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Contact picture for myself in stock messaging.

So I have a TMobile G2. Straight out the box, with no customization what-so-ever. My only problem is the stock messaging. I'm able to add pictures to my contacts and when I text them their picture shows up in the thread. But for my own picture, its a greyed out box. How do I get my own pic to show up?
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Have you tried adding yourself as a contact?

If you go into settings>about phone>status>my phone number will say "unknown" correct?
Even if you add yourself as a contact, it will still be grayed out because the phone will not be able to distinguish that the number that you added as a contact is meant for you.
People have said that cleaning out the contacts on the sim card has helped fix this, and others have had the sim card replaced and it fixed the problem. There have also been times where people have done both and it still hasn't fixed the problem.
Hope it offers some insight for ya.

tazz9690 said:
If you go into settings>about phone>status>my phone number will say "unknown" correct?
Even if you add yourself as a contact, it will still be grayed out because the phone will not be able to distinguish that the number that you added as a contact is meant for you.
People have said that cleaning out the contacts on the sim card has helped fix this, and others have had the sim card replaced and it fixed the problem. There have also been times where people have done both and it still hasn't fixed the problem.
Hope it offers some insight for ya.
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I hadn't heard of this happening with the stock G2 ROM. It happens to me on CM6 right now, but didn't on stock. If after setting yourself up as a contact, you still show up as a gray box, definitely check to see if you are an unknown number. If so, you can call up T-Mobile and ask customer support to push your number back to your SIM card. They will be able to do this over the air. Alternatively, if you have access to other phones, some of them allow you to set the phone number on the SIM (my old Nokia's, Sone Ericcson's, and Samsung's did).

If you call Tmo I think they fix the unknown number thing for you

[Q] how to manually set device phone number?

I have a rooted Sprint gs3 ice cream sandwich but I no longer am with sprint, I use google voice exclusively and my google voice number.
I just downloaded snapchat and I can't activate it because it automatically sends a verification text to the device phone number & does not let you manually set your number. So now I need to find a way to set my device phone number to my google voice one.
Any suggestions?

I am not sure changing your # will be the only issue. If you aren't on sprint, then what messaging service is being used?
Is there another verification method? like send an email instead?
But for changing #'s look into getting your MSL code (unique 6 digit)
##DIAG# to set USB settings, ...then using a program that can reprogram your phone.
There are guides on how to obtain that info from your phone.
But this might be a waste of time and might not solve your issue.

spammydavis said:
I am not sure changing your # will be the only issue. If you aren't on sprint, then what messaging service is being used?
Is there another verification method? like send an email instead?
But for changing #'s look into getting your MSL code (unique 6 digit)
##DIAG# to set USB settings, ...then using a program that can reprogram your phone.
There are guides on how to obtain that info from your phone.
But this might be a waste of time and might not solve your issue.
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Thanks for the MSL code tip, haven't tried it yet but the issue resolved itself after numerous attempts. Snapchat doesn't do email verification, the way they do it on Android seems to be by taking the number stored in your phone, or by making you send a text message to their number. I did it with Google voice app and it didn't work, but when I did it through Talkatone it worked after a few restarts. Weird.

Any other google voice users successfully change your snapchat number to your GV number? If I ask snapchat to verify my number and launch using google voice their message does not get transferred to gv to send. If I use hangouts it does, but after sending the verification code I never get a response.

[Q] How do you program your new phone number into a rooted phone?

I have a rooted phone. I changed my phone number about a year ago. My phone has had no problems, none that I noticed, until a couple months ago. I noticed that I couldn't send MMS. I read a lot of threads about the source of the problem being the APN settings. I tried everything that I came across but no luck. Then I found out by looking in my settings that my phone is programmed with my old phone number. I saw some threads that said to try certain messaging apps to get the MMS to work but none of them did. I finally found an app that allows you to input a different phone number. I put in my newer phone number and now I can send MMS. I also found out that when I called my voicemail it called my old number. I had to go into my call settings and to the voicemail settings to change the number to my newer number. What can I do to program my phone with my newer phone number? I don't like the messing app that I'm using now. I want to go back to Go SMS Pro. I really liked it.

jjgloster said:
I have a rooted phone. I changed my phone number about a year ago. My phone has had no problems, none that I noticed, until a couple months ago. I noticed that I couldn't send MMS. I read a lot of threads about the source of the problem being the APN settings. I tried everything that I came across but no luck. Then I found out by looking in my settings that my phone is programmed with my old phone number. I saw some threads that said to try certain messaging apps to get the MMS to work but none of them did. I finally found an app that allows you to input a different phone number. I put in my newer phone number and now I can send MMS. I also found out that when I called my voicemail it called my old number. I had to go into my call settings and to the voicemail settings to change the number to my newer number. What can I do to program my phone with my newer phone number? I don't like the messing app that I'm using now. I want to go back to Go SMS Pro. I really liked it.
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I am going to assume that you have sprint service. If you do, I know two options to get the phone info updated. If you have done nothing else to the phone other than root it and most likely you'll need to be on a stock ram than you can try this.
For the first option you'll need the phone MSL code.. dial it like this ##000000# (change zeroes with the MSL) than edit the phone number in the field and don't change the MSID unless you know what it is.
Second and the best in my opinion, is to try and do a hands free activation by dialing ##72786#.. this will reset the phone number information. After you do that, the phone will reboot and it will try to make hands free activation. *This option require internet access to get the updates. Incase your phone doesn't connect to 3g or 4g, connect it to wifi and it should update.
Please be careful and keep in mind that I assumed that you have sprint service and also using a stock rooted ram and have changed nothing on the device other than gaining root access.
I hope that helps.

