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Not receiving text messages :S

hi my phone has been good but for the whole of today i havent been able to receive any text messages. i can send them fine and email seems to be working fine as well. When I got home I put my sim into my old phone and after a little while i received the 8 messages.
What could be up? do i need to send the phone back?
when i put the sim back in my phone is was working again.
When it wasnt working I had already tried turing phone on and off.
Also unrelated but I have had some weird problems with my phone not working with bluetooth properly. It will pair easily and work fine but then (again today) my paired devices were not connecting and I had to delete the pairing and add them again for it to work.

Just bumping once to see if anyone else has had this problem and has any suggestions.
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i have had the same problem with not receiving texts on my galaxy s. though mine was just from one number. after the usual helpful advice of switching off and on removing sim card etc it still wasnt working. putting the sim in a new phone worked and the only way to get the samsung working again was to reset everything to factory. This lasted about a week and then it's happened again this morning.
Ive checked my blocked contacts and its empty and vodafone/samsung aren't being especially helpful.
It would appear a factory reset is the only thing that sort of works.
hope this helps

Same problem here, i just received 20 messages from up to 3 days ago.
Stock Rom, Rooted
Could be a provider issue tho...

Anybody still having this problem. Mine just started this a week ago. Only hard reset fixes it.

Hmm, I've been having similar issues, with texts not being received and all calls being forwarded straight to voicemail. A day later I get a barrage of texts and voicemails.
This has happened about 2 or 3 times now

A friend of mine had this problem, or something like it (she didn't really describe it in detail). In any case, she was told (by Optus) to connect the sim card to another phone (turn it on), and then put it back on the SGS.

I've just had this problem with the Galaxy S (stock Eclair) on Three(UK). Stopped getting text messages yesterday but could still send messages, emails, browse the web etc.
Bit the bullet this morning and factory reset. Two minutes later I received about twenty text messages.
Seems like this may be a problem with the Galaxy S. If it happens again the phone is going back for something else.
Maybe Froyo will sort it out once Three have worked out how to get it distributed.

Bump.
I don't receive certain messages from my girlfriend when she texts me, i do receive others though, it's highly annoying. I'm on giffgaff (O2) at the moment and running Ficeto's JVH rom 2.3.3
Any ideas why this is happening?

i have experienced this too. . . fixed it by switchin network mode to gsm instead of auto. . .
maybe my area has weak wcdma signal. . .
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badasschris said:
hi my phone has been good but for the whole of today i havent been able to receive any text messages. i can send them fine and email seems to be working fine as well. When I got home I put my sim into my old phone and after a little while i received the 8 messages.
What could be up? do i need to send the phone back?
when i put the sim back in my phone is was working again.
When it wasnt working I had already tried turing phone on and off.
Also unrelated but I have had some weird problems with my phone not working with bluetooth properly. It will pair easily and work fine but then (again today) my paired devices were not connecting and I had to delete the pairing and add them again for it to work.
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I am guessing your old phone isn't a Samsung ? I was having the same problem and I figured it out. Samsung phones don't receive texts when a full number is put in. +1-555-555-5555. This is the number format Facebook uses. So if the person texts you using your Facebook linked number you'll never get it. Bravo Samsung! Bravo.

MMS issue after gingerbread update

Has anyone else had issues with sending/receiving MMS since the gingerbread update? I have been unable to send/receive for the past 2 days and the update is the only thing that i can think of that may be causing the issue.
Any help would be great!!!! THANKS!!!!

I can't receive
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I'm Running stock with no root its working fine.

ive been having that issue with all gingerbread related ROMs that ive flashed and around 1 AM i start getting 1x instead of 3g and it makes messages forever to send and recieve

my mms take at least 30 minutes to send and 10 to receive

Not sure if this is an EVO issue, more so than a Sprint issue (On Sprint Android phones at least). I have had 2 different Android phones before the EVO which were stock, and have a daughter and wife that both have stock Android phones on Sprint. I have never seen proof that more than 1 in 4 of any MMS messages have ever been received successfully (to family members on Sprint). And I can't count the number of times someone has mentioned sending me a "picture" that I never received.
When I switched to the EVO (even before rooting and going to CM7 -- and even more so after) -- this trend did not change for the better. Sent 5 pictures yesterday to 3 family members (all on Sprint with stock Android phones), with not a one of them ever showing up on the other end.

