I have a softbanks X01HT which is unlocked and has WM5 English version.
Rom Version 1.23.707.4
Rom Date 7/21/06
Radio veriosn 1.06.00.10
protocol version 32.37.7010.01H
I managed to get yahoo mail to work and download everyhour but somehow I managed to loss the Text Messaging capability. I also installed the blackberry software but currently am not using it. I do not have text messaging as an option anymore. Here in China people use text messaging extensively so I would like to know how to get this back. On my contacts screen I see the SMS and text messaging number but I cannot send text messages. All I have for message capability on my messaging folders are
IMAP4 - which I am not using - it also appears on the option screen
MMS - which I cannot get to work - it also appears on the option screen
Yahoo mail - which does work - it also appears on the option screen
Outlook email - which appears to work for system messages from my provider which is China Mobile. - This does not appear on the option screen.
When I try to select new account I can only chose something which has an email address not a phone number.
Any help is greatly appreciated. I also posted originally on the xda-developers screen as I am new to this type of format.
Thanks
I've been trying to organize the phone numbers in my address book so that:
The phone calls I receive show the contact name (and not only the number).
The SMS messages I receive show the contact name (and not only the number).
Android is able to join the WhatsApp contact with the main contact based on the phone number.
I live in Brazil and the phone numbers have a few particularities: you can include the country code or not (55), you can include the city code or not (which is usually prepended with a 0), you can include the phone carrier code or not, etc. So matching those numbers is not a trivial problem.
I have the impression that Android has an internal logic for dealing with this issue. But it's not working particularly well for me. Does anyone know if this logic is configurable?
The issues I'm having right now are:
The numbers shown in the SMS messages don't have a consistent pattern: I've seen "+55CCNNNNNNNNN", "NNNNNNNNN", "0CCNNNNNNNNN". The numbers in my address book are following the pattern "0CC NNNNN-NNNN", so only a few SMSs match.
The WhatsApp numbers are using the pattern "+55CCNNNNNNNNN", so Android doesn't join them with the main contact, which uses the pattern "0CC NNNNN-NNNN".
I'm not sure this issue is specific to my ROM (Chameleon v2.01 for the Galaxy S II). I'm posting here because it looks more like an Android issue. Right now, I'm using Android 4.0.4 (ICS).
Thanks for the help!
Edit: I forgot to mention one thing: I live in São Paulo and mobile phone numbers have recently changed from 8 digits to 9 digits (the number 9 was prepended to all existing numbers). I have already updated the numbers in my address book. Could this be breaking the parsing logic for Brazilian numbers?
see
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41443585
FIXED!
OK, the problem wasn't on my phone. I stumbled into this thread which made me think perhaps the problem was with Google's contact management system and not the phone:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23092
so I went to https://contacts.google.com then clicked the "cog" settings and changed my language and phone number settings country away from the UK, did ok, went back in and changed back to UK.
now I can enter contacts in the preferred +44 1234 567890, with the spaces, and an incoming call matched!
it doesn't seem to retrospectively match old call logs, or old SMS chats, which is disappointing.
Hi!
So .. I'm having the following issue.. wich is bugging me quite a bit.
I recently started using Google Hangouts instead of SMS (TextMessaging), and I'm very fond of it.
The only issue I have is that the numbers I havent added any areacode to gets the areacode for Sweden (+46),
and this is ONLY on Google Hangouts.
When I go back to the regular SMS app, the areacode is removed, and I can again send SMS without sending it to Sweden first.
I'm from Norway if it matters (+47). But the phone itself is imported from Sweden, but I'm using Norwegian as language.
So I cannot understand why this should be an issue.
Anyone got any info on the matter?
Edit: And yes. I checked my gmail. I have my country set to Norway.
And I just doublechecked that it werent my Backup Pro that messed things up (since I know app+data backup\sms backup can sometimes be a bit wierd.),
because I checked with only the original google drive backup that comes with android, and I still got +46 as the area\countrycode when
texting a number without +XX infront of the number when using Google Hangouts.
I just find it very wierd. There is no reason for Google Hangouts to pick +46, right ?
Except the fact that the phone is imported from Sweden.
As another Norwegian, I have the exact same problem. The Hangouts app adds +46 as the country code to all my numbers without an already existing prefix (I even think it added +45 at one point, which is the prefix to Denmark).
I bought my phone (HTC One) from a Tele2 outlet in Norway. Tele2 is a Swedish mobile operator company, so quite possibly my phone is the Swedish version (I don't know how to verify that).
Also, my default country code in Gmail is set to Norway.
Could this be a bug?
Edit: Also, when I use the default SMS app from HTC, no problems occur (as with OP dmbardal). That is, the app doesn't prefix any area code.
MistrBjorn said:
As another Norwegian, I have the exact same problem. The Hangouts app adds +46 as the country code to all my numbers without an already existing prefix (I even think it added +45 at one point, which is the prefix to Denmark).
I bought my phone (HTC One) from a Tele2 outlet in Norway. Tele2 is a Swedish mobile operator company, so quite possibly my phone is the Swedish version (I don't know how to verify that).
Also, my default country code in Gmail is set to Norway.
Could this be a bug?
Edit: Also, when I use the default SMS app from HTC, no problems occur (as with OP dmbardal). That is, the app doesn't prefix any area code.
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Same for me, just noticed the bug in hangouts. Seem there are some issues with norwegian in general om android these days. Earth cannot search if system language is set to Norwegian, and Drive won't open New Google sheets.
korgmatose said:
Same for me, just noticed the bug in hangouts. Seem there are some issues with norwegian in general om android these days. Earth cannot search if system language is set to Norwegian, and Drive won't open New Google sheets.
