Receive Business Card

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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
If someone sends CONTACT INFORMATION to me as a BUSINESS CARD, I should be
able to receive it on my android. NOTHING happens.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Android, HTC Magic.

Please provide any additional information below.
Please, please, please can someone come up with an app/version that enables
the android to receive business cards? (vcards). Even my 6 year old phone
can do that :(

Original issue reported on code.google.com by infinitl...@gmail.com on 27 Jul 2009 at 10:20

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Could you please give a little more information about what doesn't work? How is
someone trying to send you a business card? Make sure it's by SMS and not 
bluetooth
(which isn't supported yet). Are you sure it's vcard? Could you attach a sample 
of a
card that doesn't work?

Original comment by duckt...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2009 at 1:18

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Hi!

...its simple. Just like in any old phone (not smart phone) you go to the 
contacts
and then see the details of a contact and then send business card...

Lets say I wish to send contact details of guy Alpha to girl Zeda on my old 
phone
(Nokia, Sony Ericsson, anything...)

1) I go to my address book
2) Go to Alpha
3) (on my phone this is in details) Click on "Send Business Card"
4) (the phone comes up asking for phone number) I enter Zeda's phone number
5) Zeda gets an sms saying "Business card received. Add to Contacts?"
6) She clicks "yes" and the contact Alpha is added to her address book on phone.

I told my friends who have old un-smart phones to send me business card like 
this
(its typically in vcf format) and I did not get ANYTHING on my android. I can 
get
text sms however.

Original comment by infinitl...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2009 at 9:11

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If _nothing_ happens when you should be receiving a business card, I think 
either
there is some problem with the network or these cards are being sent by some 
other
means. If it was being sent by SMS but not recognized as a business card, you 
should
still see some kind of text message.

Original comment by duckt...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2009 at 5:40

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Can you receive a business card on ur android? 

Original comment by infinitl...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2009 at 10:53

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I also just realize that my 'cool' HTC Hero phone can't do anything about 
Business 
card from Contacts. I suspect because Android contacts is in different format 
from 
common Mobile Phone contacts. This is a shame because I was replacing my trusty 
SE 
K510 to something very cool, but then something as simple as this Business card 
thingy won't work. :(

SMS is working, but not when sending Business Card. How do I know? I tried 
sending 3 
SMS (normal 'test' SMS, then Business card SMS, then another normal 'test' SMS) 
to 
multiple recipients (HTC Hero and SE K510) from Nokia phone (no smartphones, 
just 
common phones). My SE accept all three SMS, and asked "save contacts?" for the 
Business card. HTC Hero received the first and the third, but nothing about the 
second SMS. In short, Android just ignored (blacklisted?) SMS that contains 
Business 
Card. Not even an 'error' message. Even my old SE T68 can 'see' the Business 
Card 
SMS as text (showing "BEGIN:VCARD..."). I don't know if this is a bug from HTC, 
or 
is it caused by Android. I changed the SMS apk, including adding vcardIO, but 
the 
Business Card SMS is still got ignored by HTC Hero.

The Business Card vcard format is something like this:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:family name;given name
TEL;VOICE;HOME:home landline phone number
TEL;VOICE;WORK:work landline phone number
TEL;CELL:mobile phone number
TEL;CELL;WORK:work mobile phone number
TEL;FAX:fax number
EMAIL:e-mail address
URL:homepage address
BDAY:date of birthday
NOTE:note text
END:VCARD

(taken from http://www.ozekisms.com/index.php?ow_page_number=253)

I hope this got cleared sometimes soon, because I want to be proud with my 
Android 
phone, but cannot because of this 'missing' feature.

Original comment by nurhen...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2009 at 3:09

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I too have the same problems. It is more of a feature than a problem, 
unfortunately.
I know that android does not handle the "business card" type of SMS, but 
android MUST
NOT hide that SMS message from the user. The user MUST be able to see the raw 
SMS
(sample provided above by nuhendra) -- that's how old SonyEricsson phones handle
"business cards" sent from Nokia devices. They don't recognize them as "special
business card" messages, but they at least show them to users. 

I have tested this on HTC Hero.

Original comment by miha.val...@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2009 at 8:00

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samsung i5800. for vcard sms messages depending on format I've got either 
'content not supported' or 'null null' message. This is SO ANNOYING!! :(.. I've 
tried this program with 'receive sms contacts' option turned on, but just 
nothing happens... also I'd like to be asked for confirmation rather autoimport 
sms vcards 

Original comment by nevgen...@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2011 at 10:11

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I am also facing the same issue with my LG Optimus One. If someone sends me a 
Business card via sms it does not show in messages. 

Original comment by rohit.na...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2011 at 8:56

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HTC Desire. I receive Vcard in SMS only if it has no additional info, like 
e-mail address in it. If the namecard contains more info, I receive an SMS 
containing "nullnull" instead of the namecard.

Original comment by zoltan.p...@gmail.com on 21 Feb 2011 at 12:32

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same with me on optimus one..
annoying.what use is a  'smart phone' without basic features...thought 
gingerbread will cover it..nope..it hasnt

Original comment by san...@gmail.com on 24 Jun 2011 at 10:31

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It is bizzare that there has been no proper response from any of the project 
members!
The issue is very simple to understand and it will be helpful if someone can 
please explain what exactly is happening to the sms. Where is it going? Why is 
it hidden?

Original comment by devarshi...@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2011 at 5:05

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Recently bought Xperia Ray having same issue. Can receive normal text messages 
and mms. But cannot receive business cards in text message format. sender is 
getting the delivery success notification also and nothing gets received on the 
xperia ray. Upgrade to android version 4 but result is same. can any one help 
me out on this matter?

Original comment by prasa...@gmail.com on 1 May 2012 at 5:49