18866 & Caller ID Display

jooliem2001

This may just be a coincidence, but after I signed up to 18866, my phone is no longer displaying the Caller's number when I get a phone call. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Thanks.

sergeant121

jooliem2001 wrote:

This may just be a coincidence, but after I signed up to 18866, my phone is no longer displaying the Caller's number when I get a phone call. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Thanks.

[font=&quot]The fact that you have signed up to use the 18866 prefix for your outgoing calls has no effect on your incoming calls.[/font]

Money_Maker_Shaker

I have a similar problem but I know what's caused it for me at least. I added the 18866 prefix to all numbers in my phone's memory which means the phone now only shows the number and not the name of the people calling me. Unfortunately as I wouldn't remember to dial 18866 before each call I can't think of a way round this.

MMS

sergeant121

Money_Maker_Shaker wrote:

I have a similar problem but I know what's caused it for me at least. I added the 18866 prefix to all numbers in my phone's memory which means the phone now only shows the number and not the name of the people calling me. Unfortunately as I wouldn't remember to dial 18866 before each call I can't think of a way round this.

MMS

An Orchid dialler would get round that problem for you (see the Sticky thread at the top of this forum)

JohnF_3

I had a similar problem to MMS, but it didn't affect all the numbers in my phone memory and it didn't happen all the time. In my case the problem was caused by the DSL filters that were supplied with my router. I bought some good quality filters and the phones now show all the caller's names every time.

jooliem2001

Money_Maker_Shaker wrote:

I have a similar problem but I know what's caused it for me at least. I added the 18866 prefix to all numbers in my phone's memory which means the phone now only shows the number and not the name of the people calling me. Unfortunately as I wouldn't remember to dial 18866 before each call I can't think of a way round this.

MMS

Turns out my problem was similar, I had programmed some numbers in the phone's memory including the 18866 prefix. I've removed all the numbers from the memory and Caller ID is working again! Stange, because my phone is supposed to show me who's calling regardless of what numbers are in the phone memory. Ah well, I just have to remember to prefix all my calls with 18866 instead of programming into the memory! Thanks for all the advice.

Holiday

jooliem2001 wrote:

Turns out my problem was similar, I had programmed some numbers in the phone's memory including the 18866 prefix. I've removed all the numbers from the memory and Caller ID is working again! Stange, because my phone is supposed to show me who's calling regardless of what numbers are in the phone memory. Ah well, I just have to remember to prefix all my calls with 18866 instead of programming into the memory! Thanks for all the advice.

As someone has already said use the Orchid dialler. For around a tenner for the cheaper one you can use it to prefix all relevant calls to 18866 without the need to dial the prefix.

You only need the more expensive one if you intend to use more than 1 low cost carrier.