Contacts, Numbers, and International - HTC Excalibur

I installed Windows mobile 6.1 yesterday and I am experiencing a problem when it comes to my contacts. I synced them back after upgrading, with Sprite Backup 6.2. It's all good as the contacts are all in the phone.But when I recieve calls from known people whose numbers are stored. They show up as regular numbers all in international formats like
+1(713)....... etc. How do I fix this back to the regular 713 so that the numbers can pull up from my contacts, please I really need to be able to know who is calling me. The numbers show up as if they are not stored. Anyone else going through this? How did you solve it?
So far all I have succeeded to is use photo contacts pro to identify the caller. But when I check call history, there is no name at all tied to it.
Please help

just a guess by a noob, but did you check your regional settings?

Yes I did,
yes I did, I corrected that too. But it did not help. Still does the same thing

Damionix said:
I installed Windows mobile 6.1 yesterday and I am experiencing a problem when it comes to my contacts. I synced them back after upgrading, with Sprite Backup 6.2. It's all good as the contacts are all in the phone.But when I recieve calls from known people whose numbers are stored. They show up as regular numbers all in international formats like
+1(713)....... etc. How do I fix this back to the regular 713 so that the numbers can pull up from my contacts, please I really need to be able to know who is calling me. The numbers show up as if they are not stored. Anyone else going through this? How did you solve it?
So far all I have succeeded to is use photo contacts pro to identify the caller. But when I check call history, there is no name at all tied to it.
Please help
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delete them all and try syncing then with active sync?

Thanx
I will try that, but where do I back them up before syncing them. Try outlook? will that work? because my wife does not have an outlook account. I guess I will just merge the contacts with mine.
Thanx.

Damionix said:
I will try that, but where do I back them up before syncing them. Try outlook? will that work? because my wife does not have an outlook account. I guess I will just merge the contacts with mine.
Thanx.
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Outlook does support multiple profiles if you don't want to merge your contacts. Google it for instructions

Thanx a lot
I will try that when I get home, you have all been helpful. Thanx again
Damion

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I wanna backup my contacts and re-install WM6 cause I changed to many registry keys

I need a little help. I was trying to get my bluetooth to work with my HTC S620 WM6 voice dial and changed some registry keys around and deleted some of the wrong things and I wanted to return them back to the way they where but don't know how, If you could help me I would be more than happy. So I decided that I would re-install WM6 but someone told me that I would loose my contact number (Is this try?). If so is there any way to copy my contact numbers to my PC until I'm finished reinstalling WM6.
Hello,
I was in your situation as well as i wanted to back up my gf's messages and contacts. The easiest way to do it is to do it through Jeyo Mobile Companion. I was done backing up and restoring my text messages, call history and contacts.
Here's a link: http://www.jeyo.com/companion.asp
Good Luck ! keep us posted if you have any problems.
If you have microsoft outlook, yes... you could also store your numbers to your sim card... of course then you'd have to fix them after you reinstalled WM6, but you'd still have them.

Messaging Contacts List In Official Sense 2.5 Rom

I recently upgraded to the new official European wm6.5 sense 2.5 rom. While trying to get my head around the new slow default text messaging app I noticed that when I go to add a recipient, the contact list displays my sim contacts as well as a separate entry for different numbers of the same person. For instance, if I have someone called Alex with both a home number and a mobile number entered, the contact list will display it as two separate contacts. I should also add that I have disabled showing sim contacts using advanced config, and they don't show in the "normal" contact list, just in the messaging one.
As you can imagine, this makes navigating through the contacts much more untidy and time consuming.
Any help will be appreciated
is there no one else with this problem? I was hoping there would be a reg fix or something to sort this out like we've had before
fade2black101 said:
is there no one else with this problem? I was hoping there would be a reg fix or something to sort this out like we've had before
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Nope, as I don't use the sim for contacts. I would suggest that you do the same too, no more problemo.
Allen Mead said:
Nope, as I don't use the sim for contacts. I would suggest that you do the same too, no more problemo.
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I dont use sim either.. ive disabled it on the normal contact list. But it seems to show up in the messaging contact list as well as home numbers and email addresses and these are not all grouped under a single contact.
fade2black101 said:
I dont use sim either.. ive disabled it on the normal contact list. But it seems to show up in the messaging contact list as well as home numbers and email addresses and these are not all grouped under a single contact.
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In that case, sounds like you need to go into the sim manager and delete the numbers off the sim, if that doesn't work, get your provider to do you a new sim.

