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SMS comes with a country code

Hi all,
I've got this problem on my Dev Phone 1 - the "From" number of any SMS I receive has a form of "+<countrycode><operatorcode><number>", instead of just "<operatorcode><number>" or "<number>". It doesn't get looked up in an address book because of this.
I've never had this problem with any other phone, and it's really annoying - most of the time I have no idea who sent me a message.
Thanks in advance

I'm not sure about the dev phone in particular, but T-Mobile has always recommended storing contacts in that format. Google may have taken the hint from them when they spec'd the OS. In that sense, it might not be a bug, but a feature.

beartard said:
I'm not sure about the dev phone in particular, but T-Mobile has always recommended storing contacts in that format. Google may have taken the hint from them when they spec'd the OS. In that sense, it might not be a bug, but a feature.
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Thanks for replying.
Well, I tried storing the number with +<countrycode>. The result is that SMS senders are looked up correctly, but the incoming call caller doesn't get looked up now. So, it's "either SMS sender name, or Caller name" situation.
I tried it with sim cards from two operators (with different callers / senders), same results.

isn't it one of the main differences between US and UK firmware?

torrentss:
What country are you in?? filling in your profile, would help us without asking question like this.
What firmware are using? stock...modded?
Not sure if this thread helps but take at look HERE

Mikey1022 said:
What country are you in?? filling in your profile, would help us without asking question like this.
What firmware are using? stock...modded?
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Sorry about that. It's Georgia (country, not the state), the operators are Geocell and Magti. I'm using stock adp1 firmware.
Maybe it has to do with operators using different formats for calls and SMSes.
The calling numbers are in 8<operatorcode><number> format, but SMSes come from +995<operatorcode><number> (I forgot about the leading 8 in the original post, sorry).
Note that my previous phone (Nokia N73), and every other phone I've used, and all of my friends' phones have absolutely no problems with that.
Mikey1022 said:
Not sure if this thread helps but take at look HERE
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Thanks for the link.
The only place I could find a setting for a country was in google account settings (timezone and an optional country field). Didn't make any difference (I did a sync and reboot).
I found this link, but I'm not sure if it's related - maybe just an old Windows Mobile issue.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=344287
Thanks

very annoying
hi,
am having the same problem in here ...
sms'es include country code in the FROM field, whilst calls do not !
as a result if I want to have a contact to be rocognised to calls and sms, i need to add two entries - 1st with his number only, 2nd -> with the country code - ....
is there a way ( reg hack ) to make the phone remove the country code when receiving an sms, or the other way round ...
i have had no problems with nokia and SE phones before ... sms would still contain country codes, but for these phones , these two numbers would still be recognized and treated conveniently...

torrentss said:
Well, I tried storing the number with +<countrycode>. The result is that SMS senders are looked up correctly, but the incoming call caller doesn't get looked up now. So, it's "either SMS sender name, or Caller name" situation.
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All my contacts are stored as +<country><number> and I have not had a problem with incoming calls not being identified. I am in the US using T-Mo. Phone also properly identified calls when I was using a different sim overseas. Looks like ymmv?

It was fixable in WM by going editing the registry key: HKLM\ControlPanel\Phone\CallIdMatch and changing the value to something like 7 or 6 instead of 8. Later on, HTC made it automatic by either grabbing the value from the provider or having a DB of presets for each country.
However, on Android, the problem still persists. More than 1 year later and it's still there, even on Android 2.2.

z_rudy said:
However, on Android, the problem still persists. More than 1 year later and it's still there, even on Android 2.2.
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Actually, I haven't had this problem for quite some time now (I'm on cyanogen 1.6 now). Fixed some time when I switched to JF or Cyanogen, don't remember exactly.

wrong caller id!!

hi guys
i have often the problem when someone calls me.. the hd mini displays a wrong contact or even worse.. i send an sms to a contact and it gets delivered to another person!! my friend has a hd2 and he does have the same problem.
anyone knows maybe how to fix? got newest shipping rom on mine..
thanks

cko2 said:
hi guys
i have often the problem when someone calls me.. the hd mini displays a wrong contact or even worse.. i send an sms to a contact and it gets delivered to another person!! my friend has a hd2 and he does have the same problem.
anyone knows maybe how to fix? got newest shipping rom on mine..
thanks
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same Problem dude..........

cko2 said:
hi guys
i have often the problem when someone calls me.. the hd mini displays a wrong contact or even worse.. i send an sms to a contact and it gets delivered to another person!! my friend has a hd2 and he does have the same problem.
anyone knows maybe how to fix? got newest shipping rom on mine..
thanks
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Same Problem with my HTC HD Mini dude.. What to do.?

