TMO US: Haunting empty SMS message from number 129 - HD2 General

Hi!
I noticed a weird thing on my HD2.
There is an empty SMS message from 129 number that shows up in the inbox. After deleting it, it keeps coming back after a relatively short period of time. I DO NOT get any notifications about new SMS messages, so it's likely that this is some sort of phantom message.
I have disabled HTC messaging app and disabled the HTC messaging service (so that new SMS notifications contain "Save as read" and "Dismiss" options) and installed "SMS patch" application (from one of the other threads here) so fix the SMS counter.
Anyone has same issue?

The mothership is coming for you....
Honestly though dont have a clue

Yeah, I get that too. I even replied to the text but, never got a response.

yup, ,mine to... can't delete it without it coming right back. Really strange

lol i thought it was only me

It has to do with visual voicemail.
I enabled it and began getting these. I then disabled them and I don't get them anymore

I noticed it a couple of times, but I've deleted it and it hasn't come back.
My visual voicemail is enabled and is working.

Looks like the mystery is solved. Thanks skylinepigeon.
I removed Visual Voicemail service from my T-Mobile account (as I don't really use it anyways), and this phantom message is not coming back anymore.

I got these everyday, when turn on the phone after it's fully charged. I been getting these before I got have Visual Voicemail service on my account.

Sorry to say it's not Visual Voicemail, i just switched over to the HD2 from a Mytouch didnt have VV on mytouch but I did get a 129 message also. I delated the google sync calander on my laptop thinking that was it and I have not gotten a 129 message yet

FenderGuy said:
Sorry to say it's not Visual Voicemail, i just switched over to the HD2 from a Mytouch didnt have VV on mytouch but I did get a 129 message also. I delated the google sync calander on my laptop thinking that was it and I have not gotten a 129 message yet
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Have you tried calling TMobile and asking thm to remove VVM from your account? Just because your previous phone didn't have VVM doesn't mean a SMS wasn't being sent out.
Also check http://forums.t-mobile.com/t5/T-Mobile-Touch-Pro2/message-from-129/td-p/171226 for some possible solutions.

I get this even after ditching VVM. It has to do with voicemail though. It only shows up for me if someone leaves me a voicemail or if I have any saved. What I do to get rid of it is open it up, transfer it from the sim to the phone, then delete it. And delete the voicemail(s), of course. I've called T-Mo numerous times about this too, they're aware of it & they claim they're working on it. Which I believe, because I used to not be able to delete it at all & now I can.

Me too!
vponomarev said:
Hi!
I noticed a weird thing on my HD2.
There is an empty SMS message from 129 number that shows up in the inbox. After deleting it, it keeps coming back after a relatively short period of time. I DO NOT get any notifications about new SMS messages, so it's likely that this is some sort of phantom message.
I have disabled HTC messaging app and disabled the HTC messaging service (so that new SMS notifications contain "Save as read" and "Dismiss" options) and installed "SMS patch" application (from one of the other threads here) so fix the SMS counter.
Anyone has same issue?
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I signed up for Micorsoft MyPhone syncronization, I wonder if it has something to do with syncing up the phone?

I'm getting these empty SMS from 129 every time my phone (Verizon LG G2 VS980) boots up. Does anyone know how to make it stop? I noticed that when I delete voice mails, I get these empty SMS from 129 as well. So I am convinced that they have something to do with voicemail. It seems that T-Mobile think that my phone needs these SMS but my phone does not and ended up showing these SMS to me. This only happens when I am running a custom ROM.

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New Voicemail - but i have no new voicemail

