Hi, you can check if you have added "android.permission.READ_CONTACTS "in the AndroidManifest.xml.
2010/7/13 Fabrizio Gennari <[email protected]> > Hello. > > I am trying to read and write contacts on the SIM phonebook. > > First I tried writing a contact with GetContentResolver.insert(), passing > RawContacts.CONTENT_URI as URI and ensuring the column > RawContacts.ACCOUNT_NAME had the value "SIM", and adding 2 lines (1 for4 > name and 1 for phone) to Data.CONTENT_URI, linked by contact ID. This seemed > to work: the contacts showed in the contact list with the SIM logo next to > them, but they wouldn't survive a reboot... apparently that's just a > placeholder in memory, which is synced with the real SIM at startup and at > every change. > > Then I tried reading the list of contacs on the SIM with > > Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query( > Uri.parse("content://icc/adn") > ,null > ,null > ,null > ,null > ); > > This fails with a NullPointerException on a real phone. On the emulator, it > returns a Cursor with 0 lines. This sounds likely. > Strangely, accessing content://icc/fdn and content://icc/sdn both work, > both on emulator and on phone. > > Finally, I tried writing a contact with > > ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); > values.put("name","Name Of Contact"); > values.put("number", "+777777777"); > Uri uri = getContentResolver().insert( > Uri.parse("content://icc/adn") > , values) > ; > > This returns a null URI and no contact is inserted. > > What's wrong there, and what's the right way of doing this? > > Regards, > Fabrizio > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

