Galaxy S4 quick questions, thinking of returning

[dfinke23]

Last Friday I switched to an S4 from an iphone, and have 14 days to return. After spending some time, it's pretty close to being setup how I want it to be, but there are a couple of things that are unnacceptable that I cannot figure out how to change:

The stock dialer / contacts app - I do not like the cartoon faces, and have too many contacts to put a generic pic in individually. I downloaded an iphone contacts app, but the caller id display was so small you couldn't read it. I then downloaded another dialer app but when I dial a call, or a call is connected, it defaults back to the stock dialer and the big cartoon face.
Any way to disable or uninstall the stock dialer without screwing things up so that the phone cannot be returned? Any way to get rid of the cartoon face and have text only?
Also, is there an app that combine the contacts, dialer, and visual voice mail? Seems silly to not have this combined.

Deleting text messages - when I "select all" of the text messages in a thread, it deletes the thread entirely. Is there a messaging app that deletes the messages only, without deleting the entire thread?

Thanks in advance

 

[Golfdriver97]

Last Friday I switched to an S4 from an iphone, and have 14 days to return. After spending some time, it's pretty close to being setup how I want it to be, but there are a couple of things that are unnacceptable that I cannot figure out how to change:

The stock dialer / contacts app - I do not like the cartoon faces, and have too many contacts to put a generic pic in individually. I downloaded an iphone contacts app, but the caller id display was so small you couldn't read it. I then downloaded another dialer app but when I dial a call, or a call is connected, it defaults back to the stock dialer and the big cartoon face.
Any way to disable or uninstall the stock dialer without screwing things up so that the phone cannot be returned? Any way to get rid of the cartoon face and have text only?
Also, is there an app that combine the contacts, dialer, and visual voice mail? Seems silly to not have this combined.

Deleting text messages - when I "select all" of the text messages in a thread, it deletes the thread entirely. Is there a messaging app that deletes the messages only, without deleting the entire thread?

Thanks in advance

Welcome to the forums and Android!!!!

For some reason something is nagging at me that if you connect to Facebook, the contact photos would sync. I can't confirm or deny, because I hate FB with a passion. I just seem to remember something about that. And I could even be mistaken. Otherwise, you could download the photos of your friends either from FB or find random funny pistures and edit them to your contacts. Just enter contact, menu, edit, then press the photo, I think. Sorry, kinda shooting from the hip here. I don't edit my contacts with photos.

COuld you elaborate on the merging of apps?

As for deleting one message, try long pressing the message. That should being up at least a delete option.

Hope those helped, and to see you in the forums still using the S4.

 

[dfinke23]

Welcome to the forums and Android!!!!

For some reason something is nagging at me that if you connect to Facebook, the contact photos would sync. I can't confirm or deny, because I hate FB with a passion. I just seem to remember something about that. And I could even be mistaken. Otherwise, you could download the photos of your friends either from FB or find random funny pistures and edit them to your contacts. Just enter contact, menu, edit, then press the photo, I think. Sorry, kinda shooting from the hip here. I don't edit my contacts with photos.

COuld you elaborate on the merging of apps?

As for deleting one message, try long pressing the message. That should being up at least a delete option.

Hope those helped, and to see you in the forums still using the S4.

I hope to figure this out, because I really like a lot about this phone.
Connecting to FB would cover maybe 5% of my contacts and it would take several days to individually insert pics. I'm like you, I do not want images next to the contacts...but I especially do not want a cartoon default icon - text only would be just fine.

On the merged app, one of the things I like about the iphone is the dialer app has contacts and visual voicemail built in. I cannot imagine why this is not available on the S4.

 

[Golfdriver97]

I hope to figure this out, because I really like a lot about this phone.
Connecting to FB would cover maybe 5% of my contacts and it would take several days to individually insert pics. I'm like you, I do not want images next to the contacts...but I especially do not want a cartoon default icon - text only would be just fine.

On the merged app, one of the things I like about the iphone is the dialer app has contacts and visual voicemail built in. I cannot imagine why this is not available on the S4.

I guess something else you could do is download either random images or just find a white background and insert into contacts.

As for the merging, I think I get what you are saying, but I think that was a result of the Apple and Samsung lawsuits. So, probably no dice there.

Sent from a SlimROM S3.

 

[dfinke23]

I noticed today, the new Note 3 has the same problem; the SG3 and Note 2 do not have this issue.

 

[rgriffin25]

I just started using Yandex . Shell launcher which includes a dialer. This app is free and might fix your problem.

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