[Q] CallID Match Problem

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Hi everyone,

i am having a problem with my wildfire s and guessing if you guys could help me out.

Let me explain. Lets say i have a contact jack with number +23091948347 in my contacts. when jack calls me, 9194837 appears but not the contact name. But when Jack sends me an SMS, the contact name appears.

Now the contrary also causes the problem. if i correct jack's number to 9194837 in my contacts, when he calls, the contact name appears.But when the sends me and SMS, +2309194837 appears.

I already tried deleting, resetting the phone but the problem persists. In Mauritius, all HTC Android 2.2 - 2.3 users i know have the same problem (other phone makes work fine). No luck from HTC support either

Severals other forums say that this is due to the fact that as from android 2.2, HTC android matches exact CIDs only for contact name resolution.

For the time being i have to enter both +2309194837 and 9194837 for the same contact for it to work correctly.

I have tried a soft called prefixer which allows to add the +230 on incoming calls. It then correctly gives the contact name but no contact picture appears.and also in the call log the number still appears as <unknown>.

Am new to android and already getting discouraged...hope can learn from you guys.

Cheers

Contact your carrier; they are incorrectly routing calls/messages through to you without area/country codes.

Thanks for your replay.. That is indeed the case but other phones are working correctly. xperias, nexus 1s and others...

So other phones show the same number regardless of wether you're receiving a text message or voice call?

Other phones receive messages and calls in the same format i do. i.e 9194897 for calls and +2309194837 for messages.

Yet the other phones resolve the contact name correctly.

I read that it is due to the fact that the phone is match the entire CID to contacts and not part. There is an app in windows mobile which allows you to change the Call ID match trailing digits (which in this case should be 7).

Looked for such an app for android but no luck.

Samsung also have been getting the same problem i hear.

Any ideas guys?

i found this while googling about the problem

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=684575

http://code.google.com/p/android/iss...ummary%20Stars