which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

suppose a contact has 2 numbers and sends me a text from each saying "this is my work phone" and "this is my home phone"

i cant find a way to display the number that sent an sms, so i still dont know which is which

how do i do it..?

Re: which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

I don't know. Had exactly this problem a few months ago.

Welcome to the world of over-simplification, also known as "uder friendliness". :(

Re: which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

there are ways of customizing the html templates that embody Conversations..
but is the sender number (and the smsc would be nice to have too) available to the template, we wonder..?

Re: which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

Can you add an extra digit to one of your contact's numbers in your address book (so that it's wrong) and then reload your SMS window and see if the SMS still appears to be from your contact?

Re: which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

On my N95 I had a number which was incorrect by one digit which was missing saved in my address book. Yet when I got a call from that contact the caller id would show his name even though the wrong number was saved. Took me a while to realise the reason why I could never get him even though it seemed he was calling me with th number I had saved was that it was actually a wrong number saved.

Re: which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

A brainstorm was posted a long while ago to add labels for each phone number and to have those displayed per SMS / Call - a few other suggestions out there as well as the odd bug submission.

We can only hope such a thing arrives with PR1.3 : )

Re: which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

Press the profile pic to bring up his contact details. The number for that text is the one highlighted in blue color..

Re: which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

thx! this is really useful.... but totally unexpected. i did open this a few times in my attempts to see which numer the mesage was from. i never noticed the blue "highlight" before you pointed it out now.

a "message details" window like on normal phones would be welcome.

Re: which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

I always thought the blue highlight was the number that the contact had most recently used to contact you.. but this advice seems to work well, thaks very much for the tip!

Re: which of my contact's numbers is that sms from?
 

There is a Bug for this. I voted for that bug when i first got my N900, but i guess it won't help. They consider it fixed, because the highlight solution mentioned above works.
In my opinion the "solution" is not really one, since you have to know that it is that way, as this thread shows. New users will most likely not notice that. The usability is bad.
But hey, were lucky that we CAN find out at all. ;)