I have some contacts on my phone with Multiple numbers and they are not coming up when i type their name in any text message app that i download. They only show up when i use the Native messenger app that is default. I have to go to their contact in the contact list in order to send them a text. whats the issue and how can i fix it?
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I have a person whom i need to send a text message to. I have removed him from my contacts (to troubleshoot this crazy problem). When I text him, by going to my phone icon on main page, then type in the phone number, then click the third icon (yellow icon with envelope), it then automatically adds a +1 at the start, puts dashes in the number, AND adds "[email protected]" (the dns address of our network (I added the quotes). Then when I type the message and hit send, it shows as "sending" but never ACTUALLY sends it.
I have searched for this number in my contacts list, also using "Power Search" that I purchased, and I can't find his cell number at all (i have REMOVED him!).
If I do the above, but before sending, go back up into the number field, and edit the number back to straight cell#, a pop up appears "Converting to text message..." and then after finally putting the cell# back in, this time it doesn't auto-re-format the number, and it goes as a text.
NORMALLY, to text/sms, I would just go to my contacts' entry, then click the "envelope", and presto... send. But, for THIS contact, the same thing happens as above (thus the reason I deleted his contact info to troubleshoot).
Thanks for any help!
Fred
Do you store your contacts on the google servers?
tjjensen23 said:
Do you store your contacts on the google servers?
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yes, all my contacts are google (sorry, forgot to mention that).... i don't have any local contacts in the phone itself (at least i don't think so), and i also have contacts in facebook (but this guy isn't on my facebook at all)...
You can use a secondary messaging app like handcent or go sms pro, and see if this happens again. Just a wierd problem!
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I have several contacts with several phone numbers between mobile, home, office, work, fax, etc... whenever I want to send a text to any of those contacts and i type their name in the To: field, it lists all their numbers every time and i have to scroll down and select the mobile number.
this doesn't happen in windows phone, where the sms app only lists the contact's mobile number, and it only shows you the contact's numbers twice if the contact has more than one mobile number.
also, in windows phone you can create a group of contacts and then you can send a text to the entire group and it knows to select only their mobile numbers and you can do this from the sms app by typing the group name in the To: field. I have tried creating groups on the Note, but when i have tried to text that group typing the name of a group on the To: field does nothing, it is as if it didn't exist.
And don't get me started on not having group sms like in iphone and windows phone.... does anyone know how to enable this feature without having to install a new app for a new service and either getting a new number for that service or having to get your contacts on that service (whatsapp or skype or kik or any of those) i want to send group messages from my phone, like i could do with my windows phone and my friend do with their iphones...
ZaidSenall said:
I have several contacts with several phone numbers between mobile, home, office, work, fax, etc... whenever I want to send a text to any of those contacts and i type their name in the To: field, it lists all their numbers every time and i have to scroll down and select the mobile number.
this doesn't happen in windows phone, where the sms app only lists the contact's mobile number, and it only shows you the contact's numbers twice if the contact has more than one mobile number.
also, in windows phone you can create a group of contacts and then you can send a text to the entire group and it knows to select only their mobile numbers and you can do this from the sms app by typing the group name in the To: field. I have tried creating groups on the Note, but when i have tried to text that group typing the name of a group on the To: field does nothing, it is as if it didn't exist.
And don't get me started on not having group sms like in iphone and windows phone.... does anyone know how to enable this feature without having to install a new app for a new service and either getting a new number for that service or having to get your contacts on that service (whatsapp or skype or kik or any of those) i want to send group messages from my phone, like i could do with my windows phone and my friend do with their iphones...
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just use Handcent or GoSMS or ChompSMS they all have mobile only features and group msging
JamieD81 said:
just use Handcent or GoSMS or ChompSMS they all have mobile only features and group msging
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I tried gosms and handcent and i kept receiving duplicate notifications and made the phone very slow after a few days...
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I tried gosms and handcent and i kept receiving duplicate notifications and made the phone very slow after a few days...
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You can turn off the notifications for stock SMS and make go or handcent default.
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Which one do you recommend between the two?
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I remembered what was the other reason I didn't line go SMS, it didn't keep the unread messages count visible like the stock SMS app does...
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So, going third-party is still the only way to restrict/view only mobile numbers? (GS3 v4.1.2)
I have Facebook contacts disabled but when I create a new message and I type in the recipients name, contacts from Facebook show up as options to chose. How can I get rid of this? I have already disabled pulling from history in recipient settings in messages... Help!
Hello Guys
Can you start communicating with someone in WhatsApp without him being in your contact list? Some people are claiming it's doable. I know you can talk with them if they happen to be on the same group.
I don't want to go through the hassle of creating a contact just to talk to him in WhatsApp for one time
The claim is that there is a button somewhere in the phone call history to select whatsapp as a messaging app instead of sms. All I see is a sms button that links to the messaging app
I found the below instructions but it doesn't work on my phone.
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-way-to-send-WhatsApp-messages-to-someone-not-on-your-contact-list
From the link
"This is possible only in certain mobile phones.*
Type the number in Keypad
Press the Menu button
Click Send message option
You will get a menu, saying Send via WhatsApp, Message, Hike and other such apps which you have installed in your device.Click on WhatsApp.
Now you can send message through WhatsApp to the number which is not in your Contact list.
I receive text messages from an application at work. The number from the application is a 5-digit "Source ID". I put that 5-digit number in a contact called "WORK APP TEXT", and the text shows as being from that contact.
The problem. The system now sends from two different Source ID's. I added the 2nd number to the WORK APP TEXT contact, but I still get 2 different conversations in my messaging app. I tried to create 2 contacts (one with each of the numbers) and merge them. They both show in the text app with the merged contact name, but still 2 separate conversations.
The time the texts are received are critical as one will be the INITIAL and the second will be the RESOLVED and I really need to see them in one thread.
I'm frustrated I haven't been able to solve this. Please help!! Thanks.