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From: Theo Markettos on 11 May 2010 15:19
I have a Nokia 2600 (the original, not the 'we decided to recycle the
number' version). It's been working fine for years, but now all of a sudden
it has decided to show all the texts in my inbox as +447.... rather than the
name in the addressbook. I can't seem to find any way to switch it back.
Some of the addressbook entries are in +447... format and some in 07.... but
neither works.

I've been switching SIMs a bit, and at one point did some copying of
addressbook entries from SIM to phone and deleting the entries on the phone.
But with the original SIM that I've been using for years it doesn't show the
names. I've fiddled with all the settings I can find, and duplicated all
the entries on both SIM and phone, to no avail. The battery has been pulled
out numerous times so it has been rebooted.

Anyone any ideas where I might look to fix this? It's getting a bit
annoying trying to recognise all my contacts by number.

Thanks
Theo
From: Woody on 11 May 2010 17:24
"Theo Markettos" <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in
message news:5cn*PTM+s(a)news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
>I have a Nokia 2600 (the original, not the 'we decided to
>recycle the
> number' version). It's been working fine for years, but now
> all of a sudden
> it has decided to show all the texts in my inbox as +447....
> rather than the
> name in the addressbook. I can't seem to find any way to
> switch it back.
> Some of the addressbook entries are in +447... format and some
> in 07.... but
> neither works.
>
> I've been switching SIMs a bit, and at one point did some
> copying of
> addressbook entries from SIM to phone and deleting the entries
> on the phone.
> But with the original SIM that I've been using for years it
> doesn't show the
> names. I've fiddled with all the settings I can find, and
> duplicated all
> the entries on both SIM and phone, to no avail. The battery
> has been pulled
> out numerous times so it has been rebooted.
>
> Anyone any ideas where I might look to fix this? It's getting
> a bit
> annoying trying to recognise all my contacts by number.
>
> Thanks
> Theo



The name matching is only done on the last six digits, so whether
it is +447 or 07 makes no odds.

What will stop it showing names is if you have the same name and
number in the phone memory and on the SIM - it finds the same
number twice and doesn't know which to use (even though they are
actually the same) so it uses neither.



--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com


From: Steve Terry on 11 May 2010 18:27
"Woody" <harrogate3(a)ntlworld.spam.com> wrote in message
news:SVjGn.34959$Pf6.16623(a)newsfe12.ams2...
> "Theo Markettos" <theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:5cn*PTM+s(a)news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
>> I have a Nokia 2600 (the original, not the 'we decided to recycle the
>> number' version). It's been working fine for years, but now all of a
>> sudden
>> it has decided to show all the texts in my inbox as +447.... rather than
>> the
>> name in the addressbook. I can't seem to find any way to switch it back.
>> Some of the addressbook entries are in +447... format and some in 07....
>> but
>> neither works.
<snip>
>> Thanks
>> Theo
>
> The name matching is only done on the last six digits, so whether it is
> +447 or 07 makes no odds.
>
> What will stop it showing names is if you have the same name and number in
> the phone memory and on the SIM - it finds the same number twice and
> doesn't know which to use (even though they are actually the same) so it
> uses neither.
> Woody
>
>
Yes, set Names / Settings / Memory in use, to either phone or sim, not both.
Two sets of last six digits will confuse it.

Swapping sims can change phone, or sim, back to both

Steve Terry
--
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http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276


From: Jon on 12 May 2010 03:02
In article <5cn*PTM+s(a)news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
theom+news(a)chiark.greenend.org.uk says...
> I have a Nokia 2600 (the original, not the 'we decided to recycle the
> number' version). It's been working fine for years, but now all of a sudden
> it has decided to show all the texts in my inbox as +447.... rather than the
> name in the addressbook. I can't seem to find any way to switch it back.
> Some of the addressbook entries are in +447... format and some in 07.... but
> neither works.
>
> I've been switching SIMs a bit, and at one point did some copying of
> addressbook entries from SIM to phone and deleting the entries on the phone.
> But with the original SIM that I've been using for years it doesn't show the
> names. I've fiddled with all the settings I can find, and duplicated all
> the entries on both SIM and phone, to no avail. The battery has been pulled
> out numerous times so it has been rebooted.
>
> Anyone any ideas where I might look to fix this? It's getting a bit
> annoying trying to recognise all my contacts by number.

Sounds like you have the number stored twice, i.e. on the phone and the
SIM. In this event the phone cannot make a choice and displays the
sender ID - this is usually in international format for a text.

Get your contacts onto the phone, then clear the SIM card.
--
Regards
Jon
From: Theo Markettos on 13 May 2010 06:55
Jon <spam(a)jonparker.plus.com> wrote:
> Sounds like you have the number stored twice, i.e. on the phone and the
> SIM. In this event the phone cannot make a choice and displays the
> sender ID - this is usually in international format for a text.

Thanks.

> Get your contacts onto the phone, then clear the SIM card.

Annoyingly, the phone doesn't provide any way to delete contacts from just
the phone or just the SIM card. So I swapped in a blank SIM card and
cleared the phone. Names work again :)

Theo
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