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Texts arriving without a name attached

Trotter · 2009-01-29 20:51:08

Has anyone ever had the problem of texts arriving without a name attached to them? Over the past few days, a couple of people's texts have been arriving with the number only showing, not the name from the phonebook. Im using an E51 on Vodafone. I have 350 names in the phonebook so its tough to figure out who the texts are…

29-01-2009 9:51pm

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Trotter

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Has anyone ever had the problem of texts arriving without a name attached to them?

Over the past few days, a couple of people's texts have been arriving with the number only showing, not the name from the phonebook.

Im using an E51 on Vodafone. I have 350 names in the phonebook so its tough to figure out who the texts are from without the names attached.

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#2 29-01-2009 9:56pm

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If you have the number with a name saved 2 times in the phone book it will only show the number in the texts

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#3 29-01-2009 10:07pm

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Ah thats the problem. Any contact I adjusted when I got my new phone duplicated on the synchronisation. Thanks a lot!

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#4 29-01-2009 11:09pm

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If you use www.zyb.com and sync to the website you can weed out duplicates automatically (well, by clicking a couple of buttons). Might save you some time if you have loads.

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