Just wondered has anyone found a solution (maybe with 3rd party software on the XDA Mini) to a problem (more annoyance) I've hated on all mobiles I've ever had:
The problem is if I have 2 separate contacts with the same home telephone number, I've never found a way to specify which name shows up as calling for if that number phones me.
For example I have my mum stored as Maragret McRobie, with her mobile number and home number. I have my dad stored as Robert McRobie with his mobile number and his home number, which is the same as my mum's.
If someone from my mum & dad's house phones my mobile, I want it to show as Margaret McRobie calling, as it's more likely to be her phoning from the house than my dad.
However every mobile I've ever had, including the XDA Mini S, seems to get confused as there are 2 contacts with the same number, and usually just displays the 1st one alphabetically in your Contacts. I think the Wizard behaves by showing the name of the last one you phoned - i.e. if I phoned my mum's mobile more recently than my dad's, if their house phones it shows as my mum. I *think* this is how it works. It's better, but not perfect.
Any way round this, so I can specify explicitly which name will show up?
Cheers
None that I know of.
But if your Dad hardly ever phone you from home why don't you just delete the home number from his entry.
Yah, all mobile phones don't handle shared numbers very well. Your lucky its even showing you a name, because nokias won't show anything (just the number) if you have it saved under two names.
I'd suggest creating a new contact just for the home number and name it "Mom and Dad house" or something along those lines.
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Hi,
Most of my friends and family have more than one mobile number. in my nokia i can simply add a new mobile number to the person's name and even add a note to it to identify the operator. can this be done in WM2003 in the MDA Compact?
thanks
yes,of course..!
well, how do you do it? is what i was actually looking for not just a yes answer although it is justified seeing as i did not phrase my question to be more specific.....
You only have to the new numver to the contact as "Work phone" or "other" etc...
you can even place them under 'CAR' or 'PAGER' they would still be dialled if selected although you can't change the note it is the best solution I think. I guess you could just put his/her primary mobile to MOBILE and the secondary to CAR or PAGER or another field. My bro has 3 mobiles and this is what i did with his contact card.[/img]
Is there a way to add a phone number from a received call to an existing contact and not to a new one?
uhmm... Bump????
uhmm... No?
uhmmm....Grrrrr :evil:
agreed
Keep in mind that MS are a relative n00b when it comes to phone services. They don't quite 'understand' the needs just yet. It'll come, but probably not for current devices - short of a hefty ROM update
Third party developers should be able to address this to an extent.
Ahhh, no worries, even Sony Ericsson do not with their best business phone yet. P910i does the same stupid thing, when one should think that with their experience.......and the lesser, below 150Euro phones do.
We'll just have to wait then...thanks
This is something that has annoyed me since I got my phone. I can't believe such a basic function has been overlooked. :twisted: :twisted:
I'm not sure if that's such a basic function, really
A lot of phones don't allow more than 1 number, and you end up specifying multiple contacts e.g. "ZeBoxx" and "ZeBoxx (cell)".
In addition, even the PocketPC doesn't have multiple phone numbers, just several fields - i.e. one for a land line, one for a mobile #, one for a work #.
Let's say the contact in question has 2 cell numbers - you'd have to either say that the 2nd cell number would be their 'work' number', or if they already have that - and a land number - still make a 2nd contact
ZeBoxx said:
Let's say the contact in question has 2 cell numbers - you'd have to either say that the 2nd cell number would be their 'work' number', or if they already have that - and a land number - still make a 2nd contact
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Yeah, why not? Most simple Outlook synched phones do that.
ZeBoxx said:
I'm not sure if that's such a basic function, really
A lot of phones don't allow more than 1 number, and you end up specifying multiple contacts e.g. "ZeBoxx" and "ZeBoxx (cell)".
In addition, even the PocketPC doesn't have multiple phone numbers, just several fields - i.e. one for a land line, one for a mobile #, one for a work #.
Let's say the contact in question has 2 cell numbers - you'd have to either say that the 2nd cell number would be their 'work' number', or if they already have that - and a land number - still make a 2nd contact
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In some ways you a re right, but WM5 has multiple fields for a single contact as you specified so if I receive a call from a person in my contacts and I want to save that number against his name as it may be a number I don't have for him, I should be able to do it. If not by a simple menu option then at least allow me to copy the number by tap and holding it but even that doesn't work.
