5233 - Display Calling Contacts' Name

Hi, Can anyone help me? When I receive a call from someone who I have as a contact in my phone, their name does not appear on the screen - only their number.
On every other Nokia I have had the contacts' name appears. I can't find an option to turn this function on.
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i would check to be sure that you do not have a duplicate of that contact in your device.
this usually happens when you have more then one contact with the same phone number. it gets confused and just shows the number.

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generally this is the cause have a look here it might help some more
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ok I did my research on the net before posting here. Apparently there's no solution. NOKIA's done something wrong and please correct me if I am mistaken.
The only way to display ALL (not just a few) contacts when they are calling (in my case/phone), is to have them stored in SIM card ONLY. But if I do this I cannot put them in shortcut on the front screen. The phone says (when I am calle to pick a contact frm the list) that there are no contacts..!!! How did they mess this up so badly??
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