Retreiving Phone number of incoming SMS

**kumar_sai123** · 2008-11-20, 05:57

Hi all,
I am working on S60 3rd edition. In my application i want to retreive the phone number of an incoming SMS. I am using the following code to do that.

Code:

CMsvEntry* serverEntry = iSession->GetEntryL( aEntryId );   // current entry
CleanupStack::PushL( serverEntry );
TMsvEntry entry = serverEntry->Entry(); // currently handled message entry
    
entry.SetNew( ETrue );
entry.SetUnread( ETrue );
entry.SetVisible( ETrue );

serverEntry->ChangeL( entry );  // commit changes
iPhDetail.Zero();
iPhDetail.Copy(entry.iDetails); //get the phone number

Now when i diplay the value in iPhDetail descriptor i observe
the following

1. If the phone number of the incoming SMS is not stored in the contact list of the phone, then the phone number (in digits) gets displayed.

2. If the phone number of the incoming SMS is stored in the contact list of the phone with some name, then the name gets displayed.

According to the needs of my application i always want to retreive the phone number in digits even if it is stored in the contact list with some name.

I want to know how i can do that.

thanks and regards,
krishna.

**james1980** · 2008-11-20, 06:36

Hi,
If you are trying to get sender num from a message in inbox than you wil get a name if it is there in your contacts. You can try to access the logs and from there find the received sms.

**anttijuu** · 2008-11-20, 08:02

TBuf<KSmsMessageLength> iAddress(iSmsMtm->SmsHeader().FromAddress());

**qxiaoyuan** · 2008-11-20, 08:29

like anttijuu said.
iDetails is display field, if the number in contract list, it change to the name.
if not in, it show raw phone number.

but FromAddress() always return phone number. so you need use the field.