Android OS

You can change or add details about your contacts. You can also set the ringtone for when a specific contact calls, or divert all calls from a contact to your voicemail.

Some contact entries contain information from multiple sources: information that you added manually, information that Contacts joined from multiple accounts to consolidate duplicates, and so on. When you edit a contact entry, the information from each source is grouped in its own color-coded, labeled section. If you find duplicate entries in Contacts, you can join them into a single entry, as described in Joining contacts. If you that find information from unrelated contacts was joined in error, you can separate them, as described in Separating contact information.

Changes that you make to information from one source do not affect the information from other sources. For example, if you have information about a contact from a Google Account and an Exchange ActiveSync account and both are configured to sync contacts, edits to the information from the Google Account are synced to that account on the web, but the information from the Exchange ActiveSync account remains unchanged.

For more information about working with multiple accounts, see Accounts.

Edit contact details

You can also press Menu  and touch Edit contact while viewing a contact’s details.

See Adding contacts.

Change a contact’s default phone number

A default phone number appears below the contact’s name in the Contacts list. The default phone number is used when you initiate a call or send a text message from the list by touching & holding a contact.

The default phone number is marked with a checkmark .

Divert all of a contact’s calls to your voicemail

3	Press Menu  and touch Options.

5	Press Back .

When this contact calls you, your phone doesn’t ring and the caller is sent directly to your voicemail.

Set a ringtone for a contact

3	Press Menu  and touch Options.

The ringtone plays a sample.

Delete a contact

3	Press Menu  and touch Delete contact.

If you delete a contact from Google Contacts (or another account with editable contacts), the contact is also deleted from Contacts on the web the next time you sync your phone.

You can’t delete contacts from a read-only account, such as Facebook. Instead, a dialog informs you that the contact will be hidden. To restore hidden contacts from a read-only account, you must delete that account from your phone and then add it again.

If the contact contains information from both editable accounts (such as Contacts) and from a read-only account (such as Facebook), a dialog informs you that the information from the read-only account will be hidden, not deleted.