Hiya,
maybe some of you have the same number but different contacts (e.g. Mom and Dad).
Mom (home, mobile, work, pager)
Dad (home, work)
Is it possible that the X1 shows exactly who is calling? For sure, the X1 can't know who is calling but maybe there is something like "Mom OR Dad is calling".
Atm the X1 only show one contact.
Someone told me, that the IPhone have such an incoming call notification.
Thx in advance
Doc
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Just wondered has anyone found a solution (maybe with 3rd party software on the XDA Mini) to a problem (more annoyance) I've hated on all mobiles I've ever had:
The problem is if I have 2 separate contacts with the same home telephone number, I've never found a way to specify which name shows up as calling for if that number phones me.
For example I have my mum stored as Maragret McRobie, with her mobile number and home number. I have my dad stored as Robert McRobie with his mobile number and his home number, which is the same as my mum's.
If someone from my mum & dad's house phones my mobile, I want it to show as Margaret McRobie calling, as it's more likely to be her phoning from the house than my dad.
However every mobile I've ever had, including the XDA Mini S, seems to get confused as there are 2 contacts with the same number, and usually just displays the 1st one alphabetically in your Contacts. I think the Wizard behaves by showing the name of the last one you phoned - i.e. if I phoned my mum's mobile more recently than my dad's, if their house phones it shows as my mum. I *think* this is how it works. It's better, but not perfect.
Any way round this, so I can specify explicitly which name will show up?
Cheers
None that I know of.
But if your Dad hardly ever phone you from home why don't you just delete the home number from his entry.
Yah, all mobile phones don't handle shared numbers very well. Your lucky its even showing you a name, because nokias won't show anything (just the number) if you have it saved under two names.
I'd suggest creating a new contact just for the home number and name it "Mom and Dad house" or something along those lines.
Hi @ all,
I have a question or request. First let me explaine the situation.
I use justVoip.com for calling German Cells cheaper and the USA for free. I call justVoips Landline for free (because I have a landline-flat) and they forward the call to the desired number. I used to just save their number before the contacts number seperatet by a "P" (pause): 08912345P0172123456
When receiving calls my Motorola would still recognize the Call-id, also with the voip number in front of it. But my X1 now doesnt recognize calls with their number inserted...
So my question is... either is there a way to have two seperate phone books running parallel or is there maybe a software that always asks if the preselection should be added when making a call??
Or a nother solution I didnt think of yet..
Hope this wasn't to complicated and you kinda now what i mean...
thanks..
Danny
Let's say my wife is calling me with her iPhone.
But i am busy or have no network. So my wife decides to hang uop without a speaking a voice mail.
I will get a notification that i have an unanswered call. However... thic call is always logged to the wrong (same) person.
So I get the green 1 in my Favorite Contacts Widget but with the wrong person ?
Is there anybody who knows what i am talking about ? or even better has a cure ?
I had similar problem, at least I think it is similar, because I did not understand you completly.
When you have a missed call while you are unaviable you normaly recieve a text message from your service operator.
Are you trying to say that, every text message you get from your service operator is displayed as if you have recieved it from one (always the same one) contact in your adress book?
i never knew what the green "1" is, i never linked it with missed calls because for me its completely random. for me anyways.
@ bookworm...
That,s exactly what i mean
Does the contact have something stupid in the phone number field on facebook? If you turn off Facebook contact syncing, sign out of facebook and friend stream, restart, sign back in (This is optional), the problem should be solved.
TheOriginalKi is correct. Exactly same thing happened to me.
One of my friends, lets say "Contact A" added "xxx/xxx-xxx" to facebook phone number field. After I linked Contact A from phone to Contact A facebook account, every service message I recieved from my operator was display as if I recieved it from Contact A. After canceling Phone->Facebook link for Contact A, all service messages were adressed correctly.
So your best option is to ask your friend (the one whose name appears in service messages) to edit his facebook phone field correctly, or simply cancel phone-facebook link for that specific contact.
Hope that this helps you with solving your problem.
Cheers
Well now that you mention it.. This person had something weird in his contact. I deleted it (he had a weird telephone number. it was set to unknown) and now everything is fine...
Great phone this desire....
Love it really !/ Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than WM....
Wish i could alter my signature here at xda .... ( but for some reason i cant)
Hello,
If i add home, mobile, and work numbers for one contact, and that contact calls me from one of those numbers, how do i know from which number he/she's calling from? E.g. how do i know its their home, mobile, or work number?
I didn't see any different colours or icons... unless i just missed it.
Thanks
andd64 said:
Hello,
If i add home, mobile, and work numbers for one contact, and that contact calls me from one of those numbers, how do i know from which number he/she's calling from? E.g. how do i know its their home, mobile, or work number?
I didn't see any different colours or icons... unless i just missed it.
Thanks
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funny, the number shows on the screen, didn't your have that?
yeah the number shows - but unless you know by heart which number belongs to home, mobile, or work for that contact, then how will you know?
Add them as 3 different contacts, eg:
Dave Home
Dave Work
Dave Mobile
Then, link the contact together. Now, they act as a single contact, but when you receive a call, the respective name appears.
Boom.
hi starskyh,
thanks for the tip, but it didn't work =(. It displays the name of the contact that linked it together.
e.g. if you linked dave mobile and dave work to the dave home contact, then it will always show dave home, and underneath it will show w/e number is calling.
Does it work for you?
How can you not differentiate landlines and mobiles?
Unless its' work/home landlines and work/home mobiles you need to differentiate?
Make different contacts if there is a REAL importance that you be able to tell.
Some people have two phones, one for work one privat. Is it really that hard to imagine :-O
I feel our pain same problem here, but than again its not that important to me, but even my Nokia 6210 did that for me.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
lol well in toronto, the numbers for landlines/mobiles aren't different at all... they both could have the same area code/same number format.
yeah i'll probably have to go the multiple contact route.... boo! lol
I'd have more of a quail with people calling me on Private numbers, I just think this is hardly a problem, as I said you can make two contacts.
i have started using my S4 at work
im a cable technician, when i call customers im blocking my number using #31# before the actual number of the client for obvious reasons- its a big company, anything has to go through their customer service center
the thing is, when i call a client using that prefix, its gone in the call log, so when i need to call him again( which often happen) i need to dial the number again which is very uncomfortable as im calling dozens of customers everyday, my older work phone was a simple J105 sony ericsson , which used to saved the number in the call log just as it was, smartphones for some reason, dont...
is this a setting i can change or some other dialer i should use ?
please? anyone?
Maybe try other dialer and contact apps...