hey guys,
when i logged in to my google account, my contacts arrived without any problem. however, when someone calls me, i don't see his name on the screen even though his number is saved in my contact!!!!
i tried formatting my device many times, but this problem kicks in.
every time someone calls, i get his number only (unknown caller). it is like i did not save the number at all!!!
how to fix this? can i do something on the device itself? or i can even use an app to fix this issue?
thanks
What country are you in? and what version of android? Try adding the country code to your contacts. I had the same problem with my consumer cellular 4.3.
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I have searched for this and found the same question posted in a HD2 Android category, but there were no responses... so asking for myself in here.
I have all my phone numbers listed in my contacts with the preceeding area code, as I often travel outside of the local area and need those area codes included in my contacts numbers..... ie: all my phone numbers are 10 digits in length.
However, there doesn't seem to be a requirement for the area code to be sent, when a caller has Caller-ID enabled. In other words, I receive some calls from contacts in my phone, but if their phone doesn't include the area code in their Caller-ID, then my phone doesn't recognise or identify the number. Consequently, when hanging up from those calls, it constantly asks me if I want to save the number.
Note - it isn't a permanent thing. Many incoming calls DO identify correctly, as the area code has obviously been sent with C-ID.
Does anyone have a solution for this?
Obviously I COULD go thru every contact and manually add another non-area-coded phone number - perhaps under an obscure phonebook entry, like "pager"... but surely this is something that one would expect be handled automatically by the phone... not by duplicating entries as a work-around.
What would happen for business-people who travel internationally - most of their contacts would also include the "+61" (or whichever) country code also.....
Nobody ???
Bumping again ????
Anybody have any clues to this?
Did you try disabling the Area Code Prefix setting in Settings -> Call Settings ?
kawazaki said:
Did you try disabling the Area Code Prefix setting in Settings -> Call Settings ?
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Thanx mate for your reply.
Sorry took so long.... my phone has been in for warranty repair (unrelated matter to this) for the last 7 weeks, so I haven't logged onto xda in that time !!!
No..... I haven't tried disabling the AC Prefix setting. I will have a look at that and see if it makes any difference.
One additional comment..... I am also having the REVERSE problem.... in that SOME people who ring me on their mobiles, the caller ID is also sending the +61 (Australia) country code in front of their mobile number too.... so again, my phone isn't recognising them as being the "same" number as what is stored in my phonebook ????
Will try the disable thing you mention and report if it works.
Sorry mate... cannot find the setting you mention.
Could you explain please exactly where it is ?
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Sorry mate... cannot find the setting you mention.
Could you explain please exactly where it is ?
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Or you could turn off having the phone ask to to add the number to your contacts.
On the US T-Mobile phone it is:
Activate phone screen
Menu
Options
Menu
Network Selection
Advanced tab
Turn off the feature to "Add new phone number to People at end of call"
I'm using the NRG ROM.
Thanks stevedebi.
Sorry - I mite not have been properly clear.
The issue isn't being asked to save a new number.
The issue is.... the phone does not recognise a number - mobile or landline - if there is an area-code or country-code prefixed to the number (or vice versa) with the entry in the phone book.
Eg: ALL my contacts saved in my phone have their mobile numbers WITHOUT the +61 country code.... and ALL landline numbers are saved WITH area-codes.
Now - depending on my contact's phone operators, they sometimes send with, or without, those prefixes in their caller ID's.
Consequently - on those occasions.... my phone does not recognise incoming calls or messages as having come from my contacts, due to the extra numbers at the beginning.
Surely this is a software issue from HTC? I mean, surely the software should be able to query an incoming called ID (either with or without prefixed-codes) with a saved number in the contacts/phonebook (with or without prefixed-codes)... ???
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Sorry to be repetitive.... still looking for an answer to this ???
Check you registry setting for "HKCU\Control Panel\Phone\CalIidMatch" value=?!?
try to reduce the number for "Value" by 1 and try.
This is for the number of digits your phone will check when comparing incoming numbers with stored names.
Thanx Omar,
Will try that. Question though.... does it check the phone number (by number of digits) in reverse order? ie: setting a particular number will have no effect, if it checks in normal forward order, as it's PREFIXES that are making things wrong.... so the phone needs to ONLY check the LAST 10 digits.... not the first 10. This will eliminate the issue with any country-code added to the front of a number... but will not help with a local area code, as these are dependent on the callers' carrier, if they send the area code in the CID or not
From my experience with my HTC phones, it checks the last digits.
I have number saved with the +974 international code (for Qatar), & when local call come in, they only show the local format (without +974) & the caller ID still recognises the names. Our local numbers are 8 digits, so I have the registry value set at 7 or 8 & it works fine.
