Contacts & CallerID confusion

Use a separate "Contact A & B Home" entry?

You have two contacts with the same number and the phone don't know witch it should display, so it displays only the number. I dont remember how many digits from the end that it checks but I think it's 7 digits.

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Patrik
Nokia 121 (NMT), 8110, 6110, 7110, Benefon ESC! (x2), Nokia 7610 and current N95.

Yep - Nokia phones only check the last 7 digits of a number to work out the caller ID. However, in this case the whole number is the same, so that's not important.

The best way to do this would be to have a seperate contact for "Contact A & Contact B home number" and delete the home number from the individual entries for Contact A and Contact B.

I see. Thanks for the replies.

Hi guys,

Then, how about this problem. Suppose I have +6738133379 for Michael in my contact, but when Michael calls, my phone only appears 8133379 instead of "Michael" in the caller ID.

However, same problems applies to all the contacts in my phone. No caller name will appear if I have the "+ country code" added in front of all the numbers in my contact.

But what is funny is that, I don't have any problem with the + country code added if I'm using GSM sim card. Meaning to say, the problem only persist if I'm using my 3G sim card.

At first I though it could be my telco's problem, but when I insert in with my friends 3G sim card into my phone, still my N95 could not identify who the caller is. Then, I put my sim card into my friend's phone, his phone has got no problem appearing the caller's name even he has the +countrycode added in all of his contact.

Any idea of how to rectify this problem? Is this some kind of bugs or some flaw with the software?

Thank you very much.

Cheers,
Caesar

stuclark wrote:The best way to do this would be to have a seperate contact for "Contact A & Contact B home number" and delete the home number from the individual entries for Contact A and Contact B.

I'm Sorry but that is really not acceptable, The whole idea of an contact manager is to be able to store all my information in the phone in one place.

The rest of the phone is wonderful i even don't mind the ricking slider. BUT i really hate this does anybody know if there is a 3rd party application that could handel my contacts properly.

there is no way the phone would be able to work out which contact is calling you from that home phone. i know it occurs, i have friends who live together each with different mobile numbers and same home numbers.

and even creating a seperate contact for home numbers wouldnt work as recommended, as the phone would still get confused..

best way to do it would be to.. remove the home number from each contact, and create one contact called [A & B's home] so when it calls you know its their house..

so, in practice.. joe and jane have seperate mobiles but live together, and share a home phone.. by creating the contact 'joe and jane landline' for instance, you know that its one of them calling, rather than just a number.

If you insist on keeping the home assignment in each contact, you'd need to find some calledID software which simply strings together callerID's. so on caller id it'd look like joe;jane;mark for example.. if they all shared a number (or last 7 digits as someone mentioned) somewhere in their contact info

that would work great actually, but is there the software out there for it?

While on this subject actually, does anyone know how to make typing a letter only search the first character of a contact instead of the entire first and second name. Its a tad annoying especially as i'd got so used to it on my old 6230

over 75% of my contacts have common numbers, mainly it's 2 or in a couple of cases 3 people shareing a home phone so it's a little inconvient but if it's what i have to live with then so be it. just curious how my sony has never had a problem with multiple numbers.

But the numbers that is going to give me problems are my ICE (In Case of Emergency) numbers. For example if i set my dads number to my ICE Contact then when he calls it just displayes the number. Any idea's?

So how is it the sony deals with common numbers (never had an SE). Does it just display the first contact it finds containing the number, or display all contacts cointaining the number (which i wish the N95 would do)

It just displays the 1st number it comes across, and ive just been looking on my dads Samsung and it looks like it does the same thing.

I mean it's not a big problem just inconvient, it goes back to the days of having all my contacts stored on the sim, as single numbers, with (Home) on them.

SE phones have exactly the same problem with duplicate numbers - my W950i defaults to just showing the number if there's a conflict. (in the W950's case, this occurs if you have a copy of the contacts on your SIM card as well as on your phone's memory)

stuclark wrote:SE phones have exactly the same problem with duplicate numbers - my W950i defaults to just showing the number if there's a conflict. (in the W950's case, this occurs if you have a copy of the contacts on your SIM card as well as on your phone's memory)

so does the K800i.

What is being asked is virtually impossible. how can the phone be expected to know "joe" is calling from the home number rather than "jane"? If the number is used for multiple contacts the phone isnt going to be able to decide which CLI is calling.