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SMS problems?

I'm running Syndicate Rom along with Phoenix kernel. As of late I've been having problems receiving text messages. Sometimes I'll receive them hours late (with the correct time stamp), other times I won't receive them till I send an outgoing message to the same person (where I get the pending messages almost instantly, again with the correct time stamp), and some messages I don't receive at all.
Has anyone experienced similar problems, and is it possible that it isn't ROM related but maybe some sort of other software conflict? Any ideas or input would be great
Thanks,
-1greek

Same problem with stock di18. Its on sprint's end.

Yea, I've had this issue since Christmas. I thought it was my SMS popup application, but I think it's a Sprint issue. It's getting really annoying too.
Stock DI18, not rooted.
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nikon120 said:
Yea, I've had this issue since Christmas. I thought it was my SMS popup application, but I think it's a Sprint issue. It's getting really annoying too.
Stock DI18, not rooted.
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I've been having the same issue but it's only with certain people.

I notice it more on certain ROMs than others. Also I notice it more when texting my wife (sprint customer as well) than to/from other carriers.
Could be that it's on Sprint's end but not sure.

Text message from the future.

Anyone getting text messages from the future while on roaming? Is there a solution to fix this little probelm? I'd rather not have to use a 3rd party messaging app. I like the stock one. I'm running SRF 1.1.0.
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What do you mean by "the future" ....
i don't roam alot but im confused by your question...
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iSaint said:
What do you mean by "the future" ....
i don't roam alot but im confused by your question...
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It means that when he gets a text, it says its from a time later in the day. If he gets a text at 2p.m. the phone says he got it at 6 or 7 p.m.Usually only happens while roaming, and its a Samsung mms.apk problem, if you flash the aosp messaging, it doesn't have that problem.
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Even while roaming, I only got a slew of "future" txts when I was out of my hometown...although it was the same time zone :-/
OTOH, I remember when it was New Year's Eve/Day with my old Touch Pro a few years back, and I got txts from 1/1/2013. I rejoiced in telling everyone that the Mayans were wrong and we wouldn't all die in the end times. :-D

respond back to that text from the future and ask the person for the result of the Game 2 Mavs vs Heat game. I would like to make me a few bets if ya know what I mean. ;P

I used to get these on my iphone lol but they would be from YEARS in the future and would be empty. ****ed with me for a bit. Ive never heard of anyone having this issue or even heard of the issue itself before. I just figured the iphone was a piece of **** later on lol
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I have this problem quite often because I'm roaming at work. It happened on my old Hero as well. There are some apps in the market that have seemed to work, though they seemed hacky last I tried, and resigned to just live with it. Just now a search on the market revealed http://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattprecious.smsfix , which looks pretty good. Haven't tried it.

bohiti said:
I have this problem quite often because I'm roaming at work. It happened on my old Hero as well. There are some apps in the market that have seemed to work, though they seemed hacky last I tried, and resigned to just live with it. Just now a search on the market revealed http://market.android.com/details?id=com.mattprecious.smsfix , which looks pretty good. Haven't tried it.
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I was about to post about this before I read the entire thread. I had this same problem from day one with my Epic at work because the signal at my cube for either side isn't that great and I flip between Sprint & roaming on Verizon constantly without using Roam Control to force it to stay on Verizon (which is what I typically do since Verizon's signal strength is a little better comparatively where I sit).
Anyway, I discovered the SMS Time Fix app months ago and have been using it ever since...and it works *almost* flawlessly. I still get the occasional text that somehow slips past the app's resident process, but about 98% of the time it works perfectly and adjusts the timestamp on incoming texts. So I definitely suggest grabbing that and using it for anyone with this problem.

zanderman112 said:
It means that when he gets a text, it says its from a time later in the day. If he gets a text at 2p.m. the phone says he got it at 6 or 7 p.m.Usually only happens while roaming, and its a Samsung mms.apk problem, if you flash the aosp messaging, it doesn't have that problem.
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Yeah it gets annoying trying follow a conversation when all the texts are out of order. Now if I could get her to text me the winning powerball numbers.
I'll check out the aosp messaging. Thanks for the tip.
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I suddenly stopped receiving text messages.

I'm rooted, and on 1.8.3 I believe.
Everything was working out fantastic, and literally one hour to the other one I stopped receiving texts. I have everything backed up, and I'm wondering if I can just reset the phone without having to flash it back to stock settings.
Anybody have the same issue?

rAFTA! said:
I'm rooted, and on 1.8.3 I believe.
Everything was working out fantastic, and literally one hour to the other one I stopped receiving texts. I have everything backed up, and I'm wondering if I can just reset the phone without having to flash it back to stock settings.
Anybody have the same issue?
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Are you running any call blockers? Also have you tried to pull the batter while the phone is on?

