Wrong name shown when sending message about gtalksms

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Do your contacts have the same phone number ? As a company number ?
Are they google contacts ?
Are they mobile phone number ?

Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Jan 2011 at 6:52

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Jacob does not have a number. It shows him for every send.

He is a Facebook contact.

They are Google contacts with mobile numbers set.

Original comment by Eckankar on 2 Jan 2011 at 7:00

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Can you force contact sync in global parameters -> account & sync -> and 
uncheck and check every field contact for each account.
After sync is ok reboot your mobile.

It's a weird bug because the contact request works fine for me with the same 
configuration as you.

Original comment by [email protected] on 2 Jan 2011 at 11:28

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Looking a bit at the source code, my guess as to the source of the bug would be:

ContactsManager.getContactName(Context, String) assumes that the String 
parameter is a phone number.

However, in MainService.java:506, setLastRecipient is called with a string 
which isn't a phone number (in my case) and sets _lastRecipient to this. This 
is in turn passed directly to getContactName.

The reason the message goes through and only the names fail is that the phone 
numbers are looked up through ContactsManager.getMatchingContacts, which 
performs the lookup in a different way altogether, while getContactName is used 
for finding the display name.

That'd be my guess, at least. Haven't done any proper debugging.

Original comment by Eckankar on 3 Jan 2011 at 12:07

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Correct, good catch, I'll commit a fix for the next version. But it's weird 
that getMachtingContact return a match in your case.

Original comment by [email protected] on 3 Jan 2011 at 2:09

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It could possibly be because his mobile number is listed as "Askme".

Original comment by Eckankar on 3 Jan 2011 at 2:11

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Original comment by [email protected] on 5 Jan 2011 at 8:42

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It hasn't completely fixed it.
The "Sending sms to XXX" message still is wrong.

Original comment by Eckankar on 6 Jan 2011 at 7:22

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Original comment by [email protected] on 6 Jan 2011 at 8:48

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Is your phone number contact always set to "askme" ?
If you change it, does it fix your problem ?

Original comment by [email protected] on 16 Jan 2011 at 12:46

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I'm a persistent bugger, so I'd rather find the bug than do a workaround. :)

ContactsManager:250, getContactName is called with contact.name, but it expects 
a phone number.

That'd explain how MainService:853 and MainService:857 gets a wrong name for 
phone.contactName.

Original comment by Eckankar on 16 Jan 2011 at 1:44

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oups I miss this one... I hope this time it's the good one!
Thanks for your help.

Fixed in next release.

Original comment by [email protected] on 16 Jan 2011 at 3:05

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Fixed in 1.7.2

Original comment by [email protected] on 16 Jan 2011 at 7:43

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Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Aug 2011 at 7:51

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