Sorting Contacts by LAST NAME

[scramennah]

Verizon imported my Palm Treo contacts, but they are listed alphabetically by FIRST name - so lame. I cannot find any options in gmail to resort by LAST name. Any ideas on this?

[mdscpa]

Can't do it!

[NewToDroid]

Try switching thir names in your address book. Put their last name in the first name spot and it will list them by last name!

[tranzz]

yeah, it's pretty lame alright. That's Google though.

I do have a specific idea/request though. I don't remember just who/where I was told this, but making noise about this to Google is an option we should all try. Here's supposedly the best way:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3732

go to that page and click on the star icon for sure. You may leave comments, but read what's there first, and try to keep your comments constructive. Get every DROID owner you know to do it too. It's insane that only 193 people (as of today) have done this, as the complaints about this are widespread verbally.

Now that you've done that, you have a couple alternatives for searching your contacts. Contact Search+ is an app (on Marketplace) that'll search your apps FAR better than the native search functions. aTakephONE is very helpful too, but needs work, and I don't know if developer is working on it. Try it though, and send the developer a note if you think it needs work.