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Hi everyone... I am new to the PPC world... being just recently swatch from my Treo600 to a new XDA2s, I am having a little difficulty getting used to the Microsoft way of doing things in PPC2003... I am just wondering is there anyone who can help me or point me to the right direction where I can get some external program that can help me from going insane... here's my problem... I usually keep a huge contact list with all my customer, supplier, co-worker, family and friends contact all in my PDA... so the usual way for me to make a phone call is to search it from the contact list... but here's my problem, I travel alot with my job and depending on my current location, I have to edit the number in my contact before I dial the number... in my old palm, I can simply edit the number before I dial that number (there's a funtion on my palm that allows you to edit before call... so it allows me to edit the number without physically changing the number in my contact list)... I am just wondering can PPC do that? Or is there any program in PPC that will allow me to do that? As far as I can see... in PPC, as soon as I have search for a contact and then I click on his or her number with my stylist... it will automatically dial... I can not edit it before I dial... the only way I can edit it before I dial is to physically edit the contacts... which is very annoying as I sync my contacts with my exchange server, I don't wanna to have to have all my contact get mess up with different area code and dialling code from different country... anyone know how can I solve this problem? Thanks for your help in advance... I very much appriciate all of your advice in advance... Peter
I think the most straightforwards solution here is to store all of your numbers in the international dialling format; that way, wherever you are, your device will place the call correctly
For example - if I had a contact in Glasgow, UK, it would be stored as +44141xxxxxxx (+44 for UK, 141 for Glasgow and the remaining seven digits as the local number)
In my experience whenever I have been abroad, any calls to any of my stored numbers are placed correctly first time by either my SmartPhone or PPC.
If you're problem is regarding a slightly different issue then please expand on your problem by detailing what you mean by "modifying" your contact before you dial.
My problem is a little bit more complicated I think... I already has most number stored in the international dialing format... but my problem is that, depending on my location, I have to dial a certian set of numbers in front of the phone number to be dial in order for me to save on long distance and roaming... for example, while I am roaming in Mainland China if I want to dial home in Hong Kong with my mobile... normally, I will dial 0085226****88 but that will cost me like USD2 per minute... but if I dial with a prefix of 17909 (hence I will type in: 179090085226****88) then my per minute charge will now be something like USD0.10 per minute... which is a huge saving especially when I make roaming and long distance call all the time... the same thing in Hong Kong, if I dial 1666 before I dial long distance, I will get a much higher savings over regular long distance... my problem is that I can not possibly store all of these information for all the locations that I am going to be in, each places that I am going to be in, have a different sets of number... so is there any intellegent way to add additional numbers in front of the number stored in the contacts before it is being dialed in pocket pc? I know on my old palm... I can solve this problem in two ways... 1) I can set a certain dialing prefix before the system dial any number (normally I leave that blank, as I prefer edit before dial function)... I can use this prefix function but it will require me to change the prefix when I am at a different location but it is a workable solutions... is there something like that in PPC? 2) The second way to solve this was the edit before dialing function on the palm... I just click on the number, it allows me to edit the number temporary before it is automatically paste onto the phone software and before the phone dials it...
Anyway, I know this is very complicated and it is a very rare issues thats probably just affecting me or a very small number of users... but it will be great if there's some simple solutions to this... but I think this problem is mainly due to the lack of flexiblilty in the contact list rather then the function of the phone itself! :O) Anyway, thank you very much for your help and suggestions again... very much appriciate it :O) Peter
Try if this works
http://www.handango.com/Platform ... sp?productId=152403
Can you please post the link again? It doesn't work :O) Thanks for your help :O) What kind of program is it? :O)
here's the link
[url]http://www.handango.com/Plat...Type=2&catalog=0§ionId=0&productId=152403
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you got it all wrong
... if you ask me: your approach is wrong. Here are the basics. Windows XP, for instance and Outlook, that is the source of the contacts (and phone numbers and other details that are entered), stores phone numbers in this 'international' format:
country code (MS has a list of countries and codes of its own)
are code (another, separate field) and
number
If you respect the fields provided by Outlook then you get a number generated by Outlook that looks like this:
+381 (064) 6185250
THIS is the 'correct' international format recognised by Microsoft Phone Dialer (well not actually MS but Active Voice, but that is a completely different issue)
My point is that +448704364673 is NOT a correct international phormat, because MS cannot differentiate between the international country code and long distance (area code) and therefore the phone dialer cannot parse the numbers correctly.
