Is there a way to find out from which number has an sms arrived, when more than one number is associated with the sender?
mydexterid said:
Is there a way to find out from which number has an sms arrived, when more than one number is associated with the sender?
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Nice question!
This happens because of microsoft: They do not understand that in other countries, unlike the United States, pepople have more that ONE mobile phone..
So they don't handle this situations.
I solve in a silly way.. But i don't have evidence that works: i simply replay to the sms.. And I see what number it uses for destination.
Ohh I see.
If it really uses the number in the reply which was used to send the sms, then it is a good workaround.
But we cannot be sure, can we?
Maybe someone has already made a simple app/plugin/whatever to find out the number or something?
DJ Palmis said:
Nice question!
This happens because of microsoft: They do not understand that in other countries, unlike the United States, pepople have more that ONE mobile phone..
So they don't handle this situations.
I solve in a silly way.. But i don't have evidence that works: i simply replay to the sms.. And I see what number it uses for destination.
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mydexterid said:
But we cannot be sure, can we?
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I'm sorry.. I have no time to test.. I'm quite sure it works..
I don't know other way to know the number, I'm sorry.
As I sayd before: We need an help from microsoft..
mydexterid said:
Ohh I see.
But we cannot be sure, can we?
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I'm sure of it
It's no different from replying to an email when sender has more than one email address in your Contacts - your reply goes back to the address the sender used to send the original message. It's behaviour by design.
I was farting around the other day and came across an app that (if I recall correctly) does that. I am really sorry because I cannot remember the name of the program, but I will try to re-trace my farting around and if I come across it, I'll post back here.
Ok, thx!
akashastrega said:
I was farting around the other day and came across an app that (if I recall correctly) does that. I am really sorry because I cannot remember the name of the program, but I will try to re-trace my farting around and if I come across it, I'll post back here.
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If you're sure, then we can be sure!
Mesquire said:
I'm sure of it
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Can someone please tell me how to fix the following?
If I am on the homescreen [Kavana 6.1] and I want to call someone, I will type in their name. If for example I want to call someone named Jill, I can type it out and it will appear on the screen as "JILL" and match up to the proper contact. However, if I type a name like Sammy, it will alternate between letters and the numeric keys to produce something like "4#.."
How can I change this?
same thing
i had the same thing happen to me earlier but the name that i was looking for was in the list too so i just selected it. no biggie.
I highly don't think there is a fix.
hhaha
i just noticed your signature mikey....you rule
Mikey1022 said:
I highly don't think there is a fix.
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Haha sweet sig mikey... haha thats awesome, did you create that?
thousandlegs said:
i had the same thing happen to me earlier but the name that i was looking for was in the list too so i just selected it. no biggie.
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It just sucks when you have a dozen people whose names begin with S LOL
Sucks that there seems to be no fix to it
fuLLah said:
It just sucks when you have a dozen people whose names begin with S LOL
Sucks that there seems to be no fix to it
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Yah it does suck, I agree with you man...
I created a contact named "sammy" and I was able to select it just fine in my new ROM..
NRGZ28 said:
I created a contact named "sammy" and I was able to select it just fine in my new ROM..
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Which rom and keyboard layout are you using?
fuLLah said:
Which rom and keyboard layout are you using?
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He is using the new Rose rom that he created...
hmmm...I just might have to try it out
Even the "rose" rom does it. Sorry NRG lol
I have the rose rom and i tried looking for "Jenn"
What is going on is that if the letter falls on a number in the search field, it is defaultet to showing the number. The phone thinks you wanna enter a number to dial.
This isn't really a Desire specific annoyance, I think it's since Android 2.1
All contacts with the same name would automatically merge on the phone, although they are different people (with the same name)
Does anyone know how to stop the contacts merging ?
You mean,they have same name and surname?
In that case,you can use their miidle name or nickname.
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DilbertZG said:
You mean,they have same name and surname?
In that case,you can use their miidle name or nickname.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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But the database is used for business so they don't have nicknames and a lot of them don't have middle names, so the only way is if there's a way to turn it off or remove the code to do it
let me try to sum what you are trying to say
1. Xavier Spencer 12321456
2. Xavier Spencer 13546798
i dont really think this is a problem "frankly". just my opinion ....
shoey-n said:
But the database is used for business so they don't have nicknames and a lot of them don't have middle names, so the only way is if there's a way to turn it off or remove the code to do it
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I'm not being funny...but exactly how many people with the same first AND last name do you have on your phone?
