2009/8/14 Dan Staley <daniel.l.sta...@gmail.com>
> 2.) One of the first things I noticed was that when a text message > arrived, the number associated with it has the international code (1) > prefixed at the beginning. On my sim card, I only had the numbers stored > with the area code + 7 digits for number....no international prefix. So > using pisi (which works perfectly btw! Thanks for that app!) I exported my > contacts to a vcf file and ran some regexes with vim over it to prefix a 1 > to all my numbers and went back to my messages....sure enough the numbers > were associated with names now. However, soon after I got a phone > call....and I noticed that all phone calls had numbers reported that did NOT > have the 1 prefixed...so no names were associated with them now! > Has anyone found a fix for this? Is there a patch for the SHR apps that > make them lookup a number that is not a direct match (missing a 1 or an area > code?) > > I installed the opimd-utils package and tried these out. It seems the > messages application included in this package can recognize a number > correctly (if it comes in with a 1 prefixed, but the listing in my phone > book does not). If I wanted to use this messaging application instead of > the default one in SHR....how would I do that? How do I disable the old > one? Does anyone know if litephone handles this correctly? > Thanks for bringing this up. No, litephone doesn't handle this correctly. I'm thinking that a good way to compare phone numbers (for example the sender of a message and a phone book entry) is to check whether one number is a suffix of the other number. Are there any (non-obscure) cases where this would give false positives? Michal
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