[starbuck3733t]

I'm pretty sure this has to do with the behavior of showing LASTNAME FIRSTNAME on the SMS Inbox of the N95, but I'm not sure what, if anything, I can do to get around it.

I need to access the actual numeric # of the sender of a given txt message id (1058522 in this case)

>>> import inbox, contacts
>>> db = contacts.open()
>>> box = inbox.inbox()
>>> box.address(1058522)
u'- Nadzeya (ICE) Erin'
>>> db.find(s)
[]

You see, it returns an empty array, even though this person is in my address book... and I know why. They're in my address book as FIRSTNAME: "Erin" LASTNAME: "- Nadzeya (ICE)"

So her contact should actually read u'Erin - Nadzeya (ICE)' instead of u'- Nadzeya (ICE) Erin'.

Any ideas? Did I miss a firmware that fixes this bug on the N95?

The end goal here is to take the sender of an SMS, look up their contact, if contact has personal_ringtone defined play the first 3 seconds of it instead of teh generic SMS tone.

[JOM]

Hi,

Read AGAIN the manual. You will discover that Contacts database saves Firstname and Lastname as separate items inside database. That's why your search for combined "Lastname Firstname" fails.

The order is last-first, because that's the way the default SMS implementation works. It's not a defect, it's a feature. You didn't miss firmware upgrade, you missed something else: 7.1.3 Contact Object.

Reader,

--jouni