Accessing the phone's contact list

[paskuniak]

Hi all,

I've found this post when looking for how to access the contact list:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5344397
The problem is that it asks the user 3 times(!) for permission...
Isn't there a way that asks only once?

Thanks...

[r2j7]

Hello paskuniak,

couple of options:

1) In case you need to remove prompts during application development i.e. you do not necessarily need a real device, you can use some SDK emulator which (with esp. Nokia SDK emulators in mind) usually enables setting the access rights to maximum (=removes all the prompts for good).

2) If you are using some device and you need to remove the prompts esp. for that, then depending on the device you would need to either a) set the access settings manually to something else than what is currently set as default (and which results in the current prompting), or alternatively in case of unsigned application and no chance to set the access settings to prompt only once for it, b) you need to sign the application by using some Java ME code signing certificate for 3rd party Java MIDlets, and, in case of no improvement in terms of less prompting after signing, then change the access settings manually for your device.

Regards,
r2j7

[im2amit]

Hi all,

I've found this post when looking for how to access the contact list:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5344397
The problem is that it asks the user 3 times(!) for permission...
Isn't there a way that asks only once?

Thanks...

Yes, go to application manager and edit permissions setting for your app, make it "Ask only Once" for reading user data. but if this setting is grayed out for your application on your target device then you may need to sign your app with some trusted 3rd party code signing certificate from some signing authority, install the app again and then go to settings again to set it to ask only once.