remove phone numbers formatting (dashes)

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Hello,

Me and my trusty G1 have recently moved out of the US. Im running CM's latest, and just like the stock ROM, phone numbers stored in the phone have the xxx-xxx-xxxx US format. This format does not apply to most countries outside of the US. So here when someone calls (or when im trying to add a new contact) phone numbers tend to look weird since phone numbers here have an XX-XXX-XXX format (8 digits total), and so they end up showing as XXX-XXX-XX, which is just confusing.

So in short, is there any way to stop the dashes from showing up in the call log/ caller id/adding new contact form??

Thanks alot!!

No one has the same problem or has heard of a fix to this???

Hi, my G1 & I moved out of the US recently, too. The way I did it was to change all the numbers while logged in to Gmail in my browser. It was tedious but it lets you use a proper keyboard and mouse instead of trying to do it on the phone. All you really need to do is type the new prefix/country code once, and then cut and paste it in front of all the US numbers. Gmail will then just push it out to the phone right away. Hope this helps...

My biggest concern isn't fixing the already existing numbers in my phone book. My concern is when adding a new number or when someone not in my phone book calls, the number looks confusing because of the existence of the dashes.

But thanks anyway for your suggestion.

I have MoreLocale2 installed and when i changed it to my language i got the correct formatting.

Hey I just wanted to bump this thread to point out that morelocale 2 worked like a charm! so thanks a lot for the suggestion

Sorry to bump an old thread but i'm having exactly the same problem and its driving me mad I cant get MyLocale 2 working, it doesn't take the dashes from my numbers

Old thread, but might help someone: I also had the dash problem although in Gmail my contacts had no dashes. Changing the locale from US to UK removed the dashes for me (Home/Settings/Locale and Text/Select locale/ English (UK)).

Originally Posted by aygunes

Old thread, but might help someone: I also had the dash problem although in Gmail my contacts had no dashes. Changing the locale from US to UK removed the dashes for me (Home/Settings/Locale and Text/Select locale/ English (UK)).

Thanks aygunes, this is a realy easy solution to have the numbers format without dashes.

Find a way to export your contacts to a CSV file or a single vCARD file. Then you can just use something like a shell command:

cat file.csv | tr -d '-' > cleanfile.csv

or just edit the resulting file with any text editor and import back. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1417184

[EDIT] I forgot that probably ALL phone numbers are stored without dashes in the (latest) contacts database.