Hey guys,
This is a problem that coincedently happend on my Trinity.
I have the Voicemail symbol appearing on my phone, and my mailla home screen says that I have a 1 New Voicemail message. But when i dial 123 (im on orange), i'm told I have no message, no saved messages, nothing.
If I power off the phong and then turn it back on, the first thing i hear is my sound aleart to notify me I have a new voicemail message.
Whats wrong with this. How can I reset this or stop this from happening.
Thanks,
WizzKidd
I have similar issue, except everytime I have a new voice mail message, the notification tells me that I have 8, but I actually have 1 voice mail only. This happen every time, even I already delete all my new & save voice mail.
Have you tried looking at your email inbox. open all account '+' and check for VOICEMAIL messages.
I have a VOICEMAIL folder listed under my email account.
Juggler258 said:
Have you tried looking at your email inbox. open all account '+' and check for VOICEMAIL messages.
I have a VOICEMAIL folder listed under my email account.
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Voicemails inside my inbox?
I also have a new voicemail notification every time I soft reset, I can only get rid of it by doing a registry edit, and it still comes back after a soft reset, this is on a stock ROM, unbranded straight from HTC, even after a hard. I am using a Fido SIM card (Canada).
Any help would be appreciated.
Might be a problem with Orange as this only started today, yesterday was fine for me.
Regards
Cleared my issue by leaving a message on my voicemail, listening and then deleting it. Has cleared it now
Regards
GLOC said:
Cleared my issue by leaving a message on my voicemail, listening and then deleting it. Has cleared it now
Regards
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Didn't work for me, I read somewhere that it may have to do with having voicemails on my account the first time I inserted the SIM card?
My partner has this on her Nokia that the phone shows a new voice mail even though there is nothing on the answer phone. We haven't looked into it yet but i bet its a problem at Orange that your sim is telling your phone there's a new voice mail available. I suggest you all ring orange and take it up with them, post back and let us know what you find out.
right people. easiest way to resovle this problem is to put your simcard in a different phone. turn the phone on. once the simcard is in the other phone leave a voicemail message. once your phone says new voicemail, listen to it and delete it. then pop ur simcard back in the HTC TOUCH HD. Problem Sorted....
hamyg84 said:
right people. easiest way to resovle this problem is to put your simcard in a different phone. turn the phone on. once the simcard is in the other phone leave a voicemail message. once your phone says new voicemail, listen to it and delete it. then pop ur simcard back in the HTC TOUCH HD. Problem Sorted....
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Thank this solved the problem, I guess you should make sure to hear your voicemail new messages before flashing roms

Blank SMS from "Δ@" ?!?

I've recently received two blank texts, the author of which is simply "Δ@", following which I promptly restarted my blackstone.
this isnt the first time i've received such a text. A little concerned, since I
read that receiving a blank text from dodgy places means someone might be
trying to hack into your phone.
Has anyone ever received similar texts before? Any advice / help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Maaz
Yeah, I got it a while back, but if I'm not mistaken, it was the iPhone which was vulnerable to this SMS attack.
maaz_talha said:
I've recently received two blank texts, the author of which is simply "Δ@", following which I promptly restarted my blackstone.
this isnt the first time i've received such a text. A little concerned, since I
read that receiving a blank text from dodgy places means someone might be
trying to hack into your phone.
Has anyone ever received similar texts before? Any advice / help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Maaz
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Have you checked your Voicemail, if I remember correctly, I had this and it is your Voicemail. I think the way the voicemail icon is activated on phones is via the SMS protocol, and your phone should not show you an SMS message like that, but intercept it and show you your voicemail icon.
If you have a voicemail, read and delete it and you will probably get another text message, which is similar, to instruct the phone to delete the voicemail icon, again you shouldn't see this normally.
I am sure there is a patch to sort this out, but I haven't had any problems like this for ages, so maybe update to a newer ROM and see if it goes away.
Jason
Thanks Jason
I'll look out for voicemail in the future i think i did have some at the time.
However, I keep getting told I have voicemail waiting to be read when I don't actually have any, so its a little difficult (and annoying) determining whether I actually have voicemail or not.
As for my ROM, im using NRGZ28's latest ROM released in late December :s
Maybe its an Orange thing?
maaz_talha said:
Maybe its an Orange thing?
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If I recall I was on Orange in the UK at the time, so I am not sure if different networks use different ways of forcing the icon to appear, and your phone does not support it. I would of thought it was something to do with the software, so the ROM is likely to be the problem, but I dont know for sure...
As I moved network, I cannot give any definites on whether my ROM would work for you either... You have not indicated your country, maybe if you advise, another person may be able to give you some assistance against that particular ROM.
Jason
I am on orange UK
I have a HTC Tytn with 6.5 (23060)
The Tytn gets the SMS strange symbols when I get Voice message
My HTC HD phone on Orange has Miri 6.5 (21876) V13
Voice messge icon works OK on this
so I would think it maybe win 6.5.3 / Orange problem
You should try calling your phone and leaving a voice message. Orange have a strange issue that I've helped people on xda with before in that if you hang up to soon after deleting voicemail the voicemail icon doesn't disappear. It could be that your phone isn't translating the sms that's sent to display the voicemail icon properly and the sms keeps being sent to you cos Orange thinks you've still got one.
1. Call yourself and leave a voicemail
2. Call you voicemail from your phone and listen to the message
3. Delete the message (option 3 I think) but wait about 5 seconds before hanging up
If you then stop recieving the sms and you're no longer told you got voicemail then great.
4. Leave yourself another message and see if you get the proper icon or a strange text
If you get the strange text then you'll need to do some research into it. I used to get it when I had a Prophet on Orange so take a look in that forum as there was a fix for it.

