well im sure this has probably been covered already, i did a quick search but didnt find anything. so if it has i apologize. now the problem im having is when i receive a SMS from some one in my contacts it doesn't show their name, it just shows the number that it came from with the whole number (ex: +18185555555) is there a setting that i need to set so when i get a txt from one of my contacts it shows their name?
thanks in advance.
maybe you have it wrong in the contacts?
Is the "+" in the number for that person in ur contacts? Try adding the "1" to the area code in there...
Are you running any kind of SMS software or contact software that might be screwing it up? I've installed SMS programs that completely sucked and screwed everything up...
If yo're running a 3rd party Rom, have you run the network wizard?
duprade said:
maybe you have it wrong in the contacts?
Is the "+" in the number for that person in ur contacts? Try adding the "1" to the area code in there...
Are you running any kind of SMS software or contact software that might be screwing it up? I've installed SMS programs that completely sucked and screwed everything up...
If yo're running a 3rd party Rom, have you run the network wizard?
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i just got my wing today, im coming from a MDA. i did a sync from mda to my PC installed the new wing sync software, then synced my wing it copied all my contacts to my wing. i was thinking of adding the + and the 1 to the contacts but that will take for ever as i have over 200 contacts. i just thought since it copied over my contacts with no problem when i would get a txt it would show the name just like my MDA.
I was going to say, make sure you're contacts don't have the "+" since that might affect it.
It should work fine, so I really don't know what to tell you.
If you jsut got the phone today, hard reset it and sync all your contacts to it again and try again.
If that doesn't help, Maybe someone else on here can enlighten us... but it doesn't make any sense, unless for some reason the numbers in your contacts are formatting incorrectly or something.
sigh, and i just got it going with all these new programs that are listed here. oh well ill just hard reset it and start over shouldnt be to much of a hassle. might as well put in a new ROM while im at it.
thanks for your help.
Might as well flash a new rom. The Stock T-mobile Rom sucks.
I'll suggest Touch-IT 4.4
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MDA Touch Plus..recently just had it back from repair, but they have also done a software upgrade.
Unfortunately now my text messages are threaded and showing "Conversation with" and just the mobile number. Therefore I have to look up my contacts for who is sending me a text message.
Been through all the settings and I have deleted all sim contacts from my contacts list.
Racking my brains here, any help guys how to get it back so i can see contact names again in my messages? I dont mind if they are still threaded so long as I can see who it is.
thanks in advance.
My wife's got the same issue. Just been back to T-Mobile for repair, got the latest firmware installed and now contacts aren't being recognised in the threaded messages.
A temporary fix seems to be to amend the contact mobile number to start +447xxx rather than 07xxx and this seems to work, but as she's got a couple of hundred contacts (uses her phone for work as well as personal use) it's gonna take some time to update them all.
Don't have this issue with either my Diamond or my Trinity (both also running WM6.1).
Any further help appreciated!
One option might be to disable threaded SMS - install this cab and all should be well again.
Hope that works for you!
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It works! Many thanks Khrushy
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My wife's got the same issue. Just been back to T-Mobile for repair, got the latest firmware installed and now contacts aren't being recognised in the threaded messages.
A temporary fix seems to be to amend the contact mobile number to start +447xxx rather than 07xxx and this seems to work, but as she's got a couple of hundred contacts (uses her phone for work as well as personal use) it's gonna take some time to update them all.
Don't have this issue with either my Diamond or my Trinity (both also running WM6.1).
Any further help appreciated!
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Youre right, been onto tech guys, this is the only cure at this moment in time. Took me half an hour to change all the contacts to +44 but its workable now. Thanks for your suggestion Martins40
When I receive a call or a text message from someone it displays their phone number instead of their name that is in my phonebook.
How do I fix this as I have tried google and the user manual and can't seem to find it.
Thanks in advance.
I've been talking to HTC tech support about this issue and they got me to try a few things. They now say that I will have to send it back to them for repair as they reckon it is faulty. Hopefully they won't send it back to me reflashed to the UK Orange ROM....
The other day I synched my tattoo with my Outlook contacts and calendar. It screwed it right up. Deleted over 500 contacts and moved loads of events in my calendar.
I have to wait for the IT dept to restore my outlook from the backup tape from the exchange server.
Since I told HTC about this they have stopped replying. Maybe next week they will take it in for repair......
Has anyone else had this problem. If I have the phone with SIM only contacts then the name shows. If I sync my Outlook contacts then none of my outlook or SIM contacts display the name. The ROM that I am using is 1.67.405.6
The phone is just back from repair and no fault found and they reinstalled the Orange ROM on it. I have put it back to 1.67.405.6 ROM
I love this phone apart from this problem (which I must get fixed or it's back to using the Kaiser).
My camera doesn't auto focus either to scan barcodes
Am I the only person in the world that owns a Tattoo that this happens to ????