Where are your contacts located ? SIM Card ? Phone memory ? or both ?
Try to keep your contacts only in phone memory, not on SIM card.

Sounds like a corruption of the contacts database. Did any of you use a syncing process such as ActiveSync or MyPhone?
I'd suggest a hard reset, then make sure the contacts are correct on the host (Outlook or MyPhone) then try resyncing and see if it sorts it.
A pain to do, but probably no worse than sending your messages to the wrong place!

i dont sync my phone at all. but maybe this is caused by PIMBackup? i did use it to transfer data from my old phone

I notice the problem on the Notifications in the Lock Screen. Often, the older or previous missed call ID will be displayed, instead of the latest missed call ID.
I hope HTC can issue a fix or update to correct this problem.

cko2 said:
i dont sync my phone at all. but maybe this is caused by PIMBackup? i did use it to transfer data from my old phone
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Could be- PIMBackup is not fully compatible with WM 6.5.3 It caused major SMS problems on cooked 6.5.3 ROMs on the HD2.
Once you have the correct contacts on the phone, Microsoft MyPhone is a much better option.

bart3385 said:
I notice the problem on the Notifications in the Lock Screen. Often, the older or previous missed call ID will be displayed, instead of the latest missed call ID.
I hope HTC can issue a fix or update to correct this problem.
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Sometimes I have the same problem!
HTC we need a fix!

the problem is caused by WM6.5
Same problem on a HTC clone. The problem is WM6.5: when you receive a call with hidden ID, the phone shows the previous call's number instead of telling you that the ID is hidden. I couldn't find any solution yet. Windows Mobile is ****.

Unable to send messages from WildFire

Hi to all,
Unfortunately,for several days unable to send massages from WildFire.
When i trying to send msg i get notice-"unable send message after multiple attempt".
By the way i tried to enter into a 'Service Center' but there isn't option to change something there.
Any advise?
Thanks in advance.

My girlfriend has the same issues with her Wildfire, both using the buildin SMS application and with ChompSMS.
Some times she gets the error too (several times a day) and she has to resend the messages. The really weird stuff is though, that the receiver actually sometimes do get the message the first time resulting in that the receiver gets the message several times.
And I have the exact same issue with my Desire.. Right now I'm searching high and low for a solution. I've talked to my provider (BiBoB, Denmark, using Telenors network), and they've told me that they could not see anything unusual about the message, so it would either be our phones or our SIM cards.
Since some others have problems too, I suspect Android.

xcalibur666 said:
My girlfriend has the same issues with her Wildfire, both using the buildin SMS application and with ChompSMS.
Some times she gets the error too (several times a day) and she has to resend the messages. The really weird stuff is though, that the receiver actually sometimes do get the message the first time resulting in that the receiver gets the message several times.
And I have the exact same issue with my Desire.. Right now I'm searching high and low for a solution. I've talked to my provider (BiBoB, Denmark, using Telenors network), and they've told me that they could not see anything unusual about the message, so it would either be our phones or our SIM cards.
Since some others have problems too, I suspect Android.
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I think it something wrong with my sim card,because,if i change the phone to desire i also can't to send sms.and another sim cards works fine with wildfire and desire.
so i need to check with my provider what the problem.