Seems like a pretty rare problem. I've seen people with the same name on the Exchange server at work and they all then have to provide a middle initial. Failing that we all have our departments abbreviation at the end of our name.
dexteral said:
let me try to sum what you are trying to say
1. Xavier Spencer 12321456
2. Xavier Spencer 13546798
i dont really think this is a problem "frankly". just my opinion ....
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Pretty sure the question is, "does anyone know how to stop the contacts merging", NOT do u agree this is a problem...
I had problem with Name and Name*, they were merged so i ended up sending nasty message to neighbor instead my girlfriend...
GaelForce said:
Pretty sure the question is, "does anyone know how to stop the contacts merging", NOT do u agree this is a problem...
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I am pretty sure that this is not a problem. I don't see how anyone can tell by the name that it is a different person if it is the same name . Unless u are a psychic
dexteral said:
I am pretty sure that this is not a problem. I don't see how anyone can tell by the name that it is a different person if it is the same name . Unless u are a psychic
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I got contact pictures for every person, so yes I do know the difference between them, but when they merge I can no longer recognise each person
And you all have your opinion whether you think this is an issue or not, but I'm just simply asking does any of you know how to stop it, I don't care whether you think there's a need to stop it
Just put the company name as Lastname.
So Mr Joe Another from Contoso Corp would be
First Name: Joe
Last Name: Another Contoso
Whilst Joe Another from Kebabs Limited would be
Joe
Another Kebabs
?
I wish I could do that with them all, I'd be happy with that, but my dad has the same annoyance and he has a bit of OCD so it's all got to be perfect
If no one knows, I'll try opening up the APK later and try stopping it myself
dexteral said:
I am pretty sure that this is not a problem.
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Once again you appear to have missed the question...
Anyway I think the point is that most non-android handsets would ask if you wanted to merge the contacts or create them separately instead of assuming they should automatically be merged. This isn't specific to just business contacts, my father and I have the same name (which by no means is an uncommon occurrence) so anyone with an Android handset would have both our numbers in the one contact. This is far from ideal and although there may be workarounds such as nicknames, there should be a better solution.
Try this:
Create new contact with same name.
Save contact then open it.
You should see link icon in the top right corner.Click on it,then select Clear suggestions.
After that,you will have 2 contacts with same name.
Just tested for myself. It works!
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DilbertZG said:
Try this:
Create new contact with same name.
Save contact then open it.
You should see link icon in the top right corner.Click on it,then select Clear suggestions.
After that,you will have 2 contacts with same name.
Just tested for myself. It works!
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I'm kind of not stock anymore
I'm running stock android so the contacts doesn't have link
Thanks for the suggestion though
Hi, I wondered if anyone has come across an app which will speak alerts to me?
Perhaps something like "Text message from Jemima Puddleduck" and "Email from John Doe".
And preferably in a human sounding voice, not that abomination that is the standard Android text-to-speech!
Any ideas?
check out "Vlingo" or "edwin"
Just tried both, but neither does what I want :-(
setspeed said:
Hi, I wondered if anyone has come across an app which will speak alerts to me?
Perhaps something like "Text message from Jemima Puddleduck" and "Email from John Doe".
And preferably in a human sounding voice, not that abomination that is the standard Android text-to-speech!
Any ideas?
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you won't find any. An app would be alot more than the usuall 0.5 to 2mb. My reason for saying that you won't find any is because the app would have to know every name (and surname!) in the world, also any nickname etc! You'd proboly find that would tell who it is just by spelling the name out letter by letter, and even that wouldn't be very smooth (tone between letters and speed).
hope this helps! good luck!
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you won't find any. An app would be alot more than the usuall 0.5 to 2mb. My reason for saying that you won't find any is because the app would have to know every name (and surname!) in the world, also any nickname etc! You'd proboly find that would tell who it is just by spelling the name out letter by letter, and even that wouldn't be very smooth (tone between letters and speed).
hope this helps! good luck!
