Hi All,
Back in the days of using GB, I remember that the stock messaging app had an option to show only contacts w/ mobile numbers, so that you wouldn't accidentally select a landline or office phone to text (it might have been default functionality, actually - if a number was labeled as 'home' it wouldn't show up, however all 'mobile' numbers would).
Anyway, in ICS, I noticed that *all* numbers for a given contact show up when composing a new message. This seems to defy common sense, as I cannot send a text message to my parents' house landline.
Is there any way to make sure non-mobile numbers aren't shown when composing a new message?
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I say unique because I may be the only one that is requesting help with this so don't put too much weight into it but if you do think you can help, I would appreciate it.
When receiving a text from an actual phone number, the "callback" feature, when pressed, calls the number back from which the text was recieved. At work(airline pilot), we have the ability to set parameters for trips that become available and the mainframe will send us a text when our parameters are met. The address in the text is in the form of an email address....ie.... [email protected]. Many of these open trips are highly sought after( worth a lot of money) so the ability to call crew scheduling back expeditiously is a high priority. On the Samsung Instinct, all I had to do was make a contact in the phone book that matched that email address and the callback feature matched the two up and I could call back immediately with only one keystroke. This phone(whether Handcent or native phonebook) tries to call the email address(regardless of the fact that I have an exact match in the phonebook)....which obviously it cant do so I get an immediate "call ended" on the dialer. Is there any way to edit the call back number or match the numbers up in the phonebook so the callback feature in the running SMS page will work when the text is sent from something other than a phone number??? I don't have the time to go thru 5 menus and 5-10 keystrokes....the trip is gone by then and I miss the opportunity of potentially thousands of dollars(and/or more time at home).
If I cannot figure this out, I will have to return the Hero and go back to the Instinct. It literally is thousands of dollars at stake.
PS...I posted this same question on the Handcent website but so far, no reply.
Thanks for reading and TIA!
It sucks but I will be returning the Hero because of this.....I am tired of watching the money go by and not being able to grab it.
If you use googlemail -
In any email you get a circle next to the mail sender. Sometimes its coloured green, sometimes not (doesn't matter which)
Press the circle and you got straight to the contact for the sender and can ring out straight from there. Hope you haven't sent it back yet!
The problem is getting the phone to recognize and sync the 2 contacts together. Handcent has a callback feature. But if you activate it, it dials 6245... which I guess is where the text is sent from. But the header of the text is in email format. I have made contacts with both 6245 and the header address in the hopes that the phone will sync the inbound text to the contact. The Instinct does this successfully. So far, this phone has not.
I use SMS reminders in Google calendar. For some reason default Hero messages application does not group these messages under one name as it does for other contacts so I have pretty lengthly list of Google reminders in my inbox.
I tried adding dummy Google contact but it did help. Maybe I should have add telephone number to it but there is no sender number in message details.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
I had a similar problem, because each reminder message is from a unique number (the proper shortcode followed by a sequence number), so that Google's system can identify individual messages (and replies when applicable). I never did figure out a way to get them to group, but I did find a work around. I switched my notification types from SMS to Pop-up (in my GCal settings, online). If you have notifications turned on in your phone's calendar, then the calendar app on your phone will alert you (similar to the way the alarm does) rather than getting a text message. The other advantage to this, at least in my opinion, is that if I don't notice it right away, it'll snooze and pop up again in a few minutes, unlike a text message, which is a one shot thing.
I have a person whom i need to send a text message to. I have removed him from my contacts (to troubleshoot this crazy problem). When I text him, by going to my phone icon on main page, then type in the phone number, then click the third icon (yellow icon with envelope), it then automatically adds a +1 at the start, puts dashes in the number, AND adds "[email protected]" (the dns address of our network (I added the quotes). Then when I type the message and hit send, it shows as "sending" but never ACTUALLY sends it.
I have searched for this number in my contacts list, also using "Power Search" that I purchased, and I can't find his cell number at all (i have REMOVED him!).
If I do the above, but before sending, go back up into the number field, and edit the number back to straight cell#, a pop up appears "Converting to text message..." and then after finally putting the cell# back in, this time it doesn't auto-re-format the number, and it goes as a text.
NORMALLY, to text/sms, I would just go to my contacts' entry, then click the "envelope", and presto... send. But, for THIS contact, the same thing happens as above (thus the reason I deleted his contact info to troubleshoot).
Thanks for any help!
Fred
Do you store your contacts on the google servers?
tjjensen23 said:
Do you store your contacts on the google servers?
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yes, all my contacts are google (sorry, forgot to mention that).... i don't have any local contacts in the phone itself (at least i don't think so), and i also have contacts in facebook (but this guy isn't on my facebook at all)...
You can use a secondary messaging app like handcent or go sms pro, and see if this happens again. Just a wierd problem!
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Hi
when using my sms app, I am looking for a way to display which phone number of my contact is used (mobile, work, home, ...)
The only thing showed is the contact name and his phone number.
With all the sms apps I've tried (stock, hangouts, hello sms, 8sms, evolvesms, chomp, handcent), I didn't find a way to display this information. I always have to do an extra action (clik on contact photo, or title bar) to check if the phone number concerned is 'work' or 'mobile'.
Does someone know a tip or a new app to show this info ?
Thanks!
if anybody has an idea of a workaround to display the phone number type in the sms app (stock or any other), I would be very grateful.
I must not be the only one who needs to see in the sms app thread if i am writing to the mobile or work phone number of a contact ...
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?