Phonelog: missed call "NULL" name and number

Al Johnson openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Thu Sep 17 12:21:36 CEST 2009


On Thursday 17 September 2009, Niels Heyvaert wrote:
> >>> - Why is the number/name equal to "NULL"?
> >>> - Why didn't the phone do anything (ringing/vibrating, missed call
> >>> notification) when apparently somebody tried to call?
> >>
> >> NULL means hidden number.
>
> Kind of expected that one :-)
>
> A programmer can understand this, obviously, but from an end user
> perspective it is not very meaningful. Could we replace "NULL" by something
> self explanatory like "[Hidden number]" or "[No caller ID]" or "[Private
> number]"...?

So long as it's done by the app at runtime. The daemon shouldn't storing 
things in a language-specific way.



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