IPhone messages show numbers and not contact names

My iPhone in messenger is showing phone numbers and not contacts. My contacts are OK, was working Ok just stopped today. Not sure why?

huh.. after a lot of experiments it now works
the contacts in n82 only dsplayed, contacts with names and numbers.. surprisingly when i connected my phone to pc suite and not nseries pc suite and checked the contacts through my computer, i noticed that there were duplicate entries... for all numbers without names
i deleted them and now its okay
Thanks anyways

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