No, to be honest my tattoo camera doesn't auto focus either when scanning barcodes...when using the normal camera it does really well...
Since I don't really need this feature it didn't quite bother me...
All my incoming phone calls and text messages just show the callers id number but it doesn't translate them into the phonebook names. Very annoying.
I doubt that this is a fault on the tattoo. Should be some settings somewhere. Remember on windows mobile 6.x you had to set the minimum number of digits in the phone number if your country used less than the default settings for it to show phonebook names? Might be something like that. Try to dig in this direction.
Think I have looked at every setting on this phone and still can't seem to get it working. Maybe it's a fault in the ROM or summat
Does the phone display SIM contacts AND phone contacts? if yes i would set it to phone only and copy all contacts to from sim to phone - maybe it can't handle doubled entries...Oo
I got it listing phone contacts only, changed my frequent ones to +44 numbers, still no difference, still showing phone numbers for all calls and texts.
Is my phone the only one that does this ??
If it doesn't get sorted soon i'll have to get rid of it as this is a bloody nuisance....
Yes, I'm afraid that your phone is the only one, just as my phone was the only one to delete sms messages automatically...I called HTC support and they told me I had to hard reset the phone (although I did this 2 times before). Nevertheless I tried the third time and now the problem's gone curiously...
You can backup all your data on your SD card before you hard reset it (if you're willing to do this again), so no data loss on this side
It's just a thought...
I think hard reset is triggered when pressing Menu and Back buttons while the phone is turned off and then shortly pressing the power button.
Sorry for not being of more help
Regards
TheSSJ
Right, I decided to bite the bullet again and did a hard reset, scrubbed everything.
1. SIM contacts only, phoned the mobile and the name and number came up the way it should i.e. normal
2. Synched my outlook contacts with the phone
3. Called the mobile from numbers in my Outlook, just the number shows, no name
4. Called the mobile from numbers that worked in step 1, these now show as just number only, no name
5. From this I presume that there is something wrong/corrupt in the Outlook data that the phone doesn't like and screws the names part up. I presume I will need to go through all my Outlook contacts to see if anything jumps out as being the problem.
Any ideas ??
FIXED IT.
Each text or call I received if I clicked on the callers number and listed the contact details it gave me part of one of my contacts with text in the number section (but the same info for every number). I then went through all my Outlook contacts 1 by 1 and found the one that had the same info. Deleted this contact on my Outlook and my phone and boom, hey presto, instantly all my number/names work perfectly now.
HTC sync had corrupted my Outlook earlier and I lost over 500 contacts, garbled others and moved stuff in my calendar.
Thank fook it's all working perfectly now.
I love this phone.
Okay so I searched far and wide on these forums for 3+ days now with not answer. Maybe I'm just blind or not typing in the correct search terms but here is my problem...
I have a Sprint HTC Hero rooted flashed bla bla bla the works... anyways the alarm clock sounds are missing and the alarm clock will not work because of this. Does anybody have JUST the ORIGINAL alarm clock files?
Secondly, whenever I goto call someone or someone calls in it shows up on my phone as the same contact all the time calling in/out. It is the last contact on my list.
Any help with these issues would be great!
Anybody that can answer my question would be greatly appreciated... I am pulling my hair out because of this. It is totally messing up my schedule as well.......
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Okay so I searched far and wide on these forums for 3+ days now with not answer. Maybe I'm just blind or not typing in the correct search terms but here is my problem...
I have a Sprint HTC Hero rooted flashed bla bla bla the works... anyways the alarm clock sounds are missing and the alarm clock will not work because of this. Does anybody have JUST the ORIGINAL alarm clock files?
Secondly, whenever I goto call someone or someone calls in it shows up on my phone as the same contact all the time calling in/out. It is the last contact on my list.
Any help with these issues would be great!
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In regards to the "original alarm clock files", I think you might want to try installing the alarm .apk file again on your phone.
Have you tried reflashing the ROM? If not, try that -- first without wiping the the phone, then doing so if nothing changes.
If that doesn't work, I'd advice you Sprint RUU your phone, TEST the Stock ROM to see that you do hear the alarm sounds and that your calling problem is fixed. If this happens to be the case, then there was probably a glitch in the ROM -- happens sometimes. Reroot, install recovery, and flash ROM of your choice once, test again and report back.
Hope that helps. I've attached the file below.
To install:
1. Download file -- DO NOT EXTRACT IT
2. Place it into your AndroidSDK\tools folder
3. Run this command in Command Prompt, make sure you cd into your tools folder first though.
Code:
adb push WorldClock.apk /system/app/
adb shell reboot
Thank you for the help pseudoremora I finally was able to get my alarm clock sounds back however my contacts issue is still an issue.... I've tried re-flashing and doing the Sprint RUU like you said but my contacts still jacks up. It will always be the last person on my contacts list that shows up whenever someone is calling me regard less if it is that person or not. It confuses the hell out of me and I can't ignore phone calls properly now! lol Is there anything else that you could think of that might be effecting this? I've tried downloading just the contacts file as well and re-installing that on my phone but it does the same stupid thing.
