I am having trouble text messaging my mom because the phone is adding +1 to the beginning of her phone number. The text message never goes thru. When I send the text message by typing in the number it sends fine.the problem is only when I select the contact from list. The contact list does not have the +1 in it so I don't know where it is coming from
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Yea, i actually sat on the phone with verizon tech support for 2+ hours while they debugged this issue, turns out for some reason the +1 breaks it.. they never gave me an explanation, only a fix. Take the +1 out of the contact and make sure its saved and synced, you also need to nuke your message history after making the change or new messages will still have the +1 in front of them.
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I tried taking it out of the contact # and killed the message history but still not working
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I have the same problem...I don't get why this phone was released with so many bugs....I'm about to go get an Incredible
I had the same issue and was waiting for someone else to have this problem too. Removing the +1 on your phone contacts won't sync it completely it seems so once google syncs on your phone again the +1 will return. So what I ended up having to do is going on gmail on my pc and deleting all the +1 contacts in there. That did the trick right away. Hope this helps
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I tried clearing my contact and messaging data and now I lost all my contacts and I can't re sync then from facebook or google
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Sounds like you don't have a clue about what you are doing my friend
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Its not that...iv tried everything to fix it..even completely erased all contacts and added just the problem number and still doesn't work...cleared all recent info and sms removed sync completely...nothing works
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same thing happened to me (sending a text to AT&T) - had to remove the 1 from all my contacts via GMAIL.
Now fixed
Strange. I don't have any issues like this.
I did have the same issue as the op described, but I think the ota update fixed it or the clean rom posted in the development forum corrected the messaging app. It definitly has something to do with the messaging app since when I installed handcent sms all my messages worked without the +1 being added.
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I had the same problem and fixed mine..here are the steps I took.
Log into Gmail on your computer, go through all your contacts and take out the +1 as well as the dashes 123-456-7890 to 1234567890 and save that. I then did a factory reset for my phone. Everything works great now.
I think when you have a GSM service they use the + symbol
I had this same problem. When I got my phone the text messaging was working just fine. Couple days later no one was getting my text. So I went down to the store and they did everything they could do and I finally figured out it was the +1 in the numbers.
I switched over from a G1 on T-Mobile, so GSM can use +1 but it seems Verizon or CDMA has a problem with it.
I went through all my contacts, got rid of the +1. Yet when I'd send a message through the default sms app the moment they replied back it would automatically add the +1 again. So the only solution I found was that I had to use a different SMS app. I went with Handcent.
Im more concerned why you have the country code in your contacts list anyway? Ever since I had my first phone years ago manuals said not to put the country code in your contacts list for domestic contacts. Ive never had a problem.
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i tried everything... the only thing that fixed it for me was a complete factory reset
iifuzz said:
Its not that...iv tried everything to fix it..even completely erased all contacts and added just the problem number and still doesn't work...cleared all recent info and sms removed sync completely...nothing works
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I had an sms issue I have been trying to resolve for weeks. Spent three hours with tech support troubleshooting, and finally determined something in the hardware. Took it in for a replacement. My g/f has the same phone, and no issues.
I wish verizon (or Samsung?) would fix this!
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Im more concerned why you have the country code in your contacts list anyway? Ever since I had my first phone years ago manuals said not to put the country code in your contacts list for domestic contacts. Ive never had a problem.
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When traveling internationally, it's a royal PIA when your US & Canada contact records don't include the country code and you're trying to place a call to north america... When I go overseas, I use an unlocked GSM android phone, and I would like to load my US contacts via Google in a usable format (10 digit numbers aren't usable from abroad).
This is a Verizon-Samsung bug - removing the country code from all US contact records is a work-around (not a fix!). My previous Verizon phones (mostly old Windows mobile handsets) had no trouble sending texts to US mobiles using the international standard country code prefix.
I just loaded up the leaked froyo modem, kernel and rom (EB01, EB16 & superclean 2.6 voodoo respectively), and unfortunately I see this issue persists...
Can anyone tell me if any of the verizon Android handsets from HTC or motorola share this flaw?
Thanks!
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Is anyone else having issues with the wrong name being displayed in the notification bar and/or the message thread?
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Actually it happened just one time. showed the wrong name in the thread on the top. Rebooted and it fixed itself. No clue why or how but hasn't happened ever since
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I have rebooted multiple times. Plus it has occurred when my phone was unrooted and now that it is rooted.
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Try clearing the cache for the messaging app.
