diff --git a/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/CallerInfo.java b/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/CallerInfo.java
index 76b8b65291de7..ab93e2a90ea9c 100644
--- a/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/CallerInfo.java
+++ b/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/CallerInfo.java
@@ -526,8 +526,20 @@ public class CallerInfo {
                   + countryIso);
         }
 
+        // Temp workaround: The current libphonenumber library requires
+        // the countryIso to be uppercase (e.g. "US") but the
+        // detector.detectCountry().getCountryIso() call currently returns
+        // "us".  Passing "us" to util.parse() will just result in a
+        // NumberParseException.
+        // So force the countryIso to uppercase for now.
+        // TODO: remove this once getCountryIso() is fixed to always
+        // return uppercase.
+        countryIso = countryIso.toUpperCase();
+
         PhoneNumber pn = null;
         try {
+            if (VDBG) Log.v(TAG, "parsing '" + number
+                            + "' for countryIso '" + countryIso + "'...");
             pn = util.parse(number, countryIso);
             if (VDBG) Log.v(TAG, "- parsed number: " + pn);
         } catch (NumberParseException e) {
diff --git a/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/CallerInfoAsyncQuery.java b/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/CallerInfoAsyncQuery.java
index 1bd9b0cff5903..2e8a7421b4d71 100644
--- a/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/CallerInfoAsyncQuery.java
+++ b/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/CallerInfoAsyncQuery.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public class CallerInfoAsyncQuery {
     // PhoneNumberOfflineGeocoder to look up a "geo description"?
     // (TODO: This could become a flag in config.xml if it ever needs to be
     // configured on a per-product basis.)
-    private static final boolean ENABLE_UNKNOWN_NUMBER_GEO_DESCRIPTION = false;
+    private static final boolean ENABLE_UNKNOWN_NUMBER_GEO_DESCRIPTION = true;
 
     /**
      * Interface for a CallerInfoAsyncQueryHandler result return.