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I don't know if you're right. I don't think it would take that much space. Sure it wouldn't fit in 2megs, but I reckon fifty megs would be sufficient for all known English names. That's just a figure pulled out of my arse btw!
How about a custom message tone for a person that is a recording you have made. You would have to record a message for each person you want this for, Not the most user friendly way but will do what you want.
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setspeed said:
I don't know if you're right. I don't think it would take that much space. Sure it wouldn't fit in 2megs, but I reckon fifty megs would be sufficient for all known English names. That's just a figure pulled out of my arse btw!
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woow, no need for that kind of sh!t anyways.. what if you have someone saved in as a nickname (Ginger, Gypsy, my 2 favorite contacts ;D) then it would not tell you who was calling you cos the app would not know how to pernounce it..
hope this helps! good luck!
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woow, no need for that kind of sh!t anyways.. what if you have someone saved in as a nickname (Ginger, Gypsy, my 2 favorite contacts ;D) then it would not tell you who was calling you cos the app would not know how to pernounce it..
hope this helps! good luck!
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I wasn't being rude/sarcastic so please don't take offence!
I literally meant that I was just guessing how much space would be required
Use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750721
It should work fine
Let us know your experience!
gogol said:
Use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750721
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+1 for Saymyname Dessert, I love it!
setspeed said:
I wasn't being rude/sarcastic so please don't take offence!
I literally meant that I was just guessing how much space would be required
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sorry, I'm not exacly English anyway, so I don't understand the meaning of some lines
One of the best apps out there is called Tasker. It can do everything! One of it's tricks is you can set it up to read your text messages out.
Is quite tricky to get used to at first, but once you 'click' with it, its fantastic.
It costs £4 (which is a bargain IMO) but there is also a free 1 week trial.
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Agree with Tasker, I am using it
BUT .... BUT ...
It does NOT have this say NAME feature.
Tasker can only say the phone number.
The developer plan to add this feature in the next release ... Which we don't know when ... or NEVER
wnp_79 said:
One of the best apps out there is called Tasker. It can do everything! One of it's tricks is you can set it up to read your text messages out.
Is quite tricky to get used to at first, but once you 'click' with it, its fantastic.
It costs £4 (which is a bargain IMO) but there is also a free 1 week trial.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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Use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750721
It should work fine
Let us know your experience!
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Nice one! This does pretty much what I want, and you can customise it quite a bit too - thanks very much
Hi there,
I must have missed something, did not visit this forum for a few years now. I have an account back from 2006, but it looks like I got 0 posts, no thanks, no helps etc etc?
Did it all get resetted? If yes why?
sinned said:
Hi there,
I must have missed something, did not visit this forum for a few years now. I have an account back from 2006, but it looks like I got 0 posts, no thanks, no helps etc etc?
Did it all get resetted? If yes why?
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I think you should contact @MikeChannon, he will look into it.
sinned said:
Hi there,
I must have missed something, did not visit this forum for a few years now. I have an account back from 2006, but it looks like I got 0 posts, no thanks, no helps etc etc?
Did it all get resetted? If yes why?
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Hi
Well your account certainly goes back to 2006, but there is no record of older posts. We record ones that are deleted too, but there are none.
There is no automatic clearing of old posts.
Is it possible you might have had another username?
Mike
MikeChannon said:
Hi
Well your account certainly goes back to 2006, but there is no record of older posts. We record ones that are deleted too, but there are none.
There is no automatic clearing of old posts.
Is it possible you might have had another username?
Mike
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I am quite sure that my username here was always Sinned.
I idd saw that I had 0 posts.. where I thought something must been resetted, hence I ask.
Uhm.. well, seems strange. Dnno then.. I lost like all my settings aswell. I guess I start over..
Thanks.
MikeChannon said:
Hi
Well your account certainly goes back to 2006, but there is no record of older posts. We record ones that are deleted too, but there are none.
There is no automatic clearing of old posts.
Is it possible you might have had another username?
Mike
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Mike, I just happen to find some old posts of mine, and you are right, the username there says: pnxsinned
Uhm to which email was that one linked can you see? Or can you merge them?
