I'm not sure what you're asking. If a number calling in isn't in your contacts it should just show as the number. If the number IS in your contacts it should be translated to the name.
The concept of Caller ID is that you know what NUMBER is calling, the phone just takes that number and gives it a name if you have it associated with a name in your contacts.
I'm not sure what you're asking. If a number calling in isn't in your contacts it should just show as the number. If the number IS in your contacts it should be translated to the name.
The concept of Caller ID is that you know what NUMBER is calling, the phone just takes that number and gives it a name if you have it associated with a name in your contacts.
this is what I'm referring to. I had one that did this, but it also popped up for callers who were already associated with number/name in my contacts, which is redundant.
I'm not sure what you're asking. If a number calling in isn't in your contacts it should just show as the number. If the number IS in your contacts it should be translated to the name.
The concept of Caller ID is that you know what NUMBER is calling, the phone just takes that number and gives it a name if you have it associated with a name in your contacts.
The original purpose of Caller ID was to identify unknown callers. It checks the number against an external database to try to put a name to the number. If they're in my contacts already, they're not unknown, and therefore, caller ID is not needed.
Thanks, but I'm trying to avoid paying a monthly fee for a service that I can already get for free. I just want one with slightly different functionality.
It seems that what I'm looking for may not exist, though.
Then of course there are people like my brother who are ex-directory and thus come up as 'number unknown'. A lot of businesses are the same so it won't work with them either. That's for the UK anyway, maybe the US doesn't have those little 'quirks'.
Then of course there are people like my brother who are ex-directory and thus come up as 'number unknown'. A lot of businesses are the same so it won't work with them either. That's for the UK anyway, maybe the US doesn't have those little 'quirks'.
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