Question: Is there a way to do this?
My dad has the HTC Hero (as do I). He has blocked caller ID on all his outgoing calls (not through the phone itself but through Sprint; it was like that on his previous phone too). He doesn't want his number to show up when he calls people in general, but he does want it to show up when he calls family members, so we know to answer him. You can dial *82 before a call to turn caller ID back on for that one call, so he has saved phone numbers for each of us that start with a *82 at the beginning, on his phone. The problem is that if you try to send a text message to that number, it doesn't work. So, he has one number for calling my mobile phone, and a different number for texting my mobile phone.
Now, he likes the Quick Contact shortcut on the home screen, where you get an icon of the person's face and then when you tap on it you get a little list of options like call or text, right on the home screen. The problem is that it calls and texts whatever the primary number is, and I can't figure out how to set a different primary number for texting and for calling.
Does anyone know how to do that?
(I know there are various workarounds, like having the icon take you to the address book page instead and choosing a number from there, etc. But I just want to find out if there is a way of making it work with the quick contact thingie, because that seems the most efficient and smooth. Thanks!)
My dad has the HTC Hero (as do I). He has blocked caller ID on all his outgoing calls (not through the phone itself but through Sprint; it was like that on his previous phone too). He doesn't want his number to show up when he calls people in general, but he does want it to show up when he calls family members, so we know to answer him. You can dial *82 before a call to turn caller ID back on for that one call, so he has saved phone numbers for each of us that start with a *82 at the beginning, on his phone. The problem is that if you try to send a text message to that number, it doesn't work. So, he has one number for calling my mobile phone, and a different number for texting my mobile phone.
Now, he likes the Quick Contact shortcut on the home screen, where you get an icon of the person's face and then when you tap on it you get a little list of options like call or text, right on the home screen. The problem is that it calls and texts whatever the primary number is, and I can't figure out how to set a different primary number for texting and for calling.
Does anyone know how to do that?
(I know there are various workarounds, like having the icon take you to the address book page instead and choosing a number from there, etc. But I just want to find out if there is a way of making it work with the quick contact thingie, because that seems the most efficient and smooth. Thanks!)