I'm wondering if this is possible with jelly bean. When I was running aokp on 4.0.4 I could go to the stock dial pad and use the dial pad(not the qwerty keyboard) to search for contacts. This may have been a feature of aokp, I can't say because I'm now running bugless beast 7/13. I know I can get dialers from the play store but I really like the stock dialer. Sorry if this should actually be in the rom section, wasn't sure.
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