US iPhone in UK showing number instead of name when I receive a text

[Dave B]

I have a unlocked US 1.1.1 iPhone and am using it in the UK on a PAYG 02 Sim. When I get a text message it shows up with the number that sent it on the home screen. But when I go into the SMS section it's fine and comes up with the correct name.

Is there a fix for this ?

Dave

 

[Lau]

Could it be something to do with the way you've saved phone numbers? For instance, you could save a UK phone number as:

+447787123456

or

07787123456

and from within the same country they're effectively the same number, but it could be the iPhone doesn't initially recognise +44 as being the same as 0 on the foreign phone for some reason.

Worth a try changing one of the ones that doesn't work to the other format, maybe?

 

[Dave B]

Yes it could be that actually.

I have them all stored as 07 at the moment.

EDIT: Just tried it and it worked fine, cheers for that. Changed one from 07 to +447 and it showed the name.

Cheers,

Dave

 

[Dave B]

Well it was sorted but now phone numbers show the number and not the name

Dave

 

[ay98182]

I have a 1.0.2 unlocked US iphone in the UK on Vodafone and I have the same problem - the only solution I've found is to input the number twice - once as +447___ for the texts, and once as 07___ for the calls! It's a pain, but it seems to be the only way, unless someone's released a patch or something?

 

[sva]

I had the same problem with my US 1.1.1 unlocked iPhone.

It went away when I upgraded to 1.1.3.

 

[Dave B]

Am wondering if there is a fix using the UIPhoneFormats.plist file. It seems to be a key for how numbers are decoded or something.

Dave

 

[hollerz]

If you just update to 1.1.4, this is fixed. The phone wasn't formatted for UK phone numbers untill it was released here (with 1.1.2)

 

[Dave B]

I have done this now and it seems to work fine.

Cheers,

Dave