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Contacts, Numbers, and International

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

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.

Contact Picture

Is there a specific type the contact picture should be in order to apear in a good resolution? No matter what i tried it always appear in a very low resolution. Thanks.

What about when someone calls and its a fullscreen image?? is that clear??

You mean originaly fullscrean or during the call?

During a call

how do i set them to be full screen during the call?

nevermind its something im playing with *shifty*,,, so anyway the pictures being low quality, is this in the contacts list or during a call

andstef said:
Is there a specific type the contact picture should be in order to apear in a good resolution? No matter what i tried it always appear in a very low resolution. Thanks.
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To keep contact pic res, save the contact to the sim or phone, dnt sync them with google as they will lower to res for space requirements on there servers
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

both contact list and during a call
I am talkin about contacts saved on my phone

i have the same problem here. at first some contacts( having pictures) look good. but in one day, I sync to pc( using HTC sync) to outlook 2007, the contacts with pics become blurry. dont know why i dont use google/facebook contacts)

problem still there. anyone?

Dont think there has been any fix for this

linking contacts

Having a small issue with contacts. I can get twitter/FB to sync pics and status updates for everyone of my contacts, but not for myself. I am running CM7 RC1. I know this isnt a big thing, but I dont understand if it can like for every other contact why it wont pull my own info for mine.

It will if you make a contact with your info in it
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There is already a contact with my info on it.

hector48 said:
There is already a contact with my info on it.
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Well, technically, you aren't a "friend" of yourself on facebook, nor do you follow yourself on twitter, so they have nothing to link to. Just download your profile picture onto your phone and manually attach it to your contact. I don't even have a contact for myself, I don't see the point.

One potential reason for having yourself as a contact is having your own picture show up in SMS conversations.

Ah, I use handcent sms, where you can manually set your own contact picture without actually creating your own contact, I guess that's why I don't have a contact for myself.
Like I said, just download your profile picture to your phone and manually set it as your contact picture? That should work just fine.