Regards,
sinned said:
Mike, I just happen to find some old posts of mine, and you are right, the username there says: pnxsinned
Uhm to which email was that one linked can you see? Or can you merge them?
Regards,
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That account email has "den" in it, it has a dot and it's a gmail address.
If you get in, send me a PM and I can delete this account.
If it's complicated then write to me at webmaster[at]xda-developers.com
Mike
I use my phone for business.
I have thousand of people in my contacts.
I want to see caller's name and company before I pickup the phone.
iPhone can do this, how about Android?
phone>settings>callerid &spam. Google tries to provide the name of the caller if not in your contacts list. In the past I remember having choices as to what it used to obtain the callers information. I cant find that anymore.
HyperM3 said:
phone>settings>callerid &spam. Google tries to provide the name of the caller if not in your contacts list. In the past I remember having choices as to what it used to obtain the callers information. I cant find that anymore.
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I want to learn company names of my original contacts. Who are already in my list. I put notes on company names. iphone was showing me them.
Like
Jon Snow
Car wash Owner
erkange said:
I want to learn company names of my original contacts. Who are already in my list. I put notes on company names. iphone was showing me them.
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Jon Snow
Car wash Owner
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So you want additional saved contact information to populate the caller ID screen? Nope, cant do that as much as Ive seen.
HyperM3 said:
So you want additional saved contact information to populate the caller ID screen? Nope, cant do that as much as Ive seen.
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yes, I exaclty need that. I need to see my own contacts information.
iphone can do this.
Samsung galaxy 8's phone app can do this.
But google pixel can't do this.
It is very weird.
erkange said:
yes, I exaclty need that. I need to see my own contacts information.
iphone can do this.
Samsung galaxy 8's phone app can do this.
But google pixel can't do this.
It is very weird.
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There might be another contacts/phone app option in the play store that could display this information.
HyperM3 said:
There might be another contacts/phone app option in the play store that could display this information.
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Actually keep looking since few days. Till now nope, i couldn't find that app yet
I have 1500 contacts from hundreds of different companies.
erkange said:
Actually keep looking since few days. Till now nope, i couldn't find that app yet
I have 1500 contacts from hundreds of different companies.
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Try this one, see if it works. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuma.smartnotify Or this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jestasfunhouse.callinformer
HyperM3 said:
Try this one, see if it works. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuma.smartnotify Or this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jestasfunhouse.callinformer
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Thank you.
I already tried both of them.
Smart Notify is working if phone is not locked. If it is locked then full screen caller id come, than no callers's company info shown.
Call informer was the App i was using 4 years ago. I already tried it since i swicthed back to android.
Unfortunately it doesn't work with newest android phones. Like my Pixel 3 XL.
But it works great with Asus zenfone 3. Which has android 8.0.0
It would be great if there is an update to call informer.
erkange said:
Thank you.
I already tried both of them.
Smart Notify is working if phone is not locked. If it is locked then full screen caller id come, than no callers's company info shown.
Call informer was the App i was using 4 years ago. I already tried it since i swicthed back to android.
Unfortunately it doesn't work with newest android phones. Like my Pixel 3 XL.
But it works great with Asus zenfone 3. Which has android 8.0.0
It would be great if there is an update to call informer.
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Damn, Oh well, I tried. Hope you find something else that might work.
HyperM3 said:
Damn, Oh well, I tried. Hope you find something else that might work.
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yes, tahnk you soo much.
It is very weird that in year 2019, google didn't think that.
Finally this app works. Can show any info from address book and even can add notes.
Call notes pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nikanorov.callnotespro
erkange said:
Finally this app works. Can show any info from address book and even can add notes.
Call notes pro
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nikanorov.callnotespro
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Good looking out, glad you found something. Thanks for sharing in case anyone else is looking for something like this in the future.
this app is much better and simplier. Show all info in caller id.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-true-phone-best-dialer-contact-t2934816
erkange said:
this app is much better and simplier. Show all info in caller id.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-true-phone-best-dialer-contact-t2934816
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Both made by Russians, unfortunately. Seen any others while you were looking?
Sporkflinger said:
Both made by Russians, unfortunately. Seen any others while you were looking?
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Nope, I switched back to iPhone.
Hate iPhone's dialer though.