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Please read: Reverse Lookup users with Motorola/Verizon phones

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As you may have seen in the notes for Reverse Lookup in the past, we’ve received sporadic reports of the app not working properly on some Motorola phones. We always assumed this was due to their Motoblur enhancements, but were surprised that so few complaints came through, and we were never able to replicate the issue ourselves.

One of our astute users, we believe, has finally pinned down the root cause of this issue and provided us with details about how to fix it.

The problem, it turns out, isn’t related to Motoblur, but rather “CITY ID”, a caller id application that is preinstalled on many Verizon/Motorola phones(and possibly others?)

Obviously, we don’t know the inner workings of CITY ID’s code, but from how the application works, we assume it is intercepting incoming call data before Android has a chance to log it into the standard call log database, which is where Reverse Lookup gets it’s information. We assume CITY ID then inserts the call data into the call log, but doesn’t mimic the standard Android dataset closely enough for Reverse Lookup to recognize the incoming calls.

The result would be that users of Reverse Lookup will only see unknown outgoing calls on the apps main screen.

WORKAROUND: If you are experiencing this behavior, you’ll have to make a choice. If you want to continue using CITY ID, you will have to stop using Reverse Lookup(or live with incoming calls not being listed on the main screen.)

If you are not going to continue using CITY ID, you must choose No when it prompts you to subscribe to services after it’s trial period. Postponing your decision will leave CITY ID active in the background and Reverse Lookup will still not function properly.. you MUST choose no so that CIty ID stops intercepting incoming calls.

As always, if you are planning on purchasing the paid version of Reverse Lookup, we encourage you to try the free version first to make sure it works properly on your setup.

—Big thanks to Stephen,  who connected the dots and notified us of this conflict.—

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Here’s a sneak peak at a new feature that’s going to be included in the next release of Reverse Lookup! These notifications are optional, and when clicked, will immediately begin searching for information on the incoming call.

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Sorry!

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Just want to apologize if you’re still waiting for the Reverse Lookup update I promised before the holiday weekend. It was pushed back a bit(obviously) but this weekend or early next week is looking really good!

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Some news..

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Hey everyone!

Just a quick post to let you all know we have the latest update to Reverse Lookup coming up soon(estimated release 7/4).

This update brings:

  • background improvements
  • a new “one click” mode, which makes it faster for those of you who primarily launch the app only to look up the most recent unknown caller. 
  • experimental steps to supporting SIP callers in the call log

edit: forgot to mention earlier, that the next update will officially drop support for Android 1.5 in the Market version. I suspect this will affect very few users. If there is demand, we will post alternative updates on this site for those users.. but it will probably be every other update that hits the market, unless there is something very important.

Also, the version you currently have installed will continue to work, of course. You just won’t see further updates.

    In other news..

    We’re nearing the release of our first game! It’s a puzzle/logic game for Honeycomb tablets and it’s coming along great. It will be free/ad supported, and we’re planning on supporting it down the road with plenty of additional content(both free and cheap in-app purchases).

    That’s all I can share at the moment, so check back here for more details later on.

    That’s all for now, have a wonderful holiday weekend!

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