A lot of people now carry two cell phones around so it's about time that they provided two cell phone fields in the contacts.
I'm running 6.1 MR1 and sync my contacts with an Exchange Server.
I have a number of contacts that have the same office phone number, and I'm trying to figure out if there is some way to specify which contact info is displayed by Called ID when there is more than one person/entity with that phone number in my contacts.
For example, say I have individual contacts for the ABC Company, John Doe and Jane Smith. All three have the same work telephone number. When I get a call from that phone number, it could be John Doe, Jane Smith or anyone else at the ABC Company calling. Let's say that in this situation, my caller ID display always shows the incoming caller as John Doe. Is there any way to tell Windows to display the caller as the ABC Company information when it receives a call from this number instead.
I've embarrassed myself too many times thinking one person was calling when in fact it was someone else!!!
Thanks!
I've love to be able to do this too.
My problem is that I have a shared address book with all workers at my business with home as well as work numbers. My name and number are obviously in there. In a different book I have my wife's name and our home number. Whenever she calls, my name, as it's alphabetically before here, shows up first. I've tried putting a period or space before her first name hoping that it would move her up on the list, but it moves her down to the last spot of people with the same last name, and I can't change my name in the shared book.
If you're working off personal address books, I'd see if you can fudge the names so that the one you want to appear shows up alphabetically first. Then I think that's the one that gets grabbed with Caller ID
the other option. if you can edit your contacts. Would be to remove the work phone number from the individual contacts. That way it only shows for 'ABC' Company.
Thanks, Nec . . . I've removed the work numbers for the individuals as a half-baked work around. The problem is that some of them are favorite contacts (Spb Shell), so if I want to call them at work, I have to go through the directory instead of just using the picture shortcut.
Hello,
If i add home, mobile, and work numbers for one contact, and that contact calls me from one of those numbers, how do i know from which number he/she's calling from? E.g. how do i know its their home, mobile, or work number?
I didn't see any different colours or icons... unless i just missed it.
Thanks
andd64 said:
Hello,
If i add home, mobile, and work numbers for one contact, and that contact calls me from one of those numbers, how do i know from which number he/she's calling from? E.g. how do i know its their home, mobile, or work number?
I didn't see any different colours or icons... unless i just missed it.
Thanks
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funny, the number shows on the screen, didn't your have that?
yeah the number shows - but unless you know by heart which number belongs to home, mobile, or work for that contact, then how will you know?
Add them as 3 different contacts, eg:
Dave Home
Dave Work
Dave Mobile
Then, link the contact together. Now, they act as a single contact, but when you receive a call, the respective name appears.
Boom.
hi starskyh,
thanks for the tip, but it didn't work =(. It displays the name of the contact that linked it together.
e.g. if you linked dave mobile and dave work to the dave home contact, then it will always show dave home, and underneath it will show w/e number is calling.
Does it work for you?
How can you not differentiate landlines and mobiles?
Unless its' work/home landlines and work/home mobiles you need to differentiate?
Make different contacts if there is a REAL importance that you be able to tell.
Some people have two phones, one for work one privat. Is it really that hard to imagine :-O
I feel our pain same problem here, but than again its not that important to me, but even my Nokia 6210 did that for me.
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lol well in toronto, the numbers for landlines/mobiles aren't different at all... they both could have the same area code/same number format.
yeah i'll probably have to go the multiple contact route.... boo! lol
I'd have more of a quail with people calling me on Private numbers, I just think this is hardly a problem, as I said you can make two contacts.
hi Android Community,
i am just about to reorganize my phonebook, i have used different methods of saving numbers to my phonebook e.g. for germany 004996122222 for person xyz, 0049 stands for country code 961 stands for area code and 22222 stands for the landline, usually Android displays incoming calls like this area code "space" and landline number, it also displays the city where the area code belongs too e.g. waidhaus which is near my hometown.
