webclip number".
6. Now on your iPhone in Safari, go to http://webclip.us and enter the webclip number your computer just generated, and tap Go.
7. Use the plus sign to add the icon to your home screen, change the name to whatever you want, and you will have a cool little icon with the photo you uploaded!
If you used the phone number option, when you tap the icon on your home page, it will launch Safari and then pop up "Call" and "Cancel" buttons to call that phone number directly. If you used a website URL, it will launch that website just like a regular webclip.
So I now have an icon with a picture of my husband's face on it that dials his phone number. Very cool!!
-SB

Similar Messages

Can't turn off "dial from home screen"

I want to allocate shortcut keys to apps. All of the info I've seen says that you have to turn off "dial from home screen" by clicking on the "phone" icon, then clicking on the "menu" icon, then selecting the "General options" item. Trouble is, I don't have a "General options" item - can anyone help me?

I'm in the same boat. I miss my old bb. 9310 does not have this option....

Sir, i set the speed dial in home page,but when i open the new tab its show only the blank page,can you say the ways to show the speed dials whenever i open tab

plz say the way to set the speed dials which i set in home page whenever i open the new tab instead of blank page

Make sure the new tab feature is enabled:
* On the address bar, go to '''about:config''' (Just be careful)
* Set '''browser.newtabpage.enabled''' to '''true'''
To set the homepage to show the new tab page:
* Go to Firefox Menu > Preferences > General
* Set '''When Firefox starts''' to '''Show my Home page'''
* Set '''Home Page''' to '''about:newtab'''
So that a new tab opens the new tab page
* On the address bar, go to '''about:config''' (Just be careful)
* Set '''browser.newtab.url''' to '''about:newtab'''

Problem issue dialing from home screen

When I am on my home screen and want to dial a number, that isn't in my contacts, I have to enter the first number twice. Example: when I hit 6, it goes to the search page and lists all contacts under F, but when I continue dialing, it completely omits the 6. Hence, why I have to enter the first number twice.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. bdja
Solved!
Go to Solution.

After another search on my BB, I found out that it was an app causing my issue. Thank you

Home screen shortcut for speed dial

You know, in the end this is a phone and when i want to place a call it will be in a speed dail mode
and i like to manage the speed dial in groups/folders but i have no way to do this in this phone without buying an app..
how lame is this phone no to support outof the box creating a shortcuts for "direct call" of a person and then i could group them in a floder like i want ...
this phone OS is lame .. very remind me the iPhone that also don't have this only Android understand the usage of a PHONE!!!!

There is speed dial built into the device OS.
If you need to create an app I suggest we move this thread to our developer section of this forum.
If you simply need to convert apk files: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://apps.goodereader.com/apk-2-bar/&sa=U&ei=xkkbUtSMBNKE2gWyyoEg&ved=...
1. If any post helps you please click the below the post(s) that helped you.
2. Please resolve your thread by marking the post "Solution?" which solved it for you!
3. Install free BlackBerry Protect today for backups of contacts and data.
4. Guide to Unlocking your BlackBerry & Unlock Codes
Join our BBM Channels (Beta)
BlackBerry Support Forums Channel
PIN: C0001B7B4 Display/Scan Bar Code
Knowledge Base Updates
PIN: C0005A9AA Display/Scan Bar Code

My iphone 4 wont connect to my wifi, it usualy works fine, when i go to settings it says its connected but on the home screen it still says 3g and is running at 3g speeds still, please help :)

my iphone 4 wont connect to my wifi, it usualy works fine, when i go to settings it says its connected but on the home screen it still says 3g and is running at 3g speeds still? please help

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1398

I can't access my dial pad to make calls. The last few days when I go to the phone a pop up appears that says "unfortunatly contacts has stopped working" after pressing ok to remove the pop up, it goes back to the home screen. This also happens when I

The last several days I have not been able to access the dial pad. When I go to phone a pop up appears that says "unfortunatly contacts has stopped working." To remove the pop up you have to hit 'ok', the it goes back to the home screen. This also happens when I go to contacts.

You migh give resetting your NVRAM a try:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

Can I have a "Speed Dial" or "Fast Dial" as my home page for Safari?

Is there anyway to do this?
I would really like to be able to have Safari set up with some type of Speed dial.
For those of you who dont know, its basically a home page with about 9 different thumbnails that are constantly logged into their own sites.
Its very quick and efficient.

I think he's talking about something like the Fast Dial extension for Firefox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5721) but for safari. I use it on firefox and would like to see it on Safari too

Speed Dial continously tries to load in Firefox Home App for iPhone and what should I do?

Trying to sync desktop (laptop) to Firefox Home on my iPhone. Bookmarks and history have synced rather quickly. I have Speed Dial on my desktop and it is trying to sync up to Firefox Home and it has been trying to do so for about 45 min to an hour. Please HELP ME!!!!!!!

Wow. Anymore it's just a conversation with myself in this forum. Not sure what the problem is.
Pretty simple symptom. Playing a video in a view. If I pop the view the video should stop playing because the view should be destroyed. But it keeps playing. How do I not have that happen?

