Hi Marie, I've lost count of the number of people I've assisted who have been tripped up by this very thing. People usually don't give much thought to how they enter contacts into their phone, and think they'll never travel outside their home country. So they enter the numbers as they would dial them locally instead of the international format, which can be dial irrespective of the country they're in. So yes, good practice is to always enter a plus symbol at the beginning of the number, then country code, area code without any leading zeros or ones, then the number. For example, a Los Angeles, United States phone number would look like +1-213-555-1212. A number in the UK might look like +44-171-123-4567. You can leave out the dashes if you want or include them. I usually include them just to make things a bit more readable. It sounds like you have a big job ahead of you, but once it's done, your numbers will work for calling and texting anywhere in the world. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
> On 23/04/2015, at 11:48 pm, Marie BAISEZ <marie.bai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all! > When I bought my IPhone 5S 6 weeks ago, the clerk who sold me the micro SIM > told me she couldn't transfer my contacts numbers from my old Nokia 6630. So, > it was up to me to copy the 250 or so numbers stored on there to the IPhone. > Because Ihad had difficulties dialing numbers when I was abroad where I > hadn't included the country code, I made sure to include it in all the > numbers in my contacts. > I didn't include the 00 before it because I enabled dialing assistant. Now, I > find I can call all my contacts without problems but I can't text them. > What did I do wrong? Should I have put a plus sign before the country code? > Should I turn off the dialing assistant? > > Hope someone can help real soon, this is starting to annoy me just a bit... > This super Phone working less efficiently than my old faithful Nokia? Surely > not!... > Please point me in the right direction and I'll be fine! > Thanks to all in advance. > All the best! > Marie > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
