Hello,
I'm trying to transfer my contact list to my sim card, but experience issues. The sim manager shows that the max length for the name is 14. The setting for multiple numbers is such that it appends e.g. "/H" or "/W" for respectively home and work numbers.
However, many of the names in my contacts are longer than 14 characters; when applying contacts to sim, it transfers the names and numbers, truncates the name at 14 characters, and omits the "/H" or "/W" indication if the name is too long.
Is there a way to avoid this?
(htc tytn, official Windows Mobile 6.0)
Thanks!
Jörg
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on our wizards, how do we stick in prefix numbers to get cheaper (or free) calls, see here, pocket pc's are ignored
http://www.internationalphonecall.net/From_a_Mobile.htm
i tried spaces, commas and "p"
there must be a way. it would be really cool if you didnt need could choose which prefix number at any given time of day, as some of these numbers only work mon-friday and you need another number weekends.
there is a "calling card" feature on windows when using a dialup modem connection? something like that maybe
Use two commas between the numbers. I use this method all the times to store my calling card prefix access number, then the PIN, and finally my destination number.
For example, for my mum number (oversea), in her contact, I will use the Office field for this purpose (Home and Mobile) are her real numbers.
In the Office field, I will put as followed:
1800xxxxxx,,xxxxxxxxxx,,011xxxxxxxxxxxx
Access Number,,PIN number,,phone number to dial
When you hit that entry, it will dial, then pause, then submit the next numbers. I succesfully use this method in Windows Mobile 2003 SE (Wallaby) and in WM5 (Universal).
thanks, spot on.
so easy, i guess one comma is just not enough pause.
any idea how get around having multiple numbers, as these numbers only work while you are in the UK, go to france which i do a lot and they wont work.
i figured having 2 different contact groups in outlook and switching them? any idea?
Just use the unused field in your contact entry.
There are so many entries you can use....
Business has several fields... business 1, business 2, etc.
Home has several fields, home 1, home 2, home 3...
Radio...
Fax...
Telex..
Assistants...
etc..
Hello everybody,
I have a strange problem with my PDA. I'm using WM6 Black Satin ROM. My contact list contains over 400 contacts (and over 500 phone numbers). Each phone number is saved in format +xx xxxxxxxxx, cause in that format it comes from Outlook. Most phone numbers have +48 as country prefix and 9 digits with phone number (cause in Poland cellular phone numbers have 9 digits). I have set Call Id match value to 9.
Everything worked fine, but from a few days i noticed, that some (about 10% of all) contacts are not recognizedy by phone when someone calls. PDA displays only phone number (the same which is stored in my contact list), but cannot find contact name. Similar - when SMS arrives, I can see only phone number, name is not recognized. When I open SMS and tap sender's phone number, PDA asks if he should store that number in contact list (that number is already there). Storing doesn't help - I tried to create new contact, store in existing.
I tried to delete problem contacts and recreate them - it helped in 2-3 contacts, rest still is not working properly. I tried to change Call ID match value - tried values between 3 and 12, doesn't change anything. In some cases, phone recognizes phone numbers after removing '+' from phone number, but without '+' I'm unable to make calls. I can remove whole '+48' (and phone recognition still works), but I need country prefix, cause I often have to make calls using roaming.
Please HELP !!!!!!!!!
Have you tried 0048 instead of +48 for the problem numbers? I noticed when my Hermes had its original WM5 ROM, some numbers were sometimes presented by the other mobile network as "07" instead of "+447", so I had that problem. I just had to make extra entries in my contacts lists...
It's not done that though for a long time now (I've changed ROMs a couple of times too), sorry I can't help more.
Thanx for replying. I tried to replace '+' with '00', but PDA still doesn't recognize that number. I think that in some cases '+' makes, that phone number cannot be found.
Maybe there is another setting in registry, which defines length of phone number compared to number from incoming call? I found this setting in HKCU\ControlPanel\Phone\CallIDMatch. It looks like sometimes PDA doesn't use that setting, cause my numers ale longer than 9 characters (usually 12 including '+'), and adding '+' as first character makes them unrecognizable.
Guys,
I've posted this before but nobody has helped me yet.
Basically put I have a couple of contacts for which I have more than one contact number (home, Mobile etc..)
Anyway, when i receive a call from one of these contacts, the name is not resolved, the picture is not shown and the custom ringtone I have chosen (all by vanilla stock rom means) does not ring!!
I have seen this happen with "Exact" matches to contacts in my Contacts list and also if I have entered the number as "+447760....." instead of using the default "07760...." prefix for UK mobile numbers (as I'm abroad a lot so need to use that to dial them) it also refuses to recognise that they are in fact the same number - something my Artemis did without an issue.
Please help me resolve this - it's ruining my HD experience!
Thanks
21 views and no replies - come on guys please - going on a trip tomorrow and I need this to be sorted if poss - doing my head in!!
I had exactly the same problem on my X1, which I have now sold so I could get a HD. I was on o2 uk using itje's 5.061 rom. What network are you on and which rom and what software have you installed? maybe something we both installed is causing the problem
Right, I'm on a stock rom on an unbranded Touch HHD on the Vodafone network. Programs I've installed are as follows:
Changscreen,
HDTweak
Advanced Config
S K Tools
Battlog
Fingerkeyboard
Resco file Explorer
Very strange - it might have happened since I restored a backup but I doubt it.
Try reducing Phone>Call ID match number in Advanced Config.
