5730 XpressMusic - Unable to display contact name ...

My phone is not able to display the contact name whenever the incoming phone call. at this moment, the SIM card is the default contact memory. Please advice.

check for duplicate contacts
read this guide
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This is inevitably caused by duplicate entry, (many posts already exist) check settings in options in contacts and make sure memory in use is phone memory. Then you need to go through contacts and make sure you don't have more than one name attached to each number .
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