Did the dialer in ICS ditch predictive text?

[TerryMasters]

I just noticed that my Nexus wont let me punch in some numbers to pull up a contact and call them. This worked fine on my Froyo and Gingerbread phones, wasn't this a stock Android feature or did mine break somehow?

 

[daso]

I second that question! I really miss being able to dial by name or number on sense

 

[blackjaguar25]

That's mainly a sense feature. You can download Dialer One for free and it has that capability. It's not native to ICS.

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[dookie.]

This was absolutely a feature of GB on my (non-Sense) Droid X and I miss it! There is a contact search in the ICS dialer that works similarly, but I agree that it was way more convenient straight from the dial pad.

Hello Google? Please put this critical phone feature back!

 

[DoodleD]

Agree.... I need this feature back too.

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[TerryMasters]

Same here, my last two phones were TouchWiz and they had it too. Really sad to see this convenient feature missing from ICS

 

[dmbfan42]

http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-nexus/141209-speed-dial.html

 

[callmebob]

Hello Google? Please put this critical phone feature back!

Probably won't happen. This has been missing from Stock Android since inception. The OG didn't have the ability, so I doubt Google will bother with it since they've had three years to implement something so simple. I really miss this functionality from my Incredible. I hope someone can take the ICS dialer and modify it with this function instead of having to go to something like Dialer One. I used Dialer One a when I first got the OG and while it works well, it looks cheap and crappy. If I had any programing ability I would take the ICS dialer and modify it myself, but unfortunately I don't.

 

[callmebob]

http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-galaxy-nexus/141209-speed-dial.html

Widgets on the home screen are not the same thing and they take up real estate that I use for other apps and widgets.

 

[yosteve]

Widgets on the home screen are not the same thing and they take up real estate that I use for other apps and widgets.

I put my quick dial and quick text widgets behind my msg and phone widgets. They don't take up real estate and I can click twice to any of my speed dial people. If you wanted quicker access to the msg and phone widgets you could put them in an open spot too.

I'm always weary my phone will dial on its own if the phone icon was just up front.

 

[daso]

I wanted to follow up that Dialer One has been pretty good. OK! It's not the prettiest thing but I am glad to give up a cool font for being to dial people by name and number. Anyone else use a dialer that they recommend?

 

[jakeh0]

EXdialer is better and has an ICS theme you can download. kang's cm9 also has t9 dialing

 

[h2opoloplyr_11]

I am missing that feature from my bionic.......but the search button is a click away and doesnt take much longer at all. ::flame suit on::

And you get used to it......i dont even do the predictive method anymore....

 

[jamontoast1291]

This was absolutely a feature of GB on my (non-Sense) Droid X and I miss it! There is a contact search in the ICS dialer that works similarly, but I agree that it was way more convenient straight from the dial pad.

Hello Google? Please put this critical phone feature back!

That would be motoblur. It was never a stock feature, google never took it away because they never included it in the first place.

 

[Jimistixx]

The search button in the dialer works pretty well.

 

[ragnarokx]

This feature was recently added to CyanogenMod - it works quite well in the stock dialer. A good option for the root-inclined.

Sent from my Nexus S

 

[yosteve]

I put a folder of direct dials as a makeshift dialer (and I have one for direct texting).

I do miss predictive dialing though.

Oddly, if you hold down the 1 button it dials your voicemail, wtf.

 

[ultravisitor]

Either Google added it in 4.0.3 or it's part of GummyNex because I have the predictive dialing on my phone.

 

[Holsum]

Either Google added it in 4.0.3 or it's part of GummyNex because I have the predictive dialing on my phone.

Its apart of gummynex

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[waxpatch]

Just flashed jelly bean 4.1. No predictive dialing there either.