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O2 SMS Problem

I normally have my Mini S on suspend when it's in the pouch. I have for some reason been unable to recieve messages. The last SMS I got was from O2 when I turned the phone on the 1st time. Can anyone help me out on this? I don't really need MMS...just SMS.

Not receiving? or not getting the notification?
If its not receiving, how long has it been? networks sometimes get screwed up and hold messages in the server for ages. having said that "since i first turned the phone on" sounds like longer than 24 hrs.
Put the sim in another phone (if poss) - does it work?
I cant think of any real settings for SMS, they just arrive! If the SMS works in another phone follow it up here and hopefully someone will eb able to help. if it doesn't work in another phone, its a network issue - call O2.
If its the notifications you are missing, let us know - thats much easier!

I will give it a go in another phone but it's been a week since I turned the phone on. I'm not totally sure what you're referring to as notifications but I just don't see any messages when I go to the Text Messages folder in POE.

Ok...here's what I did, I stuck my sim into my friend's mobile and no backlog of SMSes arrived. I put the sim back in mine and then had him send me a message. Thing is the device was not suspended and I recieved the message immediately. I have my device normally in the suspend state. Could that be the problem?

I have my wizard in suspend (time out, press top button once etc) and have no problems picking up messages, they wake the device.
Notifications = the beep or sound for a text, wakes the device and puts the left softkey to show you have a SMS - it gives a preview there.
You say when you swapped out your sim you didn't get a backlog of messages so there isn't a load on the server waiting for you.
Last possible idea from me atm, you're not in the e-mail or MMS inbox are you? just checking

Well, I have checked the notifications and no, they're set as they should be and I do check the Text Messages folder. I have yet to setup email anyway :?
I wonder...if it's a network problem...damnable.

it sounds to me that its a phone issue not network. i'm on 02 and have now problem when my mini s is in stanby mode. it just switches on and beeps and a notification window appears.
cheers

Ok, now after subscribing to SMS.ac (just to send 1 single message and then terminate it) I got a total of 4 messages -1 confirmation for joining, 1 confirmation of joing, 1 test message, 1 cancellation message.
I cancelled when I noted that it was .5 / message :shock:. I'm puzzled. Maybe there was indeed a problem with the sim?

Beeble said:
Not receiving? or not getting the notification?
If its not receiving, how long has it been? networks sometimes get screwed up and hold messages in the server for ages. having said that "since i first turned the phone on" sounds like longer than 24 hrs.
Put the sim in another phone (if poss) - does it work?
I cant think of any real settings for SMS, they just arrive! If the SMS works in another phone follow it up here and hopefully someone will eb able to help. if it doesn't work in another phone, its a network issue - call O2.
If its the notifications you are missing, let us know - thats much easier!
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im having problems with my notifications of SMS, i recieve them fine but get no notification at all, i chack the sound settings and its all set up the same as standard but i get nothing any help??

sms with delay

Hi there, due to the fact that the search option doesn't work with less then 4 characters, i can't search for "sms".
But here's my real problem:
I've flashed different roms into my mda vario, after unlocking it. First the Molski.biz rom, then the last original t-mobile rom, but it was toooo slow, i've imediatly deleted it, en flashed the mr clean rom.
But in all roms i have some delay in recieving sms-messages.
Half the time they appear directly after they were sent by my friends, but sometimes i get them after a few hours. for example: it was sent at 15:00, and i received it at 17:30.
And sometimes i don't get any sms-messages, and after an soft-reset, i get 10 at one time, all delayed.
does anyone know what to do about it? or what causes it?
Regards,
Twan

i sometimes get this too though not often its usually when my phone loses signal and when it comes back into signal it wont recevie txt messages until i soft reset or send another txt out then ill get like 4 all at once lol.
Wizard isnt the best phone for txtin i must say as i send a good 1,000 txts a month and so far its poor.