Yeah man, I took the battery out and rebooted the phone.
Called AT&T but they can't help at the moment because their system is down, etc. I kind of just want to go back to stock and update, etc. I'm just wondering if I can do that from my phone or not?

rAFTA! said:
Yeah man, I took the battery out and rebooted the phone.
Called AT&T but they can't help at the moment because their system is down, etc. I kind of just want to go back to stock and update, etc. I'm just wondering if I can do that from my phone or not?
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Do you live in tx? Its apparently a tx outage across the board depending on your phone number mines been down for 12hrs
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No ****? I do live in Texas haha. And mine has been down for 12 hours as well!
Thanks for clearing that up for me.

rAFTA! said:
No ****? I do live in Texas haha. And mine has been down for 12 hours as well!
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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Yea I went through the headache of flashing 1.26 than rerooting etc restoring called att and they said its a tx outage and should be back up in 24hrs to72hrs
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I live in Los Angeles. Haven't received a SMS message since 1am yesterday. I can send SMS but can't receive them. I can send and receive MMS messages. I don't know of anyone else on AT&T out here that is having this issue.

SMS
It's in the midwest too, my daughter and all of her friends were up in arms on Facebook that they couldn't get/send texts last night.

My friend who lives in NC could not receive messages nor send them since the 5th of June until yesterday(he called AT&T and had it fixed) after he realized that the problem was not with his IPhone.

u sure u didnt freeze the messaging program with Ti back up ?

lsxrx7 said:
u sure u didnt freeze the messaging program with Ti back up ?
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do people not read the thread before posting?

Same problem here in FL.
It affects some smartphones but not others. Some iPhones but not others. ATT has no TTF (time till fixed)

Suddenly text messages are contstantly failing

I'm running stock, unrooted Froyo 2.2.
Last couple of days nearly every text message I send says "Failed." I have to send texts four, five, six or mroe times before it goes through without an error. However, even though it says failed not all are failed. Out of five attempts the recipient might recieve anything from one copy to all five copies.
Very frustrating to both me and my recipients. (This problem is not specific to certain people.)
Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I can do to fix this?
TIA

This was posted yesterday on Phandroid...
http://phandroid.com/2011/07/11/now...etwork-sprint-users-experiencing-sms-outages/

There's nothing you can do to alleviate the problem, we've been advising customers to be patient. The problem arose due to the connection going down between two major routing stations. Don't know why it happened, could be weather related
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squshy 7 said:
There's nothing you can do to alleviate the problem, we've been advising customers to be patient. The problem arose due to the connection going down between two major routing stations. Don't know why it happened, could be weather related
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Sounds like you work for Sprint? So this is a known issue and being worked on?
Do you have an ETA? This is a serious problem, SMS reliability is more important than voice for me. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

He does work for sprint. The sms issue is already resolved.

jbadboy2007 said:
He does work for sprint. The sms issue is already resolved.
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Resolved??? Uh... No. It is not it is not resolved AT ALL!
Just happened to me within the last minute.

Did you reboot ur phone?
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spyderfry said:
Did you reboot ur phone?
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I've rebooted my phone a million times hoping that would resolve the problem. But not in the last few hours. I'll reboot now and see if that fixes it.

uscpsycho said:
I've rebooted my phone a million times hoping that would resolve the problem. But not in the last few hours. I'll reboot now and see if that fixes it.
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Yep. Rebooted and still having the same problem. This has not been fixed.

uscpsycho said:
Yep. Rebooted and still having the same problem. This has not been fixed.
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Sorry for the delay. Yes I work for sprint as a tech. So my info is limited.
Yes, it is a known issue. It was passed along the company intranet yesterday and popped up on every computer as an alert. We, the techs, were also consulted immediately on the problem via email by our service and repair director.
Now, as far as I was told today... it's hard to answer. yes, the issue is resolved. But the symptoms are still present for some users. One thing you have to keep in mind is that not only did sms go down, but so did our data provisioning. So there's probably a lot of stuff backed up right now. Hence, the sporadic problems.
EDIT: as far as ETA, obviously that's a little hard to answer as well.
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Been working here in Anaheim, California all day long.

bondosho said:
Been working here in Anaheim, California all day long.
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Dallas is straight. Though I did see a few failed ones a day or so ago.
cd's or tapes?

