Hi,
I am new to this Forum and wish to seek your valuable experience and help in the hope to find a solution to my Samsung Galaxy S2 (SGS2) issue.
I have moved from HTC TouchPro2 on Windows Mobile 6.5 to SGS2 on Gingerbread 2.3.3.
The details of the SGS2 are:-
Baseband version: I9100DXKF1
Kernel version: [email protected]#2
Build: GINGERBREAD.XWKF1
As I have about 4,000 contacts and 10,000 messages hence it is important for me to retain as many details from my Contacts & Messages as possible when the migration is done.
To prepare for the migration of Contacts, I have used Mobiledit and have managed to move all those 4,000 contacts to SGS2 successfully
After the migration to the new SGS2, the problem of inconsistent Contacts details and unsuccessful “sent” error messages arise when I am Replying to Messages.
At present, I face the following problem:-
Before Migration
Outlook Contact”Field” From HTC:
First: Sales Section
Last: Ms X
Mobile tel: 91234567
After Migration
Edit Contact “Field” From SGS2
First Name: Ms X
Name Suffix: Sales Section
Mobile Phone: 91234567
In order to remain a “consistent” display of Contact on the SGS2 screen as my old HTC, I have switched the HTC “First” field to SGS2 “Name Suffix”.
I have tried replying messages to Ms X but unsuccessful. Upon checking on the entry fields of the SGS2 Contact, her mobile phone has now been changed to: N,+6591234567 or sometimes ,+6591234567. Therefore, the original phone number has been prefixed with N,+65 or ,+65 followed by the mobile number. Take note that there is always a comma (,) added to +65
A thing to note is that so far it has not affected many other mobile numbers. I will only get to know if it affects another number if my contact sends me a message and only when I reply and hit the “SEND” message button will I then know if that particular contact has been plagued by the N,+65 or ,+65 issue.
Sensing, that something is not right, I have deleted Ms X’s whole contact, shut down SGS2, restarted and re-keyed the same contact 91234567 BUT the problem persisted, when Messages are replied and the mobile phone changed to N,+6591234567 … again
Has anyone faced the same problem as above ? If yes, are there ways to rectify it.
Thanks.
Nuube
19 Oct 2011
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First off as a new Android user (finally made the move from blackberry) i just want to say thanks to all who have posted in the past as it has been a lot of help in learning about this device.
I have 1 contact that when i sms it is sent to 2 other contacts on my list. When ever i recieve a sms from this contact the sender info lists the other 2 contacts.
As noted above this is my first android device (Samsung GS2 LTE Rogers) it would appear that it is more of an android question and not a device issue.
I have tried removing the contact and even without the person in my address book the sms is still sent to all 3 even though only one number was added. The sender info is changed to the 3 numbers.
Has anyone came across this issue? Any idea for a fix? Have done some googling but have not came across any similar experiences.
The phone is rooted just to freeze bloatware but has stock rom and Gingerbread 2.3.5. I was experiencing the issue prior to rooting so i doubt that is a cause.
I do not have any groups in my contact list.
Any info would be greatly apperciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi all,
a few day ago,I update my phone via Kies to ICS 4.0.3 (T-Mobile Germany) and after that,every time I get a new SMS from someone on my contact list, it only shows the number of the person and not the name on the SMS list. The problem is that the all contacts are saved as xxxxxxxxx , and when I go in my contact list,number are saved just like that but shows in xxx xxxxxx,with space between and after three number,number of area codes. One of the solutions is to change contact, first edit number and put space after first three,and save, but it is a hard work.
Does anyone else been experiencing this and is there any way to fix it? Can't really see why the update caused this, just seems weird, and hope there is a way around it or just wait for a new update? I also hope that someone will find a solution to format and fix contacts!
PDA: I9100BOLPD
PHONE: I9100BOLP5
CSC: I9100DTMLP5
Facing the same problem on Galaxy note, Stock 4.0.3
I'm facing the exact same issue on the stock ICS on Galaxy note , build IML74K.DDLP8 .
Contact names do not show up in the call log/message log.
I have Whatsapp installed and have ~250 contacts synced with Google contacts.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=23092
-- Bug reported here --
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.
I wonder if anyone has a solution to the following:
My colleague syncs their contacts with MS Outlook to her Galaxy S3 and keeps numerous additional details regarding their clients in the 'notes' field of each contact.
I have attached a screen shot of a similar situation using an HTC One X. Where the additional information contains a telephone number - the number itself is automatically highlighted and one touch loads the telephone number into the phone's dialler.
However, with the Samsung, all the information, including telephone numbers is in plain text and you can't load numbers to dial from there. A long press offers to copy the text - but only the entire 'notes' field!
This may seem insignificant but when the phone is used for business and for professional purposes you use the 'notes' field of a contact to keep lots of ancillary information which may include other telephone numbers it seems like a significant oversight. You suddenly find yourself one handed, trying to find a pen to copy down information on paper that should be easy to load with a single touch.
It works if numbers are sent as an sms to the phone so I don't see why it doesn't work within a contact's notes field like in the HTC.
If anyone can suggest a way around this I'd be very interested to hear and also if you think it's worth contacting Samsung themselves?
Many thanks in advance.
First of all sorry if this thread is not in the right category..
Now moving on to my question
I have two mob numbers viz 9969 n 9664.. I used to use 9664 but I stopped using that number sometime back... However that number is still used by me for WhatsApp(the simcard being used is 9969 though)
The telecom Co. Of the 9664 number is shutting down this month end.. So I am under dilemma whether to port that number out to a different service provider (and still not use it) so that It can be used to verify on WhatsApp (I got a re verification req last week, what if it happens after the number is shut down) or shall I change my number itself on WhatsApp.. Now here's what I want to know, if I change my number on whatsapp, will it clear all my conversations incl groups? If not then will the existing convos continue on the same chat heads or different one?
TLDR version : does changing number on WhatsApp erase chats?