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[Q] SMS BUG, how to delete sms from sim?

hi all,
i have a very strange sms bug.
every time i get a new sms text message i get 2 messages in my inbox.
1. i get the actual message that was just send to me.
2. i get another message that is stored on my sim ( if i look in my inbox, there is a SIM icon in front of the message).
This 2nd message also shows up at first in TF3D and is on top of my list in my inbox. very annoying !!
the strange thing is that the 2nd sms is a message that i once sended to a friend of mine, somehow that message is stored somewhere on my SIM and comes in my inbox everytime a get a new message.
i tried a few things, but they didn't help:
- delete it from my inbox and then from removed items; keeps coming back.
- choose "Inmediatly" by "clear removed items" in the message options menu; still the message is coming back.
the message must be stored on the sim, because that message was send from my old phone. and the only thing my old phone and my blackstone have in common is the same simcard.
so i need to know how i can delete this SMS text message from my sim card, at least i think that will solve the problem..
hope someone can tell me how, because its very annoying to delete this message over and over again because it always shows first.

I'm going to bump this thread up because I have the same issue/question.

little kick up..

Same issue here, bumping..

had the same thing when i got my HD a few months ago, after deleting such messages a hundred times they suddenly where gone... :-\
maybe you have another phone around to check if you can delete old messages stored on your sim?
greetz

Same problem here...

same here... any sim guru around?....

i got the same problem since i have my htc, the only thing that realy worked for me is this
efficasoft.com/mobileexpress/index.html (Efficasoft Mobile Express)
its a software, that can save your sms on your pc, and directly delete it from your sim
.. but sometimes my htc gets stuck, and i have to reset it, but yeah its an easy way to save & delete all sms

you could also try ms myphone in combination with pimbackup. afaik myphone only syncs sms on the phone itself, but with pimbackup you can use the delete all feature, maybe that would wipe the sim as well, then you'd sync with myphone again, and since wiping pim information with pimbackup appears as an unplanned deleting, you will get your regular sms back thru syncing with myphone.
another idea would be: try another phone, a cheap or old one, that only uses sim sms and delete all sms there. if that doesn't help, there is something wrong with your network or sim card

I had the same problem as anyone of you. But after deleting it from my inbox at least 4-5 times, it suddenly disappears.

SMS messaging displaying duplicate contacts

Hi there,
I'm having a small problem when I come to type text messages. When I add recipient, I have 2 entries for all my names; one sim and one contacts. I had a similar problem in my 'people' folder but there was a menu option to display sim only contacts. However there doesn't appear to be a similar option in the messaging menu. Does anyone know how I can overcome this so I only have one number displayed for each of my contacts?
Thanks in advance

I have the same problem and would like to know if anyone has a fix for this. Most annoying and has led me to delete all my contacts from my SIM card, which is not ideal as I like it as a backup...

Yes I was thinking of deleting all mine from sim card too but as you say, not an ideal solution if phone then ends up having a major crash!

BsB Tweaks and disable "show sim contacts"??

thanks ill give that a try. I'm quite new to all this as you can probably tell

hmmm..... I've installed the bsb tweaks (very useful program), and turned off the option for show sim contacts, but I still have the duplicate entries in messaging. any more ideas?

anyone have any other ideas regarding this issue? the option in bsb tweaks does not appear to make any difference.
thanks

does anyone know why I am still having this issue? I've installed latest version of BsB tweaks but I still get my sim contacts displayed when txting

Did you by any chance do a ROM upgrade and restored data from a back up software?
On the duplicate contacts, do you see a blank face and a sim card or two blank faces?

no not performed any ROM updates, just running the O2 rom (1.43)
when I go to add recipient after typing a txt, there is both the blank face and the sim card symbol for each contact

soft reset?

I had this problem, deleted all contacts from the device and just used SIM contacts. Works a charm. Use 'select all' and then delete...but make sure you are on the device list and not the SIM list, or you'll accidentally delete your SIM contacts (mind you, you could always copy them back if they're still on the device).

l3mm said:
no not performed any ROM updates, just running the O2 rom (1.43)
when I go to add recipient after typing a txt, there is both the blank face and the sim card symbol for each contact
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What I did is, I copied all my sim contacts to phone, then I selected to hide Sim contacts. I don't get any duplicates.

erosennin said:
What I did is, I copied all my sim contacts to phone, then I selected to hide Sim contacts. I don't get any duplicates.
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That works in the contacts list but doesn't seem to in the text messaging app.

Anyone solve this yet?

Karlos G said:
Anyone solve this yet?
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Yes, look at post 12 in this thread. I had this problem but don't anymore after deleting all device contacts and just using SIM.

up. need help on this

[Q] Getting rid of SIM messages in Messaging

I put Windows Phone 7 on my HD2 last week, and I swear while I was setting it all up there was an option to show or not show SIM messages when looking in Messaging.
However now I am using the phone regularly I can't find it any more! Every time I reboot the phone, the SIM messages are loaded higher up the list than my actual text messages which is really frustrating because it makes it hard to see my current conversations.
Does anyone know where the setting to stop it showing SIM messages is?
Thanks!

pagz99 said:
I put Windows Phone 7 on my HD2 last week, and I swear while I was setting it all up there was an option to show or not show SIM messages when looking in Messaging.
However now I am using the phone regularly I can't find it any more! Every time I reboot the phone, the SIM messages are loaded higher up the list than my actual text messages which is really frustrating because it makes it hard to see my current conversations.
Does anyone know where the setting to stop it showing SIM messages is?
Thanks!
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Try deleting one of them, and if it is not deleted from the sim, the check box might appear again on next reboot. Else delete what you don't need
Interesting that you can import messages from sim but not save to sim, how many messages are there?

i think what you've seen whilst setting up the phone was the message "import sim contacts now" and not sim sms... there's no setting about that in wp7 afaik

I think there are about 20 or so SIM messages. I deleted one and it went away, but didn't give me any more options to delete any others and the rest of the SIM messages are still there.
Obviously I could just delete them all but I find it annoying there is not the option to just hide them from the messaging view or something.

malsehn said:
i think what you've seen whilst setting up the phone was the message "import sim contacts now" and not sim sms... there's no setting about that in wp7 afaik
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So do I... did you solve it anyway?

[Q] Cannot send text messages HD2 WP7

Hi, after some months of using WP7 (Mango) on my HD2, last few days something with the text messages is wrong, I cannot send SMS, and the problem is with the SMS Center number - the number is gone and I cannot add it again, when type the number and click Save, it goes away !?
Anyone with solution without resetting the phone?
Thanks,

opssss....no answers??

did you try run Connection Setup?

dxdy said:
did you try run Connection Setup?
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The problem is not related to the Connection Setup, I fixed it by this way:
Insert the SIM card in some Nokia phone and add manual the SMS center number, save it and now everything works (this number is stored in the SIM card's memory).

[Q] not showing phone contacts on messaging

good day, this is my first post in this forum. i just bought my galaxy s4 just a week ago....
i copied all my sim contacts to my phone and already set "view phone contacts only"
the problem is that,when i go to messaging, the one that will appear is still the contact info from the sim(no contact photo would appear because the sim doesnt support saving photos on it). can someone help me with this?
do i need to delete all my contacts on my sim card so that the information of the message sender would be the one saved on my phone?
thank you so much