Messages from non-digit phone numbers no longer viewable (regression from ModemManager port)
Some Austrian service SMS messages are sent with caller IDs that are not regular phone numbers, but text strings. E.g., I have messages in my SMS database coming from StadtWien
and OE-testet
. No, this is not the name of the contact (there is no contact for these), but what the SMS claims to be from in lieu of the usual +43 …
numbers. (This is also how they showed up on my old non-smart phone, so it is not something special ofono was doing.)
Unfortunately, since the latest update of Spacebar (the port to ModemManager), those messages, while still present in my messages.sqlite
, are no longer displayed properly. Instead, I get 2 chats with Unknown
, the last message line below (in both cases) shows no text and the date 01/01/1970
, and if I touch the chat, it shows no messages (Chats > 0
and an empty window).
Since these tend to be important coronavirus-related messages, I really need this fixed ASAP.