Issues with recognizing phonebook contact for incoming calls and sms - Desire General

All my contacts use international number format (+xxxxxxxxxx) and are stored on gmail severs. Unboxed and setup the desire with my gmail, facebook and twitter accounts. Synced well and got all my facebook and gmail contacts. Here's the issues I'm having:
- I live in Lebanon where incoming numbers display 03123456 (03 is the mobile prefix) whereas i have stored them as +9613123456. My desire is not matching the incoming call to the corresponding entry in the phonebook. Never had this problem before on Nokia & BB.
- Incoming SMS seems to be working fine and matching the right contact. However, when I receive an SMS from an unknown short number (any commercial message), the desire matches the sms to a random facebook contact based on some weird recognition algorithm. Worse, if I click on that contact's avatar in the message thread, I get an application error (process com.android.mms has stopped unexpectedly...)
Any insight would be appreciated. Hoping for an easy fix!

I had the very same problem (commercial messages...) I deleted the contacts that were appearing (didnt use them often...). After deleting the 2nd or 3rd the problem was rectified. Not sure exactly why it was associating those contacts to the messages???
Strange.....

I noticed that these matched accounts had bogus data in their Facebook profile (phone number).
My major concern is the first issue. Anyone having the same problem?

Bump. Anyone?

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How this huge bug could pass the test?!
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This happens with me when receiving texts from t-mobile, it always says that they are from a random facebook friend. The only way to stop it, is to stop the phone syncing facebook contacts.
I too am having the same problem.
It seems very odd that it should pick up a random facebook contact.
I don't sync my facebook contacts to the Desire, but do remain logged into facebook and it still picks up the random contact despite the mobile numbers used etc all being different!
A fix would be great!
I had this bug, I had the contact delete their phone details seeing as they only entered garbage. Don't hold your breath on it ever getting fixed.

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i just got my desire and i love synchronizing with facebook in the contacts so there will be profile picture on each contacts
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Not showing contact names in messages

I have a problem with names of contacts not showing up.
I have my contacts synced with google contacts. There the numbers are in the format 1234567. When the contacts phone me I can see their names OK but when they send me a text I get instead +3541234567 and no name.
I've googled around and this seems to be hitting some people but no concrete solution suggested.
android 4.1 messaging sms or chompSMS from Market
This is my solution use android 4.1 messaging sms from the market and wait for the developper to make it better same thing was happening with me i would like to share my experience with you for you to skip the steps that i have done : Most of the contacts names are not showing in the stock messages,i receive the msg with the phone number with the country code without a name although the name is in my contact list, i did a hard reset and stopped facebook even didn't sync facebook contacts at all, i added country code with the + to the numbers but it was worst because i was seeing the names in sms but only numbers when i receive a call, i deleted the contacts then imported them to my google account and the same file to outlook on my laptop then synced them all meaning the same contacts without any conflict but with no luck, i added to the location to the addesses with the country on both google account and outlook also with no luck, GOsms and handcent did the same thing but it worked with chompSMS and android 4.1 messaging sms from the market but this is not what i want, i like to use the stock messeges app; frankly this is driving me crazy
Same thing here... Tried all the above you mentioned... Nothing worked... :crying: My CID is HTC__102
darkriderz said:
Same thing here... Tried all the above you mentioned... Nothing worked... :crying: My CID is HTC__102
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There is a silly solution that i tested and it's working, you need to add new e-mail to your contacts the number of the contact sure with the + and the country code and it will work that makes no sense but it works and imagine doing this to all contacts but i did it to some contacts who text me often.

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[Q] Weird Stock SMS app issue, please help.

Hello,
I have a weird issue with the SMS app for my HTC one (M8) as well as my friend's phone!
when I receive a message, the name of the person who sent the message to me does not show up in the sms app, instead the number is shown (basically as if the sender's number is not saved in my address book). however, after about 15-20 minutes the name will be shown.
to note, both of us have our contacts saved in Google, so all the contact addresses are synced with google.
anyone else facing the same issue?
anyone knows a possible solution??
Thanks & regards,
Abdullah
Maybe go into app settings for mms and contacts and delete all data to reset to default. Reboot then resynch contacts.

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