Sounds like a network issue to me...
The network isn't registering the phone or something similar. For SMS the towers "push" the messages to the phone. Queuing them when they don't detect the phone on the network. If the phone is on the network and not getting the messages until it is reset and forced to re-acquire its signal than it is a network problem.
I've seen this problem on a few networks regardless of phone make and model.

I would agree with the above, its a provider issue not a phone issue.
I have a debate with Orange about 10 years ago about not getting text messeges when I loose and then regain service. I was told that when a text is sent to a phone that is off or lost a signal the message is stored until a set time has passed and then delivery is retried, thus getting all the messages at once. The way 'around' this is the disconnect the phone from the network and re-connect. This forces a scan of the message queues and again you will get all messages in one go.
I would assume going in to Flight Mode and back will do the same thing as a soft boot, but I have not tested this.

Okay,
so i could suggest it's not quitte an rom- or wizzard-issue, but a network-issue.
I also think going to flightmode and back will solve the problem. So we will hear from you if that's a solution?
I'm busy reflashing a new rom into my wizzard.

TwanS said:
I also think going to flightmode and back will solve the problem. So we will hear from you if that's a solution?
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I would hope that as you seeing the problem that you could test this. I get all my texts on time (luckely) so I can't help you I am afraid, I can just share my thoughts.
Let us know how you get on.

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I would hope that as you seeing the problem that you could test this. I get all my texts on time (luckely) so I can't help you I am afraid, I can just share my thoughts.
Let us know how you get on.
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I've tried, but now there's nobody who has sent me an sms
ghehe, i'll wait....
but i do think it will work.
i'll keep you posted

This is happening to me all of a sudden and its not a network issue. I have 4 phones on my account and i texted between all of them and only my phone won't get the messages UNLESS I reboot my phone or use smartskey to close a window.
Here is the strange part, when a text message is sent to my phone, the screen turns on, but doesn't show the message pop.
Is smartskey blocking it?
Also, closing a window by clicking on the X also kicks the message to come through

Help with Blackberry on Universal

Hi all,
In need of some help here... :-( Got my replacement Uni all setup back how I like it and my boss finally signs off the paperwork to get Blackberry enabled on my phone. O2 eventually got it all setup and I start to receive email, however am having some problems.
1. If I turn the PDA off (or it turns itself off as battery saving) then Blackberry seems to quit and won't restart without a soft reset. Obviously not very useful
2. When Blackberry is running it doesn't display any notifications for other events (such as the alarm clock, new text messages, calendar notifications etc) which means I can't cancel them so when I soft reset my phone I get 5 minutes odd of the phone ringing, and MemMaid doesn't seem to be able to get rid of them
3. Not a Blackberry issue but my phone just completely stops working at 72% battery life, bearing in mind this is a replacement provided by O2 and is supposedly brand new do I need to do anything likefully discharge the battery in boot mode or something like that.
I remember reading something but browsing the forum over GPRS is a bit painful so please if someone knows the right thread if you could reply to this would really appreciate it, won't be back near a proper net connection for about 6 days so stuck with GPRS for the moment (not got a 3G enabled SIM yet, meant to have but O2 sent one which wasn't and are now taking an age to sort it out).
Thanks
G

Mogul Messaging Program Issue

Just got a Mogul a few days ago...the problem is my text messaging program opens up randomly for no reason, when I don't have any new text messages.
It's annoying because it'll awake from sleep mode even though there's nothing to check.
A hard reset didn't take care of this.
Any ideas?

Is the messaging screen that appears the last thing that was on the screen before you shut it off?
It might be turning on because of other reasons, and just happens to always be on the messaging app.

Never thought of that...I'm currently on hold with Spring customer service. Been on hold for about 30 minutes, so I'm guessing it'll be another 3 hours before someone answers.

They said it's not a known problem, so they're just sending me a new one. Gay.

Do you have add the Threaded SMS application to your phone? Because my messaging used to pop up randomly too but after I got rid of the application, it stopped.

