Text messaging

[mperez1337]

im trying to send a txt message to one of my contacts by going into messaging>new message then i try to enter a contact in the "to" txt bar and i enter the name and nothing its not the right number, i press the menu button all that comes up is add subject, attach, insert smiley, discard and all threads


what am i doing wrong

[Kevin]

When I do that the system's first guess is to interpret the letters I type as number codes, and then it also shows in a list the names matching the letters I have typed. Do you get a drop down list with other options? Is the problem only with this one contact?

[mperez1337]

yeah mine does the same, it doesnt give me options at all and it does that with all my contacts no one shows up... ive even exchanged the phone twice

[eMAyaR]

Try setting a default number for the troubled contact. To do this, edit the contact, then long-press the number you want to set as default. This works for email addresses and physical addresses as well.

Good luck!
~eM

[nc2025]

Make sure you have that contact number set to mobile. Because of a fee that would be involved when sending a text to a land line (because you can convert it to a voicemail) I think the Droid blocks the auto complete from adding "Home" numbers to the drop down. Good luck, hope this helps.

[mperez1337]

thanks guys fixed it