T-Mobile/First Direct SMS come from random Facebook contact (Solved - sort of)

Hi
Found a weird problem with SMS sent to me by T-Mobile and First Direct
When the message arrives it is shown to have come from "John Smith" who isn't in my phones contact list, however he is in my Facebook list BUT without a phone number.
Normally it would show the company name or sometimes 150 for T-Mobile.
If someone who isn't in my contacts sends me a text it is showing the number who sent it.
Anyone else had this or know how to fix it?
Got the same bug myself. Put in a new sim card and the same thing happened again, also the same facebook contact appeared. I just deleted it
OK I deleted the Facebook contact who was showing up (they are not that close a friend anyway)
As soon as I did the SMS changed from his name to First Direct
Not sure why it happened, or what I would have done if it was a close friend, but its fixed for now
I have the same problem, just yesterday... I havent tried to resolve it though..
Problem is I do not know how to delete this facebook contact...
saayinla said:
Problem is I do not know how to delete this facebook contact...
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Login to Facebook on your pc.
Goto Friends
Find the one showing up in your SMS
Click on the remove friend link down the left hand side and confirm removal
I had the same...the facebook contact had their phone number listed as '???'.
My (ex) friends number was "Ask Me"
Still not sure how that links it to T-Mobile (150) or First Direct (no number shown)
just posted about this, sorry, missed this post.
i have the same prob, my fb contact has no number but ask me instead. i dont want to delete the contact though, grrr
tytn2_user said:
i have the same prob, my fb contact has no number but ask me instead. i dont want to delete the contact though, grrr
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I wondered when that might happen.... I guess the best option is to delete them, then add them as a friend again?
Although that might bring back the issue, at least its worth a try!
Let us know how you get on.
Got the same problem. Problem is this is quite a close friend so I'm not going delete her.
Hopefully this will get sorted out with a patch or an update.
Damien
Just had the same too, hope there's an update for this, it's quite annoying!
Same for me, friends number is '0800 eat my leg' haha
Rather than writing rubbish in the number fields, why not just leave it blank? Stupid people on Facebook.
Same problem here with texts from Lloyds TSB and mobile fun! As a few others, I don't want to delete the Facebook contact to fix it as it shouldn't be happening to start with. :/
Found that the person was the only Facebook contact I had linked with a stupid phone entry. I have Facebook contacts hidden in 'People' and now none of them linked with silly numbers - I'll see what happens the next time one comes.
I don't think its just limited to Facebook linked contacts as mine was linking to an imported contact from Google but who had an additional business number listed as 'x' in the second number field. deleted the field then all was sorted
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I have this problem too, when T-Mobile sends me an SMS. At the moment I've only seen Facebook contacts linked to the messages, 2 different contacts so far. One of them (happened just now) actually has her proper mobile number set. In both cases these people exist as contacts purely on facebook, they are not "linked" to a phone/google contact.
I've reported the problem to HTC support, I'll post if I get a reply. Please make sure you report the problem so that HTC are aware of it.
I'm getting the same problem too with my Orange Desire
zippyioa said:
My (ex) friends number was "Ask Me"
Still not sure how that links it to T-Mobile (150) or First Direct (no number shown)
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My fb friend also has "ask me" grrrr
Contacted Orange and HTC to see if they know a fix to this, if not I'll just have to delete that contact.
I contacted HTC last week... just got the following back from them:
Thank you for contacting us. The issue that you have described is known to us, and we are currently investigating this. We hope to have this resolved in a future software update, and you are advised to regularly check the update feature on your phone in order to download any ROM updates as and when they become available. HTC greatly appreciate all feedback from our customers regarding technical issues, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Hopefully they fix it soon. The more contact they get about it, the higher priority they might give it (wishfull thinking!!) so if anyone is getting this issue please contact HTC via their support link:
http://www.htc.com/uk/CS_Mail.aspx
Thanks
Zippyioa

SMS Vcards Vanishing!!!!

Hi all you great helpers out there! I've gained so much knowledge from all you guys on this forum. It's soooooo helpful!!! Thanks!!!
When I receive a vcard via sms, I click on the vcard in the sms reader and up pops the message "the vcard has been imported successfully".
Great me thinks!
But when I actually try to find the contact in my contacts, it simply isnt there!!!!
HELP!!!
Thanks a billion for your help!
I had the same. In the end I selected the phone number and pasted it in a new contact manually :-(
Well, here's some things I know and maybe this will help you out.
vCards are imported into the phone memory. You don't have a choice.
If you have set you phone to view only a certain type of contacts (e.g. just Google contacts) then you won't see any contact sent to you via SMS or MMS. If this is the case, the just go to People - Menu - View and select the phone contacts to view as well.
HTH
Cleargrey said:
Well, here's some things I know and maybe this will help you out.
vCards are imported into the phone memory. You don't have a choice.
If you have set you phone to view only a certain type of contacts (e.g. just Google contacts) then you won't see any contact sent to you via SMS or MMS. If this is the case, the just go to People - Menu - View and select the phone contacts to view as well.
HTH
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Thanks for this. I've checked, but sadly, my people view isn't restricted yet I still can't see the contact my phone told me that it just saved.

[Q] Call History showing "unknown"

I use sms backup + for storing my sms and call history online.....
The sms works well
However, the call history would show only phone numbers without contact name.... showed "unknown"
I've tried to delete the google profile then sign in again............
It works for some of the contacts but some are still unknown........
Please help me
@txs
bump. having the same problem
toastyy said:
bump. having the same problem
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same here.. it went away when using AOKP and CM10 roms.. but whenever im using htc sense based roms it seems to happen.. pretty damn annoying!
I also use SMS Backup+ to automate SMS and Call Log uploading to Google, on a Sense ROM (ARHD 21), and it's working without issue. Only Unknown entries are literally those with Unknown numbers.
Can't be a Sense-related problem. Must be something else.

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