Phone app - not identifying contacts

I dont know if anyone else has noticed this and also I dont know if it a post 1.3 issue or not as I didnt notice it earlier. Anyway I have populated my contacts using full international numbers so they start +44.... etc. The phone app correctly identifies incoming mobile/cell phone numbers in my contacts but landlines within the UK dont get associated with the corresponding number in the contacts list so unless I know the number by heart I dont know how is calling. I am surprised that mobile calls are handled differently to landline. Any ideas anyone? I am quite happy to go in and vi a few files if there is something straighforward to edit. Also I have noticed with incoming calls the phone screen wakes up but when the other person drops the call it goes back to screen off and locked immediately, and idea how I make it stay awake after the call is finished. I had a brief look here and also on maemo.org but couldnt find anything that popped out at me. Regards Noel

ok first i only have the numbers out of my country with internationl format, all the numbers that are in the country you live in don't need international codesl and i didn't get your phone calls problem, but most of the ui problems were fixed with the modified hildon-desktop .
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