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SMS Inbox shows Contact Numbers instead of Names

Hey all,
I've had my Kaiser a while now, and I love it to pieces. However...
When I open my SMS/MMS inbox, I see all my texts, but instead of showing the Name of the person who sent me a message, it shows there number (i.e +447870111111). This happens if I haven't pre-saved the contact to my phone (Even though the contacts were saved on my simcard). What's more, I thought copying all the contacts from my SIM to my phone would work, but no look. And now, I have 2 sets of all numbers! (one on SIM and one on Phone).
So My questions are:
Is there a way to have my SMS inbox show the contacts name, rather than number?
Is there a way to tell the Kaiser to hide my Sim Contacts, and just display my phone contacts.
I've searched and searched for these issues, but cannot find anything. I'm fairly technical so am usually good with these type of things. But any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Scott

for the second question, use kaiser-tweak ...
there's a option under [contacts] where you can disable sim-contacts.
the other question i can't help, sry
bye andré

OK Cheers Edi, Anybody for question number one? Surely this issue affects others?

Just to confirm I'm not a jinx, can somebody else who experiences this issu please post?

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When you store a contact after receiving an SMS, the SMS database is not updated with the contact info and so the Inbox will show with the number alone! But after storing it once, the next SMS will be named with the Contact. This is how it happens in Windows Mobile or the way it handles the messages. The updating is not done in all SMS after a contact is stored as it would slow down the device.
Regards,
Carty..

Thanks for that Carty, now i know I'm not going insane!
It's a shame it has to be that way though... Standard mobile phones usually update themselves when you've saved the number as a contact. Ah well, I still have the best phone ever!
Cheers

Experiencing The Same Problem
Try to include the country code and for sure you'll have the name appear. Problem will be, when that person is calling from the same country... Country code will be omited. So you wouldn't see the name of the person who's calling... and vise versa
Did you find any solution?
Thanks,
Angelo
Audio said:
Hey all,
I've had my Kaiser a while now, and I love it to pieces. However...
When I open my SMS/MMS inbox, I see all my texts, but instead of showing the Name of the person who sent me a message, it shows there number (i.e +447870111111). This happens if I haven't pre-saved the contact to my phone (Even though the contacts were saved on my simcard). What's more, I thought copying all the contacts from my SIM to my phone would work, but no look. And now, I have 2 sets of all numbers! (one on SIM and one on Phone).
So My questions are:
Is there a way to have my SMS inbox show the contacts name, rather than number?
Is there a way to tell the Kaiser to hide my Sim Contacts, and just display my phone contacts.
I've searched and searched for these issues, but cannot find anything. I'm fairly technical so am usually good with these type of things. But any help would be appreciated.
Cheers
Scott
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Apologies
I'm sorry. I guess my problem is different...
Audio said:
Thanks for that Carty, now i know I'm not going insane!
It's a shame it has to be that way though... Standard mobile phones usually update themselves when you've saved the number as a contact. Ah well, I still have the best phone ever!
Cheers
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Wow this thread's a blast from the past
TBH I've not noticed the problem again, which could mean one of two things:
1) The problem has now gone after Flashing a WM6.1 ROM, or
2) I haven't had any "New" people send me a text.
Sorry I can't be of more help...

Hi,
I haven't had an issue with numbers showing on an SMS instead of names (as I store my numbers as +447976123456, but I did have a REALLY annoying issue with SMS delivery reports having the number instead of the name.
This would have been fine if I sent one text every now and then , but as a heavy texter it drove me nuts - never knowing whos message had been delivered.
Just in case anyone else is having trouble with this - try the attached file - it lets you change the format of the report you get when your SMS is delivered!
Cheers
Zippyioa

Two mobile numbers for one contact

Do someone know how to put two mobile numbers in one contact.
It is very important, because it is very complicated to send SMS on the mobile number if it is stored under another type of number.
Some of my friend have two numbers and also if someone is writing me an SMS from a number that is not stored under mobile and I want answer, you can't just tap for replay, because the Diamond will use the default mobile number of the contact, not the from from which the SMS was send... it is really incredible. I realised it after some friends didn't recieved my SMS... also because you cannot check to which number you send it... there is just a name!!!
Do someone have a solution?!?!?
It is really annoying for me!!
Thnx!!

