Hello!

I have a quick question, and I apologize if it is covered earlier in this massive thread. Love your plugin, but I have an issue with it...

With Google Contacts disabled, when you send a text to someone, say, who is already a contact in your list of contacts, that 'SMS' actually appears in your conversations section as an 'IM' right? But...when you send that sms to your buddy, in the IM conversation window...your buddy's name doesn't appear, just their phone number.

On the other hand...with Google Voice contacts enabled, if you happen to have a Google Contacts 'contact' for the same person, say, their name, and their phone number, when you message them, at first, in the 'IM' window, it's their phone number...but then it changes to their name, (vwala!) as it appears in that Google Contact that has been pulled off Google's server, right?

So, I prefer it very much when I can see who I am texting, because most of the time, I am not too familiar with my friends phone numbers, well, not all. But the frustrating part about this, is that in your N900 list of contacts, it will display a separate contact for that specific Google Contact that corresponds to the 'full' contact you have for that person already on the N900. So...as a solution to combine the two...you can just merge the Google Contact, with your regular contact. But the catch is that whenever you disconnect or reconnect (actually, I am not really positively sure when this actually happens, but I know that it does) somehow these two 'contacts' get split again, and you again have two contacts for the same person, your original, and the Google Voice one.

An interesting thing to note, is that when this occurs, there is a left-over in the original N900 contact. What is left over, is a contact field just called "Google Voice." When you perform a 2nd, or subsequent merge, this field disappears, and is replaced with the standard "Google Voice IM" and "Google Voice call." Now, of course, the default fields are ALWAYS present, I believe as long as you have the plugin installed(not sure if disabling the account removes it,) these being, "Call through Google" and "SMS through Google."

Now...I believe a simple solution to this problem would be to load up the phone, do all of your merging and whatnot...and then disable the contact retrieval by imputing -1 as the contact poll period. I know that doing this will allow you to continue to view your contacts names as you have a conversation, and will prevent (I think...) the spitting of those two contacts I mentioned earlier.

My issue with this is....what if I add a contact to Google Contacts, or conversely, add a contact to my N900 contacts, for whom I will wish to send 'SMS's to in the future? If I then un-restrict the Google Contacts poll, the entire process repeats, and then there's a lot of work ahead to get everything tidy again, all over 1 new contact.

This is my 1st issue, I waited to ask a question about the matter, because I thought perhaps that I could find a solution, but so far I have not been able to. Also, as a side note, I had recently exported all of my standard contacts from the N900, and then imported them into Google Contacts(with the aim being I wanted to see their names when they txted me), and all of my pictures of my buds and their info were nice and tidy on Google Contacts....and then somehow Google Contacts got confused, and removed most of the pictures and stuff I had earlier performed, and I suspect that some sort of communication between the N900 and Google Contacts is the Culprit. It's strange, the only contacts who still have a picture associated with them, are those which have a Gmail account associated with them, specifically those which have already setup a picture for Gmail Talk.

My only other issue with TOR is this:

Back-Story;

at one point I was using Google Voice with a SIP account, using the SIP # as the callback number, and I was receiving calls and txt's just fine with this method....although I am no longer doing this because call quality was not consistent (my idea was do snag a mobile broadband SIM, and put it in the N900 for a $50 a month data plan, with GV as phone and txt service) as well as the fact that while moving, say in a car(motorcycle actually,) calls were impossible due to my location being constantly in flux.

My issue is this...my "Screenname" in TOR's settings, is my old SIP #. I have tried changing it a couple of times, but it always goes back to this one number. Although this is very minor, since when I am in an SMS 'IM' conversation through GV, I recognize this number as being "me." But it is still a little aggravating because I just want it to say my name.

One thing to solve this issue that I have not tried, is uninstalling the plugin, and reinstalling it, which I suspect might do the trick. My thinking is that perhaps the plugin uses the very first instance of the 'Screenname' and then subsequent changes just revert to the original. But I can't be sure.

Thanks for reading the long post, and if you can address any of these things, I would be very grateful.

Bye!