Mesage list not seach contact name

My mesage. Not. Seach. My. Contact. Name

Hi jfreezer,
That is exactly what I experienced on my N97. Most of the messages I receive do not display the name even if I have their names and numbers registered in my phone book. Apparently, Nokia made some tweaks on the way the phone book / contact list works. I kept some contacts in my sim card for emergency purposes. It seems that the models that are coming out now are accessing both sim contacts and phone contacts (even if you select phone only). Therefore, if you have a specific contact saved in both the sim and phone, it treats it as a duplicate. I suggest you try and delete the "duplicate" contact in the sim and ensure that the contact is saved only in the phone. Mine worked thereafter and I hope it does so as well for you.
Let me know...

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Hi,
iam facing this problem of my e52 not showing contacts names in inbox.
Some of the contacts name are shown, those which was originally in my phone memory.
because i do a lot of trading, i constantly adds new numbers to my contacts from the sms they sent. But the main problem is here is even after i added their contact giving them names, the names doesnt show up in inbox, its still just numbers.
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This happens to me too when I store the number under two names, or the synchronization creates double entries, for example:
Two names:
1234 Anna
1234 Bea
Double entries
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1234 Anna
When the text message comes in, there's no name. But you can send a message either to Anna or Bea and the message outbox shows the proper name.
The solution is to delete one entry or merge the duplicate contacts.
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IMessage not showing contact names

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