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It will always be the last person on my contacts list that shows up whenever someone is calling me regard less if it is that person or not. It confuses the hell out of me and I can't ignore phone calls properly now! lol Is there anything else that you could think of that might be effecting this? I've tried downloading just the contacts file as well and re-installing that on my phone but it does the same stupid thing.
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No problem for the help. With this contacts problem -- I would double check your contacts and verify that the numbers match with the correct people and also check your Gmail account contacts as well -- Gmail might be merging or somehow doing something weird and causing this problem, since your Gmail account is tied to your phone. That would be pretty much my last guess.
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No problem for the help. With this contacts problem -- I would double check your contacts and verify that the numbers match with the correct people and also check your Gmail account contacts as well -- Gmail might be merging or somehow doing something weird and causing this problem, since your Gmail account is tied to your phone. That would be pretty much my last guess.
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Yes I've already gone through and checked the numbers of each contact to make sure nothing was matching up. I also disabled Gmail contacts so that I only have the ones that I hand jammed in. I am at wits end on this one.. I've flashed the Sprint RUU like 50 times now with no such luck (1.56.651.2)
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Yes I've already gone through and checked the numbers of each contact to make sure nothing was matching up. I also disabled Gmail contacts so that I only have the ones that I hand jammed in. I am at wits end on this one.. I've flashed the Sprint RUU like 50 times now with no such luck (1.56.651.2)
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Hm... I don't know then. Have you talked with Sprint at all? Have you checked out some other forums to see if this problem has come up?
If not, try that as well - cause I'm out of solutions.
Check AndroidCentral, Modaco's website, anything dealing with Android phones. Sorry I can't be more of a help.
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Hm... I don't know then. Have you talked with Sprint at all? Have you checked out some other forums to see if this problem has come up?
If not, try that as well - cause I'm out of solutions.
Check AndroidCentral, Modaco's website, anything dealing with Android phones. Sorry I can't be more of a help.
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I've talked to Sprint about this issue and they were completely clueless... they didn't even know what a rosie was. I'll try searching those other places thanks pseudoremora for your help. I'll post up any updates if I get this issue resolved.
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I've talked to Sprint about this issue and they were completely clueless... they didn't even know what a rosie was. I'll try searching those other places thanks pseudoremora for your help. I'll post up any updates if I get this issue resolved.
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No problem. Good luck.
Hi there,
Not sure if this is the right place to be asking this question but i'll give it a try.
I am running handcent on my incredible for handling my sms, I have this odd problem where handcent just stopped recognizing messages from one of my contacts. Is there anyway to get it to start recognizing it again?
This happened to me back in june and I ended up resetting the phone to get it back working again. I really don't want to do that. My phone isn't rooted or anything so everything on it is stock. any suggestions would be great.
I had a similar issue once and it was caused by the area code. I didn't have it listed as part of the number for my contact, IIRC.
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I had a similar issue once and it was caused by the area code. I didn't have it listed as part of the number for my contact, IIRC.
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I do have the area code listed, i also tried deleting the contact from my phone and recreate it.
Could you have possibly "blacklisted" the contact? If so, none of the SMS's will show up in the main screen until you Check off "Show Blacklist" in settings under Security and Privacy.
That's what it was. i have not idea how he got on my black list, looks like i had a few other contacts black listed as well. Figures it was something so simple.
i recently lost my phone and thought all the numbers i`d aquired over the years were gone forever, to my delight when recieving my new phone and putting my email/facebook account details in, all my old numbers were synced also. but everytime i try send a message it comes up "unable to send message try again" i can call a number no probs its just the sms. if i delete the contact and put the number in manually in the phone its fine even tho it was the exact same contact number as the one which was automatically synced. anyone else have this problem and know of a fix??? i really dont wanna have to go through 100s of contacts and delete them and re-enter the names and numbers all over again.. Thanks
wow this place is like a ghost town lol. last time i was a regular on xda was when i had a HD2, that forum was a hive of activity!! not much love for the omnia7 on here lol
Might be a prefix problem? Ask your provider if they know of this issue. Also try the network app from samsung, might fix the settings.
cheers for the reply mate.. apparently its something to do with the windows live or googlemail accounts i`d read someone tested this putting in a contact through these accounts and synching you get this problem, make a contact in the phone and its fine. didnt find a fix tho.... damn!
this person is having same issue http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp7-wppeople/windows-live-account-synced-windows-7-contacts-sms/117e3cb3-8568-477d-974a-a6b458d16bdb?page=1&tm=1336670340518#footer