I haven't been able to send or receive MMS since last week. I'm wondering if it has to do with the new radios because is started around the time that I upgraded them.
I've also noticed that my phone doesn't sync my inboxes through my HTC mail app anymore. It doesn't sync the Friends Stream widget, either. I have to do it manually.
Edit: I went back to Myn's 2.2 rom but left the newer radios on. I'm almost done downloading the lastest Synergy nightly and I'm going to try MMS with that rom and see if anything changes. I'll provide an update later. Although I will say my phone was acting up when this happened and I had to call Sprint because I lost all 3G connectivity. After 4 phones call to Sprint, one was able to get my 3G working again but my MMS or sync stopped working afterwards and I just haven't had time to call Sprint again.
Edit: Using a 2.3 based rom did not fix my MMS issues. I still can't send or receive them. I guess I'm going to have to get on the phone with Sprint again. Fantastic.

I am also having this problem since June 5. I updated me and the misses evo Saturday night and was getting text but my phone was getting low space notifications 5x on Sunday so I did a factory reset and now I cannot receive text messages. I can send them out but not receive. Called Sprint tech support on Monday was in the Sprint store on Tuesday from 10am to 2:30pm and no fix an e ticket was put in on Monday for me to have the phone replaced. The store didn't have any evo's in stock how crazy is that. Today is Friday and still no new phone. I called Tuesday afternoon to tell tech support what was going on spoke to 11 different people order was put in for a new phone.
Now today my phone is dropping calls after 5 mins of talking and a really bad echo can be heard. The misses phone is working perfectly no problems what so ever.

I send and recieve just fine, but it does take forever to go through, sometimes up to an hour. I am running stock IT'S 2.3.3, but it was that way under Froyo with the old PRL, too.
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Ok, after going through a bunch of forums I got mine to work.
First thing I did was go into ROM Manager and fixed permissions then rebooted.
Try that, if that doesnt work then also try
Use root explorer, and make sure it is set to R/W mode (read/write). Navigate to /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/telephony.db and delete that file, then restart your phone. After the restart, you should be able to send and receive MMS messages.
I did both and now I can send and receive on my phone and my wifes phone.
She is running OMJ 2.3.3 and Im running MikRom 1.03.

With mine, I can't download while wifi is on. Might be a setting I'm not aware of, as I've never had this problem before. Searched and couldn't find anything.

I was havin the same problems called sprint and thier answer was wait till we send out a MR thats all they could say. I wiped everything and. Seems to work now but still some issues. Call sprint and let them know couse the rep did say they have to hear about from more than one person to start lookin at issue
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[HELP] Repeated SMS being received over and over.

Hello,
I have a problem with my Atrix that's been bugging me ever since i bought it.
Carrier: VIVO
Country: Brazil
Current Version: CM9 jokersax build, android ICS 4.04
Symptom:
- Whenever i receive an SMS, there is a high chance (>80%) that this message will be received again. There are some messages that are received over 20 times.
- Some SMS never arrive (roughly 20% of them)
Early solution:
Back in Froyo (2.2), you could disable cell broadcast in the network configuration, and that, somehow, fixed the problem. But that is not the case now.
In later versions, specially modded versions, there is no such option to enable/disable cell broadcast. I even installed CM9 ICS with high hopes that this would fix the problem. It in fact did work, for a couple of days, then today, it began to receive repeatedly the same SMS over and over again, and some SMS were lost to the void.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Maybe its a problem with your carrier?

giqbal said:
Maybe its a problem with your carrier?
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Wrong, it also does this on my phone and I have AT&T
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When you receive the same text message over and over it can be either your phone or a carrier (sender or receivers carrier).
If your phone is not sending a "message received" signal, the message will be repeated, sometimes for up to 72 hours before it times out with the senders carrier. In this scenario a simple reboot can sometimes fix it. In other cases you may have to pop your SIM into another phone, receive the message (at which point the phone will send the received signal), then put your SIM back in your original phone.
Messages can also get "stuck" and the senders carrier thinks the message has been received when it hasn't, and so stops repeating the message.
There's a bunch of reasons you can have SMS problems. At the end of the day it can be your phone, the senders phone, your carrier, or the senders carrier, and the fault can be hard to trace with the tools the carrier customer service reps have at their disposal.

kufusoto said:
Wrong, it also does this on my phone and I have AT&T
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Happened to me on AT&T once. Got the same message 25 times. Was on joxersax 4.4 if I remember correctly. Has not happened on 4.5.1

Had same problem... with ics jokersax, I started updating regularly and haven't had a problem yet
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I'm currently using jokersax 4.5.1 and it is still happening.
I can only think its a problem related to the "cell broadcast" channels.