(129) text every reboot

never had this happen before anyone else ever have it happen
happened to me when i first got my hd2, heres what i did.
1.) call my hd2.
2.) leave a msg on voicemail
3.) on the hd2, call voicemail and delete it.
4.) profit. u should stop getting msgs from 129.
caffeinejunky said:
happened to me when i first got my hd2, heres what i did.
1.) call my hd2.
2.) leave a msg on voicemail
3.) on the hd2, call voicemail and delete it.
4.) profit. u should stop getting msgs from 129.
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thanks i've been getting this as well. will try this out.
Me too! I will try it out!
Wait, are you supposed to call your HD2 from another phone or just call your voicemail direct from your own HD2?
caffeinejunky said:
happened to me when i first got my hd2, heres what i did.
1.) call my hd2.
2.) leave a msg on voicemail
3.) on the hd2, call voicemail and delete it.
4.) profit. u should stop getting msgs from 129.
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Thanks for the tip, will try it.
before I installed a custom ROM, I would get a new voicemail icon and a txt from 129 upon every reboot.
after I installed the custom ROM, it stopped.
(129) text message every reboot
I believe this message has to do with Visual Voicemail. When I first got my HD2 and received voicemails, I didn't get this message. A few days later, I tried to activate Visual Voicemail. Couldn't get it to work. After that, everytime someone has left me a voicemail, sometime later I'd get a 129 text message with a time stamp of the same date and time I'd been left a voicemail. The 129 message reappears as long as you have ANY voicemails either in your inbox or even saved. You can clear them out, but the 129 message gets sent again when new voicemails are left.
I'd be willing to bet that the person that flashed a custom ROM didn't have Visual Voicemail in that custom ROM, and that's why, in their case, the problem went away.
no custom roms
running stock 2.13 and haven't used visual voice mail cause it lagged or i read about it lagging. i did accidentally open it and it said i needed a data plan to use it ?! hahah so i didnt work anyway, will try calling my phone i guess.
129
the txt message s from Microsoft My Phone program updating you data and it send you text letting you know it has updated you information
hcoria said:
the txt message s from Microsoft My Phone program updating you data and it send you text letting you know it has updated you information
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...No, it's from the T-Mobile USA voicemail system. Everytime I get a voicemail, I get a "hidden" 129 message, which I find only when I go into Message Tab > All Messages. In fact, it usually appears as a message saved on the SIM card, hence it can't be a MyPhone message because a regular MyPhone message would always save to phone memory.
I haven't gotten this to stop, but since I'm a frequent flasher, I guess my results could be different from someone who doesn't flash (I would probably need to do this for each flash). There's actually another supposed "fix" that involves going to my.t-mobile.com and going to some setting in the account that says something like "Don't give me updates for...voicemail, MMS, etc."
Yes, the 129 text message is from T-Mobile Visual Voicemail. To turn the service on/off, you need to contact T-Mobile Customer Service. (meaning, if you DID use it at one time, you need to call them to turn it off in order to get the texts to stop )

