Contacts coming up as phone numbers instead of name in messenger

[bjackson2718]

I'm only having this problem with contacts who I've used iMessenger with. At the top of the message it shows their phone number rather than their name. The phone number that appears is the same as the one in the contact info 1(xxx)-xxx-xxxx

How do I get it so their name appears? Running iOS5 on iPhone 4. NOT a problem with SMS, just contacts with iMessenger. Help me!

 

[dccorona]

can't confirm this myself, but people with this issue are claiming a restart of the phone fixes it

 

[bjackson2718]

In my 30 minutes trying to find a solution via Google, that wasn't mentioned. I just tried turning it off and back on and it worked. Thanks!

 

[motherpucker7]

I just tried that and it worked for me too.

 

[Zavior]

I'm also having this problem on my new iPad 3.

All phone numbers showing instad of names in iMessage on the iPad.

I found it to be related to how iOS shows contacts.

On my iPad running iOS 5.1 all my contacts is shown like this:
(###) ###-##

How it should be:
## ## ## ##

And the reason why iMessage won't show names like it should.
If I add country code +45 on all my contacts it works with names.

Can't seem to find any setting in iOS to fix this. Have been looking in International settings without luck. Any help would be great!

 

[PNutts]

Mine are all 10 digit numbers and it works. Other's reported having to put a "1" or "+1" number in front of their contacts' numbers to make it work.