[android-developers] Re: Sim Contacts

Anyone? One of the Google engineers perhaps?

On Aug 30, 7:37 am, William Ferguson <william.ferguson...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have some code that manipulates the Contacts database via the
> Contacts Provider (ContactsContract.RawContacts.CONTENT_URI), so I can
> add/edit/delete my Google contacts, Phone contacts and the Sim
> contacts cached there.
>
> Changes to the Phone contacts are immediate, changes to the Google
> contacts are synced to my Google account, but changes to the SIM
> contacts only affect the Contacts DB and aren't persisted to the SIM.
>
> Ie while I can delete the SIM contacts from the Contacts DB, once I
> reboot my phone the SIM contacts get repopulated into the Contacts DB.
>
> The IccProvider (accessed via content://icc/adn) seems to be a way to
> directly access the SIM contacts. The source code seems to suggest so
> and there is annectdotal evidence that this works, but it is an
> internal Android API and it doesn't work on my Galaxy S in any case.
>
> So, does anyone know a definitive way of modifying/deleting SIM
> contacts.
> Or failing that, a way to stop the SIM contacts being reopulated on
> reboot, though this seems less satisfying.

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