squshy 7 said:
Sorry for the delay. Yes I work for sprint as a tech. So my info is limited.
Yes, it is a known issue. It was passed along the company intranet yesterday and popped up on every computer as an alert. We, the techs, were also consulted immediately on the problem via email by our service and repair director.
Now, as far as I was told today... it's hard to answer. yes, the issue is resolved. But the symptoms are still present for some users. One thing you have to keep in mind is that not only did sms go down, but so did our data provisioning. So there's probably a lot of stuff backed up right now. Hence, the sporadic problems.
EDIT: as far as ETA, obviously that's a little hard to answer as well.
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Very much appreciate the info.
I can say that the text messages I've sent since my last post a few hours have gone through without a hitch. However, earlier today I had a few hour window where everything was working normally and I thought everything was back to normal but the problems cropped up again.
Hopefully this time everything is back to and the problems are gone. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Thanks again.

I just saw this thread and checked my texts, I'm able to receive texts but the ones I sent out up to 6 days ago haven't been sent. This issue has definitely not been resolved. This is a huge problem, and without this thread I would have never noticed it. I tried all the fixes mentioned and nothing. MEHHHH
Edit: I'm in the NYC area.

uscpsycho said:
Very much appreciate the info.
I can say that the text messages I've sent since my last post a few hours have gone through without a hitch. However, earlier today I had a few hour window where everything was working normally and I thought everything was back to normal but the problems cropped up again.
Hopefully this time everything is back to and the problems are gone. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Thanks again.
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The problem is NOT fixed. First text I tried to send today failed. I thought I was in the clear last night but I'm not. FIX THIS SPRINT!!!!!

Wasn't working at all for a couple days, today sms is working fine. Dallas, tx
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Just out of curiousity, what ROM are you running? I was on SRF 1.2, I wiped all data and caches and reflashed SRF 1.2 and everything is good now. People are responding to the texts I sent days ago.lol

BBlunts456 said:
Just out of curiousity, what ROM are you running? I was on SRF 1.2, I wiped all data and caches and reflashed SRF 1.2 and everything is good now. People are responding to the texts I sent days ago.lol
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First line of the thread "I'm running stock, unrooted Froyo 2.2."
What data and cache did you clear? I prefer not to wipe out all my SMS messages. Especially since there's no guarantee that'll fix anything.
I updated my PRL today, no surprise but that didn't help matters.
The user who works for Sprint says that as of last night there is a known technical problem here. Hopefully he'll update this thread when the problem's been fully resolved. Then I'll know if there's an issue with my handset.
Today it seems like every text reports as Failed but recipients are still getting them. But it's still a crapshoot when your phone tells you the text failed. I hate this...

I didn't realize you were the OP til after I posted.lol
I wiped all cache and data in CWM(purple) and reflashed. I used MyBackup Pro before wiping and backed up my call log, mms, sms, etc. After reboot I restored everything, and all the texts that were stuck on "sending" were now all sent.

I had this same problem when I first got my phone 4 months or so ago.
I found that for whatever reason I could send and receive messages if I turned the "Data Network Mode" off. 3G would not connect, but 4G would and all of my messages sent no problem.
I'm not a real network savvy guy, and I have no clue why I ever even considered doing it. Probably just messing with all of the phone settings to see what might happen, and it worked for me. Give it a shot.

Texts Not Being Sent/Received for Days

So I'm on kush's gingerbread using the default messaging app, and I have had a number of texts not go out for up to three days, and have not received some texts until a day late, but there is no rhyme or reason to it as far as I can tell. 3 out of 4 times I send a text and it immediately goes out. But for that 1 out of 4 it makes a ton of confusion with my friends.
Has anyone had a similar problem? I'd like to know if it's Sprint or Rom related. I've just flashed a sense rom, but ughh... sense is ugly, so I'd like to stay aosp. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I keep having the same thing happen to me. If I remember right this happened all the time with AT&T. I've asked at least a dozen Sprint and AT&T employees. No one has been any help. The best answer I've gotten is that its the provider's issure, not the phones software/hardware. Best of luck

thanamesjames said:
So I'm on kush's gingerbread using the default messaging app, and I have had a number of texts not go out for up to three days, and have not received some texts until a day late, but there is no rhyme or reason to it as far as I can tell. 3 out of 4 times I send a text and it immediately goes out. But for that 1 out of 4 it makes a ton of confusion with my friends.
Has anyone had a similar problem? I'd like to know if it's Sprint or Rom related. I've just flashed a sense rom, but ughh... sense is ugly, so I'd like to stay aosp. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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I had this same problem and flashed back to sense... updated my PRL and profile and it resolved the problem for me. I was on 60681 and the most update was 60683. Maybe that will help.