I apologize in advance if someone has asked/worked on this before, but I couldn't find anything specific, except someone asking the same question in the AT&T GS2 forum.
So something that bothers me is when I go through the call logs, it lists each and every call as a different entry, even if it is to the same contact. I came to Android from a Nokia E71x, and in that, the call log showed one entry for multiple calls to a contact. Just that when you selected the entry, it showed you multiple entries in that for incoming/outgoing/different times. I hope I didn't jumble up my problem too much. Basically, I want to know if a) there is a ROM which does this (I don't think there is) or b) if there is an app that does this.
Thanks!
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Hey folks,
I've searched the forum and Googled this issue, and I haven't seen it in quite this way, so I'm going to just ask it. And maybe this is is just a misunderstanding of how Caller ID works on the Excalibur, so please correct me if I am wrong:
My Caller ID works fine for those numbers that are in my Contact List, or course. By this, I mean I see both name and phone number. But for unknown numbers, I see just the number and no name. Which is annoying, to say the least.
I have noticed this more since I had to restore my Contacts a couple weeks ago, although I don't think that has anything to do with it. I see no Phone setting that affects this.
Okay, so the question is, is this the natural state of affairs for Caller ID in wm6.1? If the number is not in your contacts, you don't get full Caller ID? Or am I missing a setting or a registry entry or something?
DF
darkfire62 said:
Hey folks,
I've searched the forum and Googled this issue, and I haven't seen it in quite this way, so I'm going to just ask it. And maybe this is is just a misunderstanding of how Caller ID works on the Excalibur, so please correct me if I am wrong:
My Caller ID works fine for those numbers that are in my Contact List, or course. By this, I mean I see both name and phone number. But for unknown numbers, I see just the number and no name. Which is annoying, to say the least.
I have noticed this more since I had to restore my Contacts a couple weeks ago, although I don't think that has anything to do with it. I see no Phone setting that affects this.
Okay, so the question is, is this the natural state of affairs for Caller ID in wm6.1? If the number is not in your contacts, you don't get full Caller ID? Or am I missing a setting or a registry entry or something?
DF
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How does the phone know more than the number of the caller if not in contacts???
I was thinking of the way my landline phone (yes, I still have one of those, but I may be canning it soon) gets its Caller ID information. Verizon just sends it down the line to the phone. I thought T-Mobile did the same thing, the service just sends the necessary info down the line to the phone, but I thought that was a given (Caller ID) with wireless phone service. Maybe I'm mistaken, which maybe someone could clarify for me?
Now to me, what I'm getting seems like "partial" Caller ID, the number without the name? Or maybe I'm just totally confused on it all, been a rough week...
I have yet to see Caller ID show a name on a cell phone if it's not in your contacts. Verizon included.
I didn't mean Verizon's wireless service, I meant their landline service.
Never mind, went over to T-Mobile, that's the way it's sent down, number only. Thanks.
darkfire62 said:
Hey folks,
I've searched the forum and Googled this issue, and I haven't seen it in quite this way, so I'm going to just ask it. And maybe this is is just a misunderstanding of how Caller ID works on the Excalibur, so please correct me if I am wrong:
My Caller ID works fine for those numbers that are in my Contact List, or course. By this, I mean I see both name and phone number. But for unknown numbers, I see just the number and no name. Which is annoying, to say the least.
I have noticed this more since I had to restore my Contacts a couple weeks ago, although I don't think that has anything to do with it. I see no Phone setting that affects this.
Okay, so the question is, is this the natural state of affairs for Caller ID in wm6.1? If the number is not in your contacts, you don't get full Caller ID? Or am I missing a setting or a registry entry or something?
DF
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I thought I was having that Problem..
but im now having the problem with the Pictures not coming up.
tdavis75 said:
I have yet to see Caller ID show a name on a cell phone if it's not in your contacts. Verizon included.
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In Canada Rogers offers this service. They call it Name Display
^^^^^^^^^^^yup dont forget fido too lol
Hi,
since I upgraded my TP2 ROM with the WinMo6.5 from HTC I encountered two issues which really make me regret this from time to time:
On incoming calls very often the caller name is not displayed even if the phone number is known in my address book. Also in call history i just see numbers, not names. This worked perfectly in 6.0.
When I receive a call, i press "take call" but the phone simply wont take it. Instead it silences the ringtone but there is no chance I take the call.
I searched the forum but couldn't find anything that would help. There was some registry entry about setting the size of phone numbers which should fix problem one, but the issue here is, that German phone numbers don't have any fixed size, so the suggested fix is not working. Also I'd wonder why I have to set something up when just the same thing worked perfectly in 6.0. As for the more annoying "can't take call" thingy, i am absolutely clueless. Has anyone of you encountered these issues before and if so, were you able to fix them?
I can't find the link readily but I thought I remember reading that adding (or removing) the "+" in front of phone numbers in your contacts helped the first issue.
Just wondering if anyone has looked at this in the official Froyo? I text a bunch and don't want that logged in the phone log.
yes, it's REALLY annoying
I have NO clue why the developers thought this was GOOD
You can hit the menu button when in the call log and then 'View by' and change what's shown, but unfortunately, there's no option that will give you only 'all call info' regardless if you dialed, received/answered or missed them.
Yeah this much Ive found, but I've also found it isn't a persistant setting, doesn't stay (and I haven't figured out what causes to to default back to show all.)