Urosh said:
Do someone know how to put two mobile numbers in one contact.
It is very important, because it is very complicated to send SMS on the mobile number if it is stored under another type of number.
Some of my friend have two numbers and also if someone is writing me an SMS from a number that is not stored under mobile and I want answer, you can't just tap for replay, because the Diamond will use the default mobile number of the contact, not the from from which the SMS was send... it is really incredible. I realised it after some friends didn't recieved my SMS... also because you cannot check to which number you send it... there is just a name!!!
Do someone have a solution?!?!?
It is really annoying for me!!
Thnx!!
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You should be able to solve it via editing the contact either on the PC with which you sync or directly on your device, going to contacts and editing the contact. Just enter the second number in another field, like home, work, main, primary, etc. The label does not really matter.

tnyynt said:
The label does not really matter.
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As the OP states the label absolutely does matter. For example, a telephone number in the 'Work' field will never be offered when typing a name into the To: field of an SMS message.
Mathew

MJNewton said:
As the OP states the label absolutely does matter. For example, a telephone number in the 'Work' field will never be offered when typing a name into the To: field of an SMS message.
Mathew
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Correct, for SMS only Mobile will be offered as alternative but as for Caller ID it does not matter.

Not sure if it would help you or even work for your problem, but in Outlook there is a phone type of "car" that you could use. Like I said, not sure if that would help with the SMS issue, but it might.

MJNewton understood my problem...
My problem is to send an SMS to a number which is not under the label mobile.
Also the car label doesn't work. It offers you only the mobile number for sending SMS.
It is really very stupid not to add also a mobile2 label and to offer both numbers!
Would someone invent something for this?!? Do only we in Slovenia have sometimes two mobile numbers?!?!
Thnx!!
U.

Urosh said:
MJNewton understood my problem...
My problem is to send an SMS to a number which is not under the label mobile.
Also the car label doesn't work. It offers you only the mobile number for sending SMS.
It is really very stupid not to add also a mobile2 label and to offer both numbers!
Would someone invent something for this?!? Do only we in Slovenia have sometimes two mobile numbers?!?!
Thnx!!
U.
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Same here, I have friends studying abroad, with one mobile phone in each country... Solved it using the "work" section, but it's not that good for the SMS... Perhaps if we find the template somewhere it could be changed ?

I would think the logical solution (workaround) would be to have two different contacts in your contact list.

I have this issue aswell.
What yoiu could try is use an app like Icontact or pocketcm.
I beleive you can pick the number were you want to sms to.
have not try'd it my self

i dont have this problem?
if i goto new text, then add contact the contacts list appears, then when i click the contact i have to choose which number i want (mobile, work, mobile2, home ect)
which method are you using to add contacts to the SMS?

rumpleforeskin said:
i dont have this problem?
if i goto new text, then add contact the contacts list appears, then when i click the contact i have to choose which number i want (mobile, work, mobile2, home ect)
which method are you using to add contacts to the SMS?
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The problem is if you go to your contacts, select one and then pick write sms.
you wont get an option.
or when you reply to an sms (al though i do think then when i reply it does sent it to the number you are replying to.
but it is annoying that you cant see which number it was)

When you use the SMS application and you press "To:" it will show your contacts list and when chosing a name you'll be presented with all the numbers you have for that contact wether mobile, home or work so I don't really see the problem.
Garcia

...possible.....
I don't have too many friends walking around with two mobiles consistently on their person so I don't really considerthis an issue
but if I did (like for differnet countries) and I wanted this to work I would make an exact copy of the original Contact amd slightly change the name to represent the second mobile i.e.
Fred1 Smith xxxxxx
Fred2 Smith yyyyyy
....suppose that would work....

