Hello, does anybody found out how to sort contacts in iDrive system by last name? When I synchronized contacts from HD2, they were listed as Last Name First Name, but when I did it with HD7 they appear in opposite order.
I tried to change these settings in people hub, but it didnt help. It changed in HD7, but in the car it is still the same. I have BMW 730d E65.
Couple of days later, and I am still stucked in the same situation. Anybody could help?
Is it related to the "File As" in the contact? If not, then I would imagine that it's purely down to how the iDrive system interprets it.
homer.web said:
Hello, does anybody found out how to sort contacts in iDrive system by last name? When I synchronized contacts from HD2, they were listed as Last Name First Name, but when I did it with HD7 they appear in opposite order.
I tried to change these settings in people hub, but it didnt help. It changed in HD7, but in the car it is still the same. I have BMW 730d E65.
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Yes, I would contact BMW, it seems the way the Idrive reads the data is why this is happening, have you ever synced any other phones?
On HD2, the phone did not allow you to sort list by names, we had to dl an app to control that, I prefer to view my contact by first name rather then last name.
I know that in Idrive there is a view settings on how its vied but not sure how to access.
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Yes, I would contact BMW, it seems the way the Idrive reads the data is why this is happening, have you ever synced any other phones?
On HD2, the phone did not allow you to sort list by names, we had to dl an app to control that, I prefer to view my contact by first name rather then last name.
I know that in Idrive there is a view settings on how its vied but not sure how to access.
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Hi, I have synced with my HD2 and it had sorted the list by Last Name, but with the HD7 it is sorted by First Name. I have tried to change the settings in People hub, but it did not help. In iDrive menu its not possible to change anything regarding phone. It just shows the list of the synchronized items.
Hi!
Have you got the solution?
In my car is the same problem, but I have Touch HD. I'd like to view the contacts in order "lastname, firstname". I think it would be anything with bluetooth transmitting procedure of the different phones. Maybe the HD and HD7 synchs the contact name other as HD2. It must be a setting for that anywhere on the phone by Bluetooth, but I don't find it. Maybe a registry tweak...
Bye,
B.
have you tried changing the sort order on the phone? go to settings, applications, people and change whether to sort/ display by first or last name
Yes, I tried that. It is no matter, how is the order on the phone.
But I found an application, Jetware is the name. This application can manipulating the bluetooth hands free setting, right the name's order through a synchronisation.
Now it is almost perfect, just by the names where it's only a firstname in the phonebook, shows now before a "(null)". E.g. on phone is there only a Joe, then on the display of the car it is "(null) Joe"...
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Interesting problem this, it seems to have just started to happen out of the blue a few days ago.
The problem, in a nutshell, is that whatever I try to do, be it recreate the entries in the Address Book, create a duplicate entry with the same name, use the O2 Plus feature which lets you save a contact to your address book and make a new entry like that... Whatever I do, whenever I receive a new text message, the person's name isn't shown as the sender, just their mobile number in international format.
Even if I have that contact in my phone already, with their number in the same format as is shown on the text message (+447...), their name doesn't show at all. It's really starting to annoy me, as I've not added or removed anything to my XDA and yet this problem isn't going away.
Argh! Anybody have any ideas as to what's wrong? I might ring O2's oddly-named Data Support and quiz them about this tomorrow, too...
Cheers again everyone,
Christopher
When you search the forum for "CallerID" you'll find a few people asking about the same problem, mainly when receiving calls however not SMS' and some suggestions.
Do you have photos attached to your contacts? I'd try reinstalling the CallerID_Alpine_... from your Extended_Rom, if all fails it might be easiest to restore a backup (if you got one that is).
hth,
Max
I did some further testing today, borrowed a mate's phone and rang mine... Bizarre, the first time my phone was rung, it would take approx. 30 seconds for the name of the caller to show, the number showed up fine though. Subsequent dials would result in the name showing up almost instantly (as usual)...
.... Veeeeeeery odd. I'll just dash off and try reinstalling this CallerID cab...