I tried to deactivate and re-activate it. I tried signing out then back in. I tried to use a different account. I just can't seem to get my Google Voice to be my voice-mail like I had on my Nexus One (which took about 4 seconds to setup..). So I've searched and found no answers on how to connect it. Any advice guys?
"Failed to retrieve and save current forwarding number settings. Do you want to switch to the new provider anyway?"
I hit "Yes"
"Forwarding number change unsuccessful. Please contact your carrier if this problem persists."
I experienced the same thing when trying to link my gvoice to my Amaze.
I contacted T-Mobile and they explained this was a known issue and they would alert me when it was resolved.... and I have yet to be notified. I assume this is because the case is still open. It was network related from what I gathered.
If you hear anything from Tmo or HTC please update this thread on PM me. This is my only real problem with the Amaze. Oh and otterbox giving us the middle finger... lol
Hello,
I hope anyone could help me, since I am beginner when it comes to Atrix and Andoid, but let´s go:
I have bought a At&t Motorola Atrix 4G, Android 2.3.6, system version:4.5.141 mb860.att.en.us
Once I arrived to Brazil, inserted my SIMnseveral contacts, everything ok... but, when I receive a call, the calling number shows up on the display, but not the name of the inserted contact. So, it is showed the number, but not the name of the registered contact. The phone is not matching the calling number with my contacts.
I have already created a motoblur acount, restored the phone to factory settings a several times, but nothing seems to solve the problem.
Altough the phone is now in Brazil, its IMEI continues linked to At&t and my carrier says that this has nothing to do with this problem.
My carrier in Brazil is "Oi".
I hope someone could help me here.
Thanks in advance!
Have you tried saving the number as it appears on caller ID? I've had this happen with text messages and it's due to the way the carrier sends out the caller id; for example, instead of (123) 555-5555, the network pushes it out as +1235555555.
Caller ID is an carrier service and in this case is irrelevant. Your carrier is right in saying this has nothing to do with them. The phone shows up names associated with phone numbers based on your local phonebook only.
Your phone being "tied" to AT&T is irrelevant too, you're out of their reach now so they can't do anything even if they wanted to.
I should know, I'm happily using an AT&T device even though I'm halfway across the world.
What kind of format are you using for the phone numbers in your contacts? I'd recommend you use the standard international format, even if most of them are numbers local to your country. Standard international numbers are of format +<country code><area code><number>. So for my country it would be for example +3851xxxxxxx. So try changing some number in your contacts to that and then tell them to call you and see if it helps.
That's very strange, because I've used the At&T rom on my brazilian atriz without any issue whatsoever.
What could fix your issue is what our buddies said above: try setting the contacts with the International number format (+55 21 9999-9999). All of my contacts are like that on my phone and caller ID has worked fine across multiple ROMs.
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That's very strange, because I've used the At&T rom on my brazilian atriz without any issue whatsoever.
What could fix your issue is what our buddies said above: try setting the contacts with the International number format (+55 21 9999-9999). All of my contacts are like that on my phone and caller ID has worked fine across multiple ROMs.
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Same thing, brazilian atrix, AT&T rom.
I keep all my contacts in the following format: '011 9999-9999' and it's worked with pretty much every ROM I've tried.
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Same thing, brazilian atrix, AT&T rom.
I keep all my contacts in the following format: '011 9999-9999' and it's worked with pretty much every ROM I've tried.
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I used the followin formart: 021 xxx-xxx and worked. I was using "0xx21 xxx-xxxx" format and it was not working, despite my others "dumbphones".
thank you all"
I have been looking all over for something about this and can't find anything What I'm trying to do is take my disconnected Android device and change the physical phone number to my Google Voice number so it will pick up texts and what not. I need to do this because my phone will not install Google Voice...probably because it's rooted and my custom ROM is not compatible
My other problem is: I tried Whatsapp and they need a phone number to send you a text to confirm the phone...WELL when my phone got deactivated by my carrier (Cricket), they take your number away and change it to a number that's not even a real number with area code 555...which doesn't exist. Kind of in a jam here..
All I want to be able to do is send text messages through wifi without a phone data plan/activation. If there is an app out there that doesn't require a phone number to use and the receiver of my text messages do not need the same app to communicate, that would be great! Here's to wishful thinking lol.
Any help would be much appreciated Thanks
Hello,
I have samsung s3 with revoliunary s5 ROM. I didnt have this problem with my s3 before ROM, so maybe you can help me to fix this problem. The problem is that numbers are shown on incoming calls or messages instead of contact name. But it happens not on all contacts, some are displayed some are not. Maybe its because numbers in my contacts starts without country code, and on incoming call phone shows number starting with country code (+countrycode)*number** . Its something with number formatting but I didnt have this problem on stock/previous custom roms, somehow they recognized who's calling and displayed contact not number, dispite how it was saved(with or without country code at the beggining of number). Is there something I could do ? I really appreciate your help.