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I think there's a bug in Android where some Alicia Han appears to be calling. This happens some times if you hang up on someone calling you, or you have a missed call. The name appears in the instant before the correct name of the caller appears on the phone. To be specific: In the interim between the phone screen turns on and the content is loaded on the screen.

All relevant hits I get on the subject is this tweet. So I'm not crazy!

Have any of you seen this, and do you know what happens / who Alicia Han is? This has happened haphazardly since I got my HTC Sensation XE a year ago.

Edit: I think the problem might be that there is a standard Label text for a Person entry (such as the ones in the Persons list) that is set to 'Alicia Han' and the label text is replaced when the Person information is fully loaded.

Edit: The bug is reproducible (at least for me) by hanging up an incoming call. The name Alicia Han appears for a few milliseconds before the real name is loaded.

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Can you call her back? Is there a number associated with the entry? – Richard Borcsik Oct 29 '12 at 11:02
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I can see the developers chuckling to themselves inserting a co-worker's name into the Android build. :) But I haven't experienced it for myself though. – Propeller Oct 30 '12 at 8:01
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Well, I found nothing about an Alicia in the official Android Contacts or ContactsProvider source code. Maybe it's in the HTC Sense code. – Siebe Oct 30 '12 at 9:16
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The tweeter in your question confirmed that it was on Sense. Found 2 other persons on Sense too with this problem. I contacted the htc dev team. I'm awaiting an answer now. – Siebe Oct 30 '12 at 15:29
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I sent a message asking about this to an HTC representative on Reddit who's been pretty active and seems like a nice guy, perhaps he can help out with it. – Peanut May 13 at 0:29
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