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Help Adding a pause in numbers not recognized

sanedevil

sanedevil

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Hi all,

I've multiple contacts that have the number format:

Jack - 123 456 789,111
Jane - 123 456 789,222
John - 123 456 789,333
and so on.

What I'm struggling with is, when I dial Jack's number, the dialer displays only 123 456 789. It does send out the 111 later and the call gets to Jack. However, if I want to redial Jack, i'm unable to, because in the logs, "Jack" isn't displayed but only "123 456 789" is displayed. I have to then go to contacts, search for Jack again and so on.

This has a lot other implications too in terms of voice dialing, etc, but let me handle one problem at a time :)

any help?

Thanks
Kejal
 
What phone are you using? The phone app can differ between brands and models.

Also, you could try an alternative dialer app from the google playstore.
 
The problem is with Android. Basically it knows that you dialled '123 456 789' but doesn't hang onto anything after that. Then it goes to enter the number in the call log and it matches the first contact it finds with that number. So if you had Aaron @ that number he would always show up first (I believe it's alphabetical but I won't swear to that ... ). I have the same issue where I have several people at the same number with no extensions (several people at the same address/number) and the call log always matches the first one it finds rather than the one you called.

I've 'communicated' with a couple of contacts apps developers over this and that's the answer they give. What I can't understand, having written SW myself many moons ago, is why the app can't 'remember' which contact/number was called and ask Android to enter that into the call log. I'm sure it wouldn't be that difficult and then at least your outgoing call log would be correct. Obviously having several people being able to call you from the same number is still an issue that the phone can't solve but that's for another day .... :-)

Dave
 
sanedevil said:
Sorry Thom, this doesn't work. The number is still displayed and not the contact's name.
Click to expand...

Perhaps *86 is a special case?

For this ... I added two contacts ...
Name1 is *86,1234
Name2 is *86,5678

I then tried dialing three ways ...
*86,1234
*86,5678
*86,9999

Attached is the Pixel Phone Pro log screenshot that shows the three numbers segregated.

My account has one number for all employees. If one of them calls me from their office it always lists the first alphabetically listed person as the caller.

I suggest to the software authors that they allow me to specify which entry in my directory should be identified as the caller. I have not received a response (yet).

I have no way to test incoming calls of the form xxx1231234,123

... Thom

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