Area and Country code

Does anyone have problems where you have a number stored in your phone book that does not contain the country code, when the person calls, the name appears, but when u recieve an sms from him, the phone number appears cos it contains the country code.

eg im from singapore, so my country code is +65
in my phonebook, jack's number is saved as 1234567
if jack calls, his name appears.
but when he sends me an sms, the phone states the sender as +651234567 instead of showing his name.

I went inside the control panel and found the region settings, the area code is put as 10 and country code as 86. I want to change it but I am unable to call up the keyboard int he countrol panel. I believe if i change this, it will solve my problem.

Any help?

Yes, some people got this prob.
Just use search function in this forum...

You can change the settings in the registry. There are multistring settings under HKey_Current_user\ControlPanel\Dial\Locations

This link may provide some assistance in determining your settings. Be sure to write down the current settings in case you need to go back to them.

CodeProject: Modifying Dialing Parameters/Patterns programatically in Pocket PC. Free source code and programming help

Wow the coding thing is abit too much for me... maybe the other solution is to have 2 numbers per name, one with the area code and one without.......

Actually, it is a lot easier than it looks. I think I made it look harder than it is by including that link.

If you know how to edit your registry, it is not too difficult. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Dial\Locations. Right click in the right pane and select New->Multi-string Value.

Under Value Name enter 2
Under Value Data, enter the following

Cell
G
G
G
XXX

65
0

Here are what the lines mean
Line 1 (name of call location, I chose Cell, you can call it anything you like)
Line 2 (Local Calls Dial String)
Line 3 (Long Distance Call Dial String)
Line 4 (International Call Dial String)
Line 5 (Area Code, I put XXX because I do not know your area code)
Line 6 (Disable call waiting sequence, leave blank, but make sure there is a blank line)
Line 7 (Country Code)
Line 8 (Pulse or Tone, leave set at 0)

Now you can go to your Control Panel and select "Cell" as your dialing location. Alternatively, you can navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Dial in your registry and change the Dword "CurrentLoc" to 2.

I hope this helps.

What area code should I enter for Stockholm?

As far as i know this doesn't help - i tried a similar approach - didn't help with matching the callerID to contacts, only changes your default dialing (out) parameters... Did it work for you?

Did not work for me neither. Hope they fix this in the new FW