When using my DX to text my wife on her regular Droid, my messages come in to her messed up. For example, I sent her a message about working late but all she received was "tomordinner for us". I didn't even type in the words "dinner for us" in the text!
Also, I see a pop up to add the green android smilies (you know, the happy face, embarrassed, etc) but when I place them within the text, they look like the typed characters for them but not the actual image. She sees them just fine on her phone but I don't when I send them or when I receive them from her.
Any idea what's up? Oh, my phone is unmodded, totally "stock" and I'm running 2.2
Thanks in advance folks.
Are you using the stock messaging app? If so the emoticons wont show. As far as the messed up texts, not sure. I would recommend you go with either handcent or go sms for your text messaging
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Hi, i need a bit of help trouble shooting an issue i have.
My G1 is running the jesusfreke ADP 1.5 image. I normally use chompsms as my default messaging client.
Quite regularly my friends are tellingme that my text messages are coming through garbled. Either all squares, or every other character is an @ symbol.
The outgoing messages appear normal on my phone.
I asked one person to forward my last messed up msg back, and it came through like this:
<Forwarded from +44777123456>
Well he is one! Don't worry about h攠瑨楮歳猠睥慫敲⁴桡渠桩洠ⴠ睥汬攧猠杯琠愠獨潣欠捯浩湧ℊ䤧癥搠敮潵杨⁷楮攠湯眬⁉❭潴⁰楳獥搠扵琠湩捥汹⁴楰獹⸮⸠睥❬氠桡癥⁴潲琠潵琠愠湩杨琠瑯漠潵琠潮⁴桥⁴潷渠慮搠来琠灩獳敤潯渠㨭⤠䩸砊
Although on my phone, the square symbols with numbers in show up as chinese characters.
Very strange! It happens periodically with no trigger that i can find. When it starts doing it, it continues for a couple of msgs at least.
Has anyone heard of this before, or have any ideas what i can do to fix it?
I am coming from owning a Rogers HTC Magic running stock Rogers ROM (1.5) with 911 update.
Just picked up an N1 the other day and although it's a great unit, there are some minor annoyances that are starting to get to me.
One is the native text messaging app. Now, I am a real estate agent so I receive a lot of text messages from my office. With my Magic and any other phone for that matter, these text messages would appear as "7000" as the sender name/number for example as these messages are sent through a computer via the internet. It's very similar when you receive a text from your carrier wherein it's not coming from another phone, and it's typically shown as a number as indicated above.
The problem is that this number no longer appears as the sender name/number. Instead, the sender name/number shows up as the first word in the body of the text. This may seem trivial, however, what happens now is that all the text messages I am receiving from my office are no longer grouped under "7000" for example. Instead, text messages appear as a separate thread (sender).
For example....if my office were to send a fictitious text that reads "this is a test text message", this is how it should and used to look:
7000: this is a test text message
With my N1, this is how it appears now:
this: is a test text message
The only way it will display the proper name/number in the sender field is when the text comes from an actual cell phone.
I have tried another text messaging app like Handcent and the exact same thing happens. Brutal.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=629753
Wild shot, have you tried saving a contact with the phone number "7000"?
The first thing I did was try to make a contact with the name "7000" but that didnt work. For some reason the text app does not compute the sender name unless it's an actual phone number or contact.
supergodie thanks for the link....looks like im not the only one...too bad that thread was started back in February and still no fix. Hope it doesnt take too long as I would hate for such a small detail to be a deal breaker for me.
The other annoyance I have is that the native mail app does not have an option for signatures! It also does not allow you to copy text like my Magic did with a long press on the screen and a menu popping up asking to you select text. You would think such "small things" would be an afterthought and not something that should be missed or left out...such basic things...it boggles my mind.
btw supergodie, have you found any workaround for this?
handcent as I have reported does the same thing...I think its because the app works off the native mail app....whatever the case, the problem still exists with handcent.
perhaps another sms app that works?
Sorry, I have not found a solution, I used to it, wait an update by google.
Keep getting blank anonymous texts, anyone any ideas, im on orange stock Rom If it makes any difference
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I'm on a rooted rom, but also on Orange and I also get these texts. Not sure what they're for. Hopefully get some answer in this thread
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I'm on a rooted rom, but also on Orange and I also get these texts. Not sure what they're for. Hopefully get some answer in this thread
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Post some pics from your phone with the text messages... I can't really say what they are, unless someone is sending you anonymous text messages?
I had this for a while (also on Orange, stock ROM) and did manage to get rid of it - problem is I can't remember exactly what I did as fiddling around so much!
I think it had something to do with a missed call or voicemail message. Try deleting an entry (or entries) from the call history with a similar time stamp to the sms message.