Facebook to blame for identical problem
Had this problem with my wife's Wildfire last night. Turns out, Facebook was to blame.
The number of the person she was sending the text to changed on Facebook to the format "447### ######" instead of "07### ######". The link between the contact on the phone and Facebook meant the Facebook contact number became the default for that person and as the number wasn't valid, it failed when trying to send a text message or dial a voice call.
Fortunately, the contact in question was me so I removed my number from Facebook and the one on the handset started to work again....

ls1971 said:
Had this problem with my wife's Wildfire last night. Turns out, Facebook was to blame.
The number of the person she was sending the text to changed on Facebook to the format "447### ######" instead of "07### ######". The link between the contact on the phone and Facebook meant the Facebook contact number became the default for that person and as the number wasn't valid, it failed when trying to send a text message or dial a voice call.
Fortunately, the contact in question was me so I removed my number from Facebook and the one on the handset started to work again....
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Thanks for advise,
I've tried to desibale sync with facebook and now i'm using only sim-cards phones number, but still enable to send sms,so unfortunately i don't think the problem in facebook at least in my case.

I'd love it when the wildfire could get me a massage
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

Are you trying to send an SMS or MMS ?
For MMS you need to configure the APNs of your provider:
http: //iandroid.co.il/dr-iandroid/archives/608

guyte said:
Are you trying to send an SMS or MMS ?
For MMS you need to configure the APNs of your provider:
http: //iandroid.co.il/dr-iandroid/archives/608
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I'm trying send sms only.

fishb00n said:
I'd love it when the wildfire could get me a massage
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App
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WICKED man..i want a phone like that.. HTC are u listening..

warriorvibhu said:
WICKED man..i want a phone like that.. HTC are u listening..
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Turn vibrating mode on and lay it on your back.

Skye Menjou said:
Turn vibrating mode on and lay it on your back.
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LOL man .. thats not a good massage... i think i will rest my back on it.. hope it wont break it

I found the problem!
Hi,
I've found why i didn't success to send messages,the problem was in definition of "Service Center" of my cellular provider.
Now everything is work fine.
Thanks.

HTC Sense + Facebook Sync = Epic fail?

Hi Folks
Don't know if i have found major flaw in the HTC Sense and Facebook sync software.
Here is the story, i have all my contacts stored on my phone with the correct phone numbers. And you know how you can link your contacts in your phone with there facebook profile so that you get there profile picture showing up and there latest status update scrolling along the screen when they call you? So that is all very pretty and cool but......
I have just discovered that if the persons profile has there phone number added to it, HTC will decide that it knows your contacts better than you and CHANGE the phone number you have stored in your phone for that person to an INCORRECT format.
Here is what i mean, the numbers in my phone book are stored as 07 or +447 as the start digits (I'm in the UK and all mobiles start 07). When i link the contact with there facebook profile and the profile has a phone number stored, HTC Sense will automatically change the number in my phone into the following format: 447*********
Now if you note that number has no + at the start of it and this means that i CANNOT phone that person! It took me about a month to work out why i couldn't call half the people in my phonebook, everytime i phoned someone it would say 'the number you have dialled has not been recognised!' and i eventually worked it out the HTC and Facebook have effed up my phone book.
Now this wouldn't be such an issue if you could edit the number to the correct format but you CAN'T!!! When you go to edit the number it shows the number in the correct format that i had originally entered it! ie. either 07 or +447!
So for the now i have had to unlink all my contacts from Facebook and have ended up with a pretty boring screen when people phone or txt me.
Anyone else had this issue? Or know how to fix it?
If HTC read this can you issue a fix? Because i don't think that you or facebook knows better than i do!

no problem here i have linked to facebook and my numbers work
I have both 447######## and 07######## type numbers they work ok
my 447 numbers are facebook contacts i did not have thier numbers previously and my 07 numbers are mates I already had their numbers and linked afterwards
Hope this helps

Well must b something to do with my network (o2) or whatever. Cos i certainly can't dial a 447 number.
But the main point i think is why does HTC think its knows what your stored number should be? lol
Cyberdyne systems are certainly starting to take over now surely! lolol

fail
epic fail i think

Indeed epic...
I got exactly the same problem with Polish operator Plus GSM -> cant call contact which was synchronized with Facebook...
HTC Sense shows all contacts which were synced with Facebook without leading "+" or "00" which ends up with message like "The number you have dialed has not been recognized"
Any one know how to fix it...??
BR
Greg
P.S. Hope HTC will read this topic.. .

