From 12c5f605c378902fafba2ab5d78f668a52379190 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amaan Qureshi <git@amaanq.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:50:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: display phone number for unknown group chat senders

---
 .../messaging/datamodel/MessageNotificationState.java      | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/com/android/messaging/datamodel/MessageNotificationState.java b/src/com/android/messaging/datamodel/MessageNotificationState.java
index 2a4552ce..d7b05edf 100644
--- a/src/com/android/messaging/datamodel/MessageNotificationState.java
+++ b/src/com/android/messaging/datamodel/MessageNotificationState.java
@@ -487,10 +487,9 @@ private static ConversationsList createConversationsList() {
                     // Prepare the message line
                     if (conversation.mIsGroup) {
                         if (authorFirstName == null) {
-                            // authorFullName might be null as well. In that case, we won't
-                            // show an author. That is better than showing all the group
-                            // names again on the 2nd line.
-                            authorFirstName = authorFullName;
+                            authorFirstName = authorFullName != null
+                                    ? authorFullName
+                                    : convMessageData.getSenderDisplayDestination();
                         }
                     } else {
                         // don't recompute this if we don't need to