i still have misc problems the way android formats these numbers. still no problems calling contacts, but one issue was when i type the phone number manually android only suggests me the phone number of one specific person i have in my phonebook either i type in this persons phone number or another persons phone number (manually!!) this is way of wrong.
it displays me this persons name either it is this persons number or any other. i have had this bug years ago with my first htc desire still preserving; it started when beginning saving phone numbers the lol way e.g. 004996122222 where it was not necessary to save it this way unless you are in holidays abroad
due to different formatting of phone numbers from persons around the globe because of the int code &the different way of handling of the leading zero according the country you call to i still have issues, i know there is a way you can edit phone nr in google contacts (gmail) so that it can be updated with next sync. but that did not helped me, still issues from what i have written above
is there a app available that removes this bug of only displaying this one persons contact either i type in his number or anyone else, i think it is because of googles data collection rage and/or my sold htc desirewhich may have had a bug in htc sense and the availability of updates for this device (now i have sgs3 and cm whatever version i dont know and have no issues atm)
or maybe it was because of my mistake setting the phone number the proper way, i think there is no wrong in setting the phone number the way +1NewYorkCityAreaCodeBureauofPersonXYZ but i did probably made a mistake in doing this way making it difficult to reorganize my phonebook.
the problem with this has nothing to do with outgoing calls as there are no problems when typing 004996122222 it always works well (destination germany either i am in germany or abroad), but when a incoming call comes from a saved contact i suggest that it would properly display the orign of the call (only as it is with landline numbers either it is within a country or abroad but no mobile numbers as there are limitations to this),
i wonder if anybody can tell me if there is a builtin library in Android that handles this task i would appreciate your answers to this topic even if i could have written a book on this topic,
wishing you can be indulgent too on my write rage even if it could be explained a smarter way, if you have questions feel free to ask.
thegrayrace said:
hi Android Community,
i am just about to reorganize my phonebook, i have used different methods of saving numbers to my phonebook e.g. for germany 004996122222 for person xyz, 0049 stands for country code 961 stands for area code and 22222 stands for the landline, usually Android displays incoming calls like this area code "space" and landline number, it also displays the city where the area code belongs too e.g. waidhaus which is near my hometown.
i still have misc problems the way android formats these numbers. still no problems calling contacts, but one issue was when i type the phone number manually android only suggests me the phone number of one specific person i have in my phonebook either i type in this persons phone number or another persons phone number (manually!!) this is way of wrong.
it displays me this persons name either it is this persons number or any other. i have had this bug years ago with my first htc desire still preserving; it started when beginning saving phone numbers the lol way e.g. 004996122222 where it was not necessary to save it this way unless you are in holidays abroad
due to different formatting of phone numbers from persons around the globe because of the int code &the different way of handling of the leading zero according the country you call to i still have issues, i know there is a way you can edit phone nr in google contacts (gmail) so that it can be updated with next sync. but that did not helped me, still issues from what i have written above
is there a app available that removes this bug of only displaying this one persons contact either i type in his number or anyone else, i think it is because of googles data collection rage and/or my sold htc desirewhich may have had a bug in htc sense and the availability of updates for this device (now i have sgs3 and cm whatever version i dont know and have no issues atm)
or maybe it was because of my mistake setting the phone number the proper way, i think there is no wrong in setting the phone number the way +1NewYorkCityAreaCodeBureauofPersonXYZ but i did probably made a mistake in doing this way making it difficult to reorganize my phonebook.
the problem with this has nothing to do with outgoing calls as there are no problems when typing 004996122222 it always works well (destination germany either i am in germany or abroad), but when a incoming call comes from a saved contact i suggest that it would properly display the orign of the call (only as it is with landline numbers either it is within a country or abroad but no mobile numbers as there are limitations to this),
i wonder if anybody can tell me if there is a builtin library in Android that handles this task i would appreciate your answers to this topic even if i could have written a book on this topic,
wishing you can be indulgent too on my write rage even if it could be explained a smarter way, if you have questions feel free to ask.
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hi Android Community,
i googled around some keywords regarding my topic and found a way it could be solved
here it goes
contacts+formatter+android in google search box
i ll give it a try, many thanks even no answer
bye bye