Same problem with me in Georgia.
only workaround, I've found is begging all my friends, not to specify phone numbers on facebook
If anyone has a solution, I will be very grateful.

Yep same here, definitely a bug. I will research this one....
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using Tapatalk

Hi,
I contacted an official HTC Support to help in this case.
They confirmed that this bug exist, but they also pointed Facebook and the Facebook Phonebook as a bug source.
I was also recommended to use "Prefixer" from Android Market to temporarily solve this problem.
BR
Greg

Wow! thanks,
will try Prefixer as soon as I can

Yep it's a flaw, I used a little workaround but it would change back when receiving a text or something. Edit facebook number set it to home rather than mobile then let it save go back into out then save the homer number as mobile. I think that's how I did it. I use aosp rom now.
Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk

Foxy are you saying the AOSP ROM has this bug fixed out of the box? If so I can investigate that ROM and maybe make a patch
Prefixer works for calls but not for text
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Hi,
It seems that they fix this problem.
Can anyone confirm..??
BR
Greg

I heard htc will soon by releasing the latest sense ui v3.0 to all froyo models including wildfire.
Is it true?
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA App

jonusc said:
Foxy are you saying the AOSP ROM has this bug fixed out of the box? If so I can investigate that ROM and maybe make a patch
Prefixer works for calls but not for text
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Yeah, I'm sure you can reverse engineer HTC's crappy phone dialer/messaging/contacts.
AOSP works out of the box because it uses AOSP apps.

Help!! Daughters phone problems

I've searched but this is a recent problem and I found nothing exactly like what's happening to my daughters phone.
She has a completely stock desire z, on bell. She's had no problems really until tonight when she can't send messages to certain contacts? Or maybe she can't send messages to them until they send to her first. It's one of the two scenarios. Sorry I'm not much help, I'm on a samsung captivate. This is a recent issue as I said, and I should let you know she did her update through the phone to 2.3.3 recently, but things were fine after that update, just thought you should know.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

tkjeeper said:
I've searched but this is a recent problem and I found nothing exactly like what's happening to my daughters phone.
She has a completely stock desire z, on bell. She's had no problems really until tonight when she can't send messages to certain contacts? Or maybe she can't send messages to them until they send to her first. It's one of the two scenarios. Sorry I'm not much help, I'm on a samsung captivate. This is a recent issue as I said, and I should let you know she did her update through the phone to 2.3.3 recently, but things were fine after that update, just thought you should know.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Is there some type of blacklist option in the menu of the SMS/Messaging app?
I recently blacklisted a whole bunch of contacts in CM7. Before this, I had no idea that this was possible. I don't SMS much, so I have no idea if this was blocking SMS. But calls were not going through at all.
Maybe looking into if the same thing exists on the stock Bell ROM is a good place to start?

download handcent or chomp from the market(free), and see if using one of those fixes your issue. I had the same sort of issue, it worked for me and also I prefer handcent over any htc or stock android sms app. good luck
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Thanks for the replies, I'll look into them both.
Sent from the frozen tundra known as Canada.

Also check that the phone numbers in her address book are listed as mobile numbers, not home or work.

I always suggest this first, factory reset.
Sent from my SilverBullet 'HTCDesireZ running CM7'

Oh, I see you are also in Canada. When they made the area code mandatory before all numbers I had to edit some of my phone numbers in my contacts to include the area codes, or I would have the same problem.
Sent from my SilverBullet 'HTCDesireZ running CM7'

Did you already perform a crosscheck by placing your simcard in her phone and vica versa?
Is she has the same issue using your phone but with her simcard, it's not phone/software related.

its on bell thats the problem
joking aside id try handcent or go sms, and double check she has the area codes put in. shouldnt matter if its saved as a mobile number as you can even text landlines now in canada and they convert text to speech on the landline end! unless bells rom has its own unique ability to not let u text a "home" or "work" number.
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gee one said:
Also check that the phone numbers in her address book are listed as mobile numbers, not home or work.
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What he said, +1.