The HTC Desire S (running Android), and similar models of smartphone from this vendor, has a persistent and annoying bug for all users of its integrated SMS messaging application. Upon receiving a text from a person already existing in the phone book, the initial preview of the message displays the contact’s name (and contact icon image if there is one), but if you tap the message to see the conversation history, the app WILL NOT show any phone book details, and displays just the phone number as if the contact does not exist in your phone book.
Sound familiar? HTC must be aware of this bug that has existed for well over 18 months (it doesn’t take much user testing to discover it, and it’s entirely replicable), but after some fiddling I can give you a workaround fix.
Solution: The basic bug is a simple glitch in the way the application internally syncs with your phone book. Upon a clean boot of the phone, no SMS messages (again, previews work fine) are associated with the phone book, and will not be until you make any kind of change to the phone book itself. Whatever this does nudges something that makes the full SMS view sync properly.
In other words, to make it work, make an arbitrary edit to ANY contact in your phone book, and save the modified contact. Your SMS’ should now display properly.
If you have any feedback on this fix, or more information, please comment below.
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