In iTunes on the summery pannel for you iPhone have you ever wondered why you mobile number says NA ?

Well it seems this is very easy to fix with two methods

First method on the iPhone a bit complex & you have to use terminal.

Second method take you sim out put it in another GSM phone that can read the sim card.

I used my Siemens M65 but read Motorola Razor, Siemens M55 & some Nokia can do this.

Got to the address book select the one on the sim card mine are labled address book "sim card" phone book "mobile phone"

You will see an entry OWN NUMBERS put your phone number & name in the blanks.

Remove your sim & put back in your iPhone & connect to iTunes. Now your phone number will display in iTunes on the iPhone summery page.

So simple, but for folks liking the hard path here is the way to do on the iPhone.

This is the posty from Hackent0sh forum:

I found I way to made it work, using solely the iPhone! Yeah!

The phone number is stored on the SIM card, as the first "Own Number".

Somehow the AT&T activation writes the "Own Number" (the number assigned to the phone during registration) to the SIM card and that information is used for both the Settings->Phone and for iTunes.


There are 2 ways to enter a "Own Number", and both are challenging:

a) Using another phone:

Some phones (not the iPhone) have support to change/add the "Own Number". Do not ask me which phones do. I recall seeing it on some phones in the past but I do not remember. You will have to remove your SIM card, place in the other phone, reprogram it there and then return it to the iPhone. The challenge is to find a phone that supports it and navigate through its menu to find how to change the "Own Number".


b) Using the iPhone:

Unfortunately, the iPhone does not support setting the "Own Number", except during "Apple's Own Activation".

But there is a way to do it manually, using minicom.

** NOTE ** If you use a SIM password, you must deactivate it before doing this!!!

1) SSH to your phone. Do not forget to turn auto-lock off.

2) Stop the CommCenter:
launchctl -w unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist

3) Start minicom: minicom -s

4) Then proceed to change the Serial Port device name to /dev/tty.baseband

- Scroll down to "Serial Port"
- Press "A" and retype over the serial port device name
- Press "ENTER" twice
- Scroll down to EXIT and press ENTER
- Type "AT" and press ENTER. You should get an "OK" back

5) Enter the following commands:

AT+CPBS="ON"
AT+CPBW=1,"XXXXXXXXXXXX",,"TTTTT"
AT+CPBR=1
AT+CNUM

The first command will set the Address Book storage to "Own Number"

The second command will write the number (XXXXXXXXXX) with an optional text "TTTT".
I use my carrier name as the optional text, some use their names. Pick whatever you like.

The third command will display back whatever you have entered, plus the type, either "129" or "145".
It will be "129" if the number fits a "national" pattern and "145" if it's international.

The fourth command will display the "Own Number". This is the way it's queried, so we try to see the result.

I've entered my number using "+CANNNNN", that is +, country code, area code and number:

Ex: +5521XXXXXXXX -> this wil be Brazil (55), Rio de Janeiro(21), and number (XXXXXXXX).
The type returned was 145.

6) Press "Ctrl-A", "Q" and "ENTER" to exit minicom.

7) Reload CommCenter:
launchctl -w load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.CommCenter.plist

8) Reboot your iPhone.

It should now show the "My Number" in Settings->Phone, and also on the iTunes screen (provided that the iPhone is on when it connects to iTunes, so the SIM card is already processed)


Enjoy!

As much as I want to do that..I just cant be buggered just to make iTunes show me my own phone number :-)

Lol. Yes me too. I got excited then i thought, I already know my phone number and laziness got the better of me.

hmmm sounds good...but like the others...can't be assed! i've spent enough hours messing around with it...but if i ever feel the urge i shall use this guide

thanks for your hard work W9cae

Erm, iTunes shows my number and always has. Is it not supposed to?

Just on this, do all models of iPod's get backed up in iTunes now. I know my touch does.

It's very cool.

I'll make sure to do this when I get a chance!

W9cae , your Geekiness knows no bounds.
Good guide though for those that want to do this.

Stewie

Hmmm... I did this trick using a motorola v3, put the sim card back in, it shows my number in the phone book on my iphone but doesnt show it in itunes... :S any ideas?

Hmm did you put in the sim phone book first entry under OWN NUMBERS ?

Own Numbers is the first phone book folder on the sim.

No, as there was no "OWN NUMBERS" in the phonebook section of the phone. I had to go into the settings, then one of the phone options, then there was a my numbers option, and then there were three slots. I filled the first slot. I entered the data as so:

Name: Jeffrey
Number: 04********

Ohhhh not sure where that has saved that data. Sorry I cant be more help

Well it shows up as My Number under Phone>Contacts as well as Settings>Phone so I would assume it would work with iTunes too.

Did yours appear under iTunes straight away first sync or do I need to rebook the phone or the computer?

Jeff

** EDIT It appears that I had to quit iTunes Helper and then relaunch iTunes and it now works and shows up as it should

Jeff

Cool

I was having a look about my iPhone and since doing this fix several pages have my number now.

I am on Telstra not sure if related to this but the pocket news sim apps work with my iPhone. Wished I had checked FW 1.1.2 a bit more before doing this. As there are call forward & dispaly number changes for the better

Thanks for this. I've got it working nicely on my unlocked iPhone in Melbourne, Australia using +6103XXXXXXXXXX format on FW 1.1.2.

Shows my number in iTunes now. nice