gwsharkcom wrote:The phone came with 4 contact widgets and I would like to know how to make a new one and also how to modify and existing contact widget. Does anyone know how. Thanks.
GWShark
Figured it out!
At least for a Droid X.
Go to your contacts book and open it. Choose the contact whose widget you want to change. Open it. From the Menu, choose Edit. Change the "First Name" to an 8-letter (including spaces) Name that you want to appear on the widget. (Leave the family name blank.
Under the Family name space is "Phone". Under Phone there is a grey box that, by default says "Phone". Touch it. A drop-down list will appear. It looks like it ends with "Pager", but you can scroll down. Choose "Custom".
A box comes up which says "Custom Label", with a flashing cursor in the white area. Touch the white area, and the keyboard will appear. You will be able to enter any 8-letter name/ nickname, etc. Spaces count as a "letter" (I entered "ICE HOME" and "ICE CELL" for my husband's emergency contact numbers, for example). Choose "ok".
The Custom name will now appear in the grey box beside the phone number. Choose "Save". The Screen will return you the full Contact page entry. Choose Back till you get to the home page. If you have just changed the widget already there, the name will change. If not, discard the widget there and create a new one.
On the home page where you want widget, Choose "Menu>Add>Motorola Widget>Contact Quick Entry". Your contacts will come up. Scroll down to the Contact Entry you just renamed, such as ICE HOME. You will directed to choose one quick action, such as call the ICE CELL, or text the ICE CELL. At the bottom, choose "DONE." The contact widget with its new name (and picture if you put a picture in the box next to the first name when you were editing) will appear.
The first time you touch it, a box will come up asking you to "Enable one-touch calling for this widget". Check the box. THEN TOUCH THE GREEN PHONE IN THAT ENABLE BOX or the changes won't save: it will dial the number, but since the dialer shows up with "END CALL" highlighted, you can immediately end the call as soon as it's dialed.
You can make as many of these contact widgets as you wish, and locate them anywhere you'd like.
If you ever want to make any changes to the name, repeat the steps, including the Phone>Custom>Name steps or the name won't change.
Hope this helps!
Hope this helps!
Oh, you bet it helps!
What a good idea! I've had this phone since it was out and I never knew that contacts could be done this way! The closest I've been able to come is the aTakephONE dialer app and its favorites page. But you have to open the app, I wanted a way to one-touch dial a couple of folks from the homepage. And it ain't free.
Good going, Alexandria and your first post!
Geri O
After many hours of struggling, reading manuals, and trying the help lines -- having deleted two of my contact widgets, and unable to differentiate between the two In Case of Emergency (ICE) numbers, which were just labeled "Home" and "Mobile", with no reference to the fact that they were my ICE contact -- I came to this forum, read how to restore the contact widgets, and, after deleting the restored ones dozens of times accidentally, I came across the "Phone" box menu simply because the screen is so sensitive that it popped up when my finger passed over it.
After trying to change the name several times in the widget, without success (e.g., "Other" comes up listed as OTHER), the sensitive menu scrolled down to reveal "Custom" and, voila -- after a half dozen tries, I figured out how to do it.
Of course I wanted to share it with everyone else, and so was sitting at the computer typing step-by-step because, though it's easy enough once you master it, it was quite an involved process that isn't even described in the Motorola Droid X User's Guide (or if it's there, I couldn't find it).
I've since put the two ICE contacts on the main home page in case of an accident if the EMS responders aren't familiar with the phone and don't know how to slide to another home page, i.e., the contacts page, where I have the widgets. So the widgets can appear as often as you want, on as many pages as you want.
BUT each time you put a contact widget on a new page, even if it's "enabled" on another page, I discovered that you must follow the step to "enable" it to dial with a touch.
I've listed those steps again, for any newcomers.
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On the home page where you want widget, Choose "Menu>Add>Motorola Widget>Contact Quick Entry". Your contacts will come up. Scroll down to the Contact Entry you just renamed, such as ICE HOME. You will directed to choose one quick action, such as call the ICE CELL, or text the ICE CELL. At the bottom, choose "DONE." The contact widget with its new name (and picture if you put a picture in the box next to the first name when you were editing) will appear.
The first time you touch it, a box will come up asking you to "Enable one-touch calling for this widget". Check the box. THEN TOUCH THE GREEN PHONE IN THAT ENABLE BOX or the changes won't save: it will dial the number, but since the dialer shows up with "END CALL" highlighted, you can immediately end the call as soon as it's dialed.
If you ever want to make any changes to the name, repeat the steps, including the Phone>Custom>Name steps or the name won't change.
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Now I feel much "safer" knowing that, if something happened and I were unconscious, Emergency Responders would be able to look at the home page of my phone, see ICE HOME and ICE CELL, press them and have the phone automatically dial my husband. (And I was told by someone in the medical field that all EMS and medical personnel know what ICE means, though I didn't, and look for it on people's cell phones as a separate entry if there's no "EMERGENCY" entry.)
So, happy to make everyone's life easier, to make everyone safer, and everyone's bill "cheaper" since you don't have to buy another app or third party services to make one-touch dialing without using the speed dial numbers and without opening your entire Contacts Address Book every single time you want to make a call.
Gosh, and I was an English Lit/Creative Writing major ...
In fact, computers weren't even invented when I was in school (personal ones, that is) 
Have fun with your contact widgets!