In Jelly Bean, how do I create "Favorites" or "Recent" (phone) shortcut?

[jeffw_00]

I've looked all over the web for this. On my S3 - running JellyBean, I'd like a home screen shortcut directly to the phone's "Favorites" or "Recent" list. There doesn't seem to be any way to do this. Old posts refer to a 'create shortcuts item on the home page menu, but all I have is "add shortcuts and widgets", and there are preciously few of these supplied that are phone related.

Thanks!
/j

 

[anon(6083013)]

So let me ask, what you want is the ability to choose a favorite contact from your home screen just to call or sms quickly?

 

[jeffw_00]

Most of my outgoings are to the list contained in "Recent" or "favorites", but list is too long to create a shortcut for each one. I just want to get to that list more quickly than by first having to select "phone".
/j

 

[anon(6083013)]

Ah i know what you mean now.

Well i have a pre-installed widget on my homescreen called People which contains all of my favorites in my phonebook, i just tap the one i want to contact and whoop. It asks me if i want to send an SMS or call the person (I can even select a defualt action when i tap on them) without having to enter the phonebook first. I think you can add as many as you like. I don't know if that is what you are looking for but at least it is something applies to what you are looking for.

However there's not an option to see a list of recent on the homescreen as far as i know. Perhaps there would be an app Play Store which could do the job.

 

[jeffw_00]

So here's my confession - I actually have a Samsung Statosphere II, which is really similar to the S3 - and is running JellyBean (but it's so unpopular a phone there's no forum for it). The pre-installed shortcuts that came were "Phone" and "Contacts". So to get to "Recent" or "Favorites" I need to select "Phone" first. I suppose I could devote a home screen to the top 10 and create individual shortcuts, but it's a lot easier just to get directly to the "Recent" or "Favorites" screen. Oddly enough, there doesn't seem to be anything in the Play store to remedy this. I searched the web and apparently older versions of the O/S (for older Samsung phones) had a "create shortcut" option on the home screen menu, but I don't.

So - if anyone knows how to get a shortcut to Favorites or Recent - I'm all ears 8-}

/j