I got a text from a coworker who wasn't in my address book. I figured out how to add the contact from hangouts, but my phone isn't updating the name in the list of received messages, it still appears as if it is coming from a number not in my address book. Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks.
enndub said:
I got a text from a coworker who wasn't in my address book. I figured out how to add the contact from hangouts, but my phone isn't updating the name in the list of received messages, it still appears as if it is coming from a number not in my address book. Anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks.
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Go into the "People" app and check to see if the number is there. If it is, make sure "Sync contacts" is on in Settings. If it isn't, add your coworker.
Should be good to go after that.
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Hey guys, does anyone know of a way to have the Messaging app on WM5/6 look through contacts and assign the appropriate contact name based on the number from which the message was received? I know it does this automatically when a new message comes in, but how about for old messages, where the contact was not yet entered into the address book?
That is to say, at present, I have messages in my inbox that have no name associated to them, only a number. Since being received, however, I have added the number to a contact, and now wish the old message to recognise the message as one from that particular contact.
I'm pulling my hair out over this one, so any help is appreciated.
Rich.
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Anyone?
Plus, I'm somewhat unsure of where else to look/ask for help...
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No-one?
Hello,
I am having an issue with my Captivate and SMS messages, I have a contact that I try to send a text message to from the contact list, originally the contact did not have an area code. I added the change and resynced my google contact list but now every time I try to send a message via the contact list, it shows up as just as the contact name and the number does not have the area code. Inadvertantly gets an error when sending a text message to it! What can I do to fix this issue?
Thank you,
Charlie
dmnall said:
Hello,
I am having an issue with my Captivate and SMS messages, I have a contact that I try to send a text message to from the contact list, originally the contact did not have an area code. I added the change and resynced my google contact list but now every time I try to send a message via the contact list, it shows up as just as the contact name and the number does not have the area code. Inadvertantly gets an error when sending a text message to it! What can I do to fix this issue?
Thank you,
Charlie
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I suggest that you log on to Google on you PC and delete and then recreate the contact with the area code...Make sure you resync after you delete the contact and the resync after you recreate it.
jhernand1102 said:
I suggest that you log on to Google on you PC and delete and then recreate the contact with the area code...Make sure you resync after you delete the contact and the resync after you recreate it.
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Thanks for the reply did that 3x and just did it a 4th time now, still the same, oh well, I will live with it. What is funny if I go into messaging and do a new message then select the contact, works perfectly, but if I go off the contacts, it keeps reverting back.
Thank you,
Charlie
I want to report something that I'm not sure is a bug. I guess I just need some advice
When using the AOSP-based Corporate email app, I'm getting unintentionally highlighted text in my messages
Example:
If I open my email app and search for "hello", I see all emails that contain the word "hello". Also, the text within the email "hello" is highlighted in yellow.
If I reply or forward that message, the highlighted text persists which can be seen by all recipients.
I can duplicate it on my friend's stock Galaxy Nexus and on my Galaxy S3. It happens with all AOSP based email apps (4.0+).
The really strange thing is that I can't find anyone online who is reporting the same thing. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks
No idea but I find AquaMail to be a awesome email client, maybe switch if it meets your requirements?
x714x said:
No idea but I find AquaMail to be a awesome email client, maybe switch if it meets your requirements?
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It doesn't work for me. I need full Exchange 2010 integration and AquaMail only operates with IMAP / POP enabled. I'm wondering if it is just my Exchange server. I find it hard to believe that no one else has reported this. I'm wondering if maybe this was a "feature" added by Google and I'm just not seeing the value haha
Thanks for your reply
So had a very interesting situation... Needed to send an email to [email protected] but was provided the email address as [email protected] (where xx is the 2 letter country code). Naturally, after hitting send, got a bounce back for undeliverable address. Then was told by the recipient that the .xx at the end of the address should not be there.
So I try to recompose but everytime, the gmail app matches to the now remembered "wrong" address and replaces the recipient with this address which naturally fails. For the life of me, I could not figure out how to edit this address before sending since it would rematch back to the broken address after the edit. So it became impossible to now send to this recipient using their correct email address. Well, not impossible but the workaround was fugly.
I am running the latest 10.1 nightly. The fundamental problem seems to be that the contacts app is one created by CM(??) and it lacks the ability to view the "other/not assigned" group which is where this one off recipient address should have been listed so I could delete/edit it.
Of course, it would also have helped if the gmail app tried to be less "intelligent" and stop matching if after the first match, you edit the address or provide a way to edit without matching to previous recipients.
Alas, was quite a frustrating experience for such a simple problem...
FWIW, was talking to someone running stock and their contacts app (ie. the one from Google) had the ability to view the "other/not assigned" group and so it was possible to delete the wrong recipient.
Try logging into the desktop site. Should be an option on there to delete recent email addresses that are not part of your contacts.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
Yeah. That's a convoluted workaround. The other option was to forward to one of my yahoo account and forward again from there.
Was hoping there was something I had overlooked but seems like you hose an email address, there is no easy way to correct that and resend in the gmail app if you are on a phone.
When i send mail over default mail app receiver see my email not my NAME. Have someone solution for this ?
It's in the email settings app to post your name.
seeker02uk said:
It's in the email settings app to post your name.
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Yep i set this. But still show my e-mail not my name.
?? Nobody have problem with sending mail over default app ?
I am having the same exact problem! No matter what i set for my display name, it just puts my email address as the name on outgoing messages. Posted the question in the huge "Ask any question" thread, but received no replies. Tried deleting and recreating 3 separate mail accounts, but they all have the same problem. No issues in prior versions of Android on other devices.
Seems odd that this does not appear to be a more common question yet..
-Mike
I used an sqlite database browser and confirmed my desired display name is being saved in the stock email app db, so the program must not even be checking that value.
Cannot find any other reports of this issue online, very odd. Has nobody else noticed this bug yet, or is it somehow only affecting a couple of us?
EDIT: Android bug report filed, please 'star' it to generate some attention: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=63280
-Mike
dejankosi said:
When i send mail over default mail app receiver see my email not my NAME. Have someone solution for this ?
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This bug is fixed in the Android 4.4.1 update that started rolling out yesterday.
-Mike