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I had it happen quite frequently with one particular friend's name and photo appearing. Upon investigation, I discovered that friend's Facebook account listed a blank phone number and was linked to my own entries. The blank number apparently matched a variety of non-standard SMS numbers including those long numbers used for email-to-SMS. Unlinking and removing his Facebook entry solved the problem until he fixed it on his end. Might be something to look for.
Happened to me on stock and earlier lag fixes, hasn't happened since I had to reflash and installed new lag fix.
Solution? Delete that persons inbox, it always happened when high volume of texts would come. Then, I'd see two identical names threads in my inbox, one would be obviously for the wrong person. What's sad is that if you go and kill messaging via task killer, it fixes itself, but then it starts sending texts to wrong people, very annoying.
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Any fix for this guys?
Yeah this has happened to me twice. I remember I was sending a video to my gf and it accidentally sent it to someone else. Or at least it looked like it went to someone else because the name was different. Thankfully they didn't receive it because it was a private video kind of haha.
I usually delete the 200+ text message threads and it fixes this issue.
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Yeah this has happened to me twice. I remember I was sending a video to my gf and it accidentally sent it to someone else. Or at least it looked like it went to someone else because the name was different. Thankfully they didn't receive it because it was a private video kind of haha.
I usually delete the 200+ text message threads and it fixes this issue.
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But there's an option to have it auto delete when it reaches 200 messages per thread.
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This problem seems to be an Android problem and not one specifically associated with the Vibrant.
There's a long discussion going on here: (sorry, I'm a new user and can't post URLs. So, add "www" to the following) : .google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=345259e6d424bad3&hl=en
Perhaps someone with some more experience with the code behind the standard messaging app can take a look and help figure out what's going on.
My "work around" has been to use a 3rd party SMS tool (e.g., Handcent) rather than the Android messaging app. The problem has not repeated for me using the 3rd party tool.
Hey guys, I wanted to see if any fellow vibrant uses have been getting this.
This is the second time this has happened to me. Just out of no where I will launch my sms application (handcent) and the all of my texts are gone, like magic....
I have done alot of looking and found out that this is an old problem that is general for any android user. Wanted to see if anyone know the solution to what is causing this.
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This just happened to me recently. I also use handcent. I dont know if this is the case for you, but I am a packrat, so I had a lot of messages.
I think the limit of SMS messages that can be stored on the phone is 5,000. The only thing that didnt make any sense is that not ALL of my messages were gone, I had 8 left from a recent conversation. I cant explain why they werent deleted...
We can start narrowing things down though. If you dont think you reached the phones limit, then maybe it is a Handcent bug, or a bug with TouchWiz.
it use to happen to me before when i had i believe was the mytouch slide at that time but i cant recall. and yes it happened when i had over 3000+ for my GF and like around 200 for other people! Now i usually just get to 600 or less and delete it and start over. I use the stock sms app btw and have no problems at all.
It happened to me too, not the first or second time it have always happened from the start. I don't use handcent, everything is untouched with no root.
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Hmmm...a few people claim that this stopped after they uninstalled the antivirus app. However, I never used this app so it can't mean that. On top of that, many claim that this was due to 3rd party app. That wouldn't make any sence because if uninstalling different apps will fix it.
A few also mentioned that installing the sms back up also stopped the problem. It was also mentioned that handcent has an update coming that said they would fix it but that was almost a year ago. I couldn't find anything on the handcent website that fixed the issue. A lot of android users have the same issue as us on their forum. There are at least 10+ posts on this topic, non with a solution....
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Have you removed the settings to delete old messages when limits are reached?
or have u edited those settings in the messaging app?
That's the first thing I checked
it's unchecked, no limits and no deleting if old text messages. Here's the thing, even if that was enabled, it would only delete after reaching the limit and keep it at that. What happened was that all the text messages just disappeared...
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This used to happen to me on the G1 on occasion. I got around the issue by using the CyanogenMod Messaging application and setting the auto-delete limit to 200 messages per person, and using the free SMS Backup application to export all SMS messages to a label Gmail as they're received. I'm still using the same solution on the Vibrant, and I've had no problems since.
I didn't think that cyanogenmod is available for the samsung vibrant yet...or am i missing something?
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I didn't think that cyanogenmod is available for the samsung vibrant yet...or am i missing something?
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The CyanogenMod 5 (Android 2.1) Messaging app can be installed over the Vibrant's Messaging app just fine. Download a CM5.0.8 ROM for the Nexus One and install the Messaging.APK found in \system\data. :]
I'll give it a shot and see how it goes.