NOW, how to get the system to know WHERE you are and should it use the area code when dialing or you are in the area your friend is, or you want to call a toll free number that is in 'another' area, or you are dialing a client abroad etc. Well, there is the 'Dialing Rules' settings! THERE you create a profile (home, office, abroad etc.) and provide the area code for the dialer to differentiate...
This is all well with the Windows XP/Outlook 2002+ I know well, BUT when it comes to PPC... sorry, I have the same problem...>
FACTS:
fact no. 1: Outlook separates phone numbers in groups of>
country code
long distance code (area code)
number
fact no. 2: phone numbers entered this way are stored in a format>
+381 (064) 6185250
fact no. 2: Microsoft Phone Dialer recognises this number and dials correctly
via a voice modem... (headset or speaker/mike required)
Question: what hapens when contacts entered this way into Outlook are sunchronized with the
Pocket PC (Windows Mobile 5.0)?
Answer : all contact's numbers are entered into the Contacts list in the 'correct' format.
(the same format with the bracket, as is noted in PC Outlook)
My findings: the problem arrises when you use your mobile capable Pocket PC
(i.e. the super cool Qtek 9000) and try to dial someone on to his mobile or office phone that are on another
area code...
the Pocket PC, or Windows Mobile 'Phone dialer' dials EXACTLY
as the number is entered in the above mentioned format
(the mobile operator recognises the + at the beggining of the number, but
does not understand the spaces and the brackets!!! and offcourse
the mobile operator returns an error voice message that a wrong number has been dialed!
What am I to do?
Can I find/download/install a proper phone dialer (i.e. MS Phone Dialer) that comes with Windows?
Phone Dialer 1.5
Developed for Microsoft by Active Voice
http://www.activevoice.com/dialer
bottom line is that CISCO systems aquired this Phone Dialer in 2001 and Active Voice discontinued developing/supporting whit app. (link on the Active Voice site is outdated and no support on MS site, as well)
(please do not post solutions as: "you should reformat your number entries etc. because I have 800+ contacts and counting...)
P.S. what I gathered is that this is not device related it is just OS and app related. I had the same problem with my previous Nokia phone... (I did not solve. Actually I thought I will solve with this device...)
I've set the Dialing Rules with my country code and area code (Mobile etc.) So, I don't have a clue what am I doung wrong
My cell phone operator is Vodafone hungary, but when I'm getting an incoming call, the system can not identify the caller from the contacts database.
My business gsm subscription has a problem. Incoming number format is "006" First 0 is flagged to "not grouped call". Second and third number is long distance prefix. In contacts, I store numbers in the international format (+36xxxxxxx). When I'm receiving an incoming call, it displays the caller's number (006xxxxxx), but not the caller's name!
With an another SIM card (another operator), it works well. It displays incoming number as (+36xxxxxx) or (06xxxxxx) (note: long distance prefix is 06-area code-phone number in hungary) and it indentifies the correct name!
Another cell phones such as Nokia, SonyErcisson, works well cause they are identifying the caller from the last 7 number. When first two number is 00 it does not indentifying my callers! I'm quite sad about this. Can anybody help me please?
Can anybody help me please?
I bought Kasparki mobile security to reject calls from ex-girlfriend, but she has started to push *31* in front of my number to make it show in my phone display as unknown.
Does there exist an app for Windows Mobile which can automaticly reject calls marked as unknown??
yep quite a lot of 'em
try a search for "call firewall" on here..
not used it for a long time but it worked..
read his thread and you'll see theres a couple of minor issues, but you should be able to live with them better than your ex-gf at any rate
although I'd suggest answering all unknown numbers with a txt saying "i dont talk to pot boilers" may not be too subtle
another thing u might try is to set phone to accept (only on contacts list)
call your network. they should be able to bar her number from calling if you say she is harrassing you. i know BT does it in the uk.