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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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
Hi all,
I bought the Touch Diamond2, and have noticed this really annoying problem.
I have a list of contacts (that their names were modified in Outlook 2007, and then transferred to my phone), that whenever they call I can see their number but not the name associated to them (above the number it displays: "(unknown number)"). If I choose to add the number to their name (which is already there - it just asks me to update it), then their name appears if they call. After I add it, it seems like the same exact number - no change at all.
Another thing is, if I enter a number manually that is already stored in my contacts, it doesn't show the name of this contact. If I select the number from my contact page, it does show the name and picture as it should.
Am I the only one experiencing this? Is there a setting in the device i'm missing?
Please help,
Thanks
Hello!
I also have the same problem, because of the indicative of the country, already send an email for the HTC, to try to decide the problem. I am waiting a reply of them.
have a look:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=515136
regards
Ever since I factory reset my phone contact names are not displayed on the car when someone calls. It just shows the number instead of the name. Even before there was some contacts that did not show the name and some that would. Anyone know why this happens and how to solve it ?
linkness said:
Ever since I factory reset my phone contact names are not displayed on the car when someone calls. It just shows the number instead of the name. Even before there was some contacts that did not show the name and some that would. Anyone know why this happens and how to solve it ?
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do you have any numbers in your cars "phone book"? I know on my car (2011 Subaru Outback), it only displays the number, but I haven't tried to set up any phone book contacts yet. It's only a small scrolling screen. I can't recall what it's like on my wife's 2010 Mazda 6 with the LCD display screen.
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do you have any numbers in your cars "phone book"? I know on my car (2011 Subaru Outback), it only displays the number, but I haven't tried to set up any phone book contacts yet. It's only a small scrolling screen. I can't recall what it's like on my wife's 2010 Mazda 6 with the LCD display screen.
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I'm not sure if it stores any contacts in the phone book. What happens is everytime I turn the car on it connects to the phone and then it transfers contacts to itself. Which is where it should be pulling names from. It worked fine with a very old dumb phone don't see why it would not work with the SGS.
Where do you have your contacts stored on your phone ??
If in Google Contacts, maybe they need to be on the phone itself ?
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Where do you have your contacts stored on your phone ??
If in Google Contacts, maybe they need to be on the phone itself ?
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Ya I was thinking maybe that was it but I remember before it was working with google contacts. Also to note is that when I try to voice dial out through the cars system I can use (google) contact names just fine. Almost all my contacts are stored in google don't really want to make duplicates if its possible to get it working with google contacts which I know there must be because it worked before with them.
Ok so when I pair my phone with my car everything works fine apart from individual people contact numbers are not identified as 'home', 'mobile', 'work' etc.
It's as this feature isn't being read.
When I 'call contact' it will come up with 3 choices but those choices are never in the same order, in fact on one occasion all three numbers were the same phone number!
The contacts are from my google account, synced in from there.
Did have an HTC desire hooked up with none of these issues, in fact car gave appropriate icons to individual numbers dependent on their classification tag.
Anyone any thoughts - it is making the phones use in the car very time consuming!
Thx in advance
hudson1 said:
Ok so when I pair my phone with my car everything works fine apart from individual people contact numbers are not identified as 'home', 'mobile', 'work' etc.
It's as this feature isn't being read.
When I 'call contact' it will come up with 3 choices but those choices are never in the same order, in fact on one occasion all three numbers were the same phone number!
The contacts are from my google account, synced in from there.
Did have an HTC desire hooked up with none of these issues, in fact car gave appropriate icons to individual numbers dependent on their classification tag.
Anyone any thoughts - it is making the phones use in the car very time consuming!
Thx in advance
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Which Rom do you use?
I have noticed that the way your car processes your contacts depends on your device's protocol, but it also depents on the car's multimedia unit.
For example in my car the contacts are messed up, but when i try to hook it to another car, then my contact are shown correctly.
rom version
Thx for reply,
rom version is 2.3.6