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I have Tele2 and I believe this to be some kind of "dial assist" making Hangouts believe that since tele2 uses Swedish simcarda, that I am trying to dial to my home network, and that I'm roaming abroad when I am indeed in Norway messaging a Norwegian number.
A are all of you also tele2-customers?
korgmatose said:
I have Tele2 and I believe this to be some kind of "dial assist" making Hangouts believe that since tele2 uses Swedish simcarda, that I am trying to dial to my home network, and that I'm roaming abroad when I am indeed in Norway messaging a Norwegian number.
A are all of you also tele2-customers?
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I have the exact same problem and yes I am a tele2-customer. I think what you're writing about Sweden could be the problem. Google probably didn't think of that scenario when they added this. A fix would be greatly appreciated! At least there should be a way to override the setting it gets from the sim.
This problem is extremely annoying!
I will write a bug report for google to ignore.
andebor said:
I have the exact same problem and yes I am a tele2-customer. I think what you're writing about Sweden could be the problem. Google probably didn't think of that scenario when they added this. A fix would be greatly appreciated! At least there should be a way to override the setting it gets from the sim.
This problem is extremely annoying!
I will write a bug report for google to ignore.
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How did the bug report go? Tele2/Nexus 5 user here with the exact same problem. Sometimes it works to store the contact with the area code as well before sending an SMS.
I'm still having the same issue, despite desperately changing everything I can on Youtube, Google Plus, GMail, Hangouts etc.
Still no change.
I recently posted on the Google+ help group to see if anyone got a fix for the issue.
I will report back if I find anything.
This is seriously starting to bug me.
dmbardal said:
I'm still having the same issue, despite desperately changing everything I can on Youtube, Google Plus, GMail, Hangouts etc.
Still no change.
I recently posted on the Google+ help group to see if anyone got a fix for the issue.
I will report back if I find anything.
This is seriously starting to bug me.
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hey i've been living in Vietnam for the last year, and with new google voice integration I tried texting home and just noticed that it would at the VN country code to all my contacts. What I ended up doing was using twitch contact formatter to analyze all my contacts and resave them with the international standard. It did a pretty decent job in recognizing what was Vietnam and what was the US. It might work for you all. I did have to manually process some that got mistaken for VN when they were US numbers.
I was easily able to spot the mistakenly converted contacts by clicking on the VN flag and switching to national convention. This showed me all my "Vietnamese" contacts, and I could easily spot the difference in names. I just reedited those contacts to delete the country code and then processed them.
Hope this helps!
Danish Area Code with TDC
I have same problem. norwegian with TDC subscription. +45 on sms text when they are supposed to be +47. Have changed all the contacts but its annoying when I write new text to new people. Default at +45.
hangouts will automatically add +1 prefix when tring to send short code sms, for me I am attempting to get my data usage from straight talk sending usage to short code 611611, and hangouts will automatically add +1 making the number +1611611, I have figured out that if you delete all messages youve attempted to send in hangouts and your phones default messaging app, go to app manager on your phone, force stop your phones stock messaging app and hangouts app, make your messaging app the default messaging app, create a new contact in phone for the short code i addded the number as name: staright talk and phone number as 611611, send message using phones defsult messaging using the newwly created contact, close messaging app force close and clear cache in app manager on pphone, then make hangouts default messaging app open hangouts and it will retrieve the message from your messages in the default messaging app, and now it will show the number when you selct the message as 611611 the correct short code without adddign the +1, as long as you keep that message in your list and use that converation for any future message to that short code it will work just fine. please feel free to post any questions
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I eventually found an easier workaround. In "Contacts", select the contact that has the designated short code to and click the Send Text flag on the right hand side. If Hangouts is your default SMS app, it will open up a Hangouts SMS window with the short code and NOTHING prefixed up front. i.e. it will work ok. Cheers.
Honestly after about 5 minutes I hated this phone and now 3 months later i'm considering giving up completely as I find it horrendous to use.
I have changed my default Dialler as the standard is horrid yet every incoming call still doesn't use the app I have chosen.
My issue is, if I have a contact saved as ABC LTD, then multiple custom numbers under the contact as Bob Mobile, Matt Mobile, Service etc.. when incoming calls come in it just shows ABC LTD then 'United Kingdom'... I don't care that its United Kingdom I want to know if its Bob Mobile, Matt Mobile etc! I have to take a guess at remembering the last three digits of the mobile or landline number to try and ID who it is.
Do find this such a simple feature yet so annoying it doesn't appear.
If i was to then go into the app I have downloaded for Dialling, then it can show me it was Bob etc... but NEVER on incoming.
If I remember well, my ex Samsung S8+ did the same when multiple numbers are stored into the same contact, only the phone number was displayed, no accessory information or notes about the calling number.
But in my case I'm using the internal phone contact list, not Google's.
I think what you are describing is stock Android behavior and not something specific to Huawei--if you have multiple numbers saved under a single contact the dialer will only display the contact name.
What phone did you previously use that showed the specific caller ID rather than the saved contact? Or were you relying on a third party dialer to perform that function for you?
And if it's so vital that the identity of each number shows up separately why do you have them all saved as a single contact in the first place?
Dear android friends,
I have checked few call blockers from Play Store, but have no success with them. I am looking for challenge-response call blocker. I want to get same functionality for mobile calls as for emails... If caller is not on black list... and also not on white list (address book)... he receive customizable sms message and have to reply with his name, purpose of the call, etc. then he appears on temporal white list and can be approved for black/white list after having conversation...
Is such app available in Play Store? Is it somewhere in development or nobody believes in challenge-response system anymore?
Thank you for your advice.
With best regards,
Mirek Fajx
LR Health & Beauty Systems