This might be the one dumbest things about this release.
Hi everyone,
i am having a problem with my wildfire s and guessing if you guys could help me out.
Let me explain. Lets say i have a contact jack with number +23091948347 in my contacts. when jack calls me, 9194837 appears but not the contact name. But when Jack sends me an SMS, the contact name appears.
Now the contrary also causes the problem. if i correct jack's number to 9194837 in my contacts, when he calls, the contact name appears.But when the sends me and SMS, +2309194837 appears.
I already tried deleting, resetting the phone but the problem persists. In Mauritius, all HTC Android 2.2 - 2.3 users i know have the same problem (other phone makes work fine). No luck from HTC support either
Severals other forums say that this is due to the fact that as from android 2.2, HTC android matches exact CIDs only for contact name resolution.
For the time being i have to enter both +2309194837 and 9194837 for the same contact for it to work correctly.
I have tried a soft called prefixer which allows to add the +230 on incoming calls. It then correctly gives the contact name but no contact picture appears.and also in the call log the number still appears as <unknown>.
Am new to android and already getting discouraged...hope can learn from you guys.
Cheers
Contact your carrier; they are incorrectly routing calls/messages through to you without area/country codes.
Thanks for your replay.. That is indeed the case but other phones are working correctly. xperias, nexus 1s and others...
So other phones show the same number regardless of wether you're receiving a text message or voice call?
Other phones receive messages and calls in the same format i do. i.e 9194897 for calls and +2309194837 for messages.
Yet the other phones resolve the contact name correctly.
I read that it is due to the fact that the phone is match the entire CID to contacts and not part. There is an app in windows mobile which allows you to change the Call ID match trailing digits (which in this case should be 7).
Looked for such an app for android but no luck.
Samsung also have been getting the same problem i hear.
Any ideas guys?
i found this while googling about the problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=684575
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8770&q=caller%20id%20match&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
Hey guys
Had been looking for a long time for a solution for this and found one today (thanks to squabbie for helping)
Summary:
You need a rooted phone, ex file explorer (or ROM toolbox) to edit the build.prop settings. Check for a setting called "ro.phone.min_match_*" ( the * being a wildcard). Then edit the name of the setting to "ro.phone.min_match" only and set its value yo 6 or 7 or whichever value you need. If this label isn't in the build.prop settings then just add it in.
Supporting links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160343
jdhtc1xplus said:
Hey guys
Had been looking for a long time for a solution for this and found one today (thanks to squabbie for helping)
Summary:
You need a rooted phone, ex file explorer (or ROM toolbox) to edit the build.prop settings. Check for a setting called "ro.phone.min_match_*" ( the * being a wildcard). Then edit the name of the setting to "ro.phone.min_match" only and set its value yo 6 or 7 or whichever value you need. If this label isn't in the build.prop settings then just add it in.
Supporting links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160343
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This is a three year old thread. Was it really necessary to wake it up?
No not really the reason I woke it up was because I've seen so many threads with the same issue not solved that I had to make sure everyone was notified of the fix!
Under phone menu there is a call log but I can't figure out how to show the most recent calls first. It seems that the phone somehow prioritizes some calls at the top and you have to scroll down (in my case several pages) to find the calls that start with "today" and then go backwards in time.
Any way to change the sort so the call log is almost most recent first? How to do this seems to have escaped me? Thanks and apologize in advance if it's something blindingly obvious that I missed.
I have the 851 variant and my call log is sorted with the most recent first. I checked the menu and settings and do not see anything setting to alter or rearrange the call log order at all, outside of clearing the whole list.
So I'm not sure if it's a variant specific issue or setting.
Sorry I couldn't help any further, but I wanted to post so you wouldn't feel left in the wind and would know that perhaps it might be specific to your phone.
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I have the 851 variant and my call log is sorted with the most recent first. I checked the menu and settings and do not see anything setting to alter or rearrange the call log order at all, outside of clearing the whole list.
So I'm not sure if it's a variant specific issue or setting.
Sorry I couldn't help any further, but I wanted to post so you wouldn't feel left in the wind and would know that perhaps it might be specific to your phone.
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Thanks for the reply. Interesting to note it's not all variants - I'll keep searching
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Thanks for the reply. Interesting to note it's not all variants - I'll keep searching
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I would like to know about this too, it's very annoying
Stumbled upon the answer. I was looking through the pages and pages of "new" calls when I realized that these were all call log records that came over from my iPhone. I used the LG PC suite to transfer my texts, calls, etc. to the new phone and it seems that all the call records go in as "new" as sit above today or any recent calls. As I didn't want to lose my recent calls, I went through the call log call by call and deleted every call categorized as "new" and now it's working perfectly - call logs are properly displayed by date in descending order of most recent first.
I discovered this will on hold with LG support via "chat". They were more than useless. The rep said she didn't even have an G3 at her location to try and understand the problem and gave me the usual 'factory reset' to fix it. I told here there was zero percent chance I'd do a factory reset and have to spend hours to get my phone back to my setup without any assurance it would even work (which it wouldn't have if I'd done the PC Suite transfer again) and told her she should, in no way, categorize my call as "solved or finished" based on suggesting a factory reset. My expectation for tech support was near zero and LG didn't disappoint. The support was worthless. Thank goodness for XDA.