Assign your girlfriend a speed dial number, and then remove her listing from the widget. NOW you can tell her that you love her too much to lump her in with all those lesser folks.

And as a bonus, it gives you a one button dial for her. Note that '1' is used for voicemail, and if there is a way to change that I haven't found it (I haven't looked very hard...).

 

Same way ... press phone and you will get the dial pad. Then hold down the number of the speed dial.

 

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On the Information tab of the Contact Details screen, press
MENU and then tap Set speed dial.
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In Number, tap Not defined, and then tap the contact number
you want to assign to the speed dial number.
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In Location, tap Not defined, and then tap a speed dial key
(number 2 to 9). When you press and hold the assigned key on
the phone dialer screen, your phone will call the contact.
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4. Tap Save.

 

What I did is dedicated a home screen to contacts and have the smaller people widget set up. And then added a New Folder. Relabled the folder (long press the folder name when it is opened) to "View Contacts. Then I added person shortcuts of the people I wanted to put in the folder (you have to add it to the screen and then drag it into the folder). I set the default action to view contact information. That way if I want to txt someone I can just hit there contact and not try and hit the gray name at the bottom. The people in the folder are listed as they are added (so add your GF first and she will be at the top). I also did the same thing for my office staff (easier than the phone book) So I have 2 folders one for friends and family and one for work.

 

I was having the same problem, with contact that i call/text often being at the bottom. All I did was put an A in front of the people I wanted to stay at the top of the address book.

 

You could also make these contacts one of your favorites. Then after you press the people icon, there is an icon at the bottom with a heart ... press that and you will only show your favorites.

 

How do you put the short people widget into the folder? I can't figure it out.
How do you add anything to a folder?

 

W4LLY, still can't get it to do it! What could I be doing wrong or have disab;ed?
This is crazy! :>)

 

I did not put the widget in the folder I put the individual contact short cut into a folder. First add the folder to the home screen then add the contact shortcut to the home screen and then long press the contact shortcut and then drag it to the folder.

 

OK, thanks for helping.
I can just add a person, but not the actual wdiget to the folder. Also, can't add the whole phones shortcut to it either. Maybe Astro could do it, but I have to figure that out yet!
MY "brainstorm" was/is...
use several short people widgets (sorta like your above if I understand what you did correctly) one for family, friends, business, etc...then actually add all those widgets to a folder. I like the short person one because you can scroll nicely and it isn't so big.

 

I just wanted to say this folder idea was amazing! Awesome alternative to th person widget. If you want to rearrange things in tyur folder you can press and hold, pull them out of the folder then put them back in in the order you want too..

Anyone know if you can get access to these folders through a usb mount somehow?

 

I was also looking for something better here. The People widget would be GREAT if the default action could be changed to open the person's contact instead of only choosing a text/call. It's way too hard to press that tiny gray bar! I had the Touch Flow 2D on my previous phone, and the People widget worked properly there (took you to their contact to choose how you wanted to contact them).

Really hoping they offer this customization when they release the 2.0 update.

- If using folders, though, is there any way to rename the Person shortcuts so they don't say "View First N...", etc. It would be much nicer to just have the person's name, but can't figure out how to change this.