I did finde some
here
http://tinyurl.com/mm4yx3
http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities/Call-Block-Pocket-PC-23561.shtml
http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS6945429411.html
Euroman28 said:
I bought Kasparki mobile security to reject calls from ex-girlfriend, but she has started to push *31* in front of my number to make it show in my phone display as unknown.
Does there exist an app for Windows Mobile which can automaticly reject calls marked as unknown??
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Use magicall.............
I vote for giving a call to your cell provider. All providers I know of can simply block all "unknown" numbers - the call never even reaches your phone. Then again, I am in Europe. Anyways it's really popular here is phone spam is becoming as normal as email spam, and they all call as "unknown"
Chainfire said:
I vote for giving a call to your cell provider. All providers I know of can simply block all "unknown" numbers - the call never even reaches your phone. Then again, I am in Europe. Anyways it's really popular here is phone spam is becoming as normal as email spam, and they all call as "unknown"
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TDC in Denmark who are the worst assclownes in the whole of Europe, they will not block a number unless the police tells them too.
Magicall can it block numbers marked "unknown" in the caller-id?
Hi,
Is there a way to have the incoming call display identify which number of a contact is calling - for example, I have two numbers in the same contact for someone, mobile and work. When she calls, it just says the person's name and photo , rather than Name - Work or Name- Mobile.
Short of splitting it into two separate contacts, do you know if displaying the 'type' (or number) is possible?
Thanks
It is showing the number for me. I have some contacts with 3 or 4 numbers in them.
Hi All!
I have an OP3 device and I have an issue with caller ID to recognize my contacts saved.
I'm using the device in Argentina, and Argentina operators uses an additional prefix ("9") between country code and area code to indicate that the number is a cell phone.
Example: +54 9 11 4653 8373
This prefix is used to get a call to cell network. It is used to call from outside Argentina. So if you are in US, you must use the 9 prefix to make the call.
However, this prefix is not mandatory to make local call in Argentina and the operators remove the prefix "9" in the caller ID information when you receive an incomming call.
That is my problem!... the caller ID provided is: +54 11 4653 8373, but I have a lot contacts saved with the 9 prefix because I travel usually to outside Argentina. The result: No contact name information provided at incomming call...
I contacted my operator and Oneplus. It seems to be an issue with the original rom lunched with the OP3, because using the same operator in IOS device or Windows Phone device.
Any idea? suggestion or workaround?... I read some information about Android under Samsung device where this issue can be solved modifying the total bits to recognize in the caller ID...Is possible to make something similar process in OP3?
Thanks!
Add both versions of the number for all applicable contacts
have you found a solution to this? i'm on oneplus 5 and still happens, it didn't happen on my lg.
Saludos
danielg77 said:
Hi All!
I have an OP3 device and I have an issue with caller ID to recognize my contacts saved.
I'm using the device in Argentina, and Argentina operators uses an additional prefix ("9") between country code and area code to indicate that the number is a cell phone.
Example: +54 9 11 4653 8373
This prefix is used to get a call to cell network. It is used to call from outside Argentina. So if you are in US, you must use the 9 prefix to make the call.
However, this prefix is not mandatory to make local call in Argentina and the operators remove the prefix "9" in the caller ID information when you receive an incomming call.
That is my problem!... the caller ID provided is: +54 11 4653 8373, but I have a lot contacts saved with the 9 prefix because I travel usually to outside Argentina. The result: No contact name information provided at incomming call...
I contacted my operator and Oneplus. It seems to be an issue with the original rom lunched with the OP3, because using the same operator in IOS device or Windows Phone device.
Any idea? suggestion or workaround?... I read some information about Android under Samsung device where this issue can be solved modifying the total bits to recognize in the caller ID...Is possible to make something similar process in OP3?
Thanks!
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Exactly the problem with my OP5T.
But I'm from Brazil and we use a two digits operator to call to outside of my local area.
Then my contacts are saved like this: 0 41 31 90000-0000 where 41 is the operator code.
If I receive a call the number identifier shows 031900000000 (without 41) and the name is not recognized.
Is it an OxygenOS problem, isn't it? Because I never had this kind of problem before.