Two mobiles in one contact.
You can't do that on the phone although outlook could do it!
Do as I did in the past.
You have two numbers for John Smith?
contact1: JohnSmith1
contact2: JohnSmith2
TWO MOBILES!!
How far out can you fall with the same name?
I actually had each number on different name because I wanted to know straight way who phoned me.
So I had like DaveMob, DaveHm, DaveFax, etc.

Help needed: List of messages disappeared.

Sorry for the wall of text, but hopefully can get some solutions from you guys who are more experienced in Windows Mobile than me.
I got a brand new replacement phone two days ago from the HTC service centre in Singapore due to a camera problem from my previous set of Diamond 2.
My previous Diamond 2 upon receiving smses would place all the smses according to chronological order in a list which you could access after tapping the screen once at the Message menu. What appears would be the choice to view details of the contact, list of messages, as well as the call history.
However, the weird thing that has happened is that with my new replacement, the list of messages that i would newly receive would be gone. However, this only happened to one number which was CNANewsPack. I have chosen all my previous settings that placed all messages to "Threaded" in the "All Settings" menu but to no avail. Maybe there was something i missed?
Is there anyway i can see the list of messages that i receive from future from this particular number? Thanks so much in advance.

Hi. Did u manage to sort out ypur problem without hard reset?I think i have the same problem.
I recently got a TD2(3 months). all was good untill recently i had a problem with opera which no one could help me with and ended up having to hard reset
Now, everytime i touch the messaging tab via touchflo, or select a contact and then choose the messaging tab(2 c all the previous messages from that contact), there is no messages.although i know they are in my phone. also, when i select the message tab from tflo3d, the option on the bottom right(menu), does nothing if i touuch it.
please let me know if you or anyone else can help.
Thanks in advance.
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Problem with messaging

Hi all
I got a Touch Viva recently and been enjoying it a lot. I had noticed a problem with the messaging app. Actually there are a total of 4 SMS messages for me. If i go through the SMS inbox via the start menu, it is showing only 1 message. But where as the touch flo interface is showing all the 4 messages. I suspect the windows app is showing only the messages stored in the phone but not in the SIM. My question here is , can this behaviour be corrected to display all the messages?
And also is there any way that the phone shows a different message icons for the sms stored in the SIM and the in the phone? Like a small sim image over the envelope icon.....
can anybody please answer my questions?
Thank you.

Has threaded sms view enabled??
Do you have the threaded sms enabled?
If so, if you received the all 4 sms from same person it will show as a thread.. open the thread it will show full conversations..

yea buddy if the msgs from the same person they all show in one conversation ... i like it this way better than million msgs hehe

Is windows able to handle msgs in the SIM? if not, thats probably it, touchFLO shows all the msgs while Windows only shows msgs in the device

[Q] Caller (contact) photo

This could be a noob Q, but please help/advise:
We have 2 LG Optimus Black phones: mine shows a contact photo on the main screen when dialing him/her and/or when receiving a call from fim/her . But my wife's phone (same stock S/W ver. 10b) doesn't . Even if her contacts have associated pics, those pics doesn't show when dialing/receiving calls.
Is there a setting that we noobs are not aware of?

telektualu said:
This could be a noob Q, but please help/advise:
We have 2 LG Optimus Black phones: mine shows a contact photo on the main screen when dialing him/her and/or when receiving a call from fim/her . But my wife's phone (same stock S/W ver. 10b) doesn't . Even if her contacts have associated pics, those pics doesn't show when dialing/receiving calls.
Is there a setting that we noobs are not aware of?
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flash cyanogen in both phone ...both will be same and awsm

think is a problem of sim contact, does your have contact on her sim card ?

I think the "problem" is where you store your contacts, the SIM card only store and show name and phone number so in order to see a picture for a particular [or all contacts] you need to save them to the phone [export from SIM to phone] and edit info, you can attach more numbers [mobile, home, office, etc] address, birthday and a picture and some other things

I already thought of that.
In both phones, contacts are stored to the phone, not on the sim card.
Thanx though for the replies.
Still standing by for a solution...