Hi, First post after lurking for weeks.
I recently flashed to duttys 2.6, all went well except sprite didn't port my contacts across, so I got them via pc sync. This resulted in quite a lot of deleting unwanted contacts, but otherwise no problem.
But, Now my phone has the contacts ok, i can find them and make calls fine, but on some contacts, they don't show up when they call me, showing up as just the number, it lists them in the call history as unknown as well?
Any ideas why, it is only some contacts, other show up normally.
Cheers, Stu
If you have more than one entry of the incoming phone number in your contact list (duplicates) then they will not show up when a call comes in. The system does not default to any one.
Hope this helps.
Makes sense, I did have to delete lots of numbers and duplicate contacts. Only thing is I have only one of each contact now, suppose I'll just save them as they pop up, eventually I'll get then all.
Ta.
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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
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.
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.
Firstly, I'd like to apologise if this has been touched up on before, I did a search but couldn't find much.
Secondly, I've been reading the forums for a while and thought I'd register as to seek help for my little problem...
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To put it simply, I have all my contacts stored in my Gmail account. After installing Wildpuzzle, I decided to clean up my contact list to make my phone a bit more organised.
The problem, is that when I receive a text message (SMS) from anyone, it does not show up as their name in my Messages app. It simply shows the full number (inc. international dialing code) with no picture and no name.
For example, let's say I save 'Bob' in my Contacts list as: "07123456789". When I receive a text it does not show 'Bob's name, only "+447123456789".
Now, if I was to edit 'Bob's contact card so it was stored as "+447123456789" then it does show his name.
Has anyone else come across this before? I don't really want to have to go through all the phone numbers in my Contacts and put +44 in front and remove the 0.
Thanks in advance.
Its a known bug, has been posted in the wildpuzzle-thread many times. But if you have all your numbers on gmail-account its pretty easy to put "+44" before the numbers on each contacts, it took me about 10 minutes, only having like 90 contacts, but anyway, not that hard to fix with a little time =)
Yeah, I had a feeling that this was the case due to the lack-of-response from people.
Anyway, got bored at work so I changed them all now. Bit of a pain in the arse, but you have to make these sacrifices for such great software
When I receive SMS from unknown number and long click on that number to make new or update contact, it sometimes doesn't stick.
The symptom is like this, that the new contact was created or the number added to an existing contact, but once sync kicks in, it reverts to the previous state (and the number is once again shown as number only, all stored contact details are erased from contact database).
A similar thing happens sometimes with Notes in a contact (only if added from the phone), which I use to add useful information to that person. It doesn't matter, if I'm on 4G or Wifi, it's not reproducable. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
If I add number or notes in Google Contacts desktop app, it always sticks and gets synced back to the phone.
Has anybody encountered that problem and maybe even found a solution? Happened to me on 4.2.2 rooted rarely and now on KK 4.4.2 unrooted it seems more often.
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Nobody has this problem? I did already cache/dalvik reset and full factory reset. I'm rooted. Still this problem occurs occasionally and it sucks big time! :-/
nomad4ever said:
When I receive SMS from unknown number and long click on that number to make new or update contact, it sometimes doesn't stick.
The symptom is like this, that the new contact was created or the number added to an existing contact, but once sync kicks in, it reverts to the previous state (and the number is once again shown as number only, all stored contact details are erased from contact database).
A similar thing happens sometimes with Notes in a contact (only if added from the phone), which I use to add useful information to that person. It doesn't matter, if I'm on 4G or Wifi, it's not reproducable. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
If I add number or notes in Google Contacts desktop app, it always sticks and gets synced back to the phone.
Has anybody encountered that problem and maybe even found a solution? Happened to me on 4.2.2 rooted rarely and now on KK 4.4.2 unrooted it seems more often.
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