Missing contacts when creating SMS

[IH8Q8]

Greetings, all;

I am having a problem with my unlocked Treo that is driving me batty. The device "forgets" some of my contacts when I am composing an SMS.

The contacts never actually dissapear from the phonebook, and I can always start an SMS from the Contacts page, but when I start typing a name in the "To' line on the new SMS page, some names are just not there anymore.

It's never the same name, and doing a soft reset corrects the problem... for about a day.

Any ideas what might be happening here? Thanks for the advise!


Fred

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I would suggest that you backup your contacts using some free program such as TCB (total contacts backup) or PPC Contacts backup. Just back them up into a file in a folder in the phone or storage card. Then go back to the program and try to restore the contacts and choose the option of overwriting the existing contacts.

Also if you are referring to the drop down list when you choose list of contacts. Keep in mind that the list is only for people you have texted before, this not a list of contacts reflecting the phone book

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yes.
i also have this same problem.

it seems like there are limited contact that showed in messaging box.

For example,
i have 20 contacts whose name is started from letters : "Sa"

but when i type "Sa" in the destination number on messaging box,
it is limited only to 10 contacts which is started from letters "Sa".
So the next 10 contacts is not showed up.

is there any possibility to tweak on registry to expand this limit ?

Pls help... :)

thanks a lot !

[mbk.2k3]

Greetings, all;

I am having a problem with my unlocked Treo that is driving me batty. The device "forgets" some of my contacts when I am composing an SMS.

The contacts never actually dissapear from the phonebook, and I can always start an SMS from the Contacts page, but when I start typing a name in the "To' line on the new SMS page, some names are just not there anymore.

It's never the same name, and doing a soft reset corrects the problem... for about a day.

Any ideas what might be happening here? Thanks for the advise!


Fred

i had the same issue as well.....one contact wasn't showing up.

2 things. make sure that that contact's number has been saved as his/her mobile number, not home or anything.

secondly, just restart or something. the problem went away for me later.

[happypigxda]

Actually, the missing contacts issue happens in many application. And the search results depends randomly.

For example, I got 2 "Sherry" in my contacts from OutLook in my PC. And pretty aware that I keep the phone number in the right field.
Type Sherry in Today, I got 2 Sherry listed.
Type Sherry in Contacts, I got nothing.
Thpe Sherry in SpeedDial Setting(Link to Contacts), I got nothing.
Type Sherry in To field in New Message, I got 2 again!?!?

Very unpredictable!!! And different name will yield very different results.

Customer Rep from Palm suggest me to do a Hard Reset. But I don't think it will help, however I'll try it.

Hoping to get the solution here!!! Thanks in advance.

[happypigxda]

The wired search result is gone after I upgrade my Treo750 from WM6 to WM6.1 with a Special Cooked ROM(Build 19199).

After the upgrade, my data had been synced from OutLook again. I'm not sure whether ROM upgrade or data sync did resolve the problem.

Anyway, I'm happ again with my Treo750 again!! :)

[happypigxda]

The wired search result is gone after I upgrade my Treo750 from WM6 to WM6.1 with a Special Cooked ROM(Build 19199).

After the upgrade, my data had been synced from OutLook again. I'm not sure whether ROM upgrade or data sync did resolve the problem.

Anyway, I'm happ again with my Treo750 again!! :)
Wired things again................

Treo 750 will freeze (no input from touch panel nor keyboard) when I entered the edit screen of the contact person which founded in Lookup field in "Today".
But editing the contact person in the "Contacts" application will not freeze.

The edit screens in the above cases are pretty the same except the upper left corner shows "Start" and "Contacts" separately.

Any help??? Thanks in advance.