Just put your phone upside down next to you while you're sleeping avoids getting woken up when the phone wakes up.
Most cdma windows mobile phones wake up when switching tower too.. So if you're in a fringe area with bad reception, it may frequently wake up when it hops from one tower to the next.-mark

My phone will jump into analog every now and then and the backlight will come on for a few secs when that happens. But my messaging window doesn't pop up. My only problem with that is my texts that come in will not be in order recieved, even when that option is checked.

I am having the exact problem, I am using Shogunmarks threaded SMS program and every few minutes or so the mogul wakes up off batt power and the only app running is messaging. Going to uninstall and try another version.

If you settle on a version you like, let us know. I have uninstalled that one too.

I also have the Shogunmarks threaded SMS program installed. I don't have any problems with it now after running it for a few wks. My texts are in order and my backlight only comes on when it's in and out of analog.

HTC Touch HD Problems

I bought this device because I thought the screen would be good for my poor old eyes but...
It doesn't alert me to incoming text (SMS) messages. I've downloaded a couple of programs ('reminders'), including one from this site, but neither will run on my HD. I told HTC that the lack of this alert was a major fault as far as I was concerned but the company seems blithely indifferent.
I'm still using Windows XP (waiting for Windows 7 before I get a new PC) and find ActiveSync a nightmare. It fails several times a week, requiring restarting Outlook 2003 and unplugging and replugging of the HD. I hope its equivalent in Windows 7 works because Microsoft should be ashamed of ActiveSync 4.5.
I've gone back to my trusty Treo 680, with its smaller, lower-resolution screen. It alerts me to incoming texts and synchronizes faultlessly and speedily.
I may well sell my HD in disgust.

you can change the sms alert settings, if you go into notications, you can check the box that says "display message on screen".
basically the HTC home page will show a small 1 next to the message icon, this is how you tell you have a new text. if its not enough for you you can enable the standard windows mobile notification by doing what i said.
i've never had any problems with activesync 4.5. i wonder whats causing it. maybe you should try deleting your partnership and repartnering it.

Have you checked the settings?
Select: start - settings - personal - sounds & notifications - notifications.
Then find the incoming SMS menu item and check you have sound, display message, etc.
Also, in settings - system - screen - text size you can set the font to really big !!
as to Active Sync, this is not good with Outlook 2003. I have now on XP outlook 2007 which is totally reliable with Active Sync. I would recommend an upgrade. One feature in 2007 is the contact photos which I don't think you can do in 2003.

When the HD is in standby mode, the SMS alert does not sound. I have failed to respond to numerous text messages because I didn't know that they had arrived. My Treo always sounds an alert. This is an acknowledged flaw in the HD or WinMo 6.1 and nobody wants to fix it.
I tried to load and run two programs that were supposed to be workarounds but WinMo took exception to them and wouldn't run them (various errors). One was a 'reminder' program from this site (OS Remind Me, IIRC).
I shall upgrade to a new PC (and Office 2007 or its successor) once Windows 7 is out. Whether I shall still have the HD at that juncture remains to be seen. I am at a loss to understand why Palm can synchronize so quickly and effectively and Microsoft, which wrote the blooming OS, can't.
I have put my expensive brick back in its box for the time being and am using my trouble-free (if less flashy) Treo 680 because it gets the basics right.

Funny I get alerts...
A little noise and the vibrattion for the following even when in standby
New Email - Active synch and Gmail
SMS
MMS
And all alerts.
Maybe the Telstra Rom isn't as bad as it seems

I'm using the HTC ROM in the UK.

So am I - standard HTC ROM on O2 network in the UK - and I do get incoming text message alerts. Make sure you've got your notifications set correctly as described above.