I have similar problem... Just installed dutty 3.0X and when i sinchronized all my contacts become duplicated, so i deleted manual only the first ones. And now when someone from the contacts is ringing i dont get picture or his name and I am sure that i have the same number in the contact list. Odd
Anyone have any other ideas about this? Still causing me some considerable pain - I seem to recall it started after I started to reconcile the outlook contacts with my PC - this may have caused a different contact ID (or something?)
same problem and no solutoin... :-(
i managed to fix this by reassigning the phone numbers to the contacts page. It seems to occur when you use 3rd party contact management apps before you have assigned numbers.
Works fine now
mslookout inserts spaces into phone number, and prolly phone cannot recognise incoming number having spaces in phonebook?
I also cant fix it by changing CallIDMatch in the registry. It's bizarre as I have 2 contacts in my favourites: both are now set to No's starting with '0' yet when one texts me, their name shows and when the other does, their number shows. hard and soft resets have also failed to resolve this, HTC helpdesk no use at all, also logged with Windows helpdesk in case it is a microsoft, not htc, problem.
Am keen for other things to try, open to suggestions....
Am disappinted and amazed that what is otherwise a great phone, can't do what cheap cr*ppy phones, can , ie show the name of the person calling or texting.
Have you tried using Advanced Config and increasing Call ID match to 9 or 10?
No caller name when receiving Incoming Call
This may be an old thread, but sometimes the newer ROMs also have the same problem.
This happened to me after updating my from from WM 6.1 to WEH 6.5.3. So, I am updating this thread on how I resolved my problem.
Step 1. Edit the Registry and change the CallIDMatch value to 7 (the original value was 10).
Code:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone]
"CallIDMatch"=dword:00000007
Step 2. Soft Reset (power off and restart)
Before I did this, I needed to copy my contacts from SIM to the Outlook Contacts list, so in my Contacts list, I have "double view" of both lists on the same screen - frustrating.
After this change of the Registry key value, I erased all my contacts from the Outlook Contacts list (use the Hide Sim Contacts function) because I prefer to have my default contacts to be from the SIM card instead of the Outlook Contacts. This way, I can be assured that all newer contacts will be stored on the SIM card and I do not have to worry about losing contacts if I change phones.
G'day all,
Since my HD2 is suffering literally from all the bugs mentioned here (SMS not sending, volume rocker changes its behavior in Audio Manager and youTube) I would like to add another anomaly which might be a bug.
Especially interesting for those amongst us using a rSAP Bluetooth car handsfree which can only read out SIM contacts
I am using a T-Mobile SIM card (latest generation) which can store 150+ entries.
To copy Pocket Outlook contacts to SIM the HD2 gives you two options:
1.) Open contact list, go to Menu, open SIM Manger and choose "Import SIM Contacts". You will get a list presented with all your contacts and according tickboxes which contacts to transfer: Works, but has a significant downside: if you have stored several TelNo's under one name, and the name is longer than the SIM's name capability, it will cut off letters. To give you an example: if you have a work and a mobile number of John Smith, the entries on the SIM will be Smith, John/W and Smith, John/M. If your chosen candidate's name is Jonathan Westminster, it will read Westminster, Jon on the SIM and yes, you are right, no more space for the /M or /W. So what happens during the bulk copy process is this: the application converts Jonathan Westminster Work into Westminster, Jon and copies the contact to SIM. Now Jonathan Westminster Mobile is converted to Westminster, Jon and the copy process does exactly what you would expect: it prompts that this contact already exists on the SIM. Now you have two options; "ignore" (contact with mobile number does not get copied) or you say "overwrite" with the obvious effect that your work number gets deleted. Showstopper.
There is a way it could work much nicer:
2.) Open a contact in Pocket Outlook, go to Menu and choose "Store contact on SIM". Now you get a selection menu of all existing TelNos of this contact and with this method the "cut name to size" works as it should, so Jonathan Westminster get copied as Westminster, J/W and Westminster J/M.
BUT:
After I had copied exactly 50 numbers to SIM with method No 2 (note: my SIM can store 150+ entries), the transfer process reports back "0 contacts transferred" while copying the 51st number. If the copy process would not have copied more than 50 contacts, this would be a bug on its own but what it actually did with contact No 51 (and all that followed) is this: it copied Jonathan Westminster 11 times to the SIM using this format:
W /W
We /W
Wes /W
West /W
Westm /W
.
.
Westminster /W
W /M
We /M
Wes /M
West /M
.
.
Westminster /M
Can someone please check whether your copy to SIM pocedure on the HD2 is showing the same strange behavior?
If yes, we have another bug.
Thanks for taking the effort.
GZ
Hello,
I've run into this problem on every WM device I found: I have my outlook contacts with non-ascii characters in names (Romanian characters should it make a difference). Every now and then I need to leave my HTC Touch 2 at home and walk around with a $20 phone (kayaking or mountain climbing are such occasions). Obviously, having the ability to save all my contacts on the SIM to have them on the cheap expendable phone, would be much desired. However, when I try to export to SIM, I get an error for every of the non-ascii names - that it is "too long" for the SIM capabilities - and the contact is skipped. Is there such an app that can handle transferring unicode contacts to SIM (automatical conversion to ASCII or just replacing non-ascii characters with question marks is totally acceptable, as long as a recognizable form of the name ends up on the SIM).
Thanks,
Dinu
Ideas? Anyone?