Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

The problem I have is that when I want to send an sms, instead of choosing from the list I usually just write like the first 2 letters of the first name and last name. Ex If I want to send to " John Doe " I just write " jo do " in the " to " screen and it finds it.
Now after 1.2 it finds some that way but on others it says " no contact with that name could be found ".
Anyone else have this problem?

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

i think i knw why this is happening. the person ur trying to send sms , his number should be saved as mobile and not as phone, as with 1.2 u wont see an option sms for phone no's it will only for mobile no.s

Njoy !

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Nope, doesn't seem to be the problem.
It was as " cell " and I changed it to " phone " then back again to see if there was some kind of bug, but to no avail. Any other suggestions?

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

That same thing happenned to me today. I fix it, but I don't remember how. Let me think a little and I get back to you;)

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Please do that...

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

I have the same problem.
Just posted it in discussion about new FW release:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=53539&page=94

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

I am almost sure it is related to letters case sensitivity.
Examining your contact, and try searching it with the proper case, if it works, it means we have a case-sensitivity bug.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

It isn't problem with case sensivity.
Just checked it.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Crap. Well, was worth a try ):

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Hi
go to contacts, click on button at top of screen and select settings, make sure Display SMS only for Mobile Numbers is unchecked.

Should work now

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Are you guessing? Or you've tried the proposed solution?

It does not work - problem still exists. Does not matter if option is checked or unchecked.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

i tried it and it worked for me

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

yea, i had the same problem. i managed to solve it, primitively, by attempting to call the contact first. Without having to complete the call, i noticed that the contact's name was within sms contacts. so, try calling the contact first and his/her name should appear in the messaging contacts then

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Yeah, I second both " eres " and " eitama's " posts...

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

@beowulf - we do not have problems with contact visibility

your solution does not work for me either

[EDIT]
maybe I should describe and copy my post from other thread - here it is:
I am trying to send SMS to my contact called let's say "John Smith" and let's assume that I have only one John and one Smith in my contacts.
I am entering into "To" field either "John" or "Smith" or "John " (John and space), pressing "Send" and SMS is sent without any problems.
But when I enter the full name ("John Smith" or "Smith John") or part of the full name ("John S" or "Smith Jo") my phone says that such contact does not exist in my contacts and SMS cannot be sent.

I even tried to create completely new contact - "Aaa Bbb" - and still have the same problem. When I use separately just name or just first name - SMS is sent, when I try to use name and part of the first name or full name (with space between name and first name) - I cannot send SMS.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

The thing is that it finds some, but not others. before 1.2 it gave me some options if I had many names with the same combo, like many Johns etc. but not even that now.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

That is right - same for me.

I have few persons with the same surname and previously I was sending SMS to one of them typing surname and the first letter of the first name into "To" field. It is no longer possible.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Here is what I did: When u type a new sms, the contact name isn't highlithed, and when I try to send the sms it doesn't let me do it, but I delete it and retry the name and problem solve.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

it does not work either

it seems that nobody has a solution for the problem

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Has anyone made a bugreport on this yet?

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

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

Thanks for merge, I voted that bug, although it's not 100 % the same one, as I'm having here. I can see contacts names but at one point I too did see only numbers via SMS.

Re: Can't find contact when sending sms.
 

thanks this actually works :D