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receiving text problem

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

contacts

Im new to the phone and this awsome forum ! so any help would be Grrrreat!
I must of changed something cause lately when I try to send a sms or mms before I send it, it says that "Cannot recognize one or more recipients or the address is not valid, would you like to send it anyways?"
and those contacts have beens saved on the sim and the phone since i got it! last week...
any help? I know for a fact they are saved and the addresses are correct

Phone shows phone number instead of names

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.

My Phone Number, help !!!!

Hello
strange one here, my phone number dose not appear at the top on sim manger, i really need it to. I used exchange 2010 and activesync, so i can send text message from outlook or owa. i can see a whole thread of texts between me and some one else, but it dose not display my name next to the message i sent, it dose if i sent it via outlook but not the phone. any way i need to know how to get sim manger to pick up my number or can i manually edit it, my exchange server cant pick my phone number up. so i look at sim manger and found that the issue is prob due to sim manger not displaying it. please can some one help
many thanks
Nick

Try doing a search, its been answered many times.

[Q / Solved] Android loves everyone but my wife

I've read, searched and done my homework on this problem, but can't figure it out.
SMS works fine texting anyone in my contact list EXCEPT my wife. I can send a new message to her but I can't reply to an SMS she sends me.
Looking into the details of the failed SMS, it shows it is trying to go to 01214-xxx-xxxx. There's a 0 where there should be a +
Everyone else is +1xxx-xxx-xxxx.
Looking at the SMS she sends me doesn't have the +1 (like everyone else). All SMS TO ME are on the form xxx-xxx-xxxx and all replies +1xxx-xxx-xxxx EXCEPT my wife.
She's on Sprint, I'm on AT&T. The kids are on Sprint and can reply back just fine. They both have Android phones too. I can reply to the kids just fine.
One more possible clue, she was the only contact that somehow got on my SIM card. I deleted that off and just use my Exchange contacts now. However, that's still not doing it.
*** Solved ***
The issue was the Twitter contact I had for my wife. She and I both have Twitter accounts. We followed each other. The Twitter contact info looked correct but was causing issues.
To troubleshoot I first deleted the Exchange contact. Then she sent a test SMS. My phone interpreted her number with the culprit 0 IE 01xxx-xxx-xxxx instead of xxx-xxx-xxxx or +1xxx-xxx-xxxx.
... the SMS shows as coming from xxx-xxx-xxxx but something in my phone was still appending a 0 .... and my phone still knew my wife's name. So I knew I had some remnant of info of her in my phone. The only thing I could find was the Twitter contact.
I unfollowed her and readded her contact info. Presto!!! I can reply to her SMS texts now.

She's cheating on you

That "0" is the country code, but for some reason its using 2 codes (0 & 1) check you contacts and make sure her number is right in there also
Sent from my HTC HD2 running DarkStone HD2Froyo v1

nawcho said:
She's cheating on you
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Sorta funny, but it would be the other way around, she wouldn't respond to MY texts. I give it a 3 on a funny scale.

willgill said:
Sorta funny, but it would be the other way around, she wouldn't respond to MY texts. I give it a 3 on a funny scale.
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then your cheating on ur wife... jus u dont know it yet...

mr_billionaire said:
then your cheating on ur wife... jus u dont know it yet...
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And I am trying to fix it... the plot thickens.
Sent from my HD2 via XDA App (mattc 1.5 build)

Sounds like your phone is fine and your wifes phone is jacked up

mattfmartin said:
Sounds like your phone is fine and your wifes phone is jacked up
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But the thing is, everyone else can reply to her SMS just fine. Thankfully, I have an identical phone to compare with. Both my wife and daughter have EVOs on Sprint. I can reply to my daughter's SMS messages but not my wife's.
I think mr_billionaire is on to something, and I suspected the same. The international code is hosed somewhere. Under call settings I found an international code difference on my wife's phone (than my daughter's) under Settings, Call. My daughter's said 011, my wife's was 01. Changing it to my daughter's 011 didn't help.
It must be some way my wife's contact is stored in my phone.

mayb its got to do with call barring?

I'm just going to take a guess and assume that your sig is what your running for your phone correct? if so then I wouldn't be surprised if you were having that issue.

maybe...
what if you just hard reset your phone and see if that fixes it....I mean kinda sucks but might work

Try deleting her contact from your phone, SIM, and whatever server you sync with. Then have her send you a text and try again.

This is a known problem, Android doesn't like my wife either.. My wife keeps on saying that i'm cheating on her with my Android... Bottom line man... Give up, they will never get along..

ok I might get killed with this one - but did you reboot to winmo and see if you can reply to your wife yet? aint hd2 great? if android doesn't work, go winmo!

This looks like a candidate for failblog.

ferdaus said:
ok I might get killed with this one - but did you reboot to winmo and see if you can reply to your wife yet? aint hd2 great? if android doesn't work, go winmo!
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WinMo always used to work, but I figured I'd test again. I booted into Windows Mobile and sent a test and was able to reply back just fine.
Then I booted into Android and ran the same test, ...fail.
The contact should be identical in both since it is pushed from the Exchange server. However, I'm not trusting it. I'm going to delete her contact and re-add her.

*** Solved ***
The issue was the Twitter contact I had for my wife. She and I both have Twitter accounts. We followed each other. The Twitter contact info looked correct but was causing issues.
To troubleshoot I first deleted the Exchange contact. Then she sent a test SMS. My phone interpreted her number with the culprit 0 IE 01xxx-xxx-xxxx instead of xxx-xxx-xxxx or +1xxx-xxx-xxxx.
... the SMS shows as coming from xxx-xxx-xxxx but something in my phone was still appending a 0 .... and my phone still knew my wife's name. So I knew I had some remnant of info of her in my phone. The only thing I could find was the Twitter contact.
I unfollowed her and readded her contact info. Presto!!! I can reply to her SMS texts now.

willgill said:
*** Solved ***
The issue was the Twitter contact I had for my wife. She and I both have Twitter accounts. We followed each other. The Twitter contact info looked correct but was causing issues.
To troubleshoot I first deleted the Exchange contact. Then she sent a test SMS. My phone interpreted her number with the culprit 0 IE 01xxx-xxx-xxxx instead of xxx-xxx-xxxx or +1xxx-xxx-xxxx.
... the SMS shows as coming from xxx-xxx-xxxx but something in my phone was still appending a 0 .... and my phone still knew my wife's name. So I knew I had some remnant of info of her in my phone. The only thing I could find was the Twitter contact.
I unfollowed her and readded her contact info. Presto!!! I can reply to her SMS texts now.
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Ahhhhh, didn't even think about that, I get my contacts synced from twitter and facebook n some numbers come out different but still work.
Glad you figured it out tho.
Sent from my HDROID2 using XDA App

Take it as a blessing and an excuse!!