Had this happen to me when once I first flasshed Codename Android. Hasnt happened since though.

I get this from time to time when someone texts me and for whatever reason my phone doesn't have signal. Typically its because I am rebooting it or its off for some reason.
Any new messages sent from the person (almost always the wife) come across as the stuck text.
I typically pull the battery and reboot once or twice to clear it.
It seems like you have a more persistent issue though.
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I had that problem too on one of jokersax builds. I tried the reboot which didn't work which could of helped the next step work when I dialed a number then ended it, that seemed to fix my problem.
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Had this same thing happen to me. Rebooting would fix it sometimes
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I am on Bell and I have had this problem on a few different ROMs now such as CM7 and Joker's CM9, but it does not happen very often and I have not seen this issue in some weeks now.

[Q] 4.2.2 update-can't make calls

Hi All,
I'm currently using Straight Talk with ATT SIM. Everything was working fine. I updated the software to 4.2.2 on Sunday. It didn't come OTA so I updated by going to Google Services Framework, clear data, then force stop. After a reboot, the OTA 4.2.2. showed up and I updated then.
Now, I am realizing that I cannot make or receive calls at all. Phone shows signal strength at 100% (4 bars) but when dialing, it does not go through, just silence, then a beep, then ends call.
I have tried rebooting phones, pulling SIM card out and replacing (twice) all with no luck.
HELP!!
Edit: I just realized I don't have internet connection either.

Larry216 said:
Hi All,
I'm currently using Straight Talk with ATT SIM. Everything was working fine. I updated the software to 4.2.2 on Sunday. It didn't come OTA so I updated by going to Google Services Framework, clear data, then force stop. After a reboot, the OTA 4.2.2. showed up and I updated then.
Now, I am realizing that I cannot make or receive calls at all. Phone shows signal strength at 100% (4 bars) but when dialing, it does not go through, just silence, then a beep, then ends call.
I have tried rebooting phones, pulling SIM card out and replacing (twice) all with no luck.
HELP!!
Edit: I just realized I don't have internet connection either.
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Did you forget to pay the bill?
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What radio are you on?
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BigDig said:
Did you forget to pay the bill?
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Haha. I wish it was that easy. No...account is current

mitchdickson said:
What radio are you on?
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Sorry for the newbie response but how can I find out what radio I am on?

Ah...found it.
Radio: 2.0.1700.48

I was on the same situation a couple days ago. after flashing 4.2.2, I can still make a call, people can still call me, but no sound from either me or them. The micros work fine (you can check by Voice Search).
At that time, after I ended messing everything up, I restocked the phone to 4.2.1. Everything worked fine after then. I dont know why this happens. You may wait for another solution. Just let you know that a restock can fix it, so dont worry. However I dont encounrage it becuase it wipes your phone completly.

opticaldh said:
I was on the same situation a couple days ago. after flashing 4.2.2, I can still make a call, people can still call me, but no sound from either me or them. The micros work fine (you can check by Voice Search).
At that time, after I ended messing everything up, I restocked the phone to 4.2.1. Everything worked fine after then. I dont know why this happens. You may wait for another solution. Just let you know that a restock can fix it, so dont worry. However I dont encounrage it becuase it wipes your phone completly.
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Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I would like a solution that doesn't require complete wipe of phone.
So frustrating...been unable to use phone all day. Who knows how many calls I've missed.

