Phone Names and Numbers

[neilmanc]

Hi All

Anyone else find that when someone calls you on B & M who is in your phonebook that, instead of their name coming up on the display, it is the number ? ?

Can't understand why ? Was guessing that it might be because the number in the phone is prefixed +44 but then most CLI systems only use the last 6 digits anyway so that shouldn't be whats happening

Is it just me ?

PS : Have given up with ecodrive - no way it will work - first tried it with the USB stick that I had downloaded the app from the PC onto but got an install error after it seemed to install, this weekend have tried using a brand new USB stick with nothing on it at all and nothing has been saved after 3 days driving,

[j3bnl]

Hi Neil.
The persons name always shows up on mine (as long as they are in phonebook). The one exception is my wifes work number and this is something to do with it coming through a switchboard or something similar.
Have been using the Ecodrive but to be honest the novelty has worn off and frankly its a bit off a waste of time.

[cadbury]

I am looking at upgrading my phone and fancy a 'touch screen'. Looking at the following and would appreciate your comments on using the following phones as well as compatibility with Blue&Me. Or, have you a touch screen that you could recommend ??

Samsung Tocco
LG Viewty Secret

Thanks

[neilmanc]

Originally Posted by j3bnl

Hi Neil.
The persons name always shows up on mine (as long as they are in phonebook). The one exception is my wifes work number and this is something to do with it coming through a switchboard or something similar.
Have been using the Ecodrive but to be honest the novelty has worn off and frankly its a bit off a waste of time.

Cheers Brian - seems really weird - when my other half calls, even though they are in the phonebook on the phone and on the car, it comes up with the mobile number rather than name. Only thing I can think of to explain it is that in the phone their number is in as +4477... as I work abroad a bit, so wonder if B & M isn't smart enough to realise that +4477 is the same as 077 ... ??? I didn;t think caller ID things used the full number to check against ?

Might try an experiment later and reprogramme it in phone as 077 and see what it does

Neil

PS : have synched my personal and work phones with B & M - is it possible to delete one phonebook (the work one) rather than the other as it gets confused with some of the entries

[cadbury]

Just a suggestion... might it be that they are stored on the SIM and not phone or visa versa ?

[neilmanc]

Originally Posted by cadbury

Just a suggestion... might it be that they are stored on the SIM and not phone or visa versa ?

All the numbers in the phone are in the phone memory, not on the SIM, however that won't make any difference since when you synch the phone with B & M it copies the numbers and names from the phone into the B & M system so it should be comparing the incoming number to the numbers in the B & M database not on the phone (SIM or phone memory)

My money is on the fact that the call handling between the phone and B & M is not handling the fact that the incoming call is showing as a "standard" UK STD prefix of 07.... but that the number in the phone (and hence I assume the B & M database) is +447. It shouldn't make any difference as CLI should only check the last 6 digits of the number but given that it is a Microsoft system then it is probably a Microsort version of an international standard (in other words it isn;t a standard)

I've reprogrammed a couple of numbers in the phone to be 07 rather than +447 and next time I am in the car I am going to delete out the entire phonebook and resynch and see what happens . I'll post my findings here