Hello,
Me and my trusty G1 have recently moved out of the US. Im running CM's latest, and just like the stock ROM, phone numbers stored in the phone have the xxx-xxx-xxxx US format. This format does not apply to most countries outside of the US. So here when someone calls (or when im trying to add a new contact) phone numbers tend to look weird since phone numbers here have an XX-XXX-XXX format (8 digits total), and so they end up showing as XXX-XXX-XX, which is just confusing.
So in short, is there any way to stop the dashes from showing up in the call log/ caller id/adding new contact form??
Thanks alot!!
No one has the same problem or has heard of a fix to this???
Hi, my G1 & I moved out of the US recently, too. The way I did it was to change all the numbers while logged in to Gmail in my browser. It was tedious but it lets you use a proper keyboard and mouse instead of trying to do it on the phone. All you really need to do is type the new prefix/country code once, and then cut and paste it in front of all the US numbers. Gmail will then just push it out to the phone right away. Hope this helps...
My biggest concern isn't fixing the already existing numbers in my phone book. My concern is when adding a new number or when someone not in my phone book calls, the number looks confusing because of the existence of the dashes.
But thanks anyway for your suggestion.
I have MoreLocale2 installed and when i changed it to my language i got the correct formatting.
Hey I just wanted to bump this thread to point out that morelocale 2 worked like a charm! so thanks a lot for the suggestion
Sorry to bump an old thread but i'm having exactly the same problem and its driving me mad I cant get MyLocale 2 working, it doesn't take the dashes from my numbers
Old thread, but might help someone: I also had the dash problem although in Gmail my contacts had no dashes. Changing the locale from US to UK removed the dashes for me (Home/Settings/Locale and Text/Select locale/ English (UK)).
aygunes said:
Old thread, but might help someone: I also had the dash problem although in Gmail my contacts had no dashes. Changing the locale from US to UK removed the dashes for me (Home/Settings/Locale and Text/Select locale/ English (UK)).
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Thanks aygunes, this is a realy easy solution to have the numbers format without dashes.
Find a way to export your contacts to a CSV file or a single vCARD file. Then you can just use something like a shell command:
Code:
cat file.csv | tr -d '-' > cleanfile.csv
or just edit the resulting file with any text editor and import back. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1417184
[EDIT] I forgot that probably ALL phone numbers are stored without dashes in the (latest) contacts database.
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Hello,
Me and my trusty G1 have recently moved out of the US. Im running CM's latest, and just like the stock ROM, phone numbers stored in the phone have the xxx-xxx-xxxx US format. This format does not apply to most countries outside of the US. So here when someone calls (or when im trying to add a new contact) phone numbers tend to look weird since phone numbers here have an XX-XXX-XXX format (8 digits total), and so they end up showing as XXX-XXX-XX, which is just confusing.
So in short, is there any way to stop the dashes from showing up in the call log/ caller id/adding new contact form??
Thanks alot!!
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I have a similar issue. I'm in Brazil and I'm using a Galaxy S 3 that I bought in US. Our numbers are stored as (XXX)prefix-XXXX-XXXX.
When I receive a sms or a call it doesnt show my contact name... only the numbers. How can I change this?
A friend has a S3 he bought in here... when he dials any number they appear without dashes and spaces like this XXXXXXXX. When I dial it appears XX XXXX-XX.
Anyone could help?
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Hi All,
I have searched on this one and can't quite find anyone with a resolution, either positive or negative. Any help is appreciated.
When sending SMS's i have found that my contacts lists will show the correct entries for the person that i search for. However after about 2 seconds, all the entries (ie home p, mobile p & work p) will change into e-mail entries. If i guess & click on correct one it fills out the SMS form correctly, however this is a bit hit and miss. Whats worse is that the order changes!
Thanks guys, and if i have missed the post with the solution please accept my apologies & i understand I’ll be suitably chastised.
PS - ROM 3.17.03 ENG with RADIO 4.21.00
Confirmed...
It happens when you go to 'inbox', hit 'New' (left-bottom), hit the contacts icon, and then use the 'search' function to look for someone with more than one entry of either type 'mobile' or 'email'.
Bad bug, they never tested the search from here. Must say I never search from there either. Looks like the search results window is populated in a screwed up way, where the order of the real information and the displayed information doesn't match.
They really need to force these developers to use their own code on a day-by-day basis.
( I send my SMS's by just going to the contacts straight away, tap and hold a contact and selecting 'Send SMS' from the context menu. Works unless you're sending the same message to a number of people, I guess.)
Thanks for that, seems to be a bit too much "they didn't test" in this product i must say.
I'm sure they'll get it all sorted in the end. It took a very long time to get PPC2002 to a usable state .
Hi all
Sorry for the potentially newbie question but ....
Loving my Hero howeve I'm having a problem with the dialer where it is actually dialing the zero each time in a contact with a full international format
ie an adddress book entry +44(0)12345678 is dialed as +44012345678. In my blackberry and WinMo phones the dialer knew to ignore anything in brackets ie "(0)" but the Hero doesnt seem to do this.
Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing to fix this - I certainly dont want to go through some 700+ contacts and change all the mobile phone entries
Thanks in advance
Coe
I have a problem since day he releassed the rom your "message has no valid recipients cannot send this message" any help woild be highly appreatiated. Thanks in advance
I tried adding +1 in front of the number, they are all mobile contacts and I tried erasing whole contacts and adding one number at the time but still no luck.
It's a problem with the MiUI build he was running. It's not just him, it's the actual base MiUI ROM that it's based on. Reading the forums there, it's still an issue to this day.
What you gotta do is remove all the brackets, dashes, spaces, etc, to make the number one long continuous thing. So instead of, for example, (403) 555-1212, you gotta make it +14035551212, no spaces, dashes, anything. AND you gotta have the + and country code (Canada and USA is 1).
okay so i have finaly topped up my tg01 and got my free texts and web.
3g works perfectly !!!!!
if anyonne ca help me how do i get my sms to work?
theye recieve to my tg01 perfect and fast but sending out i get cannot send message of something.
anny tips ?
it seems that i can send 1 sms fine but then if i try send another one in the same thread it wont. ay ideas?
also, i would like to test out navigation so has anyone got any ideas for good apps like nokia drive, or something like that and where to get it
jonnyhall1bmx1 said:
it seems that i can send 1 sms fine but then if i try send another one in the same thread it wont. ay ideas?
also, i would like to test out navigation so has anyone got any ideas for good apps like nokia drive, or something like that and where to get it
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If you got the contact saved in phonebook, then you can create new SMS to that contact and it will be send.
It's because you send SMS first without prefix, then receive SMS with prefix and the number in thread gets overwritten from nonprefix to prefix.
If you have prefix in sms center number in settings, remove it.
thank you for your reply yeah i thought that myself when the first one sent then the next one didnt i thought i wonder if its adding the prefix back on with the next message thanks for your reply i will remove the prefix in the centre number. i was in 2 minds as to do that but now i have a second opinion i will try it thanks bro for your reply
Jonny,
I had the same problem as you with this ROM (on Virgin) and nothing I did would make SMS's send - either new, or replies.
I have now installed Aeroflyluby's VDG Mango 8107 and with that ROM, sometimes I can send SMS - but it is not consistent AND GPS works on that ROM (it doesn't work for me on Miro's ROM).
HOWEVER, on VDG Mango 8107, I find it impossible to set the SMS Message Centre - when I fill in the number and hit "save" as the phone either hangs or the Message Centre number remains blank. On this ROM, I have also tried using the HTC Connection setup (which works fine on Miro's ROM's) but it complains that it's database is empty.
So, here is a very long shot. Check out HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Phone\CallIDMatch - which should be a dword. I think that you might find in Miro's ROM it is set to 7, but for the UK we need it set to 10 (to match the last 10 digits of a mobile or landline number).
On the VDG Mango 8107 ROM, this key doesn't exist - and I don't have permissions to create it - but if it is already there, you should be OK to change it.
Good luck!
thanks for your reply im not sure about fiddling with the registry. back in wm6.5 i was always making a mess of the registry but, i must admit i made some really good tweaks with editing the registry, but, in wp7 id rather leave it up to the experts on that one as i have never owned a wp7 phone before so im not sure how things will react.
thanks for your input tho , much appreciated
Hi
I just got my dad a Note 2, and he has a problem with (and so do I) about how the search results appear when searching the contact list.
I tried looking for a solution but wasn't able to find one. I tried third party contact apps and they perform the same style of result displays.
Example.
We have 4 contacts,
A
Blah Abba
Alphabet
Some random Stuff And
It'll end up displaying it something like this when we type in "A"
Blah Abba
Alphabet
Some random Stuff And
A
We want it to display the result "A" first, and so on in a normal alphabetical progressive ordering.
Anyone know how to do this or get an app that will do it? Because this is extremely frustrating for me... and I can only imagine how my father feels being a tech noob.
Thanks.
Go into the contacts screen, click settings and select "Display contacts by", and choose "Last name first". I'm assuming that's what you're asking, but I didn't quite understand your question.
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Go into the contacts screen, click settings and select "Display contacts by", and choose "Last name first". I'm assuming that's what you're asking, but I didn't quite understand your question.
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It's sorted by first name. I think it may just be an error on my dads end and bad contact management.
Either way, I have had a couple android phones but never a Samsung, and it seems their search return (in contacts) results in a different ordering of the displayed results.
If i typed "K" into the search, normal thought would be that if I had a contact named "K" it would show at the top of the list. This does not happen, rather it happens by showing "Some random name Karen" for example, and about halfway down the results it will then show only "K" and there does not seem to be any apparent ordering in the results. I do know for a fact that the contacts are stored by first name only without last name, because they were an import from an older phone that was not on android.
Thanks though.