Delivery report for SMS

Hi all! I've update the software & I enabled the delivery report for sms.
When I send a SMS, I did not receive the delivery report. Anybody encounter this?
How can I make the delivery report work? Thanks
lostsouls said:
Hi all! I've update the software & I enabled the delivery report for sms.
When I send a SMS, I did not receive the delivery report. Anybody encounter this?
How can I make the delivery report work? Thanks
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Are you using regular message application?
If so double check on you have ticked for delivery report for SMS and MMS in the settings
And check with your service provider its already activated to your sim card (this has noting to do with what kind of phone ur using, ask service provider to activate such service, if its available with them)
Shiwantha said:
Are you using regular message application?
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Yup. Regular SMS. No MMS
Shiwantha said:
If so double check on you have ticked for delivery report for SMS and MMS in the settings
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All checked... I never tried sending MMS though
Shiwantha said:
And check with your service provider its already activated to your sim card (this has noting to do with what kind of phone ur using, ask service provider to activate such service, if its available with them)
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My previous SE G900 is possible to receive, but not X10.
lostsouls said:
Hi all! I've update the software & I enabled the delivery report for sms.
When I send a SMS, I did not receive the delivery report. Anybody encounter this?
How can I make the delivery report work? Thanks
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the X10i does not notify you if the sms was delivered, you can check by tap and hold on the message (sms) you send and a menu pops up and you select view report, it will show you if it is delivered or pending. it is a pain in the a$$.
energie. said:
the X10i does not notify you if the sms was delivered, you can check by tap and hold on the message (sms) you send and a menu pops up and you select view report, it will show you if it is delivered or pending. it is a pain in the a$$.
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I just called customer service. They told me on the right side of the SMS, there's an envelope. If there's an exclamation mark on top of it, it means its delivered...
I haven't use the regular message from the beginning.
Try using Handcent Sms, its free. And I have made customized handcent sms for X10.
check this forum handcent sms Modified to XPERIA X10 GUI
Once you installed,
On Handcent, go to settings/sent notifications/pick notify when message is received.
and do a test msg to a friend. It should show you an indication and you can pick custom tone.
Note:
if you get 2 notification for one message its because handcent and regular message both alerting for same event.
go to regular message and setting and remove all the notifications. keep only handcent.
Good luck
Shiwantha said:
I haven't use the regular message from the beginning.
Try using Handcent Sms, its free. And I have made customized handcent sms for X10.
check this forum handcent sms Modified to XPERIA X10 GUI
Once you installed,
On Handcent, go to settings/sent notifications/pick notify when message is received.
and do a test msg to a friend. It should show you an indication and you can pick custom tone.
Note:
if you get 2 notification for one message its because handcent and regular message both alerting for same event.
go to regular message and setting and remove all the notifications. keep only handcent.
Good luck
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Thanks. I've downloaded HandCent. Its better than the regular SMS. I love it!!!!!!!
lostsouls said:
I just called customer service. They told me on the right side of the SMS, there's an envelope. If there's an exclamation mark on top of it, it means its delivered...
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If it is MMS, then Exclamation mark, else Tick mark for SMS.....
Hi all,
I think I'm having a similar problem -
When I send a message, it definitely is sent - my friends are receiving them - but in Handcent, I get the blue-turning circle next to the message (as if it is still sending) and in the stock messaging app, the same message has the envelope with the exclamation mark.
Yet the messages ARE being sent.
This has only just started happening in the last day or so. I have installed quite a few apps to help save the battery since rooting - e.g. JuiceDefender, SetCPU, TaskPanel and StartUp Manager, but as far as I can tell I've not done anything to the SMS settings. As far as I can tell...
I'm on R2BA023, rooted, on O2 UK.
I've had a look through all the settings I can think of but I'm stumped now. This is the final niggle in my otherwise great new rooted set-up...
Hey - just wanted to update as I seem to have fixed it...
Not sure HOW, but it's one of the following. Seems to be something in "Startup Manager".
1) I had removed "Handcent SMS" for "User startup". Under the basis of "if I need it, I will run it".
2) Had removed the default x10 "Messaging" app from "System startup". It had 3 entries in there. I removed them all...
So one of those things broke the Outbox. As I mentioned, messages would send (confirmed by friends) but still appear as "in progress".
So, having put them all back in "System Startup", and rebooted, the "stuck" messages finally stopped being "stuck". Fixing it seems to have sent the messages again, but they are no longer "in progress". They are, however, time-stamped with the current time (e.g. today) and not the time sent (e.g. yesterday). It turns out they have been "sent" again.
Oh dear, I just tinkered to try to pinpoint the problem and I've broken it again.
Further edit:
Actually, far from having fixed it, it seems that now the "stuck" messages only send during a reboot.
Trying to send them when the phone is "on" just leaves them stuck in the outbox. If I power off & on, they leave the outbox... BUT the recipient gets them again.
Damnit.
Any ideas?
Ungruntled said:
Hi all,
I think I'm having a similar problem -
When I send a message, it definitely is sent - my friends are receiving them - but in Handcent, I get the blue-turning circle next to the message (as if it is still sending) and in the stock messaging app, the same message has the envelope with the exclamation mark.
Yet the messages ARE being sent.
This has only just started happening in the last day or so. I have installed quite a few apps to help save the battery since rooting - e.g. JuiceDefender, SetCPU, TaskPanel and StartUp Manager, but as far as I can tell I've not done anything to the SMS settings. As far as I can tell...
I'm on R2BA023, rooted, on O2 UK.
I've had a look through all the settings I can think of but I'm stumped now. This is the final niggle in my otherwise great new rooted set-up...
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I dont think your rooting or any other application will affect this.
tell us what settings are u on when you go to :
On Handcent, go to settings/sent notifications/"What option??"
I think it's not so much the "rooting" as possibly "things I have tinkered with after I got power-crazy after rooting", i.e. trying to disable things I don't need from running at startup. Un-doing that seemed to improve it...
Odd that at the moment it sends during boot. So something runs at boot that sends my outbox messages, but it can't run once the phone is on.
I just uninstalled Handcent and used the stock app. Sent a message first time with no problems...
I will reinstall Handcent and take a look at what happens. I can't not have that app now, I love it (until I broke it).
TechGuru_x10 said:
If it is MMS, then Exclamation mark, else Tick mark for SMS.....
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its exclamation for all....
Well, re-installed Handcent. Seems to be okay now.
It's a bit odd, I never changed the settings in there, as far as I can tell.
Shiwantha, I remember that initially "Sent notifications" was on "Disable" but I changed it to "Notify when sent" when I was having problems, and it made no difference.
Anyway, it's fixed now. Thanks for your help!
A quick follow-up... I like to give as much info as possible in these situations so anyone else who happens to find this problem may find something here that helps...
After re-installing Handcent, there are now two entries in StartUp Manager's "User" section. After my previous tinker-sessions, I could only see one to enable/disable, but I thought there were two before.
So I think that I "broke" one of those start-up entries.
For the record, it is working now and I have:
- Disabled ALL "Messaging" entries in "system" section of Startup Manager
- Left BOTH entries for Handcent SMS in "user" section of Starup Manager
The only conclusion I can think of is that by disabling the "Handcent" entries, I "broke" one of them, and so could only re-enable one of the entries. I assume the other one had some kind of SMS outbox functionality.
I'm just guessing though. But at least I can disable the "messaging" stock apps and it all still works.
FIXED. Relief!
cvchetan said:
its exclamation for all....
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I just unrooted else would have shown u the screenshot.
Sent from my X10i using XDA App
In additon to owning the X10 I own the X1. The message delivery notification was driving me mad on the X1. With the X10 I noticed there is a red X if the message has not been sent. However, once it is send the red X is cleared away. I like it this way much better.

