Caller ID not working on iPhone 4S

I'm glad it worked for you. I'm just happy I could help!

Hi guys, I was reading your posts and thought maybe someone could help me out. I have a US + Mexico plan with VZW and am using an iPhone 4s. When I am in Mexico, my caller id stops working, the numbers don't even show up in caller id, all i get is Unknown, however text messages do show a number and display the correct name when I receive them. When I call to the States, my number and my wife's number always shows up as 3335555, I was wondering if there is any way to at least have the phone display a number instead of Unknown?

Thanks ahead for any suggestions.

Worked first time!

Short Answer: Change the language to French, let it complete the change, then change back to English.

Detail:

Settings, General, International, Language. Change from English to another language (anything other than English) and pressed "Done." After a brief "pinwheel" the phone appeared in the new language. Now use the same process and switch back to English.

Related by another user. Tried today, January 29, 2011 on another new iPhone 4s on Verizon.

Great Bruce,

Worked awesome for me 🙂

AppleCare just fixed this same problem for me. They had me do settings-general-international-language and change the language to something else. exit settings and go back in and change it back to your native language. Now my caller ID shows names in my contact list AND the numbers in my contacts list are formatted properly.

I'm in Nepal with a factory unlocked Iphone 4s. If the callers number has been listed with the country code for Nepal (+977) then the callers id doesnt show but the their sms id does show, If the callers number has been listed withOUT the country code then the caller id doesnt show but the sms ID does. This really annoying ! Can anyone advise a fix for this proble.

@steveinnepalHere's a solution until Apple fixes their OS. I had this exact problem. I am in Libya where country code is (+218). The only solution that worked for me is to have every contact saved with a name and two same phone numbers but one of them with (+218) and the other one without it. So the (+218) one works for the text messages and the one without it works for the phone calls. I beleive this would work for you too.

it's iMessage that's doing the corruption

This is not a solution, but I'm working on the hopes that some tech at Apple or Verizon is reading these threads.

Once you've done *228, and the language change, and the network reset -- you'll likely find that your callerid works, but if you received text messages from other iPhone users, their names are gone and list as +1(123) 555-1212 in the general list of all texts senders (in the US). If you open up one of those individual texts, you'll see at the top that it ALSO is from +1(123) 555-1212. HOWEVER...

If you go to Settings->Messages and turn iMessage OFF, you'll see that the heading of the INDIVIDUAL text changes to (123) 555-1212, no country code. The country code continues to appear in the general listing of all texts received, but NOT in the individual heading.

Turn iMessage back ON, the country code reappears in the individual texts.

Apple and/or Verizon need to review their CallerID handling inside the "handy" iMessage communications layer. That's where the pollution occurred and that's where it continues.

This worked for me as well (yeah!) But I would like to add this.

I did not know that you could kill an app and didn't even know what that meant. For those who are unsure, double tap the home button to bring up the muti-tasking bar, if you hold down on the apps a small minus sign shows up, hit it, this is not a delete but a way to erase apps that are held in the multi task bar..no harm no foul in hitting the minus sign...no idea why it has that affect but it worked..thanks to all for the posts

there is even an easier fix if this happens with Verizon:

1. call *228, press 1 and wait untill your phone is programmed

2. call *228 again, press 2 and wait until your phone program is updated

3. turn off your phone then turn it on and your problem is fixed

Apple seem to have fixed the bug with the latest OS5.1. Thank you Apple !

dear friends

i just solve this problim now

i live in sultanat of oman

i saw wt is the number appear on any local coming call

i found the numer was without any key i mean no country key

in oman our key is +968 then 8 digits say 92240962

i saved this number in my 4s at the bigining 0096892240962

so i changed it to 92240962 then icalled my 4s from this 92240962 again and it work the name appear

then i send sms from this 92240962 no name appear but wt appear was +968 92240962

take care +968 not 00968

i saved the nomber again to the same contact but this time +968 92240962

i mean each local contact on my 4s now have TWO numbers

i send sms again from this contact to my 4s and finally the name appear

FOR THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBERS:

do same steps see how is the formate it appear in ur phone and resave the numbers in this formate 90% it will be one number only to be saved for the calls and sms

hope this will be helpfull thanx

Salaam,

The cydia fix you mentioned fixes the Caller ID problem BUT messes up the Messages app (force closes it.)

I hear this problem is popular in the Arabian Gulf. It's a problem here in Yemen too on its CDMA network.

It seems you can custom format numbers (many custom formats) in address book on a mac.

Then address book is smart enough to figure out which format to use for which country.

i.e. if you put +44 XXX XXX XXXX for a uk number, then it will automatically format it to THAT format as soon as you enter a number starting with 44. Furthermore, it will automatically update all +44 numbers to that format.

Then have everything synced automatically via icloud.

Though it looks great in Address book,

i still have a problem getting all that nice formatting to show up on the 4s 😟

Anyone have a solution?

Thanks

Mobi