asterisk users - May 2006 - Cell phone dialed digits too short to be recognized by asterisk

I'm having a big problem where digits dialed from certain cell phones
are too short to be recognized by my asterisk server.  I'm running AAH
2.8.  Some cell phones don't allow the caller to hold down the digits
and have the tones play as long as they hold them down for.  They just
play a short tone no matter how long you hold down the digits for.
Has anyone run into this before, and if so what did you do about it?
This is my larger problem but I have a smaller problem related to it.

I'm trying to make the IVR play back the number it thinks the user
dialed so that they can at least try again.  But I'm having a hard
time figuring out which asterisk variable contains the dialed digits.
This seems like it should be pretty basic, but my research on
voip-info hasn't turned up much.  All I could find was some commentary
on how DIALEDPEERNUMBER is supposed to hold the value but mysteriously
doesn't.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Carl

FYI, the digit timeout was simply too short in my IVR.  After
increasing that everything worked fine.  This problem only showed up
on cell phones, many of which don't allow you to type long digits so
your keypresses have more silence in between them.

On 5/12/06, Carl Youngblood <carl@youngbloods.org>
wrote:
> I'm having a big problem where digits dialed from certain cell phones
> are too short to be recognized by my asterisk server.  I'm running AAH
> 2.8.  Some cell phones don't allow the caller to hold down the digits
> and have the tones play as long as they hold them down for.  They just
> play a short tone no matter how long you hold down the digits for.
> Has anyone run into this before, and if so what did you do about it?
> This is my larger problem but I have a smaller problem related to it.
>
> I'm trying to make the IVR play back the number it thinks the user
> dialed so that they can at least try again.  But I'm having a hard
> time figuring out which asterisk variable contains the dialed digits.
> This seems like it should be pretty basic, but my research on
> voip-info hasn't turned up much.  All I could find was some commentary
> on how DIALEDPEERNUMBER is supposed to hold the value but mysteriously
> doesn't.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Carl
>