I just got a dash3g. I had the old dash for about 18 months before this.
The new dash won't let me dial local numbers without the area code.
Using the area code is not necessary in my area, so I know it's not a phone company requirement. It's something in the phone.
Is there a registry edit that would make the phone allow 7 digit dialing on local calls?
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I'm hoping someone can help me with this. we use 10 digit dialing where I live and everytime a dial a number in the form of ***-***-**** it places a 1 in the front. No big deal for local calls but to dial a number in another nearby city here costs me nothing unless I dial the 1. Than it's long distance.
I've checked area code everywhere I can but can't figure out what's causing it.
Any ideas?
Is this possible without actually changing my area code, I just moved to the other coast and get annoyed by having to dial an area code every time I dial a local number, but for the past few years I've had the same phone number and don't want to change and lose all my old contacts... And yes I'm aware I can change it in the text menu but I'm talking about phone calls only, not texts.. Thanks..
I just add area codes to the phone numbers of all my contacts if you call local it don't matter if you add area code so that works for me
Hi folks,
I am trying to figure out the best way to store numbers in the phone app.
I usually store the number as 01234567890 with the leading zero so that I can call the number from anywhere in the country.
The network operator sometimes sends the caller ID as +11234567890 which is the international format. Windows phone fails to match this with the contact in my phonebook. I want it to match only the last ten digits of the number. My old dumbphone was doing this straight out of the box.
Am I missing something or does the Windows Phone 7 phone app just not support this?
Best Regards,
Gowtham
If you're in the US (I assume so, since you have country code of 1) then you might as well just store the number with the leading 1 (or +1 if it's really needed, but it shouldn't be). I have some number stored without the area code, some with area code but no country code, and some with both, and it seems to work out. A leading 0 is probably confusing the phone though.
I am based out of India at the moment. It is standard procedure to put in a 0 to call mobile phones located in a different state in our country.
After a soft reset and sync, my phone seems to function properly for now.
I'll post updates if I discover anything else.
Whenver I dial with 7 digits, the phone does not recognize the contact entry. I'm pretty sure that my previous phone (iPhone 4s) would recognize 5551234 as the same as 123 555 1234 and know my contacts name. At least it did with my home area code, probably not for numbers outside my area code.
This phone just calls it unknown. Is there a setting for this I can adjust to dial with 7 digits?
Nope. Sorry
i called tech support about the same thing. I'm coming from t mobile. had to ad my area code to majority of my contacts...sucks. Another thing i miss is t-mobile had caller id with name for numbers not in your contact list. Worked like land line caller id. with ATT we're stuck with just the number It seems like those types of things would be easy to implement features..
nugzo said:
i called tech support about the same thing. I'm coming from t mobile. had to ad my area code to majority of my contacts...sucks. Another thing i miss is t-mobile had caller id with name for numbers not in your contact list. Worked like land line caller id. with ATT we're stuck with just the number It seems like those types of things would be easy to implement features..
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its the provider issue...
if you put your local tmo sim into your HOX, you could still enjoy the 7 digits calling feature
Starting about 8 weeks ago after owning the phone for more than 2 years, I started missing calls and texts that would only show up after a reboot. People also told me that when they called sometimes, there was no connection and no way to leave a voicemail.
People are usually still 7-digit dialing and texting here. I live in New Mexico and most of the the state is 505 since forever, so people here never think of 10 digit dialing unless it's out of state. After about 5 hours with 2 different Fi tech chats and some research and experimentation, I figured out that when my phone was switching to Sprint, it was getting a "shadow" number with a 214 area code, which is Dallas. When on TMO everything works fine but if it switched to Sprint, I would miss a lot of stuff, and with 7 digit dialing be calling Texas, or sometimes getting notice of an invalid number, and sometimes I couldn't connect to the network at all.
From a reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/c...ile_on_sprint/ that has some other interesting info which seems plausible:
"I think it's because of your Sprint Shadow Number; on Fi, Sprint and US Cellular assign an "invisible" internal number to you so that the towers are able to know who you are, as well as routing your calls properly, among other things. When you dial a 7 digit number, the area code of your phone number is appended to the beginning of the number, that's why they work fine when you dial a local number. However the Sprint number is often times not a local number, and the area code usually differs greatly from that of your actual Fi number, so the 7 digit number is now trying to call somewhere else, probably a number that is invalid."
The codes used to monitor and force a switch to a specific carrier might be google-able, though I haven't found them just yet (I got them from the chat) but using an app called Signal Spy or FiSwitch one can easily monitor and force a switch to a specific carrier without having to memorize and enter the codes, though the codes are available through those apps. Also reading the mountain of reviews you'll see how many people are having problems with Fi carrier switching choices.
I turned off my network reporting in the Fi app and have the Signal Spy app running and so far haven't had any switches to Sprint, though I don't know if that has anything to do with it. I don't know why this just started happening and they couldn't or wouldn't explain it. They just told me, from Bangalore or wherever, to just 10 digit dial, but that doesn't help when people frequently 7-digit dial or text me here. It's New Mexico!
What I've been looking for is a code to lock it on a carrier but haven't figured it out yet, though there to be a possibility here on this page which has a pretty exhaustive list of the codes but none of the codes used through my chat with the Fi tech to reveal connected carrier, change to T-Mobile or Sprint, or repair the network are on any of the lists I've seen so far! They are in those previously mentioned apps, though:
https://mobilespecs.net/phone/codes/...gle_Pixel.html
After 2 years of flawless, stress-free usage and glad to be away from the gouging and control of the major carriers, my Fi bubble has burst. Anybody else having Fi heartburn?