Just got U-verse today, how do I set up speed dialing on my phone, I had it with the ATT service, but it does not work with the UVerse

OK - I looked at the manual & see they made it major project. Instead of simply assigning tel numbers to each of the dialing digits, you have to build a directory record first, then you can assign the directory record to a dialing digit.
Looks like the simple part is using it - just press and hold the digit to dial the whole number.
So, it will take 40 minutes or so to break down the steps in understandable prose. It is too late to start now & i have a vet appointment in the am. All day is kind of full. But, I will try to do it tomorrow (thurs the 18th)

Seemed like there should be a speed dial, so I did a search & found the cure is worse than the disease -
Dial from your phone
Make calls directly from your existing touch-tone home phone:
Local calls: Dial the 7- or 10-digit phone number.
Long distance calls: Dial 1 + area code + 7-digit phone number.
International calls: Dial 011 + country code + 7-digit phone number.
Dial online from your myAT&T account
Call from your online Address Book or Call History, which shows a list of up to 100 of your most recent call records sorted by date and time:
Log in to myAT&T. Don't have a myAT&T login? Register today!
From the I want to menu, select Manage my plans and services and then Manage my phone features.
Your U-verse portal will open and a Make a Call box will appear on the left side of the page.
Enter a number to dial or select a number from your Call History or Address Book.
Specify whether you'd like to activate/deactivate Caller ID Blocking and Call Waiting for the call.
Select Place Call.
When your home phone rings, pick it up to place your call.
Important Note
To find numbers in the Call History, you can also sort numbers by missed, answered, outgoing, name, length of call, or type, or search for a specific call.
Dial from your U-verse TV
With U-verse TV, you can view a list of up to 100 of your most recent incoming call records by date and time on your TV screen. Use your U-verse TV remote to tune to your Call History and return calls with the press of a button.
Tune to Channel 9900 using your U-verse TV remote.
Select a U-verse Voice phone number on screen.
Press OK to view a log of answered and missed calls. You can sort by name, date, and phone number.
Scroll using the arrows.
Select a number and press OK to return a call.
Select Call and press OK.
When your home phone rings, pick it up to place your call.
You can have a call list accesed from a browser.
You can call back a historical call from the browser or TV.
https://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB401002

Speed dial on the Lumia 820?

I cannot find anywhere how you set speed dial on the Lumia 820? can this be done

@ lynnai41 - You may go to your contact list, select the contact and long press on it .. then select 'pin to start' and the contact tile will be pinned to the home screen. Else, you may search for 3rd Party applications (search for 'speed dial' ) at the MarketPlace.

Speed dial

Hi,
After the last Ios update, the apps that work with
Speed dial, stopped working properly.
I have "faces lite" app, for speed dial, and it doesn't
Allow to edit contact details or to add a new contact.
The app just shuts down.
I thought that this is app problem and tried to download another.
I downloaded two different apps, but it has the same issue.
When I tried to add a contact the app shuts down.
Tried this on iphone 5 and 5s.
Does anybody have the same problem?

Yes I have the same problem. All apps that create 1-touch dial Home Screen icons that I've tested now fail under iOS7.

DX650 cannot show caller ID name after speed dial is configured

Hi all,
Once I replaced my IP phone from CP-7975 with DX650, I found the incoming caller name display is missing for those caller phone numbers are configured as "one-button speed dial" on the DX650. For other callers calling to DX650, the caller name can be displayed correctly.
Anyone encounters this issue before and how to solve it?? Right now, DX650 is not mapped with the google account and other directory setting.
thanks,
samuel

Hello,
to resolve your issue go to home screen of DX650 and click Contact , then click serch icon , enter the name of contact and aftar that click copy in my Conctacts Button.
Rollback to phone icon in home screen of DX650 ,click add new speed dial then selec your contact , click save .
and make a test , your probleme we will resolved.
Regards

Lumia 1020 - No Speed Dial

Having just moved from Android SGS4 I am shocked to find that the Lumia 1020 (possibly the most expensive mobile phone on the market) does not have speed dial under the phone pad keys. Forget about the inconvenient pinning of a contact to the home window which requires nine tiles to replicate the keypad version found on almost every other phone in existence! If the message bank number can be stored under key 1 then there is no reason why up to nine other numbers could not be stored under the other keys. IMO this is a serious failure with this phone especially for a business user. I hope that a software update might fix this issue.

There is none you pin a contact to home screen from people hub,or you can try this app .
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-ie/store/app/rapdialer/40c99615-6a06-4256-a5c0-49c27a3146be
If i have helped at all a click on the white star below would be nice thanks.
Now using the Lumia 1520

Blackberry 8330 Home Screen

So my sprint blackberry 8330's home screen is blank, all it shows is the BB menu, time, battery, signal, and volume, whenever I roll the ball over to where all the previous icons were all that shows up is a yellow circle highlighting an empty space, and when I switch over to the BB menu it remains the same except for that there's no icons except for the time,etc,etc & I can get into my messages and all by pressing ALT & Back, but I want to restore my icons, & I've tried the whole call log>menu>options>general options>switching the dial homescreen to no> exiting to homescreen>press "O"
but when I hold down the "O" all it says is if I want to add a speed dial to it ? & every now & the it says error 523. Any help?/: please.

Hi
You might find the advice in the following link to be helpful
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Curve-Series/App-error-523/m-p/405445/highlight/tr...
Blackberry Best Advice - Back-up weekly
If I have helped you please check the "Kudos" star on the right >>>>

Speed Dial on Home Screen

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for