SMS and recipients
 

Hi.

I tried to search forum quickly, about this problem, didn't find any similar cases.

So, I have a new problem with my N900. I accidentally managed to erase my contacts from the Contacts and thus recovered them via vCard-file. I got the names and numbers back, great! Everything seemed to be ok, though I've lost some info (e.g. one number and adress from one person).

Now I noticed, that whenever I try to let the phone guess the recipient on SMS, it says "XXX is not on contacts list". What? This worked for me earlier and not even boot fixed it. Let me demonstrate:

Type e.g. "ma ja", without quotes (in this case let's name him as Matti Jaakkola), to the recipients. N900 should guess it from the contacts, however it doesn't and tells me, that "ma ja" is not on the contacts list.

Any way to fix this? This is a major problem to me, since I'm used to type names in short and this takes more time, than using shortcuts.

Thanks in advance.

PS: Yes, I'm running PR 1.2 and this is most likely not relative to that, it seems to be a bug on SMS, in my opinion.

EDIT: Ok, this is weird. I searched my own name and the SMS popped up my name and my friends and after that all worked nicely again. I'll keep this thread here still though, if this happens again. Odd.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Seems like no one cares...anyway, it's still annoying.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

here is the bugreport for the other way round that is not working too

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10304

and for the records this is not "Nokia Support" here! We try to fix problems we can fix but this looks like "out of our hands".

Please join up at this bug mentioned above or file your own report.

Re: SMS and recipients
 

Hi,

I have exactly the same issue. Unfortunately searching for myself doesn't seem to fix it for me. It finds my contact if I use juat my first name, but if I search with my surname too it doesn't work.

John

EDIT: There are some contacts that I cannot find at all, and several ohers that I can find if I search for just "Surname" or "Firstname" but not "Firstname Surname".

Re: SMS and recipients
 

Hi.

Good to hear, that I'm not the only one. This did come back to me too, I'm no more longer able to recover from it via searching for same names. If I type in surname first and then shorten the first name (e.g. Jaakkola Ma -> Jaakkola Matti), it works. I think this bug is caused by reimport via vCard's, since I had not had this bug ever, before this.

I'll try to rename my contacts to first name + surname, instead of my current one (surname + first name), I'll report if that helps. Otherwise I don't know how to fix this, but I do know, that this occurred after vCard-import and those vCard's were from Address Book (on OS X). I think the vCard's were 2nd generation, can't say for sure.

Re: SMS and recipients
 

Hi,

My contacts were exported (from the contacts app on the N900) befor upgrading to PR1.2. I flashed to 1.2 and since importing my contacts I've had these issues. So I guess it's not a problem with "Address Book" on OSX, just with importing from vCard.

John

Re: SMS and recipients
 

Hi again.

Yeah, I've tried that too, and the same thing happened. I also had to clear my contacts once, when I had done the import, since the persons avatars wouldn't load on SMS.

Odd bug, kind of have to figure out whether renaming would fix it. Also, I noticed, that some of my contacts don't have anymore "Mobile phone" on their numbers, it's just "Number"/etc. I have my N900 on Finnish so I can't tell for sure what's it's corresponding on English.

Re: SMS and recipients
 

IfI browse my contacts, I think all the contacts have mobile numbers (not just numbers) unless they aren't mobile numbers anyway. Do you know where the contacts database is stored so we could check that for any inconsistencies?

Re: SMS and recipients
 

Unfortunately, I don't. I'm low-lever user, I don't really know how to maintain N900 or where the system-files are. If this gets more popular then it's time to visit bugs.maemo.org.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Merged!

Guess this is another PR1.2 feature related to

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10304