i need some help, i am new to phones and therefore a little useless
well here goes, when i recieve text messages from colleagues instead of thier name coming up all i get is thier text number for example if 0123456789 was number of smeg_bob instead of smeg_bob coming up when message recieved i get from: +123456789
does any one know why this is and could you please help me, i am feeling extremely useless with this comlicated peice of gadgetry
ps
i think i have copied my sim addresses to memory
Usually that happens, when you have the same number multiple times in Contacts; the phone doesn't know which one is the correct person/contact, so it only shows the number.
no my numbers are only in the once
because for some strange reason all my friends abroad when they txt their name appears but for all my uk colleagues i get the text number
please help
here is ur solution friend.
change the number in your Contact Directory. i.e. if the number I have in was e.g. 07973xxxxxx then change the number to +447973xxxxxx
this prob is generally for uk numbers only
That seemed to cure the problem.
do tell me if that worked
Hope that helps.
cheers
no tried that still not working, am getting well and truly frustrated
think i will go back to my 8850, at least i knew how to use the damn phone
seeing as i work in the I.T sector, i can't believe how much of a technophobe i am when it come to mobile phones
Using the international code for the numbers worked for me
(ie. +44 for UK numbers)
I have Nokia 6600 on Orange on which this SMS problem has them baffled.
Guess we'll be waiting for a software upgrade to fix it.
Smeg_Bob, is that the case with all your SMSs? If not, have you checked that the number is not stored twice under a different name. This is the only occurence when this thing happened to me.
If you have copied your SIM addresses to the phone memory, but not deleted the numbers in the same, you have then created double entries for all the numbers. Try to delete all numbers which are in your SIM and that you've copied in the phone.
Hope it'll help
Ive had this problem too. To solve it i deleted the contact entry for the particluar person then recreated with +44 infront. That worked for me. You seem to have to delete it not just change the number.
I had it but got away with just changing the number, doesn't assign the name to texts you've already recieved though :s
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I have the same problem.... and tried all of the above solutions, to which they didn't work..
Try this??
When you receive the text and it shows +44******** when you eventually find out who its from, go into the message then go to options and add the number to contacts ( create a new contact?) then delete the previous number you had in your contacts for that number.. then everytime you get a a text from that person it displays the name. for some reason the phone understands it this way??
Or
What for nokia to bring out a upgrade.
I have a similar problem. My wife and son have almost equal phone numbers, like 041-xxxxxxxx and 050-xxxxxxxx, and the numbers in the end are the same, only the service provider differs. Because of this all calls and text messages from my wife are unidentified, it only shows the number. I asked Nokia support about this, and they only said that it is by design, it only searches the phone number from the end and it it finds many instances then it fails. Of course this is a bug, because the phone numbers are not the same, and I have the phone number stored exactly as it appears on the display. I don't know if they are going to fix this if it is by design. 😞
Basically what Nokia have done with the 6600, as its a Tri-band phone, is make the contacts fully international !
This means that you should store ALL your numbers in full international format, +44 for the UK (and drop the leading 0), +1 for the US, +33 for France, etc
For a full list goto International dialing codes
The + is in place of the various combinataions of zero's and/or ones that each county uses to specify that the call you are making is an international one. If you notice Orange always sends the callers number (CLI) in full international format !
Basically its a culture change, from national to international way of thinking when you think of phone numbers.
What does this mean in 'real terms' ? It means a boring hour or so going thru all your contacts and swapping 0 for +44 (if you are in the UK)
Sorry guys .. thats the deal ! 😉
It does not matter if the phone number has + and country prefix or not, it just does not work.
It does for some,so still try it you have this prob!
its pretty simple. nokia takes the last 7 digits to relate a number and a contact entry. so if you have 2 or more entries with the same last 7 digits, the phone will not differentiate!
+ OR 00 (at the begining) doesnt make any difference in many cases unless ofcourse when roaming between intl. networks, sometimes.
i have the same problem & I am also with orange, ive tried all the solutions above & i still get the number displayed & no name...
Every time it has happened to me, it has been due to a duplicate number synchronized from Outlook, or due to a contact record sent to me via Bluetooth, infrared or SMS.
I use the Lookup app from Symbian to search Contacts by number:
http://www.symbian.com/developer/techlib/apps/lookup.html
Try it. And for the number in question, type it in Lookup with and without international dialing prefix & country code to find both variants.
If Lookup doesn't find the duplicate that way, then the problem is because of something else (and I have no idea what it could be).
Tried that too now,still no joy,can any1 help?
Its a bug 😞
It seems to be a different bug in each version though with mine I can just change the contact to international format and it works :/
The bug does not appear with MMS only SMS its a strange one