Issues / Quirks with SMS via GUI (Messages app)

Matthew Lane malane at purdue.edu
Sat Jul 19 02:55:09 CEST 2008


Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Freitag, den 18.07.2008, 13:40 -0400 schrieb Matthew Lane:
>   
>> Second, this is more of a major issue but I am not sure if it's 
>> carrier-related or a problem with the phone's Message software itself.  
>> When attempting to send a text message, I cannot send a message to a 
>> number formatted (123) 456-7890 (eg. how VCard inserts its numbers).  
>> However, when I text a number in the format 1234567890 it works just 
>> fine.  VCard importing prefers the (123) 456-7890 format unfortunately.
>>     
>
> I can confirm this, and I’ll have a look at that while trying to fix the
> next issue. But if you come up with a patch faster, great :-)
>
>   
>> Also, the majority of my text messages are inserted into the "Unknown 
>> Sender" contact, because some carriers append a "1" at the beginning of 
>> their numbers.  Is there any simple solution for the Messages program to 
>> identify this?
>>     
>
> I’m working on that, prelimary patches are
> https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1606, although not complete. As
> soon as I find time, I’ll try to complete this, and also fix this issue
> for the dialer and other parts.
>
>
> Greetings,
> Joachim
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Awesome thanks.




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