Larry216 said:
Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I would like a solution that doesn't require complete wipe of phone.
So frustrating...been unable to use phone all day. Who knows how many calls I've missed.
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In case you have no choice, back up your phone by Titanium backup. That saves everything you have at the moment

Same issue after 4.2.2 update
I'm having the exact same issue with my Nexus 4. Let me elaborate. I've had my Nexus 4 since the initial sale, today I got the OTA update sent via Tmobile. My phone seemed to work fine afterwards until I tried to answer a call. Upon attempting to answer or make a call (even with full service) the bars instantly drop to zero (hollow triangle) and an out-of-area tone & message display.
Restarted, pulled sim, sim worked fine in other phone, checked & rechecked APN/other settings, had Tmobile "reset" my device on network, finally wiped my device. I still can not make or receive phone calls. The radio seems to just disconnect when attempting to.
Spoke with Tmobile customer support (worthless), Tech Care (Very helpful & knowledgeable but no fix), Google Nexus support (Offered to replace device! However can't have any cosmetic damage). LG also contacted but zero assistance given.
I'm stumped, it seems to me that this issue might be related to the update disabling the LTE radio, because data & everything else works except for making calls. Like I said, Google offered to replace the device however I did (in good faith) advise them of a hairline crack on the back of the device, like many other N4 owners have had, not from a drop. Upon hearing of cosmetic damage they said that it's no longer their liability. I'm very disappointed but I understand.
Since the warranty is void from the crack, I'm going to root & play around.
Any questions or advice?
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Also, I'm on the same radio (Baseband?) as OP.
Radio: 2.0.1700.48

I'm curious to see if rooting will solve this issue. If yes, I will go this route.
Keep me posted. So frustrated.
Thanks johnmedic.

Call problems

Had to send my SP back for repair today, i'm on o2 uk and had nothing but problems calling out with this handset.
Not only that people cant get through either and it just diverts directly to voicemail!
Changed the firmware, done a fresh install, I know its not a sim card issue as I have used it in a different phone with no issues
Anyone else had a similar problem?

did u find any solution?

Oh god I hope mine doesn't start acting that crazy, I mean lately I too had problems with calls as in automatically turning on the speaker when aswering.. also the front camera has stopped working unless I restart the phone, then everything is normals for a couple of hours

zincir said:
Oh god I hope mine doesn't start acting that crazy, I mean lately I too had problems with calls as in automatically turning on the speaker when aswering.. also the front camera has stopped working unless I restart the phone, then everything is normals for a couple of hours
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I've got exactly the same problem with speaker turning on when I answer a call. I was planning to do a complete reset of the phone this evening hoping to solve this one.

Jcei said:
I've got exactly the same problem with speaker turning on when I answer a call. I was planning to do a complete reset of the phone this evening hoping to solve this one.
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Me too, it's just I kinda hoped I could wait the new update out though it was quite awkward in the metro today when my gf screemed out of the phone when I answered.
Any good backup app you have on mind?

zincir said:
Me too, it's just I kinda hoped I could wait the new update out though it was quite awkward in the metro today when my gf screemed out of the phone when I answered.
Any good backup app you have on mind?
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I took a backup with PC companion. You can backup sms and contacts, and I wouldn't recommend to restore apps to avoid restoring the bug
Do 2 backups, 1 complete and one with only sms and contacts so you can choose what to restore and try.
At the moment the problem seems to be solved, but more time is needed due to the fact that it wasn't happening 100% of the time on my device.

Jcei said:
I took a backup with PC companion. You can backup sms and contacts, and I wouldn't recommend to restore apps to avoid restoring the bug
Do 2 backups, 1 complete and one with only sms and contacts so you can choose what to restore and try.
At the moment the problem seems to be solved, but more time is needed due to the fact that it wasn't happening 100% of the time on my device.
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Downgraded back to 4.1.2 as I thought it might be a firmware issue, (I did have the bug where it answered direct to loudspeaker too but I believe that is a 4.3 bug)
Still had issues with calls not connecting and not being able to receive calls, so I have sent the phone back for repair.
Today I have received an email stating the phone could not be repaired and I will be getting a replacement phone, I don't know whether this will be a new handset or a reconditioned one yet

zincir said:
Me too, it's just I kinda hoped I could wait the new update out though it was quite awkward in the metro today when my gf screemed out of the phone when I answered.
Any good backup app you have on mind?
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The problem is caused by the Chrome update. Uninstall all updates and disable the app, and your phone won't switch to speaker anymore

Sometimes when I answer my incoming calls it goes to speakerphone.Then I have to restart my XSP to get out of this problem.
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