[Q] Does your phone ever mix up contacts (when receiving sms)?

sidewaysinto3rd · Aug 27, 2010

Something really odd just happened.

I got a text from my buddy Aaron.

Opened up my SMS, and it showed another contact's picture and phone number when looking at the thread. but when I went back to the list of sms threads, it would show Aaron's phone number (not connected to his contact, no picture, no name etc)...

If I clicked on it and went back into the thread, again another contacts name and phone number and picture

wtf ?!?!

So I deleted the sms thread. Went into contacts, and swiped left on Aaron's contact to text him, when in the sms typing area, it only shows his phone number and fails to connect his number to his actual contact.

When I call Aaron from my contacts though, it does show his picture ...

is this sort of thing a common occurance ?

All my contacts are sync'd with exchange (corporate) and most of them are linked to facebook.

I've got no contacts on my sim, or entered into the phone memory itself.

I also noticed that when using a 3rd party sms app, the texts don't get linked up to the contacts, so it would only show the numbers.

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AllGamer · Aug 27, 2010

i have not seen the error yet
but now that i know, i might not be surprised if it does happens

sidewaysinto3rd · Aug 27, 2010

wow .. honestly that sort of thing is pretty unacceptable on any phone..

lokhor · Aug 28, 2010

This happened to me yesterday! Any ideas on what causes it?

paarry · Aug 28, 2010

Ya i ve d same problm. anything can be done abt this?

sensi_ · Aug 28, 2010

This has been discussed many times before, its generally down to having other SMS applications on your device, ie Handscent.

this happened when i coded my own SMS app, left it installed on my phone for a few days and open the conversation to my mate and had all the msgs from my girlfriend in it...

rishabh_destiny · Aug 28, 2010

Lol.. It actually happened to me a couple of time. Thankfully it solves itself when I hit the back button

Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

666Lucifer · Aug 29, 2010

it happens me several times on 2 of 4 galaxys. this is totaly unacceptable offcourse. if this isnt fixed on froyo I have a galaxy for sale.

andrewluecke · Aug 30, 2010

Which firmwares, and is this firmware you are using a final version?

Vulpinity · Aug 30, 2010

sensi_ said:
This has been discussed many times before, its generally down to having other SMS applications on your device, ie Handscent.

It does it for me quite regularly, and I've never installed any other SMS apps. Bog standard JF3, never flashed, nothing.

It was also one of the first things my friend mentioned to me about his new Galaxy S, which hadn't even had a single app of any kind downloaded at the time.

Believe me, it's very weird to have a text apparently from your best male friend telling you how much they love you after the phone gets the name confused with your girlfriend.

Weeeeirdness.

AllGamer · Aug 30, 2010

guys, you do know this issue is just a SMS software bug eh?

have you guys tried using ChompSMS (freebie)

that will prevent the problem of mixing contacts

cosmoboi · Aug 31, 2010

me had this problem before but not anymore when i flash the i9000ZSJP2 firmware..... try it...

jorkus · Sep 22, 2010

SMS problem yes, but Mail too!

I have had this problem with SMS a couple of times, but more serious and more frequent: Exchange mail mixes up, I get maibodies under wrong subject! I am using standard SGS Exchange client. Any other seen this?

mazroui · Sep 22, 2010

AllGamer said:
guys, you do know this issue is just a SMS software bug eh?

have you guys tried using ChompSMS (freebie)

that will prevent the problem of mixing contacts

Yup it sure is and i can confirm it on the firmware jpjg8

iv been recieving a lot of sms's and on the notification it gives me some random contact name but once opened it correctly goes back to the original sender with the text. i havn't tried using a diff sms app as im pretty happy with the stock 1 in use.

as for a fix , i found out that a big list of contacts and sms's do confuse the phone and try as much as possible to keep it as small as possible but id love to keep those sms's / mms's , so still no real fix T_T

karanits · Sep 22, 2010

bump .. me also haveing the same problem. contacts name in the notification is displayed wrong ..but it corrects itself when i open the sms.

using another app solved it

AllGamer · Sep 22, 2010

i switch to use Handcent SMS, much better than ChompSMS

i never really noticed if there was a problem with SMS getting mixed up

must have been an older bug on the older firmwares

Bax5 · Nov 12, 2010

I Have the same problem as the two people below.

I'll get a new text message, and it will show up on the notifications bar as from some random person, and i'll get another text from the same person and the notification will show another random name. They seem to be names of people that have previously sent me a message, but it is quite strange... It only started happening recently, so maybe it is an app or something conflicting?

The only things that come to mind are the LauncherPro messaging widget that i've been putting on one of my homescreens.

I'm running
Firmware 2.1-upadate1
I9000UGJH2
ECLAIR.UGJH2

rooted and running one click lag fix
also running trillian in the background, as well as beautiful widgets wheather.

can you guys post some info on what you are running so that maybe we can find a cause for this?

karanits said:
bump .. me also haveing the same problem. contacts name in the notification is displayed wrong ..but it corrects itself when i open the sms.

using another app solved it

mazroui said:
Yup it sure is and i can confirm it on the firmware jpjg8

iv been recieving a lot of sms's and on the notification it gives me some random contact name but once opened it correctly goes back to the original sender with the text. i havn't tried using a diff sms app as im pretty happy with the stock 1 in use.

as for a fix , i found out that a big list of contacts and sms's do confuse the phone and try as much as possible to keep it as small as possible but id love to keep those sms's / mms's , so still no real fix T_T

abgismok · Jan 4, 2011

I experience the same on my desire z with htc's default app.
Is the a solution for this?

I find custom flashing and limiting the number of contacts ridiculously lame - no offence, but these bare not $10 devices

stickfinger · Jan 5, 2011

I had this bug on 2.1. I had no other text app installed so put it down to an eclair/rom version bug. Mine would also text the wrong people if it had got the contacts mixed. Best fix for me was a reboot.

I'm on Froyo now and no sign of it so far......fingers crossed

Delmas · May 10, 2016

This very same thing is happening to me now. Called my carrier but they couldn't help. Hoping to find a solution here.

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