New 4S won't recognize contact names for messages

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New 4S won't recognize contact names for messages

I just got the new 4S iPhone (woohoo!). Everything synced to this new phone, including my contacts. However, it's doing this strange thing with the texts -- its not recognizing the phone numbers with my contacts. So, although I have the number stored under someone's name in my phone, the text is only showing the phone number .... What can I do to change this???

I even tried saying these text messages under the contacts name, but it still won't do anything.

iPhone 4, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 7:45 PM

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samantha15332

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Oct 16, 2011 5:32 PM in response to CShoush

I'm having the same issue. Some had luck with updating programming (*228 Verizon).

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CShoush Author

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Oct 16, 2011 5:48 PM in response to samantha15332

Thanks!! I did the *228 thing and it worked 🙂

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Oct 25, 2011 11:33 AM in response to CShoush

I tried that and it didn't work for me. :-(

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Mar 11, 2012 8:01 AM in response to Vanessa Balch

I recently updated over the air to ios 5.1 over the air on my iphone. Now when I send texts to other iphone users, it is showing my old apple id as my identification on their iphones...instead of my name/mobile number shown in their contacts. I recently updated my apple id to a new email address because I changed carriers. Accessing itunes store with new apple id works fine.

So I send a text to my friend and he sees "xxxxxx@comcast.net" instead of my name which is in his contacts. The same thing happens with other people with iphones. I have VW as my carrier. If I send texts to non iphone users, they show my name as listed in their contacts. So definitely an iphone to iphone issue.

I tried reprogramming the phone using *228 with VW and pressing 1. It hasn't helped. It also went back to normal for a day so I thought it was fixed, but is happening again now.

This is so frustrating. My iphone friends don't know who I am when I text them so they aren't responding!!!!

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