Freerunner: GSM Contacts

Michael Shiloh michael at openmoko.org
Wed Jul 30 09:01:09 CEST 2008



Joey Stanford wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Apologies if this has been asked before. I haven't seen it on the
> various lists.
> 
> I'm using a USA T-Mobile SIM.
> 
> The SIM on an unlocked Motorola K1 and Motorola V3 allows me to see
> all my contacts on the SIM.
> When I load the SIM into the Freerunner, I can only see about 10 of
> them (the first 10 in fact).  This happens on 2007.2  as well as ASU.
> I'm using ASU exclusively now from the dailies.
> 
> I've hooked up the K1 to Motorola Phone Tools, read in all the SIM
> contacts, deleted all of the SIM contacts, and rewrote out the stored
> contacts to the SIM.  This was helpful in that previously any contact
> containing a dash in the number also wasn't read by 2007.2.  (e.g.
> 1-222-333-4444 woudn't be read but  12223334444 would be).   I thought
> at first this was just a dash problem since the neo was showing 10 of
> these and they all had no dashes.  The new contents on the SIM card
> are stored without dashes and now, as above, I only get the first 10
> (or so).
> 
> Any ideas on how to overcome this?  Normal phone operations work (e.g.
> I can call you!) so I wouldn't file this under the SIM issues reported
> with ATT SIM cards.


Interesting problem. I have this problem too. Dunno if anyone else does.

Why don't you go ahead and create a TRAC item for this. You can copy the 
text from your email as you've made an excellent description. Then send 
me the link and I'll add my info.

Michael




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