I live overseas but call back to the us quite often for friends, family, or work. My mobile provider provides an economical way of calling back to the us and to many other countries by replacing +1 (or whatever the country code) with an access code (ie 13200 and country code). However I still need to store all my numbers regularly with + and country code for text messaging and syncing to other devices.
Am I missing something or is there no way to easily edit a number from contacts before dialing? I can edit numbers from the call log with a long press. But this doesn't seem possible from contacts. The only way I can seem to do it is dial with the original number, immediately hang up, then edit the number. My old Nokia did the number edits easily through contacts. Any suggestions? Am I just missing something? Any assistance would be appreciated. Using froyo. Thanks.
Dave
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Didn't get any responses, so bumping back up. Anyone else have some suggested approaches that I might be missing? Thanks.
I purchased my Captivate in America from AT&T, but I live in Japan. I unlocked it and am currently using it on Softbank with no problem, save one. I can't get my voicemail to work. Google voice obviously doesn't work with Japanese cell phones.
Our voicemail number here is a 4 digit number. When I dial this number, it dials the voicemail just fine but will not allow me to bring up the dial pad to choose any of the options. The dialpad stays grayed out. It works fine on every other number in the book, except my voicemail. I have tried to add commas to delay the button pushing and get it to choose the options I want, but it does not work.
Here is the question: Is there any way to force the dial pad to show up when making a call, or an app that can do it?
Any help would be appreciated. I am running a rooted version of the 2.1 OS, no custom ROM or anything crazy.
Picture of " me" at messages etc
Does anyone know how to get rid of that grey square? why can I not customise myself?
a google search gave me a strange solution but it should be easier
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It's taking the picture from your Google account. So you can either change it there or create a new contact with your info (phone, email, etc) and assign whatever photo you want to it.
I have a google picture but that doesn't show. I also tried creating a me contact but that does not work
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What?
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The answer was already posted.
Create a new contact for your self with your phone number in it. Set your picture.
Once youve made a contact with your number and picture, it doesnt automatically create a picture for you in 'me'.
What I had to do was press on the grey 'me' icon in messaging, and then press on the contact info. Then press menu and edit contact, then press menu again and 'join' with the contact with your name and photo.
If the phone number reported by your SIM matches a contact for yourself with a picture, that should mean your picture ends up in the grey square.
Only problem is, if you have an oddball provider like Mobilicity Canada who doesn't program their SIM cards properly, you may have "unknown" as the phone number reported by your SIM, and any attempt to change that number on the SIM will fail.
Well I don't know what you guys are doing but I can't create a picture. I tried making a contact with my name and with the name me it all doesn't work foot me.
Oh well happy new year
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tomsan84 said:
Well I don't know what you guys are doing but I can't create a picture. I tried making a contact with my name and with the name me it all doesn't work foot me.
Oh well happy new year
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All i had to do was add a contact as myself and name it "me" and put my number there and picture of course
You need to put your sim card in an "old" phone and save your number manually in the simcard, then put it back in nexus, and make a contact.
MarkM83 said:
You need to put your sim card in an "old" phone and save your number manually in the simcard, then put it back in nexus, and make a contact.
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Yup, this is exactly what you need to do...
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MarkM83 said:
You need to put your sim card in an "old" phone and save your number manually in the simcard, then put it back in nexus, and make a contact.
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The OP should specify which provider they are using. Some providers write-protect their SIM cards so that you can't save your number on it.
The old phone method is what I found on google. It sound retarded and I don't have an old phone
But what's funny is that one says old phone and the other says I can just add a contact.
The latter doesn't work for me. I wonder how it does for them.
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Just check-out the phone number in settings/status and create contact with that number. Android will recognize it.
For example: In settings i have "My phone number"
+82-109-xxx-xxxx
So i created contact with number (Didnt add "+82" because its a country code) 109-xxx-xxxx, give it my name and my photo and it worked.
tomsan84 said:
The old phone method is what I found on google. It sound retarded and I don't have an old phone
But what's funny is that one says old phone and the other says I can just add a contact.
The latter doesn't work for me. I wonder how it does for them.
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It doesn't work because you need to do BOTH. You need to add your number to the sim card and add yourself as a contact.
Hi is there anybody that can help me with this.
In my country the cellphones service provider uses +506 before the phone number for the messages and the sms messages, my cellphone doesnt recognize this. I dont know who is sending me messages, i have to check my contacts phone number to see who is it. Is there a fix for this?
Add a second number to your contacts, with the prefix included...
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Add a second number to your contacts, with the prefix included...
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thanks
is there a cab or something? i dont want to change all my contacts its gonna take me all week
You can do it through your Google account online. Download your contacts as csv, edit the fields, then upload the changes. Editing the fields should be easy, if you use find and replace...
Change at least one number from your phone, so you can see which field out gets assigned to...
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So until a couple of days ago when I was in the phone and started typing a name it would then show the contact with there number. Now however it only picks up the number and not any letters. Can anyone tell me if I have done something to change this?
are you getting a FULL screen keypad ???? If yes, then get back to smart dial keypad in settings.....
Figured it out! It's because I deleted the sense keyboard! :banghead:
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