NO notifications when receiving texts. anyone else? solution?

My Evo Shift frequently does not make a noise or vibrate when I receive texts.
I checked the settings, and even send test texts from other phones.
Sometimes it rings/vinbrates, sometimes it doesn't.
Anyone else experiencing the same issues?
Is there a fix?
Thanks.
FYI: I did a search of titles under "texts" and "notifications" and got zero results.
Odd question: did you choose to do the GVoice integration with your account? I noticed when I did the integration that text messages were interrupted by Google Voice and not sent directly to my phone. I fixed it by checking a box that said send text to the phone or something along those lines in my GVoice settings. I only found out that was happening because I had their app on my phone still. Otherwise I would not have received any notification either.
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Odd question: did you choose to do the GVoice integration with your account? I noticed when I did the integration that text messages were interrupted by Google Voice and not sent directly to my phone. I fixed it by checking a box that said send text to the phone or something along those lines in my GVoice settings. I only found out that was happening because I had their app on my phone still. Otherwise I would not have received any notification either.
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Thanks for the repsonse.
No, I did not set up Gvoice Integration.
I've noticed that sometimes if I have the messaging app open when I lock my phone it won't notify me. pretty annoying. Not sure if it's the same problem on your end but mine has done it on every Sense ROM I've tried. I haven't ran any AOSP long enough to notice if they do it as well.
My wife has been complaining of this lately. Myself I haven't had it happen to me, but I use Handcent.
I have the same problem. I have GV installed, and do not get any sound/vibrate when receiving texts. This is a also a problem with voicemails, as i get a text saying to call a number. When i call it tells me to setup my voicemail (its already setup). If i dial 1 from dialer, it goes to voicemail per usual. Is GV causing these problems? - thanks - Viperspike
Wow. I don't even get voicemails. I switched to PF something that is a visual voicemail because my wife was pissed as hell I "ignored" 3 calls. They never even showed up until i called the voicemail number. Same issue with texts.... Anyone have any ideas?
smp420 said:
I've noticed that sometimes if I have the messaging app open when I lock my phone it won't notify me. pretty annoying. Not sure if it's the same problem on your end but mine has done it on every Sense ROM I've tried. I haven't ran any AOSP long enough to notice if they do it as well.
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Mine does the same exact thing...I've gotten into the habit of going to the home screen and its hasn't missed a message notification yet...I hope that helps you OP.
Sent from my PG06100 using XDA App
Try using handcent or upgrade to GB 2.3.4 the messaging app in 2.3.4 is a lot better especially with notifications.

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