I've set everything up correctly but I do not receive notifications if the HD is in standby. HTC has agreed that this is how the software that is in my HD works. If HTC has issued a revision of the software, it hasn't seen fit to tell me despite my lodging a fault report.
I'm on O2 Simplicity 25 (now £20!).
My Treo 680 receives notifications when in standby (I had one this morning!), so it's not 'an O2 thing', it's 'an HTC thing'.
I'm an old hand at using PDAs and smartphones, as well as at using computers. Though I'm in my 60s, my brain still works quite well, so, when I describe what is happening in my case and say that HTC has acknowledged this fault, you can be sure that it is so. I do not deny that you receive notifications; I do not receive them on my HD, though I do on my Treo, and HTC agrees that my HD works as I describe. (HTC even told me that the fault might be cured in a later release of the software.) In any case, if things were otherwise, why would this site offer 'cures' or 'workarounds'?

What cures or workarounds? No one but you has acknowledged this as a flaw, every HTC and WinMobile device receives and notifies you of SMS/Voicemail/Email/Alarms/Reminders/Etc. when in standby. If yours doesn't chances are about 20 million to 1 that you have it set up wrong.

Ya, mine always rings and vibrates when I get a txt/email and/or w/e else I tell it to if it's in standby. I don't know what this 'aknowledged' problem is u speak of.

Maybe your device is faulty. Try getting it changed for a new one...

As per most people here, my HD notifies me when in standby.
Always did this on original rom and Dutty's ones.

+1 as above, my new UK Orange one is fine for sms/e-mails etc. Have you tried a hard reset if you have backed your HD up? Apart from that I'd take the fecker back.

I've cleared the storage because I couldn't get the hard reset to work and then put all the kit back in the box.
Tomorrow, I'll reassemble it, put my SIM in, boot it, and set it up as I want it. Then, I shall see what happens and report back.
BTW, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459297, post 7 reads:
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Good idea - but can you please check the following?
sound ON, vibrate OFF, ringer vibrate: my Touch HD only vibrates when the display is on. In other words, when in standby mode (display dark), no vibration. And this is no real option since you don't get notified when you get a new sms.
Does this happen to you as well?
Thank you for testing; it's a real bad behaviour that it vibrates for several seconds when the ringer is on. "
Further, http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BlackstoneFAQ#SMS has:
"I'm not getting SMS notifications
this may help",
This leads to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446594, which is a thread entitled "message/mail notification not working"

Progress Report!
I've reassembled the HD, applied the HD Tweak tweaks, and reinstalled ActiveSync.
My equivalent of hard reset (clear storage) and HD Tweak seems to be working at present.
However! I am having endless trouble with ActiveSync, which, having taken ages to synchronize, failed to copy all my appointment data to the HD and is now refusing to connect at all! I suppose it's progress but I'm not too sure.
I've now spent 5 hours trying to get ActiveSync to work - that's 60 times as long as it took my Treo 680 to do a complete synchronization. I've just downloaded 4.5 from Microsoft's site and installed it (in case the HTC CD was damaged in any way, however unlikely): it's just chugging along as though it's running on an original IBM PC! If it behaves like it did earlier, it will just quit and refuse to reconnect, requiring me to reboot.
14:24 As expected, ActiveSync disconnected and now can't find the device! I've just cleared storage again and am waiting while the HD initializes...

Seems like a faulty device if NOTHING works good for u... Have u tried one of the custom roms to see if they work? I don't have an Touch HD yet (trying to get my sister in the uk to switch to an O2 contract so i can get it LOL) but as i understand Dutty's is A+ work...
Give that a shot hopefully everything works.

I do have the SMS notifications too. The only bug about alerts reported is the reminder for all-day events.
Concerning a faulty unit, I don't understand how an hardware problem could cause a bug like this ? I mean, if it's hardware (like memory), you should have random freezes or reboots, but a "no SMS ring" is strange for me.

15:50 and the ActiveSync initial synchronization is still running. At least it hasn't disconnected yet.

did you try a sync on another PC ?

My data are on this machine; in any case, I shouldn't have to faff about like that.
My Treo 680, with HotSync Manager, took about 5 minutes to do a complete initial synchronization. Why has ActiveSync taken over 2 hours and still not finished? The only answer that I can think of is that ActiveSync is poorly written. Presumably, Microsoft doesn't care about those customers who still use XP. Windows 7 seems to be better but it's a bit early to be sure.