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A further thought - using the built in message app (not handcent etc) press menu - settings - Manage SIM card messages and delete from there.
One of these methods sorted it out for me but this was weeks ago...
Hi folks.
I get these Anonymous texts whenever I have a voicemail (on Orange UK, generic HTC ROM). I think that when you get a voicemail, the signal from Orange to say that you've got voicemail comes as this anonymous text and lands on your SIM (and triggers the voicemail icon on your notification bar).
I'd delete this text only to find it reappear every time I restart my device. The only way to get rid of it permanently is (as AjUK said), go to Messages>>Settings>>Manage SIM Messages and delete it from there.
I guess turning off Voicemail notifications would sort it, but I'd rather have them and live with the hassle.
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Post some pics from your phone with the text messages... I can't really say what they are, unless someone is sending you anonymous text messages?
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It's literally just a text with an 'Anonymous' number but it doesn't have any text. Usually get them after flashing a new rom.
I am not a noob by any means I have a rooted My touch 3g slide, coming from a G1 with a bad back light9 but when someone sends me their number in an email or text message and I click on it, it goes straight to the dialer, when all I really want to do is save it to contacts...has anyone else experienced this or am I doing something not entirely correct....try it out...see what you think
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I am not a noob by any means I have a rooted My touch 3g slide, coming from a G1 with a bad back light9 but when someone sends me their number in an email or text message and I click on it, it goes straight to the dialer, when all I really want to do is save it to contacts...has anyone else experienced this or am I doing something not entirely correct....try it out...see what you think
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Long press should bring up a menu. Or once in the dialer and the number is there a button save to contacts should appear on top.
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I just did this on my phone. I ended up going back to the message list, and long pressed the message with the new number I wanted to add.
depending on the ROM and also on the messaging app your using.
I know whenver I used handsent or chomp you had to go into the default SMS app and click on the number and than it will bring up the menu for you to save contact.
I'm not sure if this is an EVO issue or a Sprint issue as I've always used AT&T before.
Is there a reason I can only receive about 1 SMS per minute and multi-part sms show up in parts rather than as one long message? The default Messaging app and Handcent seem to operate the same.
Any insight?
Thanks
Sprint has limited the number of characters in their messages for some time now, but I usually get the other parts of messages back-to-back. Well, maybe it took another 20 seconds for the 2nd part to come in, but it hasn't taken a whole minute.
Go to the market and download ChompSMS. It gives you the option to either split up the texts or receive them all at once.
Whoa ChompSMS will do that!? Like it will wait for everything to come in, compile it in order, and spit it to you in one SMS? If thats true thats awesome. Some of my friends write novels from their iPhones like little girls. Ill get all 17 pages at random times in random order. Ugh.
Well you can send texts out that are more than 160 characters. I think that you can receive them all at one too
Better yet...send yourself a text using chomp and go past the 160 character limit. See if it splits it up or not.
Handcent does the same. It even gives you the option to customize how you want it split. Split by letter, by word, etc., etc.
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Handcent does the same. It even gives you the option to customize how you want it split. Split by letter, by word, etc., etc.
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Where is this option?
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Handcent does the same. It even gives you the option to customize how you want it split. Split by letter, by word, etc., etc.
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Are you sure this effects receiving the message? I thought this only had to do with splitting the messages you are sending.
I hate when i get the second half of the message first.....Reply like ???? and then get the first half after i reply......
The person sending can also send them as a MMS (multi media message) which lets you do much more text.
i cant see the option to receive messages > 160 characters at once in chompSMS... I've looked everywhere
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i cant see the option to receive messages > 160 characters at once in chompSMS... I've looked everywhere
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Have you received a text message that is more than 160 characters? I sent one to myself that was almost 300 and it all came in at one time. I then had a friend send me one, about the same size and it all came in one text...granted it was super long and took up the whole page.
What you could do is this -
SETTINGS > SMS NETWORK > MOBILE CARRIER SETTINGS > CDMA SPLIT
Make sure this is unchecked.
Reboot the phone and send yourself a >160 character text message and see what happens.
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Have you received a text message that is more than 160 characters? I sent one to myself that was almost 300 and it all came in at one time. I then had a friend send me one, about the same size and it all came in one text...granted it was super long and took up the whole page.
What you could do is this -
SETTINGS > SMS NETWORK > MOBILE CARRIER SETTINGS > CDMA SPLIT
Make sure this is unchecked.
Reboot the phone and send yourself a >160 character text message and see what happens.
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This didn't work for me. Can anybody else confirm this?
Well after updating ChompSMS last night, it seems that I cannot receive texts like I used to. I can still get more than 160 characters, but not like I did before.
Oh well...most people I SMS with don't have the ability to send really long text messages anyways. Hope you guys can find something useful.