How to change phone number on my S3 [SOLVED]

I have retired my S3 from service, and now have a shiny new S5 However, I would still like to continue using my S3 for WiFi based use. Problem is, it still contains my old phone number that has been transferred to my S5.
I want to change the number on my retired phone to that of either my home number, or my Google Voice number, so that certain apps that require a phone number would work. ie, Vonage Extensions. It cannot be installed on two phones with the same number.
Can anyone help me with this, or do I need to take it back to my service provider and have them change it?

lexridge said:
I have retired my S3 from service, and now have a shiny new S5 However, I would still like to continue using my S3 for WiFi based use. Problem is, it still contains my old phone number that has been transferred to my S5.
I want to change the number on my retired phone to that of either my home number, or my Google Voice number, so that certain apps that require a phone number would work. ie, Vonage Extensions. It cannot be installed on two phones with the same number.
Can anyone help me with this, or do I need to take it back to my service provider and have them change it?
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Depending on your use of your S3, you could consider enrolling in FreedomPop free plan - for a one time byod fee of $20, you'd get 1GB of data every month for free on your phone, as well as a dedicated phone number. Helpful if you get the S3 out of wifi range every now and then.
Otherwise, you could consider replacing Vonage Extensions by Hangouts - it will allow you to make 100% free wifi voiceip calls to any phone in US and Canada while using your google voice number, as well as send/receive texts from the gv number.

Merudo said:
Depending on your use of your S3, you could consider enrolling in FreedomPop free plan - for a one time byod fee of $20, you'd get 1GB of data every month for free on your phone, as well as a dedicated phone number. Helpful if you get the S3 out of wifi range every now and then.
Otherwise, you could consider replacing Vonage Extensions by Hangouts - it will allow you to make 100% free wifi voiceip calls to any phone in US and Canada while using your google voice number, as well as send/receive texts from the gv number.
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Thanks Merudo for the insightful advice. I do already have the gv dialer installed, and it works extremely well. I really like the Vonage extensions because it mirrors my home phone number when using it to dial out. I don't want to confuse my friends/relatives with yet another phone number (ie, my GV number).

After 4 months, I finally figured out a way around this.
I first changed the phone number on my out-of-service S3 phone by changing the MDN and the MSID to my GV phone number.
Then I reinstalled the Vonage Extensions app and tried to choose WiFi only. For this to happen, it needed to call a number to verify it was a valid number, using the default dialer (which won't work, since the phone is out of service). I immediately noted and called that number from my active phone, using my GV number in Hangouts.
Tada!! It then successfully activated my out-of-service S3 for Vonage Extensions calling over WiFi!! Yay!

Check your S3
by going into
System Settings > About Phone > Status
It might still have your phone number.
You can reset this
by pressing ##786# in the dialer
in a touchwiz ROM.
You would need to know your MSL code
for the password to reset.
I would do this if you were
to sell the S3 on eBay.

##MSL#
That's how you manually change the phone number and msid.
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indigofilipino said:
Check your S3
by going into
System Settings > About Phone > Status
It might still have your phone number.
You can reset this
by pressing ##786# in the dialer
in a touchwiz ROM.
You would need to know your MSL code
for the password to reset.
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I originally bought this phone from Ebay, and reset the MSL to 000000 shortly after it arrived. About Phone/Status does now indeed show my GV phone number.

Add phone number to sim card?

I try to use Samsungs Private Share app and it gives me this error:
"You can't use Private Share because we can't read your phone number from your SIM, which we use as an ID. Contact the service provider for your SIM card and ask them to add your phone number to your SIM as the MSISDN."
I have talked to my phone operator 3 times and they tell me that the setup in their system looks good.
And when I look under "About phone" it says unknown phone number. I already got a new sim card, but no luck.
Any thoughts, guys?
Thank you in advance
/CK

I think it's a validation thingy, try this:
Open contacts, press the 3 dashesand select the gear on the top right (Settings on the contacts app).
Select "Share profile pictures"
It will ask youto activate profile sharing and will verify your number via SMS (kinda like 2 factor) after you do that the number will be verified and will appear on the phone settings.

Bomn said:
I think it's a validation thingy, try this:
Open contacts, press the 3 dashesand select the gear on the top right (Settings on the contacts app).
Select "Share profile pictures"
It will ask youto activate profile sharing and will verify your number via SMS (kinda like 2 factor) after you do that the number will be verified and will appear on the phone settings.
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Didnt work for me, im using Note 20 Ultra Exynos. Sim 1 is ok, but my eSim phone number still unknown.

smartiescoke said:
Didnt work for me, im using Note 20 Ultra Exynos. Sim 1 is ok, but my eSim phone number still unknown.
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Same with my s22 ultra. Esim number unknown. Sim 1 is ok. Please let me know if you find any solution

Try this.
Try clearing the data in Sim toolkit, network reset and clear the system cache from the boot menu.