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I'm on t mobile and been having a problem sending txs, sometimes its fine then all a sudden it fails and tries to resend but carnt. Very frustrating, then the next day I get message from t mobile saying I've sent a message to an invalid number. Very strange can any 1 help
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First I'd suggest calling customer service. Since it only fails sometimes, the issue may be with their service centre number.
If that doesn't work try backup->hardreset so the phone can get the operator settings again and start fresh. ( the latter option is a bit extreme so only perform if u've got no other left and you know what you are doing )
Ok ill give them a ring 2orw as its bugging me so much lol. Cheers
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Do you have this problem with all numbers or just one or two? Check the number that you're trying to send to. I was having this same problem and I figured out that it was happening because I have Facebook contacts linked into my phonebook, and it pulls friends numbers into the phone book and uses the number as default. One of my friends had written their number on Facebook incorrectly (adding the country code the wrong way), so my phone wasn't using a valid number when I tried to text him. The only way I could stop this happening was to unlink his FB profile from his number in my phonebook.
Give this a look. Hope it helps.
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I am getting this on one contact only. For some reason as soon as they have replied to me the number used changes from +44 to 044 which then fails when I try sending to it. So far it isn't happening to other contacts and if I open this contact profile all the numbers are correct with +44 or 0 prefixes. As suggested above I tried unlinking the FB profile but this didn't help (this particular contact doesn't have their number on FB anyway).
I did a factory reset and All is working fine. Mine was just the one number as well which was annoying is it was the Mrs lol.
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Factory reset mine earlier this evening and seems fine so far. Fingers crossed as it is the only thing I have found to fault mine with so far.
I've searched but this is a recent problem and I found nothing exactly like what's happening to my daughters phone.
She has a completely stock desire z, on bell. She's had no problems really until tonight when she can't send messages to certain contacts? Or maybe she can't send messages to them until they send to her first. It's one of the two scenarios. Sorry I'm not much help, I'm on a samsung captivate. This is a recent issue as I said, and I should let you know she did her update through the phone to 2.3.3 recently, but things were fine after that update, just thought you should know.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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I've searched but this is a recent problem and I found nothing exactly like what's happening to my daughters phone.
She has a completely stock desire z, on bell. She's had no problems really until tonight when she can't send messages to certain contacts? Or maybe she can't send messages to them until they send to her first. It's one of the two scenarios. Sorry I'm not much help, I'm on a samsung captivate. This is a recent issue as I said, and I should let you know she did her update through the phone to 2.3.3 recently, but things were fine after that update, just thought you should know.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Is there some type of blacklist option in the menu of the SMS/Messaging app?
I recently blacklisted a whole bunch of contacts in CM7. Before this, I had no idea that this was possible. I don't SMS much, so I have no idea if this was blocking SMS. But calls were not going through at all.
Maybe looking into if the same thing exists on the stock Bell ROM is a good place to start?
download handcent or chomp from the market(free), and see if using one of those fixes your issue. I had the same sort of issue, it worked for me and also I prefer handcent over any htc or stock android sms app. good luck
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Thanks for the replies, I'll look into them both.
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Also check that the phone numbers in her address book are listed as mobile numbers, not home or work.
I always suggest this first, factory reset.
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Oh, I see you are also in Canada. When they made the area code mandatory before all numbers I had to edit some of my phone numbers in my contacts to include the area codes, or I would have the same problem.
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Did you already perform a crosscheck by placing your simcard in her phone and vica versa?
Is she has the same issue using your phone but with her simcard, it's not phone/software related.
its on bell thats the problem
joking aside id try handcent or go sms, and double check she has the area codes put in. shouldnt matter if its saved as a mobile number as you can even text landlines now in canada and they convert text to speech on the landline end! unless bells rom has its own unique ability to not let u text a "home" or "work" number.
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Also check that the phone numbers in her address book are listed as mobile numbers, not home or work.
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What he said, +1.
I have tried gosms and hand cent and one other and my contacts name do not show up its just there phone number twice is. Am I the only one dealing with this and if not is there a fix?
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I had to change my contacts numbers to +15555555555 format for them to work in GoSMS, someone else mentioned they just took the dashes out of one contact and that fixed them for him.
Check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1399603
Dam ... I thought I was the only one having trouble. Am using Pansi SMS and thought it was the problem with the app. Went back to an older version, tried restoring old messages to see if old app plus old back up would do the trick, but no go ...
Are you on ICS? I think I noticed this problem since moving to ICS.